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 Crete.
WHY get married in Crete?
- It's fun! - from the traditions to the dancing to the great food!
- It's different!
- The Climate in Crete!
- What you spend on a wedding in Britain you spend on a whole holiday in Crete!
- A honeymoon for you and a holiday for your guests all-in-one!
- No conveyor belt weddings as in smaller islands in Greece
- The island of Crete still enables a very personal, unique and individual wedding
- A wedding experience you and your guests will never forget!
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.
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.
We can plan Greek Orthodox weddings in Church (where one of the couple is Orthodox). We also plan Civil ceremonies, Blessings and Marriage Renewal vows. We arrange weddings for people from many countries ... UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, USA, Romania, Russia, Greece and many more.
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 ...
Here are some of our recent couples who chose Weddings in Crete to plan their perfect day. Click on the photos to open a new tab and see their gallery.
Liam & Elaine - 9th June 2009
Bob & Pam - 20th May 2009
Marc & Renee - 7th May 2009
Finbar & Rebecca - 23rd September 2008
Dave & Claire - 12th September 2008 Steve & Amanda - 11th September 2008
A Summer Wedding
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.
Testimonial from Mark and Agnieszka Wilcock, who were married in Crete in July 2004.
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.
Let us arrange your wedding in Crete
elizabeth@weddingsincrete.co.uk
Liam & Elaine
9th June 2009
Linda & Jonas
8th June 2009
Warren & Amanda
21st May 2009
Bob & Pam
20th May 2009
Marc & Renee
7th May 2009
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