Your Ceremony     

Wedding ceremonies can take place between 8.00am and 6.00pm and non-religious music of your choice can be played.  Your guests can arrive ¼ hour before the wedding and stay up to ½ hour afterward to congratulate you both before we reopen the Grand Magazine to the public.

 

above: The aisle in the Grand Magazine.

above: A Wedding Ceremony in the Grand Magazine

Your Reception

The reception can be as formal or informal as you want it to be.  We can be flexible, creative, advisory or just supportive but always professional.

During the day your reception can take place in our recently converted waterside conference suite or a marquee on the green.  Up to 110 people can be accommodated in our conference suite.  If your ceremony starts after 5pm, the Grand Magazine and museum will be available for your exclusive use until midnight.

We can arrange the whole event for you or advise on a variety of services from catering and flowers to masters of ceremonies, musicians and entertainment.

Many views of a Reception at Explosion!

Above: A recent Reception at Explosion! (Catering Bezani's c/o Anglesey Hotel

 

LOCAL COUPLE WED WITH A BANG

Local couple Grace Sturrock and Mark Jerling were the first to tie the knot in a very unusual wedding location – an eighteenth gunpowder vault.  The wedding took place at Explosion!, The Museum of Naval Firepower at 3.30pm on Saturday 1 December 2001 in the Grand Magazine at Priddy’s Hard in Gosport. The couple from Cosham in Portsmouth had a Scottish Highland theme with pipers leading them down the aisle of the brick vaulted gunpowder store.

Grace Sturrock said, “ We didn’t want a traditional wedding, as soon as we saw Explosion! we just said WOW! – this is the place for us.  As half of our family came down from Scotland we were looking for something by the sea and truly memorable.  Explosion! is definitely the place to create something different”

After the ceremony the couple had a drinks reception in the museum, complete with highland dancers, followed by a sit down dinner for 200 guests back in the gunpowder vault.

Nicky Kelso, Event Manager at Explosion! said, “ We were delighted to be having as our first wedding such a colourful event.  All of us at Explosion! were very excited about the day and hoped that Grace and Mark enjoy it as much as we did”

Mr. and Mrs. Charlesworth

Adam and Katy Charlsworth had a recent Reception at Explosion! The couple married at a nearby church before arriving at the Museum via boat on the Camber.

The couple then had Pimms and refreshments on the Museum green before moving into the Grand Magazine for a memorable Reception.