Weddings in England

The Savoy is one of the most famous hotels in the world, and Britain's first luxury hotel, opened on the Strand in 1889 by Richard D'Oyly Carte. A landmark of Edwardian and Art Deco glamour overlooking the River Thames, it has been at the centre of London life for over 130 years. Its wedding spaces are among the grandest in the city, from the gilded Lancaster Ballroom, which holds up to 700 guests, to the double-height River Room overlooking Embankment Gardens, and a collection of rooms named for the Savoy Operas. Dining is by the hotel's celebrated kitchens, including the Savoy Grill and Restaurant 1890 by Gordon Ramsay, with the famous American Bar, the Art Deco Beaufort Bar, and afternoon tea in the Thames Foyer, and 267 rooms and suites, many with Thames views.

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The Dorchester is the Dorchester Collection's London flagship, a Park Lane landmark since 1931 and one of the city's great Art Deco buildings, overlooking Hyde Park in the heart of Mayfair. For over eighty years it has been home to the best society weddings, in a collection of magnificent rooms, from the gilded Ballroom that holds up to a thousand guests, to the Wedgwood-blue Orchid Room and the Park Suite over Hyde Park. Dining is by the hotel's own kitchens, crowned by the three-Michelin-star Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, with the famous afternoon tea in the Promenade, the Dorchester Spa, and 238 rooms and suites including the legendary Oliver Messel Suite.

Claridge's is an Art Deco legend in the heart of Mayfair, a Maybourne hotel of state banquets and royal receptions, and one of London's most celebrated wedding addresses. Couples marry in its famous Art Deco rooms, licensed for civil ceremonies, led by the English Heritage-listed Ballroom, with its marble and mirrored walls, seating up to 240 and holding up to 500. The French Salon, with its restored mural and gilded cherubs, the elegant Drawing Room, and the intimate mezzanine rooms suit celebrations of every size, dressed by the hotel's own Claridge's Flowers, with a resident wedding choreographer to teach the first dance. The wedding party stays among over 200 rooms and suites, with a complimentary suite for the wedding night. Founded in 1812 and reborn in the glamour of the 1920s, it is a wedding of true Mayfair occasion, in a hotel that has welcomed royalty and the world for more than a century.

Spencer House is an 18th-century private palace at 27 St James's Place, overlooking Green Park in the heart of St James's, built between 1756 and 1766 for John, first Earl Spencer, and restored over ten years from 1985. Let for weddings on an exclusive-use basis, it gives one couple all eight of its first-floor State Rooms, with civil ceremonies licensed in the Great Room, Lady Spencer's Room, the Dining Room and the Palm Room, receptions for up to 450 guests and seated dining for up to 120, catering by an in-house team, and, from May to September, the Terrace looking out over Green Park.

Blenheim Palace is a monumental English Baroque palace by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. In 2,000 acres of Capability Brown parkland with a lake and the Grand Bridge, its grand State Rooms, the Great Hall, the Long Library, the Orangery and the formal gardens host some of the grandest weddings in England, with marquees up to 2,000 on the South Lawn.

Hampton Court Palace is the Tudor and Baroque royal palace of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII on the River Thames at East Molesey, run by Historic Royal Palaces and hired for weddings and events. Couples marry in the Garden Room orangery and its walled garden, in the riverside Little Banqueting House with its Verrio ceilings, or, by evening exclusive hire, in the medieval Great Hall beneath Henry VIII's hammerbeam roof, then celebrate through the state apartments, the Historic Kitchens and 60 acres of formal gardens.

Coworth Park is the Dorchester Collection's country house and polo estate near Ascot, 240 acres of Berkshire parkland bordering Windsor Great Park. A Georgian estate restored into one of the most beautiful five-star country house hotels in England, it offers a rare breadth of wedding settings, the Oval Room, the Rose and Sunken Gardens, and a seasonal wildflower meadow, alongside its own polo fields, a glass-wrapped spa, the Michelin-starred Woven by Adam Smith, and 71 rooms, suites, and cottages. The whole estate can be taken on exclusive use.

Syon Park is the London estate of the Duke of Northumberland, held by the Percy family since 1594. Weddings take place across Syon House, with its Robert Adam interiors, and the Grade I Great Conservatory, a cast-iron and Bath-stone glasshouse of the late 1820s, set in 200 acres of Capability Brown parkland opposite Kew on the Thames. Ceremonies are held in the Great Hall (up to 154 per the venue brochure) and the State Dining Room (up to 50), with evening receptions under the glass of the Great Conservatory, for up to 160 seated or 200 standing, from April to September. Twenty minutes from central London, and entirely screened from it.

A medieval castle on a moated island in the Kentish countryside, the residence of six queens, home to nine centuries of royal history, and known internationally as the Loveliest Castle in the World. Five licensed wedding spaces, 550 acres of gardens and parkland, and a 12-acre moat that has no equal in English heritage venues.

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park is a five-star grand heritage hotel in a landmark 1902 red-brick Edwardian building at 66 Knightsbridge, its rear facade and terraces facing Hyde Park. Restored by Joyce Wang and home to Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, it hosts grand London weddings in the Ballroom, with floor-to-ceiling park windows and a private garden and terrace, alongside smaller heritage rooms, Michelin dining and 181 park-view rooms and suites.

Cliveden House is a Grade I-listed Italianate stately home set in 376 acres of National Trust parkland high above the River Thames near Maidenhead, once the grand country house of the Astors, now an Iconic Luxury Hotels country house. Couples marry in the panelled Great Hall or out on the terrace above the famous parterre, descend the grand oak staircase, dine beneath coffered ceilings, and celebrate across the terraces and formal gardens, with André Garrett's restaurant, the Pavilion Spa and its celebrated outdoor pool, and 47 rooms and suites so the whole party stays.