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The romantic setting of Crete, standing outside
a Turkish fort with panoramic views over Souda
Bay… this could be the wedding with a difference
that you are looking for…
Six years ago we organized our
first wedding in Western Crete... starting with the
booking of the church, the arrangements for the
service, flowers, a decorated car, the reception
meal... and ending with a display of Cretan
dancing and live Cretan music in the village
square of Megala Horafia. Sixty guests flew out
to witness the wedding of Jim and Mary Davies,
and all had a wonderful time…not just on the
wedding night, but for the whole two weeks,
including the Stag and Hen nights around Chania
town…
How
the wedding of your dreams can come true in a
quiet corner of Western Crete.
WHY get married in Crete?
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Welcome to
Weddings in Crete |
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A Special
Wedding in Crete
Getting
married in Crete can be a wonderful solution
to your wedding planning problems. Near
enough to be an affordable destination for
your wedding guests, the island offers all kinds of
entertainment for a two week holiday for all
ages and a special honeymoon for you. Many
travel companies offer you a two week
holiday with your marriage. A package
wedding is like a package holiday – the same
product designed to be sold over and over to
many different people. Your wedding will be
‘planned’ by a holiday rep…
But if you are looking for something a
little more exclusive than a package wedding,
Weddings in Crete offer you something
different.
There is no fixed formula to a
marriage organized by Weddings in Crete.
Each wedding is different – the venue, the
location and type of reception, the
decorations and flowers to suit your colour
choices…and a honeymoon somewhere you
yourself have chosen; like a few days in the
volcanic island of Santorini; or a cruise
around the North Western tip of Crete; or a
converted old Venetian hotel in the heart of
Chania…or of course your own holiday villa.
With Weddings in Crete, you can choose your
own accommodation, helped by us if you like,
you tell us your wedding dreams …and we do
the rest…
26th
October 2007 -
Paul and Debbie
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A
Summer Wedding 2004
"Not every couple takes 40 friends and
family on honeymoon with them but that’s
what we did. In the summer of 2004, we flew
to Crete to get married – and they all came
along.
We were married in unconventional style, in
a breathtaking setting next to an abandoned
fort on top of a hill with the beautiful bay
of Souda on one side and the White Mountains
on the other. Elizabeth et al organised
all aspects of the wedding flawlessly – from
the flights and accommodation in traditional
Cretan farmhouses, to the legal arrangements
of the ceremony, to the riotous reception at
a local Taverna. And they coped admirably
with the few foibles of the more demanding
members of our retinue – nothing was too
much trouble.
Our guests told us that the wedding was a
wonderful and unforgettable experience. Of
course they probably always say that but we
suspect that there was more than a hint of
truth on this occasion.
We wanted a different wedding to the usual
UK formula – the car, the photographs, the
hotel reception where three other receptions
are happening simultaneously, the rain… In
fact, we may have been the first people in
history to be married on our hilltop
location. The only similarity was the price
– we spent the same on a wedding and two
weeks holiday in Crete for 40 people as we
would have blown on a single day in the UK.
Our experience in Crete was magical from
start to finish and we can whole-heartedly
recommend Elizabeth and her team to arrange
any wedding in Crete.
And yes, we did get our honeymoon; we
sneaked off to a charming hotel 10 miles
away in Chania for a couple of days – again
recommended and booked by … you know who."
Mark and Agnieszka Wilcock, - who were
married in Crete in July 2004
Let us arrange your
wedding in Crete
elizabeth@weddingsincrete.co.uk
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"Traditional
Cretan weddings used to last for three or more
days….after all, relatives had to journey from
surrounding villages, sometimes from across the
White Mountains, on donkeys…. At this time the
Cretan diet was mostly vegetarian, as poverty
made meat a luxury. Thus the wedding feast was
always huge, with plenty of meat: boiled lamb
and rice pilaffi, roast lamb and many other
accompaniments." |
