MEDITERREANEAN WEDDINGS

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We can organise all the marriage papers and administration  between UK and Mallorca religious and secular authorities. We can help arrange the wedding with an English-speaking priest, and discuss with you things like preferred readings, hymns, music etc as required. We can organise both Anglican / Church of England weddings and Roman Catholic marriage ceremonies.

We can advise on any legal requirements and papers. Because we have a base on the island as well as in UK, we are able to keep up to date with changing legislation etc.

As we are not licensed for travel, you will need to arrange your own flights, but we can find and suggest suitable flights at the best prices for you so all you have to do is ring up and book.

We can also arrange as required:

  For those who wish it, up to three days' location visit in Mallorca to meet and discuss finer points and arrangements, and a tour around  the east of our beautiful island showing you the best  for your taste and budget.

          1. insurance for wedding.
          2. meeting at the airport and transport for client and guests to their place of stay.
          3. flowers for church, guests and bride.
          4. wedding rehearsal.
          5. transport from hotel to Church to yccaldor.
          6. transport from Church to wedding reception.
          7. organ etc as required for ceremony.
          8. transport back to airport .
          9. photography / video by established photographer in mallorca since 1998.
         10. pre-wedding hair and make-up.
         11. wedding cake, whether traditional Mallorquin or English style.
         12. entertainment, including legal requirements regarding fire works.
         13. overseeing catering arrangements / outside catering where applicable.
         14. optional service of hotel finding / recommendation and bookings.
         15. a comprehensive  bridal party if required)

Important. Due to  legislation from Central Government in Madrid, foreigners may not marry by civil law in Mallorca (or in Spain  fact) unless they are resident for at least two years one day . This, as far as we have been told, will be corrected, but for the time being, unless you live and work in Mallorca, you cannot be married by civil law in Majorca.

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Things that can go Wrong -  Important points and problems to consider

Getting married abroad is a complicated and fairly costly effort. Anyone with less than £8,000 to spend should not consider this option unless it is to be a quiet wedding without many guests. It is not cost-effective to try to cut corners by doing bits yourself.  We have many years experience in troubleshooting, and having to liaise with several different services will create unnecessary expense for our clients. Some hotels will want to claim that they do all the wedding arrangements themselves. Be wary, there have been many mistakes made (see below).

Included in our fee is a personally guided tour and consultation in east Mallorca of 1-2 days as needed… we do not charge extra for our travel and accommodation. We accompany clients where nessasary.

Fireworks
Many clients have asked for the Mallorca custom of a firework display during the reception. Please be aware that the fire regulations in Mallorca are strict due to the many flash fires which occur in the summertime.

     A No display may be longer than 12 minutes
     B Accredited pyro-technicians should be used
     C Fire precautions must be in place.
     D The cost of this entertainment is often very high, as much as 1000 Euros…

Hotel Chapels
Some of the old manor houses have been turned into rural hotels. Many have a house chapel, very beautiful, which is often offered to clients as a suitable venue for their wedding. Please be advised: the Diocese of Mallorca only allows weddings to be celebrated in the parish churches and the hermitages, NOT the house chapels - these are not valid for public weddings.

We have also come across hotels which offer a Roman Catholic wedding ceremony by an Anglican Priest! As they do not have Anglicans in Mallorca, they see Anglican (ie English Catholic) as being the same as Roman Catholic!
In both cases these weddings are not valid in the eyes of the Church.

At the moment of writing, the Spanish Government has stopped all CIVIL WEDDINGS of non-resident foreigners in Mallorca. We hope this will be changed back again soon, but for the foreseeable future, you must be resident for at least three months before you can apply for a civil wedding on the island. This does not apply to Roman Catholic church weddings.

Weddings from Hell!

A dip into our archives of cautionary tales (not ours we hasten to add - except where the couple came to us to put things right!)
Jane and Derek wanted a splendid wedding with as many trimmings as possible, for as little as possible. They decided to choose their own hotel & flight arrangements, so that their budget would not be too high to incur extra fees to their agent. Their chosen hotel promised they could arrange everything in one price, including flowers, catering, accomodation, transport, entertainment, in fact, very little was left for the agent to do! The agent's fees were fixed regardless of the amount of work done. They got their extra commission from the services booked, not from the clients! So did the hotel of course, so by letting the hotel provide the service, John and Derek were paying twice over for the same service. Only on the big day, the food was not up to standard, the music during the reception was akin to a 5th year student, and the transport was late, making the party late for the Church, which meant that they could not have the full Mass, and had to make do with a simple marriage service, as there was another service half an hour later!

Then there was Mike and Susan. Their big day was ruined by overbooking at their chosen hotel, and they all had to go to another hotel after the reception. The 'jones' family had their party and barbecue ruined by the local fire-fighters bombing them all with water bombs. Similarly, another wedding reception ended abruptly during the firework display, when orange fire-retardant foam was squirted on the display from planes! The hotel in each case had not advised the services (it is necessary to get permission in Mallorca) and when the smoke was seen, out came the fire planes!
But at least the couple were married. Unlike the couple who came to the agency in some distress. They had their wedding in the lovely little house chapel of the hotel, and when no papers came through made an enquiry. They were not validly married!

Many of these old rural hotels were manor houses, and being a Catholic country, they had their own chapels for the use of the extended families and their retainers and land workers. The diocese does not recognise these chapels now as valid places for public services to be held. Local priests know this, but sometimes couples take their own priests with them, who, assured by the hotel, perform the marriage/baptism without proper attention to diocesan detail.

Last year during an inspection of hotels, this agency came across three such places. But the most alarming was the sheer lack of knowledge by hotel staff. One hotel offered a priest for the ceremonies. When we enquired where the priest came from, they, in complete innocence, gave us the email address of an English priest at anglicanpriests.org Be warned. An anglican priest may not marry a Roman Catholic in a valid ceremony! As Mallorca is a Roman Cathiolic country, they do not differentiate between English Catholic and Roman Catholic, because in Spain, Spanish Catholics ARE Roman Catholics!

Finally STRESS
The main reason clients come to agencies is to remove the immense stress involved in organising a wedding. Pre-wedding nerves and disagreements cause many break-ups and serious arguments which can be prevented by using a reputable agent.

And final cautionary tale involves a couple who could not let go the reins and let the agent do their job! Not satisfied with the commitment of the agent to involve them at every stage, they still wished to do things themselves and instruct the agents to act on their decisions, expecting them to sort things out each time they made a mistake. Bride fought with groom, groom disagreed with bride, both took their anger out on the agent. Their stress levels were very high, and they ended up cancelling their wedding! Fortunately the story has a happy ending, the couple had learned their lesson, and replanned their wedding - this time using the agent to the full.

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