If you want to hold a wedding in Turkey, you’ll be blessed with beautiful landscapes, stunning resorts and some of the most suitable luxury hotels in Europe. Learn more about choosing a location and a hotel, and where to go afterwards on your honeymoon.

If you want to tie the knot abroad, there are few better choices than holding your wedding in Turkey. Close enough to the UK to be easily accessible for your guests, but culturally different enough to provide an exotic twist to your special occasion, Turkey is an ideal venue for an unforgettable wedding day, and the abundant sunshine in spring and summer mean you don’t have to worry about rain clouds spoiling your wedding day!

Choosing the Location

With its golden coastline, picture perfect resorts and many luxury hotels, the Aegean Coast is the natural choice of location for a wedding in Turkey – the only challenge comes in narrowing down the range of outstanding locations on the coast to just one!

For natural beauty, there is one place that stands out from the rest – Olu Deniz. The unspoilt lagoon beach is regarded as being the most beautiful in the country, providing the perfect backdrop for a wedding, and there are a number of hotels that can hold a wedding right on the edge of the lagoon.

If you’re prefer to combine beautiful landscape with the sophistication of a luxury resort, Fethiye is an excellent choice. The handsome marina is the highlight of this resort, and can act as a departure point for a gullet cruise before or after your wedding.

Olu Deniz and Fethiye are two of the finest choices for a wedding in Turkey, but you should also consider Kyrenia. The charming, traditionally designed resort is another popular choice for weddings, due to its tranquil atmosphere and stunning surroundings.

Selecting the Hotel

Just like with the resorts, you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing a hotel for a wedding in Turkey. They range from grand five to star resort hotels to more intimate, secluded coastal hideaways – you just have to choose the one that best suits your needs. Some hotels that are especially suited for a wedding in Turkey include the Bellapais Monastery Village in Kyrenia, the Eco Saray Hotel in Fethiye, and the Hotel Meri in Olu Deniz.

Managing the Red Tape

The peril of any wedding abroad is the red tape and legislation. Every wedding involves a great deal of form filling and regulations that must be complied with, and this workload is usually doubled if you want to get married in another country! Turkey presents far fewer difficulties than many countries, but if you want to hold your wedding in Turkey, it is best to use a specialist holiday provider – they can advise you on exactly what needs to be done, and will be able to handle the vast majority (if not all) of the necessary paperwork for you.

And After?

If you’ve held your wedding in Turkey, it seems natural to take your honeymoon at a nearby destination. Perhaps the best option is to take a honeymoon in Cyprus – famous as the birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and located just a short flight away from Turkey, this impossibly romantic island is the ideal honeymoon destination.