Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, you will need to liaise with the Registrar separately and ensure they are available to conduct a wedding ceremony on the date you’ve chosen and at the right time, and it is best to do this before you confirm your date here. 

https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships/overview

– this website provides a useful overview of the steps you need to take to arrange your marriage in the UK.

Our Wedding Barn is fully licensed for weddings, and to have your wedding at the farm, you first need to contact Blackburn with Darwen Registry Office to check if a Registrar is available on your date

Once you have checked that the Registrar is available, then you start the wedding registration process with your local authority giving them the intention that you are going to get married.

Unfortunately, there is some element of going back and forth amongst councils / registry offices at this first stage, so your local authority would process the bands which are published so anyone who could dispute your marriage can do so. Once you get the certificate / piece of paper saying you can get married, and then this is sent to Blackburn with Darwen Registry Office.

Yes, this is something we’d love to help you with. We have a licensed Wedding Pavilion located on our front lawn which makes the most of the views and even has heating and lighting! Obviously, this is weather dependent and even though you may dream of having an outside ceremony, if the weather is bad or we have experienced excessive rain leading up to your wedding day which has made the fields so wet that your shoes will be ruined, then unfortunately you may not be able to have an outside ceremony. We will always discuss this with you and where possible we will make it happen for you. If the weather is awful, our fall-back position is to hold your ceremony in the Wedding Barn.

Yes, free WIFI is available throughout and passwords are displayed throughout the venue. 

Yes – we have 2 located at the front of the farm at the top of the drive on the right hand side. The electricity is paid for using a credit card.

There is ample, free, car parking at The Wellbeing Farm as well as disabled parking. We also have an overflow car park.  When the weather is not behaving, guests can be dropped at the front door to be greeted by our front of house with umbrellas. 

The whole farm from the car park through to the Barns and grounds is all on one level without any steps allowing easy disabled access.

We have The Farmhouse (located in the middle of The Wellbeing Farm) which has three bedrooms and can also sleep up to 6 people.  Check in times are 5pm and check out times are 10am.

If you’d like to check in earlier on the day of your wedding to get ready, you can use our Snug area and then move into the Farmhouse later on to change into your wedding dress/outfit. 

We also supply clients with details for many local hotels/B&Bs we can put you in touch with cab/taxi companies too. Hotels and B&B’s are located on our website – we have included the approximate distance in miles for each accommodation provider from the farm.  

We allow the couple ONLY to bring a dog for their wedding. It can be used as part of the ceremony but we highly recommend from then on that you book a sitter for the remainder of the event.  

If you are staying in the Farmhouse on the night of your wedding, your dog can stay there but we do charge a fee. Dogs are not allowed upstairs. 

We do not allow cats or any other pets in the Farmhouse. 

We’ve found these firms are the most reliable – we would highly recommend pre-booking your taxis in advance.

• Elton Taxis – http://eltonbullitt.co.uk/   0161 764 6666   email: [email protected] (recommended)
• City Taxis, Darwen 01254777888   (good if staying towards Darwen / Blackburn hotels)
• Metro Cars 01204 521300  (hit and miss service – would recommend Elton Taxis before this firm)
• Atlas Executive Travel 01204 412564 / 07951795453 – can provide a mini bus service for your guests.

 We find Elton Bullit to be the most reliable taxi firm – they can be contacted on 0161 764 6666. We do advise pre booking but usually as long as they are given plenty of notice there shouldn’t be any problems.

Yes – we have an 85 kilowatt heating system which pumps warm air into the Wedding Barn – this system is the same system used for marquees. We also have two additional back-up heaters. 

The Wheatsheaf Bar has a wood-burning stove which is used for winter months.

Before a couple decide to book our venue, we incur quite a lot of costs involved in showing couples around the venue; wedding fairs, wedding coordinators, refreshments, emails, phone calls, visits, follow-up meetings, all this takes TIME and it costs money.

We spend time with couples pulling the vision of their perfect wedding together which includes time to prepare a personalised quote. When the couple book, we also spend time preparing a Wedding Wow Pack which we post out to the couple.

Terms and Conditions are in place for every couple who chooses to get married at The Wellbeing Farm and when you make a provisional booking, we give you 7 days to really make sure it is the right decision.

The deposit secures the date as once the date is booked, we refuse any other bookings and enquiries for the date. As we are an exclusive venue, if a customer cancels the wedding for any reason, there is no guarantee that we can fill the date. We always offer the couple the opportunity to transfer to an alternative date with no cost incurred to themselves.

We work on a very small profit margin, and what small profit we do make we plough back into the business …you just have to look back over our few years to see the positive expensive changes to transform the venue into what it is today …and there is more to come.

We do not allow this because it is essential that we consistently offer the highest standard of catering. We only use meat from our local family butchers (Whiteheads) and have chosen suppliers to meet our high standards of catering.

Unfortunately, since we have our own butchers, we do not routinely provide halal meat. However, in exceptional circumstances, this can be arranged.

Even though we are an exclusive venue, we try to keep our prices competitive and charge approximately £6.50 for a pint of premium lager, £4.20 for a glass of wine and spirits (including mixers) start at £3.50).

Our bar prices can be found in the Secret Wedding planning website along with our wine and cocktail menus.

Yes, you can taste our wines at our Wedding Feast Experience events.