Full Weekend Exclusive Wedding Deal - Terms & Accommodation
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Craig y Nos Castle Wales Full Weekend Wedding Terms & Conditions
- Full Weekend Exclusive Wedding, Terms & Detailed Notes - broken down into subject headings below.
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1. The Rebate on Guest Accommodation Use
Here we explain your 2026 Wedding Tariff rebate, based on Guests paying for their Accommodation. You book all the bedrooms (25 en-suites and 11 further budget rooms) for two nights for £6,900 (2026-2027).
At £6,900, you have a 'block booking discount' which is £1,475 less than the two-night B&B Tariff for 70 guests.
Your guests book their rooms direct with the Castle. On arrival they pay for their own B&B. Guests also get a 30% discount on the night before your wedding. Your block booking secures all en-suite rooms for the whole weekend. Your cost on all en-suite rooms remains the same whether you have 50, 70, or 100 guests staying. The more guests that book accommodation, the more you save on your Wedding.
This example is based on 2026 tariff. At £6,900 for all en-suites, for 2 nights, you pay £1,475 less than the Tariff for 70 guest staying two nights. With 30% off the night before your wedding, your guests get a good deal as well.
You pay £6,900 regardless, whether you have 50, 70 or 100 guests stay. The optimum is 70 guests staying two nights. If you exceed 70 you do need to pay for extra day guests at your wedding reception.
Example One: 50 guests staying two nights
B&B for your first 50 Guests is £75/ guest on the wedding night, based on two sharing an en-suite double at £150/ room. There's a 30% discount to £52.50/ guest (£105/room) for the night before your wedding. This makes an en-suite for two nights, 127.50 B&B / guest.
As we've only 25 double en suites, we can accept 50 guests at £127.50 each, paying a total £6,375. So if you have 50 guests stay 2 nights, £6,375 comes off your wedding, reducing what you pay from £23,384.20 to £17,009.20.
Example Two: 70 guests staying two nights
If you have 70 guests staying two nights, the first 50 guests pay £6,375 as above. The next 20 guests pay £50.00 B&B each night, as these are extras in family rooms, so these 20 add another £2,000.
So if you have 70 guests stay 2 nights, they will pay a total of £8,375 in B&B, reducing what you pay from £23,384.20 to £15,009.20. (If you have fewer than 70 guests staying, you will not fully use the accommodation to best effect.)
Example Three: 100 guests!
The castle’s accommodation theoretically sleeps 100 guests. Using every bed, 80 can sleep in the en-suite rooms and 21 in the non en suite rooms. In theory you could have a total B&B income of £10,845, reducing what you pay to £12,539.20, but you would need 100 guests staying two nights, which is optimistic!
2. Terms & Conditions
You need a Minimum of 70 Guests for the pre-wedding Evening Meal on the day before your wedding. You need a minimum of 70 day guests and 100 evening guests for the Wedding Day. Your wedding has 'Full Exclusive use' of the whole Castle Day & Evening, including the 25 en-suite rooms in the castle and the Budget Nurses Building rooms. All Castle function rooms, all bedrooms are exclusive to you.
DJ costs up to £600 are covered. You contract directly with the DJ for the Evening Entertainment on the Wedding Day. DJ fees are higher on Bank Holidays. Our £600 is not going to cover all your DJ costs. You will pay the DJ a top-up fee where the DJ's charges are higher than £600. You must book your date directly with the DJ at the same time you book this wedding package with the castle. If you do not do this, the DJ is NOT booked! To Book the DJ, you pay him a deposit, with the balance payable before the wedding date. The current recommended DJ is Darren Tipples - see here.
3. Extra Guests
See Tariffs Chart for each year as the below is based on 2026 rates.
- The Package is £23,384.20 for 70 day guests and 100 evening guests. Add £121.40 per extra guest up to 100 guests.
- Above 100 evening guests, add Evening Buffet at £23 / head to make it £144.40 per extra Guest.
- For subsequent Years 2026-2027 - see rates per year based on guest numbers.
- For extra Evening Only Guests above first 100, add £23 per extra person for the evening buffet.
- For extra Dinner Guests on the night before your wedding, the cost is £35 / guest above the first 70.
4. Booking the Bedrooms
These are 2026 rates. B&B for all rooms 2 nights is £6,900. The meal for 70 guests on the evening before your wedding is £2,450. Our maximum capacity is 100 overnight. See accommodation guidance here. Invite your guests to book B&B with the castle direct here.
We recommend your guests book and pay for their rooms direct with the castle at the standard wedding B&B tariff.
When your guests book their rooms a greater value in B&B income may be collected from your Guests than your £6,900 booking for all accommodation. All Guests' B&B payments are rebated against your Wedding Package. Provided guests pay for their own B&B and provided you offer no discount to your guests, you make a substantial saving.
Some couples prefer to reserve some or all rooms to guests in advance. You can complete a list (a SRUM - Special Room Use Monitor) to allocate guests to rooms. Or you can let guests book into a room of their choice direct with us. Your guests must all make a direct booking with us. We are shortly swapping to an on line booking system.
5. 1 day wedding Vs 2 Day Wedding
More for our own internal interest, we wanted to see how our Saturday Wedding Package compared to a WED-VIP 2 day Exclusive Use Wedding package. We asked, "If a Couple are thinking of a one day Saturday Wedding with guests staying the night before, is it better that they book the VIP two day wedding?"
