The truth is that all the staff at Porto Weddings are incredibly lucky to work in the business of making our clients dreams come true, but when we get new wedding planners coming to work for us, often the first thing we have to do is give them a cold bath in the reality of…

Planning a destination wedding can appear first sight to be a hell of a lot more complex than having a wedding back home, where everything will be so much more familiar in terms of typical prices and how things are generally organized. As a result, packages are a very popular way to approach planning a…

Whilst a lot of our clients have fallen in love with northern Portugal and have their hearts set on getting married here, we know that many prospective clients know that they would like to get married somewhere warm and romantic in southern Europe but are not quite sure where. On this site you can regularly…

Once you have s/he finally popped the question and you said ‘yes’, no doubt you can’t wait to get married, but these days you hear stories about having to book the best wedding venues years in advance to guarantee availability. So, in this post we will give you some idea of how things tend to…

The Palácio do Freixo is a Porto wedding venue that ticks so many boxes for what so many clients are looking for in a wedding venue: So you can see that there are lots of reasons to chose the Palácio do Freixo for your wedding venue in Porto and when we have clients who are…

If you have decided to go big on your wedding in Portugal and you are looking for opulence, history, grandeur and all the other bells and whistles, then perhaps Vidago Palace is for you. For some venues, the description ‘Palace’ might seem a little over the top, but you find that in this case the…

You have decided to have your dream wedding in Porto – first of all congratulations on your fantastic decision, but now comes the difficult bit. There are now 101 decisions that you will have to make: venue, guest numbers, accommodation, menus, music, decoration, hair and makeup, ceremony, flowers etc etc. It may feel like it…

You are only going to get married once (at least that is always the plan!!), so of course you want to get it right. Getting married in Portugal or any other foreign country makes planning a wedding even more difficult than it would be to get married in your home country, so the vast majority…

Traditionally the wedding season in Porto is from May to September, when the weather is most reliable, but here are a few considerations to ponder when you choose your wedding date. If you are going to get married in July or August, then the heat can become too much of a good thing, particularly if…

We have to admit that as wedding planners based in Porto, we may not be completely unbiased when we say that Porto is one of the most wonderful locations in Europe to hold a destination wedding, but if we don’t stand up for Porto, then who will? So here are 5 great reasons that you…

As a destination wedding planner in Porto, our job is often about a lot more than planning the wedding itself – often guests will be coming from far and wide to a country that they are not at all familiar with and often with a few days available to spend some time to enjoy the…

Here at Porto Weddings, we specialize in weddings for non-Portuguese clients, which really means we offer a completely different range of services to other wedding planners in Portugal. Here we are going to talk about the range of services we offer as a destination wedding planner, which means planning a wedding for clients who may…