Daily wedding celebrations with loud music and drunken guests in an eastern England village spark disputes between the venue’s owners and neighbours. Neighbors are now protesting the festivals with signs reading ‘Brides and grooms not welcome in Oxnead’. They criticize the Oxnead Hall estate in Norfolk, which is known as a wedding venue, for having become a “wedding conveyor belt”.
Her children, aged six and seven, could not sleep and went to school exhausted, Emma Slaughter told the Telegraph newspaper on Thursday. “The music gets louder early in the evening and doesn’t stop until midnight.”
Guests pee in front yards
Another neighbor said she moved her bedroom to the other side of her house. The landlords of neighboring apartments told the newspaper that wedding guests had urinated in the front yard and scared horses in a nearby stable. There were always shards of broken bottles.
The 16th-century Oxnead Hall has been hosting weddings for years, but until now, only two a week. But to correct the backlog of marriages caused by the pandemic, owner Beverley Aspinall and her husband were given council permission to hold an unlimited number of celebrations – reportedly without involving neighbors.
Neighbors would refuse cooperation
The company has become a “cash cow” for the Aspinalls, neighbor Slaughter said. “We hope the signs will make potential brides and grooms aware of how this affects people.”
Owner Aspinall dismissed the allegations, criticizing neighbors for refusing to cooperate. Employees stopped because they were mistreated by local residents. Aspinall stressed that she had invested thousands of pounds in soundproofing, guards and a fence.
Source: Krone
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