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Weddings at<br />
A FAMILY RUN WEDDINGS AND EVENTS VENUE<br />
EST. 1969
Welcome to Caer Llan<br />
Tucked away in the hills of Monmouthshire and featuring stunning views of the surrounding open countryside<br />
and distant welsh mountains this truly hidden gem offers the perfect backdrop for you to celebrate with your<br />
nearest and dearest.<br />
In addition to the lovely old building, beautiful grounds and gardens, as owners and managers to our fantastic<br />
team, we pride ourselves on offering a warm welcoming service to you and your guests. Your wedding is<br />
unique and incredibly personal, therefore, we guarantee that there are no simultaneous events such that<br />
everyone (including ourselves) can focus 100% on seeing that you have the time of your lives, with memories<br />
to treasure forever.<br />
We are very lucky to call Caer Llan our home, this is where we live, laugh, work, play and raise our own little<br />
family! We would love the opportunity to show you all that Caer Llan has to offer so please get in touch.<br />
Vicky & Jake
Your Wedding<br />
We recognise the trust you place in us when you book your<br />
big day here. It is a day you will look forward to with huge<br />
anticipation and excitement and we will never take that<br />
lightly.<br />
We are here to offer help, guidance, and reassuring advice<br />
throughout the planning stages of your wedding.<br />
As part of this service we have various online planning<br />
tools that we make available to you:<br />
• Wedding day event planner - this is an admin dashboard<br />
which is bespoke to Caer Llan whereby you can keep<br />
track of your guest list, bedroom allocations and create<br />
your table plan<br />
• Caer Llan A to Z - an online search facility of frequently<br />
asked questions<br />
• Friends of Caer Llan – a list of some of our favourite<br />
wedding suppliers.<br />
In addition we will be there on the day itself to discretely<br />
coordinate the smooth running of your wedding day.
Getting Ready<br />
The Bridal Suite is a wonderful room in which to prepare<br />
for the wedding. It is a large airy room with a huge<br />
balcony that has far-reaching views across the Vale of Usk.
The Ceremony<br />
With capacity for up to 88 daytime guests Caer Llan is<br />
licensed to hold marriages and civil partnerships with<br />
indoor and outdoor options. With a choice of conference or<br />
chiavari chairs available you can then choose to provide your<br />
own personal touches and decorations such as bunting and<br />
mantelpiece displays, gazebo decor or even a floral arch from<br />
your chosen florist.<br />
The large windows at the end of the room offer a stunning<br />
scenic backdrop whilst you exchange your vows.
Drinks &<br />
Canapes<br />
The patios at Caer Llan provide a truly magical location to<br />
celebrate with friends and family, whilst a choice of reception<br />
drinks and exquisitely prepared canapes are available for you<br />
to enjoy.<br />
Don’t worry too much about the great British weather as as<br />
we also have lovely indoor areas for your drinks reception.
Your<br />
Wedding<br />
Breakfast<br />
We will set the room up to accommodate your wedding breakfast<br />
with your centrepieces, placecards and favours.<br />
Choose from one of our three dining styles:<br />
Traditional 3 course table served meal<br />
Caer Llan buffet<br />
or our quirky afternoon Vintage Tea<br />
In all cases, our mouth-watering dishes are freshly prepared on site<br />
by our head chef and his team, using only the finest ingredients,<br />
locally sourced where appropriate.<br />
We do of course cater for all specific diets, allergies and food<br />
intolerances on a very individual basis and we take great pride in the<br />
fantastic feedback we receive from all our guests.
Three course<br />
dining<br />
For the 3 course dining experience, we ask you to choose<br />
two starters, one meat and one vegetarian main course and<br />
two desserts ahead of time. Your guests can select their<br />
starter and dessert on the day, we do ask that the main<br />
course is pre-ordered. We then consider all the dietary<br />
requirements (and any known “fussy” eaters) and will<br />
provide suitable derivatives to suit each individual.<br />
We have a separate children’s menu and our kitchen table<br />
plan will inform us of the whereabouts of the place settings<br />
for all children and special diets so as to ensure a seamless<br />
and efficient service for your meal.
