An English Rose Garden Inspired Wedding

Congratulations on your engagement! If you’re planning your wedding from afar, or inviting guests to travel to celebrate with you, you may be wondering how to make the most of everyone’s time together. For out-of-town couples especially, a multi-day wedding offers a relaxed, immersive, and truly unforgettable way to celebrate your love.

Make the Journey Worthwhile

When guests travel to attend your wedding, a single day can feel fleeting. A multi-day celebration turns your wedding into a destination experience, giving loved ones the chance to settle in, explore, and truly enjoy the occasion. Rather than arriving and leaving in a rush, guests can unwind and fully embrace the celebration alongside you.

More Quality Time With the People You Love

One of the biggest benefits of a multi-day wedding is the extra time it gives you with your guests. Instead of trying to greet everyone during a packed reception, you’ll enjoy meaningful moments spread across several days, shared meals, casual conversations, and relaxed gatherings that create deeper connections and lasting memories.

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This is especially meaningful when friends and family have travelled from far away to be there for you.

A Wedding That Feels Like a Getaway

Multi-day weddings blur the line between celebration and escape. With everything taking place in one beautiful location, your wedding becomes a mini-retreat, one where love, laughter, and togetherness take centre stage. Guests can slow down, enjoy the surroundings, and feel part of something truly special.

Why Clevedon Hall Is the Perfect Multi-Day Wedding Venue

Clevedon Hall is ideally suited to hosting multi-day weddings, offering the space, flexibility, and elegance needed to create a seamless extended celebration. With several beautifully appointed rooms and spaces to choose from, you can design each part of your wedding to suit a different mood, from relaxed and intimate to grand and celebratory.

The Hall is set within stunning grounds, perfect for outdoor gatherings, quiet moments, and unforgettable photo opportunities across your stay. With 25 luxurious bedrooms onsite, you and your closest family and friends can stay together under one roof, turning your wedding into a shared experience rather than a single event.

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Exclusive Use, Endless Possibilities

For a truly unforgettable wedding experience, we offer the exclusive opportunity to take over our stunning mansion for multiple days, allowing you to extend the celebrations and create lasting memories.

With exclusive use of the venue and estate, you can extend your wedding festivities beyond just one day, whether it’s an intimate welcome gathering, a lavish rehearsal dinner, themed welcome party or a relaxed post-wedding brunch. Every moment flows effortlessly when everything takes place in one private, beautiful setting.

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Less Stress, More Enjoyment

Planning a wedding from out of town can feel overwhelming, but a multi-day format actually brings ease. Events are spread out, timelines are more flexible, and there’s room to breathe. You’ll have time to settle in, rehearse, celebrate, and recover, allowing you to be fully present for every part of your wedding journey.

Designed Around You

No two couples are the same, and a multi-day wedding gives you the freedom to reflect that. Each event can have its own style and energy: formal, relaxed, elegant, or playful, creating a layered experience that feels personal and intentional.

Let us create a multi-day wedding experience, with the freedom to tailor every detail to your desires, ensuring your celebration feels as unique as your love story.

A Celebration You’ll Never Want to End

For out-of-town couples, a multi-day wedding isn’t just a practical choice, it’s a meaningful one. It transforms your wedding into a destination experience filled with connection, joy, and unforgettable moments.

If you’re dreaming of an unhurried, immersive, and truly extraordinary wedding, Clevedon Hall offers the perfect setting to begin your forever.

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"Our wedding day at Clevedon Hall felt magical from the very beginning. We stayed in the cottage the night before with the bridal party, which set the tone perfectly, relaxed, intimate, and full of excitement. The next morning felt like the best kind of sleepover: bridesmaids everywhere, laughter over breakfast, hair and makeup in full swing, and those emotional little moments when it all suddenly feels real."

Laura and Marsel’s wedding at Clevedon Hall was the perfect blend of heartfelt tradition, relaxed joy and timeless style.

A Ceremony Full of Heart

Their ceremony was one of the standout moments of the day. The couple opted for something meaningful rather than overly formal, and their celebrant crafted an atmosphere that felt warm, inclusive and deeply romantic. Thoughtful touches made it feel entirely their own.

From there, the day flowed effortlessly, confetti on the lawn, exceptional food, heartfelt speeches, and a dance floor filled from the very first song. It was exactly the kind of celebration the couple had envisioned.

They credit much of that seamlessness to their suppliers and to the Clevedon Hall team, whom they described as “beyond accommodating” and integral to how easy the day felt.

Personal Traditions & Cultural Joy

Honouring their heritage was a meaningful part of the day. Laura is half Iranian and Marsel is Albanian, and the couple beautifully blended both cultures into the celebration.

During the ceremony, they incorporated a Sofreh Aghd, a traditional Persian wedding spread symbolising love and prosperity. They also exchanged honey, a shared custom in both cultures, to signify a sweet future together.

Later in the evening, the Persian knife dance brought pure joy and energy to the room, as guests danced playfully before handing over the cake knife. Subtle nods to Albania were woven throughout too, including custom matchboxes printed with “Gëzuar,” meaning “cheers.”

