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Are you searching for a luxury wedding venue in London and struggling to separate the genuinely great rooms from the rest? This is our directory of London’s finest, re-checked venue by venue against each one’s own website and brochure, with a published from-price wherever the venue publishes one, real capacities, and an honest note where a figure simply is not public. Originally compiled with London-based luxury wedding planners Scarlet Events.
The Savoy, Strand
The Savoy is London’s most famous riverside hotel and still the reference point for a grand Strand wedding. It holds small, intimate ceremonies and large celebrations alike, with an in-house florist and a kitchen equipped for Kosher celebrations. Weddings and events now run under Fairmont management, and enquiries go to the hotel’s dedicated events team.
Price on enquiry. The Lancaster Ballroom takes up to 700 and the River Rooms up to 300, on the hotel’s own published figures. The current weddings e-brochure carries no prices. See The Savoy London in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Luxury Wedding Venues in London: 10 FAQs
Essential answers to help you shortlist the city’s finest spaces with confidence.
What is the average cost of a luxury wedding venue in London?
Costs vary by prestige. Premium venues often start from several thousand pounds for hire, with total spend scaling based on guest count, catering, and production.
How far in advance should we book a top London venue?
For the most in-demand spaces, book 12 to 18 months ahead, especially for summer Saturdays and peak December dates.
What is the best time of year for a luxury wedding in London?
Late spring through early autumn is peak window for light and garden moments. December is also highly sought after for festive, candlelight atmospheres.
Do luxury London venues offer exclusive hire?
Many do, particularly historic halls or hotels with private event floors. This increases privacy and allows for greater creative control.
Can we host the ceremony and reception in the same venue?
Yes. Most luxury venues are licensed for civil ceremonies, creating a seamless guest experience without the need for travel logistics.
What capacities do luxury wedding venues typically offer?
London offers every scale, from intimate private dining for 20 to grand ballrooms hosting upwards of 400 guests.
What is usually included in a luxury wedding package?
Core staffing, tables, and linens are usually included. Many hotel venues also include a bridal suite or preferential room rates for guests.
Can we use our own vendors for florals and styling?
Most venues have an approved list of premium suppliers. Some allow external vendors if they meet specific insurance and quality requirements.
What are the typical late-night licensing hours?
Most central venues have a curfew of 11:00 PM or midnight. Some hotels with soundproofed spaces can extend until 1:00 AM or 2:00 AM.
Do luxury venues provide an on-site coordinator?
Yes, a venue manager usually handles building logistics. For a truly bespoke event, we recommend hiring an independent wedding planner to manage your external vendors.
The Dorchester, Park Lane
Weddings at The Dorchester are held in the Ballroom, restored in the hotel’s Art Deco idiom. Like The Savoy it offers in-house floristry and in-house catering, and it opens its kitchen to a specialist outside Kosher caterer. The hotel has been marking great love stories since 1931 and remains as well known for its guest list as its address.
Price on enquiry. The Ballroom seats 474 for dinner, 422 for a dinner dance and holds 474 for a cocktail reception, on Dorchester Collection’s own room page. The hotel’s 86-page weddings brochure publishes room detail but no figures. See The Dorchester in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Natural History Museum, Kensington
Dining beneath a 25 metre blue whale skeleton in a spectacular Victorian interior is the draw here. The space is Hintze Hall, renamed in 2014, and since July 2017 the ceiling has been hung with Hope the blue whale rather than the Diplodocus cast that stood there for decades. You and your new spouse walk down the grand staircase into one of the most theatrical settings in London, and twelve spaces across the museum are licensed for ceremonies.
Hintze Hall dry hire from £24,000 on a Saturday or Sunday, or £30,500 Monday to Friday, at the museum’s published 2026 to 2027 rates. That buys the space alone from 18:00 to midnight, with catering, decor and production through approved suppliers at extra cost; room hire is VAT exempt. Hintze Hall seats 650 for dinner, holds 1,200 standing and 450 for a dinner dance. Visit the Natural History Museum website.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Kensington
Full of artefacts from across the world, the V&A has a vast array of galleries and courts to choose from, and its list of accredited suppliers will bring a celebration to life. The museum now positions weddings as celebration breakfasts within its wider events programme, so the shape of a V&A wedding is worth discussing early.
