Winter Wedding Venue in Hertfordshire & Cambridge

What could be more magical than a winter wedding day! With twinkling fairy lights, warming mulled drinks, glistening frosts and beautiful sunsets our winter wedding venue in Hertfordshire is the perfect setting to celebrate your wedding day at the most wonderful time of the year. Our beautiful barns and pretty country farmhouse offer a varied choice of indoor spaces all brimming with beautiful, rustic charm.  It’s a magical setting for a perfect winter wedding!

Outdoor garden Wedding Ceremony at South Farm,
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Wedding Couple in Herb Garden Cambridgeshire Farm Wedding
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Barn Wedding Venue set for meal
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Bride and Groom on wedding day hold hands in field of corn
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Summer Garden at South Farm
Photo by Photography by Bea

Our winter wedding venuein the winter

A Winter wedding is truly magical. Our beautiful barns and pretty country farmhouse offer a whole host of stunning indoor spaces for your Winter wedding celebration. With twinkling fairy lights, cosy log fire, flickering candles and warming drinks, Winter is the perfect time to celebrate your unique & memorable wedding day.

Our indoor spaces are warm and cosy and our stunning gardens are full of russet colour and evergreen foliage. Winter brings stunning sunsets and a golden hour glow perfect for amazing wedding photos. It’s the most beautiful backdrop for the Winter wonderland wedding of your dreams. Come and see us – we’d love to show you around!

Much more...What’s included in our Winter Wedding venue hire?

Exclusively yours

Our stunning rustic winter wedding venue is the perfect setting for a wonderful Winter wedding day. Our beautiful barn wedding venue and charming country farmhouse are set in twenty stunning acres of secluded countryside, all bursting with unique charm. Our entire wedding venue is exclusively reserved for you to celebrate the Winter wedding of your dreams with your loved ones!

Charming spaces

Take your pick from our four unique and charming indoor ceremony spaces. Choose from the historic Horse Barn, the beautiful Old Dairy, the charming Drawing Room and the grand Tudor Barn. All offer the perfect mix of countryside elegance and charm. Cosy up in our Winter wedding venue to celebrate your day and enjoy the warmest of welcomes!

Sweet dreams

You and your guests will have sweet wedding dreams in our boutique style guest accommodation exclusively reserved for you at our wedding venue in Hertfordshire. There’s a stunning suite for the newly-weds, a choice of luxurious guest bedrooms and a colourful collection of charming Romany Wagons. All warm, cosy and beautifully styled and all ready for your winter wedding!

Home-grown food

Our wedding menus feature delicious, home-grown, produce from our very own organic small-holding here at our countryside wedding venue. Choose from our range of sumptuous starters, main courses and desserts or opt for one of our generous and delicious buffet style menus. All our seasonal menus are freshly cooked and expertly served. With menus to suit all tastes, starring home-grown produce you’ll be spoilt for choice!

Perfect planning

Our friendly team are on-hand to make your Winter wedding dreams come true! We will guide you through all the details and answer any questions you may have. You’ll find our expert planning team to be friendly and knowledgeable and ready to help you co-ordinate your dream winter wedding meaning everything will go perfectly to plan on your special day. On the big day itself we will be there to support, calm and organise behind the scenes ensuring your perfect Winter wedding day is just that – perfect!

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Something unique

There’s nothing quite like a Winter wedding and we’ve so many unique features to enjoy! From our wonderful spaces to amazing food. Take your pick, indoors and out for perfect photos – our Winter garden with stunning willow arches and beautiful birch trees, pretty ponds with rustic reeds and our stunning cosy barns. Guests will love seeing our rare-breed sheep and piglets who reside happily in our paddocks. Twinkling fairy lights and festive decorations at Christmas set the scene for a Winter wedding, and there is always magic in the air!

