As soon as we receive a new enquiry from a bridal couple and the initial meeting and tour have taken place, we can place an option on their preferred date. This option remains valid for three weeks.

If we receive another enquiry for the same date in the meantime, we will contact the bridal couple who currently have the date on option to discuss whether they would like to confirm the date or release the option.

After your first tour and introductory meeting, we will send you a no-obligation quote tailored entirely to your wishes. Are you excited and ready to confirm the date? You then sign the quote, and we send you the invoice for the first deposit. From that moment on, your wedding date is officially reserved.

Then the real excitement begins. Our wedding team schedules several appointments with you to shape your wedding step by step. We discuss the timeline, the arrangements for the day, the rooms, the styling, the dinner and all the other details that are important for your wedding. The number of appointments needed depends on your wishes and the layout of the day. These appointments are of course complimentary and included in our service.

One day before the wedding, we will have one final telephone call to go over the finishing touches. We will also discuss whether parts of the day will take place indoors or outdoors, depending on the weather and your schedule.

We also invite you to our inspiration evening, when Bovendonk is fully styled in a wedding theme and various partners are present. We also organise a tasting dinner, where couples getting married with us that year can sample the food-court dinner and several other dishes in advance.

This allows us to look forward to your big day together and ensures you can relax and enjoy everything that lies ahead.

Yes, that is possible. Together, we can look for a suitable date that matches your wishes and Bovendonk’s availability.

Yes, that is certainly possible. In the run-up to your wedding, we schedule several meetings to go through the schedule and all the details of the day together. Additional venue visits are also possible.

You are welcome to visit as often as you like, but always by arrangement and subject to our availability. Please email us in advance, and we will be happy to check whether a visit at your preferred time is possible.

Yes, that is possible. Before you sign the quote, we will of course put it together as carefully as possible based on your wishes, so that the plans for the day already align well with your ideas.

Even after you have officially booked your wedding, changes can still be made. For example, you can add a lunch, change the number of guests or make other practical adjustments. We always discuss more substantial changes together, so we can see what is possible within the schedule, availability and overall setup of your wedding.

No, you do not have to pay everything at once. Payment is made in three instalments.

Upon receiving the signed confirmation, we ask for an initial deposit of 20% of the total amount. One month before the wedding, we ask to receive 70% of the amount. The remaining 10%, together with any additional costs or changes, will be invoiced after the wedding.

Yes, we work with a minimum spend. The amount varies by date and can be found on our website under ‘Availability’. The applicable minimum spend is listed for each available date.

We kindly ask you to provide the final number of guests one week before the wedding. 

Yes, Bovendonk is an official wedding venue of the municipality of Halderberge.

Yes, that is possible. Bovendonk’s chapel has been deconsecrated, which means it is no longer used as an official church space. This means you can also get married here without a church wedding.

We have three different indoor spaces available for the ceremony. The space that suits you best depends on your style, wishes and the number of guests.

Yes, absolutely. Our atmospheric courtyard provides a beautiful backdrop for your wedding and can be used for the ceremony, toast and dinner.

As the weather in the Netherlands can be changeable, we do not decide this too far in advance. One day before the wedding, we discuss the weather forecast together and determine whether the ceremony and other parts of your wedding will take place indoors or outdoors.

This allows us to make the best choice at the last moment and ensure everything is properly prepared, regardless of the weather.

Yes, that is possible. Bovendonk has a room where you can get ready in peace in the morning and where personal belongings can be stored throughout the day.

Would you like to get ready separately? We can explore the options together, such as using the bridal suite. There are also several atmospheric spots at the venue that are perfect for a first look.

Music during the ceremony can be played through our sound facilities. The chapel has a Bluetooth sound system. In the courtyard garden and other rooms, you can use a Bluetooth speaker.

During the ceremony, we ask your master of ceremonies to start and operate the music. This ensures that the chosen songs are played at exactly the right moment.

Yes, that is certainly possible.

No, we never host two weddings on the same day. Your wedding receives all the attention it deserves from us.

It may happen that business groups or other events are also taking place at Bovendonk on the same day. Of course, we always ensure that you, as the wedding couple, are not inconvenienced. During the ceremony, the chosen ceremony room is fully reserved for you and your guests.

