Choosing suppliers for your wedding can be an arduous task, from choosing a theme for your wedding to picking venues, finding the perfect dresses and attire, florists, catering, entertainment, photographers, and the list goes on. Needless to say, it’s easy to become overwhelmed.
Venues, florists, and designers are 3 of the most important factors for your wedding, contributing some of the most visual and ambient features of your wedding.
In this featurette we are going to look at some of the best venues, florists and designers in and around Nottingham. Hopefully, our Editors Picks will help you plan for your wedding and because this collection is independent, no sponsorships here, you’re getting what caught our eye.
Venues in and around Nottingham
The Walled Garden, Nottingham
https://www.walledgardennottingham.co.uk
The Walled Garden is a particularly unique venue situated in Beeston, just outside of Nottingham. The venue provides a beautiful, memorable space for those who want an outdoor wedding experience.
The Walled Garden stands out for its pretty atmosphere, rustic charm, and the abundant wildlife making its home amongst the venue’s flora and fauna. It has an intimate vibe and is flexible enough that it can take on either a whimsical, quirky or elegant image without compromising authenticity.
The venue offers various structures that you can incorporate into your big day, such as a 200-guest marquee, band stand, and even a converted green house.
The Walled Garden also offers in-house catering from a competitive £30 per person. Options are diverse for this type of venue whilst keeping within its distinctive image, with options including canapes, paella, BBQs, vegan friendly options, grazing tables, pizza, and traditional foods.
For the eco-conscious, The Walled Garden is an eco-friendly venue from top to bottom. As members of the Sustainable Wedding Alliance, The Walled Garden operates in a sustainable manner, avoids harmful pesticides in its gardens and promotes the habitats of the wildlife that makes its home within its grounds.
Finally, the venues hire cost is competitive, starting from around £5,000 in the summer, and £3,000 in the winter.
Website: https://www.walledgardennottingham.co.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walledgardenatbeestonfields
Price Point: From £3,000 to £5,000 depending upon season
Capacity: 50 to 200
Our Trust Rating: 5/5
Colwick Hall Hotel
https://colwickhallhotel.com/wedding-packages
If you’re looking for an elegant wedding venue situated in an historic country mansion, then Colwick Hall Hotel is an excellent choice of venue. Overlooking 60 acres of parkland and steepled in history this venue caters superbly to those who want a more traditional and elegant wedding.
This Georgian country mansion served as the ancestral home to Lord Byron, and has a history dating back to Saxon times, Colwick Hall as a result is steepled in history, status, and tradition.
Colwick Hall offers a variety of package weddings from the intimate to the grand with a capacity of up to 500 guests. The hall also offers a full concept service offering including multiple event locations such as a lakeside pavilion, grand hall and function hall, rooms for overnight stays, bridal suite, gardens and private grounds, and in house catering at Byron Brasserie.
Catering options include a champaign lounge, private bar and fine dining menus. The set menus can also cater for vegetarians and those with special dietary requirements but appear to fall short on any published vegan options.
Packages are on the pricier side staring from £8,000 to £10,000 but offer good value in terms of their service offerings.
Website: https://colwickhallhotel.com/wedding-packages
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colwickhall
Price Point: From £7,000 to £10,000
Capacity: 50 to 500
Our Trust Rating: 4/5
The Pumping House
The Pumping House caters to those who want a fully bespoke wedding that caters to their individuality, and offers luxury with a trendy, modern touch. Situated in a converted industrial building surrounded by Sherwood Forest your guests will get the best of an indoor/outdoor wedding experience.
The venue offers a range of wedding spaces and services for you to enjoy your day, such as two ceremony rooms, main halls catering for 100 to 150 guests, in house catering, bar, cinema and games room, apartments, numerous versatile rooms that can be outfitted to your specification, and gardens surrounded by the iconic Sherwood Forest.
Service offerings are fully bespoke. You’ll work with their wedding co-ordinators to create a highly personalised wedding experience from start to finish.
For catering The Pumping House offers locally sourced, rustic-style food touting the quality of their ingredients. Rather than offering a set menu or style of cuisine, you’ll work closely with the chefs to design your perfect menu from scratch.
Website: https://thepumpinghouse.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepumpinghouse
Price Point: From £2,500
Capacity: 150
Our Trust Rating: 5/5
Florists and Designers in and around Nottingham
Pictures paint a thousand words, so our collection of Florists are media lead.
Frond and Bloom
Frond and Bloom is an independent florist and floral design studio in Nottingham. Headed up by Charlotte Myddleton, the studio grows and designs artisanal floral arrangements for weddings and other occasions.
Charlotte provides sustainably grown, seasonal arrangements, grown with British flowers; and carefully designed arrangements for style conscious couples.
The studio offers bespoke and full concept services from, £1,750 and £2,500 respectively. With these services the studio will take on the entire floral design process from consultation to design, selection and delivery.
For those on a budget or who want to express their own creativity, the studio offers a “ready-to-arrange” service from just £250. With this service, they provide the guidance and floral products for you to self-arrange. This can be a difficult service to find for those who are either creative or on a budget.
Services include consultations and mood boards, styling catalogues, floral selection and arrangement design, delivery, setup, bespoke stationary, and cleardown.
Website: https://www.frondandbloom.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frondandbloom
Pricing: From £250 or £1,750 depending on service
Our Trust Rating: 5/5
Scent with Love
https://www.scentwithlovenottingham.co.uk
Scent with Love is a small independent florist in Nottingham headed by Lynn Palmer who specialises in smaller, more intimate weddings and arrangements.
Lynn offers free consultation and gives an eye for smaller weddings who want unique, personalised arrangements. Her designs hold up, with a keen eye for design that gets the most out of even the most modest of arrangements.
Website: https://www.scentwithlovenottingham.co.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scentwithlovenottingham
Pricing: Competitive, pricing on contact
Our Trust Rating: 5/5
Em’z Flower Boutique
https://www.emzflowerboutique.com
Em’z Flower Boutique is a Sherwood based bespoke floral designer for weddings and events covering the East Midlands area. Emily’s team offer on an end-to-end service designing memorable arrangements, advice and prop hire. Focusing on the couple, leads to a highly personalised service. Her arrangement expertise range from elegant and traditional, to wild rustic themes.
Website: https://www.emzflowerboutique.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emzflowerboutique
Pricing: From £250
Our Trust Rating: 4/5
Our Trust Rating
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We don’t include suppliers who have questionable review histories or a poor review history.