Suffolk Wedding Venue

Stunning Wedding Barn

The Grade II Elizabethan barn is central to the wedding venue and will be the hub where guests mingle and celebrate under the vaulted cathedral-like oak beams. Glass doors flood the interior with light and underfloor heating ensures your guests will be comfortable year round. The wedding barn opens on to the lawn, with views across our award-winning vineyard, with a secluded courtyard offering additional entertainment space to the other side, where guests can enjoy the bar, outdoor kitchen, food trucks and relaxed seating areas.

Weddings of all sizes work well in such a flexible space, with clever partitioning and furniture creating entertainment areas for smaller weddings. For larger weddings, the barn seats 180 guests, or can accommodate up to 350 for an evening reception.

November Open House

Join us at our next Open Day on Sunday 3rd November. You’ll have the opportunity to explore Copdock Hall, see our brand new Coach House Reception Bar and Accommodation as well as meet our fabulous team. They’ll be on hand to answer any questions you might have about our stunning vineyard wedding venue.

Let us know you’ll be there by pre-registering your attendance today.

Your Ceremony

Civil ceremonies, civil partnerships and celebrant ceremonies are held in various indoor and outdoor settings at Copdock Hall and we feel we offer more choice than most venues. The Elizabethan barn is a popular choice for indoor wedding ceremonies, with outdoor ceremonies in our rustic open-fronted barn, our small courtyard barn, elegant garden pergola or hidden vineyard wedding venue.

Church of England weddings can be held in the beautiful parish church of St Peter’s which stands proudly above Copdock Hall’s vineyard and can be accessed directly from our carpark and gardens. We’d be pleased to show you around the church and introduce you to the vicar if you are considering a church wedding.

Outdoor Weddings

With the vineyard as a backdrop our elegant wedding pagoda is the perfect setting for a romantic outdoor wedding and the aisle offers a picture-perfect instagram opportunity for a confetti arch after the ceremony.

Local registrars and celebrants carry out outdoor weddings in various locations at Copdock Hall, with the Harvest Barn and Evening Courtyard both offering plenty of shade or shelter for an outdoor ceremony in almost any weather.

Copdock Hall is a dog-friendly wedding venue and we welcome other four-legged friends to the venue too. So, whether you’d like your dog as best man or you’ll be arriving on horseback, we will help you make it happen.

Bride and groom standing in Copdock Hall vineyard on wedding day.

“Copdock Hall made it very easy and stress-free to have our wedding reception with them, and they were able to offer advice on things like timings for the day too. Thank you!”

Georgie Campbell, September 2023

Your Accommodation

The Farmhouse offers luxury accommodation for up to 17 people in 8 ensuite rooms, divided into two sections with separate entrances and stairs to give complete flexibility. The kitchen is at the heart of the Farmhouse and is where your closest family or friends can join you to reminisce over the day, late into the night or over breakfast.

The Honeymoon Suite offers a stunning space to enjoy your first night as newlyweds. The room is on the ground floor with views over the gardens and its own private entrance, so you can enjoy your own space while still being close to your guests.

Bed inside the accommodation at Copdock Hall

Food and Drink

Your wedding meal is an important part of your guests’ experience, so we have carefully selected a choice of excellent caterers for you. They can offer all types of cuisine to suit all tastes, budgets and dietary requirements, and we will be offering in-house catering from 2025.

For the evening you may prefer more relaxed catering such as pizzas, hog roast or a BBQ from our caterers or outdoor courtyard kitchen.

Our bars in the Coach House and Elizabethan Barn have been designed with your guests in mind. Fair prices, quick service and a great selection of premium drinks are available throughout the day and evening.

The Vineyard

Our award winning vineyard stretches across the valley below Copdock Hall’s wedding barn and offers unique opportunities for photos. Guests are free to explore the vineyard throughout the day and you serve our award winning sparkling rose for the ultimate locally sourced grape-to-glass experience.

Intimate wedding ceremonies and elegant dinners for up to 20 guests can be held in a hidden opening within the vineyard, on a banqueting table lit by festoon lights and surrounded by vines.

Visit Copdock Hall

The best way to learn more about weddings at Copdock Hall is to experience our venue in person. We’d be delighted to show you around our beautiful wedding barn and grounds. Simply book a date and time that suits you below.

Virtual Tour

  • Yes, there are many options for your wedding ceremony at Copdock Hall. For civil ceremonies, the main barn, Walsingham Room and little courtyard barn are all licensed and we have numerous options for outdoor ceremonies, including the vineyard. For church weddings, the local parish C of E church of St Peter’s looks over Copdock Hall. We work with local Humanist and independent celebrants for symbolic and belief ceremonies.

