Colehayes Park Reviews
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Hannah Sent on 21/08/2025The perfect place to get married!
Colehayes Park is an amazing place. The house and grounds were the perfect backdrop to our wedding. We spent the week with friends and family in the run up to the main event and loved every minute of our time there. The location is perfect to get on to Dartmoor, although we spent most of our time around the house, grounds and lake. It is such a relaxing location and we were able to make the most of it, from paddle boarding and swimming in the lake to wandering around the gardens and having fun in the basement playing table tennis and pool.
As a DIY wedding venue we were able to put our own mark on it and make it our own. It accommodated all of our guests and it never felt crowded. We used the Helping Hands Team on our wedding day and we are so pleased that we did. They made the day run smoothly and were so supportive of what we had asked for. Thank you to the Colehayes and Helping Hands Teams for making our stay incredible.
We feel very privileged to have found Colehayes and could not have asked for more. We highly recommend the house as a special place to stay and get married.
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Lily Sent on 13/08/2025Incredible place for a wedding
We had the most incredible experience at Colehayes Park for our wedding. The venue itself is absolutely stunning – full of charm, character, and surrounded by beautiful natural scenery. One of the biggest highlights for us was the amount of space available. We were able to accommodate all our guests comfortably, with plenty of rooms in the house and additional space for camping, which made it feel like a relaxed, extended celebration with everyone we love.
We also chose to use the ‘Helping Hands’ team, and we’re so glad we did. They were truly fantastic – warm, professional, and incredibly helpful throughout the whole weekend. Their support meant everything ran seamlessly, and it really allowed us to enjoy our day without stress.
We honestly couldn’t recommend Colehayes Park more. It gave us the freedom to create the wedding we wanted in a breathtaking setting, with the added bonus of such wonderful support from the team. Thank you for making our day so special! -
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Chloe Sent on 12/07/2025DIY Wedding Perfection
The whole Colehayes team have been brillaint. If you are going for a DIY wedding, this is the perfect place as you have the freedom to do what you want but plenty is supplied by the venue too like crockery, fairylights, accommodation for your guests, optional Helping Hands Team (who were fantastic help on the big day!) and more! Colehayes Park is beautiful and really was a dream to have as our wedding venue. -
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Mair Sent on 17/05/2025The most incredible Wedding weekend
The first viewing with Rebecca back in July 2023 was fab. We instantly felt it was relaxed and we wouldn't be micromanaged on our day. For the majority of questions, the answer was yes which was just great. We felt we could completely relax over the weekend and all our guests then treated the house as a big Air B and B and got stuck in with setting up, tidying up and helping themselves to food.
The booking process was easy because we could look on the website for the available dates and the transparency of cost (so many other venues have additional, hidden costs) made it so easy to think about our budget and how it would fit in. We also really wanted somewhere where the majority of our guests could stay on site and it not be a huge additional chunk of money and we wanted a get together on Sunday- again without additional fees. Colehayes just ticked every single one of our boxes
The information being sent through was brilliant because we weren't bombarded with it all in one email. It was all in manageable chunks and it was clear what information was needed from us and when. It was lovely to touch base throughout the process to give us the opportunity to ask questions and not feel we were hassling you.
The house and grounds...just absolutely stunning. It was lovely to see the gardens in bloom- seeing the wisteria from our room was beautiful. The path to the lake was beautiful where we went to do our first look. Nick got a great photo of us surrounded by the wild garlic. Our family loved reading about the history of the house in the file upstairs and it's lovely how you've kept the old features of the house. Everything was lovely. The rooms were lovely and bright, the bathrooms were great and everyone said how they didn't need to wait at all for showers and didn't care that they were shared. Mum also said the cottage was beautiful and we would definitely stay there again as a family!
The whole weekend just felt smooth and relaxed which was exactly what we were hoping for. -
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Lewis Sent on 12/10/2024Awesome Wedding Venue
We had our wedding at Colehayes Park and would wholeheartedly recommend anyone else do the same! It's a beautiful venue set in gorgeous grounds, and the flexibility they offer allowed us to design the wedding exactly our way - from a quiet Friday dinner, to Saturday morning lake swim, a wonderful ceremony next to the cork tree; ending with a live band, then DJ set in the Rave Cave.
The whole team were easy to deal with, very professional, accommodating and pleasant - both in the build-up to the weekend, and also on the day when we used some of their staff to help with the dinner and bar service.
