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The venue · Wyre Forest, Worcestershire
Forty acres of ancient oak, with everything already in it
A working woodland we have spent years turning into a venue without making it look like one. The ceremony clearing, the canvas, the bar, the washrooms and the fire pits — all on one site, and all of it yours for the day.
Forty acres
Ancient woodland
Up to 300
Guests on site
One wedding
Exclusive use
Licensed
Civil ceremonies
What it actually is
A wood that was here long before us, with services buried under it
The temptation with a woodland venue is to decorate it. We have gone the other way. There is no themed signage, no astroturf, no reclaimed door leaning against a tree for photographs. It is oak, hazel and birch, the way the Wyre Forest has been for centuries.
What we have added is buried where you cannot see it: power, water and drainage running to the clearing, chipped paths that hold up in November, and a bar and washroom block built to be used four hundred times rather than once.
That is the difference between a field with a pretty view and a venue. You notice it at eleven at night in the rain, not at two in the afternoon in June.
The tour
Six places on one site
Nothing here needs a coach, a shuttle or a second venue. The furthest two points are a five-minute walk apart on level, chipped path.
One
The ceremony clearing
A natural glen with a timber arch and a chipped-bark aisle that stays walkable in the wet. Licensed for legal civil ceremonies, so you marry here rather than at a register office first.
Two
The canvas
Tipis or a tent, raised in the clearing before you arrive and taken down after you have gone. Flooring, lighting and furniture inside. This is your wet-weather plan and your dance floor.
Three
The bar
A built bar rather than a trestle and a cool box — plumbed, lit and stocked. Ask us about bar arrangements and drinks pricing.
Four
The washrooms
Plumbed and heated, in a permanent block. Not a portaloo bank at the edge of a field. This is the single thing guests remember most about outdoor weddings, for better or worse.
Five
The fire pits
Lit at dusk and burning until midnight, with logs supplied. They are where half your guests will end up, and where most of the photographs you keep will be taken.
Six
Parking, inside the wood
Hard standing a short walk from the canvas, so nobody parks on a verge or walks out to a road in the dark. There is room for a coach at the gate.
The site
Where everything is
Seven points, all within a five-minute walk of each other on level chipped path. No shuttle, no second site, no convoy of cars between the ceremony and the meal.
Numbers
What each layout seats
Three hundred is the site limit. What changes between layouts is how many of those three hundred are sitting down at the same moment.
A tent takes more covers per square metre than tipis do, which matters most if you are planning for close to three hundred. Tipis give you the higher ceiling, the open fire and the shape people remember.
Ceremony in the clearing300 seated
Ceremony under canvas, wet plan250 seated
Wedding breakfast — tent300 seated
Wedding breakfast — tipis250 seated
Evening reception300
Total on site at any time300
The unromantic detail
The things that decide whether a day runs well
Nobody books a venue for its drainage. But these are what separate a good day from a long one, so they are worth publishing.
SiteForty acres, exclusive, one wedding at a time
Capacity300 on site · 300 seated in a tent, 250 in tipis
HireYour wedding day, plus the following morning to collect
PathsChipped bark, level, walkable in heels
Step-free accessClearing, canvas, bar and washrooms
Power and waterMains, run to the clearing
WashroomsPermanent, plumbed and heated
KitchenCatering kitchen and cold store
CatererYour choice — no approved list
ParkingOn site
CurfewMusic stops at eleven
DogsAsk us
Across the year
A wood is a different venue in May and in October
In late spring the canopy is thin and the light comes through green. By August the wood is dense and dark and the fire pits start earning their keep at nine. In October the floor turns and the low sun does things through the trees that no lighting designer can arrange.
None of that works without a dry room to retreat into, which is the whole reason the canvas is part of the hire rather than an upsell. We are open all year. The sides drop, the heating goes on, and a December wedding here is a different and in some ways better thing than a June one.
Finding us
In the Wyre Forest, near Bewdley
Worcestershire, on the Shropshire border. Kidderminster is the nearest town, Birmingham is under an hour, and the M5 and M42 both feed in. Wyre Forest, near Bewdley, Worcestershire. Postcode and what3words come with your viewing confirmation.
Come and walk it
Photographs do not tell you how big forty acres is
Viewings are by appointment and we only show one couple at a time. Wear boots.
Forest Wedding
Wyre Forest · Worcestershire
Forty acres of ancient woodland near Bewdley, hired to one wedding at a time. Tipis or a tent raised for you, a licensed ceremony under the oaks, and room for three hundred.
Come and see it
Forest Wedding
Wyre Forest, near Bewdley
Worcestershire
info@forestwedding.co.uk
Enquiries by email · viewings by appointment
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