Availability Calendar Colour chart and notes
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- This is the 'Wedding Dates Availability Calendar Explanatory Page'. To see availablity in each year, see Wedding Availability - Years Index.
- Colour shaded dates are booked - see colour table for type of wedding. Any unshaded date is still available to book.
Coronavirus resulted in many 2020 weddings skipping a year into 2021/2 in accordance with our Coronavirus Policy. Many 2021 weddings postponed two or three times, into 2022.
Yellow shaded dates with black font are 'new weddings' that have reserved but not yet 'booked'. Dates with red font and yellow shading (mostly now gone) were 'pencilled in' dates for wedding clients who provisionally reserved a new date ahead of officially moving their original date. Most weddings are now settled in on their new dates and hopefully we will not have to postpone weddings in 2022.
Colour | Event Type | Public Rooms | Notes |
| None | No event booked | Available | Date unbooked and available |
| Reserved | Wedding Date Reserved | 'Reservation fee' paid by a NEW wedding client | |
| Reserved | Pencilled in forward date | This is a second date Reserved in case COVID regs prevent original wedding date going ahead | |
| SWP | Special Weekend Wedding | Exclusive | Ensuites only for wedding guests |
WED-VIP | Weekend Excusive Deal | Exclusive | |
| UWP | Ultimate Wedding | Exclusive | Fewer rooms may be used by wedding guests on these packages. This means more rooms may be available for guests of the next day's wedding. |
| LMWP | Last Minute Weddings | Cons/ Nici | |
| AFESWP | Armed Forces Wedding | Exclusive | |
| MWP/WWP | Midweek Weddings | Cons/ Nici | |
| IWP | Intimate Wedding Package | Cons/ Nici | |
| COW | Ceremony Only Wedding | Available | One room ceremony only; so other events can be booked |
| SWEEP | Evening Entertainment | Function Rm | B&B may not be much used by event, so B&B may be available for non event guests |
| PROM | Students Prom | Function Rm | |
| G.H.O.S.T | Castle run Ghost Tour (and some external organisers) | Available | B&B open to non event guests & Eve Meals served. On grey shaded dates we are able to offer weddings with no or very low B&B use. |
| B&B full | Bedrooms fullybooked by next day's wedding | Available | |
| Events | Conferences, Luncheons Group Ghost Tours, teas | Partly Booked | |
Any unshaded date is available to book.
The light green shaded dates are Ceremony Only Weddings so we could accommodate a full wedding package on light green dates.
Grey shaded dates are where all the bedrooms are booked; we could possibly accommodate a wedding not using accommodation on some Grey shaded dates.
18/05/2021: If you are interested in a small marquee wedding, please complete an enquiry form / viewing request and discuss dates with the wedding planners. Marquee weddings can only be offered in summer, as weather conditions in Winter will be too windy and cold for an open sided marquee. Below are some pictures of our first COVID compliant 'Small Marquee' Wedding.
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- Weekdays and any weekend date in next 6 months can be booked for the Intimate Wedding Package.
- Months shaded Green qualify for our Last Minute Wedding Package for 50 guests minimum (LMWP-50).
- Months shaded Light Green qualify for Last Minute Weddings with a higher Minimum of 80 Day & Min 80 Eve - read more.
- Bank Holidays, New Years Eve, Christmas Eve, Valentines Day etc only qualify for the Saturday Wedding Package.
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Over 100 2020 year Couples postponed into 2021/22 only for many 2021 weddings to have to postpone again into 2022. This made the calendar a bit complicated. A FEW weekend dates are left in 2022 mainly in November and December.
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