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Forde Abbey
Wedding Venue
Forde Abbey
Chard
Somerset
TA20 4LU
England
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web address:- www.fordeabbey.co.uk
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Forde Abbey :-
Forde Abbey offers a truly spectacular location for celebrating your wedding. It affords a unique wedding experience by combining a beautiful and historic country house venue with award winning gardens. Due to the monastic history of the building, and the sympathetic manner in which it has been converted into a family home, the features of the rooms on offer to bridal parties are not found in any other building in England. They combine to provide a venue that offers romance, elegance, grandeur and beauty not available anywhere else.
Forde Abbey has two rooms available for civil ceremonies.
The magnificent Great Hall will seat up to 200 people and offers an event of sheer grandeur. For a winter ceremony the fire and chandelier are lit creating a warm and romantic atmosphere for you and your guests. The Great Hall opens onto the front lawn through the archway of Chard’s Tower allowing your guests to spill out into the beautiful gardens after the ceremony.
For a cosier ceremony the Monks\\\' Refectory will accommodate up to 80 people. This room, which is not usually open to the public, allows a more intimate and informal setting.
Wedding Trivia:
RICE THROWING
Rice has been used as a symbol of fertility and as a wish for a "full pantry" in various parts of the world from ancient to modern times. In the past, rice was not the only thing thrown at the bride and groom as the left the wedding. Wheat, instead of rice, was thrown in France, figs and dates were thrown in Northern Africa, and a combination of coins, dried fruit, and candy was thrown in Italy. In some European countries eggs are thrown!Rice is not harmful to the birds that eat it, but an article in California professing this to be the case, has caused birdseed to replace rice at most weddings. Flower petals, confetti, baubles, and balloons are often used today instead of rice.
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