The Shoreditch wedding planning blog is all you need to plan and book your wedding. Our civil ceremony and reception venues Shoreditch Studios and Kachette are a perfect setting for your dream East London wedding. We give you the freedom to dry hire the venues or we can advise on every step of your wedding planning and venue hire process.
Here you will find endless inspiration for your wedding including helpful wedding planning tips, our guide to the best UK wedding blogs, in-depth Q&A’s with wedding industry experts and a huge selection of photo galleries from Shoreditch weddings.
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Wedding Venue FAQs
Answers To Over 40 Of The Most Popular Questions Couples Ask Wedding Venues
Not sure what a dry hire wedding venue is all about? Got a question about late license extensions? Need more information on booking a registrar for your civil ceremony? Want to find out if you are able to bring your beloved pet to your wedding ? You will find the answers to these questions and more in our comprehensive FAQ page.
We have been hosting weddings in our venues since 2006 so we have helped hundred of couples plan their weddings in our venues. We are always looking at new ways to provide a clear and helpful service to couples. Any time we get asked a question from a couple, we add it to this list.
Read our comprehensive list of wedding venue FAQ's we receive from couples.
If you have any other questions (even random ones), we are happy to answer anything you need to know.
Email link@shoreditch.com, call our manager John on 020 7033 9006 or bring a list of questions to your site visit and we will work our way through your questions with you. To help you get prepared for wedding venue site visits, we also have a helpful list of questions to ask your wedding venue here.
Wedding Planning Checklist UK
From Finding A Venue > To Your Wedding Day!
Read Shoreditch London’s comprehensive wedding planning checklist. Planning a wedding requires careful planning. To make your wedding planning easier, we have created a step-by-step 12-month wedding planning checklist which highlights a timeline of things-to-do in the lead up to your wedding day.
Setting a date, finding a wedding venue, questions to ask when you visit a wedding venue, when to book a florist, what needs to be booked 6 months out from your wedding date, what to pack in your overnight bag on your wedding day, It’s all covered on this checklist. Take a look.
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Weddings Featured On Popular Wedding Blogs
Ideas + Inspiration For Your Wedding
Get inspired by a selection of Shoreditch Studios and Kachette wedding that have been featured on leading UK wedding blogs Love My Dress, Rock My Wedding and Coco Wedding Venues.
Each wedding includes a full supplier list with wedding planners, photographers, videographers, bridal dresses and interviews with the couples. Perfect to help you with your own wedding planning.
Dry Hire Wedding Planning Guide
What Is A Dry Hire Wedding?
A dry hire wedding venue is a wedding venue that is hired as an empty space. Dry hire wedding venues are sometimes also referred to as blank canvas wedding venues. Dry hire means that you hire the venue empty, without catering, furniture, entertainment, or lighting included. Hosting your wedding in one of Shoreditch London’s dry hire venues gives you total freedom and flexibility to set up the venue how you like. No fixed packages. Your wedding, your way.
At Shoreditch London, you are not restricted to use our suppliers or caterers. There is no corkage, no buyout. You can shop around to find the right caterer, bar supplier, furniture company or wedding entertainment to fit your budget and personal taste.
This comprehensive wedding planning guide highlights the benefits of booking a dry hire wedding venue and includes a breakdown of venue related expenses and helpful money-saving tips. Get stuck in!
Your Guide to Hiring a Dry Hire Wedding Venue
Thanks to Coco Wedding Venues and Caitlin Hoare for featuring Shoreditch Studios and Kachette in this in-depth guide to hiring a dry hire wedding venue.
There’s a LOT to be said for hiring a dry hire venue and adding your own individual touches. Shoreditch London’s dry hire expert Travis Collins walks you through the key details of hiring a ‘dry’ venue and answer some of the questions that you might find helpful when considering booking your own dry hire wedding.
20 Best UK Wedding Blogs
Wedding Planning Resources
Whatever stage you are at in planning your wedding, chances are you spend a lot of time searching the web for wedding inspiration and help. There are thousands of wedding blogs out there but not are useful and informative.
Here are Shoreditch London’s Top 20 UK and London wedding blog recommendations. Some of these wedding blogs I check daily and others I discovered along the way. Be warned, every time I visited any of these blogs, I was lost in wedding bliss for hours.
