Guests and Live Streaming

Guest tickets

All guest tickets cost £10 each and must be purchased in advance through the Marston Events booking portal (www.marstonevents.com/suffolk). Each graduating student can purchase up to two guest tickets for their ceremony in the initial allocation. You will not be able to purchase your guest tickets until you have completed the graduation registration form and received your email confirming that you can log in to the Marston Events booking portal. The deadline for you to purchase your guest tickets is noon (TBC). 

All children attending your graduation ceremony must be accompanied by an adult guest. Children under the age of 5 years do not require a ticket and will be expected to share a seat with an adult guest. Children aged 5 years and over do require a ticket and are included in your count of two guest tickets.

If any guest tickets remain after the deadline to purchase the initial allocation of tickets, additional tickets for your ceremony may be offered for sale on a first come, first served basis. All students who have placed an order via the Marston Events booking portal will be sent an email to let you know whether additional tickets are available for your ceremony and, if so, details of how to purchase them. Please note that there is no guarantee that there will be additional tickets available for any ceremony and additional tickets cannot be reserved.

If you have purchased guest tickets, you will be sent a confirmation email from Marston Events containing your e-tickets a few days before your graduation ceremony. Please remember to bring a copy of this email and the e-tickets with you to your graduation ceremony as your guests will require their e-tickets to gain entry to the marquee.

While friends and family may accompany you to the Waterfront for photographs, only guests that you have an e-ticket for will be allowed entry to the Grand Marquee for your graduation ceremony. There are a number of open-air seating areas as well as cafes, bars and restaurants along the Waterfront where anyone who does not have a ticket can wait while the ceremony is taking place.

Please see Graduation Guest Ticketing Policy for more information.

On-Campus Live-streaming guests

Guests attending the live stream of the graduation ceremonies on campus must be booked in advance via Marston Events but will not be issued with an e-ticket. If you have booked, we will be expecting your guests to attend, and their details will be known to the staff stewarding on the day. They will be welcomed and directed to the live-streaming venue when they arrive.

If any of your guests have specific access requirements, please contact the Graduation Team in advance so that suitable arrangements can be made.

Live-streaming

All of the graduation ceremonies will be recorded and live-streamed. If you have friends and family who are not able to attend the graduation ceremony in person, they will be able to watch a live-stream of your ceremony from home via the University's website. Downloads of the ceremonies will be available on the website after all graduation ceremonies have concluded.