Weddings have started to borrow increasingly more elements from American weddings. Unfortunately, or happily, depends how we consider it, some of our traditions began to lose ground against new elements that appear to have already become a tradition: throwing the bouquet, throwing the garter, the introduction testimonies that are no longer just cakes and drinks.

One of the new ideas about weddings, recently practiced in our country as well, but which has been practiced in other countries for a long time refers to destination weddings.So many couples prefer now to jump over the traditional wedding and go directly to the fun part, so they choose to “run-away from home” to get married.

In the whole world you’ll find hotels and specialized resorts that organize for you an ad-hoc wedding, having in view even the smallest aspect: the civil status officer, the priest, destination wedding invitations (for “lost” relatives), photo services or music. In the case of this kind of weddings, the two lovers (the witnesses are assured by that location) can decide to be alone or together with many guests, like in the case of a normal wedding but in both cases the wedding will be perceived rather like a special holiday.The truth is that, no matter how good it might sound to get married this way, there are some less pleasant aspects that we should consider as well. For example, if you might have dreamed of a wedding with many guests since childhood in the case of which your father would lead you to the altar in the church that you might have went for years, a destination wedding is not right for you.

Even you could plan sooner the wedding, is very hard to bring such a huge number of guests to your wedding. Even when you might have made your destination wedding invitations on your own, it is still possible to encounter a problem: not all your guests might arrive. There are huge costs for such a wedding, because the groom and the bride usually have to cover guests’ transport and accommodation. Couples that generally appeal to destination weddings are nonconformist couples, delighted by the idea of getting rid of traditional and formal wedding rituals, couples who want to greatly simplify this process. Such resorts, who take care of destination weddings, have wedding coordinators, so the single concern of the bride and groom is to say “I do”. For those who choose a simple wedding with few guests, destination weddings involve lower costs than traditional weddings. Even if you don’t actually take care of the wedding, there are some details you should consider, like the legislation of the country in which you might get married.

You must know whether the papers from that country are valid in your country too, what kind of medical tests you must do if you have to do such things, how’s the weather in that time of the year, where the guests will stay, what opinions you have read about the hotel or about the resort in you are going to organize your wedding. Even if you choose to have a destination wedding, you could till consider at least few important wedding traditions as well.