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Refined Styling with a Modern Edge

The aesthetic of the day complemented Clevedon Hall’s grandeur while feeling fresh and summery. Bridesmaids wore deep burgundy and the men chose classic tuxedos, setting a sophisticated tone.

The floral palette featured whites, greens and pops of acid green, adding a modern lift to the elegance. The library was chosen for the wedding breakfast, with long tables, candlelight and a gently moody atmosphere that created an intimate, dinner-party feeling.

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“It felt elegant, warm and personal,” says the couple, a perfect reflection of their vision.

Timeless, Elegant Fashion

Fashion was guided by classic glamour with modern practicality. Laura wore a fitted off-the-shoulder gown with removable sleeves, timeless in structure, but designed for freedom on the dance floor. A lace-detailed veil and old Hollywood inspired hair completed the look.

The bridal party’s deep burgundy dresses and the groomsmen’s tuxedos echoed the couple’s chosen aesthetic: refined, cinematic and elegantly in tune with the venue.

Why Clevedon Hall

For Laura and Marsel, Clevedon Hall offered the ideal balance of character, flexibility and intimacy. The exclusive-use nature of the venue was a significant deciding factor, allowing the celebration to feel entirely private and personal.

The ability to host guests onsite was equally important, extending the celebration into the following morning and making the experience feel like a true weekend gathering. With stunning grounds, beautiful indoor options and exceptional food, the venue felt like the perfect match.

“It was the right mix of style, comfort and fun,” they said, romantic without being formal, luxurious without feeling rigid.

Advice for Future Couples

Their advice is simple and grounded: make it yours. The most unforgettable moments are the ones that reflect who you are as a couple, the calm morning, the private glance between speeches, the laughter on the dance floor.

And perhaps most importantly: don’t obsess over perfection. “Plan the parts that truly matter to you, and let go of the rest. Trusting Clevedon Hall and their team made everything flow effortlessly.”

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Photo credit: @pippavolansphotography

A Ceremony Filled With Meaning

The couple chose a deeply personal ceremony: handwritten vows, read aloud to one another, officiated by James’s sister, all set beneath the gazebo facing the Hall. The romantic backdrop was everything they’d hoped for, and the team honored every detail of their outdoor request.

As guests spilled onto the lawn afterwards, a string quartet played Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, a deliberate, delightfully Bridgerton-esque touch. The atmosphere was relaxed and unhurried, with guests drifting freely between garden and rooms while enjoying elegant hors d’oeuvres.

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Dinner, Dancing, and an All-Night House Party

Dinner in the library was pure moody magic, long candlelit tables, hanging moss, and the elevated intimacy of a modern dinner party inside a historic estate. Maggie's father’s heartfelt speech was unforgettable.

Then came the party.

The dance floor was packed from the very first song (credit to The Dynamos), with guests breaking occasionally to step out for air on the warmest day of the year. Late-night mac and cheese and hot dogs appeared exactly when needed. The vibe remained effortlessly personal and cosy, like the world’s most polished house party.

They even forgot to cut the cake until after the photographer had left, meaning the moment now lives solely as chaotic, hilarious camcorder footage. Their “just-in-case” 1 AM return bus to Clifton, booked almost as a joke, ended up completely full. Nobody wanted to leave.

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Style Notes

Maggie embraced the venue’s romantic heritage while weaving in a fresh modern touch. White florals and greenery by Edwina Lowe Florals complemented, rather than competed with, the character of the rooms, elegant, timeless, and beyond her expectations. Their photographer Lucia captured it perfectly.

Fashion was equally intentional: James found his tux in San Francisco, adding a meaningful memory to the process. Maggie found her dress, the second she tried, at Sarah Seven in NYC. Once the gloves and veil were added, the English-garden vision clicked into place.

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A “Traditional Wedding with a Twist”

The couple’s guiding idea? A chic dinner party that slowly evolves into a euphoric night out, and ends with a luxury sleepover surrounded by friends. One guest described it as “an adult sleepaway camp,” which the couple loved. Tradition, but relaxed. Elevated, but full of joy.

Words of Wisdom

“Trust your instincts,” Maggie says. “Planning from NYC was surprisingly stress-free because we had such an incredible team at Clevedon Hall — and vendors we fully trusted. Follow your gut. It won’t steer you wrong.”

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Planning a transatlantic wedding from Brooklyn might sound daunting, but for Maggie and James, choosing Clevedon Hall felt like fate from the moment they discovered it.

The couple first visited Bristol a year prior to their engagement to see James’s extended family. Maggie fell instantly in love with the area, the history, the scenery, the warmth, and the seed of an international wedding was planted. When they got engaged, she began researching UK venues from afar over Christmas and vividly remembers stumbling across Clevedon Hall’s website and immediately knowing this was it: the grounds, the architecture, the dreamlike interiors.

With most guests staying in nearby Bristol, the 30-minute drive felt ideal, and the idea of having 50 friends and family stay overnight on-site sealed the deal. One big, elegant sleepover.

What truly set Clevedon Hall apart, however, was the team. Planning from across the Atlantic went from intimidating to effortless. Every communication was clear, kind, and meticulously organized. Trusting their instincts, Maggie and James booked Clevedon Hall without even visiting in person, a decision they now call the best they made.

Photo credit: @luciamanciniweddings