Civil Wedding Cost

Civil ceremonies are very popular for overseas weddings, partly because some countries only allow civil ceremonies for non-resident couples, but also because you can hold them in a wider variety of locations.

Some countries do require you have your ceremony in a building with a roof, but others will allow you to marry anywhere you choose, which gives you much more choice of ceremony location. For example, in Australia it is the celebrant holding the ceremony who is licensed, not the venue, so you can get married almost anywhere!

Civil ceremonies are also generally more straight forward than religious ones, without the need to get permission from your religious leader at home beforehand.