Magical Weddings & Celebrations at The Star Inn at Harome

Magical Weddings &
Celebrations at
The Star Inn at
Harome

Introductions:

With Michelin Star accreditation testament to its consistently high quality of cooking,
The Star Inn at Harome and its hotel, Cross House Lodge are the foodie first choice
location for magical weddings and celebrations of all kinds.

Andrew Pern’s C14th thatched pub has remained one of the country’s top restaurants
for the best part of two decades and is a firm favourite with the ‘insiders’ from the
hospitality industry. Visitors to the restaurant return again and again for its ‘home-cured’
hospitality: the combination of highly seasonal menus featuring the best North Yorkshire
produce, the uniquely quirky, yet idyllic rural setting and warm knowledgeable service.

The restaurant has been extended over the years to add a stylish, modern dining room
and bar, overlooking the gardens and providing a contrasting alternative to the cosy,
historic bar, low-ceilinged original dining room. Upstairs in the eaves of the thatch are
the coffee loft and private dining room with its mural-painted walls. Good weather
provides al fresco dining options on the rear terrace looking onto the potager-style
kitchen garden.

The Star’s boutique hotel, Cross House Lodge, is literally just across the road from the
Inn itself. Former derelict farm buildings were fashioned into a happily eccentric layout
of nine highly individual rooms around a shooting lodge-style lounge and the
‘Wheelhouse’ private dining room, now licensed for weddings and civil ceremonies.

For the wedding breakfast, the extensive lawned area to the side of the hotel terrace
permits gatherings of anything up to 200 people in your own marquee with plenty of
space for drinks and mingling on the Terrace, whilst midweek celebrations of up to 40
guests can be catered for comfortably in the hotel building. All of our wedding parties
take over the hotel giving exclusive use so that events of all sizes have an intimate and
homely feel.

The Star Inn Pub

 The Pub Gardens

Exclusively Yours:

We make no separate charge for exclusive use of the Hotel, provided that all 9 rooms
are booked by your party so allowing the building to be for your sole use from 3pm
on the day of arrival to 11am on the day of departure. Marquees may be erected on
the lawns in advance of the wedding, with our agreement, allowing time for your
personal decorations.

Some parties choose to stay for two nights, allowing for a more relaxed pace often
with informal dining to contrast with the wedding breakfast, in some cases even
BBQ-style, on the second (or first) evening.

There is no charge for use of our lawns for the erection of your marquee of choice
(including katas, yurts and sperry tents) permitting up to 200 guests. The actual hire
and that of your selected furniture and the decoration of the marquee remains your
responsibility. We have obviously worked with a number of marquee companies over
the years and can make recommendations to help, if required.

Even in the case of a smaller wedding where all of the guests can be accommodated
within Cross House Lodge for the wedding breakfast, a marquee provides a ‘dance
floor’ option and offers flexibility for your guests.

Our own grounds and buildings provide a great backdrop for photographs and
additionally, the village itself presents a variety of options, from the surrounding lanes,
duckpond, fields and trees – to haystacks and local wildlife, even our own hens, which
seem to like a bit of the limelight.

The Hotel Terrace

Views of the Kitchen Gardens

The Ceremony

It is not necessary to leave the village for the wedding ceremony. A traditional church
wedding can be arranged at St. Saviour’s Church in Harome, just a short stroll along
the main street, whilst our own ‘Wheelhouse’ in the Hotel is licensed for all kinds of
civil ceremonies.

The King Arthur-esque table in the Wheelhouse comprises four sections, which we
use in different configurations. For civil ceremonies, we form the table into a half
moon shape and arrange chairs for your guests (depending on guest numbers) with an
aisle for the wedding couple. For larger weddings a combination of chairs and standing
places will be allocated for your guests.

Following a civil ceremony in the Wheelhouse, we usually serve drinks and canapés,
whilst photographs are taken. Guests have the option to mingle on the Terrace in
good weather or in the Lounge. For smaller weddings taking the wedding breakfast
within the Wheelhouse, we will then change the configuration of the table, either to a
single round table, two leaf-shaped half tables or four quarter tables.

