These are just some of the fantastic local businesses we work alongside throughout the season, and we recommend highly.
Photographers
Your Day. Your Story. Your Way. Doug Goodridge is a local photographer specialising in weddings and events. Doug’s studio is a 200-year-old barn based on the same site as the venue. It can be rented on your wedding day for portraits to be taken indoors as well as outdoors, by him or any other Photographer. It can be hired for one hour or longer, see his website for pricing.
Florists, Directories & Bridal Shops
Findon Flowers is a long established family run Florist, specialising in Bouquets for Brides, Weddings. Findon flowers shop is in Findon Valley.
The Wedding Secret is an online resource and community which connects prospective brides and grooms with specialist wedding businesses in their local area
Marquee Hire
At Findon Marquee Hire we offer a professional but friendly approach with an emphasis on providing high quality event equipment combined with exceptional company reliability.
The Great Outdoors is a long established business with a reputation for reliability and quality to cover your wedding, family celebration, corporate or sporting event. Based on the East/West Sussex border, we also supply quality marquees for hire to the surrounding areas of Hampshire, Kent and Surrey.
D & J Marquees have been serving the locals of Sussex with various size marquees for more than 10 years now and don’t plan on stopping. They have great knowledge of luxury marquees and make sure that your event is one to remember when using their marquees.
Based in Arundel, West Sussex, we have over fifteen invaluable years of experience within the marquee and event sector. We provide marquees and tents for all occasions, from small tents and pagodas for drinks parties and BBQ’s, through to large marquees suitable for weddings, celebrations, birthdays and other events.
The Happy Glamper are a family-run business in Sussex. Their glamping packages provide an affordable, stylish and fun alternative style of accommodation for weddings, festivals, birthday or private parties, corporate summer events, campsites or anything else that might require pop-up accommodations. They set up several bell tents with a block of 2 hot showers which can be hired out to wedding guests, more tents can be supplied if you are having camping for your wedding.
Entertainment & Car Hire
An 11 piece band renowned for their outstanding live performances, RetrOactive are suitable for all types of events and functions, including, weddings, parties, corporate events, public events, fund raising balls & dinner dances. From jazz and swing through to rock and pop they never fail to deliver and entertain with a night full of dance floor favourites in a show guaranteed to get everyone up and dancing.
A Family run Wedding Chauffeur Service. We offer a friendly, efficient, courteous service from our experienced professional chauffeurs. Choice of the usual Male Chauffeur, however we also offer the choice of Female Chauffeurs if required.
Bus & Bug Vintage Weddings offer both VW Campervan and VW Beetle wedding cars for hire alongside their truly quirky camper van photobooths!
Prompting smiles and waves wherever they go, their uniquely restored cars are the perfect way to travel in style on your special day.
Catering & Restaurants
My wife and I have cooked lambs for almost all occasions including: Weddings, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christenings, Church festivals, Company open days, Corporate and Business lunches, Moroccan themed parties, Halloween parties, Bonfire nights, New Year celebrations and some charity and fund raising events.
Buzz Events & Catering is a Sussex based event catering company. As a creative event caterer, our menus cater for events of all shapes, sizes, and style.
At Gastro Catering, our mission is to create truly innovative events and make those special occasions unforgettable. Since 2008, we have been the caterer of choice for venues, events managers and wedding co-ordinators who come back time and again for us to organise the best food and drink for their events.
In 2012 we (Geoff and Marsha) had the idea of creating a vintage bus business, uniquely offering English sparkling wines, sparkling wine cocktail and English products from a quintessentially English bus – that’s Tiger Lily!
Hotels & B&Bs
Findon Manor Hotel is close to our venue at around ten minutes walk away.
The Village House Coaching Inn is nestled in the newly formed South Downs National Park, at the heart of the picturesque downland village of Findon. It’s just eight minutes walk from our venue.
Sylvan Oak is like the kitchen of your best friend with an incredible talent with food: welcoming, radiant, extravagant if needed and above all honest and rewarding.