Wedding Venue
Armadale offers an exceptional setting for your wedding day on the romantic Isle of Skye.
Our licensed Stables Restaurant within the restored stables building, entered by the Baronial Hallway, caters for eighty guests at the wedding banquet and a further forty evening guests. However, during the summer months when our Centre is busy during daytime hours, a buffet reception can be held in the original building at Armadale Castle, circa 1780, with the evening function being arranged in the Stables.
Our range of facilities also includes our Sculptured ruin, part of the original castle, for an outdoor ceremony with the Gardens as an outstanding backdrop for your photographs.
The Solemnisation of Civil and Religious Ceremonies can take place in each of these facilities indoors and outdoors.
Our friendly, welcoming staff and excellent cuisine combine to make this a day to remember.
We would be delighted to answer your enquiries.
Telephone: +44(0)1471 844305
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Down the Years
Lord Macdonald’s stables were originally built in 1822 at a cost of £1,000. The architect, James Gillespie Graham, based the design on the same Gothic lines as he used when designing Armadale Castle.
When the Trust took over in 1971 all that remained inside the building were a dilapidated child’s carriage and a landau.
Despite their run-down state it was decided to make use of the Stables’ welcoming position as the main reception point for the Visitor Centre. Restoration work, designed by Galsgow architect Geoffrey Jarvis, began in 1982. The coach houses were used for the shop and main office and the stables themselves became the cloakrooms. Upstairs, the lofts once used to store hay and home to grooms and stableboys were converted into two luxury self-catering suites. The restaurant and kitchen were added, but followed the original Gothic design so closely that the building still appears as one entity. The oak panelling in the restaurant and fireplaces in the suites and main hall were rescued from a condemned Paisley mansion once home to a cotton magnate.
The renovated building was opened in 1984 at a ceremony attended by clansmen from all over the world. The Stables as we know it today was in business.
The building, winner of several national awards - on display in the restaurant - is now also used as a venue for conferences, corporate events and weddings.
How to contact us
Armadale Castle Gardens & Museum of the Isles
Armadale, Sleat, Isle of Skye IV45 8RS, Scotland.
Telephone: 01471 844305 or 01471 844227
Fax: 01471 844275
E-mail: office@clandonald.com
If telephoning from outside the UK the numbers are your international code +44 1471 844305 or 844227, or Fax +44 1471 844275.
The direct line to the Museum of the Isles is 01599 534454