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Six Great Venues In Ireland To Host A Destination Wedding

Oh how enchanting the Emerald Isle is with her verdant fields, majestic oaks, dramatic coastlines, charming pubs, kind people, adorable herds of sheep and stunning manors and castles. Ireland is an idyllic place to host a destination wedding. Imagine taking over a country manor house for a five day celebration vacation with your nearest and dearest and showing them the best that Ireland has to offer. Here are six of our favorite places in Ireland to host destination weddings both large and small.

Five Places In Florence To Host A Rehearsal Or Welcome Dinner

When we plan our destination weddings, we love to curate tailored 3-5 day experiences for our clients and their guests. After all, these gatherings serve as both a celebration of a marriage and as a vacation for those who make the trek to join the happy couple. Our goal for each wedding is to build in a variety of happenings throughout the trip including events like: a welcome dinner, cultural immersions, scenic excursions, late afternoon aperitif meetups, brunches, etc.

Five Beautiful SW Desert Wedding Destinations

There is something magical about desert weddings: the canyons, broad horizon, light and colors make such a magical moonscape background to gather friends and family for an out-of-this-world celebration. If you’re on the hunt for a destination wedding venue in the deserts of the Southwest, here are five fabulous options in the wild west that offer both luxury and epic scenery. Hold on to your Wranglers and take a gander!

French Riviera Wedding Editorial at Chateau Saint Georges

The French Riviera, the shimmering, seaside destination of France, stole our hearts. It offers extraordinary views and culture with outstanding art and exceptional cuisine. When searching for the perfect location for a destination wedding in France, we came across so many beautiful chateaus and luxury resorts but one caught our attention early on: the stunning Chateau Saint Georges in Grasse, a medieval town often considered to be the world's capital of perfume.

Five amazing Tuscan villas to host a wedding

Who doesn’t love the idea of a Tuscan destination wedding? The romantic scenery, food, wine, light, weather and numerous villas make Tuscany a prime spot to host destination weddings from large to small. This corner of Italy is filled with sprawling villas and borgos (country villages) converted into luxurious hotels and wedding venues. If the idea of hosting your entire party of your nearest and dearest for a multiple day wedding celebration at a stunning, exclusive property in a remarkable place tickles your fancy… you’d do well to start your search here.

Luxurious Lake Como Wedding at Villa Balbiano

Lake Como: home to some of the most beautiful lakeside villas in all the world. Our clients Anoush + Sokrat chose Villa Balbiano to host their nuptials. When the Anoush came across the villa on Instagram, she became obsessed. She fell in love with the glamour and prestige. It was the kind of wedding backdrop she had been dreaming of since she was a little girl. Before even reaching out to us for wedding planning, she booked the venue without ever having laid eyes on it.

It’s Italian Carnevale time!

It’s that special time of celebration before the start of Lent. This year’s festival in Venice is virtual, but luckily our dear GATHER girl Cuckie was there for the party last year just before the onset of the COVID-19. This year she’s celebrating on a small scale, with the traditional seasonal foods. If you’re like us and like to create a reason to celebrate as often as possible, join us in making some of these classic Carnevale treats and learn the story behind them.

Intimate Oregon Micro Wedding

Our sweet couple Amber and Colin had plans for a big wedding in Hood River, Oregon in the summer of 2020. As we all well know, this year forced so many in different directions. While the majority of our clients postponed their weddings until 2021 and 2022, we had a few that decided to scale back their guest number to a COVID safe (and legal) limit and embrace the 2020 micro wedding…

Festive Cocktails for the Holidays

We’re in the thick of the holiday season and what better way to make a stay-at-home COVID holiday more festive than by making craft cocktails?! We have a number of industry friends who make a living whipping up epicurean mixed drinks that we’re endlessly seeking recipes for. We’re here to share a curated collection of favorite recipes for ‘cups of good cheer’….

We Made It To Martha

Friends we’re going to speak candidly for this post. We can’t play cool and coy over this news, we’re far too excited: WE MADE MARTHA STEWART’S BEST WEDDING PLANNER + DESIGNER LIST!!!!!!!!!! (yes that’s ten exclamation marks, thank you very much). Being shortlisted by Martha Stewart Weddings was (and is) such a big deal to us and it came at the best time…

Desert Modern Minimalist Wedding

It’s been 3 years since this wedding (as of last week) and we STILL get so much love on the ‘gram for this one, so we decided that we ought to finally share the whole design concept here on the blog. We love desert destination weddings and this beauty out at Colony 29 was no exception. We had some of our LA friendors out with us, including Inessa Nichols Design doing the florals, the Dart Collective keeping the party vibing…

Gay Wedding In Full Venetian Grandeur

How fabulous are these two?! When Izak and Danny first reached out to us to plan their destination wedding in Venice, they originally had a micro wedding with only a handful of people in mind. After announcing their plans to marry in Venice, the small elopement quickly turned into a full scale intimate wedding as no one wanted to miss out on the scenery and celebrations in Italy.

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