Cinque Terre Wedding Cost
The first question couples ask me, almost always in the opening minutes of a call, is this: why does a wedding in the five villages cost more than one in a Tuscan estate of the same size? The answer is medieval. The Republic of Genoa fortified this coast between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries — the Doria watchtower above Vernazza, the terraced sanctuaries commissioned by village confraternities, the drystone walls that still hold the vineyards to the cliff — and none of it was designed for vehicles. Everything you serve, seat, light and photograph on your wedding day arrives by train, by boat, or in human hands up a staircase. That single architectural fact governs the budget more than any floral decision you will ever make.
At a Glance: What a Cinque Terre Wedding Costs Before Guest Numbers Enter the Equation
A curated Cinque Terre wedding cost can be benchmarked against the published Ligurian collections we currently sell, which range from €59,000 to €199,000 depending on the collection and guest band. These are complete wedding packages rather than prices for two: venue exclusivity, ceremony and reception, floral styling, photographer, videomaker, DJ, dedicated planning and Kiss Me Italy Concierge are included across the Liguria collection range, with accommodation included where the individual product states it. Guest travel, accommodation beyond any included rooms, additional guests beyond the published band, legal or municipal fees, and bespoke programme extensions are quoted separately as applicable. Logistics — porters, boat tenders, rail-timed load-in windows — form a line item here that simply does not exist in inland Italy.
That is the honest headline. Everything below explains the arithmetic behind it, and why two celebrations with identical guest counts can differ by €40,000 depending on which village, which terrace, and which hour of the day. Couples who want the full destination overview before pricing decisions will find it in our guide to a Cinque Terre wedding, which covers atmosphere, villages, and ceremony styles rather than figures. This page handles the figures.
Why the Twelfth-Century Village Plan Still Dictates Your Production Budget
Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso. Five settlements built vertically into a cliff face, each with a single narrow spine of a street, most of them closed to non-resident traffic. Corniglia sits roughly a hundred metres above its own railway station, reached by a brick staircase of some three hundred and eighty steps. This is the architectural grammar of the coast, and it has not changed since the confraternities were building their oratories.
What this means in a quotation is precise. A florist working an inland villa unloads from a van at the gate. A florist working a Cinque Terre terrace unloads at a station platform, transfers to a handcart or a hired porter team, and moves everything through a lane too narrow for two people abreast — twice, because installation and strike are separate journeys. Rental tables, chairs, glassware, linen, generators, and lighting rigs follow the same route. We budget porter labour by the crate, not by the hour, and we confirm the municipal load-in window in writing before any supplier is engaged, because several villages restrict deliveries to early morning bands.
Boats change the equation again. A private transfer between villages is elegant and, on a calm September morning, faster than the regional train. It is also weather-dependent, and any responsible Cinque Terre wedding cost model carries a rail-based contingency alongside the marine plan. Our team holds both, priced, from the moment the date is confirmed. Couples who want to understand how a coastal arrival is engineered in practice may recognise the same discipline in our account of a San Fruttuoso wedding, where the abbey cannot be reached by road at all.
One more structural cost: hotel capacity. The five villages have small properties, many of them historic houses converted room by room. A party of sixty guests rarely sleeps in a single building here. Multiple check-ins across two or three villages mean shuttle coordination, luggage handling, and a welcome-desk presence that we staff ourselves. We are always glad to talk through your guest numbers before you commit to a village, because that conversation alone can reshape the budget.
Our Ligurian Collections and Where the €59,000 Entry Point Actually Sits
Our published collections for this coastline are set on the Riviera di Levante — the same Ligurian shoreline, a short rail or road transfer north of the five villages, with the vehicular access and noble architecture that permit fixed, verified pricing. Many couples drawn to Cinque Terre ultimately celebrate here and use the villages for portraits, a boat day, or a farewell lunch. Others hold the ceremony in the villages and the reception on the promontory. Both structures are ordinary for us.
