If you're getting married in West Sussex, I really feel like Cissbury Barns is the perfect place. Especially cause it's so set up for British weather! You have the option of an indoor or outdoor ceremony. There's loads of beautiful outdoor space for a good weather day, and still cover for shade, or potentially more likely, rain. We got both on the day, so really got to experience it's full potential!
The barns are lovely, the bar area is great, the staff are amazing. I especially loved that as I was the bride whenever I went near the bar they immediately looked at me to get me a drink. In day to day life for some reason I'm so slow to get served, and that felt oddly special.
Of course the area is great with fields as well, and we even got to see a horse when we did a mini walk for photos. I love that tables and chairs are included in the cost, as some places charge extra.
There is phone signal for anyone that forgets to order a taxi as well. And it sounds silly, but even the toilets are nice. They look nice, and are clean obviously, but we saw some other lovely barns but very meh toilets. And they have little extras for guests in there and also a bigger stall for the bride for is she has a big dress or needs someone else in there to help with their dress!
Then, the staff. When we got showed around, it was Helen as much as the barns that sold us. She gave us such a great run through of the day that we could tell we would be taken care of and you could just picture it all happening. She had all the answers to any questions we may have had before we even asked them, which gave us so much confidence.
Communication on the build up to the wedding was great, and we were advised it would be Michelle who was then looking after us on the day. She answered all my hundreds of emails and helped everywhere possible. We didn't have anyone coming in to help with decorative things (which in my opinion, the barns are so nice as they are it's really not necessary to be adding more, which is a win!), but they were kind enough to help with doing the chair covers and any little bits we had for us, rather than us having to do it ourselves.
And Michelle was so good on the day and just really making sure everything ran smoothly, she was great at organising everyone, giving encouragement and also firmly instructing people when we were faffing to make sure it didn't all run away from us. And flowers got moved around and things cleared away as it happened, so it always looked fab and also everything was ready for us to take away the next day.
I've been on honeymoon since, but I've heard my family have still been in touch with regards to any lost items and extra bits and they've still been taking care of us.
I can't recommend enough :)