The Wedding Venue List

Every licensed venue in England and Wales

Licensed wedding venues in Kent

227 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.

See these 226 on the map

227 venues

Ashford — 25 venues

Canterbury — 20 venues

Dartford — 4 venues

Dover — 24 venues

Folkestone and Hythe — 17 venues

Gravesham — 8 venues

Maidstone — 25 venues

Medway — 17 venues

Sevenoaks — 24 venues

Swale — 21 venues

Thanet — 16 venues

Tonbridge and Malling — 10 venues

Tunbridge Wells — 15 venues

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.

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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