What’s New for 2022?

Whether you’re newly engaged, or you’ve been busy planning your big day for a little while, we thought it’s about time we gave you an update on what’s new on the wedding scene! Let’s get stuck straight in, it’s time to get booking…

Our Directory has recently been graced with some gorgeous wedding venues that we can’t wait to introduce you to. From decadent country houses to dreamy chateaus in far-flung destinations, we’ve got something for everyone.

House of St Barnabas

With its quintessentially English architecture, private garden and onsite Chapel, House of St Barnabas is an iconic private members’ club in the heart of London’s Soho. New to the wedding game, it really is the perfect Central London setting and is just a stone’s throw from Tottenham Court Road tube. Available to hire exclusively for up to 60 guests for a seated ceremony and dinner, as well as a license for marriage, it has everything you need for an elegant wedding celebration in the capital.

Stockton House

Tucked away in the Shropshire countryside, you’ll find Stockton House, a boutique wedding venue that opens in Spring 2022. It’s brimming with a historic background, as well as seven luxurious double bedrooms, an enchanting walled garden dining room and views that are to find elsewhere. The food alone is enough to entice you to this stunning location, with a team of chefs who will create your very own bespoke wedding menu. Part of the Apley Estate, it’s a real English countryside escape that you and your guests are bound to adore.

Chateau Naudou

For couples who are imagining a grand destination wedding venue in France, we have just the place for you. Meet Chateau Naudou, a classic fairy-tale setting with flower meadows, extensive grounds and endless views across the valley. Just twenty minutes from Agen, this 17^th century chateau offers comfort, style and a ‘home from home’ feel for the duration of your celebration. This includes a tennis court, 19m swimming pool and a contemporary stretch tent so that you can dance the night away under the stars.

Newhall Mains

Transport your guests to a wildly romantic location thanks to Newhall Mains in Scotland. This exclusive use wedding venue has individually designed cottages, landscaped gardens and even a private airfield – helicopter entrance anyone?! With its high ceilings and original stonework, the events space suits any style of celebration, whether you want something laidback or utterly luxurious. It really is a place that you’ll never want to leave!

Rossie on the Earn

We’ve got another Scottish gem to capture your heart! Rossie on the Earn is due to open in Spring 2022, offering a blank canvas setting in Perthshire, with a magical 30-acre garden and newly converted byre. It’s exclusively available to hire, along with its incredibly charming accommodation. This arable farm lends itself perfectly to a romantic woodland garden wedding, with endless photography opportunities and atmospheric evening celebrations outdoors.

Curds Hall Barn

If you’ve got your heart set on a barn wedding venue, look no further than Curds Hall Barn in Norfolk. This rustic-style setting really does have everything you could possibly need for an unforgettable day of celebrations, including onsite accommodation for up to 10 guests. You’ll be spoilt with exclusivity for three days so that you can really make your wedding day your own – they offer total flexibility and have three licensed areas to marry.

Norsted Manor Farm

Rumour has it, it’s pretty impossible to stop yourself falling in love with Norsted Manor Farm in the Kent countryside. This secluded rural lakeside setting boasts an enchanting woodland, rolling hills and panoramic views – all of which will be exclusively yours! No two weddings here are ever the same and the team have a personal approach so that you will never feel as though have you climbed onto a wedding conveyor belt. Here, you’ll have the outdoor wedding of your wildest dreams!

Now that you’re all clued up on what’s recently hit the scene, it’s time to find out the 411 on the venue front…

Titchwell Manor

Having recently been awarded Best Coastal Wedding Venue for the East of England in the Lux Global Wedding Awards 2021, the team at Titchwell Manor are also excited to announce their brand-new accommodation options coming soon! Their two new bespoke shepherds’ huts will be added to its already diverse range of accommodation their gorgeous coastal retreat.

The huts will be placed in the pretty meadow at the rear of the hotel, a stone’s throw from the stunning north Norfolk coastline. With most wedding parties opting to use the walled garden to host large marquee weddings, the meadow field is the perfect location for the Shepherds huts, backing onto open countryside. Facilities will include cosy double rooms with ensuite bathrooms, outside decking with a sunken hot tub, and cosy dining space set around a wood burner.

Being ideal for exclusive use the team have also created the Titchwell Manor Takeover package – a two-day exclusive use package including bespoke cocktails, family games, a vintage bus to the beach and more!

Titchwell Manor will have its busiest year for weddings in 2021. In response to pent up demand for key wedding dates, the team are pleased to announce the capacity to accommodate more weddings next year, with availability for summer 2022.

Brickhouse Vineyard

We’re going to be bring you A LOT more on this venue very soon, but we couldn’t help but include the gorgeous Brickhouse Vineyard in this update.

The perfect elopement and micro wedding venue in Devon, the owners have been busy restoring their traditional barn and this idyllic countryside spot now offers stylish weddings for up to 60 day-guests and 100 for the evening celebrations. Think historic features fused with modern twists, all set within a Devonshire vineyard!

FFOREST

Fforest Farm in Wales is quite simply, 200 acres of rural paradise. You’ll be surrounded by nothing but woods, wildlife and wonder for the duration of your wedding day, making it the perfect location for a relaxed weekend of celebrations with your loved ones. The team are pleased as punch to introduce you to their new open sided giant hat tipi ceremony space – it’s a real gem and we are already obsessed with it. Completed during lockdown, it is available to couples who are looking to tie the knot from Spring 2022.

Wick Farm Bath

Wick Farm is a rustic wedding venue in Bath, steeped in history with 37 acres of stunning countryside – including their resident horses, sheep, chickens and ducks! But it doesn’t end there – this six bedroomed farmhouse also boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, boules, croquet and more!

They are thrilled with the recent addition of the Hay Barn, a beautiful open barn that is now available for civil ceremonies. And, as newlyweds, you will also get to enjoy their newly converted wedding accommodation, a romantic ancient barn with a luxurious bathroom (hello double shower and tub bath). It really is a fabulous place for your family and friends to stay!

The Holford Arms

The Holford Arms is made up of a licensed wedding barn, exclusive use pub, cool glamping facilities and an outside bar – it’s relaxed, informal and undeniably fun. Their brand-new barn is a handmade, contemporary function space, cladded in Weston red cedar, which beautifully blends into their 7-acre garden. The interior in itself is something to talk about – with white walls, exposed timber framing and modern bi-fold doors that bring the outdoors in. Fairy lights and large statement pendants fill the room with light, ready for that all-important first dance. We can’t wait to see what’s in store for this gorgeous setting!

Elmore Court

Under guidance from Rewilding Britain director Alistair Driver, country house Elmore Court began their own ambitious rewilding project on 250 acres of farmland in January 2021. Since then, the land has been left alone to do its thing and return to wildness, with owner Anselm happily monitoring the progression on his daily dog walks (and updating us all with his musings from @rewildthings Instagram account).

The walled garden was a fully working kitchen garden in Victorian times and has now been lovingly restored, replanted and revived with a new glass house for lots of delicious home-grown food. Anyone booked for weddings from this year onwards will be sampling the delights of the home grown produce in their wedding menus, and the plan is to ever increase this and include meat from happily rewilded beasts too, eventually ending up with an entirely sustainable field to fork menu of home-grown wedding food.

That’s not all – by early 2023 treehouses for weddings and other overnight stays will be complete so that guests can also relax and rewild themselves in this natural retreat space. Elmore Court has plenty of exciting things around the corner and we are so looking forward to watching them unfold.