Wedding Venue Scotland
| At Castle Venlaw we can host both civil and religious weddings. Whether your marriage is to be civil or religious you still need to contact the registrar as he is responsible for all the paperwork. If you have a religious wedding we will prepare the marriage schedule for signing and you will collect it from him and return it signed after the wedding. Many of our prospective bride and grooms come to us asking for the ceremony venue to take place in the hotel but we will always suggest you consider being married outwith the hotel. The reason for this is that we believe a ceremony in the hotel lacks some sense of occasion. When you and your guests are all dressed up it is special for the bride to go out to her wedding then to return, with her new husband, to the reception venue. The decision however is left entirely to the bride and groom. Peebles Registry Office Many brides and grooms tell us they do not want a registry office wedding. This is usually because they have an impression that the registry office venue will be housed in an unpleasant civic building, will have stark "council type" furniture, the registrar will be rushing the wedding through complete with his plastic carnation and that you will have to queue outside the office and wait your turn. That's not what happens in Peebles! The registry office in Peebles is set in the most historic part of the town in the old quadrangle off the High Street. It is quiet, peaceful and free from cars. The venue in which you will be married is a beautiful oak panelled room and the antique furniture matches the walls. You will not be in a queue or "processed". The office, I think, married only around 200 couples in the whole of last year. The registrar Kenny Howatt is a great chap and he will make your wedding special. If he has more than one wedding on the same day he will not allow them to be so close together that you meet each other at the door! |
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Local Churches
You can be married either in the Leckie Memorial Church of Scotland, or St Peters Episcopalian Church (the Episcopalian church is very similar to the Church of England). Both churches are fairly small, very friendly and are lovely venues to be married. Don't be put off if you are only having a small wedding as both churches are quite intimate. The ministers in both churches are friendly and will help make your day a great success. Arrangements can also be made for weddings at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.
Our local ministers will not normally marry people unless in the Church buildings. If you wish to be married in the hotel we use the services of a retired minister. Alternatively it is possible to arrange a civil ceremony in the hotel. The ceremony is normally in the hotel but, if the weather is nice, we move the venue outside if you prefer. With the un-predictable British weather it is not safe to plan an outside wedding without a fall back plan.
