A destination wedding budget, line by line.

A destination wedding budget for 70 guests over three days comes to an estimated €57,000 in the Algarve and €105,000 on the Amalfi Coast. Each is the typical total of a line-by-line budget later in this guide, with local VAT included and no line for guests' flights or rooms. Change the guest count or the number of days you host, and the total moves again.

The estimates fall into four tiers.

The tiers are loose groupings. Puglia, mainland Greece and Paros belong at the value end, but only on summary estimates of €30,000 to €70,000 with no line items behind them.

For a second estimate, destination by destination and country by country, see the destination wedding cost index. It prices a whole wedding for 80 guests from a modelled estimate for each venue, so it will not match these tables line for line.

A mid-tier destination wedding for 70 guests over three days is estimated at about €69,500 to €82,000, the typical line-by-line totals for Mallorca, Tuscany and Santorini. That is a planning figure from a cost model, not a survey average. Aisle has not surveyed couples, so we have no measured average for destination weddings to give you.

The nearest measured benchmark covers US weddings of every kind. The Knot's 2026 Real Weddings Study, a survey of 10,474 US couples married in 2025, put the average wedding at $34,000 for 117 guests, or $292 per guest. The two modeled budgets later in this guide come out higher per guest.

The comparison is rough. The survey figure is in dollars and averages weddings of every kind. The examples are in euros and price three days of hosting, with a planner, guest transfers and paperwork included.

Destination wedding prices for 70 guests over three days start at an estimated €57,000 in the Algarve, the lowest line-by-line total on this site. At the top of the 70-guest list are Mykonos, at about €121,000, and Cabo San Lucas, at about $173,500 with a resort buyout. By these estimates the same wedding can cost about twice as much in one region as in another.

The first table gives the typical total of the cost table in each destination's own guide, for 70 guests over three days unless noted.

The second gives summary estimates: bands with no line items behind them, on other bases, so do not rank them against the first.

For a whole country, see Italy or Mexico. For starting allowances on your own guest count, without flights or accommodation, use the destination wedding budget calculator.

Venue and catering take 40–50% of a destination wedding budget, the main suppliers 30–40%, and guest logistics with contingency the last 15–20%.

Treat the split as a starting point. Adjust each share until your own plan totals 100%, and swap estimates for quotes as they come in. If your split looks very different, look for one of two causes: a full venue buyout, which can push the venue share to 60%, or a contingency that is too small.

Venue hire and catering are the two largest lines in the budget, and catering is priced per guest.

The Amalfi Coast budget below allows up to €50,000 for venue hire.

Negotiate the two together. Venues often tie catering to a minimum spend, so pressing on one line while leaving the other alone achieves little.

All-inclusive resorts price a wedding as a package instead. That has its own guide: all-inclusive destination wedding packages.

The planner, photographer, florist and musicians together take 30–40% of the budget. These are the estimates for a 70-guest wedding.

At its most expensive, the Amalfi Coast budget below runs past all four ranges, to €18,000 for the planner.

The florals estimate depends heavily on how dense you want the arrangements. Music runs toward the top of its range in party destinations such as Mykonos and Ibiza. A planner can sometimes negotiate supplier rates that offset part of the fee, and the scheduling stops being your job. If you have not hired one yet, see how to choose a destination wedding planner: it puts full planning at a flat fee or an estimated 10–15% of the total budget, and the planner line is 13% and 11% of the two budgets below.

Guest transfers, welcome bags and paperwork are lines a wedding at home does not have, which makes them easy to underestimate.

Transfers vary widely by place. They are estimated at €1,500–€3,500 for shuttle coaches in Mallorca, €3,000–€9,000 on the Amalfi Coast, where the roads call for vans, and $25,000–$50,000 for 50 guests in the Maldives, where seaplane transfers are the norm.

None of these lines covers what guests pay for themselves. To see the trip from their side, the guest travel cost estimator prices flights and rooms by each guest's departure city.

A value-tier destination wedding budget for 70 guests in the Algarve comes to an estimated €57,000 in the table's typical column, about €814 per guest. The example is a three-day weekend at a quinta in the central Algarve in June 2026, with 23% Portuguese VAT included and no line for guest rooms or flights. With every line at its cheapest the table totals €33,700, and with every line at its most expensive, €92,000. Catering and bar is the biggest line, €15,500, and the couple pays it in full.

Venue and catering are €25,500 of the total (45%), the four main suppliers another €25,500 (45%), and guest logistics with paperwork and contingency the last €6,000. That is heavier on suppliers than the starting split, and the contingency is thin: 10–15% of the other seven lines (€53,500) would be €5,350 to €8,025, against the €3,500 the table holds for paperwork and contingency together. If you want the full cushion, add it on top.

The same 70-guest, three-day wedding on the Amalfi Coast is estimated at €105,000 in the typical column, or €1,500 per guest. Line by line the range is €64,500 to €176,000. That is €48,000 more than the Algarve example, and venue and catering account for €28,500 of the gap: venue hire goes from €10,000 to €28,000, and catering and bar from €15,500 to €26,000. Together they are 51% of the total. Venue hire is the biggest line, a fee the couple pays in full; an exclusive-use buyout is not in the table.

The guest transport line doubles, from €2,500 to €5,000, because the coast's roads are too narrow for coaches and guests travel in 8-seat vans. The example is a venue in Ravello or Positano in June 2026, with 22% Italian VAT included. As in the Algarve table, the last line holds less than a full 10–15% contingency.

Build the budget in this order.

1. Fix the total before you book a venue. Set your number before the first supplier call and treat it as fixed. Without a ceiling, it is easy to spend to the top of a venue's range.
2. Get venue and catering quotes. They are 40–50% of the budget, so they decide what is left for everything else.
3. Add the main suppliers: planner, photography and video, florals and music.
4. Add the guest costs you choose to cover: transfers, welcome bags, and any meals or rooms.
5. Hold back 10–15% of the subtotal as contingency.
6. Replace estimates with quotes as they arrive, and adjust the shares so the plan still totals 100%.

The wedding budget spreadsheet tracks estimated, quoted and actual costs line by line. If the total comes out above your number, trim welcome bags first, then florals, then music, and keep the money on venue, catering, planner and photography. The guide to destination wedding budget tips has more ways to bring the total down.

Put room and travel responsibilities next to the figures guests will use. The room booking and payments guide distinguishes hotel links from organizer-arranged accommodation; the wedding website builder gives you a place to publish those confirmed arrangements. These tools do not change the dated budget assumptions or exclusions above.