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Home Or Away? Don’t Turn Your Wedding Into A Vacay!
We recently talked about some of the issues you can encounter, planning a destination wedding. If they scare you enough, you might be considering just avoiding the issue completely and instead, getting married closer to home. There are many benefits to this possibility that you should consider before booking a wedding with sunny skies.
It’s Going To Cost Us How Much???
I Hope It’s An Open Bar…
Do you want a big wedding filled with all your friends and family? Well, you might if you plan a wedding abroad, some just don’t show up at all. You’re probably thinking, hey it’s a chance to go on holiday somewhere wonderful, no one’s going to say no to that. Well, don’t be so sure because there are various reasons why people will not want to attend.
Some, won’t want their holiday cut into by your wedding and others just won’t want to spend the massive amount of money on the airfare. Now, you could offer to pay for all the tickets yourself. But this will likely drive your wedding costs from the tens of thousands into the hundreds of thousands! How much are you willing to spend on one day of your life? Helpful hint: your ideal budget is likely not the same as your partners so remember to discuss before you book.
Beauty Of Home
Probably Closer Than You Think
People often think that the beautiful destinations are far away, but that’s not true. Research online and you might find there’s a beautiful destination like Clevedon Hall just down the road from you. A stunning location like this could be exactly what you need for your wedding and won’t have to spend thousands in airfares to get to it.
Easy As Anything
Getting married abroad is a lot more complicated than most people realise. First, you need to get permission to hold the ceremony at all with country officials. Second, you may find that, depending on the country you choose, the wedding is not officially legal in your country. So, you’ll find yourself paying for two weddings. As well as this, you’ll have to book everything without seeing it or getting a true impression. It’s one thing for the groom to see the bride’s dress on the day of the wedding for the first time.
It’s quite another to get a glimpse of your wedding venue just as you arrive at its doors. Look at it this way, have you ever booked a hotel or villa for a vacation and found it was nothing like the photographs you saw online? Now imagine that rather than a place that you’ll stay for a couple of weeks it’s the location for the most important day of your life.
More Money, More Honeymoon
We bet you didn’t think of that, did you? If you don’t book a destination wedding and spend a fortune, you’re going to have money for a better honeymoon, a luxury getaway. In other words: Ola Hawaii! The other possibility would be to have your honeymoon in the destination where you are getting married. However, be careful with that destination and ask yourself this question:
Is it really a honeymoon if the entire wedding party is with you? Getting the honeymoon suite isn’t quite as romantic when your parents are still in the next room over because they’ve treated your wedding like an extended getaway.
We hope you see now that getting married close to home really could be the best option for you.
