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The manor from above: a pale stone Georgian house with wisteria on its walls, and guests gathered on the lawns and terraces around it.

One wedding. The whole manor.

No other weddings, no hotel guests, no strangers on the stairs. Just a Georgian manor in the English countryside and up to a hundred of your people.

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A green vintage car driving through stone gate piers dressed with white flowers, onto a tree-lined drive across open fields.

Nobody else is checking in

One wedding a day, so the whole house runs to your timings, not anyone else’s.

  • The dressing roomA private room to get ready in, out of sight of arriving guests, for as long as the morning takes.
  • The ceremony roomSet for your ceremony alone, with everyone you’ve invited seated together in one room.
  • The gardensManicured lawns for drinks, photographs and the guests who’d rather be outside.
  • The Georgian dining roomLaid for one dinner, where everyone eats together and every toast reaches the back.
Bridesmaids in silk robes laughing as one stands on a chair singing into a hairbrush.

Morning

Start the day without a clock on the wall.

Robes, a playlist, the bottle someone’s been saving. The dressing room is private from the moment you arrive, nobody comes knocking about check-out, and the only people waiting for the mirror are your own.

A couple in a wood-panelled room, light falling through a tall window.

Vows

Close enough to see every face.

With a hundred guests at most, nobody is craning from the back row and your grandmother hears every word. The ceremony room is indoors, so the plan never hangs on the forecast.

A bride pouring champagne over a tower of coupes in the garden while the groom laughs.
Bottles of sparkling wine on ice in a tiered stone fountain.

Gardens

Then out onto the lawn, glass in hand.

Drinks, photographs and the loud, happy hour the morning has been building to. It’s a grand house, but it looks its best with a party in it, and nobody is going to shush you.

Guests raising coupes of champagne over a candlelit dinner table.

Dinner

In the Georgian dining room, by candlelight.

Food is a big part of what we do. Everything is cooked in the house’s own kitchen by people who work here, not by a firm that arrives in a van at noon, so every plate reaches the table hot.

We’ll plan the menu with you, course by course.

Cured salmon canapés on spoons, beside cream-filled tartlets on slate.Bruschetta with whipped cheese, roasted cherry tomatoes and black sesame.Guests passing sharing platters of potatoes, greens and lamb along a long candlelit table.A server in a bow tie carving a ham at a station in the garden.
From the house kitchen
A bride dancing with friends under chandeliers, the light blurred with movement.

Evening

Then the music starts.

The dining room gives way to the dance floor. Your music, your people, and nobody else’s guests wandering in looking for theirs.

A couple kissing in a tunnel of sparklers held by their guests at night.
A couple running hand in hand down a tree-lined path at golden hour.

The send-off

However you leave, everyone you love lines the way.

With a hundred guests, that really is everyone.

Save ten minutes at golden hour, too. The grounds are private, so the only people in your photographs are the two of you.

Before you visit

The things couples ask first.

  • Is exclusive use worth it?

    It’s the difference between hiring a room and having the house. There’s no other wedding, no strangers in your photographs and no shared corridors, so you and your guests can relax from the moment you arrive.

  • Is a hundred guests enough?

    We think it’s why the day works. It’s everyone you’d miss if they weren’t there, and few enough to talk to each of them before dinner. A full house feels full, not like a ballroom at half capacity.

  • Will it feel too formal?

    Not unless you want it to. The rooms are Georgian, but the day runs at your pace, from robes and a playlist in the morning to your own music at night.

  • Can we bring our dog?

    Yes. The house is pet-friendly, and if the dog’s family, the dog’s invited. Mention them when you book a viewing and we’ll plan for them too.

  • How is it different from a nice hotel?

    A hotel fits your wedding around everything else happening that day, from a conference next door to guests at breakfast. Here there’s nothing else going on, and dinner comes from the house’s own kitchen rather than a banqueting suite.

Stone steps with a curved balustrade rising through the garden.

Book a viewing

A house makes its case better in person than on a page.

  1. Tell us about your dayA rough date and numbers are plenty.
  2. We reply by emailTo find a time that suits you both.
  3. Walk the houseThe rooms, the gardens and every question you have.
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