Evening receptions from £15,000 + VAT and dinners from £19,000 + VAT, from the V&A’s own 2026 South Kensington events brochure. The Raphael Court, the largest space, is from £17,000 for a reception and £21,000 for a dinner, both + VAT. Hire is on a venue-hire basis with catering by approved suppliers. Raphael Court takes 400 seated or 400 standing; the Dome takes 250 seated and 600 standing. Visit the Victoria and Albert Museum website.
Claridge’s, Mayfair
Mayfair’s most sought-after address has a history with royalty, film stars and everyone in between. The Art Deco interiors, the timeless service and a reputation the industry measures itself against are the reason couples book years ahead. Weddings of 60 guests or more include a complimentary suite for the wedding night.
Price on enquiry. Claridge’s states that it can host up to 400 people and publishes no separate Ballroom figure. The old claridges.co.uk weddings page now redirects to the Maybourne group site. See Claridge’s in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Banqueting House, Whitehall
The only surviving part of the Palace of Whitehall, Inigo Jones’s 1622 hall is taken on exclusive hire for the day, which makes it as close to a blank canvas as a Grade I listed masterpiece gets. In the Main Hall, pillars and chandeliers draw the eye up to Rubens’s painted ceiling. Downstairs the vaulted Undercroft, where Stuart kings retreated from public life, turns into the party. Both rooms are licensed for civil ceremonies.
All day hire £26,000 + VAT (10:00 to midnight), daytime £16,000 + VAT, evening £18,000 + VAT, at the published 2026 to 2027 rates. Early access from 13:00 and extensions to 01:00 are £1,000 + VAT per half hour. Hire is exclusive, with a personal event manager and accredited suppliers for catering, flowers, music and lighting. The Main Hall takes 350 for a ceremony, 450 standing, 350 seated on rounds and 300 for dinner and dancing; the Undercroft takes 120 for a ceremony and 250 for dancing. See Banqueting House in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, Knightsbridge
Perhaps the most stately facade in London, with its own private royal entrance and a history running back more than a century. The cream and gold ballroom and its adjoining rooms make a handsome setting for a civil ceremony and a dinner dance, a short walk from Hyde Park.
Price on enquiry. The hotel is licensed to host weddings of up to 200 guests, and the Ballroom itself takes events of up to 400. The old wedding factsheet PDF has been withdrawn. See Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
JW Marriott Grosvenor House London, Park Lane
The Great Room is the largest event suite of its kind in the country, a pillar-free space that was once an ice rink where the young Queen Elizabeth learned to skate. Its scale and its approved external Kosher and Halal caterers make it a natural choice for large Indian and Jewish weddings, and there is a smaller ballroom and a set of more intimate rooms with in-house catering for everything else. The hotel now trades as JW Marriott Grosvenor House London.
Price on enquiry. The Great Room takes up to 2,000 banquet style and the Ballroom up to 450 for a dinner dance, on the hotel’s own current events page. Visit the JW Marriott Grosvenor House London website.
The Landmark London, Marylebone
The Landmark is the most theatrical of London’s grand railway hotels: a glass-roofed Winter Garden atrium eight storeys high, a facade built to impress, and a Grand Ballroom under chandeliers where a wedding can move from ceremony to canapes to dinner without a turnaround. The hotel publishes a current weddings fact sheet, which is rarer than it should be.
Price on enquiry. The 2026 weddings fact sheet gives up to 400 wedding guests; the Grand Ballroom pages list 504 for dinner, 396 for a dinner dance and 600 for a reception. See The Landmark London in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane
Designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, this is the quieter kind of Park Lane glamour, black leather and red brocade rather than gilt. The Ballroom came through a two-year redevelopment, the hotel will host a civil ceremony in one of its licensed rooms, and the entire first floor can be taken exclusively.
Price on enquiry. The Ballroom seats 250 for a banquet and holds 500 for a reception on the hotel’s own capacity chart; Ballroom B alone seats 180. Visit the Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane website.
