In the past few years we have started to see a trend for some extreme wedding venues. More and more people are steering away from your typical church for a ceremony and hotel ballroom for the reception.

 Here are Red Letter Event Planning’s top 5 most extreme wedding venues (in no particular order)…

#1 A couple who met in a Hong Kong McDonalds chose to wed in at that the same McDonalds. This has now began a chain reaction for more couples to inquire about the “McWeddings”

#2 Funeral homes will now be open on Saturday night. Couples just have to promise guests that there any coffins or corpses.

#3 Talk about a mile high club, this UK couple were married on the wings of a plane. Guests lined the ground looking up as the couple and listened to loudspeakers as the couple exchanged their vows.

#4 Underwater weddings have been a popular wacky venue for quite some time. One of the most popular sites for an underwater wedding is in Australia. Couples and offficiant will get suited up in scuba gear and head to the bottom of the ocean to be married. I think this has to be somewhere where the water is crystal clear, with Lake Michigan you are probably better off sticking with an above water wedding on a boat.

#5 This New York couple got married in a Zero Gravity plane which cost them approximately $60,000.  They chose this unique site because the couple met in their college sci-fi club. A nickname for this plane is the “vomit comet” I am hoping they left that off their invitations.

Anti-gravity wedding

All of these venues are fun (some exciting). However there are some basic logistics that you should keep in mind if you are planning a wedding with an eccentric location.  You may not get married way up in the sky, but even a less extreme location that isn’t “traditional” for a wedding will have logistical challenges. I highly recommend if your ceremony or reception location is off beat hire an experienced wedding planner who will be able to work around any of the challenges presented by the location.  You wouldn’t want your “extreme wedding” venue to turn into a “extreme wedding” disaster. 

Are you or someone you know planning (or had) your nuptials somewhere unusual? We would love to hear how your extreme wedding location worked out or if you have any questions post them to the comments section below or to Facebook.

Till next time I hope your next special event is a Red Letter Day