Beardsley Grange Country House & Gardens

Some wedding venues feel as though they were carefully designed for photographs. Beardsley Grange feels more like somewhere a beautiful story was already unfolding, and you have simply been invited to become part of it.

Set across ten acres in Sackville, Beardsley Grange centres around a nineteenth-century country house, gardens and a wonderfully distinctive timber-frame greenhouse. Antique windows and doors give the greenhouse its character, while salvaged architectural details, seasonal plants and flowers soften the space and allow natural light to pour through from almost every direction.

Outside, gardens and century-old apple trees surround the greenhouse, creating the sort of countryside setting where guests can wander between parts of the celebration and couples can disappear for photographs without ever really leaving the party behind.

Weddings and receptions are part of what Beardsley Grange was created to host. The property also offers catering and decorating services, along with a collection of tableware, textiles, furniture and décor that can help turn the greenhouse from a beautiful garden structure into a celebration that feels personal to the couple using it.

There is even a charming mobile bar and tearoom known as The Hound & Pheasant, another little detail that fits naturally into the whimsical country atmosphere of the property.

But perhaps the loveliest part is that Beardsley Grange still feels like a home. This is not a vast event complex built around moving weddings through one after another. It is a country property whose owners have opened the place they love so other people can gather there too.

For couples dreaming of antique windows glowing in the evening light, flowers spilling through the gardens, drinks beneath old apple trees and a celebration that feels intimate, creative and wonderfully personal, Beardsley Grange is the kind of place where the setting becomes part of the memory.

• Gardens and grounds
• A barn for the celebration
• Wedding packages