Get married on Bournemouth beach from next spring (From Dorset Beaches)
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Get married on Bournemouth beach from next spring
2:00pm Friday 21st October 2011 in Beach News By Steven Smith
FORGET Barbados – how about Bournemouth for the perfect beach wedding?
From next spring the resort will become the first in the UK to offer beach hut ceremonies.
Couples will be able to host up to 400 guests in a marquee on the sand as they tie the knot.
Bellissimo Wedding Planners will organise the nuptials, which cost from £999 and will run between April and October.
Melanie Kiani, director of Bellissimo, said: “Most couples like their wedding day to be different, the new beach hut is unique and we can provide every last detail – catering, flowers, styling and décor, music – you name it.
“Couples can even arrive at the ceremony on a decorated land train chugging along the prom or sweep down to the beach in a beautifully decorated cliff lift. The possibilities are endless.”
Tourism bosses are hoping couples will choose Bournemouth over destinations further afield.
Mark Smith, director of tourism, said: “There’s no doubt that many couples want to get married on the beach but until now have had to travel abroad, so we’re delighted to be able to offer superb weddings in the very ultimate beach setting.
“We think this will be of huge appeal to young couples who want to keep an eye on wedding budgets but dream of getting married on the beach and to those who want all their family and friends present.”
Registration services manager, Helen Rigg, said registrars in Bournemouth received around 60 enquiries a year for beach weddings.
The idea was the brainchild of Cllr Rod Cooper, tourism portfolio holder. He said: “It’s wonderful to see this exciting project come to fruition.
“I can’t think of anywhere better to say: ‘I do’ than right on the sands here in Bournemouth.”
Comments(11)
carlspurg
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3:02pm Fri 21 Oct 11
I can.
Bob49
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4:18pm Fri 21 Oct 11
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Truly the good folk of Bournemouth are blessed with a council of unrivaled talent and ability.
Morrigan
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5:26pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Beach weddings are for wannabe celebs type chavs anyway IMO
Jetwasher
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5:47pm Fri 21 Oct 11
casperella
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5:48pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Xchurch-man
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6:53pm Fri 21 Oct 11
They are not much use for anything else!
What a joke.
WIGGINSv
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6:58pm Fri 21 Oct 11
WIGGINSv
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7:01pm Fri 21 Oct 11
Morrigan wrote:Are the scousers (photographers) with the monkeys still around to take the happy couples pics?
What a unique idea ..... get married on Bournemouth beach and have all your photos taken with dog s**t, beer cans and cigarette ends on the sand!!!
Beach weddings are for wannabe celebs type chavs anyway IMO
eyeinthesky
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7:05pm Fri 21 Oct 11
The Seasider
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9:18pm Fri 21 Oct 11
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OR, perhaps go a step further and have a Wedding Chapel, built in the style/ theme of a large beach hut- could be fun.
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Ive always thought that the small function room at Branksome Dene Chine, (next to the upper car park), is a real lost opportunity, and would be a fantastic site for a Wedding Chapel.
H2o-hara says...
2:15pm Fri 21 Oct 11