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Keep every tradition, wherever the family gathers

Cultural celebrations abroad

Bring every relative abroad for the milestone your family keeps. Your community leads the rites, and we arrange everything around them.

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Reserve for A$200

It comes off your final price, and is refunded in full if you don't go ahead.

Plan with a team that asks about your traditions first

  • 120,000+ celebrations planned: weddings and family celebrations around the world.
  • 17+ years of experience: long enough to know which questions to put to a venue.
  • IATA TIDS registered: Wedded Wonderland is registered with IATA under TIDS code 96191491, and every booking is confirmed in writing.
  • Each answer in writing: what the venue allows for the ceremony, the food and the timings, set out before you commit.
  • One team for the family: our team stays with the plan until everyone is home.
  • 70+ countries: family celebrations and journeys arranged in more than 70 countries.
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Celebrate the milestone your tradition asks for

Tell us which milestone you are marking. Your officiant or community sets what it needs, and we find the place and arrange the days around it.

  • Sangeets and mehndis

    The nights of music, dancing and henna before a South Asian wedding, with both families together.

  • Quinceañeras

    A Mass or blessing if your family wants one, then the waltz, the dinner and the party with both sides of the family.

  • Bar and bat mitzvahs

    The service with your own rabbi, then the kiddush and a party, with travel timed around Shabbat if your family keeps it.

  • Christenings and baptisms

    A church that will welcome a visiting family, the godparents flown in, and lunch for everyone afterwards.

  • Naming days

    A naming ceremony led by whoever your family chooses, with the grandparents there to meet the baby.

  • Debuts

    An 18th with the formal dances, the speeches and the family, at a venue with room for all of it.

  • Sweet 16s

    A birthday trip with her closest friends and the family, somewhere she has always wanted to go.

  • A journey after the ceremony

    The ceremony at home with your own community, then the family travels together.

Ask about your tradition

Name the requirements before the place

We do not assume we know your tradition. We ask the questions that decide everything early, and confirm each answer with your own officiant or community, never with a venue's sales team.

  • Who is officiating, and will they travel: if they travel, their requirements come with them. If not, someone acceptable to your family has to be in the destination, which is a question for your community.
  • What the catering standard requires: kosher, halal, vegetarian or Jain catering each has levels, certification and supervision, and "we can do halal" may mean something different to a venue than to your family.
  • Whether the ceremony needs a permitted space: some ceremonies need a consecrated or designated place, a set orientation or a room without a bar licence. Your officiant tells us, and we plan around it.
  • What the calendar says: a Hebrew or lunar date, an auspicious day, a fasting period or the hours of Shabbat can set the whole plan, and venues often understand it least.
  • Who is travelling, and why: some relatives will want food that meets their standard, a place to pray, or a community nearby on the days either side.
  • Dress, modesty or separation: if your tradition asks for any of these, they change the space we look for.
Tell us your requirements

Settle the food standard first

The food often decides the destination before the venue does. A large hotel with no local community of your faith may have no route to certified catering.

Where that happens, we bring in a supervised caterer, work with a community in the nearest city, or suggest another destination. Each takes months to arrange, so we agree your standard before we look at a single venue, including separate equipment, supervision and whether outside food may come in.

Ask about the catering

Choose a venue that will host the ceremony

Many venues say no, usually for contract reasons such as licensing, insurance or another event that day. Before we suggest a venue, we confirm in writing:

  • The ceremony and the officiant: whether a religious ceremony is allowed on the premises, where, and whether your own officiant may lead it.
  • Outside catering: whether a supervised or certified caterer may come in, and on what terms.
  • The set-up: whether the space can be arranged as your tradition asks, including separation.
  • Candles, incense and music: what the venue allows for open flame, incense and amplified music.
  • The timings: start and finish times that sit with prayer times or Shabbat, and whether another event runs in the building that day.
  • A quiet room: somewhere to pray, free across the whole day.
Ask which venues allow it

Know what a cultural celebration package includes

Your officiant and your community bring the rites. Everything around them is arranged before the family lands.

  • A space set for the ceremony: a hall, a terrace or a garden set up the way your officiant asks, with a quiet room nearby.
  • The meal and the celebration: the lunch or dinner after the ceremony and a party for family and friends, with the menu, the music and the speeches arranged.
  • Rooms for the whole family: grandparents and cousins on site or a short walk away, in rooms that suit each household.
  • Travel timed to the calendar: arrivals and departures planned around Shabbat, prayer times or a fast, for families who keep them.
  • Food for the whole stay: meals that meet your standard on the days either side, not only at the celebration.
  • Not included: the officiant's fee and the rites themselves, which your own community leads, and flights unless you ask us to book them.
Ask about your celebration

Look after the relatives who fly in

Your relatives fly in because they belong there, and some are older and rarely travel. We look after them from the day they book.

  • Somewhere to pray: a quiet room at the property, free at the times your family prays.
  • A community nearby: for some families, a synagogue, mosque, temple or church within reach decides where the celebration can happen.
  • Rooms for every household: suites for the grandparents and connecting rooms for young families, all a short walk from the celebration.
  • Help for older relatives: flights with fewer changes and help at the airport. They call our team with questions, not you.

Each household confirms its own room with us directly. We check passports and visas where they apply and book the transfers.

Ask how relatives book

Plan the parts the family will remember

Two parts of the trip that are easy to plan too late.

  • A part of the trip that is theirs

    At a bar or bat mitzvah, a quinceañera or a debut, the young person gets a day with friends and a rehearsal in the real space, at the hour it happens.

