How much does a wedding in Turkey cost for UK couples
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 is a straight number. This page gives it, with the sources, and tells you where the figure moves.
The short answer
For a small civil wedding with 20 to 40 guests, the published figures cluster between £4,300 and £7,000 for the wedding itself, before flights and rooms. A 50-guest beach wedding through a full-service planner sits closer to £17,000. The gap between those two numbers is almost entirely venue tier and catering level, not guest count.
All euro figures below are converted at roughly €1.17 to £1, the rate in October 2026. Check the day’s rate before you budget.
What the published figures say
| What | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Civil ceremony package (ceremony, paperwork help, basic décor) | €3,000 to €4,500 (about £2,560 to £3,850) | Weddings Abroad Guide, Turkey page, notes dated January 2026 |
| Whole wedding, intimate, 20 to 40 guests | €5,000 to €8,000 (about £4,270 to £6,840) | Weddings Abroad Guide |
| Whole wedding, mid-range, 50 to 100 guests | €10,000 to €30,000 (about £8,550 to £25,600) | Weddings Abroad Guide |
| Standard beach package, 30 guests | €15,000 (about £12,800) | RamaRossi cost breakdown, February 2026 |
| Standard beach package, 50 guests | €19,500 (about £16,700) | RamaRossi |
| Luxury beach package, 50 guests | €42,000 (about £35,900) | RamaRossi |
| Resort wedding packages, UK operator | from £3,439 (Crystal Admiral, Side) to £9,239 (Gloria Serenity, Belek) | The Wedding Travel Company, Turkey packages page |
| Catering per guest, Turkish menu with drinks | €25 to €30 (about £21 to £26) | Weddings Abroad Guide |
| Catering per guest, mid-range plated | €80 to €130 (about £68 to £111) | RamaRossi |
| Photography | €800 to €2,500 (about £680 to £2,140) | Weddings Abroad Guide |
| Turkish legal marriage fees | €150 to €300 (about £128 to £256) | RamaRossi |
Sources: weddingsabroadguide.com/wedding-in-turkey.html · ramarossi.com/how-much-does-a-destination-wedding-in-turkey-actually-cost-in-2026/ · theweddingtravelcompany.com/destinations/europe-weddings/turkey-weddings
Two things stand out. First, the two independent guides disagree by a factor of two on what a “typical” wedding costs, because one describes local-supplier weddings and the other describes planner-run beach weddings with imported standards. Both are real. They are different products. Second, the UK operator packages do not say whether the price is per couple or per wedding, so ask before you compare.
What is usually not in the quote
RamaRossi’s breakdown is useful because it lists what sits outside the package: guest flights at €150 to €400 per person from the UK, guest rooms at €60 to €200 a night, the dress and suit, shuttles at €300 to €600, gratuities of 5 to 10 per cent of vendor costs, and Turkey’s 20 per cent VAT where a quote does not say it is included. Ask every supplier the same question: is this figure inclusive of KDV (VAT)?
What usually applies on the legal side, and who confirms it
UK couples usually marry in Turkey through a civil ceremony at the municipal marriage office (evlendirme dairesi) of the town where the wedding takes place. The British Embassy in Ankara announced in March 2014 that Turkish marriage offices accept an Affidavit or Affirmation of Marital Status in place of a Certificate of No Impediment. For UK residents that document is usually sworn before a UK notary and then legalised by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office before travel. Translations into Turkish and, in some districts, a local health check are commonly reported.
None of this is stated here as a legal requirement. The marriage office where you will marry confirms what it needs, and GOV.UK’s marriage-abroad tool for Turkey is the UK-side reference. Your planner should put the office’s current list in writing before you pay a deposit.
Where the price moves
Season matters less in Turkey than in Italy or Greece, but it still matters. RamaRossi puts the peak-season uplift on venues at 20 to 30 per cent and the Saturday uplift at 15 to 25 per cent. Delphin Hotel’s guide to Antalya for UK visitors describes late May, early June and mid-September to mid-October as the stronger-value windows, with July and August at peak price and 34 to 38 degrees. A Thursday in late September buys the same coastline at the lower rate and a temperature guests can stand in.
Region matters too. Weddings Abroad Guide notes that summer and the Bodrum and Istanbul markets cost more than the Antalya and Fethiye coasts.
I Do Abroad Top Tip
Ask for the per-guest catering figure before you ask for the package price. In Turkey the package is the headline and the catering is the lever: moving from a €25 Turkish menu to a €100 plated menu adds £3,200 to a 50-guest wedding on its own. Decide the menu first and the package falls into place.
The honest comparison
RamaRossi’s own comparison puts a 50-guest wedding in western Europe at €30,000 to €45,000 against €19,500 for its standard Turkish beach package, so the saving on the wedding itself is real. On the published Turkish figures, a 50-guest planner-run beach wedding comes in around £17,000, and a local-supplier wedding for 40 guests at under £7,000. Guests pay their own flights, which is the trade every couple weighs.
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Sources – Weddings Abroad Guide, Wedding in Turkey (notes dated January 2026): https://weddingsabroadguide.com/wedding-in-turkey.html – RamaRossi, How much does a destination wedding in Turkey actually cost in 2026 (February 2026): https://ramarossi.com/how-much-does-a-destination-wedding-in-turkey-actually-cost-in-2026/ – The Wedding Travel Company, Turkey wedding packages: https://www.theweddingtravelcompany.com/destinations/europe-weddings/turkey-weddings – GOV.UK, New marriage procedures for British nationals in Turkey (British Embassy Ankara, 19 March 2014): https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-marriage-procedures-for-british-nationals-in-turkey – GOV.UK marriage-abroad tool: https://www.gov.uk/marriage-abroad – Delphin Hotel, Best time to visit Antalya from the UK: https://blog.delphinhotel.com/best-time-to-visit-antalya-from-the-uk-weather-prices-and-crowd-levels