Wedding venues in the United Kingdom

Claridge's

Suite 212 was declared Yugoslav territory for one day in July 1945 so that a crown prince could be born on home soil at this Brook Street hotel.

Raffles London at The OWO

Churchill's old office on Whitehall is now a suite: the Old War Office of 1906 reopened in September 2023 as Raffles London with 120 rooms.

120 rooms

Rosewood London

Rosewood's first European house, opened in October 2013 inside the 1914 Pearl Assurance headquarters on High Holborn, around a seven-storey marble staircase.

262 rooms

Savoy Hotel

Richard D’Oyly Carte’s 1889 hotel on the Strand, where César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier made their names.

267 rooms

Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons

Raymond Blanc opened it in 1984 in a fifteenth-century Oxfordshire manor and has held two Michelin stars there since the first guide after opening.

32 rooms

Corinthia London

The 1885 Hotel Métropole on Whitehall Place spent seven decades as government offices before reopening in 2011 as Corinthia London with 283 rooms.

283 rooms

Bulgari Hotel London

At 171 Knightsbridge, Bulgari Hotel London opened in June 2012 with 85 rooms, a 25-metre pool and a 47-seat private cinema below street level.

85 rooms

Coworth Park

A Georgian house of 1776 in 240 acres of Berkshire parkland with its own polo fields, where Prince Harry spent the night before his wedding in 2018.

70 rooms

Chewton Glen

Captain Marryat wrote The Children of the New Forest at this Georgian house, now a hotel with suites on stilts in the woods and a James Martin cookery school.

72 rooms

Inverlochy Castle Hotel

A Victorian castle at the foot of Ben Nevis where Queen Victoria stayed for a week in 1873, run as a 17-room hotel since 1969.

17 rooms

The Ned

Lutyens' Midland Bank headquarters on Poultry, where 92 green verdite columns now frame the restaurants of the old banking hall.

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

Gravetye Manor

William Robinson, author of The Wild Garden, bought Gravetye Manor in 1884 and spent fifty years planting the gardens around the Elizabethan house.

17 rooms

Estelle Manor

Ennismore turned Eynsham Hall, a Jacobean-style house of 1908 in 3,000 acres of Oxfordshire parkland, into a members' club with bedrooms in 2023.

Heckfield Place

Skye Gyngell's two restaurants at Heckfield Place are fed by Home Farm, the estate's own Demeter-certified biodynamic farm and dairy.

45 rooms

The Dorchester

The 1931 Park Lane hotel facing Hyde Park, whose concrete structure made it a wartime refuge.

250 rooms

45 Park Lane

Forty-five rooms over Hyde Park in the building that housed the London Playboy Club from 1966 to 1981, with Wolfgang Puck's first European restaurant.

45 rooms

Cliveden House

Charles Barry’s 1851 country house above the Thames, once home of the Astors, now a hotel in a National Trust estate.

Lucknam Park

A mile-long avenue of beech trees leads to this Palladian house six miles from Bath, with a Michelin-starred restaurant and its own stables.

Babington House

Soho House's first country house, opened in 1998 in a Georgian house beside a lake, where the Cowshed spa brand began.

Lime Wood

Lime Wood's Herb House spa carries a herb garden on its roof, and Angela Hartnett's kitchen downstairs cooks Italian food with New Forest produce.

The Balmoral

Edinburgh’s 1902 railway hotel on Princes Street, whose clock tower runs three minutes fast.

The Gleneagles Hotel

A 1924 railway hotel on 850 acres of Perthshire that hosted the 2005 G8 summit and the 2014 Ryder Cup on its own course.

205 rooms

The Langham, London

Opened in 1865 as Europe's first purpose-built grand hotel, where Conan Doyle and Wilde dined in 1889 and each left with a commission.

380 rooms

Brown's Hotel

Opened in 1837 by Lord Byron's former valet and often called London's first hotel; Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone here in 1876.

115 rooms

St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel

George Gilbert Scott's 1873 Midland Grand Hotel, closed for 76 years and reopened in 2011 with its grand staircase and painted ceilings intact.

207 rooms

The Connaught

A Mayfair hotel rebuilt in 1897 whose carved mahogany staircase leads to a dining room with three Michelin stars and the bar twice named the world's best.

121 rooms

The Goring

Owned by the Goring family since 1910, granted a Royal Warrant in 2013, and the Middleton family's base on the eve of the 2011 royal wedding.

69 rooms

The Lanesborough

A Greek Revival hospital by the architect of the National Gallery, where Henry Gray worked, reborn in 1991 as a hotel with a butler on every floor.

93 rooms

The Berkeley

A rooftop pool with a sliding roof above Knightsbridge, in the 1972 building that took the Berkeley name from Piccadilly.

190 rooms

The Grand Brighton

Eight storeys of Italianate seafront built in 1864 with one of Britain's first hotel lifts, and the hotel the IRA bombed in October 1984.

201 rooms

Hotel Café Royal

Oscar Wilde's Regent Street café of 1865, where David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust, has been a hotel since 2012 with its gilded Grill Room intact.

160 rooms

Brocket Hall

Two prime ministers lived here and Lord Palmerston died here in 1865; the Grade I house by James Paine now takes guests for golf, weddings and exclusive use.

16 rooms

The Milestone Hotel

An 1880s Kensington Court house named after the old milestone set in its wall, with Kensington Palace directly across the road.

43 rooms

One Aldwych

One Aldwych swims where the Morning Post's presses ran: an 18-metre pool with underwater music under a 1907 newspaper building by the Ritz's architects.

105 rooms

The Landmark London

Built in 1899 as the Great Central Hotel for the last main line into London, with an eight-storey glass-roofed atrium of palm trees at its centre.

300 rooms

Jumeirah Carlton Tower

The Carlton Tower opened in 1961 as a Manhattan-style tower on Cadogan Place and reopened in 2021 after a two-year rebuild with a 20-metre pool under glass.

186 rooms