Done a millions times before, BUT..... flash your venues!

Kate I'm sure your venue is Gorgeous too. I have venue envy too. As some of these venues are very beautiful. From the outside mine looks like a run down old manor house!! lol x

Old Trafford!! We are both huge fans (even after last nights poor performance!!)

Max if my OH saw that he would have serious venue envy!! He tried to convince me to look at Old Trafford and the middle of the Lords Cricket ground! He's footie and cricket mad! ...agreed about last nights performance!!

hahahah im lucky that we both share the same passion! we had a look at some other venued but i wasnt keen, they didnt really suit us. OT is ace and the wedding lady is brilliant!!

Well both football and cricket have been a passion forced onto me, Ive been dragged to plenty of games! I wouldnt tell OH but I quite enjoy them now! I think I got away with not having a wedding at OT as we live near Brighton!!! Would have been a bit of a trek for everyone! lol!

This is our venue from the outside:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/little_red_head/4080350942/

And the room we'll be actually getting married in:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/little_red_head/4080350976/

Soooo excited!

Wow! that looks fantastic!

We just booked our venue yesterday - I've been showing all my workmates today

Here is the link becayse I can't work out how to add pics

http://www.rampantscotland.com/stay/bldev_stay_western.htm

Definitely got envy as some of those venues are AMAZING I'm glad we've booked ours now, otherwise I'd totally be picking one of them!!

Carol your Venue is gorgeous too. Mine is Dalmeny park hotel www.dalmenypark.com is the outside of my venue and I previously posted the room our reception is in. Depending on the weather we will be getting married in the Gardens. x

Its stunning!

Everyone has such pretty venues!
We're having it at Kew Gardens - and have chosen 3 different venues for each different bit, we'll have them all to ourselves on the day, yay can't wait!

Ceremony (the room inside is stunnning):

Drinks reception:

The Reception venue (inside and out):

so excited!

Kew gardens? What a great place to have a wedding! LOVE all the slightly unusual venues....fabulous.

We havent booked our yet but know we're having it here.... Belfast Castle, Belfast, NI

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Serafina, I am so jealous! This would have been our ideal venue (unfortunately our budget doesn't stretch as far & most of our guests are our age & skint!). Stunning!

We're getting married at Cooling Castle Barn (www.coolingcastlebarn.com)

This is ours, from the outside:

And the evening do will be in this room:

This is ours, however wont be done the same inside im having round tables but this is the only picture I could find. lovely venue's girls im green with envy x

Lx

Hope im not being rude here but just curious are all the venues here over 7K?

The reason I ask is that im on a real tight budget and my venue isnt nearly as nice as these and I ahve venue envy! would feel better to know that they were out my budget!! ?

My venue is under 7k. But it's not nearly as nice as any of these ones either!! x

Have you post pics of your's here?

My whole budget is less than 7K so as you can imagine its not grand at all!! ?

The inside is nice and does what we want but its no stately home (

This is the inside and outside of ours. (Thats me and my MIL2B in the pic!! lol x

Karen-

actual venue costs for mine (Belfast Castle) are £700 for venue hire alone incl civil ceremony 2pm-1am hire, then u have food + drinks - u can do it well under 7k depending on guest numbers so its really hard to say unless u know how many ppl r coming , we're having a biggish do - 80 @ wedding w/sit down dinner and around 100 at evening reception and i recon the whole shebang with dressing, flowers, band, reception drinks and some wine will cost us around £8000 but we do have a large number of guests! Cut the numbers, cut the cost!!!

Hope that helps! xx

We have 110 coming for the ceremony and Meal, at £59.95 a head. Venue hire, 4 Course meal and drinks package and our honeymoon suite are all included in that price. So We're pretty much on Budget for our wedding!! x

I can't get the pictures of our venue off my phone and can't copy any from the website but here is the link if anyone wants to look www.thevu.co.uk.

Just been on their website and noticed they are doing a deal for 2011 which wasn't on when we booked!!! Just called them and they won't reduce our wedding cost, we will be paying nearly £2000 more than the deal, asked what dates they had left for 2011 (would of changed to get the deal) but they only have weekdays left and OH doesn't want a weekday, oh well. Sorry for the mini rant, just rather annoyed but hey ho!

Edited to add there are some stunning venues, wishing I hadn't looked at this thread, serious venue wobbles and envy now lol!

Sorry to say - but mine is under £7000...

Mine to is well under tho its not a grand place. £3500 for the day 52 day 80 evening full sit down meal table lining and menu cars then buffet and DJ in the evening incl room hire for wedding and reception and bridal suit for us that night with breakfast.

Karen-

London will be more expensive and we live in Manchester and Cheshire venues seemed horrifilcally expensive, which is what tipped us to NI. Also think about private VS 'public' venues, B-fast Castle is partly council-run which I think is why they dont charge extorniate prices. Venues also hear the word wedding and just jack the prices up!

Just make sure you shop around, haggle with supplier, get LOADS of quotes and dont feel silly going back to one asking if u can match their quote, also look on ways of saving money like on the invites, cake and also decorations etc.

In the end its just one day and it should be really special and fun whereever u have it as ur getting married to the man/woman u love and will be celebrating with all ur friends and family. There will always be people who have nicer venues/cakes/dresses/hair etc etc, the grass will always be greener (im so terrible for this!!) so just be happy with what u have and make the most of it - i'm sure it will be a fabulous day

S xx

In response to budget-

My wedding is coming in under £5K including absolutely everything- I've gone for quality over quantity in all areas!

Our venue is just under £5k for ceremony room hire, drinks reception, sit-down meal, wine and toast for 70, and evening buffet for around 120. I live in the North East though so prices won't be comparable to London costs.

Im new and appreciate everyone flashing their venues....but where are they??? They look amazing and so pretty...but they dont all have names or locations......are any near London? Thanks guys am realy hoping to learn from your experiances. Your all experts compared to me!

OK so it was my venue when I got married in July 2005 but here was ours ❤️

Karen mine is £5600 for 3 course meal for 70, room hire evening buffet for 100 and drinks reception. So way under 7grand! Mine is at Orton Hall, p'boro.