GRAYS BARN WEDDING AND GOFFIN LAND, EXETER This eco-friendly wedding and events barn is a two-storey timber frame barn offering exclusive use for weddings. It’s fitted with a stage for music and dancing and provides a PA system for DJs to use. Upstairs there’s the opportunity for a chill-out lounge equipped with atmospheric lighting, low tables, rugs and cushions and the experienced team can provide venue dressing and wedding décor making it the perfect pick for couples wanting a blank canvas to host a DIY-style day. For weddings, they have partnered with Gemma Halliwell from West Country Wedding Planners (www.westcountryweddingplanner.co.uk). The venue is located on Goffin Land, a 96-acre hidden valley in Pinhoe, close to Exeter that boasts beautiful countryside views. Located down the hill is a specially created amphitheatre available for ceremonial use holding up to 100 guests. Catering is provided by their catering partners who can provide anything from a woodfired hog roast to a vegetarian banquet using fresh local organic ingredients wherever possible. Camping is available for wedding guests by arrangement with wood-fuelled showers available in a shepherd’s wagon. The venue offers a late-availability wedding package offer for any remaining 2023 or 2024 dates for up to 70-day guests and 100 evening guests. It includes the venue hire including the day before to set up and the day after to clear down; an on-the-day coordinator; a bar; a cheese cake tower or an evening cheese board served with crackers and chutney; a barbecue wedding dinner for up to 70 guests and a DJ priced at £4995 with a £500 discount for mid-week or October weddings. Ceremony licence? No (need to book a celebrant) Contact: www.instagram.com/graysbarnweddings www..facebook.com/GoffinLandWeddings We love... that Goffin Land is a regenerative farm and Biophilia Project working for social and ecological change TIPI SPACES This tipi supplier provides these ivory-white canvas structures offering a light, bright and inviting space. They offer a blank canvas so you can style the interior however you like. Inside, they’re large enough for up to 200 guests but the tapering walls encircle guests so the space never feels too vast. The raised sides allow you to bring the outdoors in at summer events. This is the only hire company in Devon and Cornwall to offer ivory-white Nordic tipis. The lighter colour of the canvas means that more natural daylight filters inside and after dark, they reflect the electric lights and candlelights beautifully. The tipis are tall and stand at an impressive 7.5 metres. Their conical shape is an impressive sight, especially at night as the sun sets. Festoon lighting can be added creating a romantic ambience. The tipis can be delivered almost anywhere! Couples can choose what they want the view to be, whether that be a field with a sea view; a woodland glade; a country garden or an urban space. Whilst the tipis are linked to create an open-plan space, the structure is such that internal divisions between the tipis can be created to form separate areas for drinking, dining and dancing. They can host up to 216 guests for the wedding breakfast and up to 240 loved ones for the reception. The tipis are manufactured in Sweden and engineered to withstand severe Arctic weather conditions. They offer a built-in air conditioning system. On a hot day, as the warm air inside rises, the smoke caps attached to the peak of each tipi can be raised to allow the warm air to escape, drawing cooler air inside. The tipi structure is infinitely flexible, the sides can be raised or lowered. A solo tipi or two, three or more linked together provide space for larger weddings. Window walls can be added to keep the weather out but maintain a view from inside and the Iroko wood doors create more of an entrance. Contact: 01884 277306, www.tipispaces.co.uk We love... that ceremonies for up to 216 guests can take place inside the tipis provided the main venue has a wedding licence and the team offer a venue-finding service. Scan to view video www.venetianorrington.com www.venetianorrington.com 21 THEMED VENUES
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