WED-VIP is a premium package giving you exclusive use of the Castle for two days and two nights. The WED-VIP includes many extras such as £600 towards DJ and an upgrade to the Superior Wedding Menu at a reduced rate, which the Saturday one day package does not offer. The table below compares the one day 2026 Saturday Wedding Package against a two day wedding. We found if you want a two day, two night wedding for 70 guests, then WED-VIP at £15,000 costs less than booking the Saturday Wedding Package and upgrading it.
The more guests you have, WED-VIP offers better value than simply upgrading the Saturday Package to include the WED-VIP's Superior wedding menu and the meal for 70 the night before. If you have fewer than 70 guests staying the night before and dining, then you'd best ask us to do the sums for you! We will ensure you get the best rate based on your numbers and requirements.
| Item (2026 rates) | Wed-VIP 2 day wedding | Saturday wedding upgraded to WED-VIP |
| Cost of Package 70 day guests / 100 eve* | £15,009.20 | £10,000.00* |
| *Add 5 eve extras to SWP to get 100 eve | Included | £115.00 |
| Upgrade for 70 to Superior Banquet | Included | £1,155.00 |
| Night before meal 70 | Included | £2,450.00 |
| £600 towards DJ | Included | £600.00 |
| History Tour for 70 | Included | £700.00 |
| Discount Candy Cart | Included | £125.80 |
| Couple pays towards wedding of 70 guests day / 100 eve | £15,009.20 | £15,145.80 |
| If go to 75 day guests* | £15,616.20 | £16,595.80 |
6. Benefit of the 2 Day Wedding - Exclusivity
The table above shows our Two Day Weekend Wedding alongside a One Day Saturday wedding package upgraded to include everything that WED-VIP includes. You will observe that higher numbers makes WED-VIP better value while lower numbers would suggest Upgrading the Saturday Package is the better option.
The Saturday Wedding Package 2026 also has an 'offer' on 70 guests. If the correct rate was charged, it would be £10,820 for 70 day guests. On its offer for 2026 weddings, 70 guests on a Saturday is £10,000, plus the offer has 25 free evening guests. The saving of £820 is only for 70 guests. Invite more, and you lose the £820 saving.
With a Saturday Wedding Package at standard rates above 71 or more, the full weekend wedding is better value. In the chart's bottom line, you will observe that at 75 guests, the one day Saturday Package, when ii is upgraded to include everything in the VIP two day weekend wedding, costs £979.60 more than our premium two day VIP weekend wedding.
Conclusion: when above 70, you are £1k better off on WED-VIP, provided you also want 70 guests staying and dining the night before your wedding.
If you wanted fewer than 70 guests staying and ding the night before, or had fewer staying both nights, or fewer at your wedding banquet, then ask us! For example you could go as low as 30 guests for a night before meal on the Friday, if booking the Saturday package, but then, of course, the day before would not be exclusive to you. We will hold a smaller wedding on the Friday, or another event in another room.
Your wedding planner will work out which is best for you as it depends on your numbers on the night before and on the day of your wedding. This comparison is handy if you (a) have 70 guests or more staying both nights and (b) above 70 for the wedding day banquet and (c) desire the exclusivity we can offer, for the full weekend.
7. Suggestions for the 'Day Before'
Here we offer some suggestions on what you can do the day before your wedding to create a full two day Castle Wedding Weekend away.
You could all arrive midday on Friday (or some guests could stay on Thursday night also) and do something exciting on the Friday!
With 70 guests staying on the Friday, make full use of the Friday and hold a two-day wedding event. Your Weekend can either run over a Friday and Saturday, or over a Saturday and Sunday, in which case the Saturday would be used for any pre-wedding events.
How about a Murder Mystery Dinner the night before! Or organise a local tour, or an interesting activity. Maybe be a bit ambitious and all 'do something' the day before your wedding, to make a full two day break. Here are some suggestions:
1. Ghost Tour (max 45 guests).
2. Scenic steam train railway trip on the Brecon Beacons Mountain railway for your Wedding Party.
3. Gorge Walking Adventure - best in summer, for the young and active!
4. Breath-taking Beach Walks with plenty of fresh sea air and a pubby meal on the Gower.
5. Outing to the fascinating Museum of Welsh Life near Cardiff'.
6. Quad biking, Archery and numerous other outdoor activities for the more adventurous.
7. Tour of local attractions, numerous places to see here - including Local Waterfalls, and the National Showcaves, or consider a driving tour of Elan Village Reservoirs, with excellent tourism info centre at Elan Village telling the story of this area. See numerous other suggestions here.
8. A Murder Mystery Dinner the night before!
None of these attractions are expensive and many are free, such as Elan Village and (aside from parking fee) the Museum of Welsh Life.
8. Entertainment
The Castle has arranged some good rates with Approved Entertainers on the day before your wedding. Approved Suppliers offering reduced rates include, for the day before your wedding:
- Casino Hire - sophisticated and classy entertainment, also suitable for the Wedding Day evening. One Bride created a Casino Royale entrance to the Castle, for the day before her wedding.
- Table Magician - for a quieter evening event, where your guests may gather around at dinner tables chatting, and having the time to enjoy an hour or so of Table Magic.
Your wedding can be the best and most unforgettable of them all - like a stag party, a hen party, and a pre-wedding party and a wedding, all rolled into one.
Above, the Welsh Show Caves, just 500 yards from the Castle.
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