Gone are the days when you only had two choices for the venue of your wedding: a church or the registry office. Both of these had their benefits and hindrances. A church wedding could certainly provide the romantic setting but requires a certain commitment from the happy couple to attend the church in question and the registry office, while convenient lacks a certain ambiance.
Today there is any number of venues licensed to host a wedding. Hotels are of course the top of a lot of people’s choice of wedding venue, especially if it is a country hotel set in picturesque grounds and parkland.
Historic buildings are also very popular and can afford a unique theme to a wedding. There are numerous castles dotted around the country that are available to host a wedding and can lend themselves to a bawdy medieval theme that would uniquely mark a raucous start to any marriage.
There are also many Victorian buildings in the gothic style that would lend themselves to a medieval theme but also allow for the modern conveniences that our Victorian forbears were fond of and that buildings in our towns and cities have acquired over the years. They add just that little element of comfort to a historical setting.
There are also some grand civic buildings in our towns and cities that would provide an auspicious setting for any marriage. They would provide that element of authority offered by the registry office plus a sense of setting that used to be offered by a church.

May 8th, 2012
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