Weddings for Armed Forces, NHS and Emergency Services
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Craig y Nos Castle Weddings for NHS & Armed Forces Personnel in Wales
- 'Armed Forces and Emergency Services Discounted Wedding Package' especially designed for Emergency Services Personnel & Blue Light Card Holders.
A Fabulous
Castle Wedding Offer
Exclusively for the Emergency Services
& Blue Light Card Holders!
Exceptional Armed Forces and Emergency Services
Discounted Wedding Package
Armed Forces / Emergency Services
Blue Light Card Holders
Wedding Package
Welcome Drinks
Chefs Selection of Canapes
3 course Wedding Breakfast
Evening Buffet
Exclusive Use of Conservatory Day & Night
Welsh Cakes
Choice of Coloured Bows & Chair Sashes
Free Bridal Suite
Free Wedding Dressing Room for Bridal Party
Minimum of 60 day guests on Fridays, 70 on a Saturday. Lower minimum of 50 on weekdays Sunday to Thursday. You can have up to 130 in Conservatory by Day & 150 at Night.
Your Exclusive Wedding in a Castle - Tariff
we only allow one wedding a day
.... it's your special day!
2025 Tariffs (Option A)
£5,132 for minimum 50 guests Sun-Thursday
£6,158.40 for minimum 60 guests on Fridays
£7,184.80 for minimum 70 guests on Saturdays
and £102.64 per additional guest above the minimum levels
2024-2026 Tariffs
Blue Light Card Holder Wedding Package Includes
- Exclusive use of Conservatory for your Day Wedding Reception and your Evening Party
- Nicolini Room Lounge and Breakfast Room lounge
- Free Bridal Suite for Bridal Couple on night of wedding
- Chair sashes/ bows in a wide choice of colours in Conservatory
- Table linen and napkins in white
- Candelabra (add your own decorations)
Risk of Wedding being moved - Blue Light Card Holders
What to do if your Wedding Date gets moved?
When you book a wedding and have a partner who is in the Armed Forces or Emergency Services, or a Blue Card Holder, you can never be sure if your partner may be called away on Active Service or Forces postings overseas or otherwise be called away on an emergency. Overseas Active Service postings can be long or even short notice, depending on political and world affairs, and are normally for a period of 6 months. However Forces postings can last for two or even three years.
You have a risk the wedding date you planned for, may have to be cancelled or moved. Most venues have terms and conditions to protect them against financial loss, should a wedding cancel at short notice.
Other Venues' Standard Terms
may not Suit Blue Card Holders' Needs
Depending on the notice given, Standard Wedding Venue terms for cancelled wedding dates typically include:
(i) Loss of deposit, or
(ii) Loss of up to 50% of the cost of the wedding with the venue, if cancellation is made within 6 months or less before the wedding and
(iii) Liability for the entire cost of the wedding if cancellation is made within less than two months of the wedding date
(iv) Liability for the cost of any accommodation due under the selected Wedding Package.
The above are our 'standard terms' on all our other Wedding Contracts, which in turn were taken from an amalgamation of other local wedding venues terms, so we know these are fairly standard terms.
Your solution would be to buy insurance against the cancellation or postponement of your wedding, but premiums may be quite high, depending on your circumstances and the state of world affairs at the time, not least many Insurance Policies will not cover cancellation of a Wedding for operational duties.
Blue Light Card Holders Weddings - Moveable Dates
We have an answer for cancelled or postponed wedding dates caused by unavoidable military commitments, health workers called to emergencies, and postings: the Armed Forces and Emergency Services Discount Wedding Package.
Subject to the terms, the Armed Forces & Emergency Services Wedding Package allows you to move your wedding date if you or your partner are posted overseas, or are unable to attend the Venue on your wedding date for any reason connected to you or your partner's active service and 'Blue Light' obligations. We will either not charge you for changing your booked wedding date to another date, or charge you a nominal amount according to the notification period and dates you wish to re-book into - see the terms below and in the table.
This means you can book your wedding at Craig y Nos Castle without worrying what happens if you get posted overseas.
Under this discounted package for Blue Light Card Holders and Emergency / Military Services personnel you have free exclusive use of the Ceremony room, Conservatory for your wedding breakfast, plus the Nicolini and Breakfast room, with all the table cloths and candelabra, PLUS the Bridal Suite is added at no charge under this package.
