Brighton Town Hall weddings come in all shapes and sizes. I have photographed tiny ceremonies, full Council Chamber celebrations and weddings that roll straight out into the city and down to the sea.

The right room is not simply the biggest one you can afford. It should fit the people you genuinely want there and the atmosphere you want the ceremony to have. This guide uses photographs from several real Brighton Town Hall weddings, so you can see how different the same building can feel.

Every couple is welcome here

Brighton Town Hall (rightly so) is a very inclusive venue for all love. I will always speak loudly and openly as an LGBT+ inclusive Brighton wedding photographer and advocate, and I mean that in practice: inclusive language, no assumptions about traditions, roles or surnames, and photographs that feel like you and your love and joy at being together!

The Regency Room

The Regency Room is probably the most photographed room! It seats up to 46 guests. It has a proper aisle, chandeliers, original paintings and a feature fireplace, so it feels like a wedding room without swallowing a smaller guest list. It is also the room with the wedcast facility if important people cannot travel. After the ceremony, you can wait in the Floral room to have a minute or if there is time (and we ask nicely!) we can go up and use the iconic stairs!

The Fitzherbert Room

The Fitzherbert Room seats a maximum of ten people, including the couple. It is ideal if you want the legal part to feel simple, personal and calm before heading elsewhere to celebrate.

It is a beautiful little room, with green and gold details, antique furniture and far more character than people expect from a register-office ceremony room. Because everybody is close, ask guests to keep bags, coats and phones away from the immediate ceremony area in the cloakroom outside.

The Floral Room

The Floral Room is the smallest room at Brighton Town Hall, for the couple and up to four guests. It is warm and intimate rather than plain: parquet flooring, antique chairs, paintings and a floor-length mirror give it real character. It also has Regency chairs!

These photographs are from a real Floral Room wedding. It’s perfect when you just want a perfect little (big) celebration.

The Council Chamber and the historic staircase

The Council Chamber holds up to 80 guests and feels properly ceremonial. The second-floor room gives you stained glass, curved seating, dark wood and much more scale than the ground-floor rooms.

This is the important practical difference: if you book the Council Chamber, the historic staircase is part of the route to your room. It is the only ceremony-room booking where use of the staircase as guaranteed. With a Regency Suite ceremony, they never promise it in advance because access depends on what else is happening in the building.

The staircase and atrium are genuinely iconic Brighton Town Hall photographs.

Where to go after a Brighton Town Hall wedding

Usually after your ceremony you have some ‘family formals’ then we go for a chilled walk around Brighton – let me know in advance if you have any preferences!

The Lanes to Palace Pier

This is my first choice when time is tight and you want lively, unmistakably Brighton photographs. The Lanes give us shopfronts, narrow streets and pockets of lovely light. From there we can carry on to Palace Pier and if you fancy the photobooth! We can also go onto the pier if you fancy – they are usually happy to let us on!

The Lanes to the Bandstand or West Pier

This is the better route when you want wide seafront views and have more time. We can even stop on the carousel! The Bandstand gives us that beautiful historic architecture; but be warned it is a licensed wedding venue from Brighton so it can be in use! If that happens we still have the West Pier gives us a more open, cinematic stretch of beach and sky. Both are further west, so if you don’t fancy a 15 minute walk we can book a cab!

What if it rains?

I have you covered. Hopefully we’ve been able to get some lovely staircase shots, then I know a gorgeous arcade we can use which is undercover. If you are embracing it, I can bring a brolly and we get a little wet – I think that looks epic!

A two-hour Town Hall plan that works

You can make the timeline whatever you want, but a two-hour photography booking often fits a Town Hall wedding beautifully: the ceremony, proper confetti outside, immediate-family formals at the Town Hall, and then a couple session through Brighton.

You (and I!) will arrive 30 minutes before the ceremony – then you will meet the registrars to have a short meeting to confirm all the legal bits – this takes about 10 minutes usually. If you aren’t seeing your partner before the ceremony, you will need to make sure your partner arrives around 15 minutes before. The Town Hall is back to back with weddings so you can’t be late

After the ceremony, I normally whisk you up to the stairwell and your guests can get ready with confetti. After that? A whole group shot and then important family formals (smaller group shots). I suggest you keep the family list to the people who matter most and photograph those groups before we leave for our couples walk. Your guests can head to the next venue while we take a relaxed route through the city. That way nobody is waiting around and your portraits do not take over the day.

Wet weather does not worry me. I know covered areas, doorways and quieter pockets around central Brighton, and I will adjust the route to the actual rain and wind rather than forcing a plan that no longer makes sense.

My Brighton Town Hall wedding tips

• Parking: in my experience, Churchill Square is often the better-value option. It’s only a 5ish minute walk. The Lanes car park is closer but way more expensive; for a short ceremony, the convenience may still be worth it!
• Drop-off: Brighton Town Hall is drop-off only. You can loop around Bartholomew Square, and a wedding car can drop you close to the entrance. Confirm the exact plan with your driver and the Town Hall before the day.
• Confetti: Brighton & Hove are happily pro-confetti outside in the square, but it must be biodegradable. Bring proper handfuls of real petals or clearly biodegradable tissue confetti; one tiny packet will not create the photograph you are imagining. I recommend ‘Proper Confetti’ use ‘Proper10’ for 10% off your first order. Make sure to get a large bag!
• Summer crowds: central Brighton is busy. Check Pride, the marathon, festivals, football fixtures and major seafront events before fixing travel times. Sometimes roads can be closed off so this is important!
• Family photographs: do immediate-family formals at the Town Hall before guests move on, then start the couple session.
• Choose one route: the Lanes to the Pier or the Lanes towards the Bandstand and West Pier. Trying to do every landmark turns the portrait time into a sightseeing sprint.
• Staircase access: book the Council Chamber if the historic stairs are essential to you or be extra nice and say please can we do a speedy session on the stairs. Do not assume a ground-floor ceremony automatically includes them! It’s a new rule for 2026 but (touch wood) they’ve been ok for the couples so far!
• Wet weather: keep a plan you genuinely like. I have plenty of sheltered Brighton options and will make the call based on the weather we actually have.
• Accessibility: the Regency Suite is on the ground floor. The Council Chamber is on the second floor, so let the Ceremonies Team know. There is a lift but it is an old building!

Planning a Brighton Town Hall wedding? Tell me which room you have booked, and where you would like to head afterwards.

Current venue information: Brighton & Hove City Council