Llantrisant Wedding Venues - Craig Y Nos Castle Wedding Venue
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Your Llantrisant 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 Llantrisant / South Wales area who may have more than one wedding on same day.
Exclusive Use Llantrisant Wedding Packages
in a Welsh Castle
- a stunning Llantrisant Wedding Venue
- a stunning Llantrisant Wedding Venue
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- Time from Llantrisant to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue: 59 minutes
- Distance from Llantrisant to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Reception Venue: 39 miles
Award winning Castle Wedding Venue in South Wales for your big day!
See our Llantrisant 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 near Llantrisant who would be able to stay over for two days and two nights in your own fairytale romantic castle. Have everyone stay over for a two day two night exclusive wedding weekend.
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 Llantrisant?
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 Llantrisant.
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 anywhere near Llantrisant where all your guests can stay overnight.
A unique Llantrisant 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 Llantrisant 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 Llantrisant,
or can you go further afield
in or near to Llantrisant,
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 Llantrisant, 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 Llantrisant, do you want a local wedding venue near Llantrisant where all your guests can get to easily? Or are you all happy about travelling along the Heads of the Valley A470/465 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 from Llantrisant. 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 from Llantrisant for the whole day or even for a two day wedding.
When you choose a venue further away from your Llantrisant base, you'll tend to invite everyone for the whole day. Also you'll need somewhere all your guests from Llantrisant 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 Llantrisant.
Unlike with a 'local' wedding reception, when you marry at Craig y Nos, you won't have so many guests shooting off early to Llantrisant to get home. With more local weddings nearer to Llantrisant, a wedding party dwindles around 11-12 as guests leave to go home. Having everyone stay over at Craig y Nos means your Llantrisant wedding 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 Llantrisant to get home. With more local weddings nearer to Llantrisant, a wedding party dwindles around 11-12 as guests leave to go home. Having everyone stay over at Craig y Nos means your Llantrisant wedding 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 Llantrisant Brides and Grooms with reasonable and affordable rates.
Llantrisant Wedding Theme ideas
Wedding Decor and Wedding Gift Ideas
based on Llantrisant's history, style and culture
Link your wedding theme, wedding decor and wedding favours to the history, style and sense of place in Llantrisant.
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 Llantrisant 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 Llantrisant in your decor, to connect your personal history in your home town's roots, and your family's location in Llantrisant. You may get some ideas from the history of Llantrisant below, its buildings, street names, or local transport routes etc.
Interesting Facts About Llantrisant
use in your wedding theme/ decor/ story
1. Llantrisant translates as The Parish of the Three Saints. Llantrisant's three saints are St Illtyd, St Gwynno and St Dyfodwg.
2. Llantrisant has been occupied since C.6th.
3. Llantrisant castle was built in 1246. However only one wall of the raven tower remains. Llantrisant Castle was a fortified castle 'second only to Cardiff in military importance'. It was destroyed by Owain Glyndŵr in 1404.
4. Llantrisant longbow men were successful in battle, helping England to victory against the French in the Battle of Crecy (1346), after which the English longbow became England's weapon of choice in the Middle Ages.
6. Llantrisant is known for its pubs: The New Inn, the Wheatsheaf and the Cross Keys Hotel.
7. The Model House, formerly a workhouse and so called because it was hoped the people who lived there would become model Christians, is now a craft and design centre, and has 35,000 visitors a year. The ground floor galleries showcase glass, ceramics and designer jewellery from local artists, and the upper floors are workshops for individual craftspeople, whose products can be purchased here. There are art and crafts exhibitions through the year together with training workshops.
9. Llantrisant male choir is one of the oldest choirs in Wales and tours wolrdwide including USA and Europe and singing at the Royal Albert Hall.
10. The statue to Dr William Price was erected in 1982 and commemorates one of the town’s most famous residents. Dr Price was an eccentric surgeon, chartist, scholar and self-proclaimed druid who pioneered the legalisation of cremation after winning the court case following the death and cremation of his baby son ‘Iesu Grist’. When Dr. Price died at the age of 94, 20,000 witnessed his cremation.
11. Hopkin Hopkins (1736-1754), the world's shortest man at just 2ft 7in tall (and only 13 lbs in weight at his death), came from Llantrisant.
Ideas for your wedding decorations
wedding theme based on the history of,
facts about and facilities and attractions
in Llantrisant
1. Many weddings have a family history board with pictures of the wedding couple from childhood. If you are from Llantrisant you may wish to add some elements of the history of the town to your story board, to give more of a sense of place to your story.
2. You could name your tables after the three saints of Llantrisant, though this would be lost on people not familiar with Llantrisant, and also you would be limited to three tables! If you added in the various pubs Llantrisant is famous for, this would provide you with more tables and more of a sense of place, though pubs and saints may not go together well! You would find more pubs if you include the historical ones since closed.
3. Are there any photographs of either of you at ‘the Beating of the Bounds’! This is possibly unlikely but the story would be of some interest if either of you were – or if any of your relatives from Llantrisant were involved and photographed.
4. Visit the Model House to see if there are any local crafts items, glass items, or jewellery you could buy for wedding gifts, wedding table centres, wedding favours etc.
5. The Royal Mint’s presence in Llantrisant is not commonly known to people outside Llantrisant. Visit the museum for some ideas and maybe buy some coin displays on-line from the Royal Mint as location relevant wedding gifts and favours.
6. Produce a small A5 factsheet about Llantrisant for your wedding tables along the lines of “Did you know” – for example did you know that Llantrisant was the birthplace of the world’s shortest man?
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