A woman has shared the living “nightmare” of her wedding being cancelled five weeks before it was due to take place following the shock closure of a Grade II listed hotel. The PowderMills Hotel in Battle shared the news that it would be temporarily closing to “carry out essential refurbishments and renovations”. For Anne Webb, the bad news came just five weeks before her wedding to fiancé Simon was due to take place there.
She said: “The events manager phoned me out of the blue. She said I have got some bad news, are you sitting down? “We are going to have to cancel your wedding. “I was on my own at the time.
All these things start going through your mind and you think what do you do now? The planning has been going on for so long. “We paid it out of our money, we had done everything and then for that bombshell to be thrown at us. The PowderMills Hotel in Battle (Image: Google Maps) “You do not know which way to turn.
Families and friends have taken time off, some are making travel arrangements. “I thought it was just somebody joking around.” Anne said she couldn’t reach anyone at the hotel via phone call or email to get back the deposit she had paid, meaning she had to travel there to request it be returned to her in person.
She said: “We have been planning the wedding since February. Everything was sorted and it was five weeks before the wedding. “The biggest problem is there are so few hotels in the area licensed for a wedding ceremony.
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