
A Beautiful Wedding Ceremony at Leigh Court
Leigh Court is licensed for both civil ceremonies and civil partnerships and can accommodate up to 120 guests for your ceremony.
Ceremonies can take place inside in the Great Hall where you can make a grand entrance on the floating staircase, or for an intimate ceremony, the beautiful Tapestry Room can accommodate up to 60 guests.
When you book your ceremony, you will need to agree the date and time of your ceremony with us and with Somerset Registrars. The registrars will arrive prior to your ceremony and conduct short interviews with you both, separately, in our private meeting room.
You may wish to personalise your ceremony with readings, music and promises to each other. If you wish to walk down the aisle to live music, we can recommend musicians, harpists and string quartets.
We also welcome blessings, humanist ceremonies and the renewal of vows.
Please note that the Great Hall is only available for ceremonies on Saturdays and Sundays. Read our wedding FAQs.
Church Weddings
Alternatively, you may wish to have a church service. There are several churches to choose from in the local area that welcome couples from inside or outside the parish.
You will then arrive at Leigh Court for the reception, where you can still make an entrance and announcement if you wish.
The Great Hall
As you enter the Great Hall for your ceremony, you’ll be transported back to the Regency era of balls and banquets, where the extraordinary floating double staircase and high ceilings were made for dramatic entrances.
The Great Hall was recently featured in Netflix’s Bridgerton and Sanditon amongst other period dramas, so we’re sure that its classic backdrop is going to impress.
It’s also a lovely place to display your wedding cake, or have a harpist, string quartet, or live band play during the ceremony and reception, with the room having natural acoustics.
The Wedding Breakfast
We have several rooms available for your wedding breakfast depending on the number of guests you want to accommodate. The Library is the most popular room with space to seat up to 109 guests; and if you want to dance the night away, the dining tables can quickly disappear and be replaced with a shimmering dancefloor. During the warmer months, the doors of the Library open directly onto the rolling, manicured lawn – the ideal viewing spot for a fireworks display or outdoor food and entertainment.
The Tapestry room also provides a beautiful setting for your wedding breakfast, with space for up to 60 guests. This room is elaborately decorated, with stunning gold finishes and a decorative ceiling.
Evening Celebrations
In the evening, up to 400 guests can enjoy music and dancing using all the rooms on the ground floor. Our gardens are a perfect setting for serving tasty street food such as BBQs, hog roasts and pizzas from a wood fired oven. While guests can relax on the comfortable outdoor chairs watching the sun set.
Larger Weddings and Celebrations
For larger parties, we can arrange for you to hire a wedding marquee that you can use for your wedding breakfast or evening celebrations. You’ll be on the lawns of Leigh Court and will have full access to its facilities.
To ensure that sure you and your guests have the perfect day, afternoon, or evening, our friendly team has curated two special wedding packages that allow room for flexibility, personal preferences, and bespoke services on your special day. You can find our wedding packages here.
A great experience from start to finish!
Claire and the team from Blue berry were supportive and helpful with the planning and were able to accommodate all our needs.
The venue is stunning and plenty big enough and value for money.
Our day went so smoothly and we experienced the best day with help from Giles and Tegan. I can 100% recommend using Leigh court for a wedding venue and thank Claire, Giles, Tegan and all the team at leigh court and berry blue for making the day perfect.
Brilliant day staff and service beyond expectations great time was had by all who attended!
The perfect venue...
Leigh Court exceeded our expectations as a wedding venue!
The mansion provided a stunning backdrop for our special day. The staff were attentive and accommodating, ensuring every detail was perfect. Particularly Claire who helped me to organise all my suppliers! Highly recommended for anyone seeking a timeless and romantic setting for their wedding.
A pleasure to work with Leigh Court!
We felt lucky to have Claire, she communicated so well and helped guide us through the day which took stress off our shoulders.
Thank you so much for everything!
An absolutely gorgeous venue, with an incredible planning team! From the first meeting with Claire we knew we were going to be looked after. Claire was supportive & responsive throughout the planning process and Giles made sure the day itself went smoothly. Epic catering are literally epic! The food was amazing & it was something our guests mentioned to us on a number of occasion. The catering team who looked after us on the day too were fabulous & nothing was too much! Thank you so much to the whole team!
A wonderful day!
Thank you so much to everyone at Leigh Court. Our day went off perfectly thanks to the help of the coordinators and every email that was sent was replied to really promptly. Leigh Court is a spectacularly beautiful venue and staff did everything to make our day as special as possible. We cannot thank you enough
A great and smooth experience.
The team at Leigh Court were so helpful and professional. A massive thank you to Claire and Giles who were a pleasure to work with!
Beautiful venue with very capable and supportive team
We were so happy we chose Leigh Court as our wedding venue - everything was so well organised; we felt like we were in very capable hands. Claire was so helpful, always responded promptly, and Giles on the day was great. The venue itself was also gorgeous and had so much space. Thanks so much!
From the outset, the whole team were friendly and professional. Our wedding organiser, Claire, was full of suggestions, and the caterers provided excellent food.
We wanted a fun-filled wedding, and even the staff joined in!
Nothing was too much trouble. even down to our individually designed table decorations.
