How to get best price possible for your wedding in 2025

Published by Martin Gover in Wedding Offers · Wednesday 08 May 2024
Tags: Wedding, Venue, 2025, Fridays, Best, Price

How you can book a wedding

at the best possible price

at our Swansea wedding venue

on any Friday in 2025

Many couples are booking smaller midweek weddings in 2025.

A midweek wedding normally saves you money over a Friday or Saturday. Midweek packages are lower priced and allow you to have fewer guests.

We began to see more midweek weddings booking for 2025 compared to weekends. We needed to redirect some midweek bookings onto the Fridays to 'concentrate' our business into the weekends, as this is easier for staffing.

This does mean you can now get a good deal on a Friday. No need to choose 'midweek'.

Uniquely for 2025 Couples are in a strong position to get the best possible deal for a Friday in 2025. This ONLY applies to 2025. 2026 will be a busier year for venues.

How to achieve the best possible deal for a 2025 Friday

1. Check our Calendar of bookings.

Many venues won't publish availability if they have unsold dates. Craig y Nos Castle always publishes availability - see 2025 Calendar of Weddings

2. We're seeing less weekend bookings compared to weekdays.

As we do not want loads of midweek weddings scattered about, with Fridays empty, we're now allowing smaller weddings on a 2025 Friday.

3. Don't wait for last minute 'offers'.

Unsold dates do go on 'offers' eventually. In our case we put dates on last minute offers 6 - 8 months ahead.

But by then, most dates are sold and you have fewer dates to choose.

4. You can now book a smaller wedding on a Friday, and upgrade to any offer later.

We'd normally require 6o guests on a Friday.

Now, for 2025 only, you can save costs by having a smaller wedding from just 25 guests on a Friday, on the Intimate Wedding.

5. We welcome upgrades.

No venue will sell you their 'special offers' too far in advance. So here is a way you can secure our best offers.

Book an Intimate Wedding Package for 25 guests, for £5,000, now. Wait a few months, during which you get your RSVPs in, so you know your numbers....

... and upgrade to 'Last Minute - Option A' when it's available, once you have confirmed guest numbers. E.g. Last Minute 2025 for 55 guests is £5,280.

That's only £280 extra, for 30 more guests.

6. Don't risk waiting! Dates do go!

We have a lot of people waiting for a date to appear on a 'last minute' offer, only to find it 'goes'.

Update July 2024:

You can either book a small Intimate Wedding on any Friday in 2025, then upgrade to the Last Minute deal for 55 guests (thus increasing your booking value to get on to Last Minute rates). Allows you longer to save up for and plan your wedding, and still get the best deal.

Or you can book the Last Minute Wedding Package now, for 50 guests and 75 in the evening, for £5,000, for any Friday in 2025.

You either save money by having a smaller wedding, and upgrade for just £280 to have a larger wedding for 55 guests on the special 'last minute' deal.

The Intimate Wedding Package for 25 guests starts at £5,000.

The Last Minute Wedding Package for 50 day guests and 75 evening on a Friday starts at £5,000.

This means if you know you can invite 50 guests, you can just book the Last Minute Wedding Package for any 2025 Friday for 50 guests. This obviously is better value than paying £5,000 for 25 guests on the Intimate Wedding Package (although the Intimate has a superior menu, superior drinks package etc).

This means you can book a Last Minute Wedding for 50 guests for any Friday in 2025, for the same price as the Intimate Wedding Package for 25 guests, right now.

Or add £1,000, and book any Saturday in 2025 for £6,000, for 60 day guests and up to 85 evening guests.

Please book your viewing here.

Let's get a date for you in the calendar at the best possible rate for you, for any Friday or Saturday in 2025.

7. You get a special deal, on all 2025 Fridays and Saturdays

No need to leave booking to a last minute date (within next 6 months). This does not give you much time to plan.

Either book an 'intimate wedding' for £5,000 now on any Friday in 2025. Give yourself time to save and to invite everyone, sort menus, get in your RSVPs, finalise your guests attending, and plan/ book all your suppliers.

Then 'upgrade later' to a 'last minute' offer for more guests nearer the time. Provided your overall spend is more than you originally contracted for, we allow you to transfer to any 'offers' or last minute deals.

Or if you know you'll have 50 guests, at least, we'll pop you straight on the Last Minute deal, now, for 50 guests for the day and an extra 25 for the evening, for any Friday in 2025, at £5,000.

So the key takeaway is you can get a great deal on any wedding in 2025, saving £3,000 to £4,000 over normal weekend wedding rates, given the temporary combination of

(A) Couples desire to 'save money' has led to 'more midweek bookings' compared to weekends, so we now wish to fill up our Weekends

(B) The Cost of Living Crisis means fewer 'large weddings', so we will allow more smaller weddings on Fridays (50 guests).

A word of warning: once weather improves, more dates fill up. No one wants to go and view venues on a rainy dull day. We see an increase in bookings when the sun comes out! If you start to see a lot of yellow on the 2025 availability calendar - or dates just going - that shows new bookings are coming in fast.

Don't risk letting your date 'go'. Book your viewing and secure the best deal for a 2025 Friday here.

See Intimate Wedding Package here - Craig y Nos Castle, Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales, SA9 1GL.

See Last Minute Wedding Package here.

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