A standard wedding package at the Icehotel in Sweden includes return taxi transfers to the Registrar in Kiruna to legalise paperwork; hire of the Ice Chapel; services of a priest and translator and a Marriage certificate.
Prices: £1380 approx.
A 3-night holiday to the Icehotel® including flights, accommodation on a breakfast basis, airport transfers and taxes costs from £970 per person.
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| No matter how you choose to celebrate, your wedding should be one of the most perfect and memorable days of your life. With so many options available, finding a magical venue that suits your requirements is perhaps the key to achieving this. The stunning beauty and wilderness of Lapland is just such a location. |
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| Tranquil forests, pristine, snowcovered fells, frozen lakes and glistening ice all contribute to creating one of the most romantic settings imaginable. From a quaint timbered chapel set amidst idyllic Finnish fells to the mesmerising beauty of the Ice Chapel at the ICEHOTEL in Swedish Lapland, each has its own unique appeal.
To complete your wedding celebrations spend the wedding night in a magical Design Suite at the ICEHOTEL or a genuine turf cabin with a crackling open fire. During the winter months Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland provides an ideal location for a romantic wedding. The rural setting offers several intimate locations to tie the knot and the bride can arrive by husky sledge, reindeer sleigh or snowmobile!
Lainio Snow Village is tucked away amongst some of Finnish Lapland’s most picturesque scenery. The traditional tiny log chapel, the beautiful Saint Johannes, has its own open fire and offers a picture-perfect outlook from the altar. Follow this with a stay in the honeymoon cabin with private sauna nestled deep in the snowcovered forest and your romantic setting is complete.
Beyond the snowy realms of Lapland, Iceland may not be the first place that springs to mind when you imagine an overseas wedding, but then this is one of the reasons that makes it so special. Full of breathtaking or simply quirky locations you can be sure that your ceremony will be truly unique.
All of our weddings are tailormade befitting the occasion, therefore prices are dependent on your individual arrangements, however we have detailed some sample packages on our website to give you an indication of your options and the prices involved.
Whichever of our northern destinations you choose, you can be sure that your wedding plans will be in safe and caring hands. We will happily assist you as much as possible and will put you in touch with the wedding consultants or officials in each location, as part of your holiday package. This way you can be assured that the formalities of the wedding ceremony will be taken care of as well as all the necessary travel arrangements. And since each wedding we plan and book is completely tailor-made, your experience will be as unique as it is special.
If you would like to invite friends and family to your wedding we can organise their travel arrangements, including extended stays or stopover arrangements. All of our weddings are tailor-made and therefore prices are dependent on your individual arrangements. Simply note the Weddings symbol against certain holidays in this brochure and call our team of dedicated travel professionals for assistance in arranging a truly memorable experience.
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Iceland is a truly amazing country of stunning and dramatic scenery and we are delighted to offer you a choice of magical locations suitable for your wedding. Quaint village chapels, beautiful churches or even an historic turf chapel in the city of Reykjavik are available, or if you would prefer to marry outdoors you can choose almost any location throughout the country. Consider the top of a glacier, within a national park, beside a waterfall or even at the Blue Lagoon! The possibilities are endless.
Some of the more popular churches in Reykjavik and the surrounding area include: Domkirkjan, the parliament church; the original turf church at the Aerbaer Museum; the colourful wooden chapel in Thingvellir National Park and Videyjarkirkja, a small unpopulated island off Reykjavik that has a pretty chapel and spectacular vi ews of the city and mountains. This island can only be reached by boat. Click here for more details...
Every November in the heart of Swedish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, ice builders and artists begin work creating the largest igloo in the world – the famous Ice Hotel. This amazing piece of architecture is built entirely from blocks of crystal clear ice from the frozen Torne River and melts away every May, completing the cycle.
It is not only the room and walls that are made of ice, but also the breathtaking lobby, the bedroom ‘furniture’, the altar and pews in the chapel and the bar and chairs in the Absolut bar. Even the glasses are made entirely of ice!
For the ultimate unusual wedding why not take or renew your vows in the romantic setting of the Ice Chapel? Alternatively, a civil ceremony can be arranged in the Ice Hotel. Click here for more details...
The Hotel Kakslauttanen is located in the Saariselka fell area amidst beautiful Lapland scenery. Accommodation is one of 25 log cabins each with an open fire and sauna. During the winter there is also an igloo village near to the hotel that has 20 individual igloos including a honeymoon suite and an ice gallery.