| Collection | Published price / guest basis | Core inclusions | Quoted separately |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Riviera Castle Wedding — Castello Canevaro | €59,000 for 30 guests; €69,000 for 50; €85,000 for 70 | Exclusive use of Castello Canevaro; symbolic ceremony; welcome cocktail; wedding lunch or dinner; cake and open bar; full floral styling; photographer and videomaker with post-production; DJ; overnight stay and breakfast in the castle for 16 guests; dedicated wedding planner and Kiss Me Italy Concierge | Guests beyond the published band; accommodation beyond the included 16-person castle stay; guest travel and transfers; legal civil-ceremony fees and documentation; additional event days or bespoke upgrades |
| The Aristocratic Villa Durazzo Wedding | €59,000 for 30 guests; €69,000 for 50; €85,000 for 70 | Exclusive use of Villa Durazzo; symbolic ceremony; welcome cocktail; wedding lunch or dinner; wedding cake and open bar; full floral styling; photographer and videomaker with post-production; DJ; dedicated wedding planner and Kiss Me Italy Concierge | Guests beyond the published band; guest accommodation and travel; legal or municipal ceremony fees; additional event days, albums or bespoke upgrades |
| The Iconic Portofino Castle Wedding — Castello Brown | €59,000–€85,000; published from €59,000 for 30 guests | Symbolic ceremony at Castello Brown with exclusive use of the panoramic terrace; reception in an exclusive restaurant on the Piazzetta; full floral styling; photographer and videomaker; DJ; dedicated wedding planner and Kiss Me Italy Concierge | Items beyond the selected published guest band and programme; guest accommodation and travel; additional boat charters or event days; legal paperwork and municipal fees; bespoke upgrades |
| The Splendido Legend Wedding — Belmond Portofino | €94,000 for 60 guests | Symbolic ceremony with celebrant in the Secret Garden; aperitivo at the Champagne corner; private dinner at the Splendido Grill Restaurant with wine package; cake and open bar; florals; photographer and videomaker; DJ; dedicated wedding planner and Kiss Me Italy Concierge | Items outside the published 60-guest programme; extended room blocks or additional accommodation; guest travel; extra event days, spa or bespoke experiences; legal fees and upgrades |
| The Riviera Abbey Wedding — La Cervara | €149,000–€199,000; published variants for 30, 50 and 100 guests | Three-day exclusive use of Abbazia della Cervara; rooms and suites for up to 34 guests for three nights with breakfast; pre-wedding aperitivo; wedding reception and lunch; cake; Ligurian wine selection and open bar; florals; photographer and videomaker; DJ; dedicated wedding planner and Kiss Me Italy Concierge | Guests, accommodation or programme elements beyond the selected published variant; guest travel; additional nights or excursions; legal and municipal fees; bespoke entertainment and upgrades |
Indicative for scale where guest numbers vary; catalogue prices are firm as published. Contact Kiss Me Italy for a personalized proposal.
Two clarifications matter here. First, the €59,000 entry point is real: it is the published starting price for the 30-guest configurations of several Ligurian collections, not a price for two and not a placeholder figure. Second, a Cinque Terre wedding cost built entirely inside the villages, with everything portered and boat-tendered, can move above the equivalent road-accessible programme because logistics replace what a villa with direct vehicle access provides automatically. Our broader Liguria wedding overview sets out the geography of the coast, from Genoa southward.
Venue Selection: Terraced Sanctuaries, Genoese Watchtowers, and the Capacity Ceiling Nobody Mentions
Visual appeal does not determine the final figure. Capacity, weather cover, and load-in feasibility do.
Inside the five villages, the properties that suit a refined celebration fall into recognisable types. There are the hillside sanctuaries above the settlements — medieval foundations, later Baroque interiors, reached by mule track or a single steep road, extraordinary for a ceremony of thirty and unworkable for a seated dinner of a hundred. There are private terraces cut into the vineyard walls: one that I have used repeatedly holds forty-eight seated under a pergola of old vine, with a kitchen the size of a ship’s galley, which means the caterer arrives with a mobile finishing station and the menu is designed around it. There are converted mills and cellars in the upper lanes, cool in August, atmospheric by candlelight, capped by fire regulation rather than by taste. Lesser-known properties I describe but do not name, because access to them is precisely what a client is engaging us for.
Then there are the famous anchors nearby that can be named without hesitation, because they are already on our collection pages: Castello Brown above Portofino, Villa Durazzo in Santa Margherita Ligure, Castello Canevaro at Zoagli, the Abbazia della Cervara, and Hotel Splendido. These offer something the villages structurally cannot: covered alternatives, service corridors, and seated capacity above eighty without a porter chain.
