My fiance and I are hoping to have some kind of simple (read: cheap) wedding with only a few dozen people in late April of next year. We’re both romantically attached to the idea of having it outdoors somewhere since the weather is usually pretty good around that time, but we’re talking about Taiwan here, where the capricious old man in the sky tends to toss buckets down without giving any warning, much less half a year in advance. It’s still just at the drawing board stages at present.
Question: Has anyone been to an outdoor wedding in Taiwan? I’m interested in hearing anecdotes about how it was either a great success or a memorable failure.
Discussion: Assuming price (and weather) isn’t an option, what would be your ideal outdoor wedding in Taiwan?
There is a cool outdoor cafe in the mountains near Nankan called 銀河鐵道 with nice views and a good atmosphere. But I bet it would be a fortune to rent out the whole place. More importantly, it’s inconvenient for friends who live outside of Taoyuan.
My ideal place would be something near a beach, but I haven’t put enough thought into it yet to figure out just what or where.
nope, and unless it’s up in the mountains with lots of shade, with no mosquitoes, then it’s going to be a horrible experience.
Just an idea for you. Have you considered holding the engagement party here, and then having the wedding in the US (you’re from the US, right)? I can’t remember why, but I ended up doing that, engaged here (party for her lot), then got married in the UK (for my lot). We did this because of legal reasons. It worked out easier VISA wise. I just can’t remember why… It was about 10 years ago.
If you want to do an outdoor event, them perhaps you could just wait till it gets a bit cooler. November to April is normally pretty good. But then there’s choosing the “right” day. If your wife-to-be has any superstitious relatives, then you might need to factor that in. My wife’s cousin is some kind of Taoist magic man, he tells fortunes and helps people find new “lucky” names, charging them a premium for his services. He fiddled around with our marriage date a few times.
We’ve talked about selecting days. As long as we 公証/登記 on good days, we can have the ceremony on any day that’s not explicitly bad, her parents say.
We can’t have the wedding in the US because A: I’m poor; B: Neither of us have any vacation time; C: I have a very small family and all my friends are in Taiwan, so it would be a like 10 person wedding if I did it there.
Those are great links, hansioux. I was originally thinking of going for a place that doesn’t usually do weddings, but now I’ll inquire about price at some of these places first. Thanks again!
we got married in Guizekung above Fuxinggang MRT. A lovely little park, a small lake, pavilion, beautiful views over northern Taipei, etc.
just do it on a weekday and there’s no-one to get annoyed, even with copious fireworks and 50 people demolishing five cases of Moet. Totally free, too, if that’s important to you.
someplace nice in sunmoon lake/ Alishan?
it would be pretty cool to have aboriginal styled weddings…