Take a Look

Our wonderful rustic winter wedding venue is the perfect setting for your Winter wedding day. You’ll find us to be secluded and unique offering complete privacy for your special day. Use our beautifully rustic barn buildings, pretty farmhouse and stunning grounds to create the perfect backdrop for your dream Winter wedding day. Add finishing decorative touches to compliment your colour scheme – we’ve got everything else covered. From a stunning setting to perfect wedding day planning, excellent catering and exacting service, we are friendly and flexible. Enjoy our video tour to get just a small taste of what our environmentally friendly wedding venue is all about. Or better still come and visit us in person!

  • Exclusive use, family run winter wedding venue
  • Twenty acres of charming spaces, indoor and out
  • Home-grown food from our organic small-holding
  • Beautiful accommodation for you and your guests
  • Sustainable values at the heart of all we do
  • Extensive list of local, recommended suppliers

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Uniquely yoursWinter wedding ceremonies we offer

Bursting with romantic charm, our wonderful garden wedding venue Cambridgeshire is the most magical setting for your Winter wedding day. Take your pick from our four licensed indoor ceremony options for the perfect setting to say ‘I-do’. With choices for smaller ceremonies, larger celebrations, and everything in between, our ceremony spaces, are all uniquely beautiful and ready for you to fall in love with!

Choose The Drawing Room set in the country farmhouse for an intimate ceremony for up to 35 guests. A roaring fire will great your guests and give them the perfect warming welcome. The grand Tudor Barn with stunning Elm beams and twinkling fairy lights and soft drapes is the perfect setting for larger ceremonies of up to 180 or cosy up for a special ceremony in The historic Horse Barn for 65 guests. Or opt to say your vows in the the light-filled Old Dairy with stunning black beams, greenery, fairy-lights and views over the paddocks for up to 100.

Whichever you choose, at our wonderful Winter wedding venue you will celebrate your marriage in total privacy with your loved ones.

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Came for a visit as a prospective venue. We didn’t go with them In the end but it’s worth noting how 1. Amazing and photogenic the venue is. And 2. How professional and simple the process was made for us. Definitely give them a visit!
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This place is absolutely dreamy !! Our wedding at South Farm was nothing short of magical. The venue’s gardens are breathtaking, with beautifully manicured lawns, vibrant flowers, and enchanting pathways that provided the perfect backdrop for our special day. The staff at South Farm went above and beyond to ensure everything ran smoothly. Their attention to detail, professionalism, and genuine care for our happiness made us feel so special and relaxed. Every aspect of the venue is meticulously maintained and exudes elegance and charm. Our guests couldn’t stop raving about the picturesque setting, fantastic food and the seamless flow of the day. We truly had the best wedding experience ever, and we owe it all to South Farm. If you’re looking for a place that combines natural beauty with impeccable service, look no further. We highly recommend this venue to any couple dreaming of a perfect wedding day !!!
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Kathryn Anne Nolan
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From our initial enquiry, first visit, menu tasting, the wedding, and all the way through to post wedding communication, South Farm were exceptional! Their hospitality and customer service were undeniably the best we’ve ever experienced. Our wedding was the best day of our lives. It was so good that we have even received thank you cards and messages from our guests for an incredible day and memories that will last a lifetime. It was perfect. All of the team are outstanding but a special thank you goes to Evie, our wedding day event manager. She made our day seamless. This venue is award winning for a reason. The venue is beautiful, the food is mouth-wateringly delicious and the hospitality is first class. We can’t express our gratitude nearly enough. It was the best day ever! Thank you South Farm. Kathryn & Toby Willmott
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Alex Crowley
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We strongly recommend South Farm - we fell in love with it the first day we visited, and we honestly could not have chosen a better venue in which to celebrate our big day. The staff were absolute heroes, the food was unbelievably delicious and the entire day went by flawlessly.
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Helen Rendell
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South Farm is an amazing venue. The staff were fantastic and so accommodating. The food was brilliant, accommodation excellent and the buildings and grounds are beautiful. We knew on our first visit that it was where we wanted to get married - we didn’t even look anywhere else!
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Attended a wedding - everything went extremely well. Great venue, very good staff and wonderful food and drink.
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An absolutely fabulous wedding venue, they couldn't do enough to make it a perfect day.
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We couldn’t be more full of gratitude and appreciation to South Farm for hosting our perfect wedding day a year ago today on 28th May 2023. All the staff were absolutely incredible and hugely supportive throughout the entire process. From our first visit, to the food tasting evening and right through to our wedding breakfast, they went above and beyond to make our day truly special and uniquely ours. Hayley was our wedding planner on the day and she was exceptional. From reassuring us, making sure everything ran seamlessly and letting the day flow naturally, she made us feel relaxed and present in the moment which enabled us to just enjoy ourselves! We have had so many compliments from our guests on what a fantastic time they had, how beautiful the venue and gardens were, and how delicious the food was. South Farm is a truly magical venue and it created a stunning backdrop for our day of love and celebration! We couldn’t have asked for anything more and couldn’t be happier. We just wish we could do it all over again! Thank you so much South Farm for making our day so special and memorable! Lizzie and Sam D 28.05.23

