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My cousin is considering getting married in the snow. Anyone been through this? Any suggestions on where to go? I'm not too sure if this would result in a better price or not but just thought I'd find out if anyone has any suggestions! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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My friend does some wedding organising based in Altenmarkt, Austria... sorts out all the paper work, service etc etc etc..
PM me and I will drop you some details.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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flangesax - I am actually new to this so I don't know how to PM 
Sorry!! Probably straight forward but I'm never in forums.
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click user just under flangsax's name and that will open the pm page 
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Angel1977, below the snowheads logo top right of the page, click on 'Send/Read Messages, and you can PM from there.
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Angel1977, Currently in the middle of organising our own right now. Leona is looking after most of the details but here is the light and fluffy version
Allot of hotesl especially Austria and N America have dedicated people to do all the paper work etc for you. They are quite efficent and provide checkliste etc of what you have to do before you get there etc.
What we did was draw up a list of resorts and hotels and then contacted them to see what they could do for us.
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Light and fluffy sounds good 
I don't envy them. At least when you do it at home you can pop out to the hotel. Here they have to go by a web description! I know Austria well enough though so am happy enough to suggest there to them. The country is lovely and the ski resorts are pretty good. Reckon I'll be able to come up with a couple of good hotels it would be worth them contacting. Thanks everyone for your help on this!
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Angel1977, Can we go on the guest list ? 
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Can we go on the guest list ?
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Ha ha - which one?? 
Mine or my cousins??
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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theres two weddings? both please
Which shop will the wedding gift list be? I presume if you want an iron it will be a ski wax one?
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Sounds like a top idea. Beats a 1960s registry office and a buffet in a tent anyday I reckon.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Angel1977, ski2 organise/help organise weddings in Champoluc - which is a nice destination in and of itself, having celebrated wedding there myself. Seems to work wel but sights of guests in UK-stylee finery & morning suits trudging through snow rather comical when on skis...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Angel1977,
Got married in the UK, but did our Honeymoon to Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada and can highly recommend it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Angel1977, look at the Gruner Baum in Bad Gastein. The number of requests I get from guests who are going to a wedding there is amazing! It's a really great place. Here's the link:
www.hoteldorf.com
snow09bride got married there last year, ask her about it. I can probably answer any questions too. 
Cheers
Kersh
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks everyone for all your help on this. I came away with alot of suggestions to pass on.
Funnily enough someone else over the weekend had suggested the Gruner Baum too. Bad Gastein sells pretty well so I'll pass this along and get them to look at it. Will also suggest they contact Ski2 who can answer all their questions!
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I looked at this company http://www.elevationweddings.com/ based in the Austrian Alps. They were very helpful, and it worked out reasonable too. Unfortunately it's looking like we won't be able to do it due to family reasons.
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We got married at Deer Lodge , Lake Loiuse back in Feb 2000 (nearly 10 years ago !!). We were doing a Canadian road trip and all we did was contact the Banff marriage commisioner before we left the UK, arrived in Banff, payed for the licence, done the road trip ending up at Lake Louise. We snowboarded all morning , came down at lunchtime,got washed and dressed and got married in the lounge before having a nice romantic dinner in the restaurant.
We got two of the girls from the ski hill to be witnesses and that was it. Had a big party when we got home.
http://www.kunelius.com/
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I think Loveland in Colorado does a group on mountain wedding on Feb 14 (Valentines Day here)
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| Angel1977 wrote: |
| As for my cousin the wedding Bad Gastein is the destination. |
Let me know if you need any local tips for the planning.
Cheers
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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We are getting married in Zermatt on 23rd December, civil ceremony at the |Registrar Office and then a Church Blessing at St Peters.
Any  there please say hello.
We have organised most of it ourselves, but have received a lot of help through Hazel who is the Church Warden.
Its taking some doing, but I think we can look back on it and say we did it all, rather than rely on an event planner.
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arlberg, Well done. That sounds like THE perfect location!
