Located between Woldingham and Caterham, right in the heart of the North Downs, and within the stunning Marden Park Mansion, this unique all-inclusive wedding venue is situated within a historic 19th century mansion and boarding school. Able to seat up to 130 for a civil ceremony and formal reception and up to 250 for evening parties, there's plenty of room for exclusive weddings!
The venue is more than capable of hosting weddings for much of the year, with a talented in-house catering team producing delicious cuisine and evening buffets and a fully-licensed bar including staff at your disposal. Owing to its scholastic function, the house is available for exclusive hire during school holidays throughout the year, including Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, October and the long summer break.
Marden Park Mansion is owned by Woldingham School, an independent Catholic boarding and day school for girls, located in Marden Park. Notable Woldingham old girls include Vivien Leigh, Caroline Wyatt, Louise Mensch, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Carey Mulligan and Emma Corrin.
Please note minimum numbers are 80 for a Saturday, and 60 Sunday-Friday
Simply perfect for a civil wedding ceremony followed by drinks and a canapé reception, this room leads onto its own terrace.
Civil ceremony capacity - 85 guests
Your party can then head over to the gorgeous, oak-panelled Wilson Room for your formal reception and wedding breakfast.
Formal reception capacity - 130 guests
Nicholson Room - Next to the Wilson Room, this holds the venue’s fully stocked bar.
Finally, host the evening reception party in the Goddard Room, with space for a band, disco and plenty of happy dancing feet. You could also hold your ceremony here with up to 130 guests.
Civil ceremony capacity - 130 guests
Evening reception capacity - 250 guests
Be sure to take advantage of the lovely gardens and a magical Pergola Walk. This unique pathway meanders gently through the rear gardens towards the Pergola, and is punctuated by tall stone Doric columns - perfect for photographic opportunities!
There is also a chapel with lovely stained-glass windows onsite which is available for Roman Catholic wedding ceremonies and blessings. Get in touch with the coordinators to find out more.
The in-house catering team pride themselves on their high level of silver service for your special day. Extremely flexible, the chefs offer delicious wedding cuisine and work hard to accommodate your needs to create a perfect bespoke wedding menu for you and your party to enjoy.
To find out more and to book Marden Park Mansion for your wedding, get in touch using the contact buttons below and to the right.
AddressHuge thank you to the Marden Park Mansion team. It was a pleasure to put on the event with you and thank you for being so helpful, responsive and accommodating. We had a fantastic time, the venue was perfect and everything was very well organised. The food was particularly fantastic!
From the initial venue tour to the big day, our experience was beyond our wildest dreams! Susan, Faye, and the entire team were incredibly attentive from the very start. We have always adored the countryside around Woldingham, so we were thrilled to discover that they hosted weddings. The building was exquisite, and the grounds were absolutely stunning.
We still beam with joy when we think about our wedding day. Everything was set up perfectly, and all our guests felt relaxed and at home. Many of them told us it was the best wedding food they had ever tasted, and we wholeheartedly agree!
The photos truly speak for themselves, but we genuinely had the most perfect day. We would recommend Marden Park as a wedding venue a thousand times over!
The team at Woldingham were fantastic- Faye and Susan were brilliant and accommodating, letting us arrange visits to the venue ahead of the day to see how things would run, and offered flexibility when we wanted a larger top table than was readily available (Susan arranged for hire of a larger one). The food and drink was absolutely brilliant, beautifully presented and the catering staff were so polite and professional. Our guests loved the food, wine and the champagne! The venue is gorgeous both inside out and out (important when it comes to English weather!). Would absolutely recommend having a wedding at Woldingham!
We just wanted to say a huge thank you to you all for everything last weekend. We had an absolute blast, it was wonderful. So grateful for all of your help over the planning period. It really was such a special day, thanks to your wonderful team!
We also wanted to highlight how impressed we were by the catering/waiting staff - they were all so friendly, incredibly helpful during the set-up, and we had loads of compliments about the food!!
We were extremely happy with our choice of Marden Park Mansion as our wedding venue! The gorgeous grounds and magnificent building awed all our guests (and us too) and the process of organising everything was very smooth from the first time we considered it as a venue, to all our enquiries and to the day itself. Faye and Susan were exceptionally helpful throughout the process, along with all the staff members on the day itself. The organisation with all our suppliers, eg. florist, band, was smoothly handled by the team. The food and drinks selection were also wonderful.
It was a lovely venue that felt much more personal and caring about your needs than other commercial venues. In all, we could not be any happier that we have chosen this as our wedding venue.
Faye and the team are excellent. From first viewing the venue, up until the wedding day - whatever queries I had, Faye would always respond quickly. Everything appeared to be very organised and it all ran so smoothly on the wedding day which really took the stress off of us.
All the wedding guests mentioned how incredible the staff were - from serving the plates and knowing exactly who was eating what, to making sure the water dispenser was always full. Thank you also for finding alternate dishes (which weren’t boring!) for people with allergies. All the staff I encountered were very pleasant, polite and helpful.
Thank you again, we really did have the best day at your beautiful venue.
