2021 Editor's Choice Hotels for Weddings
Editor’s Choice: Wedding Hotel Venues
The Horn of Plenty - 2 night Escape to the Country Special Offer – flexible cancellation
Tavistock
Fine weather permitting, couples can tie the knot outdoors with a magnificent view across the Tamar valley from this four-star, creeper-clad Georgian country house. Large suites in the main house or coach houses have balconies and terraces.
Lords of the Manor - One Night Complimentary Special Offer
Upper Slaughter
This romantic Cotswold manor house set in eight acres of gardens prides itself on offering bespoke extravagant ceremonies for up to 150 people, as well as discreet, intimate affairs with just a handful of guests.
Judges - 'Accommodation Special Rates' Special Offer
Yarm
Wedding nerves will be calmed by a warm Yorkshire welcome at this clubby hotel in a Victorian country mansion. Marry in the lovely garden gazebo with acres of gardens and woods as the backdrop, and dine on excellent food.
The Inn at Whitewell
Clitheroe
Couples can marry in the orangery of this mullion-windowed 18th-century inn overlooking the Forest of Bowland, or in a charming church, built in 1821, which is in the grounds. In addition to 23 rooms, there is a private cottage.
Marlfield House
Gorey
Fairy-tale weddings are a mainstay of this luxurious Relais & Châteaux hotel, set in 36 acres of glorious gardens. Say ‘I do’ in the Print Room, elegant Turner- style Conservatory or garden; spend your wedding night in a lavish State Room.
Burgh Island Hotel
Bigbury-on-Sea
Have the island and this retro-glamorous Art Deco hotel, which has hosted luminaries from Winston Churchill to Noël Coward, entirely to yourself as the tide draws in. With 25 rooms, it can host 50 guests for exclusive use.
New House Farm
Cockermouth
The wedding photos here will win you bragging rights for the rest of your days. Couples have a mesmerising backdrop of dramatic fells, brooks and gardens at this Lake District farmhouse. Marry in a rustic hayloft with exposed stone walls.
Gilpin Hotel and Lake House
Windermere
The Lake House, which you can hire exclusively with 100 acres of grounds, has six suites, lakeside views, lounge, outdoor hot tubs, sauna and indoor pool. After your vows, there is Michelin-starred dining in the Conservatory or marquee.
Llangoed Hall
Brecon
Welsh country house hospitality awaits spouses-to-be at this impressive hall in the Wye valley. Exchange vows with a view of the Black mountains, dine on locally sourced cuisine, and wander arm-in-arm through wild flowers in the grounds.
Glenapp Castle
Ballantrae
Church of Scotland ceremonies can be held in a Victorian chapel on this splendid Ayrshire estate, or in the turreted castle hotel. In the evening, watch the sun set over Ailsa Craig and the Mull of Kintyre, and retire to a sea-view suite.
2020 Editor's Choice Hotels for Weddings
Editor’s Choice: Wedding Hotel Venues
Bodysgallen Hall and Spa - Seven nights for the price of five Special Offer
Llandudno
A photographer’s dream, this Elizabethan manor house stands in gardens and parkland, with mountain views. A spa, oak-panelled drawing room, romantic four-poster suite, stone cottages with roses round the door. What more could you ask?
Montagu Arms - 'Escape to the Country' Special Offer
Beaulieu
From an intimate ceremony in the Paris Room to a large gathering in the Terrace restaurant, with Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens outside and four-poster suites above, this New Forest hotel can lay on the full Monty.
Judges - 'Accommodation Special Rates' Special Offer
Yarm
Up to 75 people can attend your garden wedding ceremony in the Gazebo at this smart hotel (smaller gatherings in the lounge, garden room and conservatory restaurant). You want a Daimler? A magician? A string quartet? They have the contacts.
Askham Hall - Midweek Special Offer
Penrith
The chapel, a French drawing room, medieval hall, gardens and nearby church are at your disposal if you wed at this battlemented ancient pile. Relax in the spa beforehand, party in the Bank Barn, sleep in a four-poster room.
Morston Hall
Holt
A more intimate venue, this long-time Guide favourite is renowned for Galton Blackiston’s Michelin-starred cooking. Ceremonies are held in the conservatory or gardens. Opt for exclusive use and guests will be welcomed with a cream tea.
The Colonsay
Isle of Colonsay
Whether you elect to hold your wedding in the lovely gardens or indoors (and this is the rainy Hebrides), the remote and beautiful situation of this hotel makes for an unforgettable day. There are self- catering cottages if there’s no room at the inn for all guests.
The Painswick
Painswick
Have a civil ceremony in the lounge or on the terrace of this beautiful Palladian mansion with wisteria-draped loggia, or make your vows at St Mary’s church. Spa treatments and the four-poster George’s Suite are a bride’s dream.