Yes, certainly. Within our package, we distinguish between day guests and evening guests. Day guests are present all day, from 13.00 to 01.00. Evening guests join later, from 20.00 to 01.00.

Would you also like to invite additional guests for, for example, just the toast, ceremony or another part of the day? That is possible too. We would be happy to explore a suitable option together and prepare a bespoke quote for this

Yes, that is possible. Depending on your wishes and the number of guests, the chapel can also be used for the evening celebration.

Together, we will look at which room best suits your wedding plans. We take the number of guests, the desired atmosphere and the venue’s practical possibilities into account.

As wedding venue Bovendonk has several spaces, there is always an indoor wet-weather option.

Yes, you will be guided by Bovendonk’s wedding team, Nienke and Lotte. They will be your regular points of contact in the run-up to the wedding and will be happy to help you plan your day.

Nienke and Lotte take care of the initial tour, prepare the quotation and schedule the planning meetings with you, among other things. They are also present at the wedding itself to ensure everything proceeds as agreed.

This means you have familiar faces to rely on throughout the entire process.

Yes, you can create the timeline for the day yourselves. Our festival package includes a basic schedule, but it is flexible and can be adjusted at various points.

During the planning appointments, you and our wedding team look at the layout that best suits your wishes. This ensures that the day flows naturally and fully matches how you envision your wedding.

On the wedding day itself, you as the bridal couple are welcome at Bovendonk from 07.00. This means you can take your time getting ready with us in the morning for your big day.

We do not charge any additional fees for using the room in the morning. Any drinks you have and any lunch will be charged separately.

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During the wedding, our venue and wedding team make sure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. This includes preparing the rooms, providing the service and looking after your guests.

Practical tasks such as gathering guests, checking that everyone is present and guiding guests to the next room at the right time usually fall to the master of ceremonies. Naturally, we discuss this with you in detail beforehand, so that everyone knows exactly what is expected.

Our wedding team is happy to help you plan this and will assist wherever possible on the day itself to ensure everything runs smoothly.

You will coordinate the details with your external suppliers yourselves. This includes items such as flowers, styling, the wedding cake, music or other personal elements of your wedding.

Before the wedding, our wedding team contacts the suppliers to coordinate the practical arrangements for setup and breakdown. This ensures it is clear when suppliers can be present and that everything runs smoothly on the day itself.

That depends on Bovendonk’s availability. If a room is free and available at that time, it may be possible, by arrangement, to deliver items a day earlier. This is often possible.

If the venue or the requested space is in use at that time, this will unfortunately not be possible. We therefore always coordinate this with you in advance, so it is clear when items can be delivered.

Dinner is prepared by Bovendonk’s own kitchen team. Our kitchen prepares the dishes in-house and is happy to tailor the dinner to your wishes, the package you have chosen, and any dietary requirements or allergies.

Yes, that is possible. Once a year, we organise a tasting dinner for all couples getting married at Bovendonk that year.

At this tasting dinner, you will get a good impression of the dishes, flavours and possibilities for your wedding. This allows you to taste what will be served in advance and work with us to decide what best suits your wedding.

Yes, absolutely. We can provide a fully vegetarian menu for your wedding.

Together with you, our wedding team and our kitchen team, we create a suitable menu that reflects your wishes and the atmosphere of the day. We are also happy to take other dietary requirements or allergies into account.

We offer several options for your wedding dinner. You can choose between a food court dinner, a seated dinner or shared dining.

We do not provide wedding cakes ourselves, as our kitchen team does not specialise in this. You are therefore free to hire an external pastry chef or cake supplier.

However, Bovendonk can help you explore other sweet and savoury options, such as a sweet & salt table. This allows you to create a festive and delicious moment that still suits your wedding.

So you will need to provide your own wedding cake.

Yes, absolutely. Our package includes a late-night snack at the end of the evening party as standard.

We then serve a delicious warm Brabant sausage roll: a convivial and tasty way to round off your wedding.

Yes, certainly. We are happy to take dietary requirements and allergies into account, so every guest can enjoy the dinner and the rest of the day.

During the preparations, we discuss all dietary requirements and allergies with you. Based on this, our kitchen team adapts the dishes as much as possible, ensuring there is a suitable option for everyone.

Our package is a complete wedding package, including reception, toast, drinks reception, dinner, evening party, snacks and drinks package at the agreed times.

