Ebbw Vale Wedding Venues - Craig Y Nos Castle Wedding Venue
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Ebbw Vale Weddings
Your Ebbw Vale Wedding Reception in a Castle
- it's all yours for your Day
"We only allow one wedding a day in the castle, so
our Castle is exclusively yours for your wedding day"
This sets our castle apart from wedding venues in Ebbw Vale / South Wales area who may have more than one wedding on same day.
Exclusive Use Ebbw Vale Wedding Packages
in a Welsh Castle
- a stunning Castle Wedding Venue
- a stunning Castle Wedding Venue
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- Time from Ebbw Vale to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue: 47 minutes
- Distance from Ebbw Vale to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Reception Venue: 31 miles
Award winning Castle Wedding Venue in South Wales for your big day!
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for your Wedding Day
at Craig y Nos Castle, nr Ebbw Vale
See our Ebbw Vale Wedding Packages
See our Weekend Wedding Package with 60 to 70 day guests and 50 guests staying overnight.
See our amazing two day full weekend VIP Wedding Offer. Ideal for guests travelling from Ebbw Vale and further afield, if you would like a two day two night castle wedding with a minimum of 70 guests staying both nights.
This is a two day VIP wedding worth £28,000 yet you as the Couple only pay round £10,300 when you have 70 guests staying two nights and paying for their own accommodation - read how this works here.
See our Last Minute Weddings Offers.
For all our wedding packages, see Wedding Packages Selection for the most suitable wedding package for you.
Why Choose Craig y Nos Castle,
near Ebbw Vale?
All your guests can stay overnight with you on your wedding day. Party late into the night, with no worries about you or your guests getting back home to Ebbw Vale.
Craig y Nos Castle wedding venue sleeps up to 81 guests in en-suite doubles and family rooms.
We're probably the only castle wedding venue near Ebbw Vale where all your guests can stay overnight.
A unique Wedding Venue - the romance of a real Welsh Castle combined with the historic grandeur of our very own Opera House licensed for wedding ceremonies.
Craig y Nos Castle only accepts one wedding a day, so you and your guests from Ebbw Vale will have the run of the whole ground floor of the castle exclusively.
You're not in just one room, you and your guests have the run of all our ground floor rooms:
(1) The opera house for your wedding ceremony, where you will be the star of the show, on stage, before all your guests
(2) Welcome drinks in the Nicoloni Room, our main reception lounge (or outside in gardens if weather is fine)
(3) Your wedding breakfast in our 130 seater conservatory with fabulous views overlooking the Brecon Beacons National Park
(4) Evening wedding party and late night disco in our evening function room and music room, with resident's bar.
Should you 'go local',
for a wedding venue
in or near to Ebbw Vale,
or can you go further afield
in or near to Ebbw Vale,
or can you go further afield
for a more special and unique wedding day?
Will you invite
'Evening Only' Guests
or invite everyone for the whole day?
'Evening-only' guests won't travel far. Craig y Nos is more of a 'destination wedding venue', where your closest friends and relatives from Ebbw Vale come to your wedding, and where you invite everyone for the whole day.
When you choose a venue further away from your base, you'll tend to invite everyone for the whole day. Also you'll need somewhere all your guests can stay overnight.
Craig y Nos Castle sleeps over 8o guests. Have most of your guests stay with us. Everyone will party with you late into the night as they have no worries about getting home to Ebbw Vale.
Unlike with a 'local' wedding reception, when you marry at Craig y Nos, you won't have so many guests shooting off early to get home. With more local weddings nearer to Ebbw Vale, a wedding party dwindles around 11-12 as guests leave to go home. Having everyone stay over at Craig y Nos means your party lasts late into the night.
Unlike with a 'local' wedding reception, when you marry at Craig y Nos, you won't have so many guests shooting off early to get home. With more local weddings nearer to Ebbw Vale, a wedding party dwindles around 11-12 as guests leave to go home. Having everyone stay over at Craig y Nos means your party lasts late into the night.