  • The trip as the grandparents' gift

    Grandparents often want to give the trip, or part of it. We plan it with them in confidence, so the gift is ready when the family is told.

Ask about your celebration

Read how families keep their traditions

Stories from our magazine of families who kept their culture at the centre.

  • A Jewish wedding on Lake Como

    Brooke and Jerett took their Jewish wedding traditions to an Italian lake.

  • A Nigerian-Jewish wedding

    Chelsea and Jeremy's two families, and two cultures, at Black Berry Ridge.

  • Iriana's christening

    A pink, modern christening, styled for the children and the adults alike.

  • India's most cinematic sangeets

    How choreographers turn the family dance night before an Indian wedding into a show.

Set the date with your officiant, then plan the rest

  • 18 months out or more: fix the date with your officiant or community. A Hebrew, lunar or auspicious date moves on the ordinary calendar, so it comes first.
  • 12 months out: settle the catering standard, then choose the villa, hotel or journey, and send the date to every household.
  • 9 months out: confirm what the venue allows for the ceremony, the officiant, the food and the timings.
  • 6 months out: check every passport. Non-EU visitors to Italy register at the border under the EU Entry/Exit System, and families travelling on to Morocco should read GOV.UK's Morocco travel advice.
  • 3 months out: settle the menus, the music and the seating, and book the rehearsal. For a safari after the ceremony, check the CDC's advice for Kenya.
  • 1 month out: confirm arrivals against prayer times or Shabbat, dietary needs and who sits where. In the last week, every household gets the ceremony time and the plan.
Ask about your date

Gather the whole family's RSVPs in Wonderland Studio

Tools for a celebration where three generations and several countries need to reply.

  • Guest list across households

    Add each family, see who is travelling and who is not.

  • RSVPs and dietary needs

    Collect replies and the food standard each guest keeps before the caterer is booked.

  • Seating for the celebration

    Plan the tables so the elders sit where they can see.

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Book a photographer in Wedded Marketplace

Browse the venues and the people who will capture the day.

  • Venues

    Villas and hotels with space for the ceremony and the meal after.

  • Photographers

    Someone to capture the ceremony and the family around it.

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Keep the whole family together

The next occasions that bring every household back, planned by the same team.

  • Family gatherings

    Three generations under one roof for a week.

  • Milestone birthdays

    A grandparent's 80th, with the grandchildren flying in.

  • Engagement parties

    Two families meeting properly, somewhere worth flying to.

See every celebration

See how planning with us works

1. Your advisor writes or calls, the way you asked: the first reply asks about your tradition, the date your community has set, how many are coming and from where. 2. A first call: your requirements first, then the size of the celebration. 3. Two or three options in writing: villas, hotels or journeys, each with what the venue allows for the ceremony, the food and the timings, the rooms and what is not included. 4. We hold the date: once you choose, we secure the venue and confirm the rooms for each household. 5. The day itself: the space is set the way your officiant asked, the meal is ready when the ceremony ends, and your advisor is a message away all weekend.

Send your enquiry

Questions families ask before a celebration abroad

Can we hold a religious ceremony at a hotel abroad?+
Yes, at venues that allow it, and many do not, usually for contractual reasons such as licensing, insurance or another event that day. We confirm in writing what each venue permits before we suggest it, including whether an outside officiant may lead. Some families hold the ceremony at home with their own community and travel together after.
Can you arrange certified kosher or halal catering abroad?+
Often, and the route depends on the destination. Where a local supervised caterer exists we use it; where none does, one can be brought in, or we suggest another destination. We establish the exact standard your family keeps first, then confirm what is possible before any destination is committed to.
Do you advise on what our tradition requires?+
No. We ask, we record your answers and we confirm them with your officiant or community. Then we hold every venue and supplier to them. Where anything is unclear, we put the question to your officiant rather than to a venue's sales team, because we plan around your requirements rather than interpreting them.
Our officiant cannot travel. What then?+
Then someone acceptable to your family needs to be in the destination, which is a question for your community rather than for a venue. Where the answer is no, it usually changes the destination rather than the plan, or the ceremony stays at home and the family travels after.
Can a bar mitzvah be held away from our synagogue?+
It can, and it is a question for your rabbi first. Some families bring their own rabbi to lead the service where they celebrate. Others hold the service at home with their congregation and travel together afterwards. We plan the setting, the kiddush, the party and the rooms around whichever your rabbi agrees to, with a rehearsal in the real space.
How do you plan travel around Shabbat?+
We time arrivals and departures so nobody travels during Shabbat, for families who keep it. Transfers, check-in and the celebration are planned around those hours, and we do the same for prayer times or a fast. Tell us the standard your family keeps, and we check each household's flights against it before anything is booked.
When should we fix the date if it follows a Hebrew or lunar calendar?+
First, and at least 18 months ahead, with your officiant or community. A Hebrew, lunar or auspicious date moves on the ordinary calendar, so it can land in a busy season or on a day a venue is already taken. Once the date is set, we look for the place, and the catering standard is settled about 12 months out.
Is there somewhere to pray at the venue?+
Yes, we ask for one before we suggest any venue. We confirm in writing a quiet room that stays free across the whole day, at the times your family prays. For some families a synagogue, mosque, temple or church within reach matters as much as the room, and that can decide where the celebration happens.

Tell us about the milestone

Tell us the tradition, the date your officiant or community has set, and who is coming from where.

Send your enquiry

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