All of our guests had a brilliant day, and one commented that if he gets married, he will choose Leigh Court
We can't praise them too highly; the preparations were meticulous, with regular contact throughout, and our manager on the day, Giles, was superb.
We must also mention that the guests said whet a lovely warm feeling the building projected.
All in all, it was a perfect wedding, in beautiful surroundings.
We had the best experience working with Claire and Giles at Leigh Court! They were so helpful and made us feel really confident that everything would go smoothly and it did. As for Leigh Court it is simply the dream venue for a wedding and was such a beautiful place to have both our ceremony and reception.
Our day lived up to and exceeded our expectations- it was the best day ever!
The food was amazing and staff were so warm and helpful it really added to the day for everyone.
The perfect wedding venue
Simply beautiful! Leigh Court made for a perfect wedding venue.
The professionalism, patience and friendliness of our wedding planner, Claire Shea, was second to none and every detail we desired was catered for.
The ceremony was held in the breath taking Great Hall, which set the scene for our magical day.
The food provided was exquisite and the table service as prompt as it was professional.
Entertainment in the form of garden games and a Bouncy castle kept the children happy, as well as those older in years, but still young at heart!
The day was rounded off superbly with a DJ playing our favourite songs, a caricaturist producing indescribably amusing works of art and more delicious food, much to the delight of our evening guests.
Sadly, our wonderful day had to come to an end, and only the provision of accommodation at the venue would have topped an otherwise exceptional experience, and perhaps more reasonably justified the cost of the event.
I would resoundingly recommend Leigh Court as a wedding venue, to anybody looking for that special experience on their wedding day.
WOW! What a day. Enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for the card from yourself & the team, you all did a grand job and everything worked out well. Loads of comments about food, cooked to perfection, melted in the mouth; well done caterers! The photographer & videographer worked well together and we felt relaxed and at ease with them both. A big THANK YOU once again.
Where do we begin. From the moment we stepped foot in Leigh Court, met Claire, and had her describe in so much detail what we could expect our wedding to be like, we could not picture getting married anywhere else. We had found 'the one'.
We couldn't believe that we would have sole access to all those beautiful rooms for our special day. Each room had it's own unique selling point, especially The Great Hall and The Tapestry Room. We loved the flow of the layout and how you could utilise each room.
The communication with Claire was always easy, we had quick responses and she was amenable to any of our requests.
Having viewed quite a few venues, we found Leigh Court to be very reasonable in price and we couldn't believe our luck, seeing as it is such a stunning venue.
We had a change in caterers but Epic Caterers were extremely flexible with honouring our previous agreements and provided top class food!
The venue held an evening fayre where they had all their recommended suppliers and we found this immensely useful as we booked a company to dress the venue and booked our DJ for the evening. Shout out to Something Borrowed and Kieran Clarke Entertainment who did an incredible job. We would definitely suggest going to one of these events if you've booked Leigh Court for your wedding. On their list of recommended suppliers, we found Betty Bhandari, an AMAZING photographer who we can't thank enough for capturing our magical day.
We had Giles look after us on our wedding day who ensured everything ran smoothly. He was so knowledgeable and was on top of absolutely everything behind the scenes, meaning we could relax and enjoy our day. We felt that we were in very good hands with both Giles & Claire.
Overall, our wedding day went so smoothly and it truly was one of the best days of our lives.
We would without a doubt recommend Leigh Court. 10/10.
A perfect and magical venue!
Where to start? Everything about Leigh Court was nothing short of perfect for our wedding day.
Claire was brilliant for the 12 months leading up to the big day, extremely responsive, warm, professional, organised and so so reassuring! Giles was coordinator on our day and ensured everything ran smoothly, and even came to the rescue when our DJ turned up missing a crucial electrical cable! All of the staff are a credit to the venue and really exceeded our expectations in terms of service and quality.
The venue itself is stunning and its beauty speaks for itself. We were keen to find a venue that wasn't a "blank canvas" and wouldn't require a huge expense for flowers and decorations, and Leigh Court certainly delivered that. The distinctive colours of each room set the foundations of our floral theme, and the unique architectural details of each room provided a little touch of magic. The venue is also effortlessly functional, with a number of rooms that can be opened up or closed off as needed, and plenty of access to the beautiful grounds via the large garden doors.
The reasonably new partnership with Epic Caterers is an excellent addition - again everything from our food tasting to the last nibbles of the evening was beautifully presented and so delicious, with a myriad of dietary requirements catered to with exceptional care and attention. The Epic staff on the day were flawless and we received so many compliments from our guests about the food and the level of service.
Truly every single person that contributed to our day did a phenomenal job. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Leigh Court as a wedding venue. I only wish we could do it all over again!
Our wedding day was perfect and seamless from start to finish. We felt Claire and Giles had everything under control and the caterers went above and beyond. So glad we chose Leigh Court.
The team at LC were so helpful and professional. A massive thank you to Claire and Giles who were a pleasure to work with!
Our wedding day was truly incredible. Your meticulous attention to detail and seamless coordination made the day magical. The stunning venue and your dedicated efforts made it even more memorable. We're still on cloud nine and we couldn't have asked for a better venue to celebrate the start of our journey together. Thank you for turning our dreams into reality.