This venue was amazing. Our guests couldn’t stop complimenting it, as were we. The house manager Laura and her team made our day flow perfectly and was super organised, we didn’t have to worry about a thing. Would definitely recommend!

We hired the beautiful Shakespeare Garden and Marquee, along with the Long Room and Wetherhead Bar. The value for money is amazing. The event space, particularly the garden, had our guests in awe of how wonderful it looked, not to mention how it was the perfect location for us. I can’t recommend it highly enough for a special day. Both local guests and those who travelled gave us feedback that it was a perfect location.

Our event organisers Niamh and Harriet are organised, creative and just really nice people! Niamh as the lead event organisers is passionate about event and wedding planning.

Niamh came up with lovely ideas for our day, suggesting ways to use the venue which then became the highlights of our day. She was very calm under pressure and made us feel relaxed about the planning of the day. We also appreciated the physical moving/storage of items for the preceding days ensuring that all of our preparations went smoothly, and the way that Lightwoods House communicated with 1000 Trades staff who catered the meal to make sure that everything went as planned. They even kindly packed up things for us while we were partying in the evening. The organisers helped with a special surprise that could have been logistically difficult but organised it happily and with excitement!

There was no moment where anything didn’t go to plan, again down to the fabulous planning. The staff were kind and again we had guests feeding back how nice the staff were to them. During the day we could see how hard all the staff were working behind the scenes but they did this very subtly and unobtrusively- we didn’t have to deal with a single thing!

We chose to have 1000 Trades cater for us which was a brilliant choice- the best canapés we have ever had and they catered our fully vegetarian wedding with interesting and delicious dishes.

We chose to have a mix of corkage and bar service in the evening and that worked very well too.

All in all it was truly perfect and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Laura was amazing to work with and catered to our every need from day 1. She is such a lovely person and you can tell she really cares about the couple's she works with, as well as the house. We only had our ceremony at Lightwoods and it fit the vision for the small, intimate ceremony we wanted whilst still being beautiful and great value. During our time there, we had acces to the Shakespeare Gardens (which were still beautiful and maintained well even in winter), the Bridal Suite, our ceremony room and another room for our drinks reception.We were also able to decorate the day before which eased our stress. Would definitely recommend to any couple considering. Thank you again to Laura for giving us a day we will cherish forever.

Really hard to get hold of staff, even other businesses commented on how bad their communication is. After 3 weeks of chasing them, I went to the location as they were so hit and miss via call/email only to have them then ask me lots of personal questions over an intercom service rather then coming out to greet us. service (answers were all on email already) they then refused to show us round as it was 4:02 and viewings stopped at 4pm despite the fact we have been there just after 3 struggling over an intercom. They then booked us in the following day but were so unorganised with this too that they had to reschedule this three times. On finally viewing they were very unprofessional, the questions they asked at times were inappropriate and bordered on assuming we were lying about what the function was. It was very uncomfortable. They then appeared to make up a price in her head (no notes, no phone etc) just on the spot and this price was completely different to the website, email and online. The lack of communication, the unprofessionalism, the lack of flexibility, lack of transparency and the overall feeling they left us with sadly meant we no longer wanted to hold our wedding here. A shame as it’s a location that holds so many memories for us both. The marquee and grounds themselves are beautiful but would never recommend dealing with the staff.