What we offer at a glance
- Licensed for up to 140 guests at a ceremony
- The museum is an attractive heritage waterside building on two floors, with exposed brick walls, colourful exhibits, and a fine timber roof
- You can have a ceremony on one floor and a drinks reception on the other
- The earliest ceremony time on Tuesdays to Sundays is 1700
- We host small ceremonies on either floor as well as larger ones
- We can provide the labour for set-up, and the furniture, if you wish
- We can provide bar staff for an optional drinks reception afterwards
- You can arrive by boat or go on to celebrate your wedding on a boat, we have our own mooring
- Street parking is available after 1830 Monday to Friday, after 1330 Saturdays, and all day Sundays
- The museum offers a range of audio-visual equipment and services including glass hire, lighting hire, if wanted
- On Tuesdays to Sundays access is from 1630. We are experienced at a rapid set-up time
An Exclusive Venue on Two Floors
Ceremonies may be held on the ground floor or on the first floor.
Ceremonies can be held at 1700 or later on any evening of the week, or at any time on Mondays.
Arrive or leave by boat
There are two possibilities. Firstly, you can arrive for the ceremony with or without all the guests by boat. Secondly, you may wish to have a wedding reception on a boat, following a ceremony in the museum. (It is not possible for a legal wedding ceremony to take place on a boat but we're the closest thing!) In either case, it will make your wedding day that much more memorable.
Arriving for the ceremony by boat
Possible options for this include:
- All the guests are asked to go to a point along the canal to be brought to the museum for the ceremony by water. The start point could be Paddington, Canden, Islington, or Hackney
- The happy couple arrive on a smaller boat to be greeted by the guests before the ceremony
- The two partners arrive from different directions on two small boats
Leave by boat
If the ceremony takes place at 1700 or soon after, you can go off and celebrate on board one of the boats that operate on The Regent's Canal. The largest boat takes 98 people standing or about 40 for a seated meal. You won't be able to have a late night or dancing on board.