Wildcard: Wrotham Park, Barnet
A private Palladian mansion on a 300 acre estate inside the M25, best known as the setting for society weddings and parties. The house itself is imposing, and the option to enclose the rear portico in a bespoke marquee is what has attracted couples who want total exclusivity within reach of central London.
Price on enquiry. Verify current wedding availability directly with the Estate Office: the house’s own site currently publishes House, History, Location, Gallery and Filming pages and no weddings page, and it publishes no capacity or price. Widely repeated marquee minimums come from third parties, not from Wrotham Park, so they are not quoted here. Visit the Wildcard: Wrotham Park website.
Rosewood London, Holborn
A Belle Epoque courtyard building on High Holborn with a run of rooms that suit both an intimate gathering and a full ballroom celebration, and a kitchen with a serious reputation. Rosewood’s wedding specialists handle the day end to end.
Price on enquiry. Rosewood publishes no capacities and no prices for London on either its weddings or its meetings and events pages; enquiries route to its events team. Visit the Rosewood London website.
Shangri-La The Shard, London
A wedding with the whole city underneath it. The hotel occupies the upper floors of one of the world’s most recognisable buildings, and the Ren Ballroom on level 34 turns a dinner into something guests describe for years. The entire 34th floor can be taken exclusively.
Price on enquiry. The hotel’s own weddings brochure gives the Ren Ballroom at 100 for a wedding breakfast and 100 for a reception, with the Li Room up to 30 and the Yi Room up to 12. See Shangri-La The Shard in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
The NoMad London, Covent Garden
Set in the former Bow Street Magistrates’ Court opposite the Royal Opera House, The NoMad is the most atmospheric of the newer London wedding hotels: a glass-roofed atrium restaurant, a ballroom in the old court, and 91 rooms and 16 suites for guests who do not want to leave.
Price on enquiry. The Magistrates’ Ballroom seats 70 and holds 120 for a reception; Twenty8 NoMad seats 80 and holds 300; Common Decency holds 150. The hotel is open and trading, and the NoMad brand now sits within Hilton. Visit the The NoMad London website.
Corinthia London, Whitehall Place
Corinthia is the most self-assured of the newer grand hotels, and its restored Ballroom has its own dedicated entrance, full-length windows, an original stucco ceiling and a set of chandeliers that do most of the work. Smaller celebrations use the Courtroom, the Nelson Room, the Codrington Room and the private dining rooms.
Ballroom room hire from £5,000, with a sample wedding breakfast at approximately £220 per person, from the hotel’s own 2026 weddings brochure. The per-person figure covers a Laurent-Perrier reception with canapes, a three-course wedding breakfast, half a bottle of house wine per person, Champagne for the toast and soft drinks. Ballroom weddings also include a Signature Suite for the couple on the night, a menu tasting for four, the dancefloor, stage and sound system, menus and place cards, and preferential guest rates. A minimum spend applies and varies by season. The Ballroom takes 58 to 350 guests. See Corinthia London in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
The Ned, City of London
Sir Edwin Lutyens’s 1924 Midland Bank building, now a hotel with the whole historic sixth floor available for a wedding: a run of panelled rooms with original period detail that can be arranged around how you want the day to run, from ceremony to dinner to late. There are 250 bedrooms downstairs and an in-house events team that handles the rest.
Price on enquiry. The Tapestry Room takes 200, The Saloon 120 and The Drawing Room 80, on The Ned’s own space pages. The hotel publishes no wedding prices; the PDF linked from its weddings page is an example menu. Visit the The Ned website.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
A UNESCO World Heritage site with a set of glasshouses no other London venue can match: the Nash Conservatory for the ceremony, the Princess of Wales Conservatory or the Sir Joseph Banks Lawn for drinks, and either the Grade I listed Orangery or the vast Temperate House for dinner and dancing. Guests have the run of the Gardens during opening hours.
