In short: published budgets for a wedding in Greece run from about €8,000 to €18,000 for 20 guests, up to roughly €35,000 for 50 guests, and from €20,000 to €70,000 for 100 guests on most islands, with Mykonos far above that. Most of the spread comes from the island, the month and the guest list, not from the day itself. Photography and film from us start at €1,390 each, with no extra travel fees. All figures below are dated and sourced, and they are what planners and venues say about their own market, so treat them as indications, not official statistics.
As of November 2026, the most useful public price guides for Greece come from planners and wedding platforms, not from any government. We read six of them, compared the ranges and kept the ones that show their working. Prices change every season, so ask for a written quote for your exact date before you commit.
How much does a wedding in Greece cost? Budget by guest count
There is no single average cost of a wedding in Greece, because the island changes the bill more than anything else. The table sets the published ranges side by side so you can see where your plan falls.
| Guests | Range published | Source and what it covers |
|---|---|---|
| About 20 | €8,000 to €18,000 | Big Fat Greek Day, all in, 2026 |
| Up to 20 (Santorini) | €20,000 to €30,000 | EasyWedding, Santorini guide |
| About 50 | Up to about €35,000 | Big Fat Greek Day, all in |
| 50 to 80 (Crete) | $35,000 to $65,000 before VAT and service charge | Wezoree, June 2026 |
| 50 to 100 (Santorini) | €50,000 to €100,000+ | EasyWedding |
| 100, Crete | €20,000 to €40,000 | Big Fat Greek Day |
| 100, Athens Riviera | €25,000 to €45,000 | same guide |
| 100, Corfu | €25,000 to €44,000 | same guide |
| 100, Santorini | €40,000 to €70,000 | same guide |
| 100, Mykonos | €60,000 to €150,000 | same guide |
EasyWedding’s general guide, published 7 November 2025, puts a small, intimate wedding at about €10,000 and up, a mid-range wedding at €20,000 to €30,000, and a luxury one above €50,000. Guides disagree because each defines “all in” differently. Some include VAT and service charges, some do not, and some leave out flights and attire. Always ask what a number includes.
in Big Fat Greek Day’s figures for 100 guests, Crete costs roughly half of Santorini and a third or less of Mykonos for the same guest list. The island you pick is the biggest line in your budget.
Andras & Kelly · Puglia · see the full wedding →Greece destination wedding cost per person
For 100 guests, Big Fat Greek Day gives €200 to €400 per guest in Crete, €250 to €450 on the Athens Riviera, €250 to €440 in Corfu and €400 to €700 in Santorini. It does not publish a per-guest figure for Mykonos. These are for a wedding “with nothing upgraded”, and the per-head number falls as the guest count rises because the fixed costs are shared.
Small weddings cost more per head. A worked example shows why. This is our own estimate for 50 guests, built from the ranges in this guide, using a Crete, Naxos or Paros style venue:
- Venue: €2,000 to €5,000 (EasyWedding, Crete, Naxos and Paros)
- Catering, 50 guests at €60 to €150: €3,000 to €7,500
- Open bar, 50 guests at €20 to €50: €1,000 to €2,500
- Planner: €1,500 to €5,000 (EasyWedding)
- Legal paperwork: €500 to €1,500 (EasyWedding)
- Photography and film, 5 hours each with us: €2,780, or a full day of both: €4,380
- Decor: €500 to €3,000
- DJ: €1,000 to €2,000
- Group transport: €500 to €2,000
The sum is €12,780 at the low end and €32,880 at the high end, which is roughly €256 to €658 per guest. It excludes VAT and service charges, flights, attire, flowers beyond decor, and hair and makeup. Treat it as an estimate, not a quote.
What each wedding budget line costs in Greece
This is the line by line view. Every figure carries its source and date, and most come from businesses describing their own market.
| Line | Published range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Venue, Santorini | From about €10,000 a day; caldera venue for an intimate wedding €3,000 to €7,000 | EasyWedding, Santorini guide |
| Venue, Crete, Naxos, Paros | €2,000 to €5,000 | EasyWedding |
| Venue hire for 100 guests | Crete €5,500 to €8,000; mainland €3,500 to €7,000; Santorini €12,000 to €14,000 | Big Fat Greek Day |
| Catering per person | €60 to €150; full open bar adds €20 to €50 | EasyWedding |
| Catering, Mykonos | €110 to €265 per person | Big Fat Greek Day |
| Planner | €1,500 to €5,000 | EasyWedding |
| Decor and flowers | €500 to €3,000 | EasyWedding |
| Music | DJ €1,000 to €2,000; live band €1,500 to €3,000 | EasyWedding |
| Hair and makeup | €200 to €500 | Wedinspire, April 2023 (older) |
| Guest transport | €500 to €2,000 for groups; airport transfers $25 to $50 per person in Crete | EasyWedding, Wezoree |
Greece wedding planner cost
EasyWedding puts a wedding planner at €1,500 to €5,000. The Crete guide from Wezoree, a wedding platform, gives a flat fee of $3,500 to $8,000, or 10 to 15 percent of the total budget, so $5,000 to $7,500 on a $50,000 wedding. The gap between the two guides is real: a planner who also manages the legal paperwork, transport and vendors charges more. Ask what the fee covers and whether it is quoted before or after VAT. Our own list of planners is in Top Wedding Planners in Greece.
