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News, ideas and inspiration from The White Hart: weddings, stays, dining and the best of the local area.
6 Ways an Intimate Wedding at The White Hart Creates a More Meaningful Celebration
At The White Hart, our Garden Room offers exactly that: a private, intimate space within our 15th-century coaching inn, set among four and a half acres of garden, for couples who want their big day to feel personal rather than performed.
Wedding Planning Timeline for Essex Couples: What to Book and When
With a clear plan, checklist and timeline of tasks, you can ditch the stress and make wedding planning the exciting, fun process it should be. Stay on track, remember the important details and plan out your dream day in Essex with our month-by-month wedding planning timeline.
Our Guide to Wedding Planning in Essex
With so many options, ideas and details to arrange, planning a wedding in Essex can feel overwhelming - but it doesn’t have to. We’ve rounded up our many years of wedding planning experience into this helpful, local guide to help you get started.
Last Minute Wedding Venue in Essex
If you’re looking for the perfect last-minute wedding venue in Essex, The Essex Barn could be just the venue for you. Our beautiful, exclusive-use venue proves that just because you may be looking for a last-minute venue, you still deserve the wedding day of your dreams.
Planning A Barn Wedding In Essex: A Venue Checklist (Plus A Beautiful Place To View)
The perfect setting for your celebration is out there - we want to help you find it. Our guide will help you navigate your search with a clear checklist, questions to ask at viewings, and a closer look at what makes a truly beautiful barn wedding venue.
Why Spring is the Perfect Time for your Wedding
Warmer weather, longer days, and soft spring light, as well as an abundance of blooms, mean spring is an ideal season for planning an outdoor wedding. But if you still need convincing, keep reading to discover why we think spring weddings here at The White Hart are perfect.
Our Favourite Things to Do in Essex during Autumn
If you’re looking for an autumn escape in Essex, enjoying crisp walks and cosying up by the fire, The White Hart is the perfect base for your adventure. Discover some of our favourite things to do in Essex this autumn below.
Christmas Lunch in Essex: The Benefits of Going Out for Christmas Day
Christmas is a time to relax, enjoy family, and soak up the festive spirit. For many, the thought of cooking, prepping, and clearing up on Christmas Day can be stressful. That’s where going out for Christmas Lunch in Essex comes in.
What is a Wake?
At some point in your life, you may have wondered: what is a wake? Deeply rooted in the history and culture of the UK and Ireland, this ancient tradition dates back centuries and is practiced to honour departed loved ones.
Our picks for the best local Essex Wedding photographers
Are you looking for the perfect photographer for your big day? Here at The White Hart, we have years of experience helping couples tie the knot in our stunning venue and have worked with some of the best Essex wedding photographers.
How to Select the Perfect Spring Flowers for a Wedding
Spring weddings are a dream come true for many couples, with warmer weather, brighter skies and, of course, lots of budding blooms. Should you be thinking about tying the knot this sweet season, then you’re in for a treat with all sorts of fresh and vibrant florals ready to add an eye-catching touch to your day.
2025 Wedding Trends: The latest and Greatest
If you’re planning to tie the knot this year but are looking for inspiration, our 2025 wedding trends guide has you covered. With years of experience helping brides and grooms-to-be plan their big day, at The White Hart, we know what’s hot and what’s not, so can help you plan a day that gets everyone talking for all the right reasons. So, let’s jump into the top trends you should consider for your big day.
Unmissable 2025 events in Essex
Annual highlights in the cultural calendar like Essex Book Festival are bolstered by exciting newcomers like Chelmsford City Live 2025.
The Best Christmas Markets in Essex
With December almost here and temperatures getting frosty, thoughts are jumping ahead to the most wonderful time of year! Festive tunes are already playing and fairy lights are already twinkling on many Christmas trees. The festive season is upon us!
Rustic and stylish barn wedding ideas
So, you want a barn wedding – but you're a little stuck for inspiration. Perhaps, in fact, your list of barn wedding ideas doesn't go much further than 'barn' and 'wedding'. Fret not, brides- and grooms-to-be. Here at The White Hart, we began hosting gatherings around the same time Christopher Columbus was sailing to America. It's fair to say we know a thing or two about planning a memorable wedding.
Eco-friendly wedding favours for a greener wedding
As we become more aware of our carbon footprint, more couples are embracing more environmentally conscious celebrations. From food to transport to floral decorations, there are plenty of opportunities to make your wedding more sustainable. So where do you start? Eco-friendly wedding favours are a quick and easy way to make your wedding more mindful of the planet. Having come from far and wide, your guests will appreciate that little token of thanks for coming to join the celebrations. However, done without thought, these can quickly end up in the recycling bin or left behind at the end of the day, creating unnecessary waste.
Spring Wedding Ideas to Make it a Day to Remember
With lengthening days, lighter evenings and the blooming of new life, spring is one of the most beautiful times of the year for a wedding. Take advantage of the gently warming days, glorious spring flowers and the accompaniment of birdsong and uncover our top spring wedding ideas for a day to remember.
Elf Occasions Essex Wedding Venue Decoration
For some planning the decorations and styling for a wedding can be a minefield of different ideas and inspirations. The White Hart Wedding Venue always enjoy working with first class suppliers like Elf Occasions to make sure your wedding looks fabulous. Elf Occasions are based in Witham, Essex and specialise in wedding venue decoration. Emma and her team are brilliant at transforming venues for the big day using creative chair decoration and chair cover hire along with their original and stylish table centrepieces. We asked owner Emma some questions about her business and how she makes sure that the couple get a beautiful looking wedding venue on the day.
