Venue headache - Surrey,Sussex,Hampshire

Are you looking for Barn type venues generally then?

If so, have you tried Pangdean barn at all?

Sussex way other than Upwaltham there is Pangdean, Fitzleroi Barn, Swallows Oast and Grittenham Barn

Hampshire I only know of Bury Court Barn, further afield there's Cripps Barn.

All have their own charm. Grittenham I'd be careful with as we looked at booking them but when we arranged to meet someone there they booked us in on their day off. No answer to attempted calls or texts on the day. We didn't find out it was their day off until someone else at the venue told us. We didn't appreciate the 45 minute drive each way.

They never replied to a single email I sent them either. Great Barn and gardens but a very hands off approach so check and double check and meeting with them.

Whats the budget? And how many people does the venue need to caterer for?

I am getting married at Marwell Hotel.
And no it isn't a barn but I think its lovely ?

We are paying £3500 for ceremony, wedding breakfast for 60 people with welcome drinks, speech drinks and wine on the tables, evening reception for 70 with BBQ and bridal suite for me and OH for the night and this included upgrade to the larger (nicer) room.

That price is for this year though as we did everything last minute.

Nonsuch Mansion in Cheam is awesome too.

Hiya,

I'm getting married at Random Hall, its near Horsham in Sussex. They have just got their civil ceremony licence so we're having the ceremony and reception there.

Its not that big, but has just had a new barn bit built there, and has lovely old wooden beams in the bar area. Its gorgeous!

Depending on how many people you've got attending, it can work out quite cheap.

Unfortunately there are not many pictures of it online, its worth going to look in person.

Sam x

The Tithe Barn in Petersfield is a beaut. Would have had my wedding there if I won the lottery!!

https://www.tithe-barn.co.uk/

Barns in general are pretty ker-ching though.

Some friends of ours recently were married at the Aviator Hotel: https://aviatorhampshire.com/

Something a bit more contemporary and funky, if you're having a smaller do, perhaps? The food (obviously the most important thing at a wedding....) was FAB.

Maybe not what you're after but the Claremont Hotel in Hove is fab and a total bargain.

Bury Barn in Bentley is brilliant, it was one of our top ones except they didn't have any dates which worked for us. If you're after barns then have you looked at Rivervale Barn? I know a few people who have got married there and they all say it was brilliant. They're both in Hampshire, but there's also Gate Street barn which is in Bramley, a gorgeous little village just outside of Guildford

Have you had a look at Bartholomew Barn in Kirdford? https://www.bartholomewbarn.co.uk/ I had a friend who got married there last year and it was very nice. We had a look around a lot of Sussex/Surrey venues, have gone for Burrows Lea Country House in the end, not a barn however! If you are looking for other non-barn venues, I can list some we looked around. ?

We are getting married at Rivervale Barn (Hampshire). We love it. But it is more pricey than some. We also looked at:

Bury Court Barn

Northbrook Park

Audleys Wood

Tylney Hall

The Elvetham

Cain manor (we felt there were a lot of surprise 'add ons' which pushed the price up considerably)

The Georgian House Hotel

Farnham Castle

and others I cant remember off the top of my head.The Aviator is a cool venue and I've heard great things about Tythe Barns. Have you tied browsing wedding-venues.co.uk?

There is a free directory of venues and suppliers for the Surrey area and I picked it up at Smithbrook Kilns in Cranleigh, Surrey, where our caterers are based. As there are a lot of suppliers there, they have brochures for everything weddingy in the ladies powder room room and that's how we found our ceremony venue (Burrows Lea, mentioned above). We're having a village hall reception but Burrows Lea also do both ceremony and reception if you want to stay in the same place, with the use of the country house and a marquee in the gardens and it's in the Surrey Hills, not a million miles from Guildford.

What's. your budget? We are getting married and having reception all in one venue, Wotton House in Dorking. Ours is coming in at 13000 for ceremony, wedding breakfast for 90 and buffet for 90. Welcome drink and wine on the tables

Hope you find somewhere soon

Wowzers!

Thanks for all the replies folks. I'm gonna get Googling these and have a look.

We started out wanting an all in one barn service reception type place, but seeing as that's looking a bit tricky we were looking for a dry hire barn and do the service at a registry office (or anywhere we can find better).

I saw Bury Court Barn mentioned. We had a look there and really liked it!

We're also looking anywhere interesting to be honest! We had a look at Denbies in Surrey (the vineyard but again...well you guessed).

Probably about £17k I reckon for wedding budget. Ideally for about 100 people in total.

However, I'm starting to think 16/17k is a bit tricky for a barn. We may do it in our flat. Our flat can probably hold four people (two being us). It'll certainly keep the costs down!

It always amazes me how much people are willing to pay for a wedding!

We are having 60 to the day do and around 80/90 at the night do.

With everything including my dress, suits, flowers, dj, photographer, decoration, accessories etc our wedding is costing no more than £7000.

Completely the individuals choice and circumstances but I just can not work out how people can spend upwards of £1500!

It's all relative though. Some people here have done weddings on £2-3k, so they would find your budget probably pretty shocking.

There will always be those who spend more, and those who spend less.

Last week I filmed for the first time at Ramster Hall in the Surrey Hills between Chiddingfold and Haslemere. It's a bit unusual but I was very impressed. It has two very attractive large function rooms around a nice courtyard and is attached to a private mansion. The family help with the organisation and were extremely friendly and helpful. You get the run of the adjacent beautiful Ramster Gardens which are also open to the public. I have no idea how much it costs but it's well worth a look.

By the way it rained most of the day but they cleared one of the ceremony room in good time for drinks and photos indoors. Beware that some of the barn venues have nowhere to go if it rains!

We are getting married at Rhinefield House in the New Forest - google it on handpicked hotels xx

I'm also having my wedding reception at Random Hall and agree with everything Sam says its stunning... i do however have pictures

Well we don't want to be spending that much! We've been trying to cut it down as much as we can to make as cheap as possible. But with big family numbers pushing the guest list up it doesn't help.

Also, I'm guessing where the wedding is plays a huge part. If we were having it where I come from (Birmingham) we'd be able to do it cheaper as costs would be lower. But, with the majority of people we know living down south it makes sense to have the wedding there. The downside being it's costlier.

Also, our budget of 16k also includes dress, suit etc too.

Hi,

Have you thought about slightly more unusual venues, like wildlife parks, museum venues? I'm having mine at the Hawk Conservancy Trust, nr Andover. I don't think it'll be quite big enough for what you want to do (max numbers for the ceremony is 45, evening reception dinner is 120), but there may be places that hold bigger numbers. The ceremony/reception isn't in the prettiest building, but the grounds and activities supplied more than make up for lack of old world charm. All in all our wedding is going to cost about 12K, including dress, TOG, cars etc.

A friend of our had theirs at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. It was 1940's themed and we had the run of the museum during the day. They even supplied a Spitfire for the photos :-). Don't know how much it cost, but a more unusual venue might be worth a look.