Best Hampshire Wedding Venues

I have been filming weddings across Hampshire since 2015 and these are the venues I keep going back to. It is not the longest list you will find, because it is only places I have actually worked. That is rather the point. It means I can tell you where the light is at six in the evening and what I would plan around if it rains.

No venue has paid to be on this list and I get nothing if you book one. Every one of them has its own page here with the real guest numbers, filming notes and a film from a wedding there. If Hampshire is not where you are looking, there is a Surrey wedding venues guide and a West Sussex one as well.

Cain Manor, Headley Down

123 for the ceremony, 123 seated and up to 170 in the evening. A getting ready suite and ten further rooms on site, so the morning happens where the wedding happens.

Cain Manor is close to home for me, which is part of why I like filming here. You come up a long winding drive to a house on a hilltop with countryside falling away on every side, so there is somewhere to film you walking that does not look like every other venue driveway in Hampshire. It is local enough that travel never comes into the quote. Full details on the Cain Manor page.

The Tithe Barn, Petersfield

Up to 250 for the ceremony indoors or out, 250 seated and 250 in the evening. Accommodation is off site, which is the one thing worth planning around here.

The barn sits on Ditcham Farm above Petersfield with the South Downs running away behind it. Barns normally swallow light and throw sound about. This one handles both better than most. There is a sound system already built in, so I record from that as well as from my own microphones and the speeches come back clean rather than echoing. More on the Tithe Barn page.

Chewton Glen, New Milton

140 for the ceremony, 140 seated and 200 in the evening. Seventy two rooms including fourteen treehouses. Four ceremony spaces, indoors and out.

A hundred and thirty acres means I can walk you far enough from the party that the two of you stop performing, which is the whole trick. Seventy two rooms also means most of the people closest to you are already on the estate in the morning, so I can film that properly rather than spend an hour waiting on arrivals. More on the Chewton Glen page.

Four Seasons Hampshire, Dogmersfield

200 for the wedding breakfast and 250 in the evening, across five event rooms and five hundred acres.

The long approach through parkland is one of the few things a venue hands you for free that actually looks like something. Done well, an estate this size gives the film real variety. Done badly, it means everybody spends the drinks reception walking. Fifteen minutes in the right place is all I ask for. More on the Four Seasons Hampshire page.

Southdowns Manor, Petersfield

Exclusive use inside the South Downs National Park, taking up to 180. It sits on the Hampshire side of the boundary, so couples find it filed under West Sussex about as often as Hampshire.

This one does not have its own page here yet. If it is on your list, ask me and I will tell you honestly how well I know it.

More Hampshire venues with their own pages

The list has grown since this guide was first written. Each of these has a page here with the real guest numbers, filming notes and, where there is one, a film from the day.

  • Norton Park near Winchester. 120 for the ceremony, 240 seated and 300 in the evening, with the South Downs behind it.
  • Sandford Springs at Tadley. 100 for the ceremony, 140 seated and 200 in the evening. A smaller day than most on this list, which usually makes a better film.
  • New Place Hotel at Shirrell Heath. A Jacobean manor in thirty two acres with four genuinely different spaces, so the day does not run out of looks by the afternoon.
  • Elmers Court at Lymington, now trading as THE NICI New Forest. Twenty three acres above the Solent with outdoor ceremonies on the Queen Mary Lawn.
  • Chilworth Manor at Southampton. 110 for the ceremony across four licensed suites, 200 in the evening and ninety five bedrooms. It stays a working hotel rather than going exclusive use. That matters less than you would think.
  • Rivervale Barn at Yateley. Exclusive use, 150 seated and 200 in the evening, with ten bedrooms in the lodge.
  • Southsea Castle on the seafront. A Tudor fort taking 120 for the ceremony and 200 in the evening.
  • The Alverbank at Gosport. Outdoor ceremonies on the lawn with the Isle of Wight behind them.
  • The Square Tower at Old Portsmouth. Built in 1494, two licensed halls and the harbour mouth outside the door.
  • The Spinnaker Tower at Portsmouth. 70 for the ceremony and 100 for the reception, high above the harbour with glass on every side. It is the trickiest light I work in and I would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.
  • The Royal Southern Yacht Club on the Hamble. Right on the water, with four licensed areas, two inside and two out.

If your venue is not on the list

That is not a problem. Tell me where you are getting married and I will tell you honestly whether I know it. If I do not, I will say so and tell you what I would want to see before the day. Packages and pricing has the numbers and you can reach me on the contact page whenever you are ready.

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