April Showers

The gardens at Sutton Bonington Hall have been throughly enjoying the rain we have been having this April, although it definitely makes Will's, our gardener's, job a lot harder!

This last weekend we were delighted to host the wedding reception for Louise and Steve.  Fortunately they were able to dodge the showers and even had photos taken in the garden.

On Sunday Deana and Jim celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary at Sutton Bonington Hall. They invited 50 of their closest friends and family to attend, and they all struggled through the rain to reach us.  It was raining so much we lit the log fires in the Library and Drawing Room so the Hall was warm and welcoming.

Weddings in March

We were honoured to host the weddings and/or wedding receptions of five lovely couples in March 2012.  Each wedding being very different, but all starting out married life together with hopefully lots of happy memories of their special day.

Early in March we welcomed Eamonn & Claire to the Hall, after the ceremony in the Drawing Room they were able to head into the gardens for canapes and photographs by FirstHand Photography.  We were delighted when Peggy informed us that our cups of tea were to her liking!

Throughout March we have seen some fantastic creativity from our brides, one of our brides, Ruth, had even taken the time to make paper flowers for her bouquets and the table centres.

We always enjoy seeing the various themes and colour schemes, including The Beatles, Fondant Fancies and a lovely springtime yellow wedding.

We were delighted to work with Martin Neeves for the first time at Sutton Bonington Hall, and we love to see as few of the photos he took at Valerie and Richard's wedding on his blog

Our chef Neil also served our new assiette of desserts for the first time in 2012 for Ian and Vicky's wedding. 

Assiette of desserts:

Classic ‘strawberries & cream’ shortbread

 Dark chocolate torte

Lemon & blueberry posset

Who could resist!!!!!

Mother's Day Lunch

We welcomed 7 families to Sutton Bonington Hall for Mother's Day Lunch.  We were delighted to see past brides and grooms return to the Hall with their families, and in one case as new parents bringing their son to their wedding venue for the first time.

The adults enjoyed a three course meal seated in the conservatory.  The most popular meal our guests chose is below - a delicious Sunday Lunch -

Warm goats cheese with a hazelnut crust, beetroot salad

Roast sirloin of Beef, béarnaise sauce, Yorkshire puddings with roast potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Sticky Toffee Pudding with vanilla ice cream

The children enjoyed chicken goujons followed by ice cream, then in between the rain showers let off steam running around the gardens.

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