07:00First light
The house is quiet. Flowers arrive at the back door and coffee goes up to the Bridal Suite.
A country house & threshing barn in the Cotswolds · Exclusively yours
One wedding a day.
The whole estate is yours.
Weddings, long weekends and unhurried celebrations at a 1702 manor, a 1786 barn and a walled garden, two hours from London.
seated in the Hayloft
manor 1702
sleep on the estate
winter · peak £11,500
N° 01 — Exclusive use
A house for gathering, held only for you.
Wrenfield is less a venue than a small world of its own: a Queen Anne manor, a threshing barn built in 1786, an acre of walled garden and an orchard of forty old apple trees, all at the end of one lane in the Gloucestershire hills.
From the first supper on Friday to the last unhurried breakfast, the estate is yours. No second wedding, no rigid schedule and nobody waiting at the gate for your room.
N° 02 — The day, hour by hour
A wedding here is sixteen hours, not four.
09:30Getting ready
Hair and make-up in the north light of the dressing room; the groom’s party takes over the Old Dairy.
14:00The vows
Guests walk the lawn aisle of the Walled Garden. Strings under the old pear.
15:30Drinks in the orchard
Cider bar, lawn games and canapés from our kitchen while the Hayloft is turned for dinner.
18:00The wedding breakfast
Long tables under the 1786 trusses. Speeches as the doors open to the evening.
20:42Golden hour
Ten minutes on the terrace with a glass, while the valley turns gold.
23:30Sparklers
The last song, the long walk out through the orchard and the house waiting for you.
N° 03 — The spaces
Seven places to marry, eat, dance and get ready.
N° 04 — Walk the estate
Seven spaces, one gate.
Every part of the day has its own room, and none of them needs a minibus. Tap a space, then pick a season to see how it changes.
Built to thresh wheat, kept for long dinners.
The Ashby family’s great-great-grandparents built the Hayloft for the harvest. We kept the king-post trusses, the threshing doors and the flagstone apron, then quietly added heating, a proper bar and lighting hidden in the beams.
Seated
160 at long tables
Evening
200 with the doors open
Floor
Sprung oak, 32 × 9 m
Curfew
Music until midnight
Chapter one
The ceremony.
The aisle runs between double borders to a stone seat under the old pear. If it rains, we move everything to the Hayloft in twenty minutes.
Chapter two
Drinks in the orchard.
Lawn games, a cider bar and the first round of canapés under forty old apple trees, while the Hayloft is set for dinner.
Chapter three
The wedding breakfast.
Long tables under the 1786 trusses, toasts as the light goes gold and a menu from our own kitchen garden.
Chapter four
The evening.
The far end of the barn clears for the band, the Cider House fires up the pizza oven and the night ends with sparklers through the orchard.
N° 05 — Dinner from our own kitchen
No outside caterer, no surprises.
Our kitchen cooks every wedding at Wrenfield, from the walled garden and farms within twenty miles. Choose a long table or a plated dinner; both come with a tasting for two.
£125
Long table
per guest, with wine and fizz
From the walled garden
Heritage tomatoes, burrata, lovage oil
To share
Slow-roasted in the bread oven
Cotswold lamb shoulder, salsa verde
Main
From the orchard
Roasted squash, brown butter, sage
Side
Baked that morning
Sourdough and whipped honey butter
Every table
From the pastry kitchen
Apple and frangipane tart, clotted cream
Pudding
£155
Plated dinner
per guest, with the full bar
From the dairy up the lane
Whipped ricotta, beetroot, hazelnut
First course
Line-caught off Cornwall
Hake, mussels, cider and leek
Main
Or from the estate
Venison loin, celeriac, blackberry
Main
From the pastry kitchen
Burnt honey custard, poached pear
Pudding
At midnight
Wood-fired pizza for the dance floor, £14 a guest
Late
N° 06 — Through the year
A year at Wrenfield, from frost to blossom.
Every season changes the light, the menu and the price. The orchard flowered on 24 April this year; the last open Saturday of 2027 is going fast.
FebCandlelight
Fires lit, the barn stove going and our lowest prices of the year.
AprBlossom
The orchard flowers for about ten days. These Saturdays book first.
JunLong evenings
Sunset after nine, so dinner on the terrace ends in daylight.
AugHarvest
Wheat in the valley, the walled garden at its fullest.
OctCopper beech
The avenue turns for two weeks in mid-October.
DecFirst frost
Wreaths on the barn doors and mulled cider in the yard.
N° 07 — Ways to marry here
Clear prices, in daylight.
Weekday & small
From £3,900
Monday to Thursday, up to 40 guests
The Old Dairy or the Long Drawing Room, a long dinner and the Cider House after. Our most intimate wedding.
— Ceremony and dinner on one day
— Up to 40 guests
— Coordinator for the day
The wedding day
From £7,200
Winter Saturdays · peak £11,500
Exclusive use from noon the day before to 11am the day after, every space, and the whole team behind you.
— All seven spaces
— Tables, chairs and linen for 160
— Bridal Suite the night before
The weekend
From £18,500
Friday to Sunday, up to 160
Welcome supper on Friday, the wedding on Saturday and a long breakfast in the walled garden on Sunday.
— Three days, 25 guests sleep here
— Friday supper in the Cider House
— Sunday breakfast in the garden
N° 08 — Held here
Four weddings from this past year.
★★★★★ from 214 couples
N° 09 — Kind words
In their words, not ours.
From the first viewing to the last song, it felt like the whole estate had been waiting for us. Nobody ever rushed us out of a room.
Hattie & Tom
June 2025
It rained for exactly one hour and nobody noticed. The team moved the drinks into the Cider House before we’d finished the photos.
Priya & Daniel
September 2025
A winter wedding by the fire was everything we hoped. The food was the best wedding food any of our guests had eaten.
Elena & Marcus
December 2025
N° 10 — Notes from the estate
Stories worth staying for.
Planning
5 min read
How we plan a rain day (and why we call it at noon)
Every outdoor part of the day has a roofed twin a short walk away. Here is how the switch works.
Real weddings
4 min read
A late-summer wedding in the walled garden
Garden vows, a long supper and sparklers under the pears.
Pricing
6 min read
What a winter wedding at Wrenfield costs
Real numbers for a December Saturday for 70 guests, line by line.
Most 2027 Saturdays are already spoken for
Check your date.
Tell us yours and we will hold it for seven days while you come and walk the grounds.