If you know your dream date then perfect this is a great start! However do still pick a couple of back up dates near to it (or let the venues know you’re flexible) in case they don’t have the availability on it.

If you’ve not got a specific date in mind then don’t panic but do narrow it down a bit by considering things such as: year/ month/ day/ on or off peak

The first mention of Sparth House as a dwelling dates back to 1455, with the main house being built in 1740. Nearly 600 years of history and family surrounds the building that we now know as Sparth House.

Over the next 12 days, both myself and Olivia will be sharing what we feel are the first initial stages of the planning process. Once you tick these off your list, you’ll have done the perfect groundwork into making your wedding planning as stress free and enjoyable as possible - exactly the way it should be!

For the November edition of our monthly Wedding & Wine Facebook Live, we decided that with Lockdown 2.0 on it’s way, everyone needed cheering up! So… we both went LIVE this time to give you all a light hearted catch up with the both of us plus a fun little game of quick fire questions, Mr & Mrs style!

August saw Olivia guide you through how to plan your perfect Sparth House wedding!

With 7 years experience of Sparth House weddings, Olivia gives all the best bits of advice on how to plan your perfect wedding at Sparth House and what to consider when doing so in just 39 minutes!

She even wore white for the occasion!

Book your wedding with us this December and be in with a chance of winning your evening party on us! How’s that for an early Christmas present?

Katie, the other half of Sparth House’s Wedding Team, took over the Weddings & Wine Facebook LIVE for a chat and a Q&A with all of our wonderful wedding couples and returning friendly faces!

With no theme, we just had a good old chinwag about our fave topic and digging deeper into what we think makes the perfect wedding.

Back in June we delved into the importance of wedding flowers on your wedding day with our favourite florist Julie, the creative mind behind Hedgehogg Florist, during one of our Wedding & Wine Facebook LIVE’s.

We had the idea of wanting to connect all our wedding couples through the powerful world of social media in a way that brought us all closer together and allowed you as individual couples to also connect between yourselves.

At the start of this month we caught up with Lancashire Celebrant, Vikki Harris who joined us on our October edition of Weddings & Wine Facebook LIVE to chat all things weddings and delve into the wonderful world of a celebrant led ceremony.

Here at Sparth House, we won the Little White Books, ‘Great Northern Wedding Award’ for Best Town/ City Wedding Venue 2020 and we couldn’t be happier!!

Your wedding invitation is your guests first look into your wedding! Your invites should be a little snapshot into your special day and should reflect your theme for the day perfectly. And so offering your guests a sneak peek into what to expect on your big day - it’s a great time to WOW!

With lots of weddings changing to a different season, here’s a few helpful ideas of to think about for a wedding during each season. All are beautiful and each their own, let us help you unlock some ideas you may not have considered!

Wedding planning is a serious task and we understand it can get on top of us all at some point during the planning process. With that in mind, our advice to you is to take some time out of all your wedding planning and binge watch some wedding related classics!! It’s like homework right?!

All your Sparth House wedding related questions answered and in one place!

What are good questions to ask a wedding venue? Read our helpful blog and get yourself ready to view those venues!