She's not happy with my suggestions of Band On The Wall, Sankey's or Bramall Lane.
Ideally, we'd just jump over a broom at the summit of Elidir Fawr or on Llanddwyn Island, which we'll still do, but we need somewhere with easier access for the in laws for a proper do.
Needs to be:
Within 90 minutes drive from Manchester.
Beautiful.
Not outrageously expensive.
Step daughter hired a barn & farmhouse for hers, which was great.
Plenty of room for dancing and a hog roast.
All suggestions welcome.
Oooh congratulations.
We had a local hotel - The Belfry, Wilmslow, t'was very nice indeed.
Edit ; not sure it's called that anymore.
Ness Gardens on Wirral.
Thank you!
Will have a look at that one.
Grum, that's ace, cheers & best wishes.
We had our ceremony and photos at Tatton Park, party at some hotel afterwards. Don't recall the name of the hotel, so must have been a good party.
Grum, that's ace, cheers & best wishes.
Cheers! 😀
Relatively cheap as you can have the ceremony there. Just down the road from Gisburn forest too. 🙂
Shrigley Hall?
Just thought, we could do it at next years Hit The North.
The other step daughter had hers at Sedgley Park Rugby club, just round the corner.
It was nice.
Could get the Blue Bay or Forts of India to do the catering!
Stag do in Manchester the night before?
grum - best wishes.
Just wondering though, how on earth are you going to get all the stwers into the reception 😉
Tithe Barn (sp!?) in Carlisle is really nice and I think pretty reasonable price-wise. Proper old, old building with massive wooden beams everywhere.
Right in the middle of the old part of town, near the Cathedral.
Westleigh conference centre, preston. Fantastic venue and the staff are very accommodating, I should know I got married there 6 weeks ago. Might be out of budget, depends what you mean by outrageously expensive. It's part of uclan, and is a Georgian manor house set in 20 acres of gardens.
[url= http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/weddings.php ]Westleigh conference centre[/url]
Peckforton castle is nice!
Shameless plug but if you need a band www.fletchlive.co.uk and we play all over the north west. I'm Manchester based but the rest are Chester.
fletch_trio@yahoo.co.uk is the email if you want to discuss anything. Cheers
A mate his wedding at Bolton School at Christmas a few years back. Absolutely stunning setting for photos and I think they did it for a reasonable budget.
And on the subject of bands. We had a superb swing/jazz band. Very highly recommended.
http://www.oscarb.co.uk/Home.html
What? All sensible suggestions? How disappointing, so in the benefit of balance:-
Arndale Centre food court.
Jodrell Bank.
More importantly, ace news! Many congrats to you and Sue.
grum - best wishes.
Just wondering though, how on earth are you going to get all the stwers into the reception
Thanks 🙂
Well, I was thinking about inviting STW people to join our (hungover) celebratory bike ride at Gisburn forest on the Sunday. Don't think we will really have room at the reception unfortunately.
Thank you Matt 🙂
Stag do will either be Llanberis, Bruges or Amsterdam, depending on the relavant proportion of cyclists, drinkers and smokers able to attend.
(I'd prefer Llanberis, tbh. It's not glamorous, but we can sort the rest out ourselves 😀 ) .
Hope your Ed's available for the music. 🙂
grum - Member
Well, I was thinking about inviting STW people to join our (hungover) celebratory bike ride at Gisburn forest on the Sunday. Don't think we will really have room at the reception unfortunately.
Good idea - we'll bring (more) cake.
And painkillers.
Congratulations!
About time too 😉
Ordsall Hall?
Weddings rock!
Rydal Hall?
http://www.rydalhall.org/conference-facilities/weddings/#4
Sadly, the website is dire, but a nice place.
Good idea - we'll bring (more) cake.
And painkillers.
Ace! 16th June at Gisburn Forest - not sure what time yet (not early!).
i've got no idea about wedding venues Pete, but i'll echo the "congratulations!" type comments here mate!
