The 5 Best UK Alternative Wedding Venues

Do you want your wedding, your way? With more and more UK couples ditching tradition and creating the wedding they want, there are more alternative, quirky, non-traditional wedding venues than ever before. In this edition of our 5 Best blog series, we’re exploring the most unique wedding venues the country has to offer.

The Giraffe Shed, Wales

The Giraffe Shed is a bona-fide, one-of-a-kind, straight-up anomaly: a heptagonal palace of joy, confetti and dancing in the middle of rural Wales. DIY wedding dreams are encouraged to come true, and you get more than just a shed wedding – create your own personal festival, or put your modernist stamp on their industrial venue. No order is too tall, no vision too wild!

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The Monastery, Manchester

As far as truly unique and inspiring wedding venues in Manchester go, this Grade II listed heritage site is as amazing as it gets. It’s an award-winning, neo-gothic architectural treasure at once breathtakingly romantic and visually stunning, and a spellbinding place to get married!

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The Shack Revolution, Hereford

The Shack Revolution is a blank canvas wedding venue in the centre of Hereford city, boasting multiple unique and quirky industrial spaces to hold ceremonies, receptions and evening celebrations in an inclusive, alternative and stylish setting.

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Le Petit Chateau, Northumberland

Le Petit Château is a fantastical French-inspired venue that’s bursting to the seams with originality and splendour, bringing the allure of French chic right to the heart of Northumberland!

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Runa Farm

Carefree yet considered, fun but luxurious, Runa Farm offers individual character and style all wrapped up in an honest, organic and private setting. Relaxed Spanish influences freely intertwine with the venue’s natural farming heritage for earthy, elegant and beautifully immersive spaces.

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