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As one of the UK’s top wedding venues, Crockwell Farm is certainly an excellent location for celebrating one of life’s most precious moments.
Widely touted as one of the most exclusive wedding venues in the UK, Crockwell Farm is the epitome of intimacy. Nestled within the undiscovered lanes and rolling hills of South Northamptonshire, our location provides couples and their loved ones with a very intimate and private venue to celebrate one of the most significant and memorable moments of their lives.
A recipient of the “Top 100” status by the highly prestigious Condé Nast Brides magazine, Crockwell Farm is more than just a wedding venue. We also offer fully bespoke services. Through our team’s diligent organisation and keen attention to detail, we aim to provide our clients and their guests a wedding celebration to remember.
Crockwell Farm is close to the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire borders. You can easily access our venue via the M40 and M1 motorways.
Benefits
Enjoy exclusively yours for three days
Rich in history, Crockwell Farm is amongst the first venues to provide luxury barn weddings in the UK. The Harper family converted the farm in 1998. Today, it is widely known for its quaint stone farm buildings that feature a vaulted ceremony barn, a beautiful oak-glazed entrance hall and stunning internal marquees that offer breath-taking views of Northamptonshire’s picturesque and idyllic countryside.
The farm has experienced various improvements throughout the years to provide an exceptional wedding experience for our clients. Our facilities underwent extensive renovations in the spring of 2020 to elevate the look and ambience of our luxury marquee space and rustic bar.
Crockwell is home to farm cottages with nine en-suite bathrooms. These cottages can accommodate up to 28 guests, making Crockwell highly suitable for couples who need a home away from home as they prepare for the wedding. Our accommodations allow them to relax and recharge with their closest friends and family before and after the ceremony.
Our location offers several options for couples who want to enjoy their wedding day to the fullest, providing an exceptional setting for weddings of all sizes. We have both indoor and outdoor venues, including well-manicured gardens offering a stunning backdrop for outside wedding ceremonies and receptions.
All of these can be yours to use exclusively for three days.
We believe that special moments such as your wedding should not be rushed. This is why we are giving you plenty of time and space to prepare and enjoy the festivities in utmost privacy. Furthermore, you can always count on our team to provide you the expert assistance you need.
One Location
Enjoy Crockwell’s brand of hospitality
As a family-run business, we at Crockwell Farm take a very personal approach to planning and organising weddings. Our team of friendly, hard-working and highly experienced wedding planners and coordinators provide maximum flexibility to help you plan and create a unique wedding experience.
We are committed to ensuring you’ll have one of the most magical days of your lives. Our team will be on hand to handle the smallest of details, from providing you expert decorating advice to connecting you to the best wedding suppliers. We’ll do our best to ensure you’ll have everything you’ll need for the reception and ceremony.
Celebrate the big on at one of the UK’s most celebrated wedding venues
Beautiful Barns in Picturesque Surroundings
Over the last decade, country and barn weddings have become quite popular in the UK and for a good reason. These types of weddings allow for greater flexibility than those held at traditional wedding venues.
Also, barn weddings offer the perfect alternative for brides and grooms who prefer a non-religious ceremony but would like to prepare something more unique and festive than merely commemorating the occasion at the registry office. With their high-beamed ceilings and rustic ambience, barns converted into wedding venues certainly give off that “chapel-like” atmosphere. In addition, they can be easily decorated for the reception and evening entertainment so there’s no need to go back and forth between two venues.
Perhaps the best reason of all is that barn and country weddings are simply stunning. Thanks to their naturally beautiful and picturesque surroundings, any wedding ceremony and reception held in a barn or country setting are undoubtedly special.
At Crockwell Farm, our venue provides an exclusive and idyllic setting for all wedding types and sizes. We have also been improving our facilities and services to meet the needs of our clients and provide them with an excellent alternative to traditional wedding venues.
Let’s explore Crockwell and discover what makes it one of the most sought-after exclusive-use wedding venues in the UK.
Permanent Unique and Dry
The Vaulted Barn
Built in the 1700s, the stone Vaulted Barn is truly a historic wedding venue. It is one of the original buildings from when Crockwell was still a working farm. Restored by the Harpers in the early 2000s, the barn has hosted a number of small weddings and parties.
With its intimate and romantic ambience, the Vaulted Barn is undoubtedly a favourite barn venue for many of our clients. It can seat up to 86 people, making it the ideal wedding venue for small to medium-sized ceremonies. Besides a few church candles and flowers, which we can quickly arrange before the ceremony, the stone Vaulted Barn needs very little to no decoration.
Workshop barn conversion
The Saddle Room Bar
Built in the 1700s, the stone Vaulted Barn is truly a historic wedding venue. It is one of the original buildings from when Crockwell was still a working farm. Restored by the Harpers in the early 2000s, the barn has hosted a number of small weddings and parties.
With its intimate and romantic ambience, the Vaulted Barn is undoubtedly a favourite barn venue for many of our clients. It can seat up to 86 people, making it the ideal wedding venue for small to medium-sized ceremonies. Besides a few church candles and flowers, which we can quickly arrange before the ceremony, the stone Vaulted Barn needs very little to no decoration.
“It really is the little touches that count when planning a wedding and Crockwell has thousand of little touches up their sleeve. Just wish we could do it all again now!”
The Pole Barn Conversion
The Starlit Marquee
With its high ceilings and expansive windows, the Starlit Marquee offers guests panoramic views of the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside. Large hanging hoops with foliage and a fairy-light canopy also feature prominently in the wedding venue, making it both festive and inviting.
