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Craig y Nos Castle has many reception rooms, offering parties of any size the opportunity to socialise in a comfortable environment. Your guests will gather in the Nicolini Lounge before heading for your wedding breakfast in the conservatory.
The first room that you see upon entering the Castle, the Nicolini Lounge features a wood burning stove, sumptuous leather chairs and traditionally elegant decor evocative of the room's history as a reception room for visits by nobleman and Royalty.
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Welcome Drinks in Nicolini Lounge
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The Nicolini Lounge was originally the Study and Library.
Your guests will enjoy their welcome drinks in Craig y Nos Castle's Nicolini Lounge before moving through to the Wedding Breakfast in the Conservatory.
At night, the Nicolini Lounge allows your guests to get away from the bar and noise of the disco in the main function room - to enjoy a quiet chat, catching up with friends and relatives.
Here are a load of different designs of Welcome Drinks (though they look a bit similar to each other after a while!)
Check how your Welcome Drinks might look, how would you like your welcome drinks laid out?
You can have your welcome drinks laid out to spell 'Love' or to spell the initials of the happy Couple. You can mix in various canapes choices or other decorative touches as you will see below.
A door leads to the breakfast room which features an original Edwardian fireplace with illustrations of Sir Walter Scott’s novels.
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Welcome Drinks Designs
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You can ask our staff to arrange the welcome drinks glasses into hearts and words (you just need enough guests and glasses to make up the letters!) or simply to spell out L O V E. You can really go to town with decorative themed welcome drinks.
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Where Welcome Drinks served
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The most popular area for serving Welcome Drinks is the Nicolini Lounge. Some wedding couples even hire a small gazebo for the flat lawned walled garden area beside the theatre. If the weather is fine you may serve your welcome drinks outside the theatre or in the courtyard. Welcome drinks are always offered after the Ceremony, so having your welcome drinks in the courtyard or in the lounge means all your guests are centrally located close to where your after-ceremony wedding photographs are taken.
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Canapes and Welcome Drinks
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Canapes are now more fashionable served with Welcome Drinks, to stave off hunger pangs between the Ceremony ending, and the Wedding Breakfast banquet commencing.
See our Canapes Choices here.
Your guests will be quite hungry after the Ceremony, which is at the time most people have their Lunch. Welcome Drinks are served after the Ceremony, but you need to allow around 2 hours for the Wedding Photographs, after the Wedding Ceremony before you can sit down to your Wedding Banquet.
It'll be 2-3 hours after their normal lunch time that your guests sit down to dine and by then they could be getting very hungry. We therefore recommend all Brides offer Canapes with their Welcome Drinks.
As you can see below, canapes complement the Wedding Drinks display in the Nicolini Lounge. You'll have your welcome drinks on display, arranged to spell your initials or 'LOVE', but you'll also have a lovely table of Canapes for guests to enjoy with their drinks.
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Welcome Drinks Inside or Outside?
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Offer welcome drinks outside the theatre and then your guests can collect their welcome drinks as they leave the wedding ceremony. Or offer your welcome drinks inside in the Nicolini Lounge if the weather is wet or if its cold outside.
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Welcome Drinks
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Welcome Drinks are either included in some of our Wedding Packages or they form part of the Wedding Drinks Packages. You may offer individual bottles or glasses, or even jugs of Juice and Pimms. A jug may allow for refills though normally welcome drinks are one glass per guest.
Craig y Nos Castle Wedding Venue - an hour from Cardiff, halfway between Swansea, Brecon, right on the southern border of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Enjoy a Homely Welcome and Friendly Service at Craig y Nos Castle