Llanelli Wedding Venues - Craig Y Nos Castle Wedding Venue
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Your Llanelli 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 Llanelli / South Wales area who may have more than one wedding on same day.
Exclusive Use Llanelli Wedding Packages
in a Welsh Castle
- a stunning Wedding Venue Nr. Llanelli
- a stunning Wedding Venue Nr. Llanelli
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- Time from Llanelli to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue: 50 minutes
- Distance from Llanelli to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Reception Venue: 29 miles
Brides and Grooms lucky enough to live in Llanelli will not have to travel far to get married at Craig y Nos Castle.
Llanelli Brides & Grooms may not realise it, but in Craig y Nos Castle they have one of Wales' premier wedding venues, to which couples will travel from all over the country. We're almost on Llanelli's doorstep!
Award winning Castle Wedding Venue in South Wales for your big day!
See Suggested
for your Llanelli Wedding
at Craig y Nos Castle, Swansea
See our Llanelli 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 if you have 70 guets willing to stay overnight with you for two nights to make it a full VIP two day wedding over a full weekend.
See our Last Minute Weddings Offers.
For all our wedding packages, see Llanelli Wedding Packages Selection for the most suitable wedding package for you.
Why Choose Craig y Nos Castle,
near Llanelli?
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 Llanelli.
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 where all your guests from Llanelli 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 Llanelli 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 Llanelli,
or can you go further afield
in or near to Llanelli,
or can you go further afield
for a more special and unique wedding day?
'Local Venue'
or
'Destination Wedding Venue'?
You may have guests some distance away from Llanelli, who'll need to travel to your wedding anyway, so it won't matter to them so much where you get married.
For guests who live local to you, friends and neighbours and acquaintances and even work colleagues in and around Llanelli, do you want a local wedding venue near Llanelli where all your guests can get to easily? Or are you all happy about travelling a little bit East to Craig y Nos Castle?
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 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 Llanelli.
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 Llanelli, 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 Llanelli, 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 for Llanelli Couples
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 Llanelli Brides and Grooms with reasonable and affordable rates.
Llanelli Wedding Theme ideas,
Wedding Decor and Wedding Gift Ideas,
based on Llanelli's history, style and culture
Link your wedding theme, wedding decor and wedding favours to the history, style and sense of place in Llanelli.
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 some elements of your home town of Llanelli 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?
Reflect the story of Llanelli in your decor, to connect your personal history in your home town's roots, and your family's location in Llanelli. You may get some ideas from the history of Llanelli below, its buildings, street names, or local transport routes etc.
Interesting Facts About Llanelli
- use in your wedding theme/ decor/ story
1. Llanelli became so famous for tinplate production, though historically it was a mining town, that it was known as 'Tinopolis'. Tata Steel Europe tinplate works is based at Trostre, though it uses steel strip from Port Talbot as Llanelli tin mines were closed.
2. Llanelli went into decline in the mid 1970's following the mass closure of the coal mines in Wales and competition from overseas steel makers. New retail parks and the Millennium Coastal Park have been developed to replace some of the old manufacturing industries.
3. Felinfoel Brewery is based in Llanelli.
5. Local attractions in or near Llanelli are:
Millennium Coastal Path
Pembrey Country Park
National Wetlands Centre
Llanelly House (note spelling)
Parc Howard Museum which displays Llanelly (old spelling was with a 'y') Pottery.
5. The spelling 'Llanelly' is an anglicised form which was used in government and official documents until 1965. This is why the local historic building is known as 'Llanelly House'.
Ideas for your wedding decorations and wedding theme based on Llanelli.
1. Tinopolis and Llanelli’s fame as a tin manufacturer could feature on a 'Llanelli storyboard'.
2. Anyone connected with Rugby might care to name their tables after the various Rugby teams in Llanelli, should they wish to make a connection both to the town and to Rugby.
3. If you have relatives travelling from outside the area who may have to stay overnight either with us or more locally in Llanelli, make up an advisory note with attractions and places to visit in Llanelli.
4. See also our Swansea regional page for more wedding ideas specific to the wider area of Swansea.
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