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Contributing to Family Costs for Wedding Abroad

  • 16-12-2009 12:00PM
    #1
    angelfocus20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi all,

    My Fiance and I have decided to get married. We're hoping to have a civil marriage here and then go to Lanza with all our family and close friends for a blessing. We've fallen in love with Lanza over the last few years so that's why we decided on there.

    My question to you all is, we have spoken about it and we want to pay for our parents flights and accommodation as well as for our bridesmaid and bestman plus partners, I was thinking of renting a few villas, that way some of the family members who are a little less well off will only have to pay for their flights.

    I'm looking for peoples views on the best way to do that, obviously each couple is not going to have it's own villa, how could I facilitate everyone.


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  • #2
    barbiegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭barbiegirl


    Set up a web site. Talk to who you wish to pay for personally, give the options, let people get back to you as to if they wish to stay in a villa or organise their own accomodation. Give a cut off date for reserving and a cut off date for payment, have everyone who is paying lodge money directly to your account. Have the date set for each of these two weeks before you need to confirm or pay your accomodation supplier.
    Wedding websites are pretty easy to set up and free, a great way for centraling information.
    Don't let those who are paying know who you've paid for, to protect the dignity of those you've decided to help and to stop any resentment on behalf of the others.
    We did something similar for our guests and it worked really well.
    Bets of luck having a wedding abroad was the best decision we ever made.


  • #3
    angelfocus20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭angelfocus20


    Thanks barbiegirl, we're not really dealing with time limits at the moment as we haven't set a specific date, just May 2011.

    We haven't told anyone yet, I'm asking the girl I want to be my bridesmaid on Saturday so fingers crossed she'll accept.

    I think the going abroad idea is the best too, I've been to 2 traditional Irish weddings this year and all I kept thinking to myself was "I don't want this for my wedding"


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