Address:
Ballantrae, Ayrshire, KA26 0NZ
Contact:
Tel: 01465831212
Fax: 01465831000
Email:
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Website:
http://www.glenappcastle.com
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Glenapp Castle is open from mid March until 2nd January (excluding Christmas week) each year for individual guests and the castle is available for exclusive use by groups, such as wedding parties, throughout most of the year. Under Scottish Law, couples from anywhere in the world can be married in Scotland without having to be resident here. A Minister of Religion can perform marriage ceremonies anywhere within the castle or the gardens and a Civil Registrar can marry couples at certain specified locations within the castle or in the gardens.
At Glenapp, we cater for weddings with more than six in the party on an exclusive use basis only for a normal maximum of thirty-four guests, all of whom must be resident at the castle for at least one night. Unfortunately, we cannot offer to host weddings for larger numbers than this, nor can we accommodate additional evening guests. We can, if required, offer dining and reception for a maximum of forty guests, with six of the party being accommodated elsewhere locally.
The wedding party will have the private use of the castle and our thirty six acres of magnificent gardens and grounds for the duration of their stay. Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) marriage ceremonies can be held in Glenapp Church, which is a beautiful little Victorian chapel on Glenapp Estate, approximately five and a half miles from the castle. Alternatively a religious or civil ceremony can be conducted within the castle itself, or in the gardens.
We can provide you with contact information for our local ministers, or civil registrar, and we are happy to personally assist you as much or as little as you require with the arrangements for your wedding. We will recommend professional photographers and wedding transport companies. We have our own florist at the castle who can create all of your floral arrangements and bouquets to your exact specifications. We also have a local cake maker who can create wedding cakes of any style or design. We can recommend musicians of any kind from ceilidh to classical to jazz and disco. We can arrange entertainers such as caricaturists, or magicians. We are also able to arrange activities such as golf on nearby championship or recreational courses, falconry displays or clay pigeon shooting in the castle grounds, loch and river fishing and, in the summer, boat trips to the island of Ailsa Craig.
We are very happy to welcome children to the castle, especially as wedding guests. Where children can share accommodation with adults, we provide roll away beds and sofa beds, and they can then be accommodated in addition to the thirty four adult guests. Children are welcome to dine with the adults, but they do then have to be included in the maximum number of guests we can dine. We recommend that younger children are served an early tea, and that childcare is then provided.
We are happy to accept one-night exclusive use reservations at the quieter times of our season, but we recommend that, if possible, wedding parties should stay for two nights. We have found through experience that a stay of two nights is generally a much more leisurely and relaxed occasion, which allows more opportunities for activities such as golf, or clay pigeon shooting, to be arranged for the guests.
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