Elopement

You fly in, we handle the rest. Celebrant, ceremony set-up, bouquet and buttonhole, a two-hour photo session at golden hour, and a cake for two at dinner. No guest list, no seating plan, no speeches.

Who books this

Couples who want the marriage and not the production. Some have already had a large wedding and want the real one. Some are marrying quietly for reasons of their own. A surprising number are marrying twice: once here for the two of them, once at home a few months later for everybody else.

It is also, quietly, the fastest package to arrange. Eight to ten weeks from first email to standing on the terrace is comfortable, and we have done it in six.

Where it happens

Around half of these take place in Cappadocia, on the Cave Terrace Hotel terrace at golden hour with a balloon flight the following dawn. Most of the rest are on the Lycian coast at Kaş or Kalkan, where a villa terrace above open water does the same job with the sea instead of the valley.

A charter yacht out of Bodrum is the third option, and the one couples pick when they want to be genuinely unreachable for the afternoon.

The day

There is not much of a schedule, which is the point. A hair and make-up appointment if you want one, a ceremony of about twenty-five minutes with a celebrant who speaks your language, then two hours of photographs while the light is good, then dinner. That is the whole day and it is enough.

What you still decide

The vows, the reading if there is one, the flowers, and the hour. We will tell you when the light is right for the location you have picked, and then it is your call.

Documents

None. This is a symbolic ceremony, so there is no paperwork on the Turkish side at all. Couples who want to be legally married usually sign the register at home before or after (a fifteen-minute appointment), which is explained in full in legal or symbolic. If you would rather marry legally in Türkiye, the country-by-country guide sets out what that takes.