Wedding venues in Clare

Akrasia

Hi everyone

Myself and my finace are planning a wedding for April next year and was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for a good wedding venue in Clare that is well priced

We're on a very tight budget and can probably only afford 6-7 thousand for the whole event and want to get as much as we can for our money

We're looking at about 120 people (mostly relatives, we're from catholic families and every sperm was sacred etc ) and we'll be having a civil ceremony at the venue (we're getting officially married at the registry office on a seperate day but will have a full ceremony on the date of the reception (mainly cause the registrars are booked out for outside services for about the next year)


Any suggestions no matter how practical or loony would be much appreciated

Chocoholic84

Have you tried Old Ground Hotel in Ennis?

holding

I was recently researching something similar myself! Found 2 very good deals in Clare - the Kilkee Bay Hotel has a package for 29.95 a head, and so does Templegate Hotel. Clare Inn Hotel is 35 a head. The Lakeside in Killaloe is 38, and the Armada in Spanish Point is 39 a head. After that the budget price per head for most hotels is 40 I found. A few were a bit dearer. The Old Ground in Ennis was 47.5 a head.

Hope that helps a bit.

MarkR

Clare Inn, Oakwood Arms (Shannon), Radisson off the top of my head.

Don't know the prices, but I've been to weddings at them all. All nice.

anthony4335

Spanish armada, and the old ground are both quite good.

Moonbeam

The Woodlands in Adare is amazing.

Clareman

We got married in The Bunratty Castle Hotel, I couldn't recommend it enough, the room would be fine for your number of guests. I've been at 2 weddings in the Armada this year and they were both lovely. All the other places people have recommended are great venues as well, there's also Magowna House Hotel just outside Ennis as well that'd cater for your numbers also.

angelll

Clare Inn have 10% discount if you get married in certain months so you actually get it for €31.50pp. Have been looking at various venues for the past month so think i have most of them covered. The cheapest ones in Clare were Clare Inn,Falls ennistymon,Oakwood arms have excellent all inclusive deal,Bunratty Castle hotel have actually a fantastic deal too and so do the Auburn hotel in ennis. They were the best value for money and had everything we were looking for. As a little extra if you go with bunratty or oakwood they will give you free pass to get wedding photos taken at bunratty castle I was looking for all inclusive with free rooms for parents,punch/mulled wine greeting with nibbles,nice meal with good choice and evening buffet included.

Akrasia

Hi everyone, thanks a million for all your suggestions.

I've sent enquiries to most of the places you guys mentioned. The Falls Hotel has a good offer for spring which includes a pig on a spit for the evening food but it's stretching the budget at 44pp (no mention of corkage either)

The Clare Inn looks like the best value venue that I have seen. Will definitely take a trip up there

overthere!

I am having my wedding at the Falls Hotel in ennistymon in October, couldnt recommend it highly enough. Joanne their wedding coordinator was brilliant. We are getting a great package with everything we wanted included. We are having our wedding on a Thursday and they are offering a great mid week discount on top of the package and giving us a great menu choice because of the midweek.

We exausted every hotel in Clare... word of advise avoid Templegate in Ennis. When we had our show around the guy told us how one night during a wedding reception he was passing the bridal suite and on the couch outside door in the hallway were 3 homeless guys drinking cans..... :eek::eek: needless to say we ran out of the place!

The Clare inn is good value for money and now owned by Dromoland Castle, it had gone down a lot when it was owned by Lynch Hotels but I'v heard its much improved.

There will be lots you can do with that budget if you do things yourself like invitations, flowers (take them from the church to use at hotel), hire a new car from a normal hire place and not a specialised wedding car..its about €300 cheaper!! Wedding favours are easily enough done at low cost, get a photographer that just puts images on disc and print yourself and get someone in family to make the cake.

It definately can be done in that budget!
Hope it helps!;)

pooch90

We have been to a wedding in the Clare Inn and it was the worst wedding we were ever at.
The function room was draughty and dirty, the food was passable, the staff rude, the whole occupancy of the hotel gatecrashed the wedding.
As a hotel, the rooms were filthy, the 'playroom' for the kids had the walls kicked in. There were kids running riot around the whole hotel while their parents were locked in the bar.

All of the guests if the wedding said the exact same thing as us. Would never set foot in the place again, no matter how cheap the wedding package was.

Not just slating the place for the sake of it, if it were me wanting to have my wedding there I would want someone to warn me.
Best of luck on your search though.

LadyTBolt

pooch90 wrote: »

We have been to a wedding in the Clare Inn and it was the worst wedding we were ever at.

When were you there at that wedding?

Clareman

I was at a wedding there a few years ago and it was 1 of the best wedding meals I've ever eaten, it was fantastic, it was the middle of July and the hotel was full of families down for the weekend but there weren't any gatecrashers, everyone said the same thing that it was a great wedding but the hotel itself could be done with a refurb. I was at another wedding there ~10 years ago, same as the 1 3 years ago, lovely meal but the hotel was a bit "run down". My sister got married there almost 20 years ago, it was a great day but I can't remember much about it.

pooch90

Approx 2 1/2 yrs ago

ABajaninCork

Another vote for Bunratty Castle here.

Didn't have my wedding there (had it at the sister hotel Blarney Woollen Mills), but had our honeymoon at BC. Couldn't have been better looked after. The suite was wonderful, food great and staff superb. We had the special black key for the VIP dining room which was great too!

Coolcappa

The Clare Inn was purchased by Dromoland Castle in July, the five star hotel next door. They are suppoused to be doing up the wedding venue and hotel this winter!!!! I'd have a look at them if I were you as it used to be a great wedding venue.