If you have invited a large number of guests, the Starlit Marquee will be the perfect wedding venue. With a capacity of up to 200 people, it provides enough space for the day’s celebrations and activities, including the much-anticipated wedding feast. Furthermore, the Marquee is accessible from 2:00pm the day before the wedding, giving you ample time to decorate and make the venue uniquely yours.
Similar to the Saddle Room Bar, the Starlit Marquee has undergone recent renovations. It now features underfloor heating and neutral yet classic flooring, ensuring you and your guests’ comfort and enjoyment during the wedding reception no matter what the season. And thanks to the Marquee’s adjoining secret dance floor, you can dance the day or night away as there’s no need to move the furniture around to make room.
As one of the UK’s best wedding venues, we at Crockwell Farm prioritise your comfort and convenience. This is why there’s no need to worry about bringing chairs, cutlery, glassware and crockery to the Starlit Marquee for the wedding reception. We will happily provide everything for you. We will also handle all the other decorative materials so you don’t have to. As mentioned earlier, you can leave the smallest details to us so you can focus on what is important to you.
The Grain Barn Conversion
The gardens and grounds
While our indoor venues are renowned for their rustic charm and beauty, our outdoor settings are also in a league of their own. Surrounded by Northamptonshire’s verdant rolling hills and idyllic scenes of nature, Crockwell Farm is certainly an enchanting location for outdoor ceremonies and receptions.
Our unique venue is situated in the heart of a privately owned 400-acre farm and picturesque gardens feature prominently on the estate. Owner Hermione personally and painstakingly plans and maintains the gardens to ensure they are always picture-ready regardless of the time of year. If you are keen on planning an outdoor wedding, Crockwell’s beautiful landscaped gardens offer a beautiful and romantic setting with lots of fabulous photo opportunities.
Planning a summer wedding at Crockwell will undoubtedly be a wonderful experience as you have exclusive use of our gardens for entertaining guests. If the weather cooperates, everyone can enjoy reception drinks and canapés underneath our picturesque walnut tree. Because no wedding should be without a dose of fun and entertainment, our well-manicured gardens are the ideal venue for hosting not just outdoor ceremonies, but also games, live musical performances and other activities you may have in store for your guests.
converting the barns
The Orchard Pavilion
We formed two cottages out of the stables and outbuildings with the intention of doing some bed and breakfast and holiday lets. It seemed a real shame to divide up the main barn so we put it back together; insulated and formed a ceiling, keeping all the beams and cross-beams exposed. We put in under-floor heating, and found some wonderful oak floorboards to stay in character. We employed a local blacksmith to make windows from the narrow slits which had been the air vents for the barn (or maybe for shooting arrows through)! He also made the wall lights which are complemented by warm up-lighters and beam lights which highlight the beamed ceiling. We ended up with the ceremony barn pretty much as it is today which is a wonderful place to make your vows.
first wedding in the barn in 2000
Guest Accommodation
For many couples, spending quality time with their closest friends and family can be quite a challenge. Besides being pressed for time, finding a suitable place to gather together can be difficult. However, at Crockwell Farm, making this a possibility is just part and parcel of our commitment to helping you organise a fairytale wedding to remember.
Within Crockwell’s stunning country house are nine spacious bedrooms that can offer safe and comfortable two-night accommodation for your core wedding party. With your friends and loved ones nearby, it will be much easier to enjoy a relaxing time with them once the wedding preparations have been completed.
Flexible space
The Breakfast Room
The Breakfast Room is one of the most recent additions to Crockwell Farm. Featuring a stylish contemporary design, it is the ideal spot to enjoy a big breakfast on the morning before or after the wedding. Located right next to the Saddle Room Bar, the Breakfast Room can be easily accessed via the large rolling door.
Breakfasts have always been a joyful affair here at Crockwell. You and your guests can take your pick from a wide array of fresh fruits, yoghurts, toast and homemade granola. We also offer a cooked breakfast of bacon, eggs, free-range sausages, organic mushrooms and tomatoes. Every ingredient is sourced locally to ensure that our trademark wedding breakfasts are always fresh, organic and delicious.
If you and your bridal party would prefer something lighter for your wedding breakfast, we can offer you bagels with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or something similar. Just say the word and we will do our best to accommodate your request. For those who want something more filling on the morning after the wedding, we also offer a “hangover breakfast” at around 9:30am. This is undoubtedly a great time to exchange stories and reminisce about the events of the day before. It also offers you the opportunity to say goodbye to your guests before leaving for your honeymoon.
The Prep Room
Many brides would agree that planning a wedding can be quite stressful. This is why our mission here at Crockwell is to make this grand affair more manageable and less taxing for the bride. Our Bridal Prep Room is certainly equipped with everything you need. With its panoramic roof light and windows, low comfortable chairs for hairstyling and tall stools for the make-up artist, the room is designed to ensure your wedding day gets off to a perfect start.
The Bridal Prep Room also features a kitchenette with a Nespresso machine and a small fridge, ensuring that the bridal party has easy access to tea, coffee and snacks. And with its stylish and eye-catching interior decor, the room can serve as a stunning backdrop for your pre-wedding photography.
No other Northamptonshire wedding venues have the same commitment to excellence as we do. At Crockwell Farm, we are dedicated to providing our clients with impeccable service and the best country wedding venue possible. This certainly motivates us to find new ways to make your wedding weekend a truly memorable experience.
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Discover what makes Crockwell special today
At Crockwell Farm, we feel deeply honoured to be part of one of the most momentous occasions of your lives. We would be thrilled to hear about your wedding plans and show you around our wedding venue!
Please get in touch if you have any questions or if you would like to request a tour of Crockwell Farm.
