January 3, 2027
A house of 1912, a walled garden of four hundred roses, and one Sunday afternoon to see it set for a wedding.
Reserve your placeRosewood House · Rosewood Lane, Funtington, Chichester PO18 9LG, England
Rosewood House was built in 1912 for a family who grew roses for the flower shows, and the walled garden they planted is still its heart: four hundred roses on brick and on trellis, a pergola long enough to walk a bride down, and a lawn with a white gazebo where couples now marry. The garden room seats ninety for dinner; the lawn and a marquee, one hundred and forty.
The open day is an invitation in the old sense. Come through the gate, walk the garden with our gardener, sit under the pergola where the ceremony will be, taste the wedding menu in the garden room — and stop at the stationer’s table, where your invitations can be drawn before you leave.
14:00
Rose lemonade on the terrace, and the garden to yourselves.
Terrace
14:30
Through the walled garden and under the pergola: which roses will be out on your date, and where the light falls at five.
Walled garden
15:30
Chairs on the lawn, the gazebo dressed in white, a string trio playing the walk down.
Lawn
16:30
Invitations, menus and place cards on cotton paper — and a wax seal to press with your own initials.
Garden room
17:30
Three tiers of the house cake, rose and raspberry, cut on the terrace.
Terrace
Every package includes the house and the garden for the day, our team, the furniture, sound and light. What changes is how many guests, and how long the garden is yours.
from £110 / guest
Ceremony under the pergola and dinner in the garden room, for up to ninety guests.
from £135 / guest
The lawn, the gazebo and a white marquee among the roses — up to one hundred and forty guests.
on request
Friday supper, the wedding on Saturday, breakfast in the garden on Sunday. The gate closes to everyone else.
The kitchen cooks from the house’s own kitchen garden and the farms of the Downs. The tasting is one of its menus; yours will follow the season you marry in.
Two of the people who make weddings here — on the open day you will find them in the garden room.
Decoration
Letterpress invitations on cotton paper, menus, place cards and wax seals pressed by hand — the first thing your guests open.
Floristry
The pergola, the tables and the bouquet, cut from the walled garden on the morning itself.
Five corners of the garden to find before tea. Collect them all and the last one is worth something.
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Ninety seated in the garden room; one hundred and forty with the marquee on the lawn. The lawn holds everyone for the ceremony.
The ceremony moves into the garden room, whose doors open onto the pergola — the same roses, through the glass. The marquee has walls ready to roll down.
Something always is: the walled garden was planted to flower in waves. On the walk our gardener will tell you which beds will be at their best on your day.
Six rooms in the house and four in the lodge; for the rest we hold rooms in Chichester, fifteen minutes away, and a car runs from the gate at the end of the night.
Yes — that is what the stationer’s table is for. Bring an idea, leave with a proof, and the seals are pressed with your initials.
Tell us the day you have in mind and we will answer within the day. Saturdays in June go first.
Ten minutes from Chichester, an hour and a half from London. The lane begins at the church in Funtington; parking is in the orchard behind the house.
The open day is free. Leave your names and the date you are thinking of, and we will keep two chairs for you under the pergola.
The gate opens at two. Bring your mothers, bring your questions, and stay for tea on the terrace.
