Destination wedding venues.
Say where, how many and roughly what to spend. Elena reads the venues that fit and sends back six, each with a line on why.
Your six appear here, each with the reason it made the list. Nothing is needed but a place and a headcount.
Italy & the Amalfi
The canonical destination, if well done. We avoid the obvious. Positano is mostly full, Capri is mostly a boat, and bring couples to smaller hill towns, private villas, a working vineyard in Chianti.
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FIG. 01.07Greek islands
Skipping Santorini on purpose. Milos, Hydra, Paros. One mainland house in the Peloponnese you will not believe exists until the second day.
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FIG. 02.07Spain & Mallorca
The quiet alternative to Italy. Menorca for small weddings, Mallorca fincas for bigger ones, Seville if you can take forty degrees in the shade.
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FIG. 03.02France & Provence
Hard to get wrong. Provence and the Riviera for long lunches, the Loire for a château if everyone can come for a week.
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FIG. 04.05Lisbon & the Algarve
Two stretches of coast, and not much in between. The Algarve for a cliff and a long lunch, Lisbon for a wedding with a city around it. The Douro and the Alentejo are thin here, and we would rather say so than send you looking.
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FIG. 05.07Country houses & Irish coast
The short flight, if your guests are already in Europe. Estates a couple of hours out of London, houses on the west coast of Ireland, and a Highland run from Torridon to Skye that takes a weekend to see.
Lakes & alpine valleys
A mountain behind every photograph. The Salzkammergut lakes east of Salzburg, the Tyrol, and the Swiss valleys. Winter works here, which is not true of most of this list.
Mexico, Wyoming & onward
Newly listed. Tulum and Valle de Guadalupe for winter weddings; Jackson Hole and the Hudson Valley for late summer.
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FIG. 08.07Bali & the Indian Ocean
Smaller still. Ubud only, no Seminyak, nothing over sixty guests. Two houses in Sri Lanka and one in the Maldives.
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FIG. 09.04The Cape & beyond
Big skies, considered houses.
We begin with where.
Tell us a season you can travel and a rough guest count. A short list of three venues comes back the same week, picked, not generated.