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Last update: May 2023

Where Hampshire meets Surrey - surrounded by landscaped grounds, Cain Manor’s Tudor charm will steal your heart from the moment you reach the end of the winding woodland drive.

This quintessential English hideaway is set in a perfectly secluded setting and lends itself seamlessly to the luxury weddings held year after year.

Facilities and Capacity

You wander through the oak doorway, picturing that flower arch you’ve had in mind for a few weeks, and you can see that it would work perfectly! A wedding planner leads you through to the Music Room, you look up to see a ceiling of oak beams (repurposed from ancient ships, no less), and you’re not surprised that the house is as charming on the inside as it is on the out.

Light floods through the Cathedral window, highlighting the exact spot where you would say your I do’s. Through the window, you see the endless gardens and an alfresco option for the ceremony with views overlooking the Surrey Hills - romantic would be an understatement.

The manor house and its grounds are exclusively yours for 24 hours, so think of it as your home for the day (and night). It’s licensed to host wedding ceremonies both inside and out, with up to 123 guests, and 170 for an evening reception.

With exclusive use, you might also find time to enjoy the tennis courts and swimming pool.

Thinking about making the most of it with a weekend wedding? Our wedding planning team can make it work for you! Get in touch and we will put all our knowledge and planning skills to make your weekding wedding a truly memorable occasion.

Accommodation

At the end of an eventful day, it’s good to know your beautiful Bridal Suite, complete with roll-top bath, is just a few short steps away.

Ten further bedrooms await your guests, meaning that your nearest and dearest can join you for breakfast the following morning to share their happy memories of your day.

Naturally, breakfast is included, served the following morning for you and your resident guests.

Visiting Cain Manor

Websites and brochures are all very well, but we all know that nothing beats meeting in real life to know whether you’ve found the one. We host several weekend Open Houses at each venue each month so that couples who are yet to decide on their wedding venue can visit for a tour, a chat, and a glass of something celebratory.

Please email us at yourday@harperweddings.co.uk or call us on 0345 130 9966 to book your appointment.

Frequently asked questions

Venue Type:

In the Country
Historic
Barn
Outdoor License
Unique Weddings

Ceremony Options:

Civil Ceremony Licence

Dining Options:

Seated Meal Facilities
Alcohol Licence
Buffet Meal Facilities
In House Catering

Evening Entertainment:

Dance Floor
Entertainment Licence
Live Band Facilities
Evening Reception Facilities
DJ Facilities

Overnight Accommodation:

Overnight Accommodation for Wedding Couple
Overnight Accommodation for Guests

Venue Staff Assistance:

Master of Ceremonies/ Toastmaster
Wedding Coordinator

Venue Leisure Facilities:

Swimming Pool

Other Features:

Exclusive Use
Disabled Facilities
Car Parking
Confetti Permitted
Changing Room for Wedding Guests
Pet Friendly
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4.9 out of 5 rating
182 reviews
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98% Recommended by couples

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Katie B. Married on 20/05/2023
4.8 out of 5 rating

Amazing day

What an amazing day! From start to finish this venue went above and beyond to help give us the wedding of our dreams. It was a beautiful setting and so needed very little extra decoration. The food was lovely and the dj read the room brilliantly. The staff knew exactly what they were doing and I didn’t need to check anything. So many guests said it was the best wedding they’d ever been too. Thanks so much for a day we will never forget!
Charlotte
Charlotte H. Married on 29/04/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful venue with fantastic staff

Where to begin…. Cain Manor is a fabulous, beautiful, characterful venue with a fantastic amazing team of staff.
Our Wedding Day was perfect, their team even organized the weather with a lovely sunny spring day so we could have our ceremony outside!
From the moment we first viewed the venue, with Danielle showing us around, we fell in love with it! And then going forward they continued to make us feel so welcome on each visit. The Harper Wedding Planner is a life-saver and along with the Wedding Planning Wednesdays, with Emy, Ashely & Maddie, and the online messaging system made the planning process was so smooth and stress-free!
On the day itself, every single staff member was fantastic. We felt the whole day ran so effortlessly and that is credit to the Team.
From when I arrived in the morning to the Prep Room to get ready in, to them getting Luke into the Stable Block, so they could move me to the Bridal Suite to finish getting ready, would not have gone so well without their coordination and help!
The Food was so tasty from the tasting platter menu tasting to the plates dishes on the day. Every guest we have spoken with only had good things to say! The venue itself is so beautiful, so many guests loving the character of the house and the grounds!
Bonnie, our doggy, loved the place as well! And it is a great dog-friendly venue!
Special mention to Danielle, Freya, Eloise, Jane and actually everyone at Cain Manor and the wider Harper Staff Team for helping is have an UNFORGETABLE wedding day!
We can’t thank the team enough and very highly recommend to anyone asking!
Charlotte & Luke – 29 April 2023
(Photo by David @marriedtomycamera)
Jemma
Jemma R. Married on 23/09/2022
4.6 out of 5 rating

