North East Wedding Venues

daisygogo

princessstevo wrote: »

Hi I wonder if you can help me too! I have a wedding booked at Seaham Hall in July 2012, and I have just been talking to a friend who has a wedding booked at another venue around the same time and I am beginning to think that some of the prices at Seaham are a bit excessive. Can you tell me if they offer a BYO wine service or corkage? My partner is adamant we are having a big wedding whilst I am the one worried about cost and happy with a smaller affair! Also if you have any advice or tips about Seaham Hall that would be great as we are currently living in Oz and arranging the wedding from here which is a tad stressful even tho its ages away!

Thanks! )

Oh, ps- could you give me the names of the florist and photographer please, that would be great thanks!

I've sent you a pm but we literally told them what our budget was and they were really creative with our menu, drinks, etc and they were really accomodating. I was a bit reluctant to haggle with them but we did and it worked.

I've sent you the links for the photographer 'Dave Lawson' who is based in Sunderland but is absolutely amazing, since our wedding we've had baby pictures, etc taken by him and they are equally as good. If you look at his website you will see he has quite a few wedding venues listed and Seaham Hall is in there so you'll get a flavour of the venue too. The Florist I used was Elvet Flowers, again totally amazing and worked to our budget and my flowers were to die for !

sharpee

Ok so visited a few venues

1. Slaley Hall: Was perfect in every way apart from the fact the room we would want for the wedding breakfast in the evening opens as a restuarant on a fri/sat night. So we would have to get a price from them to close it for our exclusive use. Which is very annoying as apart from that it was perfect in every other way for us.

2. Matfen Hall: Loved the Great Hall perfect but not sure on the other rooms. H2B thinks its a bit old but think he's just sway by Slaley Hall as it has an Outdoor pursuits centre (& stepson preferred the swimming pool!)

3. Seaham Hall: Was made to feel we were taking up their time. Very quick tour before we were dismissed. Very miffed


So not sure all hinges on if we can get Slaley Hall to let us have the rooms we want.

Mmm

sharpee

Anyone have any other suggestions? I have looked at most of the obvious ones was wondering how to find something a bit different

losingpatience

Hey there,

I think I posted this on another of your threads so incase you didn't spot it I've copied and pasted

Well if it's of any help we viewed:

The quayside exchange sunderland - nice enough, the vaulted basements are stunning and ideal for smaller wedding parties but the area around the venue was very run down so there was little options for outdoor photos. Very reasonably priced but no accomodation

The manor house hotel Bishop Auckland - probably a bit far out for you and the room for the ceremony/wedding breakfast was stunning but again no real options for photographs. They did have bedrooms available and we could get a 20% discount on the food as we were originally looking at Jan - March so not badly priced

Longhirst, Morpeth - Really stunning room for the ceremony, for smaller wedding parties the reception rooms were also lovely, anything over 50 and the rooms weren't that great. They had bedrooms as well, have an onsite spa and lovely grounds. They also had a good offer on, just the rooms that we would have had to use because of the number of guests we were having put us off

Kirkley Hall, Ponteland - Where we have ended up booking. They had a fantastic offer on - 2011 weddings for £2011. It hasn't got bedrooms but for that price we got exclusive use for the day. It's got beautiful landscaped gardens and the rooms are lovely but not too big.

Other places you could look at are dissington hall, langley castle, lumley castle, horton grange, close house, gibside, lindisfarne castle, washington old hall

Depending on how different you want to go there's the hancock museum or st marys lighthouse

kit100

Kayteehee wrote: »

Hello G,

Fancy seeing you here! Hows your wedding planning going? Did you get your photographs put on the wall yet? Hopefully your parents have stopped complaining now they have some pics of you and you like them!!

One of the weddings i'm photographing this year is in Matfen in June (not at the hall, at a farm it's a vintage style wedding :-) ) so i'm excited to go up there and have a look around.

I've been @ Seaham hall this week as well, absolutely stunning!!

Hope all is going well :-)

Hi, Just wondering what the farm in Matfen is? Is the ceremony there too?