Wedding travel
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Wedding travel is travelling to get married. Destination weddings are an entire section of the travel and wedding industry, and you'll find accommodation, planners and agents that specialise in arranging the perfect celebration at many destinations worldwide. Alternatively, a couple can plan their own travel, for any reason they choose, and on any scale. However, as marriage is usually a legal construct, and often involves catering for guests, there are additional complications over an average holiday to ensure that everything runs to plan.
Understand] to be your wedded wife, to cherish in love and in friendship, in strength and in weakness, in success and in disappointment, to love her faithfully, today, tomorrow, and for as long as the two of you shall live?
PrepareThe requirements to be wed (as foreigners) vary between countries, and can be also vary between visitors and residents.
DestinationsWhile marriage aboard a ship at sea has long been romanticized in fiction, only a small handful of tiny countries grant ship's captains ex officio rights to perform a wedding.
Cost of guestsImposing travel costs on guests is one of the more controversial parts of wedding travel.
Go nextA couple with friends or family living far from the wedding place, can choose to celebrate with them at another occasion.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Wedding travel" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo: Vihkimistilaisuus Kiuruveden kirkossa.JPG: Tumi-1983 derivative work: Htm, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons