Awards

Regional Finalist in The Wedding Industry Awards for the Southwest

The Winner will be announced on Monday 25^th November!

Wedding Venue of the Year at Dorset Tourism Awards 2023/24

The Italian Villa at Compton Acres are proud to announce we won Silver in the ‘Wedding Venue of the Year’ category at the Dorset Tourism Awards in February! The award is a testament of the passion and commitment to excellence from all our fantastic team! We were delighted to share achievement with Compton Acres who also won the Silver award in the ‘Cafe/ Tearoom of the Year’ category!

Wedding Dates 2019 South West Awards for Top Rated Venues

The Italian Villa has WON another award!! We are very proud WINNERS of the Wedding Dates 2019 South West Awards for Top Rated Venues!! A huge thank you to all of our clients for the wonderful reviews, which enabled us to win this prestigious award!!

Bridebook Awards 2019

South West Venue of the Year 2019

WeddingDates Awards 2018

South West Top Rated Venue of the Year 2018

Wedding Dates Awards 2017

December 2017 – Our amazing wedding coordinators are officially the best in the South-West of England! They picked this up at the annual WeddingDates Awards. These awards are judged based on direct feedback from Brides and Grooms over the past year, so they are thrilled to have received this accolade!

Dorset Tourism Awards 2017

November 2017 – Amazing to have regained our GOLD award at the Dorset Tourism Awards 2017, as the best event venue in Dorset!

Dorset Wedding Supplier Awards 2017

November 2017 – We were delighted to win the Best Venue award at the Dorset Wedding Supplier Awards 2017!

Wedding Dates Awards 2016

December 2016 – The Italian Villa has been named the UK’s #1 exclusive use wedding venue at the the annual WeddingDates Awards. These awards are judged based on direct feedback from Brides and Grooms over the past year, so we are delighted to have received this accolade!

The Wedding Industry Awards 2016 - South West Regional Finalist

We were so pleased to have been named as finalists in the Best Venue (Town/City) category in the South West Wedding Awards – voted for by our amazing customers 🙂

Dorset Tourism Awards 2016

October 2016 – Our exclusive events venue, The Italian Villa, won the Silver award in the Venue & Business Tourism award at the annual Dorset Tourism Awards. We were delighted to be a continued force for good in the local tourism sector and to have received this recognition.

Top Rated Venue in Dorset - WeddingDates Awards

We were honoured to be awarded the title of Top Rated Venue in Dorset in the 2015 National WeddingDates Awards

Most Popular wedding venue in the world - International Wedding Expert Awards 2015

We are absolutely honoured to have won the title of Most Popular Wedding Venue in the World, thanks to our wonderful brides and grooms who voted for us! Read all about our award win.

South West Tourism Excellence Awards 2014-2015

15 October 2015 Our exclusive events venue, The Italian Villa, won the Gold award for the 2nd year running in the Venue & Business Tourism award at the annual Dorset Tourism Awards. We were delighted to be acknowledged for the amount of visitors we bring to the local area, both in weddings and in corporate events.

Poole Tourism Awards 2015

1 October 2015 We were delighted to be highly commended for the amount of visitors we bring to the local area, both in weddings and in corporate events, at the annual Poole Tourism Awards.

South West Tourism Excellence Awards 2014-2015

After winning a Gold award in the recent Dorset Tourism Awards for “Venue & Business Tourism” we are delighted to have gone on to the regional awards and receive a Silver Award in The South West Tourism Excellence Awards.

Dorset Tourism Awards 2014 - Venue & Business Tourism Award

We were absolutely delighted to be awarded the Gold Award in the Venue & Business Tourism category at the Dorset Tourism Awards for 2014. The awards were announced at a ceremony held at Bovington Tank Museum where the best of Dorset’s tourism businesses were celebrated.

Wedding Industry Expert Awards 2014

The results have been announced for the International Wedding Industry Experts Awards 2014, and we are absolutely delighted to have been awarded the following awards: Most popular All Inclusive Venue – Poole – Winner Most popular All Inclusive Venue – Dorset – Winner Most popular All Inclusive Venue – England – 2nd place Most popular All Inclusive Venue – World – 2nd place

5 star weddings award

The Italian Villa has been approved as a 5 star Luxury Wedding Venue.

National Wedding Industry Awards 2014

Finalist for Best Wedding Venue in the National Wedding Industry Awards 2014.

Best Wedding venue of the year 2013/2014

Absolutely delighted to be named BEST WEDDING VENUE at the first Dorset Wedding Supplier Awards 2013!

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Hannah Gibson, BSO Senior Development Officer

On behalf of us all at the BSO, we cannot thank Tony Beales and his wonderful team enough for their fantastic support in organising our Black Tie Gala Evening at The Italian Villa. It is rare to work with a team who is prepared to support on each and every aspect of the event - however big or small. The team at Beales achieved this proudly. The evening will be remembered as a truly memorable and special experience for our most valued supporters, special guests and musicians.

Lauren and Ben x

Ben and I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you for all that you and your team have done for us! You are all individually great! Thank Ebony also for all her organisation on the day it ran so smoothly because of her!
Our day was perfect and it was all because of all of you creating such a special day!You are such an asset to your team and are so great at what you do!

Siobhan and Ian

Myself and Ian can not thank you and all the team for making our day a truly memorable day. Everything was perfect, the glass of water on arrival when my mouth was dry with nerves to Chris and the evening team following around with chilled bubbly. We could not of wished for better!

It was the best day of our lives and we are so grateful to you all!

Jane

I just wanted to thank you and your team for my fabulous 50th Birthday party. It all went very smoothly from the initial enquiry to the party - I cannot fault anything and it all went off without a hitch on the evening.

Sam & Darren

We had an amazing night - everyone said how breathtaking the venue was, the staff were very attentive and the food was lovely - it couldn't have gone better so a huge thank you to you and your staff!

Maria's displays were fabulous and the ice cream tricycle a really good addition - thank you for the recommendation!