  • With a choice of indoor and outdoor spaces for any size of wedding, Copdock Hall is as popular in the winter as it is in the summer.

    The main barn has underfloor heating and looks incredible with candlelight, so your guests will feel cosy year round.

    We are available for weddings on every day of the year and as an added bonus, midweek and spring, autumn and winter dates are all available at discounted rates.

  • The venue hire fee covers exclusive use of Copdock Hall, all you’ll need for the wedding day and an event manager on the day to ensure everything runs smoothly. This includes tables and chairs for guests, tables for the cake and gifts and courtyard furniture. Our recommended caterers supply all of the glasses, cutlery and crockery you’ll need. You’ll have the use of a private preparation room, car parking, purpose-built toilets, fully equipped catering kitchen, a staffed bar and our in-house music and PA system with three zones and wifi. Our grounds include a terrace and courtyard for reception drinks, with new patio furniture for 2024, wide lawns with plenty of space for guests, and a vineyard for photos, next to the 15th century parish church.

  • If you have specific dietary needs you are welcome to bring in your own caterers, and we have carefully selected a recommended list of local caterers who look after our couples really well and have full access to our on-site kitchens.

  • Venue visits and showrounds are available 7 days a week during the daytime and evening, and can take place in person or by video for your convenience. As an exclusive use venue, we only offer video tours on days with a wedding taking place so we can give our undivided attention and complete privacy for that wedding.

    Book your showround here.

  • If the venue hasn’t been booked for the day before your wedding you are welcome to come in to set up, and we’ll have our event planner on hand to assist you. We can offer a reduced hire rate if you would like to block the day before in the diary, however there is plenty of time and space on the morning of the wedding for most set-ups, so this is rarely needed. If the accommodation has not been booked for a wedding the night before your wedding you will have the option to book it for an extra night.

  • Of course!

    Wedding planners are always welcome at Copdock Hall and we enjoy working with them here.

    Our event planner will be there on the day to assist too, and can do as little or as much as your wedding planner asks, to help ensure the day runs exactly as you have planned.

  • Yes, our venue hire prices vary depending on the day and season of your wedding, enabling you to choose a date that works for you, your guests and your budget. Midweek and winter dates are a good option to help your budget go further, as we offer the same great experience every day of the year. Copdock Hall is a great venue for every season; our underfloor heating keeps the barn cosy and warm in the cooler months, and the vineyard is particularly beautiful in the autumn.

  • Yes, you can secure your wedding date as far in advance as you like. We publish prices for the next 2 years, but if you are booking further ahead we will guarantee a cap of 5% on the previous year’s hire price. If the published prices are then lower, you pay the lower rate.

  • The main barn is ideal for weddings of 50 - 180 guests, who can all be seated while still leaving enough space to access the bar and dance floor. For smaller weddings, we can partition areas with trees and lit shrubs in movable planters, to create more intimate areas within the barn.

    For larger weddings, up to 350 guests can fit in the main barn, with space for additional guests in a marquee in the courtyard or on the terrace. Couples love the fact that guests can all be in one room with uninterrupted views of the speeches and other key moments. It is a very sociable space where young and old can celebrate together, in any weather.

  • Yes, new for 2024 we have onsite accommodation in the newly designed farmhouse. There’s a beautiful ground floor honeymoon suite with direct garden access, and 7 additional luxury ensuite rooms, sleeping a further 15 guests. The farmhouse kitchen is a warm and inviting space for overnight guests to share a late night drink and a fresh continental breakfast in the morning.

  • As a purpose-designed exclusive use venue, all you will need for your wedding is here for you to use, and is included within the venue hire charge.

    Of course, you are welcome to customise the venue as much as you choose with additional decoration, props and even furniture and we can put you in touch with specialist suppliers.

  • Yes, Copdock Hall is unusual in that it is all on one level, with step free access. Any gravel is bonded, to make it wheelchair and pushchair friendly. There is a room adjacent to the main barn that can be used for any guests that need a quiet or private space.

  • Yes, and they look incredible, especially for winter weddings and in the early evening. For safety and for the best effect, you’ll want them to be in glass holders, so we’ve got plenty for you to use or you can supply your own.

  • We love confetti at weddings and encourage couples to get that all important ‘confetti moment shot’! We allow biodegradable confetti such as dried rose petals; it looks beautiful and helps keep your wedding sustainable.

  • Yes, we have a beautiful dressing room attached to the barn and its the perfect space for one of you to use before the special day.

    If you have booked the accommodation the night before the wedding, one of the party can get ready there and one can use the dressing room.

Answers to some frequently asked

Questions…

“We had two guests who were wheelchair users and Copdock Hall was really the only traditional/barn style venue we could find that was fully accessible to these guests”

Georgie Campbell, September 2023