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Last update: August 2025
Smeetham Hall Barn is a family run, privately owned, 16th century wedding venue just outside of Sudbury Suffolk on the Suffolk/Essex boarder.
Victoria and Sophie will be your main contacts from the moment you first step into the barn until after your wedding, we are a small team here and proud of it! Tom is always around too, he has been running the bar for over 10 years now and now often in the garden pruning the roses!
You have access to the barn the day before your wedding to set up with as many or as few people as you wish. Our packages are incredibly simple and include everything you need at your wedding from your venue - including your food for a certain number of day guests (80 at a weekend and 50 mid-week.) Our package caterer, Splinters have been with us for 20 years - this is why it works so well!
Our barn is the perfect setting for small intimate weddings to the larger ones, we can accomadate up to 150 guests for the wedding breakfast and up to 200 in the evening. The barn itself has high vaulted ceiling, exposed timber beams, and vintage chandeliers. We have fixed fairy lights on the back wall and around the beams, these are included in the hire price. We also have a marquee which is attached to the barn via a lobby just in case the weather is not kind and the drink's reception needs to be held inside or for winter weddings. It has beautiful panoramic sides out to our courtyard with a covered seated area with festoons.
We are a small team at Smeetham Hall Barn and incredibly proud of it, Victoria and Tom run Smeetham, you will see Victoria during your wedding, in the office or speaking to a supplier while by day Tom is in charge of maintenance and the grounds, by night you will see him running the bar at your wedding. Sophie has been with Smeetham a long time and will be with you every step of the way.
We are a no corkage venue, this means you can bring your own drinks into the venue for the drinks reception and wedding breakfast with no charge from us for serving or opening. This is a huge USP for us!
We do not have accomadation on site, but we have a lot of very good options all within 10 min drive.
We have been hosting weddings for over 25 years now, come and see us so we can have a chance at hosting yours!
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When I am not in the barn (!), you will find me running after our children, making a den or researching our next family adventure.
I have been running the bar for over 10 years here, it still never gets old to see the dance floor packed and everyone having a great time! In my 'spare time' I enjoy long walks with my children, all things fitness & cooking.
Passionate about the outdoors, I enjoy weekly wild swimming and pilates. I always have time for cooking and baking with my girls.
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