Accessible Hotel Granted Wedding Venue Licence

An accessible hotel in Jersey has been granted a licence allowing it to host weddings.

Maison des Landes in St Ouen’s has 23 rooms for people with disabilities and their carers.

General manager Steve Martin said the hotel would be open to anyone looking for a wedding venue and bookings could begin from September.

Suzanne Day, support service manager at disability charity Enable Jersey, said the move would make a “positive difference” for people planning their weddings.

“Whether living with a disability themselves or trying to find a venue that provides facilities for friends and family members, couples now have not just an accessible option, but a beautiful location for their wedding day,” said Mrs Day.

“We know that not all wedding venues in Jersey offer accessible facilities therefore this is such a step forward, not just for our Jersey community but those who may wish to come to Jersey to get married.”

Mr Martin said the hotel applied for the wedding venue license following encouragement from guests.

“People started to ask, ‘wouldn’t it be a great wedding venue, have you thought about doing weddings? Have you thought about opening up to the public for other things?’,” he said.

“So we’ve applied for a wedding licence and luckily we’ve been granted it by the Registrar and the Constable.”

Mr Martin said the plan was for people to be able to hire the whole hotel.

“Obviously we can’t really do weddings May to September when it’s very busy and the hotel’s very active,” he said.

“The plan is to maybe start doing weddings the other six months of the year and see how it goes from there.”

The hotel said it was working with an events company to organise the ceremonies while it provided the venue.