Renaissance Festival Weddings

Renaissance festivals are becoming more popular with people these days. Places that did not have them before are getting one near them and people attend them on a regular basis. Weddings at such venues are becoming increasingly popular as well. Having a Renaissance wedding at a festival is a great way to get your wedding ceremony and reception site in one location.

A wedding at a Renaissance festival can help cut down on costs and give your guests something to do before or after your wedding. This is because many festivals have two time slots available during their open days for weddings. This gives more brides a chance to get married in an unusual atmosphere and the Renaissance festival makes more money. Any festival that offers wedding packages will have at least two available. Some have more packages than that. A few have several to chose from, starting at a very basic package all the way to a full scale princess style wedding.

Renaissance wedding packages vary from festival to festival in price and what is included. The festival where I got married had three packages at the time, they now only have two. I have seen some festivals that only offer a basic and premium package. The price difference can be minimal to very expensive, depending on how you view things.

Wedding packages include at the very least tickets to the festival and something special for the bride and groom. Some festivals give gifts for the wedding parties such as head wreaths for the bridesmaids and pouches for the groomsmen. Others give special certificates to the bride and groom only. Depending on the site you can also get meal coupons for the wedding party and guests at the Renaissance festival. I have even seen one festival that had a package option where the wedding could be held in their castle with a full meal served by caterers in Renaissance gear. This was an extremely nice package but very expensive.

You do have to have a smaller wedding with Renaissance festivals. Packages don’t normally include many tickets for all guests you will have. Although you can purchase additional tickets at a reduced rate, depending on how many people you invite this can get extremely expensive and make the all inclusive Renaissance site more expensive than a standard wedding. But you can always check to see if the festival will let you trade in things in the package you do not want or need for additional tickets instead. My wedding was held onsite at a local festival but our reception was offsite. So we traded in the value of the reception tickets, flowers, and champagne for additional entrance tickets for guests.

Submitted by: Diane