Mar Lodge Estate

We are so happy we chose Mar Lodge for our wedding. It was amazing to have everyone on site through the weekend, with so many different spaces for guests to enjoy. We valued the flexibility to bring in our own suppliers and to DIY parts of the event. It's a gorgeous venue in beautiful surrounds and we loved the autumn colours.

We had the perfect wedding weekend at Mar Lodge. The Mar Lodge team were incredible and so helpful every step of the way in planning the wedding and especially amazing on the weekend itself. We loved that Mar Lodge is so flexible as a wedding venue to enable you to create your own unique wedding. We absolutely loved the fact we had the whole venue for the weekend and all our friends could stay on the estate. It really felt like there were no hidden costs as the venue comes with all the furniture etc that you need and even has its own store of wedding decorations for anyone to use which was fantastic. We would definitely recommend.

Dear Louise First and foremost, thank you very much for your superb organisation at Graham and Casey’s wedding last weekend. Mar Lodge itself is a very special place but it was your calm manner and your meticulous attention to detail which made it just extra special for both our families. The National Trust is very lucky to have you! Many thanks once again for everything - we hope to see you again soon. Yours aye Robert and Janice

We had our wedding here in May 2024, the venue was perfect for a small wedding party of 30, with exclusive use of the lodge from the Friday to the Monday. Everyone was blown away by the venue and surroundings. The team at the lodge were incredible, both leading up to the day and on the day, they had prompted us to think about every detail and this meant the day went so smoothly, I was suprised at how relaxed I felt. I would 100% recommend as a wedding venue.

A truly wonderful apartment in an amazing location. The service provided by Louise and her team was second to none. She was quick to respond to email queries before the visit and provided a friendly welcome as well as being on hand during the week to ensure that we had a wonderful holiday at Mar Lodge.

Amazing place and stunning location, the on site staff very friendly and made us and our dogs very welcome

We absolutely love Mar Lodge - it is a very magical place, and the apartments are extremely spacious and well equipped

Mar Lodge was the most unreal wedding venue!! It provided us with such a large multifunctional venue for a weekend full of fun - from swims in the river, running around the grounds, different function rooms for pub quizzes and brunches and dinners, to the truly iconic stag ballroom - perfect for a Scottish wedding. The lodge are SO flexible and accommodating of any suggestion or plan, and have so many brilliant suggestions themselves. There is even a beautiful little chapel for a small service, or do as we did and have the ceremony just outside the chapel! What was so important for us too was that everyone could stay somewhere, most of our guests on the estate itself. It’s also surprisingly affordable and absolutely stunning - an absolute “must view” if planning a wedding!!!

Everything about our wedding at the Mar Lodge was wonderful. We wanted an autumn wedding and the Mar Lodge is perfect for this - the colours around Braemar are absolutely gorgeous in October, and the Lodge itself lends itself perfectly to the season. We had a small to medium size wedding of about 55 guests, with the wedding in the Drawing Room and the reception in the Craggan room - we did not book the Stag Ballroom, which is best for a bigger party than ours. The function rooms we used were the perfect size for our party, they were big enough to fit us without feeling cavernous like some bigger venues would feel with such a party size. It was extra special having the accommodation on-site for the whole weekend, which let the families spend time together beyond the big day. The accommodation is set up as a series of self-catering apartments and you really feel like you are staying in a National Trust property, they are beautifully decorated. Louise the venue coordinator and everyone else on site were all super helpful, everything went off without a hitch - thank you again to everyone on the team! We really appreciated the Lodge's recommended suppliers list, we went as local as possible and it was super helpful as all the suppliers knew the venue and knew what would work best. We were organising from a distance down in Edinburgh so it was great to be able to trust the suppliers and the local Lodge team between our visits up north. We would wholeheartedly recommend the Lodge for a wedding - all our friends and family raved afterwards how wonderful it was. We had a beautiful day we'll never forget!

Dear Louise and the team at Mar Lodge Thank you so much for hosting us over our wedding weekend at Mar Lodge. It was such a special weekend for us, and all of the guests were blown away by Mar Lodge and the grounds. It was such a lovely relaxed and welcoming atmosphere over the whole weekend and the sun coming out at the BBQ on the Sunday was the cherry on top! Best wishes Kerry & Idwer