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You know it makes sense.
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I went to a lovely one - some friends got married in an ice church in Finland. They were going to go to the ice hotel in Sweden, but found them unhelpful, so went for Finland instead, where we had a great time. Photos and video here! Video is highly recommended, it's lovely
http://www.icewedding.com/
We all went snowboarding in Saariselka the next day too.
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| Roy Hockley wrote: |
| arlberg, Well done. That sounds like THE perfect location! |
Thanks Ray Hockley we think so
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was a witness at my best friends wedding in Zell am See 9 years ago. It was fab. It was all booked though a tour op, staying at the Hotel Heitzmann. The couple there, Rudi and Anita organised everything and were fab. It was truly a lovely romantic day and the ceremony was short and sweet.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I got married in the Gruner Baum in March- 80 guests travelled, snowed all week! Day after had few beers on the Mountain then reserved the upstairs in the Silver Bullet for serious session.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Got married on Mt Norquay in Banff in a blizzard nearly 8 years ago now (blimey, I forgot to take advantage of the 7 year itch!). We had a fantastic guy doing the ceremony, an ex-park ranger called Rick who had a huge handle-bar moustache (with icicles of course)and a great Canadian drawl. It was just three mates and us with our boards and an audience of four young Canadian boarders who spotted us and stopped to applaude at the end of the ceremony. We've even got them shouting a classic line "hey dude, they're getting married!" on the video. When we went into the town later that evening, I walked into a shop and a girl admired my ring and asked me if we were the couple that had got married on the mountain that day. Fame at last!
We arranged our wedding with First Choice but I'm not sure if they do that package anymore. Rick has a website though so you can arrange a normal trip out there and contact him separately http://www.kunelius.com/index.html to make the wedding arrangements. Hope your cousin has a real white wedding day to remember 
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hey, I know this is a late reply - Got married on the mountain in Sunshine Village Banff. April this year - Awesome, Visit Connie at elegantweddings.com. My wife left a testimonial on there.
Connie is a top wedding planner and very reasonable.
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11 weeks today, from now and I'll be on my way to the registrars office in Zermatt.
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We are getting married in Kitzbuhel in March. Having a traditional wedding (well traditionally Irish anyway!) - church plus hotel. We've organised it all ourselves without using a wedding planner/ski company, although in fairness the priest and the hotel have been amazing, as have the tourist office. We did a lot of research into this in Austria, France and Switzerland so if your cousin does need some help just drop me a PM and I can send you on all the info. I don't think it is much difficult than a home wedding and if your cousin's friends/family ski they can just book their yearly trip around the wedding. We've invited 180 people to ours and have very little drop out so far, which is causing an element of panic!!
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Mr & Mrs Arlberg are back from Zermatt after a totally memorable week, despite Easyjet and Swissair trying to scupper all our plans.
We had our flight ex Liverpool to Geneva cancelled, then managed to book Machester to Basel(Zurich) which was also cancelled.
Eventually after a £150 pound taxi ride from Manchester to Birmingham, we managed to make the 6:50 flight with 10 mins to spare.
A few friends and family decided to opt out and did not come over, but all together 26 made the trip.
On the morning of the services, it snowed about 4 to 6 inches and stopped about and hour before the start.
The civil service in the registrars office was really nice.
The church blessing was fantastic and will be part of my life forever, and the view as we emerged from the church was stunning.
The Zermatterhof did us proud with the champagne reception and dinner and the evening time in the Post was great.
It was definitely the best day of my life, thank you Mrs Arlberg and Zermatt
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arlberg, Congratulations
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arlberg,
Congrats to ye.
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FAQ
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There didnt seem to be many guests but then its a long way to go just for a wedding 
Also getting the men out of the hut and away from their schnapps was a bit of a deal, but it was a great day and it snowed(May)! so that was a plus! Good luck with your plans and keep us up to date, I am sure I am not the only one here who loves a wedding! 