Hilton Park
Clones
Formal gardens and pleasure grounds surround this Italianate ancestral home. A roofed colonnade has been restored to create a wedding space. Or request a humanist ceremony in the rose garden by the lake. A house-party atmosphere prevails.
Lympstone Manor
Exmouth
It will be a while before guests can raise a flute of Lympstone Manor bubbly from the vineyard, but Michael Caines’s Georgian manor in parkland on the Exe estuary affords a glorious setting and a gourmet experience.
The Salutation
Sandwich
The owners of this beautiful, Queen Anne-style Lutyens house with Arts and Crafts gardens choose to host a small number of weddings each year, and to make them very special. There are no packages; everything is bespoke.
From £90 per night
2019 Editor's Choice Hotels for Weddings
Editor’s Choice: Wedding Hotel Venues
The Horn of Plenty - 2 night Escape to the Country Special Offer – flexible cancellation
Tavistock
The name doesn’t lie. There’s plenty of good cheer, from falcons to fireworks, for guests at this 19th-century mansion. With four rooms for civil ceremonies, and a host of atmospheric local churches, celebrations can embrace the main house or use a marquee for large parties.
Seaham Hall - Three Night Christmas Special Offer
Seaham
Lord Byron married Annabella Milbanke at this Georgian mansion turned spa hotel. The union didn’t fare well, but the hotel’s wedding packages, named after their brilliant daughter, Ada Lovelace, include everything from use of the ballroom to champagne.
Gravetye Manor
East Grinstead
Built by ironmaster for his bride, this Elizabethan manor house in lovely gardens laid out by William Robinson is as romantic a venue as you could wish. Exclusive use is available for parties of up to 60, with the wedding breakfast in the glass-walled dining room.
Temple House
Ballymote
A family home for centuries, this Georgian mansion has witnessed many splendid wedding celebrations. Vast period rooms and a ruined Knights Templar castle by the lake – imagine those photos – are the icing on the cake.
Langar Hall
Langar
Ceremonies are held in the Indian room, garden room or dining room at this apricot-washed mansion in beautiful grounds in the Vale of Belvoir. Small, informal weddings and partnerships are a speciality.
Prestonfield
Edinburgh
Throw a party in the circular stables ballroom at this 17th-century mansion, or go for something more intimate in the Stuart Room or Italian room. Then how about a night to remember in a silver- leaf sleigh bed in a room with an antique chaise longue and trompe l’oeil drapery?
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Baslow
Readers who spent their wedding night at this stone manor house on the edge of the Chatsworth estate loved it so much that they returned this year for their 12th anniversary. Ceremonies in drawing room or study.
Jesmond Dene House
Newcastle upon Tyne
From the Apartment, hosting ten guests, to the panelled Great Hall for up to 120, from a small supper to a banquet, cakes, flowers, photographers, magicians, all can be arranged at this 19th-century stone mansion in woodland.
Bingham Riverhouse
Richmond-upon-Thames
You can book the garden and garden rooms, and choose anything from canapés to buffet to barbecue at this romantic riverside hotel. Packages include ‘Summer Whirlwind’, ‘Small and Intimate’, and exclusive use.
The Assembly House
Norwich
You can hire the Grand Hall, the Ballroom, the Music Room, or a less flamboyant space at this landmark Georgian building replete with chandeliers. Best of all, book exclusive use and bag the bridal suite with tester bed.
2018 Editor's Choice Hotels for Weddings
Editor’s Choice: Wedding Hotel Venues
The Horn of Plenty - 2 night Escape to the Country Special Offer – flexible cancellation
Tavistock
It’s all about the views at this former 19th-century mine captain’s house turned dog-friendly hotel on a hillside on the Devon/Cornwall border.
Glenfinnan House Hotel
Fort William
You can almost hear the skirling of pipes as you gaze across Loch Shiel from Jane MacFarlane’s waterside mansion to the Glenfinnan Monument and distant Ben Nevis.
Temple House
Ballymote
The anticipation builds as you follow a half-mile drive through sheep-grazed pastures to Roderick and Helena Perceval’s 18th-century classical mansion, remodelled in 1864.
Langar Hall
Langar
A linden avenue leads to this apricot-washed Georgian mansion in parkland, beside St Andrew’s
church in a Vale of Belvoir village, with a river running through.
Goldstone Hall
Market Drayton
A vast, prolific kitchen garden is the perennial glory of John and Sue Cushing’s red brick Georgian manor house in flower-filled acres amid gentle countryside.
Bingham Riverhouse
Richmond-upon-Thames
Bang on the banks of the Thames between Richmond and Petersham, this former Georgian mansion turned ‘classic English hotel with a modern twist’ sits in a riverside garden and terrace.
Penally Abbey
Tenby
There is plenty to please the eye here: a lovely Georgian-Gothic house with romantic cusped windows and glorious views across Carmarthen Bay to Caldey Island.
Budock Vean
Falmouth
‘The setting could hardly be more enticing’ at this spa hotel and golf resort on a ‘magical’ part of the Helford river.