Buffet<br />
We invite you table by table to choose your favourites from<br />
our sumptuous buffet offering. When more than 50 guests<br />
are present we will have 2 identical buffets to speed up<br />
service.<br />
We ensure the food will not run out, with our team on<br />
hand to help serve and replenish as you fill your plates. We<br />
encourage guests to come and help themselves to second<br />
helpings, thirds, fourths....before<br />
we clear in the plates and serve your dessert.
Vintage Tea<br />
Our beautifully British vintage tea party offers a fun<br />
and quirky feel to the wedding breakfast but ultimately<br />
leads to a wonderfully social and relaxed afternoon. We<br />
supply the vintage crockery (at no extra cost)…you supply<br />
the bunting!<br />
All your tea party food and vintage crockery will be<br />
beautifully presented on the tables before your guests are<br />
invited to sit down. We are on hand throughout to ensure<br />
that the food platters and tea pots are replenished.<br />
Your guests will delight in the lovingly prepared plentiful<br />
feast with everything freshly made here just for you.
Alone time<br />
Speeches<br />
The grounds at Caer Llan have a wealth of secret gardens,<br />
nooks and paths for you to explore and spend a few precious<br />
moments alone together. They also present a supurb<br />
opportunity for your photographer to capture those magical<br />
moments that last an eternity.<br />
When everyone is full and in need of a rest, or a few more<br />
glasses of bubbles. We will quietly move around the room<br />
and ensure that everyone has a toast drink to hand. It is<br />
time for you to give thanks to loved ones, send thoughts to<br />
those not present and of course for you to endure the best<br />
man’s speeches.<br />
To make sure that everyone can enjoy every detail of the<br />
speeches we also provide a wireless microphone and PA<br />
system.
Have some fun<br />
The quiet and private location gives your guests the<br />
opportunity to have fun, socialise, catch up and enjoy each<br />
other’s company. You can enjoy the garden and the grounds,<br />
gaze at the mesmerizing view or lounge in the piano bar.<br />
We want everyone to have the best time whilst they are<br />
here, and we have a few exceptions to the norm which we<br />
hope will help us achieve that.<br />
• Free self-service tea and coffee station<br />
• Bar prices matched to local pubs (not<br />
hotel prices)<br />
• Well stocked and staffed bar for friendly,<br />
fast, efficient service.
Cutting the cake<br />
First Dance<br />
Following the arrival of your additional evening guests,<br />
it’s time to kick start your reception by cutting the cake.<br />
With plenty of room for everyone to crowd around, your<br />
photographer and guests can capture the moment as<br />
together you cut the first slice.<br />
Having cut the cake you can move seamlessly onto the<br />
dance floor for your first dance. There is plenty of room<br />
for you to throw some shapes and for everyone to get a<br />
photo.
Evening<br />
Entertainment<br />
With an evening capacity of 120 people, there is always<br />
a wonderful atmosphere at Caer Llan. You may wish to<br />
book a band or a DJ to play all the dance floor fillers while<br />
the sun sets and the drinks flow.<br />
Alternatively you can use our inhouse PA system with<br />
lights which will plug straight in to your phone or iPod so<br />
that you can enjoy your own DIY playlist.<br />
Before long the dance floor will be full and the<br />
celebrations will be well and truly underway.
Still Hungry?<br />
For your evening reception there are four options of<br />
food to choose from:<br />
Finger buffet,<br />
Fork buffet,<br />
BBQ<br />
or Hog Roast.<br />
The food during the evening reception is served to<br />
everyone on environmentally friendly disposable<br />
plates with no formal dining tables set up. This<br />
means that the guests are free to eat wherever they<br />
choose…in the bar, lounge areas & any of the<br />
outside areas.
Drinks with a view<br />
Your guests will adore the outside terrace area, there’s<br />
no place better to enjoy a beautiful sunset: the view<br />
goes on for miles without a car in sight.
Accommodation<br />
The venue hire at Caer Llan includes the use of our 16 en<br />
suite guest bedrooms. The rooms are spacious, versatile,<br />
full of character and are split between the Main house (9<br />
bedrooms) and the immediately adjacent ground floor eco<br />
extension known as the Berm House (7 bedrooms). You<br />
choose who stays where...<br />
Wheelchair access<br />
We have a disabled parking bay immediately outside the<br />
main house and level access for wheelchair users throughout<br />
the ground floor of the house and patios. We also have a<br />
disabled toilet facility within our washroom complex and<br />
1 of the 7 ground floor berm house bedrooms features a<br />
wheelchair friendly en suite wet room.
