Ascot Mews, Alberton

A fairytale world of romance and luxury awaits your bridal party at Ascot Mews for both traditional and cultural weddings. Our exquisite gardens and chapel provides the most romantic of settings for weddings which has attracted a multitude of couple’s over the years from all cultures, to pamper you perfectly with the most unique service a wedding venue can offer. The Gretna Green Chapel seats 150 guests and is set under thatch. It has been named after a small border town in Scotland, where, going back to the 1700’s and for some 250 years thereafter English law was on the side of the parents and couples under the age of 21 needed parental consent to marry. Across the border in Scotland it was legally possible for boys to get married at 14 and girls at 12 years of age without parental consent. Young eloping couples would dash for the border whilst Gretna's two Blacksmiths shops formed the backdrops for weddings performed in great haste lest the parents were in hot pursuit of the couple. Hundreds of thousands of weddings have taken place in this small town through the years.