Hi
This is my first post in this forum, so I hope I do it right!!
I got engaged at the start of December to my boyfriend of 7 years ? we were originally going to wait until spring 2014 to get married but there seems to still be some availability for the end of summer/autumn 2013 so we are now looking for August 2013 (very exciting!!), although we are happy to wait for the right venue.
We are living in France at the moment but all of our family are based in the UK so we are looking to get married reasonably close to Stafford, Eccleshall, Market Drayton and surrounding areas, within about 30 mile radius. We weren't sure whether we could have a church wedding but my father's local church have given us the go ahead so we are now looking for a reception venue and preferably somewhere that has accomodation as we will be having guests travelling from France.
Does anyone have any recommendations? We will be looking at numbers of about 80 in the day and 120 in the evening. We have looked at a lot of exclusive use venues but we feel that we would be paying a lot of money to have the venue to ourselves only to spend a big portion of the day at the church.
We were wondering if anyone could suggest any hotels or non-exclusive wedding venues where we could have a nice good quality reception...our absolute ideal would be somewhere in the countryside, good photo opportunities, with nice inside and outside space (it would be lovely to use the garden throughout the day and evening IF the weather is kind)...somewhere we can relax and enjoy our day with friends.
Our budget is up to about 8k, but any less would be BIG bonus!
Any help is very much appreciated. We are trying to wedding plan from abroad, doing as much as we can by telephone and over the internet, cramming as much into our visits back as we can...last weekend we came back and went to 2 suit hire places, tried out a potential caterer, visited 9 venues, tried on numerous wedding dresses (and bought one!!) and went to 2 wedding fayres...tiring, but fun ?
If anyone can give us some venue ideas it would be great and personal recommendation is even better.
️⭐️Thanks
