Wedding Venues in Central Birmingham

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11 Jun, 2010 || Categories: Celebrating, Planning Your Wedding, Wedding Venues


Highbury Hall, Birmingham, England. Built 1879...

Highbury Hall
Highbury Hall is famous as being the home of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain MP for Birmingham and is situated 3 miles from the City Centre. Set in a lovely secluded tranquil area Highbury can cater for as little as 12 guests, a first class large banquet of 96 guests or up to 150 guests for a standing buffet. Highbury can assure you a warm and friendly atmosphere on your wedding day.
4 Yew Tree Road, Moseley, Birmingham. B13 8QG
www.birmingham.gov.uk/highbury

Rowheath Pavilion
Rowheath Pavilion is set in the heart of Bournville within a picture parkland. It can cater for 130 seated guests or 200 standing. This venue is suitable for wheelchair access and has parking for 120 cars.
www.rowheath.org

Selly Manor
Selly Manor is a 12 century listed medieval building which can cater up to 40 guests. Set in the beautiful surroundings of Bournville the Tudor gardens look ideal for your wedding photographs.
Oaktree Lane, Bournville, Birmingham. B30 1UB

The University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham for many years has provided five unique venues to host their weddings. These different venues can cater parties between 20 – 575 guests which makes each wedding unique. The five different venues has their own exclusive wedding packages with attractive peaceful beautiful grounds which are ideal for your wedding photography and drinks receptions making your wedding a truly memorable occasion.
The Wedding Team, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. B15 2RA
www.wedding@bham.ac.uk

The Birmingham Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Gardens has three suites from which to choose to hold your wedding celebrations which overlook a wonderful array of scent and colour from their Victorian gardens which would delight any bride and groom’s dream backdrop for their wedding photography.
Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. B15 3TR
Tel: 0121 456 2244

Crowne Plaza Birmingham NEC
The Crowne Plaza is situated in the grounds of the NEC with a lovely lakeside view. With professional wedding coordinators and facilities that are first class this wedding venue combines simple elegance with a unique contemporary style. This is a perfect venue for elegant or lavish weddings.
Pendigo Way, NEC, Birmingham. B40 1PS
www.birminghamnec.crowneplaza.com

The Clarendon Suites
The Clarendon Suites have three separate suites within a spacious building which is ideal for parties from 12 – 1200 guests and a large car park which can hold up to 300 cars. With friendly staff to take care of your needs on your wedding day so you can go ahead and just relax and enjoy your day.
2 Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. B16 9SB
www.clarendon-suites.co.uk

Dormy Hotel and Restaurant
The Dormy Hotel is family run and has been established for thirty years. They pride themselves on giving a friendly efficient service. They can accommodate up to 80 guests and tailor the day for your needs such as a buffet or disco to make your day perfect.
304-306 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. B17 8DJ
Tel: 0121 429 4455/ 0121 429 1236

 

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Decorating Your Wedding Reception

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21 May, 2010 || Categories: Celebrating, Planning Your Wedding, Wedding Breakfast, Wedding Reception


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Decorating the wedding reception yourself makes the venue for your reception more personalised. This in turn allows your guests to feel included more into your special day.

Balloons
Balloons of many colours, filled with confetti can be placed around the room either on stands or hung up. This adds to the party atmosphere and creates an excellent background for photographs. Balloons can be added as centre pieces on the tables to tie in with your colour scheme or theme.  Balloons in the shape of animals could also be placed around which is fun for the young children to play with. Folding balloons held by a net above the dance floor could be released at the end of the night which builds up the excitement.

Photograph Display
Create a collage with pictures of you as a small child growing up. Include photographs of your family, you at work with your colleagues or any photos of you doing a hobby like skiing, cycling, climbing etc. It is a wonderful way to show your guests your family, close friends and colleagues.

Ice Sculptures
Ice sculptures are carved from crystal clear ice and can be arranged as a centre piece or to serve drinks from an ice fountain.

