Top 10 Most Beautiful Woodland Wedding Venues in the UK
We’ve compiled an updated list of our top 10 most beautiful woodland wedding venues in the UK for 2025, because there is nothing more romantic than a woodland wedding! Making your vows to the love of your life whilst surrounded by nature, with your guests looking on from a beautiful woodland clearing. It’s surely the dream for any nature lover preparing to say “I do”!
Woodland weddings have been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years, being perfect for couples who want to connect with nature and embrace a more eco-friendly wedding day. So if this sounds like the right choice for you, here’s our pick of the top 10 most beautiful woodland wedding venues in the UK.
1. Dibbins Wood, Northamptonshire
The magical woodland setting at Dibbins Wood on Deene Park Estate guarantees a truly exclusive wedding experience. Hidden in the Northamptonshire countryside, from the moment you enter the gates of Deene Park Estate, you are transported to different world with breath-taking views at every turn.
Part of the Luxury Deene Park Collection, this magical woodland setting has been specifically designed for bespoke built tipis offering the very best rustic or festival themed weddings around. Secluded within a 90-acre wood and surrounded by a field of wildflowers, the views are quite breath-taking and not a single tree has been harmed in the design! The possibilities are literally endless!
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2. Marshwood Manor, Dorset
Marshwood Manor in Dorset mixes Victorian grandeur and a modern vibe and offers a truly exceptional woodland ceremony space.
The woodland bower at Marshwood Manor might just be the most magical place to be married in the entire country. When the village church was rebuilt in 1874 its porch was saved by the then owner of the Manor. After 140 years, it is the centrepiece of our bower and once again witnessing the joining of hands and hearts. Couples can cross the stream on a living bridge and walk through ancient woodland to say their vows in a mystical amphitheatre with family and friends seated on great benches created from the trees themselves.
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3. Cheshire Woodland Weddings, Cheshire
Cheshire Woodland Weddings offers a completely unique experience for your wedding day. The beautiful outdoor ceremony space comprises an enchanting thatched shelter nestled within a 15-acre woodland, and the venue is even licensed for civil ceremonies – a rarity in the woodland wedding world! Should it take your fancy, you can even have your wedding rings flown in by owl! After the ceremony you can enjoy a glass of fizz in the woodland or at the waterside gazebo, the perfect photo spot.
If you would like your guests to truly take in the great outdoors, why not book exclusive hire of the venue? The dedicated team of wedding coordinators can create a package full of fun activities including archery, falconry, segway, crazy golf, human table football and much more. Then party the night away in the 25m open barn where you will find the one-of-a-kind champagne corkbox (a converted horse box bar) and plenty of space to eat, drink and celebrate.
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4. The Green Escape, Surrey
Looking for a micro wedding venue to celebrate with your nearest and dearest? Welcome to The Green Escape, a magical six-acre woodland wedding venue and glamping site located in the beautiful Surrey Hills.
The Green Escape offers beautiful rustic weddings for up to 30 people, with shepherd hut glamping included for up to 22 guests. Less than one hour from London, this romantic setting is ideal for free spirited lovers wanting an intimate wedding celebration immersed in nature. Couples can walk down a pine tree-lined aisle to say ‘I do’ in the rustic woodland arbour with a chorus of bird song over head, surrounded by tree slice benches and hanging lanterns. Follow this with a celebration in the dappled sunlight with crackling wood fires and dancing beneath the stars – what better way to celebrate your union?
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5. Higher Holcombe, Devon
Higher Holcombe in beautiful Ottery St Mary, Devon, is a unique and quirky, family-run wedding venue for a wedding everyone will love. It is very possibly the only venue in Devon (and even the country) to offer a hill-top willow ‘cathedral’ surrounded by gorgeous countryside views. This specially planted outdoor ceremony feature in a curve of beautiful trees is at the end of a meandering willow walkway aisle and is a wonderful and memorable place for your guests to assemble.
Another option for your outdoor ceremony is the secluded and wooded silver birch ‘church’. The trees are like the pillars of a church building – and this space has a dappled, rather secretive feel to it; a charming place to host your outdoor ceremony.
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6. fforest Farm, Pembrokeshire
Located in coastal West Wales, fforest Farm is the perfect place to enjoy the simplicity, pleasure and beauty of outdoor living in an outstanding natural environment. With its tiny stone pub, large communal firepit, secret woodland sauna, wonderful onsite caterers and choice of event spaces, this venue can accommodate parties large or small.
fforest Farm is an ideal location for a relaxed, informal, weekend-long celebration with family and friends. Its 200 acres form part of an area of unspoilt natural beauty, wrapped in woods, wildlife and wonder. Outdoor ceremonies can be conducted almost anywhere, and you can also choose from a range of event spaces such as a giant hat tipi, garden pavilion, dining and party barns.
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7. Harvest Moon Weddings, East Lothian
With two beautiful wedding venues in East Lothian to choose from, you can create your own unique celebration with Harvest Moon Weddings. As well as their stunning beach wedding offering, you can get married at the venue’s beautiful woodland site in view of the Bass Rock, and spend your wedding night in one of the stunning treehouses! Situated 2 meters off the ground with spectacular views, this will be a wedding celebration like no other.
The sites are yours for the weekend and the venue can cater for different themes and sizes of wedding. What’s more, they encourage you to make the celebration uniquely yours by adding your own personal touches.
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8. Arnos Vale, Bristol
A 45-acre woodland wedding venue in the heart of Bristol, Arnos Vale offers an abundance of choice for your outdoor wedding. Arnos Vale is a heritage site that is home to over 350 species of wildlife and plants, and is abundant with life! By choosing this venue, you’ll build a connection that lasts a lifetime, as your wedding directly helps them to protect and care for this incredibly special place.
Wander up the woodland path to discover the magical outdoor venue, the Underwood Centre. The large oak beams and rustic tin roof compliment the surrounding 19th century woodland perfectly. Imagine birds singing and warm sunlight glistening through the canopy of trees as you take your vows! Relaxed and flexible, weddings don’t necessarily have to fall into the traditional pattern, so chat to the team about your ideas for the perfect woodland wedding day.
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9. The Oak Grove, Kent
Nestled between two small villages, The Oak Grove is a magnificent woodland wedding venue where the wood itself sits beside tranquil meadows, all set within five acres of North Kent countryside. The treasured copse is not only surrounded by farmland on three sides but also lies within the ancient Saxon Shore Way on the banks of the River Medway.
Both licensed weddings and celebrant weddings / handfastings take place outside under the stunning green and fairy-lit arbor. Standing on top of a low grassy mound, this leafy structure becomes a focal point for your guests and the rustic bench seating area in front of the arbor can seat up to 120.
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10. Comrie Croft, Perthshire
Comrie Croft is surrounded by 231 acres of woodlands, streams, fields and a pond, so you’re spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing an outdoor ceremony spot. Whether your dream is to be amongst the tall towering trees, to be walking barefoot in the lush grass down the aisle or to gaze into each other’s eyes as well as the views of rolling Perthshire hills, then Comrie Croft could be the place for you.
After your ceremony in the woods you can have your drinks reception in the courtyard with fire pits for those cosy cuddles later – trees behind you, hills in front and farmstead buildings all around. If you’re lucky with the Scottish weather, you could even have your first meal as a married couple out in the courtyard under some atmospheric festoon lights!
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We hope you have enjoyed browsing our top 10 most beautiful woodland wedding venues and have been inspired!
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