Planning your Perfect Devon Wedding - By: SallyN

Getting married is one of the most important days of your life so plan it right and you will get (hopefully) the wedding that you’ve always dreamed of. There is more to weddings than shopping around and picking the perfect dress - you need to shop around for pretty much everything else! Choosing the right venue is a priority. It’s the place that you will be looking back at in your wedding photos in years to come. The venue is also about the space, the appearance, your budget and the quality of the food so get it right and you will not only have happy guests you will have a happy wedding day!

Picking the Perfect Devon Wedding Venue:
The South West of England is a beautiful region and so Devon has a whole host of wedding venues to choose from. For those seeking a wedding in the country there are many venues dotted around the Devon countryside. There are country house hotels and golf country clubs which have beautiful sweeping lawns and carefully tended grounds which together make the perfect place to spend your big day. What’s more, Dartmoor’s purple heather clad rolling hills and dramatic moorland provides the perfect backdrop for a wedding and there a variety of Dartmoor hotels to choose from.

For those choosing Devon purely for its coastal location, you won’t be disappointed with the amount of beautiful Devon Wedding venues with stunning scenery overlooking beaches, the rugged Devon cliffs and the Atlantic Ocean. The north and south coast both offer a variety of places to choose from, the south with beautiful quaint towns such as Dartmouth and Salcombe with a range of luxury boutique hotels and the north with more sparse coastal hotels near Woolacombe Bay and Croyde Bay.

Hotels are often the first place to look for a wedding venue, however, why not choose to look for something a little more quirky. Devon is home to an array of historical sites which make a perfect wedding venue including places such as Bickleigh Castle, Haldon Belvedere and Bicton Botanical Gardens near Exeter.

Remember if you do decide to look outside the box and choose an alternative to a hotel, you may have to consider extra costs such as marquees and outside catering companies. However, remember that these venues will have organised many weddings before so they will always be helpful in providing a list of companies which they can recommend.

The Wedding Ceremony:
It is obviously tradition to hold your wedding ceremony at a church, however there are more and more hotels which are now licensed to hold civil marriage ceremonies. Some are even licensed for outside ceremonies, although recent summers in the Westcountry have been pretty poor so make sure there is an alternative if the worst comes to the worst.

Although there are many beautiful beaches in Devon, getting married on a beach in the UK is not allowed. In order to hold a wedding ceremony on the beach you need a permanent structure with a roof but unfortunately beaches don’t have many of these! However, you are able to have a blessing on the beach once you’ve officially had a ceremony elsewhere such as at a registry office.

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There are a variety of Devon wedding venues to choose from across the county, from country house hotels and historical sites to coastal boutique hotels.

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