The advantages of a Gretna Green wedding or a destination wedding.

Why would you consider a wedding away from your home town?



Below are a number of reasons why running away to Gretna Green or planning a beach wedding might appeal to you rather than having your wedding locally and repeating what your friends and family have done.

1. You want your wedding to be special and different from your friends and families weddings.


2. It can often work out cheaper (how often have you heard someone remark " I wish I had given her £xxxx and told her to get married on a beach)


3. You and your partner may be from different areas of the country and want to find a place where both families can easily travel to.


4. You can slash the guest list to a size of party which suits your budget, which means that the distant cousins who you have never seen or spoken to for years do not have to be invited. By limiting your numbers, then the people who are there are the people you want at your wedding not the people who you have to invite because "so and so" is invited.


5. By limiting your numbers you can also leave the undesirables who you know will get drunk, start a fight or spend all day complaining about things behind which gives great peace of mind to you on you special day.


6. Places like Gretna Green are renowned for weddings and have many wedding specialists who can help you with planning and organising your "big day". You can draw on their expertise and benefit from their local knowledge as to which service providers are reliable, trustworthy and most of all good at what they do.


7. Wedding service providers in places like Gretna Green often provide a better service much cheaper than the "at home" alternatives. For instance there are photographers in Gretna Green who will take your wedding photo's, print them, put them in an album and deliver them to your hotel for you to take home with you the day after the wedding all for less tghan £150


8. Limit the amount of interfering (or helping as they call it) from mothers and mother in laws to be, by simply telling them where the wedding is and that the venue has got everything in hand in accordance with your plans.


9. Weddings at home often fall foul to routine and family tradition (ever heard the words "that's where cousin thingy married whatsname and they had "such and such" which you must have because it was lovely). Forget that this is your wedding and you want it YOUR way!


10. Everyone who is special enough to you to merit an invitation will go away you for a couple of days for the wedding which turns the whole occaision in to an extended party rather than just one day.


11. By going somewhere different your wedding will benefit from the lack of comparison to other weddings which were held locally.


12. Many wedding destinations have much more stunning photographic locations that the local hotel or social club may offer.
13. Venues such as The Mill Forge Gretna Green have the ceremony venue, accommodation and reception facilities in one location which means that you do not have to fork out for expensive wedding cars or worry about how all of your guests will get home after the wedding.
14. You can always return to your wedding venue for anniversaries.
15. You stand a much better chance of good weather with a beach wedding rather than a UK wedding.
16. You can incorporate your wedding and honeymoon together.

I hope this helps to highlight some of the positives in travelling away from home for your wedding, whether you choose Las Vegas (with or without Elvis) a beach wedding, a Gretna Green anvil wedding or simply choose a country house hotel an hour or two away from home.

I have been a guest at a wedding over 3 hours away from home and it was a wonderful experience with the 3 days we were away flying by. It was a marvellous occasion and great to spend time with friends in a place other than the pub or around a dinner table.