I don’t even know where to start. From the moment myself and my now husband walked into The Den 18 months before our wedding, we fell completely in love with it. The space is perfect with a beautiful intimate ceremony room, byre, courtyard and then of course the massive bar and ceilidh space! The venue was exactly what we were looking for.
In the run up to the wedding The Den were so easy to deal with and always on hand to answer any questions. We visited a couple of times ourselves and with parents which was lovely. Audrey and John clearly care so much about their venue and making sure it is perfect for all their couples. There were quite a few details that were important to us but nothing was too much trouble.
Interestingly, my makeup artist actually commented on the morning of the wedding that she loves coming to The Den because at most other venues the bride gets bothered a lot with lots of troubleshooting questions the morning of the wedding. But at The Den they just deal with it! I had the most relaxed morning.
Our coordinator for the day, Jan, deserves a whole paragraph of her own. On the day everything ran flawlessly and that is absolutely thanks to her. From herding our guests, some cheeky jokes, toilet break reminders (this was so helpful), fetching my veil for impromptu photos or my dancing shoes - we cannot thank you enough.
Photo opportunities are in abundance at such a gorgeous venue, the ceremony room, the byre, the brickwork, fields and fairy lights (the list is endless). Everything is so aesthetic that we were never more than a 2 minute walk away from our guests to get photos. The fact that there is space for both the bride and groom to get ready separately (in the cottage and grooms room) took away so much stress of travelling and meant we both got “getting ready photos” despite having 1 photographer.
Having the bar area was one of the things that really sealed the deal for us. It is such a perfect space, we had some older guests at the wedding that at most other events have taken themselves to a quieter area. As the band is quite far from the bar, although you can definitely still hear and see all the dancing, all our guests stayed in the same room the whole night which was perfect!
And we have to mention that dance floor! The Den team moved 5 of our tables (I have no idea when… we didn’t even notice it was so seamless!). We wanted a big ceilidh and that’s exactly what we got. None of the other venues we visited had even close to the dancing space, it was perfect!
On clear up day everything had been sorted for us into one area so it was as simple as picking up our things and putting it in the car which was perfect in our delicate state. We have to give a massive thank you to everyone behind the scenes who made that happen.
We honestly will never forget The Den and could never express how grateful we are to have had the most special day of our lives at your venue.
In case it is not clear from all of that, yes we would absolutely recommend!