Weather cover deserves its own sentence. Very few village terraces have a genuine indoor plan B of equal quality, and a marquee cannot be trucked in. We therefore hold a second licensed space, priced and contracted, for every outdoor Cinque Terre ceremony we produce between May and October. That contingency is a real line in the Cinque Terre wedding cost, not an optional extra. Couples comparing coastal options often read our analysis of the wedding in Portofino alongside this page, and the venue arithmetic there is instructively different.
Supplier Categories: What Each Line Costs on This Coast
The table below reflects written supplier quotations held on file by our production desk. Ranges assume a celebration of forty to eighty guests, in season, with at least one village-based element requiring portered or boat-tendered access.
| Category | Indicative range (EUR) | Included in the range | Excluded / quoted separately |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venue fee, village terrace or historic private property | 6,000–24,000 | Exclusive-use hire for the contracted hours, basic furniture where available, on-site staff supervision | Overtime beyond curfew, second licensed weather-cover space, cleaning surcharges, municipal occupation fees |
| Catering and wine service | 190–420 per guest | Aperitivo, seated menu, wine and water, service staff, mobile finishing kitchen where the venue lacks one | Late-night food, premium wine and spirits lists, cake beyond the menu, staff travel where the village requires early load-in, IVA |
| Floral and tablescape production | 7,500–32,000 | Design, seasonal flowers, ceremony and table installation, candles and vessels, strike and removal | Imported non-seasonal stems, structural arches requiring engineered fixings, porter labour where quoted separately by the venue |
| Photography, full-day coverage | 4,800–9,500 | Full-day single shooter, travel within Liguria, edited high-resolution gallery delivered within 8–10 weeks | Second shooter, albums and fine-art prints, drone operator and flight authorisation, pre-wedding shoot, accommodation for a non-Ligurian photographer |
| Film and social content | 4,200–14,000 | Highlight film, ceremony and speeches audio, colour grading, delivery within 10–14 weeks | Feature-length edit, same-day edit, second operator, vertical social content, licensed music beyond the standard library |
| Logistics: porters, handcarts, boat tenders, rail-timed load-in | 2,400–11,000 | Porter teams for installation and strike, handcart hire, one private tender for couple and immediate family, permit-compliant delivery scheduling | Guest boat charters, coach transfers from La Spezia or Genoa airports, luggage handling across multiple hotels, weather-postponement re-mobilisation |
| Music and entertainment | 2,200–12,500 | Ceremony ensemble, aperitivo set, DJ or band for the contracted hours, sound system suited to volume limits | Additional hours, generator hire on terraces without adequate power, SIAE music licence, artist accommodation |
| Hair, make-up, and beauty | 900–3,800 | Bridal trial and wedding-day styling, travel to the village, touch-up presence until the ceremony | Bridal party services per person, extensions, full-day attendance, treatments for guests |
| Stationery, signage, welcome gifts | 1,100–6,500 | Invitation suite, menus and place cards, seating chart, welcome bag contents at agreed per-unit cost | Calligraphy on unusual substrates, international postage, customs charges, hotel delivery fees |
| Planning, design, and on-site direction | Fixed fee, agreed in advance | Venue negotiation, supplier contracting, design direction, timeline, rehearsal, full on-site management | Guest concierge beyond the wedding party, extra event days, third-party legal representation |
Indicative ranges. Contact Kiss Me Italy for a personalized proposal.
Set this beside our published figures for other regions and the pattern becomes legible. Our study of how much a Portofino wedding costs shows a different logistical profile on the same coast; a Venice wedding cost is driven by water transport and palazzo permits; the numbers in our Tuscany wedding cost guide are shaped by road-accessible estates and on-site accommodation. Reading across them clarifies what you are actually buying.
Culinary: Why Cinque Terre Catering Is Quoted Differently from a Tuscan Estate
A caterer pricing an inland villa quotes food, wine, staff, and rentals. A caterer pricing a village terrace quotes those, then adds the infrastructure that the building never had — because a fourteenth-century fisherman’s house was not built with a banqueting kitchen.
In practice, this means mobile finishing stations, insulated transport from a production kitchen in La Spezia or Levanto, and a staff ratio higher than inland, because service distances inside a terraced property are longer and stepped. It also means menu architecture built around what travels beautifully. Anchovies from Monterosso, cured that morning. Trofie with a basil pesto pounded on site, because pesto oxidises and no serious kitchen transports it finished. Sciacchetrà, the passito the vineyards above the villages have produced for centuries, poured with the dessert course. This is regional cooking with a documented lineage, and guests remember it for exactly that reason — a point we develop in our reflections on Italian wedding food.
