Sudbury - Sudbury 101 Te Hapua Road

Beautiful venue, amazing food and a great team to work with! Our wedding day was amazing and went without a hitch thanks to Sudbury. Thank you!

Sudbury is a beautiful place with fantastic facilities and exceptional staff and I was fortunate enough to book this venue for my wedding which resulted in the perfect day. Overall: The vista is what initially takes your breath away at Sudbury, (it is also what most of your guests will update their social media profile with pictures of it at sunset) but the true magic of the place is Janine and her team. Janine has set up the venue to function perfectly with great flow as you move through the day and all the staff are friendly and professional. I would highly recommend this venue. Before the day: Communication is a big one for when you are planning your wedding, and here you don't need to worry – The Sudbury team pro-actively reach out to you with requests for the information needed to make your day a success (including dates that they need certain information by, incredibly handy) – and yes, they respond quickly to any questions, queries, changes, comments etc. They are also happy to problem solve or work with you for different ideas you may have for your day (like how to have a marshmallow toasted station lol). Sudbury also create a breakdown of your day with a list of everything that is happening so you know what to expect, this is used on the day (but they also adapt on the fly for when timings need to change). On the day: The many many tiny details you don't think about are already considered at this venue: - Where the guest can stand in the shade before the bride arrives, - If there are smokers where can they go, - if you have a toddler flower girl packed snack box for them, - Places for guests to sit in the shade, in the sun, inside - with different seating options for pregnant, elderly or people with back issues. - Different Canapés being offered to groups so everyone got to try all the different types (surprisingly important to guests lol) Were just some of the compliments that I heard back from my guests that I would have thought of prior. The food: Is amazing, highly recommend the Chicken - just trust me on that. It is served in a sharing style so everyone is eating together and can serve themselves as much as they want. Guests with Dietary requirements, also received their own plate that exclusively met their needs, no one sizes fits all option - but if you were GF, DF you still got meat etc. For the bride: I really got to just enjoy my day here, I wasn't peppered with any questions or bothered with problems to solve. Janine was also personally great ensuring I got everything I had mentioned I wanted leading up to the day on the day, even swapping around the speeches with the MC so we could make our sunset beach shots. I can't express enough how the execution on the day really enabled me to be fully present every moment since I wasn't thinking about anything else. For the groom: I found them very knowledgeable and accomodating. They supported us in making decision and gave great guidance on it. They reduce the stress and took the pressure off us which made it easy on the day. Photos: There is a beach 5min drive from Sudbury (our photographer drove us) and you can go down there to take some of your photos. This is really unique about this venue as you get the beautiful field, stream and rolling hill backdrop photos and the beach, water photos. We did sunset at the beach but honestly you could do sunset either location! The cottage: Lovely place to stay, the hot tub is so good after all day on your feet, and the beds are super comfortable. I got ready here with my Bridesmaids; so here are the things I think are worth noting that I wouldn't have known are important to look for before the day: - There is large dinning room style table with hard back chairs that get great natural light to them with power points. This is ideal for the hair and make up set up. - There is a full sized fridge and serving platters if you looking to have getting ready snacks - There are two toilets - both bathrooms have power points, so we used one for hair washing and one for hair drying.

Janine and her wonderful team at Sudbury helped us organise the most amazing wedding! It was the most perfect day. Sudbury has been easy to communicate and work with from day one scoping out the venue to the wedding day itself. We had Claudia (Events Coordinator) allocated to us who checked in and helped us fine tune the finer details as to how the day would run. We also had Janine (owner) and Gemma (function manager) on our wedding day and they helped it run so seamlessly from start to finish. As most brides and grooms may resonate with, your brain is so full with all the planning, thoughtfulness and pressure that can come with it all. We felt so contained and confident about our day with the calm, assertive guidance that Sudbury provide. One of my favourite parts of our wedding day was seeing my friends and family have such a fun time during our wedding. We had so many guests come up to us and say how beautiful the venue was, how efficient and friendly the staff were, and overall just how much fun they had at our wedding. Overall, Sudbury captured the day we wanted - easy going, relaxed and a fun celebration with our friends and family :) we feel very lucky. Definitely recommend other brides and grooms to check out this venue for their wedding celebrations!

We had the most magical wedding day at Sudbury. Janine and her incredible staff were amazing. From the moment we looked at Sudbury my daughter loved the atmosphere and beautiful surroundings.The catering was delicious. Janine made it easy to make decisions for the big day. A lot we would never have thought of. Everyone at the wedding said it was the best wedding ever.

I want to say a huge thank you to Janine and the team at Sudbury for litterally the BEST day EVER!!!! Gemma did a great job of setting up, it was a nice suprise to see my vision come together, the whole day was absolutely PERFECT i couldnt have imagined it any better so thank you again!!!! and as you can see in my photos the scenery is amazing

The whole team at Sudbury made our wedding absolutely perfect, it ran flawlessly like a well oiled machine. Everyone who came said how it was one of the best weddings they've ever been to and that is all thanks to how fantastic this venue is. Everything was taken care of on the day and wedding planning was so simple and carefree. Thank you all so much for making our dreams come true.

My wife and I got married here recently and had the best day. The venue itself is ideal for the relaxed and social style of ceremony and reception we were looking for. The food was fantastic, too. Yes, there are cheaper options out there, but you absolutely get what you pay for. The staff has an impressive attention to detail that makes for a smooth and stress-free wedding day - when it really counts! Our photographer (who has worked there many times) was stoked when we told him we'd booked Sudbury - a) lots of spots with great scenery, and b) knowing that things were going to run smoothly.

My husband and I recently got married at Sudbury. The venue is breathtakingly beautiful and provided an all-in-one experience that made planning a wedding so easy. We booked in 2020 and found the whole planning process a breeze with Janine and Claudia always there to answer our questions. On our big day the staff were incredible, Gemma (our coordinator on the day) was spot on with every detail and apart from the cake falling over from the heat it was the most perfect day. The food was delicious, we had no complaints from our guests (Thank you caterers!). Sudbury offers excellent and clean facilities, making it easy for our older guests to move around the venue. Every guest who attended the reception told us they had an absolute blast. We highly recommend Sudbury for any event, especially weddings. We look forward to visiting Sudbury on our anniversary ? and we feel beyond lucky to have spent our wedding day here. Thank you Janine and team, you are amazing!