Queen’s House Wedding DJ & Entertainment

The Queen’s House sits at the centre of maritime Greenwich, and it is the reason everything around it is arranged the way it is. Inigo Jones designed it for Anne of Denmark, James I’s queen, who called it her House of Delight. It was finished in 1636, it is generally held to be the first entirely classical building in Britain, and it is the last surviving piece of the Tudor palace that once stood at Greenwich. The house is hired exclusively, so for the day it is yours.

We are approved and recommended suppliers here, and we have worked on more than fifty weddings and events in the building. That is enough to know how it behaves after dark, which is a different question from how it photographs.

The Undercroft

The evening party happens in the Undercroft, the stone-arched space beneath the house. It holds up to 150 for dancing, and it has inbuilt staging, which is where we set up. We bring everything else ourselves: sound, lighting, uplighting, the lot.

Two things about that room are worth knowing before you plan around it. The first is the sound. Stone arches and a hard floor could go either way, and in practice it is one of the better rooms we work in. The low end has weight, and the room holds together once it fills rather than turning to mush. The second is the heat. The Undercroft gets warm, and by eleven it is properly sweaty. That is what a full Undercroft looks like on a good night, but it does affect where you want the bar and how long you want people in there before the doors open.

Lighting

The curved white walls take uplighting beautifully. Colour travels right across them and the arches pick it up, so the room takes a whole wash rather than a line of separate spots up a flat wall. We usually set one colour early on and change it when the party starts. Uplighting is hired separately from the DJ, and we quote for it alongside everything else.

Music through the day

Our DJs play whatever you actually want to hear, and you can build the night yourself with our playlist builder if you would rather be specific about it. For the earlier part of the day we can also supply live musicians, from string quartets and harpists to saxophonists and singers, and for the evening there are bands, choirs and roaming acts. Most couples here start with something quiet for the ceremony and drinks, then hand over to a wedding DJ once everyone has moved downstairs.

The rest of the house

The Great Hall is a perfect forty-foot cube with Richard Wright’s gold-leaf ceiling above it and the original black and white marble underfoot. The Tulip Stairs are next door, and the Orangery and South Parlours look out over Greenwich Park to the Thames and the towers at Canary Wharf beyond. Ten thousand square metres of lawn run down to the south. It is a beautiful building to spend a day in, and the Undercroft is where it ends.

Talk to us

If you are planning a wedding or an event at the Queen’s House, tell us the date and roughly what you have in mind and we will come back with what it would cost.