Wine handling carries a modest but real premium. Cellar temperature on an exposed terrace in July requires ice infrastructure that must itself be portered. We plan the aperitivo around chilled Vermentino and the dinner around structured whites and light reds precisely so the service holds. Couples refining their menu will find our Italian wedding menu ideas a useful frame for the conversation, and our team then translates preference into a costed, feasible service plan.
Floral Design and the Cost of Carrying Everything Up by Hand
Flowers here are priced by two variables: the design, and the ascent.
A ceremony installation of local seasonal material — plumbago, oleander, olive, wild fennel, garden roses from the Riviera growers around Sanremo and Albenga — arrives at the station in conditioned crates, is decanted at street level, and is carried up. Every structure must break down into portable components. Nothing monolithic. Nothing that requires a scaffold tower. I have designed cinematic ceremony frames for terraces above Vernazza that assembled from nine pieces, each light enough for one person, because that was the only way the scenography could exist at all.
Table decoration follows the same logic, and it is where restraint pays twice: aesthetically and financially. Low seasonal arrangements, hand-thrown ceramics, taper candles in weighted hurricanes that will not surrender to the afternoon breeze off the Ligurian Sea. Our approach to seasonal material is set out in detail in our guide to Italian Riviera wedding flowers, while the table itself — linen, glass, ceramic, light — is treated in our study of the Italian Riviera tablescape. Both remain design pages; here, the relevant point is that portable design is cheaper design, and on this coast it is also better design.
Photography and Film: What “Full Day” Means When the Villages Are Twelve Minutes Apart by Train
Coverage on this coast is a timetable problem before it is an artistic one. The regional trains between Monterosso and Riomaggiore run frequently and take minutes; the walk between two of the villages takes ninety. A photographer who does not know which harbour holds reflected light at seven in the evening, and which lane is in deep shadow by four, will spend your coverage hours travelling.
We build the photographic schedule around three fixed points: the first light window between roughly 6.30 and 8.00, when the lanes are empty and the pastel façades hold colour without contrast; the ceremony hour, chosen for the venue’s orientation rather than convenience; and the last forty minutes before sunset, when the sea turns metallic and the terraces glow. Second shooters are quoted separately in every proposal we issue, as are albums, prints, and any drone work requiring flight authorisation over inhabited areas. Post-production timelines are contractual, not aspirational. Our standards for editorial coverage are described in our page on choosing a wedding photographer in Italy, and for couples who also want reels and short-form material, the discreet approach we take is outlined in our notes on working with a wedding content creator in Italy.
Legal and Municipal Costs: Civil, Symbolic, and the Documents We File
This section is deliberately dry. Numbers here are third-party fees, not our pricing, and they change by comune and by year.
A legally binding civil ceremony in Italy requires the Nulla Osta or equivalent declaration from your consulate, a sworn translation of documents where applicable, a Dichiarazione Giurata, and an appointment at the relevant municipal office. Where neither spouse speaks Italian, an interpreter is required at the ceremony. Small comuni along this coast hold limited civil-ceremony slots and, in several cases, license only one room, with capacity in the low dozens. Fees for non-resident couples vary substantially by municipality and by season, and are commonly higher for Saturdays and for locations outside the town hall.
| Item | Indicative third-party cost (EUR) | Handled by our team | Not included in any collection price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal civil-ceremony fee, non-resident couple | 400–1,800 | Slot reservation, filing, liaison with the ufficio di stato civile | Yes — paid directly to the comune, receipted |
| Sworn translations and legalisation of documents | 150–600 | Appointment of the sworn translator, document review | Yes — professional fee, net of IVA |
| Interpreter at the civil ceremony | 250–550 | Selection and briefing on ceremony script | Yes — quoted per ceremony |
| Public-space or terrace occupation permit | 150–900 | Application, technical drawings where required, timing compliance | Yes — municipal charge |
| SIAE music licence | 120–450 | Filing on the couple’s behalf | Yes — statutory charge |
| Symbolic ceremony with celebrant | Included in our collections | Celebrant selection, bilingual script, rehearsal | No — included as published |
Indicative ranges. Contact Kiss Me Italy for a personalized proposal.
