Portugal is a country with a rich history, great cuisine (with an abundance of both seafood and meat), fine wines from local wineries, as well as a mild climate and entertainment (where everyone will find something to enjoy).
In Portugal you can find beautiful beaches for both regular sun worshippers and fans of active water sports such as diving, wind and kite surfing, and regular surf.
For those looking for history, in this country will discover many sights and historical monuments, beautiful streets and open-air museums — Portugal is rich in beautiful medieval castles, cintas, manor houses and abandoned parks.
How much does it cost to get married in Portugal?
Given our many years of experience, we can say that for a wedding with guests should be calculated from 15 000 eur. This is the minimum budget to make a beautiful wedding in a beautiful place.
The cost will increase in proportion to the number of people. You can find the cost of our services in the prices section.
Weddings in Portugal, as well as just tourism, have not yet become a mass destination popular with Russian citizens. One of the main reasons is the distance. A flight to the capital Lisbon will take from 5.5 to 6 hours, plus Lisbon is the only city to which you can fly without interchanges. This state is chosen by those who have already been to Spain-France-Italy and want to discover a new European beauty. You will not meet here crowds of Russian tourists (which is inherent in countries popular among Russians), unless these crowds of Russians are not guests who came to you on holiday.
The cultural symbol of this country is fado. It is hard to imagine Portugal without this song. Your guests will be delighted with the local color, beautiful nature and hospitable Portuguese. Unfortunately, they do not understand and speak English and other languages very well, but they will try to help you answer your question with all their kindness in sign language.
A wedding banquet — whether it is organized on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, in an ancient castle, in a park on a hill with an extraordinary view of the beauty or in any other place — will be a great alternative to a wedding in your country. An important difference between Portugal and other places abroad is not high prices.
In Portugal you can sign officially, as it is included in the list of countries with which different countries has signed an agreement. This means that registering anywhere in the country, you need to be sure that your wedding will be recognized as official under the laws of your countries after the legalization of the marriage certificate.
The cost of organizing an official ceremony in Portugal from 4500 euros. This price includes:
-translation and legalization of documents
-taxes and duties
-certified translator
-support of the process of preparation and submission of documents to the Portuguese Registry Office
-legalization in the consular section of the Embassy
In Portugal you can invite a registry clerk anywhere in the country to perform an official wedding ceremony. But it will be a bit more expensive than if you first sign in the Municipality of the city, and then hold a symbolic wedding in Portugal just before the wedding dinner.
Here a lot also depends on the venue where you want to hold the wedding ceremony. The administration of some historically significant places, on principle does not allow to hold official wedding ceremonies on their territory, but will allow you to make a symbolic wedding at their place or organize a wedding photo shoot.
In Portugal wedding season lasts from April to November. Spring and fall are a great choice for weddings if you want to avoid the crowds of tourists on the beaches, as well as a nice price offer.
There are many nuances when preparing a holiday. Starting from long responses from local Portuguese decorators and venues (really long — 1-2 weeks) to letters and calls, ending with the terms of renting castles and luxurious gardens — where you can have dinner only inside the castle, but all the sound is possible only outside and moreover with a time limit up to 21 hours. Selling you the venue many organizers may be silent (or simply do not know) about such «insignificant» details. This means that a traditional Russian wedding with dancing until morning may simply not take place. Although your guests are likely to expect just the wedding fun, not an early wedding dinner just in a beautiful place.
Budget for the banquet should be calculated on the basis of 80-100 u.u. per person. For this cost you can afford a holiday in a luxurious restaurant on the beach with a stunning view of the ocean, an old secluded estate with a beautiful garden for the ceremony, a medieval castle with frescoes on the ceiling and a fabulous park with a picturesque pond. These and many other locations await your decision.
Choosing a wedding planner to organize a wedding in Portugal, you choose not just a travel agency for a vacation, but first of all a person who can tell you what color and style of dress is more suitable for your wedding dance, will control all arrangements with contractors while you will enjoy your vacation in this country. You should choose such a wedding organizer — with whom you can meet as many times as you need her to reassure you, advise something, and not only when the organizer from you need money to pay for this or that service. The undeniable advantage of organizing a wedding with us is that while meeting and discussing all the details, in Portugal our employee will be able to go and see what is necessary or find something.
