Wedding and Wedding Receptions at Herrison Hall

Weddings and wedding Receptions at Herrison Hall can be as formal or informal as you like.

At Herrison Hall, the emphasis is on you and your choice. If you want to provide all the food, drink and entertainment, you may. Or you can have a catering Company to provide the food, a professional Bar to serve the drink or a Wedding Planner to set out the tables with their best linen, chair covers and cutlery.
It is your wedding – you choose.

We have hosted wedding Receptions that the family has provided food, including the cake, all the drink, and made all the little notices and place cards on the computer at home. Others have had Wedding Planners who laid out the tables and fitted lined covers to them, rigged coloured lights and table decoration, one couple had a String Quartet to play before and during the meal, and there have been several Hog Roasts in the paved area to the rear of the Hall.

We do not have in-house Caterers, Bars, Wedding Planners or other staff that you have to use but we can suggest some that other couples have used. However we do not take any responsibility or have any financial connection for services hired from our list of suggested companies. See our website

Look at our website www.charltondownvillagehall.info where you will find a picture gallery showing pictures of Receptions at Herrison Hall. Some of these pictures show the use of round tables. We do not have these at the Hall but they can be hired locally and delivered to the Hall on a Friday afternoon and collected again on the Monday following the reception. You will also see photographs’ of the various rooms, their sizes and number and types of tables that are included in the hire of the rooms.

Also on this website, on the links to the left of the Home Page is a link to our wedding website www.weddingsatherrisonhall.co.uk where our Wedding Package and other prices are displayed.

To see which days are free and which are already taken, you can go to the main website and click on Weekly Availability 2012/2013. Here you will see a chart showing the current weeks bookings. Stepping through the weeks or month by clicking on “Next Week or Month” you will see all the weeks of the year in turn. You can make your selection of an available date and click on the small cross  in the corner of that date and fill up the booking form. You can always telephone Vincent Haslam on 01305 263 406 or email him at vincenthaslam231@btinternet.com for further information.

Most couples prefer to have some music playing in the Hall when they and their guests arrive and if you supply the music we will arrange for it to be played over the hall sound system. Any format except cassette tape can be used, and it is suggested that you put together a playlist on an IPod, Memory Stick or CD. (Though home produced CDs are sometimes a bit temperamental!)

A guitar can be plugged into the system and there are microphones for speeches and of course the system can be used for dancing if a Discotheque or band is not booked for the evening. The cost of using the sound system and microphones is a one off charge of £30.

If you have a band, we have stage lighting that can be controlled from the stage. The charge for using the Stage Lighting is £30 and it is advisable to arrange to come in a few days beforehand to set lights up as you require them.

If you wish to charge for alcoholic drinks, a licence is required and you can be covered by our licence for a fee of £20.

Our Wedding Reception package at £650 includes use of all rooms including the kitchen from 8.00am – 12.00 midnight on the Saturday (or main event day) and two hours on the next day, usually Sunday to complete any clearing up.  It also includes delivery of goods such as round tables, decorations or drink to Toad Hall on the Friday afternoon before the main event day and time on Monday morning to collect the round tables, empties or other items not removed before. Clients arranging to deliver or collect items to the Hall on the Friday or Monday should ensure that the Hall is notified, preferably by the person collecting these items, when they are about ten minutes away so that the Hall can be open.

Civil Wedding Ceremonies without a reception to follow have the use of the Ballroom, Toad Hall, Watts Room and the kitchen for a period of 3 hours. Extra hours are charged at £50 per hour. Please note these rates do not include fees payable to the Registrar.

One the main event day the external Ballroom doors should be closed by 10.00pm and music turned down by 11.00 pm. and the bar should stop serving drinks at 11.00 pm. and close at 11.30pm  All clients including their, band or bar staff  and guests should vacate the building by midnight.

Where alcohol is present at an event a damage deposit of £150 is charged which is returnable if there is no damage.