Hired, and worth spending on. The difference between adequate and good here is about £600 and it is the most commented-on line in the budget.

Is there a wet-weather plan?

A marquee, booked provisionally from month two. In woodland it is not optional — the ground goes in an hour.

A boardwalk running into woodland with light coming through high branches

Garden

Hollow Lane

near Petworth, West Sussex

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.

Seated: 80
Standing: 120
Beds: None on site
Indicative hire: £1,800–£4,500Price band 1 of 4
Dates open: Spring, Summer

The clearing is about thirty metres across with beech on every side and a canopy that holds the light in a way no marquee ever manages.

Nothing is here. No power, no water, no cover. Everything comes in down a track that a lorry can just about manage in dry weather, which is a real constraint on the design and worth taking seriously.

In return you get a ceremony space that nobody has seen before, forty minutes from London.

What you get

Thirty-metre clearing in mature beech
Completely blank — everything comes in
Generator and sound system essential
Track access, dry weather only for lorries
Camping permitted for forty
No licence — ceremony is symbolic

A path through tall trees, light on the far side

Two people walking together, laughing, trees behind

Poppies and grasses photographed close in

Sun coming through the branches of a big tree

A single large tree standing alone in a field

Questions

What about the loos?: Hired, and worth spending on. The difference between adequate and good here is about £600 and it is the most commented-on line in the budget.
Is there a wet-weather plan?: A marquee, booked provisionally from month two. In woodland it is not optional — the ground goes in an hour.

Where it is

near Petworth

West Sussex, United Kingdom

50.9861, -0.6103

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Sample venue, invented for this build. Prices are indicative bands rather than quotes.

Ask us about Hollow Lane.

We will tell you what it is actually like on a wet Tuesday, what the quoted price does not include, and whether your date is realistic.

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