Most international couples marry legally at home or in a larger comune and hold a symbolic ceremony in the village or on the terrace they fell in love with, which removes the capacity ceiling of a municipal room entirely. The distinctions are laid out in our guide to wedding ceremony types in Italy, the documentary path in our explanation of how to get married in Italy as a foreigner, and the municipal route specifically in our page on the courthouse wedding in Italy. Where the ceremony is symbolic, the voice conducting it matters enormously, and our approach to that appointment is described in our notes on the wedding officiant in Italy.
Three Scales of Celebration, and Where the Money Moves Between Them
Intimate, twelve to twenty-four guests. One village. A sanctuary or private terrace ceremony at half past five, a seated dinner at a single long table, a private tender for the couple, one photographer, no coach transfers. Here the Cinque Terre wedding cost is dominated by venue exclusivity and per-guest quality rather than by production, and the total sits toward the lower half of our published band. Couples working at this scale often begin with our thinking on the micro wedding in Italy.
Mid-size, forty to seventy guests. Two locations, almost inevitably — a village ceremony and a reception where the service infrastructure exists. Now porters, shuttles, a second licensed weather-cover space, and multi-hotel guest handling all enter the budget simultaneously. This is the band where expert coordination stops being a refinement and becomes the reason the day is possible.
Higher production, eighty guests and above, or a three-day programme. At this scale we generally anchor the celebration at a property with exclusive-use accommodation and full service corridors, and treat the five villages as the setting for portraits, a boat day, and a farewell lunch. The Riviera Abbey Wedding at La Cervara exists precisely for this structure: a fourteenth-century monastery over the sea, in exclusive use for three days, sleeping up to thirty-four. The logic of building a wedding around lodging is set out in our guide to a wedding in Italy with accommodation.
Whichever scale suits you, we are happy to sketch the arithmetic against your guest list before any venue is approached.
Where the Line Sits Between What You Pay and What Your Guests Pay
Published wedding figures become misleading the moment this boundary blurs. Ours does not.
Couple-paid, in the collections and proposals we issue: venue, ceremony, catering for the contracted guest count, wine service, floral and tablescape production, music, photography, logistics, coordination, and any welcome or farewell event you commission. Guest-paid, in the great majority of celebrations we produce: flights to Genoa, Pisa, or Milan, rail or transfer to the coast, and their own hotel rooms. Some couples cover a block of rooms or the transfer coach as a courtesy; that becomes a costed line, agreed in advance, never a surprise.
One Ligurian particularity: guest accommodation here is fragmented and seasonal. Rooms in the villages for a September Saturday are typically gone twelve to fourteen months out. We open holding blocks across two or three properties as soon as the date is fixed, and we publish a guest information sheet with rail times, stair counts, and luggage guidance — because a guest who arrives calm is a guest who enjoys your wedding. For a wider comparative view of national averages, our overview of how much a wedding in Italy costs provides useful context.
Multi-Day Programming: The Side Events That Change the Total by €15,000–€45,000
Very few couples fly guests to this coast for a single afternoon, and the additional days are where a Cinque Terre wedding cost quietly expands. Better to plan them deliberately.
A welcome dinner the evening before, in a vaulted cellar or on a harbour terrace, runs from roughly €90 to €220 per guest depending on venue exclusivity and wine list, with styling and lighting quoted separately. A boat day — the coastline seen as the Genoese saw it, from the water — is priced by vessel, hours, and crew, with catering aboard as a distinct line and a weather-alternative held in reserve. A farewell brunch, typically the least expensive and often the most fondly remembered, sits between €55 and €120 per guest. Add a rehearsal, a guest hiking excursion with a licensed guide, or a private cellar visit in the terraced vineyards, and the programme becomes a three-day event with its own staffing requirement.
We coordinate these as one continuous production rather than as three separate weddings, which is what keeps the cost proportionate. The rhythm of a coastal multi-day celebration is illustrated in our account of a Portofino wedding weekend, and neighbouring options for a welcome evening are explored in our pages on a Camogli wedding and a Genoa wedding.
The Small Lines Couples Forget Until Six Weeks Out
Beauty. Stationery. Gifts. Amenities. Small individually. Substantial together.
