Please help me find a wedding venue

[pugwash4x4]

After years of searching i have finally founded a lady silly enough to consent to become Mrs Pugwash, but i am struggling to find somewhere to do the dastardly deed.

We are looking for a beautiful secluded spot away from motorways/ main roads/ plane routes, for a largish marquee and some parking. Great view is what we are looking for in the south of england - excluding kent and cornwall.

Can you guys help.

p.s. mrs pugwash to be has FAR more money than me she's welcome to half of everything i own- currently to include a maky T-shirt and a dodgy Abba Vinyl

p.p.s trying to avoid hotels and "wedding venues" as much as possible- so somewhere quiet, and hopefully privately owned.

thanks chaps and chappesses

Edited by pugwash4x4 on Monday 29th June 23:00

[Groober]

My cousin just got married at Shuttleworth it was very nice but thats in bedfordshire.

[MentalSarcasm]

Admittedly this is Cambridge rather than Kent XD

This place is right next door to where I work and currently has a big marquee up in the back garden:

http://www.ansteyhall.com/ansteyhall/welcome.html

[timbobalob]

Again, it's in Cambridgeshire I'm afraid - but it's where my wife and I recently got married this year. It's a lovely country house with a marque and the owners make you feel completely at home with the place.

www.templeconference.com

[Justayellowbadge]

How many guests?

[ClaphamGT3]

Goodwood House?
Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight?

[Neil_H]

The Manor House in Castle Combe.

[pugwash4x4]

about 100-120 guests

ideally it would have no hotel or house attached to it- so just beautiful gardens or such like- even a beautiful spot by a river would be great- a farmers feild we could rent! i have catering/marquees/facilities all lines up so we don't need a building at all.

[Justayellowbadge]

That might be tricky - it will have to be licensed if you are planning on holding the ceremony itself there.

That tends to rule out fields in favour of locations with facilities...

[pugwash4x4]

doesn't have to be licensed- we are happy to do the boring paper bit at a registry office (as inforrmally and quickly as possible)- the important things to us as to have as many friends as possble, a very personal blessing, in a beatufil, intimate and secluded location!

[Road Pest]

eastnor castle

[BB-Q]

The first time I got married was in [url]Dryburgh Abbey|http://www.dryburgh.co.uk//url]. Yes, it's in the borders area of Scotland but it has to be seen to be believed.

I fished for salmon on the banks of the Tweed before the ceremony (with a pint of 80/- by my side) and partied on late into the night at the awesome hotel. Ensure they organise a Céilidh for you (pronounced kay-lee). It's line dancing for the drunk, traditional at a Scottish wedding and absolutely hilarious.

I'm as English as they come, by the way- but the Scots know how to party!

Give your friends enough notice and they can make a holiday of it too.

[mybrainhurts]

pugwash4x4 said:

After years of searching i have finally founded a lady silly enough to consent to become Mrs Pugwash, but i am struggling to find somewhere to do the dastardly deed.

We are looking for a beautiful secluded spot away from motorways/ main roads/ plane routes, for a largish marquee and some parking.

Have I got this right....?

You're going to do a live sex show...?

[Working Class]

mybrainhurts said:

pugwash4x4 said:

After years of searching i have finally founded a lady silly enough to consent to become Mrs Pugwash, but i am struggling to find somewhere to do the dastardly deed.

We are looking for a beautiful secluded spot away from motorways/ main roads/ plane routes, for a largish marquee and some parking.

Have I got this right....?

You're going to do a live sex show...?

Are all ph'ers invited? Will condoms be supplied or are we allowed to go in "bare"?

[james S]

http://www.chavenage.com/

Chavanage House, Tetbury, South Glos.

[FastLaneGirl]

In West Sussex, a huge gardens with lake, ruins etc, no house or anything else attached, just put up your marquee

http://www.wedding-venues.co.uk/slaughamplace

[Jasandjules]

If it's just a field you want then head to Herefordshire and ask a farmer?

[bga]

FastLaneGirl said:

In West Sussex, a huge gardens with lake, ruins etc, no house or anything else attached, just put up your marquee

http://www.wedding-venues.co.uk/slaughamplace

Slaugham is lovely, I got married there 3 years ago. If you book at Slaugham you are tied into using one Marquee company. The owner insists on that as other companies messed him about in the past. Despite it's proximity to Gatwick and the A23 it is very quiet there.

[mechsympathy]

I went to a wedding here last year which was spectacular despite the rain.

[henrycrun]

A better class of field here - http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/