The 3 Easiest Steps to Plan Your Elopement
Plan your perfect elopement in Spain and Italy
Maybe you have some travel experience, that’s why getting married abroad seems so perfect in the first place. But where do you start? How do I fly with my dress? If we elope, can I still bring our family? Does any one officiate the ceremony? Is it a legal marriage? Can I have the moments I want when I am planning 3,000 miles away?
The thought is there. To get married in the most romantic places on earth: in the Spanish field, or desert; on a boat in Lake Guardia; on the White Costa del Sol beaches of the Mediterranean. But how? There are so many questions.
What’s the secret
to making it perfect?
Make it stress free.
You can be a go with the flow traveler and want your elopement to be perfect. But follow these steps to make your trip and your elopement dreamy, stress free and full of moments.
Step 1: Honestly reflect on a few key questions.
Step 2: Hire a Travel Elopement Coordinator.
What’s a Travel Elopement Coordinator?
One part travel organizer, one part local expert and one part elopement concierge; the intersection of all your trip and elopement details. This person should help you in all aspects of your travel AND elopement. They should have intimate cultural knowledge about where you’re traveling and getting married to navigate communication and cultural differences. They will help you find the information you need so that when you arrive from across the ocean, you aren’t stepping into the unknown. You’re booking places and paying deposits to trustworthy businesses.
You arrive already knowing how you’re getting to your accommodations; they are expecting you. You have dinner reservations ‘where the locals go’ and don’t have to worry about how to find something to do tomorrow. You can have it booked or you can wonder - depends how you feel.
You don’t have to worry making decisions based on reviews, only to arrive realizing you needed reservations. You’re prepared but not overbooked. You know the areas of town that are best to wonder, but you also have the perfect brunch spot booked tomorrow morning because you head out for your wedding ceremony.
These are the details that a TEC can help you find and organize. Don’t leave these details to chance.
Step 3: Narrow down to a few locations and a time frame.
Chat with your TEC; they should know the area, the costs and how to achieve the elopement - and trip, you’re looking for.
Want a secluded beachside elopement in Spain? Cool! But a town in Costa Blanca is perfect, but avoid August (jam packed beaches and sky high hotels) and don’t go too far into fall (too much wind). Want a fall Tuscany elopement? Also cool! But don’t get too far into October has more random rainy, gusty storms.
Working with your Travel Elopement Coordinator will help you find the right place, and time of year that fits your dream elopement.
If you’ve been thinking about eloping in Spain or Italy, surprise! That’s what Roam Untold does. Schedule a a stress free conversation and we’ll see if we’re a good fit.