Choosing your date

The same forty acres. Four completely different weddings.

A wood is not a backdrop that stays still. Between April and October it is green and long-evening; between November and March it is dark by four and lit by fire. Both are good. They are not the same day, and they are not the same price.

What actually changes

The light, the floor, and how much it costs

Everything structural stays the same all year: the ceremony clearing is licensed, the tipis or tent go up for you, the washrooms are plumbed and the canvas is heated. What changes is what the wood is doing around it, and what a Saturday is worth.

Spring · March to May

Bluebells, and light that still reaches the floor

The wood wakes up in weeks rather than months. The bluebells come through from late April, while the canopy is still opening — so the floor is blue and the light can still get down to it. That overlap lasts about a fortnight and it is the only time of year you get both at once. Mornings are cold and afternoons are not; nobody has ever minded a coat in the dusk photographs.

BluebellsLate April into May
CanopyOpening, light still reaches the floor
From£8,950 midweek, £10,950 Saturday
Summer · June to August

Full canopy, and light until ten

The oaks close overhead and the wood goes green and about five degrees cooler than the field next to it — which is the entire point in July. You can eat outside without anyone melting, and the sun does not go down until close to ten, so the fire pits are lit while it is still light. This is the season everyone asks for first, and the one that goes first.

CanopyFull
SunsetAround 21:20 in June
From£12,950 Saturday
Autumn · September to November

The two weeks everything turns, that almost nobody books

Late September into the middle of October is the best-looking fortnight of the year here, and it is consistently the last to sell. The oaks go copper, the sun comes in sideways through the trunks all afternoon instead of straight down, and it is still warm enough to be outside for drinks. If you care more about how the day looks than which month is printed on the invitation, ask us about October first.

ColourLate September to late October
LightLow and sideways all afternoon
From£10,950 Saturday in October
Winter · December to February

Dark by four, which is the whole idea

The canvas is heated and the fire pits do the rest. It is dark by four, so the festoons, the candles and the fires are working through the whole evening rather than the last hour of it. A winter wedding here looks like the photographs people save rather than like a compromise — and it is the cheapest the forty acres ever is.

CanvasHeated
Dark byAround 16:00
From£6,950
What a date costs

Cheapest to dearest, in public

Prices below are for up to 150 guests. The full table, including 220 and 300, is on the prices page.

November to March, any day£6,950
Midweek, April to October£8,950
Friday & Sunday, and Saturdays in April, May and October£10,950
Saturday, June to September£12,950

Come and see which one you want

An hour on foot, no obligation and nobody selling at you. We will tell you honestly which months are still open.

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