I was passing the Victoria Hall one day when I noticed they were holding a 'Wedding Showcase', so I rather cheekily popped in to look round. (I'm not intending to get married!) The Hall often gets used for weddings and it is a lovely and quite grand space for such events.
There were only a handful of people looking round, so I don't know how well it had been advertised. The rooms were set out as examples of how they could be arranged for weddings, and there were stalls for businesses offering services - floristry, cakes, wedding celebrants, photographers, music, wedding dresses and so on. The VW campervan in the driveway was offered as a fun way to arrive at and leave your wedding.
The main hall was set up with tables - and the organist was there playing the Wurlitzer on the stage.
One of the rooms upstairs had a different table arrangement. Then a smaller room was set out for the wedding ceremony itself.
Who wouldn't want to get married there, with views like this through the windows?
The wedding business seems to be a huge one these days, and there are a lot of places locally that offer themselves as venues, both for traditional British weddings and the lavish and colourful ceremonies that our Asian communities favour. The Victoria Hall can cater for both.
The hall really is grand - way too grand for the likes of me, and I can‘t imagine spending the amount of money needed to celebrate in a place like that. But it is nice to look around no matter whether one intends to get married there (or at all), and I love that you took pictures of the views.
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