Wedding Photography at Pendley Manor, Tring

Pendley Manor is a country house hotel on Cow Lane, Tring, in 35 acres of landscaped and wooded parkland (contact page). The present house was planned in 1872 as a neo-Jacobean manor, the Harcourt Ballroom was added in 1991, and the newest space, the Rose Garden Grand Suite, takes 150 to 600 guests. The venue has dedicated pages for Asian weddings and describes its hand-carved staircase as a licensed setting for the signature photograph.

Our studio is at 21 Joel St, Northwood Hills HA6 1NU, photographing weddings since 2001 and rated 4.8 out of 5 from 580+ Google reviews. We are glad to photograph at Pendley Manor, and coverage starts from £750. Pendley publishes its rooms and its approach in detail, but not its prices, so the cost section below is short.

What a Pendley Manor wedding costs: ask for the brochure

Pendley Manor does not publish wedding prices on its web pages. Its weddings page links to a packages document and invites couples to tailor an individual package, and the Asian weddings page links a separate Asian weddings brochure and a preferred caterers list. Those documents were not publicly readable when this guide was prepared, so ask the weddings team (weddings@pendley-manor.co.uk) to send the current brochure and price list for your year and day.

Points to cover when you ask: the hire fee for the Rose Garden Grand Suite against the Harcourt Ballroom, whether exclusive use (all 84 bedrooms) is required on Saturdays, minimum guest numbers, whether outside Asian caterers pay a kitchen or corkage fee, and the deposit and payment schedule.

Ceremonies at Pendley Manor, from the staircase to the Grand Suite

The weddings page offers intimate ceremonies on the historic staircase and grand receptions in the Rose Garden Grand Suite, and lists ceremony capacities for its rooms: the Harcourt Ballroom 200, the Oak Room 80, the Verney Room 50 and the Acorn Room 50. In the Oak Room, guests see the couple make their vows against the lawns and woodland outside. The page's sample day puts the ceremony at 2pm; confirm the time with the registrars for your date.

For Asian weddings, the Asian weddings page describes the Rose Garden Grand Suite as a dedicated Asian wedding and event space for 150 to 600 guests, and walks through the engagement, the Haldi, Mehendi and Sangeet, the Baraat and the ceremony. The traditional Asian wedding page offers a grand entrance with "a regal horse or luxury car", vows under a mandap or ceremonial stage, dhol players, and Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Middle Eastern dishes. What it does not publish is where a fire may be lit, so confirm whether the pheras can take place inside the Grand Suite or the Ballroom, and the route a baraat takes up the drive.

The venue also arranges transfers for couples who marry at a nearby church before the reception (western weddings page).

Getting ready in the Bridal Suite

The weddings page describes the morning as breakfast at the hotel followed by getting ready "with your entourage in our beautiful Bridal Suite". With 84 bedrooms, there is room for a second party to prepare separately; with exclusive use every bedroom is yours. The page's sample day puts Bridal Suite preparations at 1pm, after a 10am breakfast; which room is the Bridal Suite is not published, so ask.

The day as Pendley Manor describes it

An outline for planning, not a schedule. Times are shown only where the venue publishes them; everything else is a stage to time with you and confirm with the venue.

Penda's lea, the Verneys and the 1872 manor

The venue's history page traces Pendley back 2,000 years and to the Domesday Book, and says the name comes from Penda, an Anglo-Saxon king, and the lea or woods. After the Norman Conquest the land passed to Robert, Count of Mortain; in the early 1400s it became a 200-acre hunting ground, then passed to the Verney family for 150 years. The older manor, east of today's house, burned down in 1835, and by 1872 plans were drawn for a neo-Jacobean manor for Joseph Grout Williams, whose family lived there until the late 1940s. Members of the Women's Land Army trained there during the war, and Dorian Williams founded the Pendley Shakespeare Festival in the gardens in 1949. The Harcourt Ballroom followed in 1991, the pool and spa in 2001 and a refurbishment in 2020.

Parking at Pendley Manor for wedding guests

The Asian weddings page gives car parking for up to 500 vehicles alongside the Rose Garden Grand Suite. Charges, overnight rules and coach access are not published, so ask before you send directions to guests.

Pendley Manor wedding photography, frequently asked questions

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• Ashridge House, Berkhamsted
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• The Grove, Chandler's Cross
• Hunton Park, Kings Langley

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The photographer is Kaushik Bathia, a fellow of the BIPP and the MPA with five European Kodak Gold Awards and over a thousand weddings photographed since 2001.