Classic wedding exclusive hire from £11,000 + VAT Monday to Thursday; the Luxury wedding from £21,000 + VAT. Friday and weekend rates rise to £12,500 and £13,500 + VAT for the Classic, and £22,500 and £23,500 + VAT for the Luxury. The fee covers exclusive use 16:00 to midnight, a dedicated event manager, stewarding and security, cleaning, set-up and guest access to the wider Gardens; catering is extra through approved caterers. The Classic takes 200 for the ceremony and 200 for dinner and dancing; the Luxury takes 200 for the ceremony, 230 for a dinner dance and 300 standing, and runs 15 April to 30 September. Visit the Royal Botanic Gardens website.
Horizon 22 by Searcys, 22 Bishopsgate
The highest event space in London, on level 58 of the City’s tallest building, 254 metres up. It is a blank canvas with a 360 degree view, taken on exclusive hire, with catering by Searcys and a wedding licence in place. This is the venue Searcys itself points former Gherkin clients towards.
Price on enquiry. Exclusive hire only, with an entertainment licence, a dance floor and seated meal facilities, available 06:00 to 09:30 and 19:00 to 03:00, seven days a week. Capacity is up to 280 seated or 500 standing. Visit the Horizon 22 by Searcys website.
Queen’s House, Greenwich
A former royal residence completed in 1635 for Queen Henrietta Maria, with black and white marble floors and the famous Tulip Stairs. The Great Hall holds the ceremony, the Orangery and South Parlours take the drinks, the Colonnade is where the photographs happen and the Undercroft is where the evening ends.
Ceremony in the Great Hall for 40 guests or more: three-hour hire at £8,000 + VAT. That includes the Orangery and South Parlours for the post-ceremony reception and the Colonnade for photographs, and is standard Monday to Friday with selected off-peak weekend dates. Intimate weddings up to 40 guests start at £6,000 + VAT based on a minimum of 20 people, including up to three hours in a smaller space, a glass of fizz and three canape choices. Full evening hire 19:00 to 23:00 is £9,000 + VAT. The Great Hall takes 120 seated or standing; the Undercroft takes 150 standing. See Queen’s House in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Winchester House, Putney
A Grade II listed house on the Thames just upstream of Putney Bridge, founded in 1892 and still a club, set in half an acre of riverside grounds. The ballroom is bright and looks over the garden and the river, and the lawns take a marquee or a champagne reception. It is licensed for ceremonies in the Ballroom and the Reading Room.
Price on enquiry. What the venue does publish is what the hire includes: an event coordinator who runs the day, freedom to use your own suppliers, no minimum bar spend, and the option to bring unlimited still or sparkling wine. Capacity is 150 for a standing reception and 100 for a seated dinner. Note that the old winchesterhouseevents.co.uk address no longer works; the live site is winchesterhouseevents.london. Visit the Winchester House website.
Cutty Sark, Greenwich
The last of the great tea clippers, raised on a glass canopy so that guests dine underneath the hull. The Dry Berth, the Tween Deck and the Weather Deck give three quite different moods in one venue, with the river a few steps away. There is nowhere else in the world you can hold a dinner beneath a ship.
Evening hire 19:00 to 23:00 of the Dry Berth, Tween Deck and Weather Deck: £10,500 + VAT. Additional hours from 23:00 to 01:00 are £1,500 + VAT each. Hire is dry, with catering through approved caterers. The Dry Berth holds 400 standing, 250 seated with a stage and dancefloor, or 270 seated without. Visit the Cutty Sark website.
The Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych
An Edwardian hotel in the middle of theatreland, a short walk from Covent Garden and the Royal Opera House. Its best known room is the Palm Court, a glass-ceilinged Art Deco space with ornate columns, and the Executive Chef builds the menu around what you want to eat.
Price on enquiry. The Palm Court seats 210 for a banquet and holds 400 for a reception; the Adelphi Suite seats 350 and holds 500, on Hilton’s own capacity chart. Visit the The Waldorf Hilton website.
The Berkeley, Knightsbridge
A Maybourne hotel in one of London’s most exclusive addresses, licensed for ceremonies and, unusually, committed to one event a day so the building belongs to you. The rooms are calm and neutral enough to take any styling, and the kitchen builds a menu around British produce.