Disposable Cameras
These cameras are ideal when placed on each table for your guests to take photographs. The cameras can be collected at the end of the day so they can be processed for the Bride and Groom. These photographs let your guests contribute more to your wedding day and photo album by taking photos that might otherwise have been missed.

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Named Tables
Named tables are a lot more fun than numbered tables and can go hand in hand with your wedding theme. Suggested themes include places you have visited, comedians, singers or bands you may like, movie stars, sports cars or even planets!

Bridal Favours
If you would like to give a token of appreciation to all your guests then leaving a bridal favour is ideal. Suggested favours include five almonds wrapped in lace, net or tulle, bonbonniere.

Other Suggestions
Miniature bottles of spirit with the bride and groom’s name and wedding date or boxed chocolates. An activity pack for the young children for them to draw the best picture of the bride and groom for a competition.

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Wedding Drinks

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20 Mar, 2010 || Categories: Catering, Celebrating, Wedding Reception



It can be cost effective if the wedding drinks are included in the price per head charged by your wedding caterer or by the wedding venue. This is particularly helpful and can save you time, effort and money than bringing your own wine and having to pay extra for the corkage charge.

Providing Your Own Drinks
If you are providing your own wine then most off-licences and wine merchants will give you advice as well as sale-or-return, bulk discounts, glass hire and free delivery too.

A Toast To The Bride And Groom
Traditionally Champagne is the drink that would be served throughout the day but this will be rather expensive. Nowadays it’s quite popular to serve a well chosen sparkling wine, usually you can’t tell the difference. The sparkling white wine is then used as a ‘toast’ to the Bride and Groom and it’s also drunk in salute of ‘cutting the cake’.

The Welcoming Drink
Bucks Fizz, Pimms or Sangria are excellent choices to serve as a welcome to all the guests as they arrive at the wedding venue. Not forgetting plenty of non alcoholic drinks such as mineral water and orange juice. A good suggestion for a hot summer wedding welcoming drink is a delicious fruit punch, likewise a mulled wine can be very welcoming for a winter wedding as is especially suited around the Christmas period.

Wines In General
It is not so important nowadays to drink white wine while eating fish or chicken dishes and red wine for beef, lamb or pork dishes. It’s really better to have a mixture of red and white wines to suit each person’s palette. Your Wedding Planner or Wedding Organizer can advise you. If you are supplying your own alcohol, then your off-licence or wine merchants will give you good advice too. It’s best to try and stick to your budget allowance so you don’t overspend and don’t buy too many choices of wines…keep the choice simple and straightforward, it will save you money too.

A General Wine Guide
Doux is a sweet wine
Demi-sec is a medium-dry wine
Sec is a dry wine
Brut is a very dry wine

Generally allow 6 glasses per 70cl bottle. You would need two glasses per head of Champagne or sparkling white wine for the ‘toasts’.

For the table wine allow about half a bottle per head.

All non-alcoholic drinks, soft drinks, mineral water including tea and coffee should be on tap throughout the day.

A Pay Bar
Think about when you would like to have a pay bar. You could either set a ‘drinks limit’ in advance so the bar staff are aware when your guests have to purchase their own drinks. Alternately your invitations could state ‘Pay bar after 7pm’ this can save a lot of confusion later.

Hints And Tips About Wedding Drinks
Buy wines you can afford and keep the choice simple.
Think about how much your budget will allow or the free ‘drinks limit’.
Wedding guests can be annoyed if the drinks are overpriced so check the prices well in advance of your wedding reception bar drinks.
Find out if there are any corkage charges.
If you are using non-licenced premises, why not have a mobile bar?
Check what the last orders and bar closure times are, it’s not worth booking a live band or DJ to play until 1am if the bar loses at 11pm!

A excellent recommended book to help you plan your wedding day is:

Wise Wedding Planning:
Making The Perfect Theme Wedding Possible At  Any Price
By Brenda Westwood.