We got married in Italy precisely because we had friends and family in so many different countries. We felt it was easier for us to pick somewhere neutral and we figured there is no one in the world who wouldn't like a holiday in Italy.
We found a villa we could rent for a whole week for the same price as one day at a UK venue. We thought we would have about 20 guests. We had 60
We did a week's worth of hanging out at the pool, walking in the vineyards and olive groves, eating pizza, pasta, porchetta, bruschetta, panzanella, cheeses, meats, olives and drinking aaaallll the wine. Guests went off and did their own thing as and when, and we had the wedding towards end of the week to allow a day or two for hangovers.
People still talk about how much fun our wedding was.
no one could tell though, because we still signed a declaration, affirming everything that we had legally done two weeks prior with me wearing a white dress that I bought from the Mango in terminal five.
Thank you! I'll look it up!
We did all the planning, booked the appointment in Rome, got the right kind of officiant sorted out, got our lawyers to speak to Italian lawyers, literally everything. Only for them to ask for my husband's birth certificate about three weeks before the wedding, which of course he didn't have and the South African wait times were up to three years with the official reason given as "due to inefficiency".
So guess who had to book emergency flights to South Africa mere weeks before we had 60 guests arriving in Italy so that we could get legally married there before the celebration
