With 20 acres of grounds, fabulous views, and top class accommodation on site for over 60 people, we believe the Ormidale estate must now be one of the most attractive venues for a wedding in Scotland. We’ve hosted some really lavish wedding parties here, with top of the range marquees, amazingly lit, vintage champagnes flowing and £60 per head breakfasts. But it can also be an incredibly cost-effective way to go about things – both for you and your guests.
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You can provide your own alcohol, charge guests less than they would pay for a B&B or hotel, and end up with a fantastic day, in a stunning, private, historic setting without breaking the bank. If that means you can spend more on the honeymoon and they can spend more on the wedding presents, everyone should be happy!
Stella McCartney was married a couple of years ago just a few miles away at Mount Stuart on the Island of Bute. Ormidale weddings tend to come in a little under her budget, but they’ve been no less stylish, no less memorable, no less enjoyed!
We have hosted special days now for around a dozen couples, with humanist, civil, Catholic and Church of Scotland services having taken place in the house and grounds. Kilmodan Church is just a couple of miles away, and is a really pretty venue for those wanting a religious ceremony in a traditional setting – but Scottish law allows a minister of religion to conduct the ceremony anywhere he likes, so you have all the flexibility in the world.
Whether you take just one house, or all three, whether you want a marquee – or a giant yurt – in the garden or just to use the house itself,we can manage ceremonies and celebrations for anything from a dozen to 200 guests.
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We allow wedding parties for up to 66 guests in the house itself; for bigger functions we turf you out into a yurt or marquee. That can be set up either on the main lawn, or in the courtyard between The Mill House and Old Barn.
Our lovely caterers at An Lochan in Tighnabruich offer a free wedding co-ordination service to any wedding party using them for catering, and they can help with any aspects of your wedding including ceremony and reception planning, piper, flowers, beauticians, stylists, masseuses, photographers, wedding cake, menu and table planning, printing, etc. They’ll help you source local favours for guests, sort out a car or horse drawn carriage, find the right musicians for each slot, and provide an organiser cum host cum event manager on the day to make sure everything goes smoothly. You might want additional local accommodation organised, or advice on activities for guests on the morning of the wedding. All that can be arranged for you.
If you aren’t using An lochan for catering, then we will provide up to 5 hours of event management and wedding co-ordination for you ourselves. Valerie is an experienced event organiser and gives you access to the same sort of service and the same sort of contact base that Bea at An Lochan provides when you are booking them as caterers. Neither of these event co-ordination services run to the “let’s choose shoes together for the bridesmaids” and “where shall we have our wedding list” style of co-ordination - though we will liaise with anybody else you want us to work with (and Valerie does indeed offer that sort of full on co-ordination service at an additional charge of £20 per hour if you want your hand held throughout the process.)
Whichever option you choose, you'll be well looked after and help is always at hand in the run-up to your special day. We will take no more than a dozen a weddings a year at Ormidale, to ensure that each of them feels special to us as well as you.
We charge a one-off single facility fee of £1,000 for all weddings. (This applies to when you take one house or three, for a week or a weekend, for a service or just a reception.) There are no other extras, apart from the cost of the houses for the period you want them. Outside of summer holidays we can do you special deals where you can take the main house for a full week and the Mill House and Old Barn for just a couple of nights. We’ll be as flexible as we can and as reasonable as we can. We want you and your guests to have the best day ever.
What our guests say:
"Ormidale House was a perfect wedding venue for us, everything we wanted. It was a great place for our family friends and pooches to get together for an excellent weekend, party and celebration of our special day. The location was beautiful, great gardens which were perfect for outside photos, the sun even shone right on cue! Great walks nearby which the dogs loved, and so did I on the the morning of the wedding. Perfect for calming our nerves! We used An Lochan for all our wedding catering. They were absolutely amazing! The food was second to none and they were extremely helpful and friendly. Our wedding was everything we hoped for and more. The guests are still talking about it now, for all the right reasons. Some of our friends hadn't seen each other for a long time so it was a great time and place for a grand reunion. A lot of the guests are planning to return at some point so looking forward to the next party!! So thanks for everything and all our lovely memories."
Vikki Shimmings
For more information on getting married in Scotland please have a look at the website of the General Register Office for Scotland at http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/regscot/getting-married-in-scotland/index.html
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