Hi everyone,
I recently engaged to my now fiancé and we are trying to figure out if a destination wedding is right for us and how to make it happen. We don't want a large wedding, just something small and intimate with close friends and family. We’re expecting to invite roughly 30 to 40 people.
We want to find a beautiful venue in a country/city outside of the US. We're afraid that with a wedding in our hometown, we will end up inviting a lot of people who are not that important to us, whereas a destination wedding is bound to have a smaller guest list.
We are considering France and Italy, because our first holiday together was a road trip in Europe, and we loved Lake Como, Amalfi Coast, and Provence. We’re trying to keep our budget within $50K and we're happy to do most of the planning ourselves. When we traveled in Europe, a lot of the hotels said that weddings are quite popular in their areas, and that they often get couples from abroad celebrating their weddings there.
How and where do I get started? Does anyone have recommendations for finding venues and vendors in Europe?