WINTER WEDDINGS are wonderful in their own way. Crisp frosty weather as you awake to a hopefully sunny day, huddling into the warm church and then bundling into awaiting cars to ferry you to your reception destination and lovely warming food and even hot toddies for your wedding breakfast.
Many hotels will only accommodate weddings in the summer but others, like the Eastmount Hall Hotel in Shanklin, will only take wedding bookings in the winter months.
Because they are full of guests in the summer and don’t want to turn their regular and loyal customers away, the Eastmount have decided to only offer wedding packages when they have the time and space to give them their undivided attention.
And the Eastmount can accommodate up to 70 people for a sit down meal at your reception and if pushed can fit 63 people into their 23 bedrooms – although some are in family rooms.
As soon as you see it the honeymoon suite will clinch the deal – a wonderful burgundy and gold themed room with stunning carved wooden four-poster bed and a spa bath with waterfall feature that can be concealed within its own curtained corner of the room.
The bride and her mum can even have their last breakfast together in this room overlooking the bay, and the honeymoon couple can then take their first married breakfast together watching the sunrise over Culver downs.
But it is the prices at which you will be really amazed with packages starting at only £500 and rising through a very reasonable table of rates to £5,000 for hire of the whole hotel, wedding breakfast, evening party and bed and breakfast for 55 of your guests. This is truly a superb deal – you might pay £10,000 for just your reception at another hotel on the Island.
Added to this, this friendly family-run hotel has the best views of the Bay area all the way to Culver when the leaves have fallen from the trees. Mingling in the lounge with your guests or on the small dance floor in this room in the evening and you will have the most amazing view of white culver cliff or the twinkling lights of the Bay area at night.
Jill and Julian Page will be your perfect hosts – Jill is happy to help you with any part of your wedding planning and Julian is a superb chef. When you’ve picked the meal for your wedding, and prices start from £12 for three courses, you can come and sample it free of charge. The hotel even has a treatment room for massages and beauty treatments.
The Eastmount Hall Hotel won IW Radio’s People’s People Award for hospitality in 2008, and it’s not hard to see why – they really go out of their way to make sure everything is perfect and are so approachable and welcoming. Their prices are incredibly good value and they will make sure that everything runs as smoothly as clockwork.
