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Top 10 Big Capacity Wedding Venues in Dorset

Coco Wedding Venues is the first place to kickstart your wedding planning. We strip back the noise and overwhelm in those first steps of planning your wedding, focusing on the most important and time-consuming one of all – finding your perfect wedding venue.

Dorset has a whole host of big capacity wedding venues, and we’ve picked an ideal selection for you here. But why stop there? You’ll find lots of other beautiful and stylish big capacity wedding venues in Dorset and beyond in the pages of our Venue Finder.

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Mapperton House & Gardens
Mapperton House & Gardens
Mapperton House & Gardens
Mapperton House & Gardens
Mapperton House & Gardens
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Mapperton House & Gardens
From £11,450

Based on a weekend wedding in July. Includes 2-night venue hire and accommodation.

Undiscovered, exclusive and wildly romantic. Nestled in the rolling hills of West Dorset stands Mapperton, voted the UK's finest manor house by...
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Deans Court
Deans Court
Deans Court
Deans Court
Deans Court
Deans Court
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Deans Court
From £5,500

Based on a weekday wedding in June.

Deans Court is an elegant historic house set in ancient gardens, a stone's throw from the centre of Wimborne Minster in Dorset. Weddings at Deans...
Inspired Structures
Inspired Structures
Inspired Structures
Inspired Structures
Inspired Structures
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Inspired Structures
From £4,000

Based on a weekend wedding in May. Includes 3-night venue hire.

Based in Yorkshire but available across the UK, Inspired Structures specialises in hiring luxury and elegant Aurora sailcloth marquees, creating the...
Minterne House
Minterne House
Minterne House
Minterne House
Minterne House
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Minterne House
From £6,500

Based on a weekend wedding in November. Includes 2-night venue hire.

Minterne House is grand and inviting, ideal for intimate and large weddings. Whether you seek the elegance of a stately home or wish to design your...
Came House
Came House
Came House
Came House
Came House
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Came House
From £26,000

Based on a weekend wedding in August. Includes 2-night venue hire and accommodation.

Came House is an enchanting Palladian Country House and private estate in the heart of Thomas Hardy's Dorset, ten minutes from the Jurassic coast.
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Cheshire
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Devon
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
London
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Gwynedd
The Pumping House
Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
FY Camp
Norfolk, East of England
Bardney Hall
Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Never For Ever
London
Crown Hall Farm
Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire
The White Hart Inn
Derbyshire, East Midlands
Kin House
Wiltshire, South West
One Warwick Park
Kent, South East
Dunwood Hall Estate
Staffordshire, West Midlands
Le Château Charmant
France, International
Cowdray Walled Garden
West Sussex, South East
The Ferry House
Kent, South East
Syrencot
Wiltshire, South West
Brickhouse Vineyard
Devon, South West
The Deer Park Country House
Devon, South West
Wilderness Weddings Kent
Kent, South East
Talbooth House & Spa
Essex, Eastern
Pynes House
Devon, South West
Leez Priory
Essex, Eastern
Coastal Tents
Coastal Tents
Coastal Tents
Coastal Tents
Coastal Tents
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Coastal Tents
From £3,000

Based on a weekend wedding in June. Includes 2-night venue hire.

Coastal Tents offers beautiful, design-led tipis and sailcloth tents paired with exceptional service, allowing couples to create an outdoor wedding...
Boutique Marquees
Boutique Marquees
Boutique Marquees
Boutique Marquees
Boutique Marquees
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Boutique Marquees
From £6,500

Based on a weekend wedding in July.

Boutique Marquees are the Sperry Tent specialists, licensed to provide the only authentic Sailcloth Tent to the wedding and events industry across the...
Newton Surmaville
Newton Surmaville
Newton Surmaville
Newton Surmaville
Newton Surmaville
Newton Surmaville
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Newton Surmaville
From £24,000

Based on a weekend wedding in May. Includes 2-night venue hire.

Newton Surmaville is a nine-bedroom, eight-bathroom Jacobean Manor House situated on 63 acres of sprawling landscape, featuring original walled...
Hooe's Yurts
Hooe's Yurts
Hooe's Yurts
Hooe's Yurts
Hooe's Yurts
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Hooe's Yurts
From £2,000
Hooe’s Yurts provide beautiful yurts with stunning decor, textiles and furnishings. With an extensive range of sizes available, you can have one...
Sopley Lake
Sopley Lake
Sopley Lake
Sopley Lake
Sopley Lake
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Sopley Lake
From £3,995

Based on a weekend wedding in August. Includes accommodation.

Sopley Lake spans 25 acres on the edge of the New Forest, offering an exclusive and private space for marquee wedding receptions. This Dorset venue is...
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