You will need 50 guests staying overnight at weekends, or 25 staying overnight weekdays. (Guests pay for their own accommodation at £75 per person B&B based on two sharing an en-suite). And you need 50 wedding guests on weekdays, 60 or more on Fridays, and a minimum of 70 on Saturdays.
Booking The Blue Light Wedding Package for dates this year and next
1. This Blue Light Card, Armed Forces & Emergency Services Discounted Wedding Package is available on weekday dates up to two years' ahead of today's date. We may encourage you into Fridays in selected months in the Off-Season.
2. This Armed Forces & Emergency Services Discounted Wedding Package can be taken on any available Friday or Saturday up to the end of the next calendar year from this one - i.e. all of this calendar year and subject to (3) & (4) below, all of next calendar year.
3. For A Saturday more than 18 months ahead, venue hire will apply per the Saturday Wedding Package. Add in the relevant 'venue hire' for 'Castle Exclusive Use ground floor' as shown here.
4. For a Friday more than 18 months ahead, venue hire will apply per the Friday Wedding Package. Add in the relevant 'venue hire' for 'Castle Exclusive Use ground floor' as shown here.
As the rates for the Armed Forces Package are lower - see Armed Forces rates here - you only add in venue hire if booking beyond 18 months ahead at a weekend.
To book a viewing of Craig y Nos Castle
please use the quick-form HERE
If you cannot visit the castle in person, we offer 'remote viewings' via Zoom. We cannot offer viewings during weddings. Midweek dates for viewings are not shown but are available.
Armed Forces & Emergency Services Weddings - Extra Guests
- Add extra all-day guests up to 130 in the Conservatory for the three course wedding breakfast, welcome drinks and canapes, plus the evening buffet and welsh cakes.
- Extra Evening Only Guests can be added up to a total of 200 in the Function room for your evening party.
Option B: Upgrade to full Drinks Package:
After Ceremony Welcome Drinks do not need to be added as they are included in this Package - see Wedding Drinks Packages.
You can add the full Wedding Banquet Table Wine and Toasting Champagne for the relevant Castle Drinks Package tariff,
But if you'd prefer to save money and not offer table wine, then guests can be invited to buy their own drinks from the bar. It is up to you!
Includes Three Course Wedding Breakfast, Evening Buffet, full Castle Drinks Package in Option B, plus all table linen, candelabra centrepieces and chair sashes/ bows in a wide choice of colours, all at a much lower cost than our Standard Tariff and lower than the standard Saturday or Friday Wedding Package.
This package includes chef's selection of Canapes and Welsh Cakes.
If marrying within 18 months, there is no venue hire making Exclusive Use free – however, for bookings made for weddings more than 18 months ahead, venue hire applies as shown here for Saturdays and as shown here for Fridays.
Armed Forces/ Emergency Services quick quoter for 2024 Min 50. You can choose option (A) or (B) | |||||
-A- | -B- | ||||
No: | Three course Wedding Breakfast, Evening Buffet, Welcome Drinks & canapes, welsh cakes, chair covers & bows, linen, candelabra, bridal suite: £93.05/ guest | Add rest of Drinks Package (2 glasses wine & toasting wine) at £16.50/ guest to total £109.55/ guest | |||
| 50 | £4,652.50 | £5,477.50 | |||
| 60 | £5,583.00 | £6,573.00 | |||
| 70 | £6,513.50 | £7,668.50 | |||
| 80 | £7,444.00 | £8,764.00 | |||
| 90 | £8,374.50 | £9,859.50 | |||
| 100 | £9,305.00 | £10,955.00 | |||
| 110 | £10,235.50 | £12,050.50 | |||
| 120 | £11,166.00 | £13,146.00 | |||
Armed Forces/ Emergency Services quick quoter for 2025 Min 50. You can choose option (A) or (B) | ||
-A- | -B- | |