Meet the team<br />
Since graduating as a civil engineer from the University of<br />
Brighton in 1991, Jake has spent his entire working life at Caer<br />
Llan building and developing the property and business. Early<br />
in her career Vicky was a flight attendant in the Middle East,<br />
she went on to manage restaurants in Spain, France and the<br />
UK before switching direction to Chester University where she<br />
gained a degree in IT & French.<br />
When Jake and Vicky started working together in 2007,<br />
the husband and wife team had a wide range of skills but the<br />
common denominator was hospitality and event management.<br />
They continue to offer a very hands on approach to each and<br />
every event that takes place at Caer Llan.<br />
Dave<br />
Bar, front of house and all round good guy<br />
Kathryn<br />
PA to Vicky & Jake, event planner and font of all wedding knowledge<br />
Caer Llan has grown significantly over the years as has it’s team of<br />
hand picked, full time individuals, each of whom have introduced<br />
a new level of expertise through their many years of experience.<br />
“As a team, we take great pride in attention to detail and giving you<br />
our very best...” we’d love you to read our reviews on TripAdvisor<br />
and Facebook.<br />
Jake & Vicky<br />
Richard<br />
Head Chef extraodinaire<br />
A few of our very lovely, always smiling team
How it all works and the prices...<br />
.<br />
Caer Llan is an exclusive use venue, you pay a single venue<br />
hire for the day of your wedding. We host weddings on<br />
Tuesdays, Thursdays with or without accommodation and on<br />
Saturdays with one or two nights accommodation.<br />
Our maximum capacity is<br />
• 88 day guests (wedding ceremony and wedding reception)<br />
• 120 evening guests ( total for evening reception)<br />
Accommodation is available, our wonderful bridal suite is<br />
offered to you free of charge, we have an additional 15 versatile<br />
rooms offered to your guests at £150 per room, per night<br />
which includes a hearty cooked breakfast.<br />
For a Saturday night there is a requirement to book at least 8<br />
bedrooms.<br />
Check in and check out times are 10.30am, except for a full<br />
weekend stay whereby check-in is 4pm Friday and check-out<br />
is 12pm Sunday.<br />
Every wedding is unique and so instead of multiple wedding<br />
packages we have produced a basic bundle as a starting place<br />
to aid in your planning. This includes the meals and drinks<br />
that are expected on the day. You can then add in additional<br />
services and upgrades so as to tailor your wedding to your<br />
wishes.<br />
VENUE HIRE<br />
Day / Time<br />
Peak<br />
(May - Sept)<br />
Mid<br />
(April, Oct & Dec)<br />
Off-Peak<br />
(Nov - March)<br />
Tuesday £1,000 £750 £450<br />
Thursday £1,950 £1,450 £950<br />
Saturday £3,950 £2,950 £1,950<br />
Weekend £4,950 £3,950 £2,950<br />
WEDDING BUNDLE<br />
£89.50 PER PERSON<br />
Reception Drink (Sparkling wine or Pimms)<br />
Wedding Breakfast (sit down, buffet or vintage tea)<br />
1/3rd bottle of wine per adult<br />
Toast drink (sparkling wine)<br />
Microphone & pa system for speeches<br />
Table number holders<br />
Cake knife & stand<br />
Evening Reception food (finger or fork buffet)<br />
Use of PA system and disco lighting<br />
Late night bar<br />
Your wedding coordinator will guide you through the<br />
planning stages, head up our team on the day and be on<br />
hand to ensure the smooth running of your special day.<br />
UPGRADES & ADDITIONAL SERVICES<br />
Wedding ceremony £250<br />
Bundle for under 12 year olds £30<br />
Additional Evening guests<br />
£19.50 per head<br />
Reception & Toast Drinks<br />
Prosecco<br />
£1 per head<br />
Champagne<br />
£3 per head<br />
Canapés<br />
£7.50 per head<br />
Chocolate covered strawberry tower £2.75 per head<br />
Chair decoration from<br />
£3.50 per chair<br />
Evening Reception Food<br />
BBQ<br />