On arrival, we welcome your guests with a refreshing glass of infused water. 

After the ceremony, you and your guests toast with a glass of (alcohol-free) prosecco. We then cut the wedding cake, while bowls of snacks and tapas boards are placed on the tables. Drinks served during the toast and reception are included in the drinks package.

For dinner, we serve our food court dinner. A Burgundian smoker barbecue and an authentic pizza oven take centre stage.

The dinner ends with an extensive dessert buffet featuring bavarois cakes, ice-cream cakes and individual desserts.

During the evening celebration, a delicious selection of bar snacks will be served. We also serve one round of hot snacks, one round of cold snacks and two rounds of bitterballen and other fried snacks. To round off the evening, we serve warm Brabant sausage rolls from the local bakery half an hour before the celebration ends.

Drinks served before the ceremony are charged based on actual consumption, with the exception of the infused water. Drinks from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. are included in the drinks package. Drinks from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. are included in the party package.

Our package includes the food court dinner as standard. This is an atmospheric and informal dinner.

The food court dinner includes, among other things, fresh bread with spreads, a fresh green salad, coleslaw and crispy fries.

Our Burgundian smoker barbecue includes, among other things, grilled bavette, Burgundian burgers with delicious garnishes, grilled vegetables, fish parcels with herb butter and watermelon steak with balsamic.

From the pizza oven, we serve a classic pizza caprese as a base, which you and your guests can customise with a variety of toppings.

To finish, there is an extensive dessert buffet with a selection of bavarois cakes, ice-cream cakes and small desserts.

Would you prefer a different dinner option? That is possible. For an additional fee, the food court dinner can be changed to, for example, a shared dinner or a plated dinner. During the preparations, we are happy to discuss which dinner setup best suits your wishes and the atmosphere of the day.

The standard drinks selection consists of coffee, tea, soft drinks, fruit juices, Swinckels, Swinckels 0.0%, Radler 0.0%, 0.0% fruit beer, white wine, red wine, rosé and La Trappe Blond.

If you would like to extend the drinks package, we can always discuss what suits both us and your wishes.

Yes, of course. An important part of our service is actively providing your guests with drinks and snacks. Our team circulates to take drink orders and serve them, so your guests can enjoy themselves without a care.

There is also always someone behind the bar. Guests who prefer to order their own drinks at the bar are of course welcome to do so.

The party may continue until 1:00 a.m.

Yes, every room has music facilities

We work with our trusted gold partner, The Wedding DJ. They know Bovendonk inside and out and exactly what is possible at our venue. We have had very positive experiences working with them.

Our fixed venue fee includes the DJ booth from The Wedding DJ. Through The Wedding DJ, you can then choose a DJ who matches your musical taste and the atmosphere of your evening party.

Bovendonk has a sound limit of 95 decibels. This is more than enough to create a fun and festive evening.

Our regular partner “The Wedding DJ” is familiar with this sound limit and knows exactly how to create a great atmosphere and a packed dance floor within these guidelines.

Yes, absolutely! A photobooth is a fun addition to the evening party and creates spontaneous photos and wonderful memories of your wedding.

For this, we work with our trusted golden partner Feestphotobooth. They know Bovendonk well and are familiar with what is possible at our venue. Of course, you are also free to choose your own photobooth supplier.

Yes, these are available in all spaces.

Yes, you may. You can style and decorate the venue yourself in a way that reflects your wishes and the atmosphere of the wedding.

We always coordinate this with you in advance, so it is clear what is possible and permitted in the various rooms at Bovendonk. During the planning appointments, we discuss the styling, decoration and practical matters concerning setup and breakdown in detail.

Bovendonk has a range of styling elements that you can use free of charge for the ceremony, dinner and other moments throughout the day.

For the ceremony, we offer two types of wedding benches, a white and a green option, a white or gold backdrop with white and green tulle, white wedding chairs, a brown and a white lectern, glass vases with candles for beside the chairs, a signing table, an easel and a ‘no photo’ sign.

For a served dinner, we provide basic white table linen, white napkins, candles and coloured vases with standard artificial flowers. These vases are only placed together with the corresponding artificial flowers and cannot be used or adapted separately.

