The Station House Hotel

Once we got engaged we went round a few hotels to get the venue for the wedding sorted. I liked the look of Park Plaza Hotel and was set on having it there, but then we got a brochure in the post from The Station House and just thought we'd go up and have a look. As soon as we pulled into the drive i wanted my wedding there!!

It is so beautiful. Makes me think of Alice in Wonderland with iron chairs and tables and candles all over the place surrounded by trees with sneaky little swing chairs and benches hidden all around. So pretty.

It's a convert station house (d'oh) so is lovely and personal and not too big and commercial (which is exactly what i wanted). The bridal suite is a converted signal box so is like a mini little house! So cute!!!

So we got it all booked and paid for but Lee was having a few doubts about the size of the room.

Because its a converted old building it's quite small (compared to modern purpose built hotels) so Lee was a bit worried about fitting everyone in comfortably without squishing us all together.

So last night he ran to see if there were any wedding fairs coming up that we could go to and see it all laid out again and have a proper good nosey (count how many chairs were laid out etc). We're looking to probably invite between 120 -140 people so dont want people squashed.

The lady on the phone was cool. She didnt have to sell it to us cos we're already booked so she was quite honest. Said that the owners daughter got married last year and had 180 people sitting down for a meal which was a little bit squashed but not uncomfortable....so our 140 would be cool! She said 120 - 150 is perfect (whoop).

So now Lee feels a lot better about the whole thing and we're gonna go up on 18th February to see it all laid out again.....