George and Amal Clooney in Venice Sept. 26; the Danesfield House Hotel (inset)
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10/25/2014 AT 03:45 PM EDT
Nearly one month after their wedding in Venice, the newlyweds are celebrating again, this time with a party on Amal’s home turf.
The Saturday night bash is being hosted by the bride’s parents, Baria and Ramzi Alamuddin, at the historic Danesfield House Hotel and Spa 40 miles outside London in Buckinghamshire.
On the guest list: more than 200 friends and family members – more than attended the wedding itself – many of whom are traveling from Amal’s native Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, as well as a heavy contingent of the pair’s U.K. friends.
“We’re so proud to have George in the family that I’m traveling from Beirut to London just to kiss him and say, ‘Welcome!’ ” one family member tells PEOPLE.
George, 53, and Amal, 36, have both been back to work since the multi-day wedding celebration, which quickly established Amal as a fashion force.
No gondolas are involved in the British bash, but it doesn’t lack for glamour. Located on 65 acres of formal English gardens overlooking the Thames River, Danesfield House, which dates to 1725, features fairy-tale Tudor-style towers, historic tapestries and ornate ceilings. Guests arrived via a hedge-lined path leading to a doorway lined with orchids cascading from Gothic-style windows. After a champagne reception in the hotel’s main hall – with a high vaulted wooden ceiling and a vast fireplace at one end – festivities moved to a large tent, where tables were set for dinner with black tablecloths, centerpieces of leafy branches and, in a quirky touch, ceramic cockatoos. Potted laurel trees and white roses also decorated the party.
Photos in the British press showed his-and-hers signature drinks on the menu: a cocktail made with tequila, citron vodka, lime juice and ginger ale for him; one with vanilla vodka, passion fruit liqueur and lime juice for her.
• Reporting by PHILIP BOUCHER and PETER MIKELBANK