Small Family Wedding - Venue Ideas?

First off Congratulations!!

How bout instead of trying to find a venue that caters for small parties you look around to hire a part of a restaurant out? Also have decided on a registry office or do you want it all in the same place?

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Congrats! In your shoes I would have a low key register office service followed by a blow out private dining meal in a really fabulous restaurant.

We got married in a restaurant. Although we had the entire venue, there was an option to only have certain areas/rooms. Might this work for you? Google for 'private dining'. On my trawl through the Internet looking, the Hotel Du Vin chain seemed to offer exactly what you are looking for (providing you like their style).

http://www.hotelduvin.com/locations/newcastle/occasions/

Wow thanks for the quick responses!

Not feeling the love for a registry office as our local one is rank. Hotel du Vin looks fantastic, exactly what we would like if only it was in the country more than the middle of town x

Sorry, for some reason I processed your request as one for city locations. But anyway, you might have more of an idea of what type of thing to look for now? Private dining restaurant, licensed for ceremonies.

Do you want proper countryside or would a village feel be OK?

Depending on your budget and how far you want to travel, the Star Inn at Harome (near Helmsley) looks absolutely gorgeous and it's about 1 1/2 hours away from Newcastle. Straight down the A19 to Thirsk and then a little way through the countryside. It's lovely and intimate - very rustic - and caters for smaller numbers. I fell completely in love with it when I was looking but just couldn't afford the prices! They do ceremonies too.

http://www.thestaratharome.co.uk/star_weddings.htm

I've shot two small weddings, one with seven guests and one with thirty. Both receptions were in a nice restaurant and it worked really well. The restaurants they chose had private rooms too so the couple were able to decorate the tables with flowers and favours etc.

It might be a bit too far but how about riding on a steam train, getting married at a train station booking office and then a cruise up the River Dart?

http://www.dartmouthweddings.co.uk/

You can knock the price down a lot by having less people and changing to a smaller boat.

This!

We having a small do (25 people)and went down this route, most venues seemed to advertise their smaller function rooms as conference meeting rooms (some look a bit corporate but there are a few gems too) or the private dinning rooms so dont be put off if when looking at websites you don't find what you are looking for in the wedding section of a venues website.