£5 per head<br />
Hog Roast<br />
£5 per head<br />
Other venue hire durations are available, please ask for a quotation.<br />
Saturday - minimum day guests of 50 will apply during peak period.<br />
Please also call for late availability deals<br />
All prices are inclusive of VAT
Savoury Canapés<br />
Sweet Canapés<br />
Smoked salmon and sour cream blinis<br />
Crostini with remoulade & chorizo<br />
Asparagus, cream cheese & puff pastry cigarillos<br />
Baked chicken cardamom kebabs<br />
Mini mozzarella, baby tomato & basil sticks<br />
Caramelised red onion and goats cheese tartlets<br />
Welsh brie & leek tartlets<br />
Rocket with parmesan wrapped in parma ham<br />
Prawn, chorizo and tomato kebabs<br />
Mini yorkshires with rare roast beef and onion jam<br />
Welsh rarebit on toasted sourdough<br />
Broad bean, pea & pecorino on bruschetta<br />
Apricot, perl las and walnut tartlets<br />
Crostini with parsley pesto & roasted peppers<br />
Mini Welsh cakes<br />
Mini scones<br />
with clotted cream and fresh strawberries<br />
Chocolate dipped strawberries<br />
A mix of flavoured mini shortbread<br />
lavender and rose<br />
Bara Brith<br />
a traditional Welsh tea bread<br />
We can also supply a tiered tower of chocolate covered<br />
strawberries that we would place next to your reception<br />
drinks in the bar area.<br />
PICK ANY FOUR CANAPÉS TO BE<br />
CIRCULATED AMONGST YOUR GUESTS.
Traditional<br />
3 course Dinner<br />
STARTERS<br />
Perl Las tart (v)<br />
Beetroot cured salmon<br />
with horseradish cream and celeriac remoulade<br />
Red onion & Caerphilly cheese tatin (v)<br />
Pear & watercress salad (v)<br />
with toasted walnuts & a blue cheese dressing<br />
Caesar salad<br />
with chicken, crispy bacon & ciabatta croutons<br />
Baked Ricotta Timbale<br />
with tomato carpaccio, black olives and basil oil<br />
Thai fishcake<br />
with chilli mayonnaise<br />
Mixed mushroom croustade<br />
glazed with Welsh brie<br />
Your choice of soup<br />
with fresh crusty bread and Welsh butter<br />
MAINS<br />
Roast chicken wrapped in pancetta<br />
with a cranberry and sausagemeat stuffing<br />
Supreme of chicken<br />
stuffed with farmhouse cheese, tomato & herbs served with a<br />
lemon & mustard sauce wrapped in pancetta<br />
Supreme of chicken<br />
stuffed with Welsh rarebit wrapped in pancetta with a<br />
port wine sauce<br />
Supreme of chicken<br />
wild mushroom and tarragon with a veloute sauce<br />
Fillet of Welsh beef<br />
with mushrooms, silverskin onions and a port wine sauce<br />
Roast topside of beef<br />
with yorkshire puddings & creamed horseradish<br />
Roast loin of pork<br />
with sage stuffing & apple sauce<br />
Pressed Wye Valley belly of Pork<br />
with fennel, garlic and caramelised apple wedges<br />
Marinated roast rump of Welsh lamb<br />
with citrus fruit, bay leaf and juniper jus and fondant potato<br />
Slow braised shoulder of Welsh Lamb<br />
baked in puff pastry served with a maple syrup,<br />
rosemary and balsamic jus<br />
Mushroom Wellington (v)<br />
with a red pepper coulis<br />
Caramelised Shallot puff pastry tart (v)<br />
Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable Tart (v)<br />
Pressed and baked vegetable stack (v)<br />
DESSERTS<br />
Coconut and lemongrass panna cotta<br />
with tropical fruit salad<br />
Glazed lemon tart<br />
with clotted cream & raspberries<br />
Salted caramel chocolate torte<br />
with crème fraiche<br />
Baked vanilla cheesecake<br />
with fruit compot<br />
Chocolate brownies<br />
with with a rich chocolate sauce and vanilla ice-cream<br />
Sticky toffee pudding<br />
with toffee sauce and ice-cream<br />
Apple tart tatin<br />
with brandy cream<br />
Giant chocolate profiteroles<br />
with Chantilly cream and a rich milk chocolate sauce<br />
Baileys liquer cheesecake<br />
with a dark chocolate sauce and Chantilly cream<br />
Chocolate raspberry torte<br />
with crushed frozen raspberries and vanilla ice-cream
