Two Night Wedding Experience

The Night Before…

The night before is the first special step of your Two Night Wedding Experience at Ellingham Hall. Use this evening to relax with guests in the secluded Northumberland countryside. Enjoy drinks followed by a choice of hot dishes, a sizzling barbecue menu or graze on some delicious sharing boards, prepared by our award-winning Executive Head Chef and his team.

Younger wedding guests will be thoroughly entertained as they explore our rustic treehouses. For those slightly older, our underground entertainment den with its own built in music system, is perfect for a game of pool or table football before guests rest their heads in our boutique bedrooms.

The Morning Of…

With two wedding suites to choose from in our luxury accommodation, you can both stay separately the night before. After a peaceful sleep, wake up to a tasty breakfast and start your wedding day right.

Our spacious suites have plenty of room for pre-ceremony preparations. Get ready with your maids in the lavish dressing room in Lady B’s Wedding Suite. Or say cheers with your wedding party from the comfort of the Ellingham Suite.

Saying I Do

The Ellingham Estate is the perfect place to say I do, offering five ceremony spaces for up to 140 guests.

Walk down our grand staircase and really make an entrance into our indoor ceremony room or impressive Wedding Chapel.

Or have the dream outdoor wedding in our idyllic country estate. Enter from our west garden for a picturesque front lawn ceremony, or for smaller intimate ceremonies ‘under the hollies’ provides the perfect woodland backdrop.

For something a bit different, impress your guests with amazing views of the stunning Northumberland coastline, whilst you tie the knot on our rooftop ceremony space.

Drinks Reception

Appear, hand in hand, from your wedding ceremony, and transition with ease to your drinks reception. Celebrate a bespoke drinks menu including beers, cocktails, champagne all tailored just for you.

Our outdoor reception spaces are perfect for mingling with guests whilst you soak up the summer sun, enjoying Pimm’s and canapes on the lawn. Or for those colder months, indulge with mulled cider in front of the crackling fires in our two homely reception rooms.

Ellingham Hall is the perfect wedding venue to cater for you and your guests no matter the weather. With plenty of luxurious indoor spaces, our two stunning reception rooms will set an unbeatable scene as you enjoy your special day.

Capturing those first Moments

Ellingham Hall creates a unique experience for every couple during their romantic photoshoot.

With the bountiful beautiful locations, you can capture your first moments as newlyweds in breath-taking settings. Secluded in Northumberland woodlands, surrounded by natural streams and waterfalls you will be able to capture beautiful moments together that last a lifetime.

Wedding Breakfast

Our Chapel is the perfect setting for your wedding breakfast, seating up to 140 guests. Enjoy your first meal as a married couple, prepared with love and the highest quality ingredients, locally sourced from the Northumberland countryside.

Our award-winning Executive Head Chef and his team offer a wide variety of dishes, so you choose your menu to really reflect your tastes. Relax into your wedding experience as we take the stress away and whisk you and your guests into cheers, toasts and celebrations.

Before the wedding day, you will have the chance to celebrate early as we invite you to our food tasting evening to select your own bespoke 3-course menu.

Cake and Cocktails

Now filled with energy and laughs its time to move onto the next exciting part of your Two Night Wedding Experience. Enter our luxury reception rooms and keep the love flowing as you sip on cocktails, handpicked by you both, from our divine menu.

Capture the special moment where you and your spouse cut the wedding cake in front of all your loved ones. Then proudly display the delicious sweet treat on top of our grand piano or in the lavish Drawing room.

Evening Reception

A breath-taking day then flows into a magical night as your evening reception begins, for up to 180 guests. Enjoy your first dance under a canopy of festoon lighting and keep the drinks flowing from our Chapel bar whilst you dance the night away to your favourite band.

Explore all the outdoor spaces Ellingham Hall has to offer as guests can chill on our rooftop lounge, toast marshmallows on the firepit or be snapped enjoying a sparkler reception.

To make sure the evening is designed just for you, we also offer late night tasty rustic food to keep your guests celebrating all night long.

Extend the Party

When a wedding day has been this good we wouldn’t want it to end either! That’s why at Ellingham Hall, we offer the option to extend your evening reception beyond midnight.

As the party continues, let your guests discover our secret underground After Dark Party Chamber. With a built-in music system, customisable lighting and of course beers and bubbles, you can keep enjoying a wedding night that is truly your own.

Together at Last

As the night draws to a close with your guests, there is still magic in store for you. Retreat away to the Ellingham Suite as a newly married couple and savour this memorable night.

Reminisce over the last 2 spectacular days as you cosy up in your very own hot tub and fall asleep in each other’s arms.

The Morning After

After 2 nights of wedding celebrations, finish your wedding experience with a well-deserved full English breakfast in our beautiful Chapel. With a late morning checkout at 11am, you will have plenty of time to catch up and say goodbyes.

