Leila and Stephen got married at Preston Court during the late summer of 2023, on the family-run 600-acre private estate just east of Canterbury. Preston Court is one of the most distinctive wedding venues in Kent, built around a Georgian manor house with an oast house, a 17th century oak-framed Kentish Barn, a 12th century Saxon church (St Mildred's) still standing on the estate, and a medieval moated island called Juliana's Island reached by a small iron bridge. There's a choice of three ceremony spaces across the site, and the grounds include ornamental lakes, a Victorian carousel from the 1870s, vintage mechanical organs in the barn, a steam engine collection, bluebell woods and wetlands that border a nature reserve. Peacocks wander the gardens and horses graze in the nearby fields. It's properly one of a kind, and one of the best venues in Kent for photography, with something different to work with at every corner of the estate. For couples after a relaxed, countryside wedding with a bit of character and a lot of space to spread out, Preston Court is hard to beat.