Mixed bag, but overall my wedding was magical

Firstly, Cain Manor is STUNNING. it's exactly what i had in mind when I imagined my dream wedding. What's super important to remember though is that this isn't just a wedding venue, it's a sole use wedding experience ran by Bijou (now Harper) weddings. This has its pros and cons - the online planner for example is fantastic. However, you're not just committing to the beautiful venue, you're also committing to Harper's somewhat stringent T&C's. Their job is to make life easier, which in most instances they did, however i would advise others looking at this venue to do their homework and make sure they know exactly what they are agreeing to before they commit. There were a fair few "extra" costs i.e. £695 for a dance floor that we hadn't thought about, we'd assumed things like this to be included. Maybe we were a bit naive. We got our dance floor externally in the end for a much cheaper price but had to jump through a few bureaucratic hoops and do a bit of planning on our side to make this happen. if you're happy to pay the extra costs, your life will be easier, and also worth noting is that this venue is so beautiful that you may feel you don't need any extras. We had our florist do room dressing etc which worked out best all round.
Another issue was use of their DJ, I understand from a insurance point of view this is easier all round, but yet again at a cost of £695 . The DJ we used was half this price, but again a bit of bureaucracy to jump through with his PAT testing etc. Spot the theme here.
On the day the team were wonderful, the food exquisite and overall my wedding day was everything I needed it to be. Harper were prompt with my refund and are currently helping me to investigate a missing wedding gift. Everyone on the team has been lovely, especially when I had the odd frustration; they came across as very understanding. Maddie on the planning team and Freya and Antoine on the day all deserve a special mention - they were fantastic.
Overall I'd say 4/5. Thank you Harper/Bijou.

Jemma and Michael 23.09.22
William
William V. Married on 21/08/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Our special day finally arrived!

We were due to get married at Cain in 2020 however like many couples covid put paid to our original plans. We found Bijou to be amazing during this incredibly stressful and uncertain time and after rescheduled our original date 3 times my partner and I were finally able to tie the knot this summer.

It was worth the wait, Cain Manor is spectacular and Dean and his team were simply brilliant. We really relaxed and fully enjoyed ourselves, as did our families, knowing everything was completely taken care of. We really felt that the Cain Manor was our home for the day and cannot recommend it highly enough.
Adam
Adam G. Married on 09/05/2020
1 out of 5 rating

20% discount - for no wedding!

After my experience, I'd like to simply suggest potential customers google some of the following media stories- which all name this company (and I'm in some of the stories). This is by no means an exhaustive list of their recent coverage.

1) 'Which' website - 'Couples jilted at altar by wedding venues cancelling big day – and pocketing their cash'
2) BBC website - ''Our wedding is cancelled but we still have to pay'
3) BBC One Show "Watchdog - Weddings"
4) Guardian - "Cancelled weddings – refusal to issue refund may be breach of law"
5) Surrey live - "Couple 'heartbroken' after Bijou Weddings cancels big day and asks for 80% cancellation fee"

As a statement of fact, Bijou still have £13,000 of my money for a wedding in May 2020, that they cancelled, and will not refund us.

Adam French, the Senior Consumer rights editor for 'Which', confirmed on ITV news on 26 May 2020 that "as part of this investigation, we have passed on the details of 12 venues - including the Bijou Group - to the regulator (The Competition and Markets Authority" for further investigation'.

Those organisations working in customer services would do well to consider that their reputation is a more valuable long term asset than any bank balance which has been inflated - based on what what some might think to be deliberate contractual ambiguity. Of course, we were presumably all supposed to know from the outset that Bijou could cancel our wedding and charge us 80% of the total cost!
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Clara E. Married on 28/04/2023
4.6 out of 5 rating

Easily the best day of our lives so far

We got married at Cain Manor in April 2023 and everything about the day was amazing, the staff were so helpful, friendly and extremely organised, the food was outstanding, the venue looked beautiful! All of the guests complimented the venue and said it was all amazing. I would definitely recommend Cain Manor to get married in. We couldn’t have asked for a better day!
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Brooke R. Married on 27/04/2023
5 out of 5 rating