At Saariselka there are several idyllic locations where you can hold your wedding. The romantic, small wooden chapel in Tieva, approximately 2km from the hotel, a reindeer farm located by a small lake or even in the hotels ice gallery which has its own ice chapel. In the winter, if you choose to marry in the chapel or at the reindeer farm you could arrive in style on a snow sledge pulled by a team of reindeers or huskies, or even by snowmobile! To complete the wedding celebrations why not spend the night in a honeymoon igloo suite or in a genuine log cabin? Click here for more details..
Lainio is a beautiful place of organizing a wedding ceremony. You would certainly have a memorable day.
Saint Johannes' chapel is located just next to Lainio Snow Village. This very beautiful little wooden chapel can take up to 40 people at the same time. The surrounding nature forms a different altar painting for each season. Near the chapel the Lainio Krouvi restaurant provides the catering and restaurant services if you wish to have a wedding meal there. A honeymoon suite can be arranged from Karkelo log castle, which is equipped with all the luxuries including jacuzzi and separate sauna floor.
You could also have a wedding ceremony at the Hut of Lappish Shamen, reindeer sleighs will transfer you along the trail lit by candles and torches here in the middle of the snow covered forest. Click here for more details..
For more information or to make a booking please contact our office by phone +44 (0)1737 218 800 or email enquiries@discover-the-world.co.uk |
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For more details about getting married
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We are travel specialists but our close working relationship with the wedding consultants at the individual venues, added to our experience gained in many years of preparing wedding itineraries, means that you are in safe and caring hands, as some highly satisfied clients will testify:
“ We had our concerns about a wedding in such an unusual place but DTW worked with the Icehotel and it all went to plan, better than we had anticipated. We arrived in Kiruna a couple of days before our wedding to sort out all the official things with paperwork – a taxi picked us up, took us into town and returned us to the Icehotel afterwards so it couldn’t have been simpler.
Our Wedding Breakfast in the restaurant was superb and they catered for all of our 23-strong party without a hitch. As it was such a special place, we wanted to make sure the wedding photos were the best we could get – we booked an official photographer and it was well worth it – our favourite picture is the silhouette shown above. Without doubt, we would recommend getting married in an Ice Chapel and Discover the World even managed to get it to snow for the first time during our trip, as we walked from the ceremony. Well, maybe they didn’t arrange that bit!”
James & Joanne Cochrane, married at the Icehotel© February 2005.
'The Kiss' and the image shown in the SAMPLE PACKAGE section are reproduced with kind permission from J & J Cochrane.
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Many people who wish to marry abroad have contemplated a sunshine wedding in the Caribbean but often find venues are lacking something unique. If you are unsure about heading north for your nuptuals, read what one of our many happy couples had to say about their experience and think again!
Over the years we have put together wedding and honeymoon packages for numerous couples. With the help of Discover the World staff and the wedding coordinator at the ICEHOTEL, plans for Zoë Smith’s ideal wedding were developed and realised, when she married her fiancé Tristan Baldwinson in December 2006. Images have been reproduced here with kind permission from Mr & Mrs Baldwinson-Smith. We interviewed Zoë recently to find out what made her wedding so special…
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Did your wedding day live up to your expectations?
Absolutely – we wanted something different, while still having the traditional ceremony with close family and friends. The day was absolutely fantastic, a truly magical experience. The setting was spectacular, and the ICEHOTEL was stunning - exceeding all our expectations - we wouldn't have wanted to change a thing.
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Would you recommend the ICEHOTEL® as a wedding venue?
If you are looking to have a traditional wedding, in a stunning winter wonderland setting, in your own chapel made of ice, then this is definitely the destination for you. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
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What was the best thing about getting married in Sweden?
It’s not a million miles away from the UK, so doesn’t require lengthy flights for the people that are important to you. The traditional nature of the ceremony also allows you to wear the fairy-tale wedding dress you dreamed about, with the possibility to arrive on a sledge pulled by a reindeer! There really is something special and romantic about the crisp cold winter air, being surrounded by a snow dusted landscape in the middle of nowhere with the person you love.
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How well do you feel DTW organised your wedding?
Everything was taken care of and we were able to talk through all aspects with friendly, helpful staff. So I would 100% recommend Discover the World to someone else thinking of visiting or getting married in Scandinavia.
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