Our Story + Values

Coco Wedding Venues is the first place to kickstart your wedding planning.

We’re the UK’s original style-focused wedding venue directory and an award-winning blog; serving up inspirational wedding venues, helpful articles, and indispensable planning advice.

Since 2013 we’ve been stripping back the noise and overwhelm in those first steps of planning and beyond for discerning couples with an eye for style. We’re big on beautiful imagery, helpful info without the jargon, and an easy-to-use browsing experience that’s designed to tap into your wedding vibe.

For us, it’s about quality rather than quantity. You won’t find beautiful country houses and magical woodlands next to corporate boxes, sporting venues, or conference centres. Our couples trust our knack for finding the most beautiful and unique places to get married - each chosen for their warmth, heart, stories, and individuality.

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Our Mission

We bring together couples and wedding venues who share a passion for style, originality, and quality. Like that friend of yours who has a gift for introducing people they just know will hit it off at a dinner party – our mission is to make it easy for both couple and venue to find each other and ride off into the sunset together.

Everyone is welcome here

We’re guided in everything we do by our commitment to representing and supporting equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As far as we’re concerned, anyone in love deserves a wedding experience free from discrimination, prejudice and exclusion. We believe that a bespoke, more individual approach to weddings is the way forwards and we make a point of partnering with wedding venues that go the extra mile to make their clients feel happy and at ease.

Meet Emma

Like many of the best inventions in life, Coco Wedding Venues was founded as a solution to a problem. I’d just married my husband Mark and, with a background in fashion and love of design, our lacklustre wedding venue search had got me thinking…

What if we merged the functionality of a venue search tool with the stylish wedding inspiration that my beloved blogs had so brilliantly provided when we were wedding planning?

I roped in Mark as the techie behind my big idea and focused on creating something for couples who were a lot like us really - design-inspired, creative, individual. It was always important to me that the look and feel of our venue search tool embodied these elements and I think it shows - from the moment you land on the homepage, it feels really very different to other directories.

Now, Coco Wedding Venues has cultivated an enviable reputation for style, quality, and creativity – something I’m pretty proud of! Uniquely placed at the heart of the wedding scene, I also offer creative consultancy to venues looking to carve out their niche in the industry, from branding and social media insights to full editorial and styled shoot services.

On a personal note

Nice to meet you, make mine a Whiskey Sour

1. I live by the sea.
2. I have a dog called Gatsby.
3. My favourite seasons are spring and autumn.
4. Give me a plant, I will kill it.
5. I'm married to the most delicious man.

If you have any questions for me or just fancy saying hello, email me at emma@cocoweddingvenues.co.uk.

For all membership, advertising and submissions enquiries, hop on over to our Contact Us page for more information.

Testimonials

Coco magically delivers perfect couples to our venue through their gorgeous website, with such a personal and stream-lined service it makes being in the wedding business a pleasure… We literally have no need to list elsewhere.

Mischa Giancovich, The Secret River Garden

Image by Richard Skins Photography

Coco has a lovely, playful, stylish atmosphere. We receive lots of well qualified and very good quality enquiries from our kind of Brides.

Simon Daukes, Owner of Ash Barton Estate

Coco Wedding Venues is so much more than a functional wedding venue directory – it’s an invaluable resource for Brides and wedding industry professionals alike and thanks to its stylish content, beautiful imagery and wedding planning tips and advice it’s also a unique and essential wedding planning tool. In short, it’s transformed the way I work.

Katrina Otter, Resident Wedding Planner

Image by Julie Michaelsen Photography

We searched high and low for the perfect wedding venue, so when Joseph came across Coco Wedding Venues online we decided to reach out to Emma for some personal advice. Emma kindly gave us some recommendations over email, and we continued to browse her beautiful website. We loved the ease of searching what kind of wedding we wanted by style, location and capacity but the main thing that drew us in was the tasteful and contemporary curation geared towards the modern couple. Chateau de la Bourlie turned out to be ‘the one’ and we had the most magical day celebrating with all our family and friends.

