We are delighted to announce that Leez Priory has won an award at Hitched Wedding Awards 2024 in the Historic Wedding Venue Category—this was awarded thanks to all the amazing reviews and testimonials that our couples gave us in 2023! This is the second year running for which we have won this prestigious award!
We were voted County Champion for the hotly contested Essex area in the Bridebook awards in 2022. In 2020, we won the ‘Best Countryside Wedding Venue’ category at the prestigious British Wedding Awards 2020 for the second year running! We were also shortlisted in the Best Historic Wedding Venue category at Hitched’s UK Wedding Awards in 2017 and 2o19.
Our venue was also voted ‘Best UK Wedding Venue’ by the readers of Wedding Ideas Magazine in 2014, and highly commended in the Best Wedding Venue category for the Perfect Wedding Awards in 2013. Finally, the readers of Wedding Ideas voted Leez Priory as best UK wedding venue for two years in a row, 2007 and 2008.
We just wanted to say a massive Thank you for our amazing wedding on Thursday 24th June. Everyone has commented on how blown away they were with the venue and how welcoming the staff were. So thank you all it really means a lot. Food was great too.
A lot of guests made the comment that Leez Priory is by far the best venue they have ever been to and for a wedding.
While the wedding was slightly different to what most people are accustomed to with regards to no dance floor and the music wasn’t pumping; I think its fair to say it made people talk to each other, which made it all that little bit more special, as typically people stick to who they know at family events and weddings; but everyone took the time to speak to each other, which I appreciated more than most.
We know other couples had mentioned Covid weddings were special, but we didn’t appreciate it until it was our wedding, just exactly what they meant, but we do now.
Sue we would like to give you a big hug and say you were totally amazing! Leading up and on the day you managed to keep both myself and James calm throughout the day (even when i had a melt down with the flowers!) You kept on track and stuck to the strict timetable too. Thank you so much, and to the lady helping you Sameria?
We cannot thank you and all of the staff behind the scenes enough, for making our wedding day as truly magical as it could be.
Kristy it was so lovely to finally meet you today and I cannot thank you enough for letting us explore and work with you at Leez Priory. It was truly a dream come true for me and I fell in love with the venue the moment I stepped foot on the grounds.
Thank you so much again – I am already harassing my husband for us to renew our vows at the venue! If you’d ever like to work together again, I’d be over the moon to do so.
We just wanted to say thank-you so so much for everything you did for us on our wedding day! You honestly made the day perfect and everything felt like it went so smoothly!
It was everything I had dreamed of and we were so lucky with the weather in the end!
Also please pass our thanks on to James from the bar, he was amazing!
Absolutely stunning… if you are looking for wedding venue that fulfills your wishes and dreams then Leez Priory is a must.
Kristy
I just want to say a massive thank you to you as you have made this stressful situation a lot easier and for that you are a legend.
Today is our one year anniversary. We feel incredibly lucky that we were able to get married in exactly the way we wanted to and we feel for all those whose weddings have been cancelled since. I imagine our wedding was one of the last that took place at Leez Priory. We had 80 guests during the day and 100 in the evening… no social distancing, no masks. Just fun and enjoyment and being blissfully oblivious of how the world would change.
Today, to celebrate our anniversary, I made my boys dress up in our wedding clothes… including our 8 month old baby Hugo (you might remember I was pregnant when we got married). We listened to our wedding music and had a delicious afternoon tea made for us by a local business. It was wonderful.
It made me think of you and so here I am emailing you to say thank you for being so helpful and for making our day just how we wanted it to be.
I hope you are well and that you will soon be re-opening the doors of Leez Priory.
Thank you, Thank you. Honestly I can’t say it enough, thank you for all your help and support.
Hi Kristy
Firstly, I’d like to thank you for your continued help and support throughout the 2 years we have been in contact and I can’t begin to imagine how busy you must be following the announcement last night.
It’s difficult to express via email but I want to thank you, for every single thing you have done. This has not been a smooth journey but you have been nothing short of miracle workers. You have been extremely amicable, flexible and understanding and Alexander, my family and I, couldn’t be more grateful for everything you have done.