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Last update: August 2024
The Connaught Hotel and Spa is a boutique wedding venue situated in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the South West of England. This luxurious destination is just minutes from Dorset's famous beaches, providing a coastal backdrop to your special celebrations. You can hold a micro wedding or large gathering in a selection of elegantly-appointed event spaces with the help of a dedicated wedding team.
Facilities and Capacity
The Connaught Hotel and Spa is licensed for indoor and outdoor ceremonies, allowing you to spend the whole day in one location.
You can choose from two beautiful suites for an indoor ceremony alongside 120 guests. During milder months, say "I do" in the scenic gardens that overlook palm trees and a baby blue beach hut.
Choose from two unique suites to mark your wedding breakfast in style, surrounded by 100 loved ones. The Brasseriee is the largest reception space at this hotel, with a capacity for 120 friends and family members. Located in The Connaught Lodge the Franklyn Suite which holds 120 evening guests. This separate building allows complete privacy for your big day. It features a private entrance, a bar and lounge area, floor-to-ceiling windows, a spacious dance floor, and lavish chandeliers.
Outside, you will find beautiful terraced gardens for photo ops and mingling after your ceremony. The Connaught Lodge is available for exclusive hire, which comes with access to the main hotel facilities as well as 28 plush bedrooms.
Services Offered
Your wedding breakfast will be created by a talented team of award-winning 2 AA Rosette chefs, using locally-sourced, fresh ingredients where possible and with each dish tailored to suit all dietary requirements.
You can choose the all-inclusive Wedding Bliss package or design a bespoke package with the help of their experienced wedding team. From your first visit to your wedding day, you'll be in the safe hands of their wedding team, who have hosted hundreds of weddings. From a red-carpet arrival to a menu-tasting session, these experts have thought of every detail to ensure your day is unique and effortless.
Accommodation
Newlyweds can look forward to a complimentary stay on their wedding night. There are 81 stylishly designed bedrooms, so guests travelling from afar can enjoy a relaxing stay for a discounted rate. You can visit the spa and swimming pool before and after your big day.
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Reviews for Best Western Plus The Connaught Hotel
Great Experience and a wonderful time
The Food was fantastic as well as the direction of what was going to happen on the day of the wedding. We also had small issues throughout the day which required the hotel to be flexible towards our need and they delivered. It was great service and overall we were glad to have gotten married at the Connaught Hotel
The Connaught Dream Team
Attending wedding fayre days there and going for trips to have a drink and imagine the day we were planning really helped.
The flexibility, patience, attention to detail if this team is credit to the amount of weddings they hold and help organise.
Maria deserves a special mention from ourselves as she was our main contact throughout and went above and beyond, thank you so much.
We will now enjoy the Connaught as a place to relax snd enjoy.
The investment of where to hold our wedding day, was far bigger than just the day, it's a connection there after too.
Our August wedding
The whole experience was amazing from starting the preparations a year out till the actual day.
Maria the Front of House manager treated us like special friends from the minute of looking round until the day itself, nothing was ever too much trouble, no query was too big or small and was there for us for ever step of the way.
We had over 80 people for the sit down meal and guests are still talking about how delicious the food was, the attention to detail was excellent.
The staff all worked extremely hard and always with a smile on their faces (we even managed to get some of the Bar staff up for a little boogie at the evening disco 🥰)
We had a lot of guests stay over at the hotel due to travelling long distances and every one of them has said they would go back and stay there again as the rooms were lovely and the Spa was amazing (Spa facilities were all included)
We went for the Bliss package and value for money was outstanding.
Lastly I would really like to mention the porter (I'm really sorry but I can't remember his name 😉). In all our travels i have NEVER met such a friendly, extremely helpful person who goes so much out of their way to make sure that everything is perfect from myself coming down too early on the morning of the wedding (yep I couldn't sleep) and this lovely guy going and getting me umpteen cups of coffees whilst yapping away to me (calming my nerves lol)
So all in all, I couldn't recommend this Beautiful Hotel/venue enough for your very special day 🥰 I'm so glad we did.
Charlotte & Daniel 25/07/2024
From booking our special day to the day itself everything was seamless. No hidden costs and no added extras unless we asked for them!
The venue looked simply stunning on the day and we just want to do it all again!
Thank you to everyone that made our day unforgettable!
Couldn't have asked for better
Flawless - we wouldn’t change a thing
Perfect Wedding Day
From the initial visit and tour of the hotel before booking the wedding, through the complimentary meal tasting session and catch up meetings to the big day itself, Maria (our events manager at the Connaught) and her team have been phenomenal, on hand to answer any questions we have and take on much of the logistics, leaving us only to sort out external things such as the registrar, suits and clothes, a photographer and a cake.
The wedding package gave us a beautiful outdoor wedding and drinks reception with music of our choice, prosecco for us as the bride and groom, the BEST three course meal, a master of ceremonies for the speeches, and an outstanding evening buffet. Not to mention the DJ and disco!
Maria was amazing on the day, making sure pre-ceremony that people were where they needed to be and when, that the bride didn't come in before everyone was ready, and that everything ran like clockwork throughout the day.
We upgraded our room to a suite for the night and were treated to heart shaped confetti on the bed around a folded towel display, to show two swans forming a heart, and had an amazing breakfast the next day too.
We honestly couldn't have been happier elsewhere and the Connaught made our special day perfect.
Utterly perfect in every way
Megan and Lauren wedding 30/09/23
Diane and Paul Crocker
Truly amazing - thank you so much ❤️
Fantastic, perfect in every way, pure perfection.
Wonderful Venue!
Care and attention from start to finish
Maria, was excellent. Nothing was too much trouble and her response to any query we had was swift and helpful.
The day itself was amazing. We booked the Brasserie as we felt it was such a warm and light room, nice decor/pictures and 'feel'.
The food was incredible and our guests loved it.
All the staff were incredibly kind and attentive.
Quite simply, it was a perfect venue for our Wedding. Add to that it was amazing value.
If you want to get married and have your Wedding Breakfast and Evening Reception all in one place, close to the sea, do take a look at The Connaught.
Perfect day from start to finish ❤️
Excellent service and organisation
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