Pet friendly
Some of our nearest and dearest have more legs than others. Well-behaved (clean) dogs are welcome — one couple’s golden retriever was the ring bearer.
Weddings & prices · 2026 – 2027
Three ways to marry here.
From an intimate Monday for thirty to the full Bells & Whistles Saturday for ninety. No corkage, no fixed suppliers, no hidden extras — and the same price in every season.
Three ways to marry here
Your date, your numbers, the price.
Not packages — three ways to use the house, with their own timings and guest numbers. The venue hire is the same in every season.
June 2027
Bank holidayPrices valid to the end of 2027
Saturday, 5 June 2027Saturday
Less is More
Up to 30 · 12-hour hire
No extra evening guests
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Beyond the Moon
Up to 50 · 12-hour hire
No extra evening guests
—
Bells & WhistlesBest fit
50 by day + 40 evening
£5,750
Venue hire only, as in the 2026/27 brochure — no corkage, no fixed suppliers, no hidden extras. Bookings subject to the venue’s terms; dates subject to availability.
Compare the three
Same house, same magic, different days.
- 30 guests
Less is More
Just the right number to fit around four trestle tables as one huge family dining table. An earlier ceremony leaves plenty of time for dancing — anyone who has enjoyed après-ski knows dancing in the afternoon is great fun.
- 12-hour hire, vacated by midnight at the latest
- No set-up the day before
- Monday – Tuesday
- £3,250
- Wednesday
- —
- Thursday
- —
- Saturday
- On request
- Bank holidays
- £4,750
- 50 guests
Beyond the Moon
Monday comes from Luna, the moon. For those who love their friends and family to the moon and back: everything of Less is More, using every table in the Dining Room. No extra evening guests.
- 12-hour hire, vacated by midnight at the latest
- No set-up the day before
- Monday – Tuesday
- £3,650
- Wednesday
- —
- Thursday
- £4,050
- Saturday
- On request
- Bank holidays
- £5,050
- 50 + 40 evening
Bells & Whistles
The full day and the house either side of it. Set up the afternoon before; while you whizz off on honeymoon, your family collect the presents the next morning.
- Arrive from 9 am · carriages 11.30 pm · vacated by midnight
- The afternoon before to set up, the morning after to collect
- Monday – Tuesday
- £5,050
- Wednesday
- £5,050
- Thursday
- £5,050
- Saturday
- £5,750
- Bank holidays
- £5,750
Prices from the 2026/27 brochure: venue hire only, for weddings up to the end of 2027, subject to contract. Fridays and Sundays aren’t listed — ask the team. Bank-holiday Less is More and Beyond the Moon weddings may pop back the next morning to collect decorations and presents.
A day at The Pilgrims Rest
From nine in the morning to carriages.
One possible running order for a Less is More wedding, straight from the brochure. Later ceremony? Add a couple of hours to each time.
- 09:00
The house is yours
Both dressing rooms are ready, fires lit. Caterers lay the tables while you have three hours for hair, make-up and a glass of bubbly.
- 11:30
Guests arrive
Through the cottage garden, under the gaze of the Abbey gatehouse.
- 12:00
The ceremony
Vows in the Great Hall, on benches dressed in fur or boho rugs.
- 12:30
Confetti & photographs
In the front garden — or, by arrangement with English Heritage, in the Abbey ruins next door.
- 13:00
Drinks reception
In the gardens when the sun shines, by the fire in the Webster Bar when the heavens open — it is England after all.
- 14:00
Lunch & speeches
At the long trestle tables of the Dining Room, candles lit, decanters out.
- 16:00
Cake & first dance
Cut the cake, then the Great Hall becomes the dance floor.
- 20:45
Wave-off
Guests send you off; family leave with the decorations. On a Bells & Whistles day you dance on until carriages at 11.30 pm.
Elopements
Planning something smaller? Midweek elopements are what the house does beautifully — ask for the elopement brochure.
Your own drinks
A Pimm’s or gin station, your own wine, a bar company — never any corkage, and no mark-ups on catering or drinks.
Good to know
Questions, answered.
Yes. There are no fixed suppliers and no corkage, ever. Choose from the team’s Tried, Tested and Trusted list (they take no commission from it) or bring anyone you like — fully catered, DIY or anything in between.
Everything you see, touch or sit on when you visit: furniture, rugs, candles, firewood, decanters, garden furniture, the seasonal look and loans from the Aladdin’s Cave. A member of the team is first on site and last to leave.
Up to 50 for the ceremony and dining, and up to 90 in total for the evening on a Bells & Whistles day. Less is More is for up to 30, Beyond the Moon up to 50.
Yes — inglenook fires in the Great Hall, the Dining Room and the Webster Bar, lit by the team with wood provided. Real candles are allowed on the Dining Room tables and in the Webster Bar; the chandeliers take safety candles.
By separate arrangement with English Heritage, and for a small charge, you can be photographed in the Abbey ruins, escorted by a member of their staff. There is also a walled lane leading to a field — complete with sunset.
Not on site. Hotels, B&Bs and Airbnbs are a short walk away in Battle, some with parking, so nobody needs a taxi.
Some of our nearest and dearest have more legs than others. Well-behaved (clean) dogs are welcome — ask the team.
Music ends at 11 pm, carriages at 11.30 pm and the house is vacated by midnight.
Book a visit
Come and see her by candlelight.
Visit in person with Amy & Waverley — or, if you live further afield, take a virtual tour. Prices stay as they are until the end of 2027.