How to organize a wedding abroad

Calculate the time to prepare

To be put on the preparation of 6-8 months. So you can plan everything calmly, to evaluate the different options and will not panic when people will delay the answer to your messages.

If the wedding abroad will visit, you need to invite them as soon as possible, at least 2 months. They will need time to take time off from work to do a visa, find the tickets and accommodation.

Symbolic ceremony for two people and can be arranged for a few weeks. But then plane tickets are more expensive and there is a high probability that it is necessary to agree on the options that are left. Especially in wedding season from May to September.

Decide who will be the organizer

In fact, people who can take up the training, not so much.

You yourself

On the one hand, it's nice to do, that you are able to decide, and save on the mediator. On the other - you are required limit concentration and a lot of free time.

Tour Operator

When there is no time or do not want to mess with the documents, you can simply go to one of the travel agencies that organize weddings abroad. There you just tell us about your wishes and pay for the appropriate package tour. It happens that the ordinary

tour operators sell wedding packages.

wedding planner

This person will take on custom wedding preparations with any wishes that are not in the finished rounds. You can find wedding manager in Russia and take it with you or, if lacking in English, to hire him on the spot.

Search the Internet «wedding planner *», where * - the name of the city where you want to get married, and see what options are available.

Prepare documents

It must be remembered that the collection of the necessary paperwork will vary greatly depending on the country. And before you start to collect it, it is necessary to decide which option is the wedding - a symbolic ceremony or a formal marriage - is more appropriate to you.

symbolic ceremony

This is actually a tourist trip to another country, where you arrange a wedding celebration. With or without a white dress, with guests or together - in your holiday there is no legal burden: the registrar you go to Russia. So just choose any country and cook a classic set of entry documents.

• Passports.
• The current visaIf needed.
• Round-trip ticket.
• Reservation of accommodation.
• Medical insurance.

official wedding

Here you become husband and wife according to the laws of another state. If the marriage has been concluded according to the rules, Russia also recognizesRF IC. Article 158. Recognition of marriages, prisoners outside the territory of the Russian Federation your union valid. It needs all the same documents as for a symbolic wedding, plus a set of others.

The first thing to do - to find out whether aliens can officially marry in this country. For example, for a formal wedding in Indonesia is important is your religion: it is necessary to be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu or Catholic. And in France will have to be in the country 40 days before the wedding.

Then you need to prepare the documents to prove that your marriage is no obstacle: you are not married and are not blood relatives.

• Russian passports and copies.
• Birth certificate.
• Information about divorce or death of the last of the husband or wife, if someone was already married.
• Information about the marital status of a notary.
• Certified translations of all documents in the language of the country.

When all documents are collected, go to the consulate of the country of your wedding and ask if everything is correctly executed, if all printing bear, whether to put an apostille on documents required - this is an additional stamp confirming the legality of the securities for abroad.

Then find in the domestic foreign ministry, then how to make your wedding a foreign certificate is valid in Russia. Most often you need to put on it to make apostille or consular legalization procedure - each country has its own rules.

If everything is fine with the documents, you can send a copy to the mayor of the selected city in another country, learn the days off and pay the state duty. It happens that the need to select the date of the personal presence of the future spouses or their authorized representative.

Perhaps, for a formal wedding a local wedding planner who is familiar with the bureaucratic procedures - is not a whim but a necessity that will save up your nerves.

Select a location for the ceremony

Location is only limited by your imagination. You can even get married on a ship or in a treehouse. However, in the event of a formal wedding with a visiting place of registration will need to be agreed with the mayor's office. Consider the classic versions.

Beach

For the ceremony suitable private beaches are usually owned by the hotel. So close to the wedding will not sunbathe strangers. Archipelagic type Maldives Seychelles or you can even opt for a small uninhabited island and sail there by boat. All organizational issues are resolved with the hotel.

Villa or castle

In European cities, a lot of old estates, which are rented at a wedding. Most of the villas and castles are located in picturesque places near the lake, sea or forest. To find out prices and availability, look for a site with contacts and contact by phone or email. Usually quickly to client requests to Facebook.

A restaurant

Many restaurants have special facilities for weddings: green lawns with lawn, gardens, gazebos with white canopies. See photos of real weddings on TripAdvisor, when choosing an institution.

More, you can enter the name of the restaurant in Instagram and see what the wedding had already been in this location. Or even write the newlyweds and ask them.

