Exclusive Devon Country House Wedding Venue For All Seasons

A very warm welcome awaits you at Combe House, one of Devon's finest country estates. In this privately-run hotel and restaurant, attention to detail, individuality and personal service is paramount, 'we try never to say no'.

Imagine a wildly romantic Grade 1 Elizabethan Manor, steeped in history and set in 3,500 acres of one of Devon's finest country estates, close to the sea for long coastal walks, yet just a short drive from the Cathedral city of Exeter.

Here you will find exceptional food in a wonderful country setting, carefully chosen wines, huge log fires and generous hospitality. Listed as one of the most romantic hotels in Great Britain, Combe House Devon is a place you will love.

Beautiful Arabian horses and pheasants roam freely as you approach the romantic Manor along a mile of winding drive. The privately owned hotel offers a wonderful sense of occasion in an idyllic setting all year round.

Combe House Devon is recognised as one of the UKs top wedding venues. Choose Exclusive Use of 'Combe' and you'll have the whole house to yourselves, including the elegant sitting room, reception rooms, beautiful gardens, all fifteen bedrooms and suites and a romantic thatched cottage for two.

After you have taken your vows, you can entertain your family and friends in complete privacy and style. With Exclusive Use, your celebrations encompass more than just an afternoon and evening. You and your closest guests can stay overnight, catch up the night before over an informal country supper or a BBQ in the gardens and finally reminisce about the wedding day's events over breakfast the following morning.

Combes two Master Chefs of Great Britain, Hadleigh Barrett and Stuart Brown, create modern British cuisine and will provide bespoke menus for your wedding celebration. The house is licensed for civil wedding ceremonies, with a choice of four elegant and classic Civil Ceremony rooms, and can cater for any size of wedding breakfast or evening reception from 2 to 100 guests. This increases to 150 guests with a marquee on the croquet lawn.

Brides have a choice of four intimate rooms to choose from for a civil wedding ceremony at Combe House Devon - the historic 18th century Panel Room and Great Hall are furnished with treasured antiques and ancestral paintings; the Pink Dining Room has tall French windows which open onto the front lawns, and the pretty Green Mural Dining Room is decorated with intricate hand-painted murals and lit by a twinkling glass chandelier.

The Church of St Michael is nearby (at the end of the mile-long drive) in the thatched village of Gittisham, once described by HM Prince Charles as The ideal English village. After a church service or blessing at the Church, a fairytale white horse and carriage can take the bridal couple up to Combe House Devon for a reception, just as newly weds would have experienced in days gone by. A truly romantic beginning to life together!

Combes two resident Master Chefs of Great Britain, Hadleigh Barrett and Stuart Brown, are ardent about sourcing the freshest and best quality ingredients for their menus from local producers and Combes large restorted Victorian Kitchen Gardens. They will meet with the bridal couple to create a bespoke wedding breakfast menu, which can be served to guests in a choice of elegant rooms or the garden marquee.

Smaller wedding parties can enjoy a memorable lunch or dinner by lamp and candlelight in the hotels beautifully restored Georgian kitchen.

The restored Georgian Kitchen provides a truly romantic setting for smaller, intimate, sit-down parties of 10 to 12 guests such as naming ceremonies, renewal of marriage vows or commitment ceremonies.

Accommodation for guests in the main house is in fifteen luxurious en-suite bedrooms and suites, including a bedroom with a four-poster. The most sought after room at Combe House Devon is the stylish Linen Suite which occupies part of the original Victorian laundry, and is still equipped with a huge drying rack suspended from the ceiling, and a 6ft diameter, round copper bath tub - perfect for two!

Many of the individually styled rooms have stunning views over the estate at Combe and across the beautiful Devon countryside to Dartmoor and beyond. Tucked away in the woods at the start of the romantic mile-long drive leading to the Manor is a beautifully restored Thatch Cottage, a romantic hideaway for the bridal couple on their wedding night with its own secluded walled garden. The perfect place for an evening of romance.

Every member of our team, including Mark our Manager and Fiona our Wedding Planner, gives personal attention from the early planning stages through to organising the very finest details and providing caring support on the day. Our Head Chef, Hadleigh, is also available to meet with wedding clients to help create a bespoke menu and Ken will be happy to advise you on the wines that would be most suitable to accompany your wedding breakfast within your chosen budget.

Mark Lovell, Manager, says Relaxed informality is top of the agenda with emphasis on ensuring you feel totally at ease - almost as if you were having a wedding in your own home, but with all the hard work taken away.

Why not arrange a visit so that we can show you around and discuss what is important to you for your special day? Together, we'll make your Celebrations at Combe House everything you wished for - and more.