One Room
from £100 / guest
Ceremony and dinner in the white room, for up to forty guests.
- Ceremony under the arches
- Sussex sparkling on the terrace
- Four-course wedding menu
- Sound and lighting
- The room until midnight
January 10, 2027
A Private View at Lantern House
A modernist house built in 1936, white rooms where exhibitions hang between weddings, and one Sunday to see it the way you would see a gallery — room by room.
Come to the private view57days
11hours
12minutes
Lantern House · 9 De La Warr Parade, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1LA, England
About
White walls, where everything shows
Lantern House was built on the seafront at Bexhill in 1936, the year after the De La Warr Pavilion opened along the promenade and made the town a byword for seaside modernism. The house has all of it: white walls, windows that frame the sea like pictures, and a staircase that is a sculpture in its own right, winding up inside the glass tower that gives the house its name. Today the ground floor holds three gallery rooms — one for the ceremony, one for dinner for ninety, one for dancing — and the terrace looks out over the Channel.
On the open day the house is the exhibition. Walk through it as you would a gallery: the arches set for a ceremony, our photographers’ wedding pictures on the walls of the second room, and the table laid exactly as we would lay it for you. And at the end, coffee and cake on the terrace above the sea.
Programme
Three rooms
12:00
The show opens
A glass of Sussex sparkling in the hall and a plan of the house in your hand, as at any gallery.
The hall
12:30
Room one: the ceremony
Arches of candles and flowers, rows of chairs, and how a civil ceremony works here — the house is licensed for them.
The arch room
13:30
Room two: the photographs
Black-and-white wedding photographs on the walls, and a chance to meet the photographer who took them.
The gallery
14:30
Room three: the table
White linen, glass and stoneware — and a tasting of four courses from the wedding menu.
The white room
15:30
The terrace above the sea
Coffee, lemon cake and the view your guests will remember.
The terrace
Gallery
From our walls
Offer
Three ways to marry in a gallery
Every package gives you the house for the whole day, with our team, the furniture, sound and lighting. What changes is the number of guests, and how many rooms the wedding fills.
The Ground Floor
from £120 / guest
All three gallery rooms and the terrace — ceremony, dinner and dancing, for up to ninety guests.
- Everything in One Room
- A room of its own for dancing
- An exhibition of your wedding photographs a week later
- A bar on the terrace above the sea
- The house until 2 a.m.
The Whole House
on request
Dinner on the Friday, the wedding on Saturday, breakfast on the terrace on Sunday. The house is yours alone.
- Exclusive use for three days
- A rehearsal dinner on the terrace
- The suites upstairs for you and your parents
- Sunday breakfast looking out to sea
- A coordinator from the first conversation to the last guest
Menu
A kitchen in plain sight
The kitchen cooks with fish from the Hastings boats and vegetables from the Weald, and serves it on white stoneware made for the house. The tasting is one of our menus; yours we will put together with you.
Vendors
The artists we work with
Two of the people who make weddings here — during the private view you will find them in the gallery and in the white room.
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Photography
Halide Studio
Wedding photography in black and white — close up, never posed. Their prints are the ones hanging in room two.
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Floristry
Single Stem
Flowers one at a time: a branch, a stem, eucalyptus in a plain vase. Just enough that you notice every one.
Passport
The Private View Passport
Five stops around the house to find before the cake. Collect them all, and the last one is worth having.
0/5 experiences collected
- The hall and the plan
- The arch room
- The photography gallery
- The white room
- The terrace above the sea
FAQ
What couples ask us
How many guests does the house hold?
Ninety seated in the white room; a hundred and twenty for drinks once the terrace is open. The arch room seats a hundred for the ceremony.
What happens to the art on the walls?
For a wedding we take the exhibition down, or leave up whichever pieces you choose. The white walls are there for your flowers, not for somebody else’s paintings.
What if it rains?
Everything happens indoors, and the terrace has a glass roof. Rain over the Channel looks good in photographs too, seen from the dry side of the glass.
Where do our guests stay?
The two suites upstairs are for you and your parents; for your guests we hold rooms in the hotels along the seafront, five minutes on foot.
Can we bring our own photographer?
Of course. Halide Studio is a suggestion, not a condition — and we will show any photographer where the best light in the house falls.
Your date
Is your date free?
Tell us the day you have in mind and we will reply the same day. Summer Saturdays are the first to go.
Directions
Finding us
On the seafront at Bexhill, ten minutes’ walk from the station and under two hours by train from London. Park on the street or in the seafront car park; steps lead up to the house from the promenade.
Contact
Talk to us
Registration
Come to the private view
Entry is free, but the tasting table in the white room is laid for twenty couples. Leave your names and the date you are thinking of, and we will keep a place for you.
See you on Sunday
The show opens at noon. Come with your questions, your parents or your photographer — and stay for coffee above the sea.