Telford hotel named Best Wedding Venue for historic building in West Midlands

Staff at Hadley Park House Hotel celebrated their victory at The Wedding Industry Awards (TWIA).

The venue won the Best Wedding Venue for a historic building and will now move forward to the virtual national finals in January.

Each year, TWIA recognises excellent wedding suppliers and venues in 25 categories across the UK.

The awards have become the gold standard for wedding organisers and means couples can choose suppliers based on a recognised quality within the wedding industry.

The Best Historic Building category is new for 2020. The hotel previously won the regional heats for Best Town Wedding Venue in 2016, 2017, 2018 and reached the regional finals in 2019.

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Hotel owner, Mark Lewis said he was delighted to end the year on such a high.

He said: “This is the ultimate accolade and recognition of the care that we take in managing one of the most important days of any couple as the awards are voted on by wedding clients as well as subject to a rigorous process by independent judges.

“This year has been particularly difficult and winning this award means so much to the wonderful team that made this possible in what are very difficult times in our industry.

"Thank you to all those that voted for us and to all our partner suppliers that also played their part in this success. At last a positive out of this horrible year.”

Normally, the hotel would host hundreds of weddings serving thousands of guests, but the majority of weddings this year were rescheduled to 2021 and beyond although the hotel was able to host a small number of intimate Covid secure weddings and hold wedding open days with timed slots.

The hotel, part of which is an 18th Century Grade 2 Listed Georgian manor house, refurbished its two-acre gardens during the first national lockdown and created a sunken garden to offer outdoor weddings during the summer.