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Hi All
So having popped the question and receiving the "Yes", we've started talking about wedding ideas.
The one idea that we both seem to agree on is a small and intimate beach wedding (Cape Town).

So, have any of you done this? What is more or less involved with this?
Are there any legalities I need to be aware of?

Are there companies that specialize in something like this? We'd basically like the whole thing to be taken care of by one source that arranges everything, possibly including some sort of catering and overnight accommodation.

We have already got the guest list down to 15 people which includes the 2 of us.


Thanks
MusicalMan
 
A beach wedding in CT will probably involve lots of wind and sand in all orifices...

Gratz by the way :)
 
lol.

15 people? will never work. there will be more and more people added to the list. and you will feel a fool for leaving them out.

pro tip. pick two people that did not make the list you made now. make that the cut off point. when someone suggests to add person X to the list, it has to be a case of why would we invite person X but those people are not on the list?

we called ours the Twins line.
we started off wiht a list of 40 people with the twins not making the list.
wedding ended up being 120 people.


other than that.
avoid wedding planners, they will simply take you for a ride.
avoid flowers, it is one of the biggest expenses of the wedding, and it is gone and dead before you know it.

for a 15 people wedding you should be able to handle it all by yourselves.
 
Lamberts Bay very popular for beach weddings. Went to one there a few years ago (the fact that they were divorced two months later is purely coincidental!).
 
Not sure how strict home affairs is with regards to this:
Only marriage officers authorised in terms of the Marriage Act to perform marriages may do so. In addition to a marriage officer, the marriage must be conducted in the presence of at least two witnesses:

in a church or another building used for religious services;
in a public office or private house, with open doors; or
in the case of serious illness or injuries, in a hospital or any concerned facility.
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http://www.divorcelaws.co.za/formalities-for-marriage-in-south-africa.html.

You don't want to spend all that money on a marriage which gets annulled a few months down the line.
 
Olifantsbos cottages in the Cape Point reserve.

It's beautiful. It has a private beach. It has accommodation for your 13 guests. It has a private bedroom for you and your new wife.
 
13 guests is unlucky ?

Watch the tide, went to a lovely wedding at Coney Glen and all just managed to get off the beach as the waves came higher and higher.
 
Agree with Lamberts baai. Ideal place for everybody to have a great weekend :)
You can pick your wife, but there is no way in hell to pick the weather!!!
 
A forumite here had one but he hasn't posted here in years. Will see if I can get hold of him
 
YingYang said:
Not sure how strict home affairs is with regards to this:


http://www.divorcelaws.co.za/formalities-for-marriage-in-south-africa.html.

You don't want to spend all that money on a marriage which gets annulled a few months down the line.
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You probably don't know this, but the law states that all weddings should take place in a building with four walls and a door that can close.
So what is done with outdoor weddings, is it is done as is, then afterwards the couple are married again (privately) within a building to make it official.
 
Baxteen said:
lol.

15 people? will never work. there will be more and more people added to the list. and you will feel a fool for leaving them out.

pro tip. pick two people that did not make the list you made now. make that the cut off point. when someone suggests to add person X to the list, it has to be a case of why would we invite person X but those people are not on the list?

we called ours the Twins line.
we started off wiht a list of 40 people with the twins not making the list.
wedding ended up being 120 people.


other than that.
avoid wedding planners, they will simply take you for a ride.
avoid flowers, it is one of the biggest expenses of the wedding, and it is gone and dead before you know it.

for a 15 people wedding you should be able to handle it all by yourselves.
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Just because you folded doesn't mean everyone else will.

We had 32 people at our wedding including ourselves and did it all ourselves from an arrangements point of view.

Flowers also need not be expensive. It's the cards and other little *** that costs real money relative to true value.

OP : Work on R1000 a head that should give you a ballpark figure of reasonable cost.

The simplest way to make the list is to ask yourself if you've seen/spoken to a given person in the last six months. If you haven't...they don't make the list.
 
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