So I will tell you a little bit about my story and how I decided to have my wedding in a different country. When I became engaged, all images of that perfect wedding I had ever dreamed of came into my mind. I knew what I wanted, and it was something very special, classy, and beautiful and something my family and guests would remember but most importantly something my honey and I would cherish forever.
I live in Miami and my first thought was to search venues on the beach…. after all we do have beautiful mansions, museums, convention centers, etc…I found a couple but was in shock at the cost! I continued my search anyways and continued raising my budget. 
Soon I realized I was way over budget and that I’d have to scratch things off my list. But this isn’t a good feeling… I AM that girl who has dreamed of a wedding since I was a little kid… and to think that I was going to have to restrain myself from everything I wanted was not what I had planned.
And suddenly…. the word of wisdom spoke into my ear… my mom! She said to me: “have you considered having your wedding in Colombia? You know you’d be able to do it all and more for 1/5th of the cost…”.
I am after all from Colombia and I have a lot of family and friends there. I was a bit skeptical because my fiance is American and his family has never even travelled outside of the US. My mom offered to go there, find out about the whole shebang and prepare a budget for me.
Soon we realized the wedding of my dreams would be possible in Colombia for under 10k Including plane tickets! And that’s how I made my decision… and amazingly my fiance was super excited and so were his parents.
We had traveled to Cartagena to visit last year and we had both fallen in love with this city… it is an amazing city, different from anything we had ever seen anywhere in the world. It’s full of romance, nice friendly people, the most beautiful hotels and the best restaurants.
As usual, my mom always offers to do it all herself… but after her first visit she realized that planning a wedding, in a different country, and just with a month at a time, would be a challenge…. so a friend of ours recommended a very well known wedding planner, who specializes in Cartagena weddings…. we hired her and since then the process has been nothing but fun. Yes, if you have a wedding in Colombia you can even afford the wedding planner. heheheh!
She heard my story, my ideas, my dreams and helped me chose the venue… an old colonial theater that has been restored and now is a wedding venue… but inside it still looks like a theater.
Teatro Heredia
Teatro Heredia inside - ceremony is held here
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Walking once again into the theater was even more magical this time. They had lifted the curtain from the stage, revealing our tables… and as I walked down the aisle with my husband, I felt as if I had entered another world, a story on a book… the music and the decorations were astounding.