I used to do wedding photography so saw a lot of venues.
I liked the Barn at rivington, at least you could go for a ride when sussing it out.
Peckforton castle is lovely assuming the its been sorted after that tool burned it down last year
Theres also a lovely country house hotel between Lymn and he M6 viaduct. Cant remember its name but that was simply lovely.
Tabley Hall near Knutsford is also well worth a look
Forgot to say congratulations to the OP as well. Hope you find somewhere that suits.
Peckforton has all been redone and it very nice apparently..... looking at it out of the window right now 🙂
My office is in Warrington. It's usually empty on a saturday. You can use that for a reasonable fee.
If there's any callouts while you're there you'll have to deal with them though.
A mate his wedding at Bolton School at Christmas a few years back
Suggested that to the wife* and got shot down in flames. We got married in Liverpool Town Hall, which was a tremendous venue.
Andy
*Who, being fair, had gone there.
We got married at [url= http://www.tempestarms.co.uk/ ]The Tempest Arms[/url] in Elslack near Skipton. Nice pub, great food and get one of the two rooms with hot-tubs on the belcony by the river.
Man and Scythe Pub in Bolton
We did it at chester zoo
nice venue, reasonably priced and the guests get free entry to the zoo and can go see the oragutangs while you pose for endless photos
We are getting married in two weeks time in the Ribble Valley.
Marriage is at St Peters church, Stonyhurst. Reception is at the Tithebarn at Browsholme hall. Lovely old stone barn and the caterers are amazing! Really looking forward to it now!
Planning on riding Longridge Fell with my best man the morning of the wedding, finishing up outside the church for a quick photo for the wedding album!
Sefton Park Palm House.
Congratulations
Yes I will make myself available for the stag do
yes I will get the Castaways to do the evening https://soundcloud.com/the_castaways
how about Guys Thatched Tavern ? Billsborough, just the other side of preston (ok, maybe a bit of a trek)
We got married in St Anns church and then walked up to Manchester Town Hall last year. Fantastic places to get married.
The Town Hall have a nice room to get married in to if you're not doing a church wedding:
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/townhall/info/5/weddings_and_civil_partnerships
Other places to check out are:
City Centre:
http://www.thecastlefieldrooms.com/weddings.php
Bit more low key:
http://www.styallodge.co.uk/
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank-mill/
Friend got married here last month:
http://www.adlingtonhall.com/
Need a few guests for this one and a shame it's in Gorton. Place is fantastic though:
http://www.themonastery.co.uk/
Bit more bling:
http://www.davenporthall.com/wedding-venues/
As an aside, does anyone have photographer recommendations? I nearly fell over after hearing some of the prices mentioned..,
MarsdenMan
Grum
Chipps
do a forum seaqrch, it comes up on here regularly.
As an aside, does anyone have photographer recommendations? I nearly fell over after hearing some of the prices mentioned..,
Yep, they can cost a lot - £2k is not uncommon.
A friend is a 'fine art' landscape photographer and is doing ours for £500 (we offered to pay that, he initially asked for £250). He's also coming as a guest.
The Samling at Dove Nest, near Ambleside. Stunning private hotel with a massive barn. Mrs Gti and I got married there.
How naive I was then.
tarquin - Member
As an aside, does anyone have photographer recommendations? I nearly fell over after hearing some of the prices mentioned
Weddings are pretty much all I do now - very candid, no endless posed stuff, eight years in the business, based in the north east so no silly London prices 🙂
[url= http://www.jamieemersonphotography.com ]documentary wedding photography[/url]
Thornton Hall
http://www.thorntonhallhotel.com/
Dependent on amount of guests and which hall is used the price can differ alot, the garden area is stunning for photographs in Summer and Winter.
Craxton Wood
Both these are based on the Wirral near Ness Gardens as Rich said a few weeks ago and is around 1 hours drive from Manchester Airport via the M56 and M53 motorways.
