Chilworth Manor Wedding Venue, Southampton

Chilworth Manor, a country house on the northern edge of Southampton

Capacity

110 ceremony

140 wedding breakfast

200 evening guests

Rooms

95 ensuite

Exclusive use

No, it stays a working hotel

Ceremony spaces

Four licensed suites

Filming at Chilworth Manor

Chilworth Manor sits in twelve acres of gardens at Chilworth, two miles north of Southampton, with another twenty seven acres of conservation land wrapped around it. It is a country house that happens to run as a hotel, so a wedding here starts and finishes in the same place. For me that means no travelling gap in the middle of the day and no missed hour while everybody drives between a church and a reception.

Four of the rooms are licensed. The GK Chesterton was the library and it is still the one most couples pick, with the light coming in from one side, which is exactly what a ceremony wants. The Lord Selborne seats seventy six and the Coach House takes a hundred and forty for the wedding breakfast and two hundred in the evening, with its own bar and anteroom.

Ninety five bedrooms is the number that changes my morning. Almost everybody is already on site, so getting ready, the arrivals and the first drink all happen within a few minutes of each other instead of being spread across three villages. It buys back an hour of filming that most venues quietly take away from you.

The gardens are the reason to give me twenty minutes between the meal and the evening. Twelve acres of lawn and planting means I can walk you somewhere quiet, and that walk is usually where the best two minutes of the film get made.

To get more information about Chilworth Manor you can visit their website at chilworthmanorhotel.com.

Their address is Chilworth Manor, Chilworth, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 7PT.

Rachel and Thomas at Chilworth Manor

Rachel and Thomas got married at Chilworth Manor and I filmed the whole day. If you would rather see what a wedding here actually looks like than read about it, their teaser is below.

How I work on the day

No posing, no forced smiles, no interruptions. I film what happens and I keep out of the way while I do it. If your photographer sets something up I will use it, but I am not going to stop your day for the sake of a shot.

Rachel and Thomas, Wedding Teaser Film at Chilworth Manor

Filming notes for Chilworth Manor

  1. Ninety five bedrooms on site, so most of your guests are there before the day begins.
  2. Four licensed suites, licensed for up to a hundred and ten between them.
  3. The GK Chesterton, the old library, holds the best ceremony light in the house.
  4. The Coach House carries two hundred in the evening and has its own bar.
  5. Twelve acres of gardens for couple portraits, with the conservation land behind them.

Other Venues in Hampshire

There are many wedding venues across Hampshire and some of my personal favourites are;

  1. New Place Hotel, Shirrell Heath
  2. Norton Park, Sutton Scotney
  3. Elmers Court, Lymington

Frequently Asked Questions

No, it carries on being a hotel around you. In practice it makes very little difference to the film. The wedding suites and their terraces are yours for the day and I plan the quiet shots for the parts of the house that belong to you, so nobody else appears in your film.

The GK Chesterton. It was the library and it still reads like one, and the window light falls across the aisle rather than behind it, which is the difference between faces and silhouettes. The Coach House is the better room once the evening starts.

Only for the better. The day grows instead of staying flat, which gives the film a second half with some noise in it. I will be by the doors when the evening guests arrive because that reunion is worth more than any staged shot.

If they can, yes. Ninety five rooms means almost everybody can, and a morning where the grandparents are already in the building is a morning I can film properly rather than chase.

In your room, and then in the gardens if the weather allows. The rooms are ordinary hotel rooms rather than a dedicated bridal suite, so I will find the window with the best light and work from there.

Questions about packages, pricing and how long the films take to arrive are answered on my full FAQ page. Anything specific to Chilworth Manor that is not here, just ask me.

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