Wedding Reviews at The White Hart Great Yeldham, Essex
Following are a few recent reviews from Trip Advisor. At The White Hart we always really appreciate your feedback on Trip Advisor, Facebook, and Google.
Some Recent Reviews of The White Hart Gt Yeldham
Thank you so much for the following reviews. We try to listen to all our customers to make sure we can provide the best possible experience for you. if you’ve enjoyed yourself at The White Hart then please review us on Trip Advisor or Google.
Gold Wedding Package Offer
We’re really pleased to announce that we are now offering our Gold Wedding Package for a discounted cost of £5995 including VAT for all remaining dates in 2018.
Dan and Sara’s Wedding Video
Check out the video below of Dan and his beautiful bride Sara’s wedding day at The White Hart. We think that the job that the Shepperson Wedding Films team have done for this video is great, capturing both a beautiful couple’s special day, along with showing off our venue very nicely.
Organising a hen do?
Following are a few quick tips for the maid of honour on organising the hen do.
How To Be A Great Groom
Want to be the best groom ever? Being a groom has many pressures and responsibilities, however your wedding itself can be a great fun day providing it has been planned well. Brides-to-be are typically the ones to take on most of the wedding planning and whilst this may still be the case, planning has become increasingly shared as with many other traditional gender roles in modern life.
Leila and Stuart Osborne’s Wedding
The White Hart would like say a heartfelt thank you to Leila and Stuart Osborne for sharing some of their wedding photos with us and allowing us to share them with you. We think these are some the nicest wedding photos we have seen of The White Hart and Leila and Stuart look so happy with their day.
How To Be A Great Bridesmaid
If you have the wonderful job of being a Bridesmaid then read on… Being asked to be a Bridesmaid is a great honour and can be great fun. For some this can also be a bit nerve wracking, so we’ve compiled some ideas in our blog to help you know exactly what you have said yes to and how to make sure that you help everything run smoothly from the outset. What follows may well apply to you whether you are one of several Bridesmaids or the Chief Bridesmaid.
Liam and Rachel’s Wedding Video from the White Hart
Liam and Rachel Bone have kindly shared their video with us form their wedding at The White Hart in September this year. It’s edited by videographer Will Warr who we think has done a great job on capturing a great day. Congratulations again to Liam and Rachel and thank you for sharing this!
White Hart Pinterest Boards – Inspiration for your Essex Wedding
Follow the White Hart’s Pinterest Board for ideas and inspiration for your Essex Wedding If your looking for ideas for your wedding the internet is awash with lots of great advice, beautiful wedding dresses, ideas for hairstyles, dresses, cakes, decoration and tips on financial planning to name but a few! This can be a truly bewildering array of choices for everything you may be interested in.
White Hart Wins at the Essex Life Awards
We’re proud to announce that The White Hart Won Essex Best Destination Restaurant 2016 at the Essex Life Awards last night. As always may we say thank you to our staff who’s hard work, effort and attention to detail is always appreciated.
Social Media and Weddings
#essexwedding Increasingly some couples are requesting the absence of Social Media on their wedding day. Obviously the use of Social Media on your big day is a personal decision – we all have our own idea on whether this is intrusive or welcome on the Wedding day!
Minimalist Chic for your Essex Wedding
Whilst for many an Essex wedding may conjure up ideas of bling and spray tans (and everything else TOWIE), many of us still prefer something a little more elegant! 2016 has seen a strong interest in Minimalist Chic weddings, backing away from too much glitz and glamour and opting for something with a more classic sense of style.
Essex Wedding Venue Reviews
Following are a few recent reviews on The White Hart Essex Wedding Venue. If you have enjoyed your wedding at our venue or come to dine or stay here please take the time to review us on Trip Advisor and Facebook.
Summer Essex Wedding Venue Tips
Here are a few Essex Summer Wedding Tips for you….With Summer coming soon we’ve compiled some tips for Summer Weddings. If you wish to speak to us about your wedding planning, just call us on 01787 237 250. Bear in mind we’ve written the following assuming it’s going to be blazingly hot sunshine all Summer (ahem!!).
Essex Wedding Venue trends for 2016
Each year there are a huge number of hotly tipped trends for creating a stylish and fun wedding. We’ve had a look through the trends for 2016 and summarised a few of the ones we like here for you.
White Hart nominated for The Best Fine Dining Restaurant Award
We are delighted to announce that we are nominated for The Best Fine Dining Restaurant Award at The Essex Tourism and Hospitality Awards for 2015. We’d like to thank all our staff for their hard work making this happen and as always we’d like to thank our customers. Wish us luck for tonight’s awards!
Essex Wedding Venue Speeches
Writing speeches for wedding can put the fear of God into many of us who are not used to giving public speeches let alone on what is considered by many to be the most important day of their lives. For the more nervous amongst you with this responsibility this opening line may well have already given you the cold sweats. There are however a few simple things to bear in mind that can help you out to do the job not only the bride and groom would hope, for but also something which has consideration for the wide variety of age, senses of humor and personalities of the wedding guests.