Central Scotland wedding venues

[StrongInside]

Hi,

I’m back to ask for help with finding our venue. I have had no luck in my previous search radius of up North/ North East, Highlands, Perthshire and Loch Lomond. Venue hire seems far too expensive for our total wedding budget of £3000, booked up for all summer/autumn weekends 2020 and/or too large for our group of apprx. 30 guests. So now I am open to expand our search to Glasgow, Edinburgh and nearby.

I’m open to any venue that isn’t a traditionally decorated hotel and isn’t located in a city, so any modern space (restaurant, small hall, estate etc.) where we could have a beautiful view in the background (gardens, loch, waterfall or something like that) for our ceremony. Either with a wedding team to set up the venue or a blank canvas that we could hire someone to decorate for us (we will be travelling a fair distance so not planning on spending hours decorating the place).

Killearn Hall seems popular, fits the bill but it came in at £3000 for the most basic food&drinks package with venue hire. All country house hotels, lochside hotels and castles that I have contacted are also £4000+ for venue hire and basic services, and I simply think it’s ridiculous to spend that much on a party (I know I am in the minority, most people don’t mind spending many times our budget).

Please help!

Look up treehouse on the lodge in loch goil

Pitcairngreen inn? Haven’t been there but the village is beautiful ( or at least it always used to be) outside Perth.

May be worth a look

Also Arta in Glasgow city centre.

Gretna green may sound a bit cheesy but there's cottages you can hire which can accommodate the guests and the wedding

Forget the city centre, just re-read your op

Comrie Croft?

Kirknewton stables? Might be over your budget though.

The cow shed Crail went to a wedding there this summer it was fantastic the whole Wedding was at the venue!! It was one of the nicest weddings I have been to.

Have you looked at kinlochard village hall or vennachar lochside, both beautiful settings, not sure if costs involved but worth a look!

Linlithgow burgh halls.

Callender house in Falkirk.

The kelpies vistor centre.

I have no idea of their prices though....that's does seem a fairly tight budget for what you are asking.

Oh Strong I think the problem is you want the moon on a stick! I say that kindly.

£3,000 will go a long way if you do a pretty DIY wedding, decorating yourself, making catering fit to a budget e.g. buffet etc.

But if you want the venue, the wedding prep done, and a meal, for £3,000 I think you will be disappointed. That’s £100 per guest, and won’t go far if you think about it - food & drink alone per head will be a big chunk. Then you need accommodation...

We got married in a registry office in a city centre and hired a pub out for the reception. Ceremony of approx 40 guests who we fed, then open bar in the evening for people to pay their own. With all the usual bits and pieces and fees etc it came in about £3K and that was 10 years ago.

If you don’t want to spend £3K on a party, totally fair enough! But if that’s the going rate for what you want then you need to decide if you value it enough to pay it anyway, or if you need to have something lower key with more DIY elements or closer to home.

Boness town hall.
Comrie croft.
Falkirk wheel / boat house

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Read the OP people. (Lighthearted)!)
For example 2 suggestions above for Comrie Croft which is £3K-£6K venue hire alone with no food or drink or anything else included.

It’s going to be very tricky to fit in that budget. Best bet will be a pub or small restaurant or cafe with lovely views.

This place theinnonthetay.co.uk is an inn on the riverside that does a wedding package for £3K including a meal, some wine, and venue hire including the 6 double bedrooms on the night of the wedding.

I was at a wedding at The Cruin a few years ago. Stunning, especially if sunny, a quite a small venue so may suit you.

www.thecruin.com/weddings/

Should of said, that package above is for 40 people.

Was £3K your budget for the whole thing or just for the venue and meal? I think if it’s for the whole thing it’s way too tight for anywhere picturesque with the ceremony and meal in one location. For example I paid £590 for our humanist ceremony including notice fees etc. The cost of a civil ceremony with the registrar coming out to the venue would be similar, so that’s 20% gone already. However, dress, cake, rings etc can be as cheap as you like. You don’t really need to spend a lot on these things once the basics are covered.

All you really need are a person to marry you, a venue to do it in (and obviously pretty is quite important!) a chair for ever guest, something to eat appropriate for the time of day and length of event, and a glass of something to toast the happy couple.

Brigadoon hotel in Ayr
The cruin loch lomand
Glenskirlie house Kilsyth

I've been to all 3 for weddings and they're all absolutely beautiful.

The Cruin is lovely but I suspect would be over budget.

The Cruin seems to have a late availability package for under £3K. But no accommodation seems to be included?

The cruin is lovely, my friend got married there recently.
The lochside hotel in Ayrshire is also lovely.

Thanks everyone, I will work my way through the suggestions that I haven’t contacted already. Comrie Croft and The Cow Shed are definitely out of our budget, like all the other venues featured in wedding magazines are.

Cruin minimum numbers are a shocking (to me) 90 guests (50 during the week).
The tree house on Loch Goil is beautiful but sadly won’t fit 30 people.
Glenskirlie was too expensive, although very pretty, I agree.

Bairnk, contacted them both. The views are beautiful! Kinlochard seems too big inside for our small group, so I’m on the fence whether it’s worth £1200 hire price when we don’t need all that space.

NoSquirrels, that’s the plan- a handful of bright DIY decorations, silk flowers for the DIY bouquet and buttonhole (I have done this for a friend and turned out pretty), everyone wearing their own outfits (no bridesmaids/groomsmen outfits), cheap rings (my partner can’t wear jewellery at work anyway for safety reasons), dress from China (like EverPretty on Amazon, where I have bought from before), cake from M&S or similar, no videographer, no free bar (half the guests will either have kids to look after or aren’t big drinkers), ipod instead of DJ, buffet instead of a sit down meal. Not doing it all to be cheap, but to make the celebration relaxed, less formal than usual and to cut out what we see as unnecessary extras.
So the majority of the budget is to be spent on the venue hire, catering and two nights of accommodation for my partner, myself and our baby (night before and after the wedding).

I know you said not in a city , but house for an art lover in Glasgow is in the middle of lovely gardens, there’s plenty parking and they seem to do reasonable off peak packages
www.houseforanartlover.co.uk/hire/weddings/weddings-at-house-for-an-art-lover

Try Sorn Castle. No idea about prices though. I've only heard about it as a venue recently.

Thanks both, I will have a look. All castles so far have quoted too much for our budget and they all look a bit too traditional inside. Otherwise the grounds look lovely.