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Gemma Sent on 07/08/2024The very best wedding venue around
I truly don't know how to thank the Colehayes staff enough, we had the wedding of our dreams at the end of June, and the whole process was outstanding. We found Colehayes online and instantly fell in love with the DIY vibe. Rebecca took us on a tour of the house and grounds, and I think it's safe to say after 10 minutes of that tour we were sold. Rebecca was laid back, answered every single question with complete honesty, and clearly loves hosting events at her beautiful property! After booking, the support from Ellice and Briony was second to none. Every email was responded to quickly, every question answered, and made my life as easy as possible. They were happy for us to visit on numerous occasions, and gave us such freedom to make the venue our own for the weekend. It really did feel like our home, and there are no other wedding venues I have been to that can offer this.
From a logistical point of view, Colehayes is second to none. When asking other venues about furniture/crockery/cutlery/rooms etc, everything was at an extra cost. Not Colehayes! All of the chairs and tables we could need, all the crockery and cutlery, the decorations room in the basement is HEAVEN (I love that everyone who previously held an event at Colehayes leaves some decorations for future weddings/parties, it has such a community vibe).
Once it got to the big weekend, we were welcomed in with open arms on Friday, Briony ensured to meet us, and the helping hands staff ran through the wedding day to ensure it would run as smoothly as possible. The whole house was immaculate, the rooms cosy and plentiful!! The gardens simply didn't need decorating, you can see how much work the grounds keepers put into them, it's just beautiful. There's plenty of parking, super easy to order your food delivery right to the door, and so much storage/fridges so you don't have to scramble for space.
So, to the day of the wedding. Perfect in every single way. The venue was flawless, the helping hands staff were kind, efficient, polite, everything you could ask for! We did not want a serious, soulless day, and we loved that the staff all had such a great sense of humour, laughing with our guests and helping create the atmosphere we wanted. The whole day ran seamlessly, I just didn't need to feel like I was checking on anything or worried about timings, because they were so well organised.
We also loved that our friends and family could all stay in the house with us, so once the party was over in the marquee, we could go down to the rave cave and keep the party going as late as we wanted! And it went LATE.
On a side note, four of our suppliers were Colehayes recommended suppliers.
Caterers - Dan's American Kitchen and my goodness do not miss out on Dan's catering. He made up the entire menu with us and was so passionate (he catered for us on both Saturday and Sunday and the guests could not stop raving about his food!). I can see why he his a recommended supplier!
Photographer - Warren and Howell Jones Photography. Again, I cannot shout loudly enough about this man. We do not love posing, and Warren captured the most beautiful, natural, candid photos of everyone. He joined us at 10am, and didn't leave us until we were down in the rave cave, late into the night. I have NEVER known a photographer like him!
Marquee - Really Good Marquees, the name says it all. Impeccable service, amazing quality marquee, and left it for the WHOLE weekend for us, just ideal!
Hair stylist - Brigitte Fisher. I wanted mermaid locks with plaits and flowers, and she truly gave me the hair I have dreamt of since I was a little girl. Brigitte was so kind, kept me calm, and gave all my bridesmaids the perfect styles personalised to them.
Colehayes clearly care about who they recommend, as the standard of suppliers was out of this world.
I could keep going for an age, but all I can really say is Colehayes were the very best venue, and gave us the dreamiest wedding. We are so, so grateful. Thank you
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Georgia Sent on 04/07/2024
If you are wanting a DIY Wedding venue, look no further!
Colehayes was the perfect venue for our wedding day/weekend. We knew from the begginging a 1 day venue wasn’t enough for our friends and family who would be travelling from the southern hemisphere.
Having exclusive use of the house and grounds all weekend was brilliant and all ours guest loved being able to make themselves at home, pour their own pints and even enjoyed being given a job or two to make sure the wedding day was perfect!
The entire team are just the loveliest bunch to work with throughout the whole experience from initial booking and viewing through to checkout! The incredible helping hands team also need a special shout out for making sure the BIG day went off without a hitch!
We can’t thank you all enough and can’t wait to visit again soon!
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Calum Sent on 31/10/2023
Perfect DIY Wedding venue
Perfect venue for your DIY Wedding. The location is stunning and well cared for. The staff have been extremely helpful throughout the whole process and we would recommend Colehayes in heartbeat. They helped make our wedding the amazing day that it was. -
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