Suffolk · Country house
Elmhurst House
Early Georgian, ninety seconds from ceremony lawn to dining room, and the stone goes an impossible colour in September.
- Seats
- 144 seated
- Beds
- 22 beds
- Indicative hire
- Price band 3 of 4from £9,500
Eight we know properly
Places we have actually worked in.
Not a directory of everywhere. These are the ones where we know the kitchen, the acoustics, which lane floods and what the light does at five o’clock — which is the only kind of recommendation worth having.
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Norfolk · Barn
The Thorn Barn
A working barn with the far doors opening onto twelve acres. Cold in February, which is why it costs a third of what it does in July.
- Seats
- 110 seated
- Beds
- 8 beds
- Indicative hire
- Price band 2 of 4from £3,200
Suffolk · Coastal
The Net Shed
Black timber on the shingle, doors that open straight onto the North Sea, and weather that is part of the design rather than a risk to it.
- Seats
- 90 seated
- Indicative hire
- Price band 2 of 4from £4,200
Puglia · Château & masseria
Masseria Torreluna
A fortified farmhouse with eleven rooms, four hectares of olives and a stone terrace that faces west. Take it for five nights, not one.
- Seats
- 120 seated
- Beds
- 24 beds
- Indicative hire
- Price band 3 of 4from £11,000
Cambridgeshire · Garden
The Glasshouse
Victorian iron and glass in a walled garden. Unusable at midday in July, and perfect at five o’clock in May.
- Seats
- 96 seated
- Indicative hire
- Price band 3 of 4from £6,800
London · Restaurant
Quay Street
A restaurant that closes for you. Sixty people, one room, and food that is the actual reason you booked it.
- Seats
- 60 seated
- Indicative hire
- Price band 3 of 4from £5,500
West Sussex · Garden
Hollow Lane
A clearing in forty acres of beech, at the end of a sunken lane. You will need a generator, a sound system and good shoes.
- Seats
- 80 seated
- Indicative hire
- Price band 1 of 4from £1,800
Tuscany · Castle
Castello di Mirandola
Eleventh-century stone on a ridge with the whole valley below it. Formal, enormous, and not remotely subtle.
- Seats
- 220 seated
- Beds
- 34 beds
- Indicative hire
- Price band 4 of 4from £24,000
Sample venues, invented for this build. Prices are indicative bands, not quotes — from £1,800.
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