Help the guests to prepare for the trip

how many friends and friends to invite to the wedding and pay whether their way - always a sensitive issue. It is important to be clear from the invitations, to whom lie on the plane, and living expenses.

It will be more convenient if all invitees will live in the same neighborhood or even in the same hotel. If you need to go to the place of the ceremony, book a shuttle back and forth, but for themselves - a wedding car. Such services are provided by taxi services and transfers.

If guests many handy wedding website where you want to lay out all the important information: the departure date, time and place of the wedding, card phones. Wedding page can be created for free (for link one of such embodiments).

Make a wedding menu

It is important to discuss the menu and number of guests to the wedding venue. Discover the gastronomic traditions of the country, where married to know what to expect.

For example, we've learned that in Russian snacks are on the table all evening. But in Europe, they are cleaned, when it starts feeding individual meals. In Italy, the first dish - it pasteSo do not be surprised that you will be offered the first thing served to guests ravioli. In America, after the snacks before entering the hot all eat salad.

If near the site of the ceremony is no restaurant, you will need to take care of catering - Outbound feast. Catering services can be arranged as a light buffet with snacks and a full banquet with the change of dishes.

Do not forget about food for the staff who will work at your wedding: musicians, photographers, leading. If the driver of the vehicle remains in place until the end of the wedding, it is also necessary to make to the staff-menu.

Find experts in music, photo and video

Usually wedding site offer his host, DJ, photographer and videographer, but only as a recommendation. You are free to hire another person or bring your favorite professional suicide - is so out even cheaper. In this case, you already know that its taste can be trusted.

Discuss predetermined repertoire musicians or track list DJ. Otherwise, you may find that you do not know any of the local hits and no idea how to dance under it.

Contests and games to weddings in other countries are not always accepted. Therefore, if you want to arrange something for their guests, warn leading.

Discuss the choice of colors and decorations with the florist

Find out who decorates the place of the ceremony. Discuss with your florist colors and then what flowers prefer. It would be good to prepare in advance photos with the compositions and bridal bouquet that you like - so do not have to frantically recall the names of colors in a foreign language.

And do not forget about the boutonniere for the groom. Fortunately, the word "boutonniere" something like this sounds in many languages.

Prepare the wedding outfits to transportation

If you are lucky wedding dress from Russia, it is better to take it in your hand luggage. There are special cases with a hanger. The dress would have to fold and, most likely, it pomnotsya. But it is better to give then to stroke the laundry than to tear my hair out, if the airline loses your luggage.

Lost groom suit compensate easier, but it is safer to carry in your hand luggage folded and packed in a bag. In no case do not carry the baggage of wedding rings. Keep them in a safe inner pocket of the bag.

If you plan buy Wedding outfits in the country where married, leave yourself enough time to shop. Even the fact that liked online store, can simply not come.

Organize makeup and hairstyle bride

You can contact with hairdressers and make-up artists from local salons and book a visiting service. Hotels, which are often arranged wedding can also recommend their specialists.

And yet in almost every city in the world are our compatriots who work in the field of beauty and lead your page in the social networks. If time permits, the bride is better to make a trial makeup and hair style of the selected artists.

Calculate your budget

We purposely left this point at last: to get your wedding expenses, you first need to know the price of the flight in your dates and services in the country where you are planning to get married. Ticket price for the aircraft will change depending on the date, the cost of the ceremonies usually remains unchanged - the maximum you can ask for a discount if you are getting married on a weekday unpopular season.

Decide which items from the above-described are relevant for you, make a list and start to learn the price. If you find that your desires are much exceed the capacity, do not worry ahead of time. Think about what you can save: Dress simpler, less or more than the country's budget.

Let's say you've been dreaming about the wedding on Lake Como in Italy, until we saw the price of the villa - a look also Montenegro. There's similar scenery and very democratic price wedding. We wanted to say "yes" on the warm sand of the Caribbean, but tickets are prohibitively expensive - in the south of Thailand has stunning beaches with a wild jungle around.

Villa in France can be replaced by an estate in the Czech Republic, without losing the right mood, and instead go to faraway Brazil is relatively close to Portugal.

Before booking any services, specify what is included in the price and asked to send all the details. So you will be able on occasion to remind you that you as newlyweds was promised SPA-program or breakfast in your room after the wedding.