NEARLYWED NEWS

Still searching for the perfect wedding venue? Step forward Middlesbrough’s Acklam Hall, voted the number one romantic space to get married in the English Wedding Awards.

The only Grade I listed building in the area, the Hall was built in 1683 and underwent a multi-million-pound makeover in 2016. Its most recently updated space, the Queen’s Room, was completed in February, and has now been transformed into an elegant bridal suite, with both four-poster bed and freestanding bath.

Acklam Hall also houses the award-winning Tomahawk Steakhouse as its resident restaurant, with menu options including the Tomahawk Feast for steak lovers, or more traditional wedding cuisine. What’s more, the venue’s currently busy organising an exciting events calendar for the rest of the year, so be sure to follow Acklam Hall on Facebook (www.facebook.com/AcklamHall) to keep up to date.

READER OFFER! Acklam Hall are offering your wedding night in the Queen’s Room, as well as breakfast the morning after, for free for all bookings in 2022 and 2023 for Your North East Wedding readers.

Visit www.acklamhall.co.uk/wedding-venue-north-east to find out more. Plus, make sure you enter our fab competition to win dinner at Acklam’s Tomahawk Steakhouse by turning to page 13.

SOMETHING SUITE

Couples looking for a relaxing getaway – or wedding night to remember – should take advantage of Seaham Hall’s exclusive new bungalow suites, which come complete with coastal views, hot tub, firepit and your very own golf buggy.

With floor-to-ceiling windows and large terrace areas, five-star Seaham’s new suites boast an enviable cliff-top position, with stunning views towards Durham’s heritage coastline. Each suite has a beautifully landscaped patio, featuring a sunken hot tub, BBQ kitchen and large outdoor lounge space with pergola and stone firepit. Set within the Georgian manor house’s 37 acres of grounds, each suite has a stylish lounge area and kitchen, two premium designed bedrooms and two bathrooms.

There’s also your very own golf buggy to transport you the short distance to the hotel, where you can dine at a choice of two restaurants – The Dining Room, which offers vibrant British cuisine and Ozone, a more informal eatery serving pan Asian dishes. And that’s before you’ve even stepped foot in the award-winning Serenity Spa, with its 20 metre pool and gym, outdoor Zen Garden, herbal sanarium, salt sauna and spacious treatment rooms, which offer a menu of relaxing therapies to choose from.

Stays in a Bungalow Suite cost from £645pp, based on a minimum of two sharing, including two nights’ accommodation, breakfast in The Dining Room or in your suite, and full access to the stunning hotel spa facilities. Visit www.seaham-hall.co.uk/sleep/bungalow-suites/ to find out more.

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FIND US ON YOUTUBE!

We’re never satisfied when it comes to providing our readers with enough wedspiration, which is why we’ve created our very own County Wedding Magazine YouTube channel!

You’ll find tons of big-day ideas, from venue tours to dream dresses, then take a peek behind the scenes of styled shoots featured in our titles past and present. We’re adding more content all the time, so why not hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a thing? Simply head to YouTube and search for ‘County Wedding Magazines’ now!

Logged on to Your North East Wedding with thoughts of the two of you eloping? Consider Northumberland’s Langley Castle, currently experiencing a boom in ‘elopement-moons’ – that’s an elopement wedding and honeymoon rolled into one.

Located in Langley-on-Tyne, near Hexham, the venue has seen a surge in enquiries for its ‘Weddings for Two’ package, a speciality at the Medieval castle since creating its How to Enjoy the Perfect UK Elopement guide. This means you can marry at Langley and then stay on for your honeymoon, having no guests to escape from or stress of getting to the airport on time.

The 14th century fairy-tale castle has many romantic nooks and crannies to explore, including raised window seats in the drawing room and castle bedrooms perfect for ‘we’ time. The 2AA Josephine’s dining room has tables nestled in alcoves, ideal for an intimate candlelit dinner, while you can also enjoy the 10-acre grounds, choosing to say ‘I do’ in the woodland weddings area, adorned with fairylights and decorated with floral bouquets.

“We know how to make an elopement-moon super-special,” says Langley Castle’s executive general manager, Margaret Livingstone-Evans. “With us you can enjoy extraordinary photography on our magnificent battlements, take a romantic stroll along Bamburgh Beach, then snuggle up in blankets in our summerhouse, watching our resident peacocks strut past.”

A wedding for two and a two-night stay at Langley Castle costs £1,520, including the ceremony, witnesses, Champagne and canapés, Northumbrian breakfasts and candlelit dinners. The elopement-moon package can be extended for additional days, which costs £375 per castle room, per night, on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis.

Visit www.langleycastle.co.uk to find out more – and turn to page 16 to discover more of the delights the venue has on offer.

YOU BEAUTY!

Want to look your very best for the big day? Be sure to book up for Durham make-up artist Lyndsey Morgan’s new prewedding pamper packages, with LVL, dermaplaning and brow shapes and tints now available alongside her regular make-up services.

“LVL is a treatment that gives the natural lashes length, volume, lift and colour,” explains Lyndsey, Make up Artist of the Year finalist in the 2022 English Hair & Beauty Awards. “It’s perfect for opening up the eye area and a fab alternative to false lashes, lasting between six to eight weeks. Dermaplaning, meanwhile, is a manual exfoliation technique using a medical-grade scalpel to gently remove dead skin and peach fuzz. It’s a quick procedure that gives immediate results, diminishing the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and superficial pigmentation. Alternatively, why not book me for a brow shape and tint, tidying and refining your eyebrows while keeping a soft and enhanced look ready for your bridal make-up?”

Visit www.lyndseymorgan-makeup.co.uk to find out more.

WINE IT DOWN

Planning your wedding day will involve plenty of tears and tantrums, so with this in mind head over to The Wedding Taylor’s ‘Wine and Whine’ Instagram story every Wednesday at 7:30pm to talk wedding woes with plenty of fellow brides-to-be.

Run by Morpeth wedding planner Hannah Taylor, the idea behind the evening’s chat all started from a catch up between Hannah and her friends. “Once a week we head out for a glass of vino and moan about the past seven days,” she says. “It makes us feel so much better to get any issues off our chests that I realised it would have a positive effect on future brides, too.”

Couples send in their questions or complaints about any number of topics, then Hannah spends the evening answering questions and talking through any problems. “It’s a great way to meet other brides, plus you’ll see everyone struggles with the same issues. You could even stumble across the answer to a question that you hadn’t thought to ask. It’s a lot of fun – and I get many ladies saying they’ll still come and join me every Wednesday… even after they’re married!”

Log on to The Wedding Taylor’s Instagram story each Wednesday at 7:30pm by visiting www.instagram.com/theweddingtaylor – or find out more about Hannah’s wedding planning services by visiting the website http://theweddingtaylor.com

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