Melville Castle

This beautifully restored 18th-century castle offers the perfect blend of classic charm and modern luxury, set against 54 acres of lush woodlands and manicured gardens. Conveniently situated just outside Edinburgh, Melville has the versatility, space and experience to help create a unique and memorable fairy-tale wedding day.

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On arrival, the grand entrance makes a regal statement, with a tree-lined drive leading up to the castle. The striking Neo-Gothic architecture, with its turrets and elegantly draped sash windows, creates an enchanting backdrop for your ceremony, whilst the sweeping gardens and grounds offer picturesque photograph opportunities.

Melville Castle’s exclusive, one-wedding-per-day policy ensures a personalised service, giving you the full attention of the dedicated wedding team. Should you opt for exclusivity, you can enjoy private use of any area within the castle, the manicured grounds or the contemporary marquee. Intimate weddings and elopements are small and perfectly formed, still keeping you the main focus at Melville Castle.

With award-winning cuisine, luxurious accommodation and unwavering hospitality, this castle, steeped in history, promises you a wedding day filled with magic and memories to treasure.

Your bespoke ceremony

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Choose to exchange your vows in the castle’s enchanting gardens or in one of the exquisite ceremony rooms. The gardens are particularly delightful on a sunny or warm day whilst the natural-light filled Viscount Room and Ballroom offer wonderful interior backdrops for saying “I do”, radiating timeless elegance and boasting period features. If marrying inside the castle, enjoy walking in the footsteps of kings and queens gone by and descend the beautiful ornate staircase to prelude your walk down the aisle.

Reception drinks in a scenic setting

Your guests are encouraged to roam the expansive 54-acre grounds featuring woodland, meadows, manicured lawns and pretty gardens, as they enjoy reception drinks and canapés to celebrate your nuptials.

Meanwhile, make time as newlyweds for a romantic, peaceful stroll together and to create some stunning photographs before the magnificent castle façade and its forested landscape.

Your bespoke wedding dinner

The food is undeniably one of the most memorable aspects of a wedding. If one of your requirements is a wedding breakfast fit for royalty, then Melville Castle will deliver with its refined cuisine and gourmet flair.

Whether your wedding dinner is an intimate candle-lit meal for two or an opulent banquet for 160 guests, Melville Castle can create dishes for any taste, using only the freshest and finest local ingredients.

A bespoke menu will be carefully designed for your special day; choose tantalising dishes from a varied and mouth-watering menu, including melt-in-the-mouth canapés and delicious evening finger food, to make your wedding cuisine unforgettable.

A wedding in the castle

The Ballroom can host up to 60 dining guests and 80 evening guests. For smaller weddings The Hay Room and The Boardroom both seat ten comfortably and the Arniston Room seats 26 guests; each offering a luxurious setting.

A marquee wedding

If you’re planning a larger wedding, you may wish to book the spacious and contemporary marquee in the castle grounds, which can accommodate dining for up to 160 guests and dancing for up to 200 guests.

Your Scottish wedding experience

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Whichever setting you decide upon, if the sun shines, the Melville ‘magic-making’ wedding team would be delighted to set up games on the lawn in front of the castle for you and your guests to enjoy; yet another picturesque backdrop to your special day.

At Melville Castle wedding parties are encouraged to celebrate in true Scottish style! From pipers, hot toddy stations and Ceilidh bands to fireworks and owl ring deliveries, a Scottish castle wedding provides a truly unforgettable experience.

Wedding accommodation

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Bridal suite

Should you opt for exclusive use wedding at Melville Castle, you are given the option to choose between two romantically styled and beautiful bridal suites, whilst an intimate or elopement wedding gives you the choice of any of the 33 uniquely characterised castle bedrooms.

Guest bedrooms

The castle hotel can accommodate up to 75 wedding guests in their range of unique castle bedrooms. Magnificent ornately-carved four-poster beds are dressed with the very best Egyptian cotton bedding to ensure ultimate comfort. Decorated in bold, rich colours and balancing historic splendour with contemporary style, the striking bedrooms showcase period furnishings complemented by luscious fabrics.

Enjoy a full Scottish Breakfast in the morning for all your overnight guests when you can regale with the day’s celebrations and delight once again in the company of your nearest and dearest, as newlyweds.

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