The Wedding Venue List

Every licensed venue in England and Wales

Licensed wedding venues in Kent

228 venues across the 13 council areas of Kent are approved to hold a civil marriage or civil partnership, grouped by council area below. They are approved by Kent council and Medway council — check each council’s own list of approved venues before booking.

Every venue from the official GOV.UK and council lists

Council lists checked 29 September 2026

7,332 venues, 317 council areas — nothing estimated

228 venues

Ashford — 25 venues

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Canterbury — 20 venues

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Dartford — 4 venues

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Dover — 24 venues

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Folkestone and Hythe — 17 venues

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Gravesham — 8 venues

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Maidstone — 25 venues

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Medway — 17 venues

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Sevenoaks — 25 venues

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Swale — 21 venues

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Thanet — 16 venues

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Tonbridge and Malling — 10 venues

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Tunbridge Wells — 15 venues

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Elsewhere in Kent — 1 venue

Approved by Kent rather than by a district council, or with an address we could not pin to a single council area.

A record shown as lapsed means a renewal has not been recorded centrally, not that the venue cannot hold a wedding — more on the dates and the source.

Cover photograph by Steven Penton (CC BY 2.0), from Wikimedia Commons. Other photographs from Wikimedia Commons, by Alan Murray-Rust (CC BY-SA 2.0), Prioryman (CC BY-SA 4.0), D-G-Seamon (CC BY-SA 2.0), Nigel Chadwick (CC BY-SA 2.0), Nigel Chadwick (CC BY-SA 2.0), KJP1 (CC BY-SA 3.0), Hjamesberglen (CC BY-SA 4.0), Ian Capper (CC BY-SA 2.0), OathOn (CC BY-SA 4.0), Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent (CC BY 2.5), Dhowes9 (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tim Sheerman-Chase (CC BY 2.0), Paul Englefield from Leamington Spa, UK (CC BY 2.0), Misterzee (CC BY 3.0), Robin Webster (CC BY-SA 2.0), Robin Webster (CC BY-SA 2.0), Judith Bennett (CC BY-SA 2.0), Acabashi (CC BY-SA 4.0), Paul Gillett (CC BY-SA 2.0), Michael Dibb (CC BY-SA 2.0), N Chadwick (CC BY-SA 2.0), J An (CC BY-SA 4.0), dennis smith (CC BY-SA 2.0), Ethan Doyle White (CC BY-SA 4.0), Chris Whippet (CC BY-SA 2.0), Chris Whippet (CC BY-SA 2.0), Chris Whippet (CC BY-SA 2.0), N Chadwick (CC BY-SA 2.0), Chris Whippet (CC BY-SA 2.0), N Chadwick (CC BY-SA 2.0), Chris Whippet (CC BY-SA 2.0), Gerald England (CC BY-SA 2.0), Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent (CC BY-SA 3.0), DeFacto (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where a venue has no photograph here, the picture is a screenshot of the venue’s own website, shown so you can recognise the place. Copyright stays with the venue. If you run one of these venues and would rather it was not shown, email us and it comes down.

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