Hotel wedding venues in Wales

Gliffaes
Crickhowell
There are sublime views from this eccentric Victorian country house with Italianate campaniles and 20th-century porte cochère, in wooded grounds overlooking the River Usk.

Bodysgallen Hall and Spa
Llandudno
A photographer’s dream, this Elizabethan manor house stands in gardens and parkland, with mountain views. A spa, oak-panelled drawing room, romantic four-poster suite, stone cottages with roses round the door. . . What more could you ask?

The Angel Hotel - Spring Fling Special Offer
Abergavenny
At the heart of a market town on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, William Griffiths’s Georgian coaching inn is today a stylish contemporary hotel.

Plas Dinas Country House
Caernarfon
Guests are dazzled by the views of Snowdonia – not to speak of the drawing-room carpet – at the former home of the Armstrong-Joneses, a trove of memorabilia.

Llys Meddyg
Newport
On the glorious Pembrokeshire coast, Ed and Lou Sykes run their Georgian stone house as a smart restaurant-with-rooms, successfully blending character with cool contemporary design.

The Falcondale
Lampeter
In ‘most beautiful surroundings’ on a bluff overlooking the Teifi valley, this Victorian Italianate villa, designed by Thomas Talbot Bury, an associate of Pugin’s, is a very dog-friendly hotel and popular wedding venue.

Pale Hall
Bala
Rich in antiques, wood panelling and fine original features, this historic Victorian country house on the edge of Snowdonia national park stands in a woodland garden that stretches to the River Dee.

Crug-Glas
St David's
In peaceful countryside within easy reach of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, the Evans family run their relaxed restaurant-with-rooms with ‘warm concern for their guests’.

St Brides Spa Hotel
Saundersfoot
Seaside splendour comes to the fore at this modern hotel above Carmarthen Bay.

The Bear
Cowbridge
For centuries, this centrally located former coaching inn has been the hub of the fashionable market town.

Nanteos Mansion
Aberystwyth
Standing in graceful seclusion in wooded grounds, this Grade I listed manor house is a tranquil country retreat from the vibrant university town on the coast.

Mansion House Llansteffan
Llansteffan
On a wooded headland overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms is in a thoughtfully restored Georgian mansion as freshly inviting inside as out.

New House Country Hotel
Cardiff
In the gentle hills just north of the centre, this dog-friendly hotel takes in panoramic views over the city and the Severn estuary.

The West House
Llantwit Major
There’s a relaxed atmosphere at this modern hotel, in a quiet town within meandering reach, down green lanes and pathways, of the dramatic cliffs and secluded coves of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
Foodies flock to Susan and Bryan Webb’s restaurant-with-rooms with views over the Vale of Edeyrnion for good reason – Bryan has been cooking up a storm for 45 years and Susan is the consummate hostess.

Lake Country House Hotel & Spa
Llangammarch Wells
Anne Hathaway meets Heidi in the hybrid architecture of Pierre Mifsud’s former hunting and fishing lodge, beautifully situated in the foothills of Mynydd Epynt, with a trout lake and the River Irfon running through.

Llangoed Hall
Brecon
Birdsong fills the air around this 17th-century manor house in the Wye valley – a glorious setting for a wedding day. Filled with art and antiques, the country house stands in large gardens that stretch down to the river. Start a reception with drinks on the terrace, plan a meal in the orangery or book a marquee. The celebratory feast makes good use of Welsh produce and ingredients grown in the organic kitchen garden.

Penally Abbey
Tenby
Modern and elegant, this marvellously updated 18th-century Gothic house looking out to sea is a happy place run with an easy charm. The hotel specialises in small weddings of up to 40 people; a high-ceilinged, stone-floored courtyard chapel is ideal for a homespun ceremony and rustic wedding feast. Any one of the chic bedrooms is a fine place to start married life.

Grove of Narberth
Narberth
Described in 1811 as the ‘respectable old house of Grove, embosomed in trees’, the ancient seat of the Poyer family is today a luxurious country house hotel, embosomed in verdant grounds.

Twr y Felin Hotel
St Davids
Modern art and minimalist bedrooms rub shoulders with a Georgian windmill in Wales’s first contemporary arts hotel, with views of the Pembrokeshire coast.

Hotel Portmeirion
Portmeirion
Enveloping exotic woodland, sandy beaches and a riot of colour, Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village on the edge of a tidal estuary is an architectural astonishment.

Roch Castle Hotel
Haverford West
Rugged stone gives way to clean-cut, contemporary accommodation at this 12th-century Norman castle.
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Hotel wedding venues in Wales

Norton House Hotel
Swansea
Just outside Mumbles in mature gardens, a Georgian manor house has standard, superior and family rooms as well as self-catering apartments, a friendly ambience, and casual all-day dining in the modern, light-filled bistro. An Early Bird menu is served from Monday to Sunday. A stroll along the front to the recently renovated pier (one of Swansea’s oldest and most famous landmarks), is recommended.

Morgans
SWANSEA
In the heart of the maritime quarter, an imaginatively modernised hotel in a converted Regency Port Authority building (Grade II* listed). Featuring Welsh produce, the restaurant is in an impressive former boardroom on the first floor (it is open to non-residents from Wednesday evening through to Sunday lunch). Catch major sporting events on the large screen in Morgan’s bar while enjoying a chilled beer, classic cocktail or wines from around the world. The Champagne bar is a sophisticated alternative. Some of the well-equipped modern bedrooms are across a small side road in The Townhouse.