Wellington Wood

All sorts of amazing! This place is absolutely magical and we had a dream wedding day. Our friends and family could not stop talking about the wedding, and in particular the beautiful unique venue for months!

We got engaged in Feb 2020 and when we came across Wellington Wood in our online searches we were confident that we’d found the right place for us. A site visit later and we knew it was the dream location.

The setting is serene, 70 ish acres of divine meadow and woodland, neighboured by a private field which is open only to nature. There is an amazing choice of location for getting married: the woodland circle – a natural opening in the woods which has capacity for well over 150 people, fronted with two dramatically tall trees which make it seem like a cathedral of nature; the larch – a beautifully constructed wooden structure with views out to the tipis across a wildflower meadow; the meadow circle – fully out in the open, with a thoughtfully designed wooden structure forming a focal point.

Accommodation is available on-site, two shepherds huts each have the capacity to sleep 4, and come with a handy little kitchen and bathroom each for a very comfortable glamping experience (don’t forget to bring bedding and towels like we did). The forest cottage also makes a fabulous bridal suite, tucked away from all the action of the tipis, making it feel like a little oasis of quiet after the evening is over.

Vicky and Paul are also happy to have tents on-site and regularly work with a bell-tent hire company (peg and mallet) who have beautiful tents which make a lovely feature to the site.

Vicky and Paul are actually incredible, so very helpful, they have great vision and ideas of how to arrange things to make the day go smoothly. Both are very laid-back and happy to give pretty much any reasonable suggestion a go. They worked bloody hard on the weekend of our wedding moving stuff around the expansive site and finding the right props for how we wanted our wedding to look. And despite having a professional relationship, by the end of the weekend, we left feeling like they had been incredibly helpful guests at our wedding!

You can tell when you walk around the site and speak to them that they have put their heart and soul into designing everything, using high quality materials, and really thinking about the impact that different suppliers will have on their site.

Thank you so much to all at Wellington Wood for allowing us to have our perfect wedding day at Wellington Wood

I am honestly still pinching myself that this was my wedding venue. We looked at several (beautiful) venues initially but none of them felt quite right, though neither of us could articulate why. Wellington Wood fulfilled everything we didn’t even know we wanted until we saw it (and we visited on a drizzly day in November!!). It is honestly such a special place and I fell in love with the woods immediately. I had never considered an outdoor wedding before, but seeing that beautiful space they use for the woodland ceremonies I couldn’t have possibly gone for anything else after that. The venue is absolutely beautiful and made for such a special and unique day.

Paul and Vicky are just about two of the nicest people you could hope to work with and were more than happy for us to visit several times to make our plans. Paul is also incredible at co-ordinating the day, people kept coming up to me all day and telling me how smoothly it was running and each time I gave the same response, “it’s nothing to do with me!” Paul worked behind the scenes all day to make sure that everyone and everything was where it was supposed to be, and was there right up until the last song played, co-ordinating lost guest taxis and helping to pack up the garden games we rented. We are so grateful to him for all of his hard work, and the hard work of everyone else at Wellington Wood. Our special day might not have been so special without such an incredible team and we cannot thank them enough. Special shout out to Margot who made our visits ahead of the wedding, and our set up day on the Friday so enjoyable!

We also loved that it is so sustainable and the owners are so passionate about constantly making everything the best it can be, adding lovely touches here or there. They are also great at recycling from previous weddings just to make sure that truly nothing goes to waste. The camping facilities are such a great touch meaning that our guests who stayed on site were comfortable as well. The cottage was the perfect space for me and my bridesmaids to get ready, as well as being a beautiful place to stay in the days leading up to the wedding. The shepherds huts were the perfect space for my husband and his best men to get ready too!

The tipis are amazing – RIDICULOUS! To tell the truth, when my husband told me ahead of our first visit that it was a tipi venue, I wasn’t immediately sold, picturing a small tent and a lumpy canvas floor but that could not be further from reality at Wellington Wood. It is a beautiful (and enormous) tents, which has room to comfortable seat guests on long table for dinner, a comfy seating area AND a dance floor. It means that there doesn’t have to be the awkward stage of the day where things have to be moved around to make room for a dance floor etc, it can all stay set up and there is plenty of room for everyone. It’s also set up onto a permanent wooden floor which is so super sturdy! The fairy lights make it so magical, and there is space in the dance floor area for whatever you want, be it a band or in our case we just set up speakers and lights and our own playlist. The disco ball is a lovely additional touch that the owners thought of.

I cannot recommend Wellington Wood enough, our wedding was that much more magical because of it.

A hidden gem of a wedding venue, we can’t recommend it highly enough. To be able to get married outside surrounded by nature and to have our dogs there all day with us was so special, and important for us a couple.

Paul & Vicky were fantastic every step of the way from when we first went to visit through to confirming the last final details. So many of our friends and family have said that it was the best wedding they have ever been to, and so much of this was down to how Paul & Vicky ensured everything ran seamlessly. Vicky wanted to know every detail ahead of time and offered helpful advice throughout the planning. Paul was on hand all day, coordinating our suppliers in the background, running the bar and making sure we had nothing to worry about at any point.

We had the best few days here surrounded by our loved ones, and our wedding day was even more perfect than we imagined it would be. The photos we have don’t do the beauty of the place justice. Thank you for everything ❤️