Sandhole Oak Barn wedding venue

Bride and groom Katie and James at Sandhole Oak Barn. Photo credit: www.ChrisHanleyPhotography.com

Sandhole Oak Barn is a very individual wedding venue near Congleton. Overlooking a private lake and with all the best bits of one of those surprise puddings (outside looks nice; inside is amazing!), it's a really special place and should definitely be on your list if you're looking at Cheshire wedding venues.

Photographs of Sandhole Oak Barn

All photographs by www.ChrisHanleyPhotography.com
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Photographer thoughts on Sandhole Oak Barn

Top Cheshire wedding photographer Chris Hanley says, "Sandhole Oak Barn is a venue which has emerged from a farm diversifying and offering its space and buildings to the wedding and conference market. The initial impression is its a bit farmy, but turning the corner, the view of the barn and the lake is quite lovely. It reminds me of an Amish settlement.

“The barn itself is spa­cious and light. The day­light flood­ing in through the win­dows into the space were the cer­e­mony takes place is great. Great views across the lake, lovely out­side area for drinks and canopy recep­tion. The out­side cater­ing we expe­ri­enced was excep­tional, the bar was well man­aged, and all staff and the own­ers were warm and wel­com­ing.

“What isn’t so good is the energy sav­ing arti­fi­cial light­ing in com­bi­na­tion with yellowish/brown tim­ber. It’s a clas­sic exam­ple of a venue sell­ing itself to the wed­ding mar­ket with no thought to pho­tog­ra­phy. Great wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy at a venue will sell the venue to future brides and grooms. Venues should get feed­back from pho­tog­ra­phers. It really can be only one or two minor tweaks that take you from aver­age to outstanding.

“If it’s wet and windy and you’re con­fined to indoors then things could be quite tight depend­ing on your num­ber of guests, and with it being a barn your guests will all be accu­mu­lated in one area.

“Sit­u­ated just off the main A34 road to Con­gle­ton means its loca­tion is quite a dis­tance to travel. You’ll need to eval­u­ate travel costs for coaches and taxis. There are 17 ensuite rooms at good rates, so dri­ving and stay­ing over is affordable.”

From the Sand­hole Oak Barn website

The superb Oak Wed­ding Barn at Sand­hole Farm has been built to a tra­di­tional design using the high­est qual­ity work­man­ship and mate­ri­als. The oak beams are mel­low and impres­sive. Sand­hole Oak Barn is one of the most excit­ing new barn wed­ding and recep­tion venues in the North­west and one of the most beau­ti­fully designed oak barns in the Coun­try, mak­ing it the per­fect set­ting for any wed­ding or conference.

Sand­hole Farm is a fam­ily run venue with a friendly, sup­port­ive atmos­phere. Set in superb coun­try­side in South-East Cheshire the barn has recently been con­structed in a scenic loca­tion over­look­ing a stun­ning 6 acre lake.

There are 17 lux­ury en-suite bed­rooms for guests to stay in and a superbly restored cot­tage for the hon­ey­moon couple.

Venue essen­tial information

Loca­tion: Sit­u­ated on the A34 with close links to Man­ches­ter, Mac­cles­field, Holmes Chapel, Wilm­slow, Knutsford and Stoke on Trent
Capac­ity: up to 150 guests
Prices: I think they must be a secret
Licensed for civil ceremonies

Venue inter­est­ing information

There’s a grand piano that you may use at Sand­hole Oak Barn. If you do not have a pianist but would like one, Sand­hole have two that they can rec­om­mend. They also have a com­pre­hen­sive list of local wed­ding sup­pli­ers includ­ing cal­lig­ra­phers, ken­nels, wiz­ards, a chim­ney sweep, florists and a Tina Turner trib­ute band.

Fire­works and chi­nese lanterns are pro­hib­ited because of nearby livestock.

www.SandholeOakBarn.co.uk
01260 224419
veronica@sandholefarm.co.uk