{"id":30272,"date":"2013-01-13T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5starweddingmagazine.com\/?p=30272"},"modified":"2017-11-22T22:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:37:44","slug":"wedding-venues-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wedding-venues-suffolk\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Married Downton Abbey Style!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every little girl imagines their storybook wedding, the magical fantasy of getting married to the man of their dreams \u2013 driving down a long tree-lined drive through sweeping parkland, revealing a grand elegant house surrounded by beautiful gardens, making the perfect backdrop for perhaps the most monumental day in your life.<\/p>\n

Few ever get to live out their imagination of becoming \u2018Lord and Lady\u2019 but the Crossley (Somerleyton) family are well versed in playing fairy godmother and making those childhood dreams come true for lucky couples on their wedding day.
\nFor Hugh and Lara Somerleyton has Somerleyton Hall<\/a> t<\/strong>o call home; but being a stately home, theirs comes with dozens of grand rooms and over eight centuries of history.<\/p>\n

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Lara continues: \u201cHugh and I enjoyed a February wedding here, the Hall\u2019s two towers were beautifully lit and we chose to eat on a long table in the winter garden and dance in tepee-style marquees. One of Hugh\u2019s sisters had an Indian-themed wedding in the fabulous white garden, which worked so well with an ornate open -sided marquee in such a magical setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is the variety of backdrops and opportunities which Somerleyton presents to their guests which give every happy couple the individuality they deserve and the opportunity to be centre stage. Lara loves working on her clients\u2019 great ideas for what they want: \u201cThe wonderful thing about helping to plan their big day is that Somerleyton is such a rich and diverse tapestry to play with \u2013 everyone sees something different when they visit and so each wedding has its own uniqueness which is very special.\u201d<\/p>\n

2013 sees the Crossley (Somerleyton) family marking 150 years of residence at Somerleyton; to coincide with this milestone anniversary, the fifth generation of Crossleys have smartly refurbished the two main wedding venues at the Hall so that they can host celebrations in even more style, showcasing the aristocratic charm and fairytale magic of these sumptuous surroundings. Catering for any number with no minimum, there are intimate areas in the house or gardens, ideal for a smaller occasion or the expansive grounds offer the necessary grand scale to accommodate up to 500 guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every little girl imagines their storybook wedding, the magical fantasy of getting married to the man of their dreams \u2013 driving down a long tree-lined drive through sweeping parkland, revealing a grand elegant house surrounded by beautiful gardens, making the perfect backdrop for perhaps the most monumental day in your life. Few ever get to live out their imagination of becoming \u2018Lord and Lady\u2019 but the Crossley (Somerleyton) family are well versed in playing fairy godmother and making those childhood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}