Any tips? Any place recommendations to start searching?
We would like a budget wedding, prefer a city hall/ meal in a nice restaurant, rather than a hotel wedding during an all inclusive week type. I reckon there would be up to 30 guests. If we could get it for 5k for the actual wedding, I'd be happy (service, meal, photographer, transport between venues for guests seem like the main costs).
Open to place, but would like it to be fairly close to an airport with regular flights, so that if any family wants to come, they can easily have a 2-3 day trip rather than a week.
Would like to physically get married there, not have a registry office wedding here then something else there
At the minute, Italy seems to be the easiest set up for that- I keep coming back to Venice as plenty of flights, staying on the mainland is reasonable cost wise, scenic for photographs, centrally placed city hall, plenty of good food to eat. But I would like other ideas and to figure out where to start!
Not really feeling the idea of getting married here, we both have large families so even inviting just parents/siblings & partners/nieces and nephews here would be around 50 guests, before you get to any friends whatsoever or extended family, so to have a nice event here would cost a fortune and automatically be a 'big wedding'. It would cause riots to invite siblings without families, so not really an option to make it smaller. Happy for any family that wants to to come abroad, or for anyone to say no, we won't be offended, it's an invite not a summons, before there's a raft of posts telling me it's selfish to have a wedding abroad!