Thank you for arranging my wedding so beautifully. The venue looked lovely and we have been inundated with texts and emails from everyone who came saying how much they enjoyed the food and the setting.
As for the wedding itself we've had so many friends and family members tell us how stunning the venue was and we wholeheartedly agree, we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place for our special day (and the weather hugely helped). The ability for us to have a catholic ceremony on-site was truly fantastic and was such an important thing for us, the fact everything could happen in one place was more than we could have asked for.
Faye, you as events coordinator were so helpful and understanding especially given how difficult the planning with us being far away and unable to visit that frequently during the pandemic.
Overall it was a stunning day and I cannot recommend the venue enough. Everyone was so friendly and attentive it made me relax and feel like I could be completely hands off on the day.
We just wanted to say the biggest biggest thank you for everything you both did to make Saturday so special. It was honestly the most amazing day (all of our friends who are getting married soon keep saying they don't know how they'll top it!) and you and all the team were just fantastic. Please pass on our biggest thanks to everyone - it genuinely exceeded expectations (except the weather!) in every way.
Getting married at Woldingham School was an utterly magical event. The beautiful driveway, handsome mansion and gorgeous grounds are an incredibly lovely setting. You feel as if you are in the heart of the countryside, yet it is actually really easy for people to reach from London by train or elsewhere by car. Having the entire venue and being able to use several stunning rooms was a key attraction and it really paid off. We loved the versatility and flexibility of being able to use the different rooms for the key events of the day plus several different evening entertainments. The staff at the school were phenomenal from start to finish, both with the planning and on the day itself. Everyone was so helpful. It was genuinely the best day of our lives and the school played a huge part in achieving that. We wish we could do it again and we are so so happy that we chose the school.
Thank you so much for all your help Faye with the planning. You were fantastic and we appreciate all of you patience, suggestions and advice. But we had a phenomenal day and are so grateful to you and all the team at the School.
We cannot thank the amazing team at Woldingham for making our wedding day so perfect. We couldn't have imagined a better venue and the service was first class. It's very stressful planning a wedding mid-pandemic but Woldingham made everything as easy and calm for us as possible. The venue itself is absolutely stunning and the food was delicious. We particularly loved all of the different rooms available which meant the different parts of the wedding felt special and different in their own space especially with the torrential rain we had. Could not recommend any more highly!
I just wanted, rather belatedly thank you, to all the staff who made K & J's wedding such a special event.
The whole day was perfect, the wedding breakfast and evening buffet delicious and many of our friends also commented on the staff who were discreet, yet efficient and charming.
Just wanted to thank you and Sandra for being absolute stars! Joe and I couldn't have asked for two better people to organise our day for us. You both went above and beyond and we can't thank you enough for making our day so special.
Now the dust has settled we just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and the Woldingham team - our wedding day was everything we wanted it to be. We've had so many kind words since the big day, our guests absolutely loved the venue, the food and the service. You were so supportive throughout the planning and did everything you could for us on the day. As cliché as it sounds, it really was the best day of our lives and we've made some fantastic memories and we have you to thank.
From the moment we looked round Woldingham School, we knew it was special and the ideal place in which to have our wedding reception. As practising Catholics, as are so many of our guests, we were blown away by the history and beautiful interior of the mansion. The staff couldn't do enough for us in the preparations leading up to the big day and it was always very easy to get in touch with Faye to make any tweaks to our plans and to ask the umpteen questions we had!
The location is spectacular and everyone commented on the beauty of the grounds and the time in which they had to explore them in between eating, drinking and dancing! Many of our guests have said how amazing the food was, especially the trio of lamb. Everyone was so at ease, which is what we wanted on our wedding day. Having the whole mansion ensured people could move around freely and it was great for both the party animals as well as those who wanted some quiet time in the lounge/bar area.
We cannot speak more highly of Woldingham School and would highly recommend it to our friends as being a wonderful venue for a wedding.
Thank you to all who made our day complete.
As the old cliché goes, you had me at €œhello", Woldingham School had us as we drove down the drive the very first time and the school came into view. We just knew. By the time Clare (Events Manager) was two minutes into the tour we were ready to pay the deposit! Clare was extremely helpful and absolutely lovely from the first day we met her and throughout the wedding journey. Jane (Catering Manager) was very helpful in the lead up to our big day and all her staff were superb on the day. All our friends and family absolutely loved the venue. A magical place which has given us wonderful memories. Thank you!
The staff were absolutely phenomenal. If there was any question or query it was always answered extremely quickly. A lot of pressure planning the wedding was taken away as the staff were extremely helpful and attentive through the entire process. Jane (Catering Manager) was fantastic throughout the tasting and especially on the big day, and the catering staff were extremely professional. It was great to watch our guests enjoy the silver service experience. The entire venue was absolutely magnificent. During the wedding, guests only had praise and were blown away by the venue and grounds.
Clare, Jane and the catering staff at the school couldn't have done more during the lead up to the wedding, or on the day itself. Nothing was too much trouble, and the staff were so attentive on the day. The food was outstanding…many of our guests have since commented on the quality of the food. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend the venue to others.