Married in the house that whisky built.
Piersland House was built in 1899 for Sir Alexander Walker — grandson of Johnnie Walker himself, and the man who created the Red and Black labels. Today it's Troon's most storied wedding venue: William Leiper's Arts-and-Crafts mansion, five hundred yards from the beach, with Arran on the horizon. And for an Ayrshire boy like me, marrying couples here is a home fixture in every sense.
A house with a story — perfect for telling yours
Some venues are blank canvases; Piersland is a novel. The carved wood, the grand staircase, the Minstrel Gallery, the fireplaces — a private family home until 1975, and it still feels like one, which is exactly what you want when you're filling a house with your favourite people. Ceremonies work beautifully indoors among all that Leiper detail, or out in the gardens with the sea air arriving from the shore. And given whose house this was, I can think of no better venue in Scotland for a quaich ceremony — a shared dram in the house the dram built.
Troon does the honeymoon-day for you
Golden-hour photographs on Troon beach are ten minutes' stroll away, Royal Troon is over the road for the golfers among your guests, and the whole wedding party can stay on site — lodge suites, mews cottages, and a honeymoon suite with a roll-top bath. As a Humanist Society Scotland celebrant I handle every legal word on the day, and as an Ayrshire man born in Ardrossan, I'll not need directions.
More venues I know inside out: Òran Mór · Cottiers · Kibble Palace · The Grosvenor · Citation · The Exchange · Mar Hall · The Cruin · Ross Priory · Ardoch · Seamill Hydro