Couple Testimonials
It's an honour to be trusted by so many couples to host the most important and exciting day of their lives. We work hard to ensure couples who get married in our venues are not only satisfied with the venue, but that we exceed any expectations they may have.
You only have to look at photos of Shoreditch Studios and Kachette and you can see why the unique railway arch warehouses are the most popular wedding venues in East London. Couples love the exposed bricks, white feature walls, industrial features and being able to completely customise the spaces. Couples choose our venues for our transparent venue hire and production costs and our dry hire flexibility with no corkage on drinks or buyout for working with external caterers. We have been hosting weddings in the venues since 2006 so we have a range of trusted wedding suppliers and caterers we can recommend you. We also partner with some great wedding planners and one-stop suppliers who can help with anything you need. Couples also love the fact that our venues can get late licence extensions so you can party all night if you want to!
Read a selection of testimonials below to hear first hand from couples who got married in our East London wedding venues.
Featured Weddings
Need some inspiration for your Shoreditch wedding? See how other couples celebrated their big day in our unique East London wedding venues. Take a look at 44 of our favourite Shoreditch weddings or view a selection of featured weddings below. Each featured wedding includes a link to the full photo gallery and a link to the wedding photographer.
Q&A’s With Wedding Industry Experts
Read in depth interviews with London wedding industry experts like Annabel Beeforth, founder of Love My Dress. We also feature Q&A’s with some of our favourite wedding suppliers including London wedding planners Andi and Jayne Quinn Clawson from HALCYON HALCYON, wedding photographers Beatrici and We Heart Pictures and Greg Tuvey, from Cater London. Enjoy!
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Q&A with Beatrici Photography
Having a great wedding photographer to capture your wedding day is probably the most important wedding supplier decision you can make. Yes, even more important than your wedding venue because once memories of your amazing wedding day start to fade, it’s your wedding photos that will take you back. This is why it’s worth spending the time to find a wedding photographer that has the skills and experience to deliver exceptional wedding photos.
Of all the photographers we have worked with in the past 16 years, Beatrici’s photos really stand out, capturing the love, energy and emotions of each couple in a natural and un-staged way. So we are very excited to chat with our favourite London wedding photographer Alline Beatrici.
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Q&A with We Heart Pictures
The husband and wife team Charlie & Hector at We Heart Pictures are responsible for two of our most popular Shoreditch Studios wedding galleries from the past few years. Charlie manages everything behind the scenes from enquiries to locking in bookings, Hector is the photographer and editor that captures every moment of the wedding day. It’s a pleasure to discuss the inspiration behind their wedding photography in our Q&A.
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Q&A with Andi and Jayne Quinn Clawson from HALCYON HALCYON
Have you decided on how you’re going to plan your wedding?
Andi Quinn Clawson was Shoreditch London’s general manager for 5 years before leaving to start HALCYON HALCYON with his wife Jayne. Andi and Jayne offer full end-to-end wedding planning, on-the-day coordination and wedding floristry services.
We welcome Andi and Jayne to share their expertise.
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Q&A with Annabel Beeforth from Love My Dress
Navigating through countless wedding forums, blogs and wedding planning resources available online can be overwhelming and stressful. For many couples planning their wedding online, hearing advice from couples who just had a wedding can be invaluable resources of information.
Love My Dress is one of the UK's leading and most influential wedding blogs. The blog receives half a million page hits a month and inspires couples all over the world. Love My Dress founder Annabel Beeforth shares her words of wedded wisdom.
Q&A with Greg Tuvey from Cater London
Greg Tuvey's gourmet catering company Cater London has been our preferred catering supplier in Shoreditch London’s venues for the past six years. Cater London offer a wide selection of locally sourced seasonal menus from cheese platters, canapés or sharing plates, to BBQ's or gourmet three course wedding dinners. Greg Tuvey takes time out of the kitchen to share some insider tips on wedding and event catering.
Pinterest Boards
Find inspiration for your wedding and pin your favourite Shoreditch Studios and Kachette wedding venue photos from our extensive Pinterest wedding galleries which include over 2000 pins.
Explore our London Wedding Ideas board for a diverse range of lighting, industrial furniture, floristry and wedding decor ideas and inspiration for your wedding. Feel free to share your wedding planning Pinterest board with our team too so we can help you transform our blank canvas warehouses into your dream wedding venue.