How much does a small wedding in Greece cost?
For about 20 guests the published range is €8,000 to €18,000 all in, rising to €20,000 to €30,000 in Santorini. A few venues also publish package prices, covered below. Our full guide, Small Wedding in Greece, covers islands and venue types for groups of 10 to 30.
Greece wedding venues with prices
Few venues publish a price list, and those that do often quote a minimum food and drink spend on top of hire. Use the ranges below to judge a quote, not to replace one.
- In Crete, Wezoree lists a rural villa or farmhouse in Apokoronas at $2,000 to $5,000, a Chania harbour venue at $3,000 to $7,000, a historic estate or winery near Rethymno at $3,000 to $8,000 and an Elounda five-star resort at $8,000 to $20,000, the resort with a food and drink minimum of $15,000 to $40,000.
- In Mykonos, the same platform’s Mykonos guide (published June 2026) gives venue hire of $4,000 to $25,000 and more, plus a venue food and drink minimum of $20,000 to $50,000 on top of hire.
- In Santorini, a March 2026 Big Fat Greek Day guide lists one winery venue from €2,500 and one Imerovigli venue from €4,200 including VAT, with food and drink charged separately and a drinks package required for every guest.
Our own view from the photographer’s side: a venue with a lower hire fee is not automatically cheaper. Ask about the sound limit, the finish time and whether you can use outside vendors. We cover light, access and curfews in Best Wedding Venues in Greece for Photos.
Manuela & Konstantin · Zakynthos · see the full wedding →Greece wedding packages: beach, villa, all inclusive and winter
Packages are cheaper to read than to compare. Check what is in the price: venue, ceremony, planner, flowers, cake, photographer hours, transfers, and whether the bar is included.
Greece wedding packages prices and all inclusive options
A BeachBride roundup dated 30 April 2026 lists a Santorini package from €3,700 for up to 20 guests, including the venue, chapel ceremony, planner, licence preparation, bouquet, cake, champagne toast, hair and makeup, a two-hour photographer, one hour of video and transfers, but not an open bar. Elopement packages in the roundup start at €2,800 with one provider and €3,500 with another, and one provider’s top tier is €9,200 for 16 guests. Larger examples are €43,800 for 50 guests and €50,000 for 20 guests with three nights in six villas. The same article puts realistic totals for a 10 to 20 guest wedding at €15,000 to €25,000 after add-ons. A “from” price is a starting point, not a final total. We found no independent ranking of the best all-inclusive wedding venues in Greece, so judge any “all inclusive” venue or package by the checklist above.
Greece beach wedding packages
Real beach ceremonies often need a permit. Wezoree gives $150 to $400 for a municipal beach ceremony permit in Crete, taking 4 to 8 weeks. Ask any package seller who holds the permit and who pays for it.
Greece villa wedding packages
In Crete, Wezoree lists a stone farmhouse seating about 15 at $1,500 to $3,000 a day. The costs that surprise couples are catering, power, toilets and furniture brought in. EasyWedding warns not to assume a holiday rental allows events, so get that in writing.
Greece winter wedding packages
We found no published winter package prices we could cite. What the guides do say: Big Fat Greek Day notes that from November to March Santorini has the deepest discounts but many venues and restaurants are closed, while April to June and September to October are fully operational. For winter, Athens, the Athens Riviera and larger islands such as Crete are the safer starting points. Ask the venue directly.
Taxes and fees people forget
The guides agree on the main extras, though not on every rate.
- VAT: Greece’s standard VAT rate is 24 percent, with reduced rates of 6, 13 and 17 percent, according to the EU’s Your Europe VAT rates table (checked by the EU in July 2026). That table does not say which rate applies to wedding catering, and the planner guides we read disagree on it, so ask each supplier whether the quote includes VAT and at what rate.
- Service charge: 10 to 15 percent on catering per Wezoree, 10 to 20 percent on food and drink per Big Fat Greek Day, on top of VAT.
