Ideas and Advice
We are reassuringly on hand through the planning stages of your wedding, on set up day and through your wedding day for as much or as little as you wish us to be!
To help your initial planning please find some example timings below
Ceremony
1pm Guests arrive and park at Abbey Farm. Guests can walk or drive if service at the Church.
2pm Service at St Leonard’s, Kirkstead. Or on site ceremony
Reception
3.00pm Photos & Reception Drinks served in The Orchard, The Courtyard or Stone Barn Bar. Champagne and canapés in the gardens or Mulled wine next to the Log burner in the under floor heated Oak Barn or Old Granary Barn
4.15pm Seated for wedding breakfast in The Oak Barn or Old Granary Barn
4.30pm Wedding Breakfast followed by Speeches and toast to the new Mr & Mrs
7pm Evening Guests arrive
8pm Cake Cutting, followed by First Dance
9pm Evening food then dancing, dancing, dancing!
12 Midnight Evening draws to a close
For inspiration by season, please see our Gallery showing some of the previous set ups and styling throughout the year
Please see our Directory Suppliers page for further details of all the lovely people we have worked with and can highly recommend.
Abbey Farm Weddings map
To go along with your wedding invitations, we have produced this map to aid your visitors and hopefully look lovely too! Why not print out in A5 size to go along with your invitations?
"Abbey Farm Weddings was simply the best wedding venue ever! I can not recommend this venue enough to…"
"Our day was the best day we could have asked for. Jo & Millie were amazing, the staff on the day were…"
"If we had our day again we would choose Abbey Farm a million times over. The venue itself is just everything…"
"Your hard work, patience, generosity, creativity and humour allowed us to design and hold the day of…"
"Jo, Millie and the team were just incredible from the minute we viewed the venue 2 years ago, to the…"
"Words cannot describe how perfect Abbey Farm is as a wedding venue. This is the only venue we viewed…"
" From the first moment we saw the venue we fell in love. I think my now husband could tell straight away…"
"Thank you! A huge thankyou for providing us with the most magical wedding day. The whole venue was…"
"If we had our day again we would choose Abbey Farm a million times over. The venue itself is just everything…"
"A quick note to say the BIGGEST thank you for the weekend. It honestly was the best day of my life. I…"
"Just a message to say the biggest thank you for making our day absolutely perfect! It really was the…"
"We got engaged in Nov 21 and Abbey Farm was the first venue we looked at and just knew it was the perfect…"