Price on enquiry. The Ballroom takes 54 to 250, Belgravia 24 to 250, and Wilton and Knightsbridge combined 40 to 120, on Maybourne’s own spaces page. The-berkeley.co.uk now redirects to maybourne.com. See The Berkeley in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Hilton London Bankside
A modern hotel with the largest purpose-built ballroom in this part of London, licensed for ceremonies and offered on a dry-hire basis, which is why it is a regular for cultural and multi-day weddings. High ceilings, natural light and a neutral scheme that takes whatever you bring to it.
Price on enquiry. The Bankside Ballroom seats 430 for a banquet and holds 700 for a reception; combined with the Foyer it seats 700 and holds 1,000. With a stage it seats 400, and with a stage and dancefloor 350. Visit the Hilton London Bankside website.
The London EDITION, Fitzrovia
A Georgian building on Berners Street reworked by Ian Schrager, with catering from the Berners Tavern team. The event rooms are Studio 1 and 2, the Basement, the Private Dining Room, the Punch Room and the Penthouse, which is the one couples come for: floor-to-ceiling windows and a private terrace over the rooftops.
Price on enquiry. The Penthouse seats 22 for dinner and holds 50 for a reception across 195 square metres, on the hotel’s own room page. This is a venue for a small wedding, not a large one. See The London EDITION in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Andaz London Liverpool Street
The draw here is the Masonic Temple, a hidden Grade II listed room of marble columns and inlaid detail that was rediscovered behind a wall, and which makes an unusual and photogenic ceremony space. The hotel has a spread of other rooms and a full complement of suites and bedrooms for guests.
Price on enquiry. Confirm capacities and current terms directly with the hotel: its own pages could not be loaded for this update, so no capacity is quoted here rather than repeat an unverified figure. Visit the Andaz London Liverpool Street website.
The Bloomsbury Ballroom, Victoria House
Built in 1929 inside Victoria House, the ballroom is an Art Deco set piece: high ceilings, a marble entrance and a dance floor with a serious AV and lighting rig. The Rose Room next door is the gracious spot for a ceremony. It has been run by The London Cabaret Club as its home venue since 2015.
Price on enquiry. The Ballroom seats 300 for dining and holds 550 standing, 480 theatre and 240 cabaret; the Rose Room seats 80 and holds 250 standing. Figures circulating on third-party listing sites are not the venue’s own and are not quoted here. Visit the The Bloomsbury Ballroom website.
Two Temple Place, Victoria Embankment
Built for William Waldorf Astor in 1895 and still one of the least known great interiors in London: carved oak, stained glass, a hammerbeam roof and a staircase that was made to be photographed. It is available on exclusive hire only, so the whole house is yours, and it is licensed for civil ceremonies.
Ceremony and reception from £15,000 + VAT, 14:00 to 01:00; reception only from £13,000 + VAT. Dinners for up to 120 guests start at £10,000 + VAT and a drinks reception for up to 300 at £8,000 + VAT. Hire is exclusive throughout, with a dedicated events team and an approved supplier list. The house is licensed for ceremonies of up to 120 guests, with a further 30 able to join for the evening. Visit the Two Temple Place website.
Soane Hall, One Marylebone
One Marylebone was built in 1826 to Sir John Soane’s design and Soane Hall is its great room: 27 foot ceilings, mosaics and stained glass, with the double-height Galleries above for a reception and a garden alongside. It is one of the few London spaces that feels ceremonial and contemporary at once.
Price on enquiry. Soane Hall seats 320 and holds 500 standing. The Garden takes an intimate dinner of 80 to 100 or a celebration of up to 200, and The Vaults hold 300 and are licensed until 3am. See One Marylebone in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
The Gladstone Library, The Royal Horseguards and One Whitehall Place
The former library of the National Liberal Club, on the second floor of One Whitehall Place, lined with book spines and lit by chandeliers, with views towards the river and the London Eye. It interconnects with the Reading and Writing Room, so the ceremony and the reception can sit side by side, and there are 282 bedrooms in the building.
Price on enquiry. The Gladstone Library holds up to 320 guests across 215 square metres and 280 theatre style. The hotel has 13 event spaces in total and can take up to 650 guests across the building. See One Whitehall Place in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
Gaucho at The O2, North Greenwich
A room on Peninsula Square with a wall of glass onto the river and the arena, taken exclusively for a wedding reception with open-fire Argentine cooking and a bar that keeps going. It is one of the easiest venues in London to get a large group to and away from.
