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Your Brecon 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 Brecon / South Wales area who may have more than one wedding on same day.

Brecon Wedding Venue Craig y Nos Castle

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  • Time from Brecon to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue: 28 minutes

  • Distance from Brecon to Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Reception Venue: 19 miles

Brides and Grooms lucky enough to live in Brecon will not have to travel far to get married at Craig y Nos Castle.

Brecon 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 Brecon's doorstep!
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Brecon Wedding Venue Craig y Nos Castle

Why Choose Craig y Nos Castle,
near Brecon?

You get Exclusive Use of our castle wedding venue near Brecon.

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 Brecon.

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 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 Brecon 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


Wedding Reception lounge at Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue near Brecon

(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 Brecon,
or can you go further afield
for a more special and unique wedding day?

Room 21 en-suite at Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue near Brecon
AB28 Bathroom at Craig y Nos Castle wedding venue near Brecon

'Local Venue'
or
'Destination Wedding Venue'?

You may have guests some distance away from Brecon, 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 Brecon, do you want a local wedding venue near Brecon where all your guests can get to easily? Or are you all happy about travelling south of Sennybridge to Craig y Nos Castle?

AB31 loft room at Craig y Nos Castle wedding venue near Brecon
AB21 Bathroom at Craig y Nos Castle wedding venue near Brecon

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 Brecon.

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 Brecon, 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 Brecon Brides and Grooms with reasonable and affordable rates.


Brecon Wedding Theme ideas,
Wedding Decor and Wedding Gift Ideas,
based on Brecon's history, style and culture

Link your wedding theme, wedding decor and wedding favours to the history, style and sense of place of Brecon. 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 Brecon 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 Brecon in your decor, to connect your personal history in your home town's roots, and your family's location in Brecon. You may get some ideas from the history of Brecon below, its buildings, street names, or local transport routes etc.
Some facts about Brecon that you may use in your wedding:


1. Brecon pupulation is quite small - only 8,020.

2. Brecon in Roman times was a Roman cavalry base for the conquest of Wales and was a military base thereafter. In 43AD the Romans stationed 600 soliders in Brecon. The Barracks is today home to the 160th (Wales) Brigade.

3. The original name of Brecon was  "Brycheiniog" , most probably derived from the Irish founder of the kingdom, Brychan. Also the English Name of Brecon is probably derived from Brychan.

4. The castle which overlooks the town is Norman, built by Bernard de Neufmarche in the C11th. Many other castles were built in Norman times, including Cerreg Cennen.

5. Christ College in Brecon, a private boarding and day school, is the oldest school in Wales with a strong academic, sporting and musical tradition.

6. The 36 mile long Brecon/ Monmouthshire Canal was built between 1797 and 1812 to link Brecon with Newport and the Severn Estuary. The Brecon part of the canal was redeveloped in the 1990's and provides some excellent canal walks and canal boat trips from the 400 seat Theatre Brycheiniog (opened in 1997).

7. Brecon once had three railway stations built by three railway companies: Free Street (Brecon to Neath Railway), Watton (Brecon to Merthy Tydfil) and Mount Street (Midland Railway). All three stations were combined into a re-built single station at Free Street in 1871. All three services ceased by 1962 so now Brecon has no rail service.

8. The Brecon Jazz Festival is a popular annual event while in October there is a four day weekend event: the Brecon Baroque Music Festival.



9. Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons is the highest mountain in South Wales, popular with walkers, and used in training exercises by the military and SAS, who refer to the tough climb carrying their heavy gear as the 'Fan Dance'. The harsh weather conditions and remoteness make the area popular for military training and selection exercises. The infantry regiments of the British Army train at Sennybridge, where NCO selection takes place.

10. The Brecon Beacons has six peaks: Corn Ddu (2864 feet), Pen y Fan (2907 feet), Cribyn (2608 feet), Fan y Big (2359 feet), Bwlch y Ddwyallt (2474 feet), and Waun Rydd (2523 feet).

11. There are four valleys: Cwm Sere, Cwm Cynwyn, Cwn Oergwm and Cwm Cwareli. The word Cwm means 'valley'.

12. The reason why the Brecon Beacons are so called dates back to the practice of lighting warning beacons on mountain tops to warn of impending attacks by invaders. In modern times they are lit for key memorial and national events
.
13. Brecon Beacons National Park was established in 1957 and is one of three National Parks in Wales - the other two being Snowdonia (1951) and the Pembrokeshire Coast (1952). The Brecon Beacons National Park covers 519 square miles.


14. There are four main regions in the National Park, two of which confusingly have the same name: The Black Mountain (West), Fforest Fawr, Brecon Beacons (Centre) and the Black Mountains (East). Fforest Fawr comprises a series of hills – Fan Fawr, Fan Dringarth, Fan Nedd, Fan Fraith and Fan Gyhirych.

15. Community Town Councils in the Brecon Beacons National Park are Brecon and Hay on Wye (town councils) and Cefn Coed; Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch & Cathedine; Llangattock; Llangors; Llanthony; Llywel; Pontsticill, Pontsarn & Vaynor; Talybont-on-Usk; Trallong; Trecastle and Ystradfellte


15. Community Town Councils in the Brecon Beacons National Park are Brecon and Hay on Wye (town councils) and Cefn Coed; Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch & Cathedine; Llangattock; Llangors; Llanthony; Llywel; Pontsticill, Pontsarn & Vaynor; Talybont-on-Usk; Trallong; Trecastle and Ystradfellte

15. Despite the rain and cloud cover, the Brecon Beacons National Park was made an International Dark Sky Reserve in February 2013.

16. The Brecon Beacons Mountain Centre was opened in 1966.

17. Activities in the Brecon Beacons National Park comprise walking, cycling, mountain biking, horse riding, sailing, windsurfing, canoeing, fishing, rock climbing, hang-gliding, caravanning, camping and caving.

18. The Beacons Way is 100 miles long.


Brecon Wedding Theme ideas,
Wedding Decor and Wedding Gift Ideas,
based on Brecon's history, style and culture

You may get some ideas from the history of Brecon above, its buildings, street names, areas, mountain names, or local transport routes etc.

1. Table Names cuold be based on locations such as the four main regions of the Brecon Beacons National Park or some of the Community Town Council names or the various reservoir names.


2. Sporting types might feature the various activities that people can do in the area - cycling, walking, canoeing etc.


3. Take some material off the history of the founding of Brecon, its founder Brychn, and maybe a medieval history theme taken from the early history of Brecon 'Kingdom'.


4. Feature place names on your tables centred on all the old railway station names in and around Brecon, with the old railway signage perhaps.


5. Use the Brecon Jazz Festival for inspiration, particularly for your evening entertainment perhaps - e.g. decorate your evening party room as if for a Jazz Festival featuring the names of famous Jazz Bands and music from the era of Jazz (1920's).


6. People connected to the military might base something around the Fan Dance and military training / military exercises / barracks names etc in the area.


7. If you have six tables for guests plus your head table, you could name each table after the six peaks of the Brecon Beacons mountains - Corn Ddu, Pen y Fan, etc.


8. If your guests are travelling from several areas that have National Parks in them, you could sit guests at tables representing the National Parks - ideally sitting the majority of guests 'in' the National Park table setting nearest to where they live.


9. The origin of the name Brecon Beacons could give you an idea for lanterns or candles as 'beacons' atop each mountain. Possibly incorporate a centrepiece on each guest table, a design/ setting of the relevant mountain peak with a 'beacon' on it.




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