Llangoed Hall
Brecon
Expect art and architecture at this ‘really grand’ Jacobean mansion set in gardens and parkland in the Wye valley, with views to the Black mountains.
Hipping Hall
Kirkby Lonsdale
Between the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District – and just ten minutes from the M6 – Hipping Hall is a surprising foodie find with understated but luxurious bedrooms, a relaxed atmosphere and restful views.
2017 Editor's Choice Hotels for Weddings
Editor’s Choice: Wedding Hotel Venues
Star Castle - Autumn full board Special Offer
St Mary's
The Francis family’s charismatic hotel, with many historic features, continues to please regulars, mainly for its ‘superb’ hilltop location, genial service and tip-top seafood.
Gregans Castle Hotel
Ballyvaughan
This ‘epitome of Irish country house hospitality’ overlooks Galway Bay, in the dramatic Burren landscape, said to have been the inspiration for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
Langar Hall
Langar
A linden avenue leads to this apricot-washed Georgian mansion in parkland, beside St Andrew’s
church in a Vale of Belvoir village, with a river running through.
The Lord Crewe Arms
Blanchland
Blending 12th-century stone origins with 21st-century country-inn comforts, plus robust food, this handsome hotel attracts walkers and weekenders.
Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
‘It’s hard to fathom just how many things the Endsleigh does right,’ says one reader, of this Grade I listed hotel set in 200 acres of fairy-tale gardens in the Tamar valley.
Jesmond Dene House
Newcastle upon Tyne
You get the best of both worlds here: although it’s in the city suburbs just a ten-minute drive from the centre, Jesmond Dene House, named after the lush wooded valley it overlooks, ‘feels as if it’s in the country’.
The Coach House at Middleton Lodge
Richmond
Minutes from the motorway, this Georgian estate feels deeply rural, with its walled garden and hundreds of acres to explore.
Roundwood House
Mountrath
There’s plenty of personality alongside the period furniture at this 18th-century Irish country house in parkland at the foot of the Slieve Bloom mountains: a library in the double-height stables is dedicated to the history of the evolution of civilisation, and dinner is served with a serenade from the ‘singing chef’.
Boath House
Nairn
Hotel grounds don’t get much more ‘exquisite’ than at Don and Wendy Matheson’s ‘beautiful if unadorned’ Georgian mansion, sitting amid 22 acres of lawns, meadows and woodland.
The Assembly House
Norwich
People danced beneath the crystal chandeliers in the magnificent Great Hall of the ‘House of Assemblies’ to celebrate Nelson’s Victory at Trafalgar in 1805, and they’re dancing still.
2016 Editor's Choice Hotels for Weddings
Editor’s Choice: Wedding Hotel Venues
Watersmeet - Winter Indulgence Break Special Offer
Woolacombe
On the South West Coast Path, this former Edwardian gentleman’s retreat has ‘wonderful’ cliff-top views over an expanse of sea and sand.
The Ollerod
Beaminster
An ancient, honey-stone priest’s house turned hotel in a pretty market town has been given a chic make-over as a restaurant-with-rooms.
Knockinaam Lodge
Portpatrick
‘A stiff walk from Portpatrick along the cliffs’ brings you to Sian and David Ibbotson’s Victorian hunting lodge overlooking the Irish Sea.
Ballymaloe House
Shanagarry
Fifty-seven years after Myrtle Allen opened a restaurant in her home on her husband’s farm, her values are still articles of faith at this legendary country house hotel.
Bingham Riverhouse
Richmond-upon-Thames
Bang on the banks of the Thames between Richmond and Petersham, this former Georgian mansion turned ‘classic English hotel with a modern twist’ sits in a riverside garden and terrace.
Rose in Vale
ST AGNES
In summer, swags of roses adorn the Doric porch of James and Sara Evans’s ‘elegant’ if much extended Georgian country house in a secluded valley in the village of Mithian.
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The Good Hotel Guide was built on an ethos of quality and identity, and at no time are those elements more important than when you’re planning a wedding. A time to look after and entertain all the people who are closest to you, the hotels we have found, from boutique hotels to grand country house hotels, city townhouses to the most elegant of rustic country pubs, all include those highly desired qualities in our collection of UK wide hotel wedding venues.
The collection includes a wide variety of locations, not just in terms of counties and cities, but varying from lakeside hotels near Windermere to mountainside locations in Wales, seaside hotels in Devon and Highland hotels in Scotland.
Each has its own approach to weddings, and many have in-house planners who make the whole process that much more carefree for the bride and groom. Food is a high priority in most places, and a tricky one to coordinate outside a hotel venue, adding another tick box in the reasons for choosing a hotel as your wedding venue.
Whether you’re looking for a grand event at the likes of Lewtrenchard Manor or a small and intimate occasion, there’s something for every wedding occasion amongst this collection.
