When it comes to the top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding there is probably a location somewhere in the world to fulfill every bride's wedding dream. The ones I have chosen here are representative of a wide range of choices, each offering a unique perspective on the classic wedding ceremony. The top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding that I have chosen include:
2. Quebec's Ice Hotel
3. Leipig Dome, New Zealand
4. Tobago's Plantation Beach
5. The Great Wall of China
6. The Intercontinental, Hong Kong
7. Four Seasons Hotel, New York
8. Castle Rushen, Isle of Man
9. Bussaco National Park, Portugal
10. La Preghiera, Umbria, Italy
Shamwari Game Reserve. South Africa
Enjoy a true Africa wedding reception in an enclosure made from reeds, known as a boma. Take a game drive and meet up with the minister who will perform your wedding service at the top of a hill with nothing around you but the sights and sounds of Africa. The happy couple and their wedding guests stay at Longlee Manor on the Shamwari Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Certainly, of all the top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding, this Game Reserve in South Africa comes out top for being totally unique. You can organize this wedding venue from Thomas Cook Signature at a cost of £2,407 per couple for a three-night stay, or UD$3,624.70.
The Ice Hotel in Quebec puts a whole new connotation on a white wedding! This location is only open each year from January to April, making the Ice Hotel a particularly exclusive location and fully fitting to be included as one of the top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding - if you like ice, that is! As its name indicates, this wedding venue is completely sculpted out of the ice. The luxury wedding location this might be, but it is far from an expensive option. Of course, there is going to be the cost of accommodation for your guests plus the cost of a wedding reception and the cost of flights. However the cost to get married at the Ice Hotel is just £750, equivalent to $1,129.41 USD; plus £213, or $320.76 USD to pay for the registrar.
Leipig Dome, New Zealand
We can't quite arrange to marry you on top of Mount Cook, but you can have the very next best thing! The World Heritage site amidst the Southern Alps of New Zealand is where you will find the Leipig Dome, a snowfield of surreal beauty. You are up to 6 guests are transported to this southern winter wonderland by helicopter where you can be married at the top of the southern world. The wedding package includes the cost of the helicopter flight and the registrar to marry you. Included in the price is your wedding night at the Hermitage Hotel: this includes a package of beauty spa, manicures and massage as well as breakfast and dinner. This sumptuous location costs from £3,785 per couple, or $5,700 USD. This is truly fit to be included in the top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5-star wedding.
Tobago's Plantation Beach
The next place in our top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding is the complete opposite, featuring turquoise clear waters warm from the sun, soft sand underfoot and palm trees providing a bit of shade overhead. This is the wedding package arranged at Stonehaven Bay. Your wedding package does not include accommodation in the Plantation Beach Villas that sleeps 6, with its three-bedrooms complete with three bathrooms. This accommodation costs extra: for a week's rental it will cost you £1,235, or $1,859.15 USD. The wedding package includes the ceremony, bridal bouquet, two-tier wedding cake, photographs and champagne, all for the cost of £510, or $767.75 USD.
The Great Wall of China
The Kempinski Hotel Group are offering wedding packages beside the Shiguan section of the Great Wall of China, on top of the roof of the Commune, followed by your reception at the Club House which has room to seat up to 500 guests. You can, however, hold a smaller reception in one of the villas belonging to the Commune. Aside from the cost of travel to Beijing and then internal travel the 50km from Beijing to Shiguan, the accommodation, including breakfast, costs £248 per night per person, the equivalent of $373.53 USD. The wedding package costs £134 per person, or $201.87 USD.
The Intercontinental, Hong Kong
If you have £18,430, the equivalent of $27,756.34 USD, put away to pay for the top-most of top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding then where else could you marry but the Presidential Suite of the Intercontinental Hotel, with its unrivalled views across Victoria Harbor? This is just for the hire of the wedding location; accommodation is extra. You will also be charged an extra 13% tax on top! However, if you can afford the Presidential Suite, you will appreciate why, in the sumptuous opulence of your surroundings, this location has been noted as being the most luxurious in Asia.
The Four Seasons, New York
Enjoy a complimentary suite overlooking Central Park if you opt to exchange your vows at Manhattan's tallest hotel, The Four Seasons, located on East 57th Street, New York. Your nuptial ceremony will be held in the Metropolitan Suite after which you can celebrate with cocktails although the option of a full wedding reception is available as an optional extra. Your wedding package will include a complimentary bottle of Veuve Clicquot, plus those delectable treats, chocolate-covered strawberries: very decadent! Flights and private transfers from the UK will cost you £1,910 per person, or $2,875.25 USD, for two people staying in a deluxe double room for 7 nights. The wedding packages are subject to tax, but would cost around £157 per person, or $236.36 USD.
Castle Rushen, Isle of Man
Hire this lovely location with its impressive limestone walls and luxuriously appointed gardens as the venue for your very special day. For exclusive use of this castle you can expect to pay around £600, equivalent of $903.79 USD. At Castle Rushen there is plenty of room for 130 guests to attend your wedding celebration and celebrate with you in style. This original 13th century castle's grounds will make an ideal place to have some really lovely photographs taken, with its beautiful landscaping and well-kept gardens.
The Isle of Man lies off the north-west coast of the English mainland, in the Irish Sea, consisting of 221 square miles for your guests to explore. You can fly to the Isle of Man from various UK airports or you can travel with your car from the ports of Liverpool or Heysham: catamaran will take you 2 ¾ hours and the conventional car ferry from Liverpool will take around 4 hours.
Mata do Bucao, Bussaco National Park, Portugal
The history associated with Mata do Bucao in Portugal makes this a particularly intriguing of all the top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding. It is difficult to find the most appropriate words to adequately describe this epitome of Portuguese architecture: words just can't do it justice! The décor is authentic and hovers between being opulent and sumptuous as well as portraying a fairy tale ambience mixed in with its gothic past. Perhaps that will begin to describe to you some of the mystery that surrounds this loveliest and most inexplicable of all wedding locations?
Inexplicably lovely and dubiously ethereal this phenomenal location may be, but there is nothing ethereal about the gourmet gastronomy of the delectable cuisine guests could not fail to enjoy at João Vaz, Mata do Bucao's restaurant. The gastronomic treats in store for visitors to this delightful restaurant include a range of carefully prepared dishes from the Portguese regions to classic French gastronomique. Have you been sufficiently tantalized to consider this very unique location as the venue for your wedding celebrations?
La Preghiera, Umbria, Italy
For our final look at top 10 luxury wedding venues to hold a 5 star wedding I have included the luxurious country house that nestles amongst the gently rolling hills of Umbria. Here you can exchange your vows in the on-site private chapel that was originally a Roman temple and arrange for your official photographs to be taken in the lush landscaped gardens surrounding this beautifully appointed house. Each of the bedrooms is beautifully decorated and individually comfortable, providing more than adequate accommodation for up to 22 guests. To hire this fairytale setting in romantic Umbria it will cost you £7,286.28, or $10,990.68USD. This provides you and your wedding party with completely exclusive use of La Preghiera for a long weekend, i.e. 3 nights for the whole party of bride and groom plus up to 22 guests.