Though this may be the final step of your Two Night Wedding Experience, we hope this is not the end of your Ellingham Hall story! Sharing such special days with you, makes a lifelong partnership so stay in touch and be sure to visit again!

We can’t believe that it has been a month since you helped us tie the knot! We just wanted to o send huge hugs and a MASSIVE thank you to David, Debbie, Wendy, Alicia and the entire team at Ellingham for the most unforgettable wedding (Lauren’s mam is still crying!)

We have spoken every day since with each other and our friends and family about how we couldn’t have wished for a better couple of days and although Ellingham is a magical venue, that is truly because of you guys. Everything from the food, to the service, to the running of the day itself was an absolute dream and totally exceeded anything we could have hoped for. No request was too much and every single member of staff is an absolute credit to your team – it really is no wonder you guys are THE BEST Wedding and Events Team in the North East (Congratulations by the way! – thoroughly deserved!).

A massive thank you again to each and every one of you for making our wedding so magical, we can’t wait to come back up and see you all again!

Lauren & Chris Phillips, 26th October 2023
“We’ve had so many compliments from family about our wedding. Some of our guests hadn’t heard of Ellingham Hall before our weekend wedding. I think some guests were wondering why they were at a wedding the night before, as a lot of weddings are only one day. But everyone just absolutely loved it. The team at Ellingham were great. Matt received a lot of compliments on the Friday night. Lots of family said how great he was. In fact, there were loads of compliments about the entire team, they all did a fab job. And everyone complimented us on the food. My friend, Joanne, said it was the best wedding food she had ever tasted. We had just under 100 guests during the day of the wedding and that’s a lot of people to serve, especially with the choices. But it was all brilliant.”

Dominic & Mark Graydon-Close, 15th June 2024
“Nick and I just wanted to say the most enormous thank you for making our day so special. The whole thing felt completely effortless whilst being executed perfectly. We were made to feel at home from the moment we arrived, with a massive thanks to Beth, Debbie, David and Jeff who were all completely faultless. Their attention to detail and acknowledgment of things important to us was exceptional. Debbie, thank you so much for making me feel at ease when I was so nervous!

We are especially grateful that you went above and beyond to decorate our tables perfectly at short notice and adapted last minute table plans. Nothing felt like too much effort, we really can’t thank you all enough for helping to make our day so special.“

Chloe & Nick Gardiner, 4th May 2024
“We can’t begin to thank everyone at Ellingham hall for making our wedding the most beautiful and memorable day.

We got married at the beginning of December and went for a 3 day wedding, Friday-Sunday. Ellingham was transformed into a winter wonderland with its beautiful Christmas decor. The Friday night was so lovely to be able to spend time with all our loved ones together before the big day.

The team were so friendly and really felt like an extension of our wedding party/guests. You’re truly made to feel like the venue is your home. Everyone was so attentive and the whole weekend was stress free and the wedding ran smoothly despite the threat of a storm!

We loved how the wedding day didn’t have to end at 12am and could continue the celebrations into the night in the Hall’s secret club/den which was highlight for us.

We also have to mention how incredible the food was the whole weekend and how easily they catered for our guests dietary requirements.

Everyone who attended the wedding continues to speak about how it was the most beautiful wedding they had experienced. Ellingham hall is truly a magical place and we wish we could do it all again!

Thank you again for everything”

Abbie & Joseph James, 7th December 2024
“Can’t believe it’s been 2 months since our big day! We’re finally off on our honeymoon, so wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for all your help in creating our special day. The venue was perfect, service excellent, food yummy, den amazing, rooms beautiful – everyone had the best time.”

Rebecca & Daniel Askew, 28th May 2024
We just wanted to say the biggest thank you for giving us the best weekend of our lives. From when we first stepped into Ellingham Hall in June 2022 we knew we wanted to be married there! It is truly the most magical place and the excitement we felt instantly was insane!

Throughout the whole planning process we could not have imagined having a better team to be working with. Communicating with you guys was so easy, and thank you so much for answering my endless questions constantly and reassuring me all the time haha!

The wedding tasting and open houses were fabulous in the build up and we just knew from these that our wedding weekend was going to be amazing!

On that Friday afternoon/evening on our arrival, we felt so comfortable and confident with everyone working at Ellingham. Everyone truly worked so hard to make us feel comfortable and relaxed prior to the big day.

Our wedding day itself was truly the best day of our lives. The way the co-ordinators worked with our suppliers and our plans to make sure everything was perfect was incredible. The food throughout the weekend was absolutely spectacular and we can not believe how insane the cocktails were! The whole venue is so beautiful and elegant and we couldn’t have imagined having our day anywhere else.

What truly set you guys above and beyond were all of your staff. You are truly the most incredible team who went above and beyond to make sure everyone had the best day, and we can never thank you enough.

Megan and Sam Burgess, 23rd September 2023