Is it too hot in summer?

At midday in July, yes. We push ceremonies here to five o’clock from June to August, which is a better hour anyway.

Can we have the ceremony outside?

Yes — the walled garden is licensed, with the glasshouse as the wet-weather plan. Same flowers, same room, ninety different minutes.

Sun coming through the branches of a big tree

Garden

The Glasshouse

near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Victorian iron and glass in a walled garden. Unusable at midday in July, and perfect at five o’clock in May.

Seated: 96
Standing: 140
Beds: None on site
Indicative hire: £6,800–£11,500Price band 3 of 4
Dates open: Spring, Autumn, Winter

A restored palm house, eighty feet long, still full of plants. The light through the glass at the end of the day is the reason to book it and the reason to keep the ceremony late.

It is a greenhouse, which means it behaves like one. High summer at noon is genuinely too hot; spring and autumn are ideal, and a winter wedding here with the heaters on is quietly spectacular.

The walled garden takes a marquee if you need more room, though we would argue for keeping it small.

What you get

Eighty-foot Victorian palm house
Walled garden for drinks or marquee
Ceremony licence inside and out
Planting maintained year round
Approved caterer list of four
Music until 11.30pm

Poppies and long grasses in a meadow under a pale sky

Two people walking together, laughing, trees behind

Two hands resting on a bouquet, rings showing

Questions

Is it too hot in summer?: At midday in July, yes. We push ceremonies here to five o’clock from June to August, which is a better hour anyway.
Can we have the ceremony outside?: Yes — the walled garden is licensed, with the glasshouse as the wet-weather plan. Same flowers, same room, ninety different minutes.

Where it is

near Cambridge

Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

52.1936, 0.1247

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

Ask us about The Glasshouse.

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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