Orchardleigh House, Frome, Somerset

Could not say a single bad thing, staff are amazing, grounds are heavenly, had a wonderful time whilst dealing with emotional trauma. Thank you everyone including Eric the peacock and poppy the dog.

Being the father of the bride I was keen to have an excellent venue. Orchardleigh was excellent, staff were friendly, helpful with warm open fires to greet us on entry. The wedding co-ordinator was very professional, caring and attentative. She guided us throughout from start to the Wedding day and evening. Food was very tasty, hot and all meals brought out very quickly.

Rooms were large and spacious and very clean.

Booked the Rolls Royce Phantom to take us to the church and the helicopter for my daughter to fly her from the church to the house and was a wonderful surprise for the couple.

Orchardleigh is five star for Venue, Food, Service and Staff helpfulness also the advisor was very friendly, warm and helpful, always answering his phone when contacted.

I would book this venue again if an occasion came up.

From the moment we arrived at the Orchardleigh Estate my heart was set on tying the knot at this beautiful venue, the main house and grounds are breath taking! We attended an Open Day and we were given a very thorough tour, description of the history of the house, all the options available...it seemed to us that nothing was too much trouble...even the opportunity to arrive in style by helicopter! (which I strongly recommend!) We were hooked and knew this was the perfect venue for us, the staff were incredible, always helpful even when we needed to make some last minute changes to numbers and dietary requirements.

The day arrived and I must say it was truly AMAZING...the house is absolutely stunning, the smell of an open log fire, the beautiful Christmas tree in the main hall, the house to ourselves...great food.. great accommodation... it was everything and more than we had hoped for. I am a complete perfectionist and I must say I expected some hiccups but the day went incredibly smoothly...all my guests had a fantastic time and said our wedding was fantastic!

I cannot thank you enough for making it the most amazing day ever...just wish I could do it all again!!

Highly recommended!

Our wedding was amazing from the very start, the staff were so helpful and it took a lot of the stress out of planning. Our day was wonderful, we couldn't have wished for any more, the staff were amazing and nothing was too much trouble. We had so many compliments on the venue and the food, which was excellent, cooked and presented exactly as we asked. People were amazed at how beautiful the house and grounds were. If we had to do it all again we wouldn't change one thing.

I recently attended this venue for a wedding of a family member and I have to say, we were not impressed by the venue, the service or the staff.

The venue is not at all disabled friendly with only one VERY steep ramp access to the rear of the property which would not meet regulation incline. Despite the wedding finishing around midnight, the staff continued to clatter trolleys until 5am, keeping a few guests awake. The noise continued again from 6am when the next shift started.

The service was appalling, served by kids who appeared untrained in waitressing, the food very basic and near cold.

The rooms were far too small with tables badly organised.

I would certainly not recommend this as a wedding venue.

Carl and his team were amazing, all staff were so helpful and understanding and quick to respond, especially Carl .This is such an awsome venue, the house is to die for, the food is great .Incredible value for money considering the whole house is yours for 24 hours. The best day of our life. Only downside, it had to come to an end! This from a man who is not easily pleased, the Father of the bride!

I had the great pleasure of attending a wedding at this most beautiful house. I cannot speak highly or reccomend this venue enough, not only is the setting breath taking what sets this venue head and shoulders above everyone else is the staff and service we received. Big thank you to the owners for everything you did and for making this wedding unique and magical for my best friend.

Beautiful venue, helpful and attentive staff, gorgeous food, accommodation good but quite a variety of rooms. Married in te church in Lullington which was picturesque and our vicar was Andrew who made it so special for us. Married July 2012

I can't believe it has nearly been a year since we got married at Orchardleigh. We really did have the best day of our lives and would recommend this place to anyone, however a couple of tips for future brides...

1. Request [name removed] as your coordinator - she is AMAZING and nothing is too much trouble.

2. The owners daughter gatecrashed our evening do but turning up drunk with her friends - the owner was extremely apologetic about this the following morning but maybe check this won't happen to you!!

A and N May 2012.

I am so pleased that we chose to get married at Orchardleigh, as we realloy did have the day of our dreams. I did a lot of wedding venue research and had a tick list of features I wanted for our wedding day and Orchardleigh was the venue that met them!

We really wanted to get married in a church and I fell in love at first sight with St mary's Church (the island church) on our initial visit. Unfortunately with a wedding of 140 people using this church wasn't possible and instead we used All Saints Lullington, which is so beatutiful inside and had all of our guests take a vintage bus (Quantock Motor Services were brilliant) from the house to the church and back again.

The elegance of Orchardleigh gives all the wow of a stately home wedding but as it is filled with replica's and not filled with original priceless pieces of art and furniture we did not have to worry about anything getting damaged in the course of having a good party, which was a concern at some of the other venues we looked at.

The major selling point of Orchardleigh was that we could have all of our guests (our wedding was for 140) stay with us for the night and join us for breakfast the following day and 130 of them did. As this is all done through the bride and groom and not your guests dealing with orchardleigh directly, it is hard work and if you go beyond the capacity of the house and have to use the cottages as we did, the fact that the cottages have a later arrival time complicates things a great deal. You also have to pay for 50% of the cottages at the time you book which is scary because at that stage we were not entirely sure of who was staying. However despite this being my largest point of stress in the run up to the day, it was worth it! Our freinds have all commented how nice it was to be able to pop to their room and change shoes or outfits! But being able to say goodbye the following morning means you can have a proper party on the night of your wedding and not have to turn off the music and have everyone leave at 11.30 - 12pm like most venues.

The food was excellent, we opted from Menu 2 with the Thai Fishcakes and the Roast Pork which were both delicious. The chef is lovely and we really enjoyed the food tasting.

The orchardleigh team are also great, we visited the venue on several occasions beforehand, had numerous phone calls and emails and it all worked out well on the day. Karl ran our day for us and he was brilliant, really keeping everything under control when everyone turned up (although i would recommend a team of ushers to help with this), but making sure that the bride and groom got drinks and canapes too!

Of course there are small things that could have been changed or could be run more smoothly for example the fact that you cannot dress the ballroom for your wedding until 11.30am if there has been a wedding in it the night before, or the fact that in hindsight I wouldn't have put my grandparents in the downstairs room with disabled facilities because it is noisy if you party as late as we did then the cleaning starts, but I dont think any of these detracted anything about our day, With more time I could have dressed the ballroom myself but I don't think it would have looked any better! The venue is great, you will have a wedding day that you will never forget and just be organised, have a good team of people to help you and go with the flow because it really will all work out fabulously!