21 January 2012
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| A bride looking beautiful in the Welsh snow |
It is
January in the UK, and a cold and frosty January at that, and even the happiest
of photographers, in the beautiful green countryside of South Wales, (currently
under a blanket of snow) have to be forgiven if their dreams are full
of sunnier climes.
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| Destination wedding? As reality bites in South Wales? |
For many it’s a no-brainer, Mum
and Dad (of either the bride and groom, or both) are not keen on flying and a
destination wedding in the glorious heat of Antigua in November, January or
March, is therefore out of the question. After all flying half way around the
world to hold your wedding without your family would be a sad affair.
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| Romantic Galleon Bay, less fun without your family? |
But nowadays
many of the flower children of the sixties and the jet setters of the seventies
are quite old enough to have grown-up children of their own, and as they were
the first generation to flee the chilly summers of the British Isles in their
hundreds of thousands for the summer holidays of their youth, to many of them,
the Mediterranean Costas are a second home and they are happier to hop on a
plane to Europe than they are to take a bus or a train to Blackpool or St Ives.
The advantages
of a Caribbean Island wedding are obvious, not only, the year round glorious sunshine,
silver beaches and turquoise seas but also practical matters like the language spoken
being predominantly English.
The only
disadvantage is the cost. There is no real way around the cost of flights to
the Bahamas if you are committed to having more than a hundred guests at your
wedding.
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| Destination Spain, Nerja on the Costa del Sol. |
Bringing things
closer to home, it is probably worth investigating whether holding your
ceremony in Spain or France would in fact cost you that much more than a
similar venue in England and whether you can persuade your friends to combine your wedding with a holiday in the sun.