April 2023

We got married April 23
The whole experience from reserving the day to the final was 10/10.
The staff were constantly on hand with any questions or concerns we might have. Their planning system was really helpful.
On the day of our wedding the staff were outstanding!!
All extremely friendly. Happy to be there and help.
A lot of guest at our wedding were over the moon with the food. It was incredible and a lot of comment ‘best food they’ve had at a wedding’ and it really was.
I honestly can’t recommend this venue enough. It had everything we wanted and want to relive the day again!!
Thankyou all the team at harper weddings and Cain manor
Brooke and Carl
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Jasmine B. Married on 21/05/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Perfect Day

From beginning to end our day couldn’t have gone any better. Thank you for the best day of our lives, last Saturday! We had the most amazing day, venue looked stunning, staff were fantastic and food was unreal! Dean and the team went above and beyond to make sure everything was in order. I was so calm throughout and couldn’t have chosen a better venue! Thank you for all the support over the last year or so, you’ve all been really helpful.
Hope to visit the venue in years to come and reminisce!
J
John H. Married on 08/04/2022
5 out of 5 rating

An amazing place

A stunning venue and wonderful staff. Their kindness, diligence and patience in answering our endless enquiries (!) was really amazing. The whole occasion went so smoothly, the friendliness and warmth of the entire staff both in the preparation and on the day itself creating the happiest atmosphere. We have been inundated with compliments in the past few weeks both about the venue and about how welcoming everybody on the team was. Exceptional from first to last.
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Mr & M. Married on 20/08/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Cain Manor - The Perfect Day

Our wedding took place at Cain manor on 20.08.21 and the day went off without a hitch. Due to the pandemic, our wedding was postponed on more than one occasion and bijou were more that accommodating to all of our needs. Owner Jo even got in contact to put our minds at ease.

Service from Cain Manor was second to none from the moment we put down our deposit to the moment we departed after our wedding. The venue itself is absolutely stunning making for the most perfect pictures.

The venue offer a wedding planner as part of our package. Maddie was an absolute delight to work with and was able to get back to all our queries and ensure we got the most out of our special day. They also have close connection to a selection of incredible suppliers from florists to photographers all also offering exceptional service.

We are absolutely over the moon with all aspects of our wedding day. Many thanks to the Cain Manor Bijou Team.
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Samantha M. Married on 25/07/2020
1.2 out of 5 rating

No suitable date offered and Still awaiting my refund

Having been laughed at, told I’m too emotional and have too high expectations, we’re not what I expected during lockdown when asking to have my wedding rearranged to the available Saturdays in July 2021!

After many discussions, jo, the owner of the business is still yet to give us any of our £16k refund. We’ve not had a single penny back and they refused to offer the dates that were available. A Saturday in July at peak season was what we paid for and the options given were mon to Sunday sept to March. Pleased I didn’t give in to the bullying to take them as they can’t hold 80+ guest list weddings but are still charging for us for that!
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April Married on 08/08/2019
5 out of 5 rating

We are all still on cloud 9!

Just a quick email to say thank you to all the team at Bijou (huge thanks to Dean).

Our day was incredibly special and we are all still on cloud 9! The professional attitude of all staff was noted by all guests and you all went the extra mile in insuring that our day was faultless from start to finish!

We would highly recommend Cain Manor to anybody and it will always hold a special place in our hearts.

Again, a huge thank you :)
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Helen Married on 22/06/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Incredible staff

Just a quick and enormous thank you to all of the wonderful staff at Cain Manor who made our wedding day on Saturday so special. The staff all day and evening on Saturday, and Sunday morning too were incredible. Very well done and a huge thank you to the whole team.
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Mark Married on 10/06/2019
1 out of 5 rating

Stay of clear of this place!!

The owners claimed that my recent review was fraudulent. (By Mark and Sunny, on 18 Jun 2019 Date of Wedding - 06 May 2019). This is not it is a true reflection of our experience. What makes matters worse is that the bride and groom had gifts and money stolen at the venue in the evening and therefore I must say keep very clear of this place and do not book! It is not safe..
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Mother Married on 18/05/2019
5 out of 5 rating

The perfect venue for my daughter

We could not have wished for more - many guests were saying it was the best wedding they have ever been to, which obviously made us very happy indeed. Dean and his team were so professional, kind and friendly at all times. Nothing was too much trouble for them. Once again thanks to all at Bijou HQ especially Maddie, who never kept us waiting when we had a query or were unsure about something - it made us feel so comfortable that Cain Manor was the perfect venue for Katy & Matt.
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