December 12, 2026
See the room the way it is at nine o’clock on a wedding night — lit, laid, loud — before you decide anything.
Reserve your placeThe Astoria · 9 Foxhall Street, London WC2E 9AA, England
The Astoria’s ballroom is the oldest in London: parquet from 1912, five crystal chandeliers, a balcony that runs the length of the room, and windows onto the street. Two hundred and forty guests dine here; three hundred and fifty stand for a reception. The bar in the lobby is its own reason to come.
The open evening is the ballroom as it is on a wedding night, not a viewing in daylight: tables laid, the band playing, the kitchen serving the menu, the cake cut at ten. Dress up if you like. Leave with a date.
18:00
The bar open, the lobby lit, and our team to meet every couple.
Lobby bar
19:00
Two hundred and forty places laid, the chandeliers on, the balcony open.
Ballroom
19:30
Five courses of the wedding menu, served the way they are served at a wedding.
Ballroom
21:00
The quartet that plays our first dances, then the DJ. Hear the room.
Dance floor
22:00
Cut on the floor, eaten on the balcony with the windows open.
Balcony
Every package includes the ballroom for the night, the lobby bar for the reception, our team, the furniture, the sound and the light. What changes is the hours and the hotel around it.
from £180 / guest
Reception in the lobby, dinner and dancing in the ballroom until two — up to 240 guests.
from £215 / guest
The ballroom and the balcony, the band and the DJ, the bar until four, and a floor of rooms for your guests.
on request
A hundred rooms, the ballroom, the restaurant and the bar for a weekend. The doors close to everyone else.
The kitchen is the hotel’s restaurant, and the wedding menu is its best evening. The tasting is one of its menus; yours will be the season you marry in.
The suppliers who know this room — where the light is, where the band stands, how the cake gets down the stairs. They will be in the lobby on the open evening.
Photography
Black and white by choice, and the ballroom is their room. Ask for the balcony shot.
DJ
The second half of every wedding here. He knows the parquet.
Five places in the hotel to find before the last dance. Collect them all and the last one is worth something.
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Two hundred and forty seated with a dance floor; three hundred and fifty for a standing reception. The balcony adds sixty at long tables.
Yes — on the floor, under the central chandelier, with the balcony above. Many couples marry at six and sit down at seven in the same room, turned around.
Upstairs. The hotel has a hundred rooms and we hold a floor for every wedding at a wedding rate; the rest of the West End is a walk.
Until four. The ballroom is two floors below the first room and the windows are the kind that close.
Valet at the door, and the garage under the hotel. Most guests arrive by taxi and leave the same way.
Tell us the day you have in mind and we will answer within the day. Saturdays between May and October go a year ahead.
Foxhall Street, off the Strand — five minutes on foot from Covent Garden, three from Charing Cross. Valet at the door.
The open evening is free. Leave your names and the date you are thinking of, and we will hold places at the tasting for you.
Doors at six. Dress up if you feel like it, bring whoever decides with you, and stay until the cake.
