MARRIAGE AND WEDDING RECEPTION

Wedding Ceremonies, formal or informal are performed by the Tour operaters such as First Choice, Thomas Cook, Thomsons at the Hotel you are staying. This needs to be pre-booked in advance with them directly. Hotels do not have such service.

Following Article sent by Danielle who got married at the Holiday Village.

Weddings at the holiday village can only be added onto a booking made through first choice, it normally cost around £360 to add the wedding package onto the holiday booking. The wedding package comprises of:
 
Planning and adminstration
Wedding Ceremony
Bouquet and Buttonhole (very Basic and white)
Marriage Certificate
Wedding Cake
Sparking Wine
 
There are then complusary charges that need to be paid for in resort these are
 
£230 (sterling) for a taxi to the Bristish Consulate
£130 per couple in Turkish Lira to have your documents translated into Turkish and stamped.
 
Before travel to Turkey Bride and Groom need to apply at there Local Registry Office for a Certificate on No Impediment (certificate to prove both people are legally ok to be married) this needs to be taken to turkey along with full length birth cerificates (originals) and 5 Passport sized photo per person (good ones as they are attached to your marriage certificate)
First choice ask for these documents to be faxed before travel so they can check them.. (if either person has been married before there are other paperwork that needs to be obtained)
 
On arrival at the holiday village a letter is posted through to your room with a date and time to meet the wedding co-ordinator to discuss the extras that can be purchased go through the details of the wedding day and explain the trip to City of Izmir to the British Consulate .
 
 
IZMIR ITINERARY
04:15 Wake up call from reception
04:45 Meet wedding co-ordinator final check of all paper work, meet taxi driver
05:00 Depart hotel
09:00 arrive in Izmir- British Consulate...Your Legal Documents will be checked and translated here 195 TURKISH LIRA PER PERSON
10:00 Izmir- Mayors Office to have paper work stamped,  (our taxi driver sorted this out, we did not go into the mayors office)
10:30 Depart Izmir
11:30 stop for lunch..this is not provided so please take tukish lira with you ..normally Burger King.
13:30 Arrive in ORTACA to meet Registrar (confirm details of wedding)
14:00 Ariive at Doctors to register with a doctor as no weddings can be held unless registerd with doctor, (we did not leave the taxo the driver went in and sorted this out )
14:30 back to registrar to hand in health report (again did not need to leave taxi)
16:00 back to holiday village xxx
 This is a very long day, people will want to share a taxi to keep costs down, please note this is a normal sized car, it is very cramped with 4 adults. Please do not agree to share with another couple it is not worth it.
 
Witnesses cannot be related to the Bride or groom, it you do not have any witnesses, there are plenty of reps who dress up for the occaison and will do it free of charge.

Hotel offer a Free wedding dress and suit pressing service for bride and groom, its worth it to take the stress of worrying about creased dresses etc.

wedding reception is held in a private restaurant at a charge of £5pp there are various menus to choose from athe the wedding co-orinatore gives them to you so you have plenty of time to choose.

Extras including hair dressers, photography, are all done with the wedding co-ordinator, but i used the hotels hairdresser which was alot cheaper than the one she wanted me to use and it looked perfect £30.00 for bridal hair and £25 for bridesmaid. photo packages start from £300, this includes a disc with over 150 pictures on and an albulm with 20 pictures in.

Please bring a cd with any music you would like to walk down the aisle to, and do a dance to as wedding co-ordinator cannot guarentee that she will have them, we made a cd that lasted 1hour as you have the wedding gazebo for around 1 hour, the cd was played as we had our photos taken, we also put it on in the background while we had our meal.

Thank you Danielle for the Information ..

After the wedding ceremony you may like to have a wedding reception, this where this page may come handy if you are looking for something different for you and your guest who will be sharing your hapiness on your special day.

Wedding Reception Idea

Why not have your after wedding reception-party on a fully decorated double decker Boat ? BBQ, Starters, Afters, Music, Plenty drinks..
Butler service under the moonlight and stars.
We decorate the vehicles.
We will come to pick you all up from your Hotel.
We will take you to Gocek, which is 30 minutes away from your Hotel.
We get to the double decker boat (Boat will be decorated)
Downstairs are the tables and bar and toilets, upstairs ideal for dancing or watching the stars on the sky.
Meal includes BBQ Chicken or Fresh Fish, Salad, Starters, Pasta, Fruit
Complimentary Champagne will be served to Bride and Bridegroom.
Drinks are extra to remaining guests.
After the meal cruise we will dock back on the harbour.
If you wish you can visit a nice bar in Gocek or we take you back
Little bit fire crackers will be also added.
Price starts from £60 per person for this season, depending on the amount of the person and must be booked in advance .

Photos : Apparantly First Choice makes a deal with the Photographers based within the Holiday Village and makes a good cut out of it Find out the exact price before you go over, how many pics and so on. Alternatifly, one of your friends can take plenty pictures for you.

Restaurant : If you wish to book an evening meal in a restaurant in the village of Sarigerme, please contact me to provide the information such as your date, amount of guest and any spesific requirements

Documents necessary to be married in Turkey :

1.Marriage petition (Evlenme Beyannamesi)

2.Certificate of Capacity to Marry (Evlenme Ehliyet Belgesi): either a marriage license from your own country, or a statement from your country's consulate or embassy in Turkey

3.Personal identification (passport, identification card, birth certificate or health certificate)

4.Photographs of the bride and groom (four copies of each) for the official records.

Additional Requirements

Capacity to marry: The minimum age for marriage is 18 years . Only those persons who have sufficient mental capacity to make fair judgments are allowed to marry. Mental illness is a bar to marriage.

Absence of consanguinity: Marriage between close relatives is prohibited.

Already existing marriage: Any previous marriage must have been dissolved before you can marry in Turkey Polygamy and polyandry are illegal.

Waiting period: A divorced woman must wait 300 days following the date of her divorce to marry again. A Turkish divorce decree may also require a waiting period for a divorced man.

Sickness: Certain illnesses, such as epilepsy, constitute a bar to marriage.

You need to do, before you come to Turkey
A birth certificate
A valid passport
Certificate of Capacity to Marry
7 Passport Pictures

You need to take these to Turkish embassy in UK and let translated before you come over to Turkey .

You need to bring the originals alongside with the translations to Turkey, remember to keep a copy in the UK .

If you do not do so , then you will be needing to travel to izmir (4hours) in order to visit British embassy which you will not be happy with.

Once you are in Turkey , you will be visiting the official who performs and registers civil marriages who will give you a paper , with this you will go to hospital for blood test, then you go back to the official who performs civil marriages in order to book the time/date and the place where your marriage take place ..rest is easy I strongly recommend that you take two sets of photocopies of all documents, one to be left at home, and the other to be submitted to your wedding planner.

More information :You can get married anywhere you like in Turkey !As long as you pay the Clerk,on the beach ,peak of the mountain, in your Hotel Room ect. Cost is Low ,if you wish to get married in a Marriage registraton office £150 (all paper work etc. included)

Hairdresser Prices are :

For the Bride Hair and manikure pedikure make-up ect,
starts from 70 pounds and can go up to 250 pounds.
For the guests of bride and bridegroom ;
Make-up 10 pounds ,manikure-pedikure 15 pounds etc.
Above Hairdresser prices are guide price only and hairdressers at the Hote can be exceptionally expensive.

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