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