- Import surcharges: Wezoree says 30 to 50 percent on flowers or equipment sourced from off the island.
- Food and drink minimums: charged on top of venue hire at some resorts (figures above).
ask every supplier for a quote “including VAT and service charge, for this date and this guest count”. It is the single question that prevents the largest surprises.
What the legal paperwork costs
The Greek government lists a one-off marriage licence fee of €18 on its public services page, though that page describes foreign residents, so confirm the fee with the town hall where you marry. UK documents sent for an apostille cost £45 each by the standard route, according to GOV.UK. The paperwork total, with translations, is where the money goes: EasyWedding puts legal paperwork at €500 to €1,500, and Big Fat Greek Day estimates $300 to $450 for a US couple who have never been married. Steps and documents are in our guide Getting Married in Greece as a Foreigner.
Photography and film in your Greece budget
Published ranges for a Greek wedding photographer are €1,500 to €3,500 and the same again for a videographer, per EasyWedding. Our photo prices run from €1,390 to €2,190, so they start just below that range and stay in its lower half, with no extra travel fees on any island. Photo and film are priced the same, each on its own:
| Coverage | Photo or film | Photo and film |
|---|---|---|
| 5 hours | €1,390 | €2,780 |
| 6 hours | €1,590 | €3,180 |
| 7 hours | €1,790 | €3,580 |
| 8 hours | €1,990 | €3,980 |
| Full day, no time limit | €2,190 | €4,380 |
We charge no extra travel fees anywhere we work, so a wedding on a far island costs the same as one near an airport. A 20 percent deposit holds the date, and you can book any package and change it later. Hourly coverage gives 50 or more edited photos per hour, and a full day gives 500 to 1,000. The sneak peek comes within days, the full gallery in 3 weeks and the film in about a month. We photographed Manuela and Konstantin’s wedding on Zakynthos, and you can see our work on the Greece wedding photographer page. For a deeper price comparison see Wedding Photographer Cost in Greece.
Kyrisma & Benjamin · Positano · see the full wedding →Is it expensive to get married in Greece? Cheap places and how to spend less
It depends on where. Greece is not cheap on Santorini or Mykonos, but it is good value on the mainland, in Crete and on islands such as Naxos and Paros. Per the guides above, a 100-guest wedding on Crete is €200 to €400 a head, against €400 to €700 on Santorini.
Cheap places to get married in Greece
Based on the published numbers, the lower-cost areas are Crete, the mainland and the Athens Riviera, then Naxos and Paros for venue hire. Santorini and Mykonos are the dearest.
Three ways to spend less without a worse day
- Move the date. Big Fat Greek Day says shoulder season runs 20 to 30 percent below peak. Wezoree’s Crete guide says July and August carry a 20 to 30 percent premium on venues and accommodation, and that May and October offer better availability and pricing. Our best time to marry in Europe guide covers the months.
- Cut the guest list or choose a longer table, not a bigger room. Catering and the bar are the largest per-head lines, at €80 to €200 per person together by the figures above.
- Marry legally at home and hold a symbolic ceremony in Greece. That removes the translation and apostille steps. Wezoree estimates the legal Greek route adds $3,500 to $6,500 over a symbolic ceremony, a figure that covers apostilles, translations and coordination with the municipality, not only official fees. Our guide on symbolic versus legal ceremonies explains what counts.
FAQ: wedding costs in Greece
How much does a destination wedding in Greece cost?
The published range is about €8,000 to €18,000 for 20 guests and €20,000 to €70,000 for 100 guests on most islands, with Mykonos reaching €150,000 for 100 guests in one 2026 guide.
What is the average cost of a wedding in Greece?
No official average exists. Planner guides put an intimate wedding from about €10,000, a mid-range wedding at €20,000 to €30,000 and a luxury wedding above €50,000.
How much does the average wedding in Greece cost per person?
For 100 guests the range is €200 to €400 per guest in Crete and €400 to €700 in Santorini, according to Big Fat Greek Day.
How much does a wedding planner in Greece cost?
EasyWedding gives €1,500 to €5,000. Wezoree gives $3,500 to $8,000 or 10 to 15 percent of the budget for Crete.
Do you need an all-inclusive package?
No. Packages are useful for small groups of up to 20, from about €3,700 in Santorini per the BeachBride roundup, but check that the bar, photographer hours and legal paperwork are in the price.
What is the cheapest way to get married in Greece?
A weekday or shoulder-season wedding for a small group in Crete or on the mainland, with the legal marriage done at home.
Related guides. Budget for one island: Santorini.
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