Wedding venues in Leinster

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Ballybeg House

A private estate in south Wicklow that hands you the keys for three or four days: chandeliered marquee for 160, beds for 54 across the house and woodland pods, and your own Shebeen bar. A festival wedding with proper plumbing.

Ballymagarvey Village

A restored 18th-century manor and mill village near Navan, exclusively yours for the day, with the banqueting hall and bedrooms all inside the old walls. One of the best-known dedicated wedding venues in Leinster, and booked accordingly.

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Bellinter House

Built around 1750 by the architect behind Powerscourt House, on the banks of the Boyne near the Hill of Tara. The Refectory Suite takes 200, and the bathhouse spa with its infinity pool sorts the recovery day.

BrookLodge & Macreddin Village

A hotel at the centre of its own purpose-built village in a wooded valley, with a chapel for the ceremony and Ireland's first certified organic restaurant for the dinner. Nowhere else in Wicklow feels remotely like it.

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Butler House

The Georgian dower house of Kilkenny Castle, with walled gardens between you and the castle itself. Intimate rather than industrial: the pick for smaller weddings that value setting over scale.

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Clonabreany House

An exclusive-use Georgian estate near Kells with a grand marquee for 220, courtyard rooms that sleep over a hundred, and its own sibín for the late shift. Built for weddings where nobody has to leave.

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Clontarf Castle Hotel

An actual castle fifteen minutes from the city centre, which sounds impossible until you drive up to it. Medieval walls outside, plush modern hotel inside, and a banquet hall that makes speeches feel like a state occasion.

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Druids Glen Hotel & Golf Resort

A five-star resort on 360 acres between the mountains and the Irish Sea, with two championship courses to occupy the golfers while you get photographed. Weddings also run at Woodstock House on the grounds for a more private feel.

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Dunboyne Castle Hotel & Spa

A 1764 Georgian mansion on 21 acres of lawns, eighteen kilometres from Dublin city centre, which makes it the closest thing to a country estate the capital's guest list can taxi home from. Takes up to 350.

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Glenview Hotel & Leisure Club

Above the Glen of the Downs on 30 acres of woodland and gardens, 25 minutes from Dublin. The view over the wooded glen from the function room is the reason couples book it.

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Hotel Kilkenny

A contemporary hotel on the College Road with landscaped gardens and a bright, modern ballroom. Strong value for a full-scale day without leaving the city.

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Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel

A hundred metres from Kilkenny Castle, which does the photography location scouting for you. City-centre convenience with a ballroom that takes the full guest list.

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Killeen Castle

A Norman castle on a 600-acre estate at Dunsany, with weddings for up to 160, lodge accommodation and a Jack Nicklaus course that hosted the Solheim Cup. The castle looming over the photographs is the whole argument.

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Knightsbrook Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort

A full resort on 186 acres outside Trim: championship golf, the River Spa, and a ballroom that regularly wins Leinster wedding awards. The one for big numbers with plenty for guests to do the next morning.

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Langton House Hotel

A Kilkenny institution on John Street, run by the same family for generations. Ballroom for 300, gardens in the middle of the city, and the after-party sorted by the fact that you are already in it.

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Lyrath Estate

A 17th-century house grown into a five-star estate on 170 acres just outside the city. Big enough for the largest Irish wedding you can imagine, with lakes and parkland to lose the photographer in for an hour.

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Mount Juliet Estate

A Georgian manor from 1757 on 500 acres in Thomastown, with a championship golf course thrown in. The Lady Helen dining room holds the ceremony crowd; the estate holds everyone's attention for the whole weekend.

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Newpark Hotel

On the edge of the city with 40 acres of parkland and its own farmyard, which the younger guests rate higher than the ballroom. A relaxed, family-friendly wedding hotel that runs like clockwork.

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Pembroke Hotel

A boutique spot in the shadow of the castle for couples keeping it small and central: city ceremony, rooftop photos, and everyone walks everywhere.

