Problem finding wedding venue

If you wanted a venue in Hampshire, ours would have been perfect - it was a village hall - so I would carry on looking for village halls - if you google village halls in your area you might get lucky!

I have posted something almost identical to this earlier today and got some great replies.

It is quite difficult (or it had seemed so to me!) to find this sort of venue and not pay the earth for it.

Best of luck and hope you find your dream place.

Thanks to a lovely Hitcher, we may just have

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Are you looking to hold the ceremony there or just reception? Have you tried the venue finder on here?

Thanks for the replies so far. We are ideally looking to do it in one place - but open to suggestions as this stage!

Will suggest the same as i did earlier to paula1b - you need to go to your local council (or the council in which you want to get married) and look at their list of licensed venues as this will give you all the places you can get married in as a starting point.

sorry can't suggest actual places as am not local, but good luck.

Just had a browse through the venues on here and how about this, or maybe something along these lines?

https://www.hitched.co.uk/venues/venuereviews.aspx?ID=2178

Hi ya

Following on from Blue water, a lot of the councils will have the list of licensed venues online. Here are the ones for staffordshire

https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/community/lifeevents/premises/

And you can contact shropshire council to see if they do the same thing

http://www.shropshireweddings.biz/CatSummary.asp?Categoryid=4

Village and church halls are always really good value and with a bit of imagination you can make them look fantastic. If you need more space in case of bad weather, you can buy party tents instead of a proper marquee quite cheaply from Ebay and then sell them on again afterwards to make some money back.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-10-x-30-Wedding-Party-Tent-Marquee-Gazebo-w-sides_W0QQitemZ290284213455QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_Garden_Structures_Fencing_CV?hash=item290284213455&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1296%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Alternatively you can get a list of local farms and contact them to see if they have they have a barn with a field you can use, however, you will need to arrange for power and toilets and it is a lot more to do.

With regard to the ceremony, you can arrange for a humanist ceremony which can be held anywhere so you could put together your own ceremony at the village hall, outside if they have lovely gardens or a nice outside area. The only thing is it isn't a legal ceremony so you would need to have a small registry office ceremony just to get the documents signed. You only need to have two witness' or if you like your whole family then go for a nice lunch somewhere and have a second wedding!

I hope you find what you are looking for.

RUth

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You'd need a seperate place for ceremony for some of these, but maybe worth a look as an alternative to village hall

http://www.polesworthparish.co.uk/barn/index.php

http://www.uttoxeter-racecourse.co.uk/conference-facilities/weddings.php

It's also worth remembering that not all hotels only offer sit down meals, this place looks nice:

http://www.riversidehotel-branston.com/weddings.htm

FOund all these on the venue finder on here, there are loads for both Staffs and Shrops, good luck

Hiya

What about Trentham Gardens - they have the space tho not sure on the cost!

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just had another look at the website and for information you have to go to... hitched website

Only licensed marquee in England apparently

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Ladies

Thank you all so much for being such a great help. I am going to go on a mission today to do all of your suggestions and ill keep you posted - thanks again and a very merry christmas to you all! x

Why don't you try somewhere like your local Rugby club.

You may not be able to have the ceremony there but like ours, the hire will be around £500 and you can have all osrts of catering facilities....you can't get more outside space than a few pitches!

We have started hiring ours out.( in Kent) and it's proving very popular....you get good bar prices too!!

Hope you find somewhere

Karina

MrsCroft2b:

Hiya

What about Trentham Gardens - they have the space tho not sure on the cost!

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just had another look at the website and for information you have to go to... hitched website

Only licensed marquee in England apparently

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I think Trentham is quite expensive - could be wrong though!

There is also Sandhole Oak Barn, http://www.sandholeoakbarn.co.uk/ which is near Congleton (so in Cheshire), but might be worth a look. Again, I don't know about prices.

Good luck! x

We held our wedding in a hotel in Yorkshire.

The room hire was something like £500.

We had a three couse meal at approx. £25 per head, but you could enquire re: BBQ's and see how that goes.

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