We also have tiered stands and platters for wedding cakes, sweet tables or sweet & salt tables, for example. Chalkboards are also available to guide guests to the right rooms in an atmospheric way.

Would you like to receive photos of our styling elements? Feel free to email trouwen@bovendonk.nl. We would be happy to show you the options available.

Yes, in addition to our own styling elements, we work with a stylist as a gold partner.

Yes, absolutely. As long as they are placed in a candle holder.

We provide a gift table at various moments throughout the day, for example when your guests arrive, during the toast and during the evening party. You can place an envelope box here, and guests can leave gifts, flowers or other tokens.

The gifts and envelopes remain the responsibility of the happy couple and the master of ceremonies. We therefore recommend agreeing in advance with the master of ceremonies who will keep an eye on them during the day and ensure that everything is moved or stored safely at the right time.

Yes, that is possible. Would you like to hold only a photoshoot at Bovendonk? Please email trouwen@bovendonk.nl so we can check the availability of our venue together.

The cost of a photo shoot at the venue is € 150.00.

Contact us at trouwen@bovendonk.nl

Yes, photos may be taken both indoors and outdoors at Bovendonk. Which locations and rooms are available depends on the schedule and availability at that time.

During the preparations, we would be happy to show you beautiful photo locations on our grounds and in the building, so your photographer knows exactly where the most beautiful moments can be captured.

Bovendonk has beautiful indoor spaces and is surrounded by woodland. 

Yes, this is certainly allowed.

Yes, we work with several golden partners. These are suppliers we have enjoyed working with for a long time and with whom we have had great experiences.

Our gold partners know Bovendonk well and understand what is possible at our venue. These include partners for styling, music, photography, wedding cakes and other aspects of your wedding.

Of course, you are free to choose which suppliers you would like to work with.

Hotel Bovendonk has 30 double rooms and 24 single rooms.

Yes, guests can book their own room by calling Bovendonk on 0165-507550 or emailing frontoffice@bovendonk.nl.

Yes, that is possible. We will also discuss the accommodation options for your guests during the schedule meeting.

If your guests would like to stay overnight, we can reserve a number of rooms for your party on request. This means the rooms will be available to your guests, who can then decide for themselves whether they would like to use them.

Yes, breakfast is included with an overnight stay.

Will you, as the happy couple, be staying overnight as well, and would you like to have breakfast with your guests the next morning? We will then provide an extensive wedding breakfast in a separate room with your guests, allowing you to enjoy the afterglow of your wedding together for a little longer.

Guests can check in from 3:00 p.m. Whenever possible, we will of course try to make rooms available earlier, but this always depends on occupancy and availability at that time.

Check-out is possible until 11:00 a.m.

Yes, absolutely. Bovendonk has a hotel room specifically for the newlyweds.

Bovendonk has 150 free parking spaces

Yes, absolutely. Our car park has 8 EV charging points.

Yes, Bovendonk is easily accessible by public transport. There is a bus stop approximately a two-minute walk from our venue.

From this bus stop, there are connections to various train stations, making it easy for guests to travel to Bovendonk by public transport.

All rooms are wheelchair accessible during the wedding

Yes, children are absolutely welcome at Bovendonk. We are happy to think along with you about a suitable arrangement for the youngest guests, so they feel welcome during the wedding too. We also offer special children’s rates for weddings.

Do you have specific wishes, such as high chairs, a children’s menu or a separate place where children can play for a while? We would be happy to discuss this during the preparations.

Yes, of course. We are happy to help create a comfortable and accessible day for older or less mobile guests.

Think, for example, of additional seating, accessible routes with as few stairs as possible, and a practical layout of the different rooms. During the preparations, we are happy to discuss which guests may need extra attention, so we can take this into account as well as possible.

No, fireworks are not permitted at or around the venue.

Sparklers are permitted.

No, it is not permitted to place a fire basket in the courtyard garden. For fire-safety reasons, we cannot allow open flames in this area.

Yes, that is permitted. . Bubble machines add a festive and atmospheric touch, for example when the newlyweds walk outside after the ceremony.

Only artificial flower petals are permitted in our indoor spaces. In the courtyard garden, only real flower petals are permitted. (with the exception of the chapel)

Please feel free to discuss your wishes with us in advance, so we can look together at what is possible and what best suits the moment and the ceremony location.