Price on enquiry. Minimum spends apply and are not published. Exclusive hire takes up to 350 seated or 350 standing, and there is a private dining room for up to 24. The Balcony as a separately named space no longer appears on Gaucho’s own site. Visit the Gaucho at The O2 website.
Prince Consort Rooms at the HAC, City of London
The Honourable Artillery Company has received guests since the eighteenth century, and its five acre Artillery Garden is the largest private green space in the City. The Long Room is the Georgian oak-panelled room for a ceremony; the Prince Consort Rooms below are the contemporary space for the celebration, with a private courtyard entrance and a terrace for drinks. Catering is in-house through Searcys.
Price on enquiry. The HAC publishes three packages, Lace, Satin and Silk, with inclusions rather than figures: a dedicated event planner, hire of your space from noon to midnight, a menu tasting for the couple, chairs and round banqueting tables, tableware and glassware, white linen, a cash bar, microphone and PA, and security and cloakroom. Bringing your own wine costs £15 + VAT per bottle, £24 + VAT for sparkling. The Prince Consort Rooms take 350 for a ceremony, 350 for dinner and 690 for a party; the Long Room takes 150; the Artillery Garden takes up to 2,000. Visit the Prince Consort Rooms at the HAC website.
Roast, Borough Market
Set in the Floral Hall above Borough Market with a view towards St Paul’s, Roast pairs seasonal British cooking with one of the best food addresses in the country. It takes exclusive and semi-exclusive hire seven days a week and has its own events team.
Price on enquiry. A minimum spend applies and varies by date and time, but no figure is published. The whole venue seats 120, holds 180 standing and takes 80 theatre style; the semi-private area takes 22 and the private dining room 10. Visit the Roast website.
41 Portland Place, Regent’s Park
A Georgian townhouse a short walk from Oxford Circus, taken exclusively so that the ceremony, the wedding breakfast and the party all happen under one roof. There is a rooftop terrace planted with olive and eucalyptus for drinks, and a run of period rooms below. It is one of the few central London venues that publishes what a wedding actually costs.
Portland Elegance package £225 per person; Portland Signature £190 per person; ceremony only from £52 per person. The packages are all-inclusive of catering, styling and planning support, with exclusive hire of the house. The largest room holds 120 for a reception; the Rooftop Terrace holds 40 and takes outdoor blessing ceremonies of up to 30, which are not the legal ceremony. Visit the 41 Portland Place website.
Argyll Room and Terrace at No.4 Hamilton Place, Hyde Park Corner
A Grade II listed Edwardian townhouse at Hyde Park Corner, once home to the Duke of Wellington’s descendants and now the Royal Aeronautical Society. The Argyll Room is light and ornate, with bow windows at each end and a west-facing terrace over Hyde Park, and the whole house is yours at the weekend.
Price on enquiry. What the venue publishes is the inclusions: exclusive use at weekends, in-house catering with a complimentary tasting, in-house AV with sound, lighting, projector and microphones in the Bill Boeing Room, and a dedicated events team. The Argyll Room takes up to 100 guests; the Bill Boeing Room, the largest space, takes 200; the Wellington Room takes 60. See No.4 Hamilton Place in the 5 Star Wedding Directory.
The Postal Museum and Mail Rail, Farringdon
A blank canvas 70 feet under the streets: the Mail Rail depot, vaulted and brick-lined, where a secret Post Office railway ran for 75 years. Guests can ride the miniature trains through the tunnels, which is the sort of thing they talk about afterwards. The museum building opposite offers a bright modern space with a courtyard.
Price on enquiry. The published hire fee includes an event manager, a duty manager, venue hosts, a cleaning team, professional SIA door security, in-house AV with two projectors and wifi. Hire runs 17:00 to midnight, with a 01:00 extension on Fridays and Saturdays in Mail Rail for a fee. Mail Rail publishes a wedding reception capacity of 100, alongside 275 standing, 150 for dinner and 120 for a dinner dance; the museum space holds 120 standing and 60 for dinner. Visit the The Postal Museum and Mail Rail website.
