Est. 1868 · The Harrow Vale
Twenty-eight acres of lawn, garden and golden light, held for one couple at a time. Turn into the arrival court and the choosing is over.
One wedding at a time
The Elmswood covenant
The spaces are yours alone, with one party on the estate and nobody but your guests crossing your photographs. When you book Elmswood, the estate closes around your wedding and remains closed until the last car leaves.
- 40
- weddings a year
- 1
- at a time, ever
- 28
- acres of garden and lawn
- 1868
- the year the limes went in
No. 02
The Garden Ceremony
Four o'clock, the ceremony lawn
A hundred and forty white chairs on cut grass, the rose arch dressed that morning, and the house keeping watch behind you. You walk down an aisle of lawn with the sun already leaning gold.
140 seats · the Ceremony Lawn · wet-weather room held in the house
One wedding at a time
No. 03
The Orangery Dinner
Seven, dinner under glass
120 at long tables · candlelight · the 1870 orangery
One wedding at a time
Dinner for a hundred and twenty under the orangery glass, with taper candles down long linen tables and citrus trees in terracotta, while the sky goes from gold to ink over the course of the meal.
No. 04 — Ten, string lights and the slow hours
The Dusk Terrace
When dinner ends, the estate does not. The terrace comes on at dusk with festoon lights and candles in storm glasses, the garden still warm from the day, and the night runs unhurried to midnight.
200 evening guests · licensed to midnight · the terrace
“We saw five venues and cried at the sixth. Sylvie held our date for five days without being asked twice, Margaret cut roses for the tables that morning, and the kitchen sent my grandmother’s tea out on a tray at exactly four. It was the only place that felt like it was already ours.”
See it in this light.
Photographs are honest here, but the lawn at six in the evening is the argument that ends the search. Come for a private viewing, an unhurried hour with just the three of us.
Walk the grounds with usThe roses are Margaret’s. The kitchen is Tom’s. The day is yours.
Margaret & Tom Elms, fourth generation
One wedding at a time
The date is the beginning.
Tell us the season you are circling and who you will be. Sylvie replies within two working days with the dates the estate has open.
Start with a date and a hello