Bellissimo manages the beautiful Dorset wedding venue, Came House, Dorchester. This enchanting Palladian country house and estate, built in 1754, offers exclusive-use luxury weekend weddings with on-site accommodation for up to 32 guests. The venue is licensed for both indoor ceremonies in the stunning domed glass Orangery and outdoor ceremonies within the grounds. Located in the heart of Thomas Hardy’s Dorset, just ten minutes from the Jurassic Coast, Came House offers two-night stays with catered breakfast, no corkage, and a late-night bar for after-party celebrations.
If you have booked your wedding at Came House, you will work with a member of the Bellissimo team as your dedicated Wedding Manager and Co-ordinator. Included within your venue hire fee are venue management and on-the-day wedding co-ordination services. This means one of our experienced team members will manage your booking, support you with venue-specific questions throughout your planning journey, and oversee your wedding day on behalf of the venue.
If you feel you would benefit from additional support beyond this, we also offer an optional planning service upgrade. This can be tailored to your needs — whether that’s a block of planning time to take tasks off your hands and reduce the “wedmin”, or full wedding planning services where we work closely with you to bring your vision to life, while ensuring you remain in full control of every decision.
Get in touch to discuss your requirements and we’ll create a bespoke service to suit you.
It was a natural progression for us to develop the business further and we launched our very own venue in 2011. We successfully managed that venue for 8 years - winning regional and national awards and operating up to 60 weddings a season. As a result of that success, other venues and potential venues wanted to share in our experience and success and assist them with managing their own venues - or helping them to start one from scratch. So - our Consultancy and Venue Management arm to the business was born.
Over the past 10 years we have helped set up and launched numerous venues and our services are then often sought after to help manage the wedding bookings. We can put a small team in to manage weddings for a venue - which is often more cost effective and manageable than bringing in your own staff "on the books".
We have launched and managed country houses, venues with land who are purely marquee based and a stunning Dorset vineyard.
We have also worked in a consultancy / advisory capacity to various venues who have needed us to work with them behind the scenes to launch or to implement change to make their venue more efficient or to improve the customer journey.
Do you have land or property that could make a beautiful wedding venue? Do you want to investigate if your land or property could have the potential to work as a wedding venue? Perhaps you have a venue but you need someone to advise you on how to make it profitable or more successful?
Engage our consultancy services and we can:-
Portia & WIll
Jazmine & Ollie
Dulcie & Bobby
KelSey & Daniel
Chloe & Alex
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