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Powerscourt Hotel, Autograph Collection

Five stars inside the thousand-acre Powerscourt Estate, with the Sugar Loaf out the windows and one of the world's great formal gardens next door. If the plan is to overwhelm the relatives from abroad, this is the address that does it.

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Radisson Blu Royal Hotel

Tucked off Golden Lane near the castle, a dependable city-centre base with modern function rooms and everything your guests need within a few streets.

Radisson Blu St. Helen's

An 18th-century mansion in Stillorgan with formal gardens and the Dublin mountains behind. The country-house wedding without leaving the city, ten minutes from town when traffic behaves.

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Rathsallagh House

Exclusive-use only: the whole Queen Anne house, walled gardens and 500-odd acres are yours for the day. Nearly forty years of weddings and a habit of collecting romantic-venue awards. West Wicklow, near Punchestown.

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Royal Marine Hotel

A Victorian seafront hotel in Dun Laoghaire with lawns running towards the harbour. Sea air, period grandeur, and a short stroll to the pier for photos between courses.

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Springhill Court Hotel

A dependable wedding workhorse on the Waterford road: big function room, plenty of bedrooms, and a team that has seen every wedding curveball already.

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Summerhill House Hotel

A country house in Enniskerry village with dedicated wedding rooms, a civil ceremony licence and the Rainforest Spa for the morning after. The sensible-money option in Powerscourt's postcode.

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Tankardstown House

A Georgian manor near Slane where dinner happens in the Orangery for up to 230 and the wedding party sleeps across the house, cottage suites and lodge. The Brabazon restaurant's reputation travels well beyond Meath.

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The Gibson Hotel

Beside the 3Arena in the docklands, modern and glassy with terraces over the city. Practical too: big rooms, easy transport, and nobody gets lost finding it.

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The Johnstown Estate

A listed Georgian house on 120 acres at Enfield that scales from 4 guests to 400, with an orangery, a walled-garden terrace and a spa the bridal party will find by instinct. Handy to the M4 for guests coming from both coasts.

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The Marker Hotel

Grand Canal Dock's design statement, with a rooftop bar looking over the city and the mountains. The venue for couples whose Pinterest board says architectural rather than romantic.

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The Merrion Hotel

Four Georgian townhouses opposite government buildings, with a garden between them and one of the country's best art collections on the walls. Quiet luxury, in the literal sense: it never shouts.

The Morrison

A design hotel on the north quays looking across the Liffey. Sharp, modern spaces that suit a city wedding with no top table and a DJ instead of a band. Part of the DoubleTree by Hilton family.

The Shelbourne

Dublin's grande dame on St Stephen's Green, hosting society weddings since 1824. The ballroom, the address and the doormen do half the work of impressing your guests before the ceremony starts.

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The Station House Hotel

An 1862 railway junction turned family-run Blue Book hotel at Kilmessan, with weddings in the Carriage Suite and 12 acres of gardens where the platforms used to be. Small, personal and quietly different.

The Westin Dublin

A former bank on College Green, and the old banking hall ceiling is the reason to book: marriage vows under gilded plasterwork, two minutes from Trinity for the photos.

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Tinakilly Country House

A Victorian house built in the 1870s for the sea captain who laid the transatlantic cable, on 14 acres looking out over the Irish Sea. Family-run warmth with real history in the walls, 45 minutes from Dublin.

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Trim Castle Hotel

Directly across from the largest Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland, with a rooftop garden that puts the ramparts behind your vows. The Great Hall ballroom keeps the medieval theme honest without a suit of armour in sight.

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Tulfarris Hotel & Golf Resort

An 18th-century manor on the shore of the Blessington Lakes with the mountains behind, 45 minutes from town. The manor house suites keep the wedding party together, and the lakeside light does half the photographer's job.

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Woodenbridge Hotel & Lodge

Dates from 1608 and calls itself Ireland's oldest hotel, at the meeting of two rivers in the Vale of Avoca. Small, storied and riverside, for couples who'd rather have character than chandeliers.