From £79.5 per person
Stoke by Nayland Resort is an award-winning, family-owned wedding venue located in Colchester, Essex. The resort has been helping couples create beautiful, magical memories for over 50 years. It's surrounded by stunning English countryside scenery with lakes, streams, and woodlands, creating picture-perfect moments for your special day. Set within 300 acres of rolling countryside, the hotel overlo
Stoke by Nayland Resort is an award-winning, family-owned wedding venue located in Colchester, Essex. The resort has been helping couples create beautiful, magical memories for over 50 years. It's surrounded by stunning English countryside scenery with lakes, streams, and woodlands, creating picture-perfect moments for your special day. Set within 300 acres of rolling countryside, the hotel overlooks a private lake that forms the perfect backdrop to your special day. Facilities and Capacity Stoke by Nayland Resort has the facilities to cater for every kind of celebration, from a grand gathering to an intimate festival-style bash. It offers a large and spectacular banqueting suite, an intimate function room at the country lodges, and seasonal luxurious giant Tipis set within the grounds and lakes. All event spaces enjoy natural daylight and private terraces, whilst the tipi offers panoramic views of the surrounding countryside from a beautifully landscaped green. The hotel holds a wedding license, but couples can also make it official outdoors under a wooden pergola set within the stunning countryside. The four-star hotel has 80 contemporary bedrooms, as well as 10 luxurious countryside apartments, so your guests don't need to worry about travelling home. Services Offered With set wedding packages and bespoke offerings, the team at Stoke by Nayland Resort is versatile in their approach. They'll work with you to prepare the perfect package. They can assist and advise you on your choice of wedding breakfast, accompanying wines, and evening buffet. There are even additional extras such as giant light-up letters, a star-lit backdrop, a post-box, and a popcorn machine that you can hire. The hotel's event staff understands how time-consuming it can be to plan a wedding. For support, they have a dedicated wedding planning team to help you with every aspect of planning your big day. From your initial tour of the venue to the last goodbye, your wedding coordinators will take care of everything.
Stoke by Nayland Resort, Colchester, Essex, CO6 4PZ, England
5.0 average from 161 reviews
Out of this world amazing, nothing was ever to much, was reassured continuously, kept calm and on schedule, everything was smooth & done for me, our wedding coordinator Simone was a massive star, the day was unreal, me and my new husband
Gemma · 2026-06-29
Too many excellent things to say about SBN Resort and in particular, Victoria! She was our rock. After booking a traditional Manor House Venue, for our desired winter wedding, something wasn’t sit right with us. I had previously looked at the website for SBN and decided against viewing. WHAT A HUGE…
Oliver · 2026-01-03
Excellent service. Can not praise this venue enough. Staff are so professional and friendly. Victor
Mairiclaire · 2026-05-04
Our wedding took place on June 25th this year - one of the hottest days of the recent heatwave. Stoke by Nayland Resort were so helpful and accommodating, while always considering the wellbeing and comfort of our guests and us. Although we really wanted to have our ceremony outdoors on the terrace…
Ralph · 2026-06-30
We could not have asked anymore from every member of the events team and staff at Stoke by Nayland. Communication was to a very high standard, asking us what we would like, was everything okay? They suggested things as well. Because of the weather and being dark they asked us if we would like to…
John · 2025-11-25
We booked our wedding with Stoke by Nayland 2 years ago and when we first walked in to view the venue we were greeted by the most amazing christmas set up which made us decide to change our plans. We had originally wanted a may wedding but when seeing all the Christmas set up we knew we wanted a…
Alice · 2026-01-02
We initially visited the Stoke by Nayland (SbN) resort for a show round approximately 14 months prior to our special day. We decided on the resort to host our wedding due to us wanting a whole weekend of celebrations and the resort catered for everything including accommodation for us, and our…
Debra · 2026-01-11
From the day we chose Stoke by Nayland as our wedding venue I knew we had made the right decision. From day one Victoria and the whole wedding team were at the end of the phone to answer any questions/queries/requests. Having 2 very young children and planning a wedding could of been stressful but…
Nichola · 2026-01-23
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