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A South Farm wedding is all about you. Our small intimate wedding venue in Hertfordshire is the perfect setting for a Winter wedding and our gorgeous barns and farmhouse are all set in glorious countryside offering a stunning backdrop for your dream day. Take a look at our gallery for Winter wedding inspiration. If you are looking for a unique wedding day that is tailored perfectly to you then look no further –  you bring your very own sense of style and we will do the rest. Add twinkly fairy-lights, warming drinks, evening sparklers and tapered candle light. It’s a recipe for the most magical wedding day you could possibly dream of!

Questions?Need to know...

There’s so much to consider when it comes to choosing a winter wedding venue and planning your special day. We’ve been hosting weddings in our countryside wedding venue since 2005 so we’ve put together a handy list of FAQ’s to help answer some of the questions you may have. If you are interested in holding your wedding at South Farm and have any questions about our civil wedding venue or your big day then please get in touch – we’d love to talk weddings with you!

What does your venue hire include?

Our barn wedding venue in Cambridge hire fee includes exclusive use of South Farm for the duration of your event plus all the extras you need….tables, chairs, crockery, glasses, table linen and all our twinkly fairy lights throughout the venue so you don’t have to worry about hiring additional items in. There are also lots of extras we provide, included in the venue hire, to make your day seamless and unique, sound systems in all our ceremony spaces, microphones for speeches and even bio-degradable South Farm rose petal confetti! You will have a dedicated, experienced Event Manager and a friendly and professional Front of House team on hand to look after you, your guests, your suppliers and all the little details so that you can relax and just enjoy your day!

Do you offer a Menu Tasting?

When you book with us on a bespoke basis you are invited to a complimentary Menu Tasting evening held the Winter before your wedding. At the Tasting you get to sample a selection of our delicious Canapes, and you are also served eight tasting starters, eight tasting mains and eight tasting desserts, as well as having the opportunity to sample some delicious options from our Fusion and Buffet menus too. A lot of our Couples have said that the tasting evening got them even more excited for their wedding day! It will also give you a really great experience of our service in action and of course the opportunity to try lots of delicious food to try and decide on what you want to serve your guests for your big day! You’ll also get the opportunity to try a selection of wines from our wine list and to buy any bottles at half the price too! Menu tastings are not offered as part of our Packages.

We have some guests with dietary requirements, can you cater for them?

Yes of course! Our chefs can adapt your menu to suit your guests with dietary requirements or offer an alternative option. We ask for details of all guests with dietary requirements in advance of your wedding day so that we can make sure they are properly catered for. It must be noted however that we are not a nut free kitchen, and so our kitchen at our Hertfordshire wedding venue will contain traces of nuts at all times.

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