No: | Three course Wedding Breakfast, Evening Buffet, Welcome Drinks & canapes, welsh cakes, chair covers & bows, linen, candelabra, bridal suite: £102.64/ guest | Add rest of Drinks Package (2 glasses wine & toasting wine) at £18.50/ guest to total £121.14/ guest |
| 50 | £5,132.00 | £6,057.00 |
| 60 | £6,158.40 | £7,268.40 |
| 70 | £7,184.80 | £8,479.80 |
| 80 | £8,211.20 | £9,691.20 |
| 90 | £9,237.60 | £10,902.60 |
| 100 | £10,264.00 | £12,114.00 |
| 110 | £11,290.40 | £13,325.40 |
| 120 | £12,316.80 | £14,536.80 |
Armed Forces/ Emergency Services quick quoter for 2026 Min 50. You can choose option (A) or (B) | ||
-A- | -B- | |
No: | Three course Wedding Breakfast, Evening Buffet, Welcome Drinks & canapes, welsh cakes, chair covers & bows, linen, candelabra, bridal suite: £116.00/ guest | Add rest of Drinks Package (2 glasses wine & toasting wine) at £21.00/ guest to total £137/ guest |
| 50 | £5,800.00 | £6,850.00 |
| 60 | £6,960.00 | £8,220.00 |
| 70 | £8,120.00 | £9,590.00 |
| 80 | £9,280.00 | £10,960.00 |
| 90 | £10,440.00 | £12,330.00 |
| 100 | £11,600.00 | £13,700.00 |
| 110 | £12,760.00 | £15,070.00 |
| 120 | £13,920.00 | £16,440.00 |
Armed Forces/ Emergency Services quick quoter for 2027 Min 50. You can choose option (A) or (B) | ||
-A- | -B- | |
| No: | Three course Wedding Breakfast, Evening Buffet, Welcome Drinks & canapes, welsh cakes, chair covers & bows, linen, candelabra, bridal suite: £126.00/ guest | Add rest of Drinks Package (2 glasses wine & toasting wine) at £25.00/ guest to total £151.00/ guest |
| 50 | £6,300.00 | £7,550.00 |
| 60 | £7,560.00 | £9,060.00 |
| 70 | £8,820.00 | £10,570.00 |
| 80 | £10,080.00 | £12,080.00 |
| 90 | £11,340.00 | £13,590.00 |
| 100 | £12,600.00 | £15,100.00 |
| 110 | £13,860.00 | £16,610.00 |
| 120 | £15,120.00 | £18,120.00 |
| See Best Value Price Guarantee here | ||
Armed Forces Wedding Photographers
For a Military Wedding check out Alex Buckland Photography as he specialises in Military Weddings Photography. His style is a mix of candid and unique moments of the day, as they happen. He will capture creative photos of the two of you that blow you away - beautiful photos you will want to display around your home! Alex has photographed countless military weddings throughout the UK along and has vast experience of military wedding traditions.
Also see also Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Photographers - here.
We check our competitor's prices and their Wedding Packages so you don't have to
Our research on 2024/5 rates is uncovering big increases in venue hire. Depending on day and year, you'll save between £2,000 to £4,000 on this Armed Forces / Emergency Services package as there is NO venue hire.
Venue hire and other fees of £2,000 to £4,000 for a summer wedding can get overlooked in all the complicated information on different packages and seasonal rates you come across on various venues. See a big study on other venues' pricing here.
- The key take-away is how venue hire adds to your costs. On 70 guests, venue hire of £3,000 costs you an extra £42.86/guest.
- Most venues were around £95 to £100/ guest for a 2022/2023 date. I've yet to fully analyse 2025 rates but they will be higher, around £150-£180/guest, excluding any 'offers', for the Wedding Breakfast, Drinks Package and Evening Buffet. Add in venue hire and this can increase to a 'total cost' £200 a head or more.
- The Armed Forces / Emergency Services package can work out almost half the rate of some venues on our competitor comparison page.
- Please see our new
to check which is the most suitable wedding package for your requirements, based on the size, day and date of your wedding.
Wedding Availability - Years |
Day | Min No | Wedding Packages |
Sat Fri | 70 60 | |
Sun- Thu | 50 | |
Wedding Package Selector - check which wedding package fits your requirements | ||
Any day | 100 | |
Any day | 50 | |
Tariffs | ||
detailed pricing table | ||
for all our main wedding packages | ||
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