Vintage Tea<br />
Caer Llan Buffet<br />
Evening Reception Food<br />
All of your tea party food will be on the tables along with our<br />
gorgeous vintage crockery, before your guests are invited to sit down.<br />
Our team will be on hand throughout the party, ensuring that the<br />
food platters and tea pots are replenished as required.<br />
Sandwiches<br />
A mix of granary and white breads<br />
Cream cheese & cucumber<br />
Smoked salmon with lemon crème fraîche<br />
Free-range egg & cress<br />
Ham & mustard<br />
Savouries<br />
A selection of delicious homemade savoury party bites<br />
Pork pies<br />
Scotch eggs<br />
Sausage & veggie rolls<br />
A selection of mini quiche<br />
Home-made cakes & dainties<br />
A delicious selection to satisfy the sweet toothed<br />
Victoria sponge cake<br />
Coffee & walnut & lemon drizzle cake<br />
Scones with strawberry jam & clotted cream<br />
Chocolate dipped strawberries<br />
Whole glazed ham<br />
Slow roasted peppered side of Welsh beef<br />
Whole side of poached salmon dressed with<br />
cucumber & dill<br />
Sweet & sticky baked chicken drumsticks<br />
King prawn salad<br />
Hot new potatoes with herbed butter (v)<br />
Mediterranean vegetable couscous salad (v)<br />
Homemade vegetarian quiche (v)<br />
Mozzarella & beefsteak tomato salad (v)<br />
Devilled eggs with asparagus (v)<br />
Fresh green salad, cherry tomatoes & cucumber (v)<br />
Mexican spicy bean & rice salad (v)<br />
A selection of artisan breads<br />
Followed with a dessert of your choice.<br />
FINGER BUFFET<br />
Platters of:<br />
Salami, chorizo, parma ham & garlic sausage. A large cheese<br />
board, spicy chicken wings, bowls of olives, crisps & nuts,<br />
French bread & butter<br />
FORK BUFFET<br />
Chilli con carne & chicken curry, vegetarian chilli &<br />
vegetable curry (v) Served with rice, naan, nachos & salsa<br />
BBQ<br />
Beef burger/ spiced falafel burger, pork sausage/ veggie sausage. Jerk<br />
chicken/ roasted mediterranean veg<br />
Fried onions<br />
Fresh bread rolls<br />
Fresh Garden Salad + Potato salad<br />
SIZZLING HOG ROAST<br />
A spit roasted whole pig<br />
Served with soft floured bap, spicy potato wedges,<br />
homemade stuffing, apple sauce & fresh garden salad<br />
(Minimum 70 people)<br />
Spiced falafel burgers (v)
Windows<br />
Windows<br />
Conservatory<br />
TOP TABLE<br />
Window<br />
Conservatory<br />
TOP TABLE<br />
Window<br />
Dining Tables<br />
Round or Long<br />
Fireplace<br />
Fireplace<br />
Window<br />
Window<br />
For your wedding breakfast, your chosen table layout will be<br />
dressed using white linen, cutlery, wine and water glasses.<br />
We will then decorate the tables using your centrepieces, flowers<br />
and wedding favours whilst configuring the place settings<br />
according to your table plan.<br />
The capacity of the main room is 68. The adjoining conservatory<br />
has large doors that open up increasing the size of the space,<br />
thus allowing a further 20 people to be seated on one long table.<br />
The full daytime dining capacity is therefore 88 people.<br />
This capacity should include babies and children when planning<br />
a guest list.<br />
Fireplace<br />
Front Door Window<br />
We have a range of banqueting tables that can be used to<br />
create the layout of your choice. You may wish to mix and<br />
match by using round tables in the front section of the room<br />
and long tables in the hall area.<br />
The top table holds 10 people, you can choose from either a<br />
round or a horseshoe table.<br />
Fireplace<br />
Front Door Window
Contact Us<br />
If you’d like to look around and chat about your<br />
special day, please email or call us to make an<br />
appointment.<br />
info@CaerLlan.co.uk<br />
01600 860359<br />
Photographer Credits:<br />
Charlene Morton - charlenemorton.co.uk<br />
Clare Adams - loveseen.co.uk<br />
Paul Marbrook - paulmarbrook.com<br />
Sacha Miller - sachamiller.co.uk