RSA House, John Adam Street
A Georgian townhouse off the Strand with three quite different moods: the Great Room, hung with James Barry’s painted cycle and lit by a skylight; the Benjamin Franklin Room beneath it for a reception; and the Vaults, once wine cellars fronting the Thames, for the part of the night when everyone dances.
Price on enquiry. RSA House currently publishes a Late Wedding Offer rather than a rate card: a complimentary couples cocktail reception, £1,000 towards evening bar spend and £1,000 off room hire, for bookings made and held within eight months of enquiring. Wedding planning, on-the-day coordination and menu planning with the in-house chefs are included, and external catering is not permitted. The Great Room takes 150 for a licensed ceremony, 130 for dining and 200 standing; the Benjamin Franklin Room takes 100, 80 and 150; the Vaults take 220 for a party. Visit the RSA House website.
Court Room at The Foundling Museum, Bloomsbury
The Court Room is one of London’s finest surviving Rococo interiors, hung with the collection Hogarth helped assemble, in a Grade II listed building in Brunswick Square. The Picture Gallery next door is a recreation of the Foundling Hospital’s original, and takes the larger dinner. Every hire funds the museum’s work with children and families.
Brunswick package from £90 per person + VAT; Bloomsbury package from £110 per person + VAT. The Brunswick package covers three hours of exclusive hire of the whole museum, four canapes a head, a welcome drink and three glasses of wine, beer or soft drinks, cloakroom, staffing and security, a dedicated events manager and all furniture and glassware; an AV package is £350 + VAT extra. Seated dining runs from £95 to £125 per person + VAT depending on numbers. The Court Room seats 40 and takes 60 for drinks; the Picture Gallery seats 100 and takes 120. Visit the Court Room at The Foundling Museum website.
The Grand Hall at Troxy, Limehouse
A 1930s Art Deco cinema in the East End, restored and reopened, with one of the largest floors in London and an in-house production rig that most venues would have to hire in. It is a live-events venue first, and it suits a celebration built around a stage and a crowd rather than a seated wedding breakfast.
Price on enquiry. Hire includes a dedicated events manager assigned to your type of event, in-house AV with a JBL sound system and a Martin lighting rig, an in-house production team and an approved supplier list. Capacity is now 3,600, raised from 3,100 after a £1.5 million restoration that reopened the disused 1933 basement. Visit the The Grand Hall at Troxy website.
The Rooftop at The Trafalgar St. James, Charing Cross
A rooftop above Trafalgar Square with one of the best views in central London, retractable canopies and heaters, and a bar that has been a fixture of the address for years. The hotel below is a Curio Collection property with rooms for the wedding party.
Price on enquiry. Confirm current private-hire terms and capacity directly with the hotel: The Rooftop still appears in the hotel’s own menus but the hotel publishes no events or private-hire page, so no figure is quoted here rather than repeat a third-party number. Visit the The Rooftop at The Trafalgar St. James website.
Elysian and Madison Rooms at Avenue, Finchley
A North London banqueting venue on Regents Park Road built for large family celebrations: Elysian is the main ballroom, contemporary and flexible, with a serious LED and mood lighting rig and a large dance floor, and Madison works alongside it as a reception and breakout space. It has a long history with Jewish and South Asian weddings and offers Kosher catering.
Price on enquiry. Avenue publishes two all-inclusive package families, its own and a Kosher one, but no figures. Elysian takes up to 250. Note the venue now trades as Avenue, not Avenue Banqueting, and the room formerly called Park is now Elysian. Visit the Elysian and Madison Rooms at Avenue website.
Green Room at Century Club, Soho
A private club on Shaftesbury Avenue with the largest rooftop terrace in Soho, and the Green Room below it: bathed in natural light, versatile enough to run from cinema to cabaret, and a blank canvas for a ceremony. Booking is open to non-members, which is not true of most London clubs.
Price on enquiry. The rooftop terrace and Green Room together take a wedding of up to 200 guests, and a full venue takeover holds 650. The club is closed on Mondays. Visit the Green Room at Century Club website.
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