The Winter Gardens

Where the band plays The Winter Gardens is less a single room than a whole complex of them, and which one you end up in shapes the whole feel of your day. The Baronial Hall, with its gothic stonework and timbered ceiling, gives you something closer to a great hall than a hotel function room; the Empress Ballroom, all elegant plasterwork and scale, is built for a genuinely grand evening party; and the famous Spanish Hall, with its painted Moorish courtyard scenes, is one of the most distinctive backdrops any wedding band will ever play in front of. Because this is a large, professionally run venue with its own in-house events team, load-in is well organised - confirm which hall you're in and your access point well ahead of the day, since different rooms within the complex have different entrances and load-in routes. Whichever space you choose, these rooms were built for exactly this kind of occasion, so acoustics and stage space are rarely a problem. How the day flows Ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening reception can all be held within the Winter Gardens complex, moving guests from one striking room to the next rather than keeping everyone in a single space all day - a Baronial Hall ceremony followed by a reception in the Empress Ballroom, for instance, gives guests a real sense of occasion as the day progresses. The scale of the building means it comfortably handles anything from a smaller family wedding to a large celebration without ever feeling either empty or cramped, and the in-house catering and events team take care of the logistics of moving a big day between rooms. Evenings in the Empress Ballroom in particular are built for dancing - it's a room with a long history of exactly that - so your band gets a proper stage and a floor that fills easily once the formalities are done.