help with a "ceremony only" venue please!! :(

I can't give you any actual advice - except for maybe a registry office? No drinks there though, obviously. Best of luck with it

I'm not sure of any places in London, but I know our local registry office (St. Georges Hall Liverpool) has an option to hire one of the bigger halls that is not actaully the usual registry office ones and you can have the cremony there with cocktails and canapes afterwards. It did come with a big price tag though, £800 just for the ceremony and we would have to pay extra for food and drink. If you look at your local registry office website they should have a list of all local places you can perform a ceremony in, it's just a case of finding one and seeing if they can do what you want.

Hope this helps.

If you look on the London Borough Councils websites for all the licensed premises there are usually links to the venues for ceremonies and you can compile your list. There are quite a few museums and unusual venues that do ceremonies only depending on your numbers.

have you considered somewhere like HMS President even which is permanently moored on the Thames and does weddings. Kneller Hall does ceremonies only too.

Just type in licensed wedding venues in whichever part of London you are looking for and you should find a link to the council web page.

Theres a little chapel in London I was looking at getting married in, called LoveKyn Chapel (love the name too!) but it would depend where you are in London?

The chapel above has a private courtyard for a drinks reception after the ceremony and you supply the champagne (no corkage) so it would be a cheaper way of a champagne reception too, if we wernt running off to poole it would have been my choice! xx

Our register office has a garden for drinks afterwards - The Vestry on Bow Road. I think you will struggle to find a ceremony only venue and even if you do there is a risk of getting bumped for someone wanting the whole do there.

Thanks for the speedy advice, the chapel sounds like a good idea and the vestry is actually quite close to where I live so an option!!

Love,

A less stressed bride