Hair and make-up for the bride, with a trial, is straightforward. Six bridesmaids, a mother of the bride, and a full-day stylist presence is a different figure entirely — and it requires the artist to travel to the village at dawn. Stationery multiplies: invitations, menus, place cards, a seating chart, signage, thank-you cards. International postage and customs charges surprise couples every single year. Welcome bags at a considered per-unit cost, delivered to three hotels, need someone to deliver them. That someone is us.
None of this is difficult. All of it is easier when it appears in the budget in month two rather than month eleven, which is how our team builds the schedule.
What Our Team Validates Before Presenting You With a Working Budget
Before a single figure reaches a client, five things are confirmed in writing. The venue’s licensed capacity and its curfew. The municipal load-in window and any vehicle exemption for that specific lane. The caterer’s kitchen requirement at that property, and whether a mobile finishing station is needed. The porter and tender quotation for installation and strike, in crates and journeys. And the second licensed space that holds the day if the sea wind arrives.
Only then do we build the proposal. This is the difference between a figure that survives to the wedding day and a figure that requires apologetic revisions in month eight. We contract village-based Cinque Terre weddings twelve to sixteen months ahead, because the terraces worth having, the small hotels, and the licensed civil slots all move on that horizon — not the three-to-six-month window that works for a road-accessible estate. Our standards of practice are described in our guide to choosing a luxury wedding planner in Italy, and the philosophy behind our commissions in our page on bespoke luxury weddings in Italy. You are also welcome to read who we are in our team introduction.
The Figure That Matters Is the One Built Around Your Guest List
A Cinque Terre wedding cost is not a number you can look up. It is the sum of a village plan drawn in the twelfth century, a guest count decided in your kitchen, and a season chosen for light. Our published Ligurian collections begin at €59,000 and currently reach €199,000 across the available guest variants; the La Cervara collection starts at €149,000 for its three-day exclusive-use monastery programme. A bespoke celebration inside the villages is built to the same standards, with logistics costed rather than hoped for.
What we offer is not a price list. It is scenography with a service plan behind it — a coastline where the venue becomes a character in your story, held together by porters, timetables, and permits you will never have to think about. When you would like to see your own figures on paper, our team is ready to begin the conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are the collection prices inclusive of VAT?
Published collection prices are the prices shown on the linked product pages for the stated guest band and included programme. For bespoke additions and third-party services outside a published collection, the proposal states the applicable IVA treatment line by line and shows clearly what is included in the final amount before you commit.
When are deposits due, and on what schedule?
A first instalment secures the date and the core suppliers, a second falls at roughly the midpoint of the planning period, and the balance is settled in the weeks before the wedding. The precise split depends on which venue you choose, since a few Ligurian properties set their own terms, and it is written into the agreement before anything is paid.
If our guest count changes after signing, how does the quote adjust?
Catering, rentals and transfers are per-head and move with the number; venue fee, floral installation, photography and coordination do not. We work to a confirmation date agreed in advance, after which reductions are limited by the suppliers’ own terms — which is why the working budget is built around a realistic figure rather than an optimistic one.
What happens to our deposit if we have to postpone?
Postponement to a new date within the same twelve-month window generally transfers deposits, subject to each supplier’s terms and to the new date being available. Cancellation is treated differently from postponement, and both are set out in writing before you commit.
Can we pay suppliers directly rather than through you?
Yes, and for some categories couples prefer it. Direct payment means you hold each contractual relationship yourself, including the deposit terms and the recourse if something goes wrong; where we hold the relationship, we carry that responsibility.
Are the material transport costs per person or a flat fee?
They are quoted per load, not per guest, because the constraint is the number of trips up the terraces rather than the number of people at the table. A larger celebration usually means more loads, but the relationship is not linear and we quote it against the actual site.
Do we need a separate budget line for municipal permits?
Yes. Comune fees for a civil ceremony, plus any authorisation for a public outdoor site, are paid to the municipality and vary by village, by site and by day of the week. They sit outside every collection and we list them separately so you can see exactly what goes to the town hall.
How much more does a Saturday cost than a weekday?
The venue fee is where the difference shows, and on this coast it typically runs between fifteen and thirty per cent above a midweek rate in the high months. Supplier fees are largely unchanged; what a weekday genuinely buys you is a quieter village and better availability, not a dramatically smaller total.
