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UK couples are inviting fewer guests and spending more on each one. Abroad, a list of 40 to 60 is exactly the size an exclusive hideaway is built for.
The ballroom is giving way to the estate. Couples want a private property for the whole weekend, and abroad that means the masseria, the quinta and the borgo.
September has become a peak month for weddings and flights. The value, and the new direct routes from regional UK airports, are moving to April and October.
Three weddings in one country: the Caribbean coast, the Pacific and the colonial highlands. November opens the dry season and is one of the lower-rate months, so this is the moment to choose your coast.
Turkey is the destination UK couples underestimate. It is a four-hour flight, it sits outside the eurozone, and the Antalya coast has one of the longest dry seasons in the Mediterranean. The catch is that the same sun makes July and August hard work for a ceremony. For most couples flying from…
Yes, UK couples can hold a legally binding civil marriage in Turkey, and many do, from the beach municipalities around Ölüdeniz and Antalya to the registry halls of Istanbul. The ceremony is a civil one, conducted by a municipal marriage officer, and a marriage that is valid under Turkish law is…
Turkey is the quiet achiever of the wedding-abroad map. The flights are short, the lira makes catering and venues cheaper than almost anywhere else on the Mediterranean, and the Antalya, Fethiye and Bodrum coasts have been hosting British weddings for twenty years. What couples cannot find easily…
Spain is not one climate. Seville in July and Barcelona in October are two different problems: one is heat, the other is rain. For most UK couples the choice narrows to late May and June, or the first half of September. The better question is which region suits which month.
Sometimes. Spain is a favourite where the honest answer for most UK couples is “the party, yes. The civil paperwork, probably not”. A civil marriage in Spain is tied to where one of you lives, and two people who both live in the UK usually have no Spanish address to start from. That is why the…
Spain publishes two sets of wedding prices. One is what Spanish couples pay to marry at home. The other is what a couple flying in from Britain is quoted for the same coastline. Most budget confusion comes from reading the first and being sold the second. Here is what the latest data says, in the…