Wedding Breakfasts

A whole range of gourmet options are available to suit your appetite, including a 7
course tasting menu of seasonal specialities with matched wines selected by our
sommelier. Whilst we will design your menu to suit your individual tastes, the
following sample menu shows dishes, which have proved very popular in the past
based upon a 3 course menu with 3 choices per course and including canapés and
coffee.

The Wheelhouse arranged for a ceremony…

… and with the table split in to 4 sections.

Sample Wedding Breakfast Menu

Canapés with your choice of welcome drink
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To Begin:
Whitby Shellfish Cocktail with Brown Shrimp Mayonnaise,
Wild Rocket and Lemon Balm Dressing
or
‘Loose Birds’ of Harome Chicken Liver ‘Petit Truffe’…
with 2014 Elderflower Preserve Jelly, Dill Toast, Herb Salad
or
Sauté of New Season Wild Mushrooms with
Truffled Scrambled Duck Egg, Wild Garlic Pesto
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The Main Event:
Roast Haunch of Thorpe Underwood Fallow Deer with a
Little Venison Cottage Pie, Wild Mushrooms,
York Ham and Tarragon
or
Grilled Halibut with Hawes Wensleydale Rarebit,
Seared Celery and Baby Spinach Salad,
Brown Shrimp ‘Waldorf’ Vinaigrette
or
Roast Loin of Charles Ashbridge’s Suckling Pig,
Black Pudding Sausage Roll, Confit Shallot and
Granny Smith Purée, Ampleforth Cider Juices
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Sweet Stuff
Baked Ginger Parkin with Rhubarb Ripple Ice Cream,
Spiced Syrup, Rhubarb Schnapps
or
Cranachan…
Raspberries, Toasted Oats, Spiced Whisky Cream and Harome Honey
or
Star Inn Orchard Apple and Sultana Crumble,
with Cinder Toffee Ice Cream
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Coffee and Homemade Sweets

   Indicative (2015) price for 3-course Wedding Breakfast, generally as the Sample above would be £75 per
   person. Wines recommendations would complement your menu choices but you are also welcome to
   make your own selections from our full Wine and Champagne List. We can also provide a Welcome
   Drinks list.

‘Loose Birds’ of Harome Chicken Liver ‘Petit Truffe’…
with 2014 Elderflower Preserve Jelly, Dill Toast, Herb Salad

Cranachan…
Raspberries, Toasted Oats, Spiced Whisky Cream and Harome Honey

Rooms at The Inn:

All nine of our rooms are highly individual, many with their own special features.
Room 5 is a spacious first floor room in the main hotel building and is a popular choice
as the honeymoon suite, not least as it provides the perfect HQ for the bride and
bridesmaid’s wedding preparations and it is just a few steps down the staircase from
the ‘bridge’ to the Wheelhouse for the ceremony.

However, everyone has their own personal favourite, whether Room 1 with the bath
at the end of the bed or Room 8 with its own piano, and in the past other rooms have
been chosen as their colour schemes coordinate best with the flowers and dresses!

As most groups of family and friends often include guests with small children and/or
guests with mobility issues (or even the wedding couple’s dog), our tariff showing floor
locations, flexibility for extra guests and bathroom arrangements is often very useful.

Breakfast is taken in the Wheelhouse on the morning of departure and check out time is 11am.

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Events Co-ordinator:

Natasha Pajek will handle any enquiries you may have and draw up a proposal for you,
if you wish. Once a wedding is booked, you will continue to liaise with her and she or
her Assistant will be in attendance on the Big Day to oversee the arrangements.

Please contact Natasha for further information, including a budget proposal,
testimonials and list of recommended wedding partners.

To make direct contact, telephone 01439 770397 or email
weddings@thestarinnatharome.co.uk.

Room Five

Room Seven