Getting Married Abroad - Italy or Seychelles
Discussion
Partner and I plan on getting married around April/May 2010. Partner is due to give birth in a few weeks (1st child).
Originally wanted to go seychelles or sri lanka/maldvies with the baby (no other family/friends, just us), but the more we think about it the more we think it would be impractical to do (no support/family, very remote so lack of local hospitals etc..)
Therefore I think we will look at Italy, in particular Sicily or maybe even Sardinia with small amount of family joining us - does anyone have any experience of getting wed in Italy? any tips on wedding planners (or can you do it yourself) kind of costs etc..?
thanks in advance..
Originally wanted to go seychelles or sri lanka/maldvies with the baby (no other family/friends, just us), but the more we think about it the more we think it would be impractical to do (no support/family, very remote so lack of local hospitals etc..)
Therefore I think we will look at Italy, in particular Sicily or maybe even Sardinia with small amount of family joining us - does anyone have any experience of getting wed in Italy? any tips on wedding planners (or can you do it yourself) kind of costs etc..?
thanks in advance..
if you are taking the baby, it may be obvious, but the Maldives are quite warm. so you will inevitably spending a lot of time in the shade/inside.
if the Maldives, its also a captured market, so you need to buy everything at island prices inc water. it may work out expensive considering you will need nappies, baby food etc.
Sardinia is lovely, and the Italians as a whole are quite child friendly. So you will have no problem taking the child out to restaurants. Cyprus is similar.
if the Maldives, its also a captured market, so you need to buy everything at island prices inc water. it may work out expensive considering you will need nappies, baby food etc.
Sardinia is lovely, and the Italians as a whole are quite child friendly. So you will have no problem taking the child out to restaurants. Cyprus is similar.
neilsie said:
if you are taking the baby, it may be obvious, but the Maldives are quite warm. so you will inevitably spending a lot of time in the shade/inside.
if the Maldives, its also a captured market, so you need to buy everything at island prices inc water. it may work out expensive considering you will need nappies, baby food etc.
Sardinia is lovely, and the Italians as a whole are quite child friendly. So you will have no problem taking the child out to restaurants. Cyprus is similar.
I've heard italy is very child friendly, which is swinging our decision that way. Went to maldives this year and was amazing & would love to go again, but just worry facilities not geared up for a baby.if the Maldives, its also a captured market, so you need to buy everything at island prices inc water. it may work out expensive considering you will need nappies, baby food etc.
Sardinia is lovely, and the Italians as a whole are quite child friendly. So you will have no problem taking the child out to restaurants. Cyprus is similar.
Has anyone got married in Italy? any recommendations?
thegavster said:
To get married in Italy you just need a kind of local marriage licence which takes three days, so both you and your partner need to be in Italy 3 full working days before the wedding.
We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
Thanks for the info - I think your right so everything is in order to use a wedding planner - choices choices, do we use a UK one, or an italian based wedding planner (google finds tons of them!)We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
Soir said:
neilsie said:
if you are taking the baby, it may be obvious, but the Maldives are quite warm. so you will inevitably spending a lot of time in the shade/inside.
if the Maldives, its also a captured market, so you need to buy everything at island prices inc water. it may work out expensive considering you will need nappies, baby food etc.
Sardinia is lovely, and the Italians as a whole are quite child friendly. So you will have no problem taking the child out to restaurants. Cyprus is similar.
I've heard italy is very child friendly, which is swinging our decision that way. Went to maldives this year and was amazing & would love to go again, but just worry facilities not geared up for a baby.if the Maldives, its also a captured market, so you need to buy everything at island prices inc water. it may work out expensive considering you will need nappies, baby food etc.
Sardinia is lovely, and the Italians as a whole are quite child friendly. So you will have no problem taking the child out to restaurants. Cyprus is similar.
Has anyone got married in Italy? any recommendations?
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Soir said:
thegavster said:
To get married in Italy you just need a kind of local marriage licence which takes three days, so both you and your partner need to be in Italy 3 full working days before the wedding.
We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
Thanks for the info - I think your right so everything is in order to use a wedding planner - choices choices, do we use a UK one, or an italian based wedding planner (google finds tons of them!)We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
My only bit of useful advice is to start early, the docs take ages, translations are costly and take ages, and you'll want to check everything at least 16 times before departing the UK.
It is the however, the best way to go by far
Kuroblack350 said:
Soir said:
thegavster said:
To get married in Italy you just need a kind of local marriage licence which takes three days, so both you and your partner need to be in Italy 3 full working days before the wedding.
We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
Thanks for the info - I think your right so everything is in order to use a wedding planner - choices choices, do we use a UK one, or an italian based wedding planner (google finds tons of them!)We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
My only bit of useful advice is to start early, the docs take ages, translations are costly and take ages, and you'll want to check everything at least 16 times before departing the UK.
It is the however, the best way to go by far
Soir said:
Kuroblack350 said:
Soir said:
thegavster said:
To get married in Italy you just need a kind of local marriage licence which takes three days, so both you and your partner need to be in Italy 3 full working days before the wedding.
We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
Thanks for the info - I think your right so everything is in order to use a wedding planner - choices choices, do we use a UK one, or an italian based wedding planner (google finds tons of them!)We were organising one in Italy and were using a wedding planner, neither of us spoke Italian so I suspect it was the easier way, however I don't see that she was indispensable. I think one of the most useful things she was going to take care of was arranging the booking for the registry office as they only do a couple of weddings per day, only bookable 6 months in advance. She was going to get to the office and book it in person exactly 6 months in advance.
However, as you do need to deal with local bureaucracy to an extent, I think one would be useful if neither of you speak the native tongue.
My only bit of useful advice is to start early, the docs take ages, translations are costly and take ages, and you'll want to check everything at least 16 times before departing the UK.
It is the however, the best way to go by far
The other thing I found useful was their email assiatnce, you'll get a coordinator based in the manchester office who you can email with just about any wedding/destination query.
Enjoy
Seen a couple of Italian weddings in Sardinia they love a big wedding. With Ryanair, Jet2 and BMI all flying ino Sardinia I would say you could get a fair few friends and family joining you if thats what you want. Obviously April/May time it wont be roasting hot but it should be plesantly warm during the day and quite cool at night.
Discussions with the missus:
She really wants me/her/baby to go somewhere like seychelles (no family)
I think maybe too early to take a child that far away (fear of lack hospitals/support ect) so am thinking Italy with the added bonus we can take immediate family with us.
priority here is the baby (not even born yet, so will be 12mths old by time wedding) and not too bothered about family being there (just moreso support for baby)
what would you do? (cannot even consider leaving the baby)
1) Italy with family
2) Seychelles no family
She really wants me/her/baby to go somewhere like seychelles (no family)
I think maybe too early to take a child that far away (fear of lack hospitals/support ect) so am thinking Italy with the added bonus we can take immediate family with us.
priority here is the baby (not even born yet, so will be 12mths old by time wedding) and not too bothered about family being there (just moreso support for baby)
what would you do? (cannot even consider leaving the baby)
1) Italy with family
2) Seychelles no family
Hello Andy (Soir), I wuold like to point you at my website www.weddingsisardinia.it We can plan a family and child-frindly wedding in Sardinia. As you may know, Sardinia is now very well connected with low fares airlines. drop me and email at info@weddingsinsardinia.it and we can talk more. ciao, Mario
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