Tasha & Joseph

Image by Leila Scarfiotti

We signed up to Coco Wedding Venues just two months ago and our listing has already generated several enquiries from our ideal clientele. Coco stood out to us when we were initially comparing directories. It is not only very aesthetically pleasing, it is easy to navigate, and is quite clearly the home of the best suppliers in the industry and therefore a fantastic tool for the style-conscious couple. We have been so pleased with the enquiries it has generated for us so far, despite the coronavirus lockdown! Emma is always on hand to make amendments to our listing and to answer any questions. Thank you Coco!

Anneka, Casterton Grange

Image by Tiree Dawson Photography

I just wanted to message and say thank you so much for your website. I have done hours of venue research and was getting pretty overwhelmed. I came across your website and not only is it aesthetically pleasing and calming to look at, the venues you have on there are incredible.

From your website we have just booked RSA House for 2022 and beyond excited! Also the colour theme inspiration was from your website too – wouldn’t have been as bold without all the photo’s on there.

Also, love the Sunday sessions and downloading the magazine now!

Bride Becky

Image by RSA House

I have to say, from where I am sitting you do the most fantastic job! You are so thorough, ahead of trends, speedy to reply, and have created such a beautiful brand in such a short time. I salute you!

Layla Gant, World Inspired Tents

Image by Kris Life Photos

Starting our membership with Coco Wedding Venues was the best decision we made this year. We never in our wildest dreams expected the result that is has given us these last few months! We LOVE everything about the platform; the design of the website, the service from the team behind it and the clients that it brings us! We highly recommend it to all venues who wants to increase their bookings.

Cigarral de las Mercedes

Image by Prisma Blanco Fotografia

The Green was a no-brainer as it ticked every box! It offered everything we wanted on one site – outside and inside, hills, a lake, a barn, wooden function room, marquee, quaint cottages and a big party house – and all exclusively ours for the weekend. Thanks to Coco Wedding Venues, it was easy to compare to similar venues and make our decision.

Bride Jen

Image by Liberty Pearl Photography

I wanted to drop you a note to say how blown away I’ve been with your website. The venues you’ve chosen, the write-ups and look and feel of the site are divine! You’ve captured the sparkle in all of the venues featured.

Bride Jen

Image by Haydn Rydings Photography

We love Emma at GreenAcres! As newcomers to the wedding industry, we were first introduced to Emma in 2016 and with her amazing advice, guidance and creative direction, she has styled four stunning shoots for us and helped launch GreenAcres Woodland Weddings. Thanks Emma.

GreenAcres Woodland Weddings

Image by Hannah Duffy Photography

The Coco website is a stylish delight to behold, and an even greater delight to be featured on. It attracts the loveliest of brides and grooms, and delivers high quality leads for our venue on a regular basis. The website itself is very well designed and easy to navigate. And its content is curated brilliantly by Emma. We love it.

Duncan Turner, Owner of This Must Be The Place

First, let me just say that your website is unbelievably helpful – by far the best wedding venue site out there. I recently got engaged to my partner over the Christmas 2020 period and we are now firmly on the venue hunt. Although we are yet to nail down precisely where we want to get married, your site has helped us compile a shortlist from which we are working through.

Groom Marcus

Image by Jacob & Pauline

I wanted to say a huge, huge thank you for all your help – it really did all start with you. I spent a good few weeks as soon as we got engaged trying to make some plans but nothing was really clicking… until I found Coco. From there everything just seemed to flow and click into place! The blog and site gave me so much wedding inspiration and your personal advice was invaluable. I genuinely couldn’t have done it without you. Your help and suggestions were fantastic and I really did end up with a dream team of suppliers!

Bride Louise

Image by Katherine Ashdown

I wanted something different and with real wow factor. I had a short list of 3-4 venues but each of them had their barriers for us – no single venue was perfect. In my Googling I came across Coco Wedding Venues – I loved the style of Emma’s website, it was informative and she offered a venue finding service. The best decision I made was asking for her help via email with my shortlist of venues. Emma quickly replied and urged me to go and see Elmore after I explained our requirements. I took her advice and completely fell in love with Elmore Court.

Bride Renu

Image by Alex Beckett Photography