January 23, 2027
A house built in 1868 above the Tweed, a ballroom under three chandeliers, and one evening to see it all by candlelight — as it will be on your wedding day.
Reserve your eveningTweedhaugh House · Lime Avenue, Kelso TD5 7SQ, Scotland
Tweedhaugh House was built in 1868 for a family who entertained here for three generations, and it is still a house made for evenings: the ballroom seats one hundred and sixty at round tables under three crystal chandeliers, the green salon and its library are waiting for the drinks, and the vaulted cellars keep a long table for the people closest to you.
The open evening begins at dusk, because only then can you see the house glow. Walk the rooms by candlelight with our coordinator, sit at a table laid for a wedding, taste the menu in the cellars, and stay for the moment the facade lights up above the water.
18:00
A glass of champagne in the hall, and a string quartet on the stairs.
The hall
18:30
A tour by candlelight: where the drinks are served, where the photographs are taken, and how the salon looks full of guests.
The green salon
19:15
Round tables, white linen, the chandeliers dimmed for dinner — and room to try out your first dance.
The ballroom
20:00
Five courses from the wedding menu at one long table, with wines chosen by our sommelier.
The cellars
21:30
The facade lit for the first time tonight, and coffee on the terrace above the river.
The terrace
Every package includes the house for the whole evening, our team, the furniture, sound and lighting. What changes is the number of guests, and how many rooms are yours alone.
from £125 / guest
Dinner in the green salon and the library, for up to sixty guests.
from £150 / guest
The ballroom under its three chandeliers, and a dance floor until the small hours — for up to one hundred and sixty guests.
on request
Dinner in the cellars on Friday, the wedding on Saturday, breakfast on the terrace on Sunday. The gates close to everyone else.
The kitchen cooks from the farms of the Borders and the house’s own kitchen garden. The tasting is one of our menus; yours we will write with the chef.
Two of the people who make weddings here — on the open evening you will find them in the green salon.
Floristry
Flowers in deep colours — claret roses, dahlias, branches and candles — arranged to catch the light of the chandeliers.
Decoration
Hundreds of candles on the tables, in the candelabra and up the stairs, the chandeliers turned low and the facade lit above the water.
Five places in the house to find before dinner. Collect them all, and the last one is worth something.
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One hundred and sixty at round tables in the ballroom, sixty in the green salon and the library, and twenty-four at the long table in the cellars.
Yes. In Scotland you can marry wherever you choose: in the library, in the ballroom or, in summer, on the terrace above the river. We book the registrar, or your own celebrant, with you.
Until two in the morning. The house stands in its own parkland with no neighbour in earshot, so the music need not stop at midnight — and a ceilidh rarely does.
Ten rooms in the house and eight in the stable block; for everyone else we hold rooms at a hotel in Kelso, ten minutes away, and our minibus takes them back at the end of the night.
Of course. We will show them the rooms the day before and where the candelabra stand, so that the flowers and the candles work together.
Tell us the day you have in mind and we will answer the same day. Saturdays at the end of summer go first.
Ten minutes from the square in Kelso, an hour and a quarter from Edinburgh, and half an hour from Berwick, where the trains between London and Edinburgh stop. The gates are at the end of the lime avenue; there is parking behind the stable block.
The open evening is free, but dinner in the cellars seats only twenty-four. Leave your names and the date you are thinking of, and we will keep two places for you.
The gates open at six. Come before the sun goes down, and watch the lights come on across the house.
