Here at Porto Weddings, we only run destination weddings, so pretty much all of our guests and couples are coming from abroad. As a result, in the vast majority of weddings that we plan, we will also include activities that extend beyond the wedding itself – typically this will include organising accommodation for guests, a…
Here at Porto Weddings, it is a bit difficult for us to give an unbiased opinion, because Porto and Northern Portugal has no greater advocates than us as a destination wedding venue, but here we are going to look at some of the pros and cons of Porto vs Lisbon for those of you trying…
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…