If you’re looking for a wedding venue that offers real olde worlde charm, you cannot imagine better than the Craig Y Nos Castle Hotel. Set snugly in the Brecon Beacons National Park, it’s a gloriously majestic setting for a wide range of dream weddings, but also has good access links to trains, airports and motorways to allow for easy travel. The hotel has an impressive baronial frontage that adds glamour to any wedding and is surrounded by some of the most stunning scenery in Wales.
A wedding location that ticks all the boxes
If you’ve always wanted a big formal space for your wedding or civil ceremony, Craig-Y-Nos has a Grade I listed Opera House theatre which seats 150 people had has an incredible, regal ambience for a fairy tale occasion. And there’s a good reason for this, in the late 1800’s, internationally renowned opera singer Adelina Patti owned Craig Y Nos (which means ‘rock of the night’) and designed the opera house for her own performances. It doesn’t come much more romantic than that!
Then, depending on weather and your preferences, you can have a drinks reception in the Lounge with its library style chairs and wood-burning stove, or out in the large and elegant gardens which offer a great opportunity for mingling as well as having some of the best wedding photograph opportunities in the UK, such as the boating lake and the extensive woodlands.
Where to host your wedding breakfast? That’s easy – the refurbished conservatory with its floor to ceiling windows provides an outstanding view of the Brecon Beacons that will delight your wedding guests and then you can transition into the function room for an evening of dancing and fun.
For the bridal couple, the Bridal Suite is a truly unique experience. It has been converted from a old chapel and vestry and has a half-tester bed and a stained glass window and an unbelievably romantic bathroom with a gold-clawed, roll-topped free standing bathtub, and a gold tiled shower. It’s a sumptuous and very special way to start your married life together.
Your guests don’t have to feel left out, either. You can have up to a hundred of your favourite people stay at the hotel, so the celebrations can continue into the following day.
Planning the perfect wedding
But weddings are about much more than the venue and one of the great things about Craig-Y-Nos Castle Hotel is that there’s a wonderful team working at the hotel who are focused on making every wedding into an unforgettable day for everybody concerned. There are weekday and weekend wedding packages and even micro-weddings so that there’s something for everyone. A weekend wedding package includes a three course meal, exclusive use of function spaces, chair covers, wedding linens and even special candelabra. The Castle is also available for exclusive use weddings over 2 days under the VIP wedding package.
The venue has dedicated wedding planners who can help you make all your wedding dreams come true, and whose experience and support can make planning your wedding into as much fun as the wedding itself!
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