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Historic setting, gorgeous location, comfortable surroundings and friendly service - what more could you want from your wedding hotel? The Buccleuch Arms Hotel is an ideal wedding venue, conveniently located in the heart of the Scottish Borders. Whether it is a quiet intimate gathering, renewing old vows or a traditional full wedding celebration, we have a range of specially designed wedding facilities to accommodate wedding parties from 30 guests in the garden restaurant to 85 seated in The Salmon Room Function Room.

Why consider The Buccleuch Arms as your wedding venue of choice?

  • We have a dedicated wedding planner called Lindsey, who will guide you from the beginning to the end of your dream wedding day

  • We have really friendly and helpful staff on hand to look after you and your guests

  • You can get married here

  • Our function room seats 85

  • There is an enclosed garden, a lively 60 seat bar and our restaurant comfortably seats 30 for private dining or a civil ceremony

  • We have 19 ensuite bedrooms for your guests to stay in and there's plenty of good accommodation in the area for overspill

  • Our menus published on the website are a just a guideline, if you'd like something specific, we'll do our utmost to accommodate your special request

  • We offer informal or formal dining, be it a traditional carvery, a buffet, or served to the table

  • We have a great wedding package for 80 guests right now

If you would like to get a better idea of what The Buccleuch Arms has to offer, we'd love to show you around. 

Simply make an appointment 01835 822243 or email info@buccleucharms.com

Civil Wedding Ceremonies

We have a civil license and can help you plan a beautiful ceremony to suit your requirements.

Or, if you prefer, you can attend the nearby Registration Office in Melrose. Appointments can be booked in advance by phoning the Registration Office on 01896 823114 or alternatively through the SBC contact centre, Paton Street, Galashiels, tel: 01896 662719.  Whilst casual callers can still drop into the Registration Office without making an appointment, they are not guaranteed of being seen as appointments take precedence.

Your point of contact is Jane Norman, Registrar.  Jane’s e-mail is jnorman@scotborders.gov.uk

The opening hours for Melrose Registration Office:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 10-1pm
Tuesdays 2-4pm

For more information please contact the Melrose Registrar, Jane Norman on 01896 823114 or visit the Scottish Borders Council website.
 

Your Wedding Menu

An enjoyable wedding celebration is always accompanied by good food. Our Head Chef has created simple wedding menu options to cater for a range of tastes and budgets. The best fresh local produce is used wherever possible and if our set menus are not suitable, we create an individual menu on request.  We offer a range of finger buffets in the evening or you could even opt for an informal hog roast set in the Courtyard. Please request our menus by sending an e-mail to info@buccleucharms.com

We also have an excellent wine list that has been carefully selected to offer good quality wines at reasonable prices.

The Salmon Room

The Salmon Room is of a beautiful and contemporary design and seats up to 85 guests at round tables for a served or buffet style meal or carvery. The Salmon Room has its own private bar, wash rooms and a large wooden dance floor for dancing the night away.

The room has a beautiful starlight ceiling and up to the minute mood lighting which can be set to different colours depending on your overall scheme. We are equipped with wi-fi throughout the hotel, a fully integrated Public Address facility and also a hearing loop system.

The Garden Restaurant

  • Suitable for up to 30 guests
  • Great for a small civil ceremony
  • Access to a private garden 

Marquee Weddings

  • Suitable for a tent seating up to 180 guests
  • Easy to link to the hotel through the Garden Restaurant
  • The hotel facilities can be used 

Complimentary wedding planner

Lindsey Hunter, our inspirational freelance wedding co-ordinator will be delighted to help you source excellent wedding suppliers including entertainment, live music, makeup artists, hair stylists, florists, photographers to name but a few. Whatever your request, we will do our utmost to make it happen for you.  The best thing about Lindsey is that she takes the stress out of the planning.  Lindsey organisation skills are invaluable, she will keep you updated by telephone or e-mail as changes are made in the run up to your big day.

Take a look at Lindsey's website to see examples of her wedding clients.  www.get-knotted.net

Little Extras

There's a nice little Spa, Gym and beauty salon a mile away

Relax and be pampered in the run up to walking down the aisle. Fiona-Anns Clarins Gold salon is just a mile away.  Fiona Ann and her professional staff offer a range of wonderful treatments.  Clarins facials, body massage and make up, Indian head massage, luxury manicures and pedicures, waxing, eyelash dye, St. Tropez body spray, microderm abrasion, IFL, laser treatments, and Universal Contour Wraps all available and more.  Fiona Ann's stock all Clarins products and O.P.I nail varnish. 

Wedding Make-Up and Trial £55

Opening Hours Tues - Thurs 9.30am - 8.30pm, Friday 9.30am - 5pm and Saturday 9am - 5pm

Fiona Ann's Fitness and Beauty Salon, Hawkslee Farm, Newtown St. Boswells, 01835 822260 

Golf

Need a little nerve settler prior to the big day? We can help organise a morning round on St. Boswells Nine hole golf course.  A short walk from the hotel.

Wedding hair

  • Hairdresser Emma Black, 169 Gala Park, Galashiels TD1 1HF Telephone: 01896 759592
  • Wilson's Hair, The Wynd, Buccleuch St, Melrose, Roxburghshire TD6 9LD Telephone: 01896 822734
  • Shimmer Hair & Beauty, 88 Main Street, St.Boswells, TD6 OAP Telephone: 01835 823888

Kilt hire

Wedding Dresses

  • Border Brides, 4 Tower Knowe, Hawick, TD9 9DQ Telephone: 01450 379009
  • Collections by Bruce Munro Roberts, 17 Woodmarket, Kelso TD5 7AT Telephone: 01573 223345

Photography

Flowers

  • Stems of Jedburgh 01835 864411  www.stemsofjedburgh.co.uk
  • Kelso Blooms, No. 4, Bridge Street, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7JD Telephone: 01573 226637

Location

The Buccleuch Arms nestles in the scenic heart of the Scottish borders, in the pretty village of St. Boswells, near Melrose. Even though we are set in a rural location, we are just over an hour's drive from Edinburgh, Carlisle and Newcastle airports, 1 hour from Berwick-upon-Tweed and approximately 3 hours from the ferry terminal at Stranraer. The village has a bus station approx 400 yards from the hotel.

Churches

We are also surrounded by beautiful churches.
For Maxton and Mertoun, St.Boswells and Newtown www.maxton.bordernet.co.uk
For Melrose Parish Church and Bowden Kirk www.melrose-parish.fsnet.co.uk
For the Episcopal Church in Melrose www.holytrinitymelrose.org.uk
St. Cuthberts R C Church in Melrose phone 01896 752328.

  

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What they say about us...

"The Buccleuch took quite magnificent care of us, as always. You have a great team of staff and they simply could not have done more for us to ensure we had two quite wonderful nights."
David, London

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