14 venues
Garden wedding venues
Houses and châteaux known for their gardens, where ceremonies and receptions are held outdoors: The Newt in Somerset, Cliveden above the Thames, Castle Howard’s walled garden, Hever’s Italian Garden and the walled garden at Serrant.
The venues
Bruton, United Kingdom
The Newt in Somerset
The owners of Babylonstoren rebuilt Hadspen House and its gardens near Bruton, opening in 2019 with a cyder press, a Roman villa and a garden museum.
40 rooms · Since 2019
Taplow, United Kingdom
Cliveden House
Charles Barry’s 1851 country house above the Thames, once home of the Astors, now a hotel in a National Trust estate.
Henderskelfe, United Kingdom
Castle Howard
Twelve spaces, from a 228-seat banquet in the Long Gallery to receptions for 1,000 in the gardens, 30 minutes from York
Since 1699
Hever, United Kingdom
Hever Castle
Meetings for up to 150 in the Italian Garden, a 60-seat Tudor-style room and 25 bedrooms at Anne Boleyn's childhood home in Kent
25 rooms · Since 1271
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire, France
Château de Serrant
A 17th-century orangery for 190 seated or 220 standing, a 3,500 m² walled garden and 19 beds beside a furnished Anjou château
Haute-Goulaine, France
Château de Goulaine
An orangery for 250 seated, Renaissance rooms for 150 and gardens for 2,000, 15 minutes south-east of Nantes
Belœil, Belgium
Château de Belœil
Seminars in the salons of the Ligne family's château and weddings in its orangery, set in 25 hectares of formal gardens
Hautefort, France
Château de Hautefort
Seminars, study days and chapel ceremonies in a 17th-century Périgord château with 3 ha of French gardens and a 30 ha park
Milan, Italy
Bulgari Hotel Milano
The first Bulgari hotel opened in 2004 in an 18th-century Milanese palazzo with a 4,000-square-meter garden beside the Brera botanical garden.
58 rooms · Since 2004
Paris, France
Saint James Paris
The 1892 Fondation Thiers on avenue Bugeaud, built where Paris flew its first balloons, now the city's only château-hotel with a walled garden.
50 rooms · Since 1991
Dublin, Ireland
The Merrion Hotel
Four restored Georgian townhouses facing Government Buildings, one of them the reputed birthplace of the Duke of Wellington in 1769.
142 rooms · Since 1997
Marrakech, Morocco
Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech
Fifty-four walled villas with private pools and nine suites on 20 hectares of olive groves and rose gardens, opened in 2015 with the Atlas on the horizon.
63 rooms · Since 2015
Varenna, Italy
Villa Monastero
Lake Como villa with a conference room for up to 88, two smaller rooms and 12 bedrooms for delegates in Varenna
12 rooms · Since 1800
Thornhill, United Kingdom
Drumlanrig Castle
Conferences for 100, dinners for 130 and receptions for 150 in a pink sandstone castle on the Queensberry Estate near Thornhill