Exclusive-use Georgian country house above the Thames · Taplow, Buckinghamshire
A Georgian house above the Thames, owned by the Shephard family since 1934 and hired to one wedding at a time, with beds for 26.
Hedsor House is a Georgian country house at Taplow, on the Buckinghamshire and Berkshire border, standing high above the River Thames in Grade II listed parkland. The present house was completed in 1868 on ground lived on since the 1100s. Princess Augusta and Queen Victoria were guests of earlier owners, and portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte still hang inside. In 1934 Philip Shephard gave the house to his son Philip and daughter-in-law Florence as a wedding present, and four generations of the family have kept it since, through years as a United States Air Force communications centre and the headquarters of International Computers Ltd. The Shephards opened it for weddings and filming in 2007.
Every wedding has the whole house to itself. The ceremony is held in the house or in the gardens, both licensed, the wedding breakfast follows in the Ballroom, and the evening brings more guests for dancing in the house before the night is spent under its roof. The family runs the house as a family would: a Wedding Specialist and a Duty Manager come with every booking, dogs are welcome at the ceremony and the drinks, Highland cattle graze the park, bees make the estate's honey, and the family has planted oaks, beeches and cedars across the grounds.
Hedsor House
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Facts checked 4 October 2026
The Centre Hall takes the ceremony beneath its dome, for up to 150 with its balcony, and the ground-floor rooms and the gardens hold a civil licence, so vows can also be said on the South Lawn or the South Terrace. The Boudoir suits the smallest ceremonies and a Jewish tisch. St Nicholas' church, twelfth century, is a five-minute walk from the front steps for a church wedding, and the house hosts South Asian, East Asian, Afro-Caribbean, Jewish and Persian weddings, with the Wedding Specialist guiding each one.
Champagne after the ceremony is poured in the Drawing Room, which sits between the Centre Hall and the South Lawn, and the lawn and the South Terrace take the drinks outdoors with the Thames Valley below. The Dutch Sunken Garden is where couples go for photographs. The Ballroom, panelled in wood, seats the wedding breakfast, and the evening begins in the Willingdon Bar before the Centre Hall becomes the dance floor. Standing, the house takes 250. Mehndi and Sangeet evenings are held here, low-noise fireworks can be arranged through the house's pyrotechnics supplier, and a helicopter may land on the South Lawn with clearance.
Twenty-six guests sleep in the house. The Lavinia Suite, the wedding suite, is named for Florence and Philip's honeymoon in Sri Lanka and has an onyx bathroom with a clawfoot bath and a dressing room for the wedding morning. The Alexander and Florence suites take the closest guests, the other bedrooms are named for Shephard family stories, and the Dustin Suite serves for getting ready and for nightcaps. Breakfast is cooked for everyone in the Library, and the Hive, an octagonal three-bedroom cottage in the grounds, is kept for the couple the night before.
Sojo Kitchen, Goose & Berry, Social Pantry and Lettice Events are the caterers on Hedsor's preferred list, and every wedding chooses one of them, with Goose & Berry cooking the Darcy package. Social Pantry and Lettice Events hold B Corp certification, and every package has a Green Touch version with more sustainable menus. Dry-hire couples choose from the same list and set their own menu, flowers, production and cake.
House, gardens and 13 bedrooms are yours from 10.30am until 10am the next morning.
Exclusive useSeats 120 on the ground floor and 30 on the balcony for the ceremony, then becomes the dance floor.
Centre Hall
Lawns, a Dutch Sunken Garden and woodland with bluebells and rhododendrons in spring.
The groundsAn octagonal three-bedroom cottage in the grounds, sleeping seven.
The Hive
The couple's suite, named after the Mount Lavinia Hotel in Sri Lanka where Philip and Florence Shephard honeymooned in 1934, with a clawfoot bath, rain shower and a light-filled dressing room for getting ready.
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Two larger guest suites named after members of the Shephard family, decorated in navy and white.
EnquireTen bedrooms, including the Skye, Capri, Lilliput and Mont Rochelle Suites, each with its own wallpaper and a story from the family's history, a super king bed (one king) and an en-suite bathroom.
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A self-catering cottage with a four-poster master bedroom, two twin rooms and a pull-out bed, a private garden with a fire pit and a breakfast hamper. Bookable separately.
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Every couple wants just one thing: to remember their wedding as the best time of their lives. The Finishing Touch is the icing on the cake for busy couples who’d like the reassurance of a little extra specialist help.
The house, its gardens and the bedrooms for 26 guests, for every wedding.
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Hedsor is at Taplow in Buckinghamshire, 45 minutes by car from central London, under 30 minutes from Heathrow and a few miles from the M4 and M40. Taplow station, on the Elizabeth line, is three miles away, with Burnham, Beaconsfield and Maidenhead stations close behind. Guests park in front of the house, with electric charging points in the lower car park.
Hedsor House, Hedsor Park, Taplow, Buckinghamshire SL6 0HX, United Kingdom
Transfers. No guest transport is provided. Local taxi firms serve the house and are best booked in advance.
Parking. Parking for about 100 cars in front of the house, with an overflow field and four electric charging points in the lower car park. Cars stay overnight only for resident guests and leave by 10am.
Bourne End (Great Western Railway) is the nearest station, about 1.1 miles from the venue in a straight line.
Dry hire of the whole house for a Monday to Wednesday in low season (January, February, March and November), 2026, plus VAT. A high-season Saturday is £19,450 plus VAT, and the all-inclusive packages start at £18,950 plus VAT for the Darcy with 70 or more guests.
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We chose Hedsor House as our dream wedding venue and the Florence Wedding Package was everything we could have wished for! The venue and grounds are in perfect condition and I couldn’t fault anything, you can tell a lot of love and attention goes into making the venue ready for the big day. We had so many lovely compliments from our guests! Anne and Trish were amazing and helped us right up to the wedding day! Perfect and most magical wedding venue, would recommend to any bride!
Hedsor House seats up to 150 guests for dinner, in The Ballroom.
A ceremony at Hedsor House takes up to 150 guests.
Hedsor House can be taken for exclusive use, with 13 rooms included. It covers the house, its gardens and the bedrooms for 26 guests, for every wedding.
Hedsor House has 10 rooms and 3 suites, sleeping up to 26 guests on site.
Weddings at Hedsor House start from £6,450 for venue hire.
An outside caterer. Hedsor House does not cook in house.
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