Wyresdale Park Wedding - Tamsin and Charlie
wyresdale Park is truly a unique place. It’s a rural estate with a lake, loads of little business right there, a glamping site and an absolutely beautiful wedding venue.
Wyresdale Park is a wedding venue that’s hard not to fall in love with. It has a little village feel, with a bunch of boutique businesses on site, and even a lake. In fact, there’s so much scope for making the wedding day really fun that you might just want to spend the whole weekend there to make sure you’ve tried everything out! Everything about the place seems geared towards creating an enjoyable, stress-free wedding day, with loads of parking available and an on the day wedding coordinator to take care of you.
Once you start exploring you realise that Wyresdale is absolutely huge, both in terms of the size of the estate and what you get included for use in the dedicated wedding space. The wedding barns include the Ceremony Barn, The White Barn where you eat your meal, and a party barn for, well, partying.
Crucial Info About Weddings at Wyresdale Park You Definitely Need to Know
Hair and make up can be done by Loft Beauty - one of the businesses situated on the Wyresdale estate.
There are ten yurts at Wyresdale, and you can reserve them all for your wedding. There are also pods and another camping site for your guests to stay at! The glamping site offers access to showers, a dressing room and a big kitchen.
You can stay the night before the wedding in Keeper’s Cottage (the stone house in the pictures below) which sleeps 6.
There’s a cafe on site, and I highly rate the flapjacks.
The Ceremony Barn can accommodate 150 people, and the White Barn can seat 170. You can have a big wedding here!
Your wedding day can run until 1am with last orders at 12.30. This is a good hour longer than most venues!
You get a dedicated wedding coordinator to help things run smoothly on the day
When you enter the White Barn for your meal, you’ll do so from the mezzanine level. Your guests will all have an excellent view of you before you come down the stairs - make sure you take a good look at them and enjoy the moment!
It takes about 5 minutes to walk from Keeper’s Cottage to the Ceremony Barn, and the route takes you through the glamping site. If it’s raining or muddy you could definitely drive it and go door to door in a couple of minutes.
You can bring your dog!
“The bride and groom like to play games
So we’re playing games.”
Tamsin and Charlie’s Wyresdale Wedding
Tamsin and Charlie chose Wyresdale Park for all the above reasons, and the fact that it’s really close to Charlie’s childhood home in Lancashire. The opportunity to stay on site was super convenient for Tamsin’s friends and family, who’d come from literally all over the world to be at the wedding. Their day started with Tamsin getting ready at Wyresdale Park in Keeper’s Cottage, which sleeps 6 and has all the amenities you’d want at home. The bridesmaids had great fun the night before the wedding making their own bouquets from buckets full of gorgeous wildflowers provided by Roses by the Brook, and Loft Beauty sorted hair and make up on the day. I loved all the bridesmaids’ mismatched green dresses - they look stunning!
The Ceremony Barn was simply decorated with extra flowers, and Tamsin and Charlie opted to have a live musician to play throughout their wedding ceremony. It’s a light space, so I was able to get great reactions of their family and friends throughout. A quick confetti throw and the couple exited onto the lawns for a full on sports day, followed by a gorgeous meal of sharing platters and heartfelt speeches. In between courses, I took them out for a quick round of photos because it was golden hour, which is just an irresistible kind of light for photographers. Having the photos at this time of day, with the Lancashire hills just behind us, was spectacular. The golden light wrapped beautifully around them and really fit their joyous wedding. After that it was a few more speeches from bridesmaids and groomsmen, and then the dancing started!
If you’re thinking about having your wedding day at Wyresdale Park, or you’re after a bit of photo inspiration, take a look at Tamsin and Charlie’s wedding photos.