A truly magical and unique
castle wedding venue
Craig y Nos Castle is a popular destination wedding venue for couples all over the UK. It combines the attraction of getting married in a real castle, in your own fairytale castle for either a day or a whole weekend, a historic building (yours exclusively for your wedding) in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
The mountain scenery of the Brecon Beacons National Park guarantees you stunning photo opportunities both inside and outside the castle. The Grade One Listed Opera House makes a fantastic setting for your wedding ceremony. You get exclusive use of the whole ground floor of the castle for you and your wedding guests.
Hosting over 100 weddings a year, Craig y Nos Castle is a truly magical and unique castle wedding venue for Ebbw Vale Brides and Grooms with reasonable and affordable rates.
Ebbw Vale Wedding Theme ideas
Wedding Decor and Wedding Gift Ideas
based on Ebbw Vale's history, style and culture
Link your wedding theme, wedding decor and wedding favours to the history, style and sense of place in Ebbw Vale.
Your wedding theme may be linked to your own past, to key moments in your relationship with each other, your favourite colours, your personal tastes, or you may incorporate elements of your home town of Ebbw Vale into your wedding day 'story book'.
When considering wedding decor you may already have plenty of your own ideas for your wedding. Or maybe you are still looking for inspiration?
When considering wedding decor you may already have plenty of your own ideas for your wedding. Or maybe you are still looking for inspiration?
Reflect the story of Ebbw Vale in your decor, to connect your personal history in your home town's roots, and your family's location in Ebbw Vale. You may get some ideas from the history of Ebbw Vale below, its buildings, street names, or local transport routes etc.
Interesting Facts About Ebbw Vale
to use in your wedding theme/ decor/ story
1. Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr population: 33,000.
2. Until the end of the C.18th Ebbw Vale was a small hamlet of 120 people. It was trsansformed by the Industrial Revolution with the opening of the steel works in 1778 and coal mining from 1790. In the 1930's the steel works at Ebbw Vale was the largest in Europe. In the 1960's 14,500 were employed in the steelworks, but massive redundancies and decline followed the 1980's strikes and by 2002 all the old steelworks were closed. This was the end of the industrial era for Ebbw Vale.
3. The world's first steel train track rail was rolled at Ebbw Vale in 1857. Also steel from Ebbw Vale built the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
4. Unemployment rates in Ebbw Vale are among the highest in Britain following the collapse of the steel industry.
5. Two famous politicians represented Ebbw Vale. Aneurin Bevan, the father of the National Health Service, represented Ebbw Vale as a Labour Party MP from the 1929 general election to 1960. When he died in 1960, he was succeeded as MP by Michael Foot. The seat is now called Blaenau Gwent.
6. The towns and housing areas comprising the Ebbw Vale area are: Ebbw Vale, Rassau, Garnlydan, Hill Top, Briery Hill, Glyncoed, Willowtown, Glanyrafon, Cwm, Newtown, Victoria, Tyllwyn, and Waunlwyd.
7. £18m was spent developing Festival Park which held the last National Garden Festival but in the last 16 years has fallen into decline and needs more investment. It is now a retail park of 40 shops.
8. The site of the Ebbw Vale Steelworks is known as "The Works". This is subject to a £350m redevelopment into housing, retail and office areas, wetlands and an educational facility.
9. The Ebbw Vale rugby team is nicknamed 'The Steelmen' after the steelworks in the town.
10. A railway service to Cardiff Central from the new Ebbw Vale Parkway rail station began February 2008. A second service to Newport is scheduled for 2014.
Ideas for your wedding based on the history
and attractions in Ebbw Vale
1. Steelworks and steel industry; refer to old pictures of the steelworks for inspiration. Incorporate into a storyboard about Ebbw Vale.
2. Include Kinnock and Bevan on storyboard.
3. Use the town names and areas of Ebbw Vale for your table names - Ebbw Vale, Rassau, Garnlydan, Hill Top, Briery Hill, Glyncoed, Willowtown, Glanyrafon, Cwm, Newtown, Victoria, Tyllwyn, and Waunlwyd.
4. Visit Festival Park for further products and ideas you might be able to source locally.
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