Top Luxury Wedding Venues in the UK

If you are looking for recommendations for the UK’s top luxury wedding venues, read on!

As luxury wedding experts with a particular passion for stately home weddings, the first thing our couples ask us are for our recommended top luxury wedding venues in the UK, particularly county estates with accommodation on site.

Couture Events Ltd is an award winning wedding consultancy with decades of experience - we’ve designed and planned weddings and events in London and the UK’s top wedding venues ranging from stately homes, luxury country estate hotels, orangeries and palaces. We are specialists in weekend weddings at the UK’s best destination wedding venues so we know exactly how to find the perfect wedding venue just for you … and today we’re giving you an insight into what we consider to be the best country house wedding venues in the UK. If you are looking for inspiration for the best stately home wedding venues in the UK, read on for our pick of the top country house and country estate wedding venues for your unforgettable wedding.

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Goodwood House

First up, for the ultimate country house estate for your wedding, we recommend Goodwood House - located in West Sussex, only 60 miles from London, Goodwood is the ultimate in exclusive and glamorous stately home wedding venues. As the family seat of the Duke & Duchess of Richmond, who continue to reside in one wing, it offers not only a range of incredible state rooms inside and epic views from the lawn, but also the benefit of the most gorgeous private hunting manor house on site, Hound Lodge, with 10 bedrooms and its own butlers, as well as on site hotel offering 91 rooms, a choice of restaurants, an on site luxury spa and a golf course. Country pursuits such as wine tasting, clay pidgeon shooting and racing are also easy to arrange at nearby locations.

Cowdray

Next up, and another of our all-time favourite country estate wedding venues is Cowdray House. Also located in West Sussex, the incredible Cowdray is a sumptuous setting with an incredibly intimate feel. Offering an incredible vaulted and wood-panelled central hall, luxurious drawing rooms, 22 bedrooms, indoor and outdoor pools, a vintage bowling alley and extensive grounds, Cowdray is the ultimate magical country house wedding venue.

Hedsor

Named Vogue and Tatler’s dream wedding venue, Hedsor is undeniably one of the most popular wedding venues in the South of England, and rightly so. The combination of its historic grandeur, close proximity to London and stylish on-site accommodation of 10 bedrooms, 2 suites and surely the most luxurious bridal apartment we’ve ever seen makes it undoubtedly one of the top wedding venues in the UK.

 St Giles House

For couples wanting to get away from it all, the incredible St Giles House occupies a prime location in the Dorset countryside. The House offers fine principle rooms for your ceremony and dining, as well as the benefit of on-site accommodation for up to 30 guests in the Riding House, East and West Pepperpot Lodges and the Groom’s House.

 Wilderness

The Wilderness Reserve in Suffolk is an epic location for your destination wedding weekend. Just 2 hours from London, the grade II listed Sibton Park Estate is an effortlessly beautiful Georgian mansion with 14 bedrooms, and a further 10 properties with accommodation in the grounds including a luxury walled garden with its own glasshouse and 8 bedrooms.

Euridge

Possibly one of the most saved images on Instagram and Pinterest, the Boathouse and lake is the jewel in the crown of this Italianate Cotswolds country estate. Offering a Lost Orangerie, a majestic Ballroom and an ancient grotto, as well as up to 17 bedrooms on site, Euridge is an absolute must-see for couples looking for a country estate venue with a quirky edge.

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Avington

This family-owned estate near Winchester is perfect for couples looking to host a larger wedding of up to 200 guests. In addition to the resplendent Versailles ballroom and stunning Orangerie, Avington offers 20 beautifully styled bedrooms so your guests can truly settle in for your wedding weekend

Blenheim Palace

For couples looking for the ultimate in spectacular wedding venues, Blenheim Palace has it all. Surrounded by over 90 acres of formal gardens and offering a range of grand state rooms in the Palace as well as an Orangerie with an Italian Terrace and Croquet Lawn, Blenheim Palace is undoubtedly the most unique and awe-inspiring setting for your unforgettable wedding