Weddings have been held in your own home, church, in a local garden, or in some place close to the home of the groom or bride's family in tradition. But as Americans become more mobile, living thousands of miles from their families in some cases and marrying people from the other side of the country in others, it's grown more and more inconvenient to schedule the right place to have your wedding. His home, or hers? How do families get here, who’s been living in fifteen different cities? What is fair?

When you are planning for your wedding, destination wedding should certainly be one of your choices. There is no doubt that planning for a destination wedding should be a bit different from planning for a formal wedding. If you are planning for a destination wedding now, the following ideas will be useful for you.

Destination weddings have become ever more well-known for various reasons over the past several years. Not only can you celebrate your wedding with family and close friends, but you can party for a few days with them, and spend your honeymoon in the same romantic place.

For most people, destination weddings could be the first time they've heard the word but it may have become well-known among those who have instant wedding plans. A destination wedding is one that takes place in a picturesque and usually well-known tourist spot where both the ceremony and reception may be held. Well-known locations include the beach, a medieval castle or an isolated villa. The bride and groom will normally stay behind after the wedding and straight into their honeymoon while their guests head back home after the party.

Destination weddings would look as if just right for any couple but they're not exactly simple to organize, especially when the whole entourage needs to travel far. However, this need not be a major concern these days as there are many online travel agencies that are actually masters in handling these events. If you are considering something like this for your own wedding, you can simply find an agency that can take care of all the arrangements to make things convenient both for you and your guests. From your flight to your accommodations, everything will be taken care of. Then you can just focus on the information of the wedding.

Some of the more popular places for destination weddings include the cities of Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan in Italy. The tropical island of Hawaii is also another favorite, along with the Bahamas, the Napa Valley vineyard in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe.

If you've chosen a location outside the country, be ready for a lot of preparations. Remember, you need all your guests to have their passports, along with other tourist paperwork as required by that particular country where you'll be having your wedding. While you may not have a problem with guests who already have their documents ready, you may have to keep postponing your schedules because of uncooperative ones.

Other things you'll have to look into are the religious practices of the locals as well as the ordinances or regulations that need to be followed when having a wedding in that certain jurisdiction. Moreover, you have the little but important concerns to look into such as the weather, especially if you're traveling out of town. You should get a forecast so you would know when rain should be expected if the occasion will be celebrated in the open. You don't want to travel miles to that destination, only to have all preparations ruined by a single overlooked detail.