Beyond Weddings is a curated international venue and planner platform. It is used by wedding professionals to source, assess and recommend exceptional luxury destinations for high-budget weddings, informed by decades of industry experience and global relationships.
Founded in 2017, Beyond Weddings was created to address a specific gap in the wedding market. High-budget destination weddings combine aesthetic ambition with complexity, cultural nuance and high expectations. They require venues and planners that are genuinely suited to delivering elegant, high-calibre celebrations.
Beyond Weddings operates as a professional-grade resource to find relevant venues and planners. It is a carefully curated list, not a mass-market directory. The information published publicly represents only part of what is held on file, much of which is built through direct relationships, international travel, familiarisation trips and long-term involvement in the global luxury wedding industry.
For planners
Beyond Weddings is designed to support you if you plan and deliver luxury, international or multi-day destination weddings for discerning clients.
You can use Beyond Weddings to identify venues that combine aesthetic distinction with the capability required for high-budget destination weddings, assess destinations with planner-relevant insight, and save time by filtering out venues that are misaligned with your clients’ expectations.
Registered planners can access additional destination intelligence, receive updates aligned to their markets, be introduced to suitable venues, and be invited to join relevant international familiarisation trips.
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For couples
Beyond Weddings is used by couples planning luxury destination weddings who want access to the same level of insight relied on by professional wedding planners.
You can use the platform to research destinations, explore carefully selected venues and connect directly with experienced planners and venues.
For couples who want a more guided approach, Beyond Weddings also offers a consultancy service. This involves matching you with a carefully considered selection of venues and planners based on your budget, priorities and guest profile, drawing on unpublished information and extensive international contacts.
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For venues
Beyond Weddings represents a small number of venues that are genuinely suited to luxury, high-budget international weddings.
Venues apply to be featured and not all applications are accepted. Inclusion is selective by design and based on relevance, experience, aesthetic alignment and capability.
Venues featured on Beyond Weddings benefit from direct enquiries from relevant couples and visibility to experienced wedding planners actively sourcing venues. Being selected for Beyond Weddings positions a venue within a curated, credibility-led luxury platform.
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Meet the team
Beyond Weddings is led by Alison Hargreaves, one of the most experienced and well-connected figures in the luxury wedding industry. Alison has more than 30 years’ experience working with venues, planners and destination partners internationally.
In 2025, Sasha Hargreaves joined the business, bringing a contemporary perspective shaped by her previous career as an internationally recognised equestrian, influencer and brand ambassador.
Beyond Weddings is supported by a logistics and operations team that underpins international research, travel and professional coordination.
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Who Beyond Weddings is not for
Beyond Weddings is not designed for high-volume, low-budget weddings. It is not designed for venues seeking broad un-targeted exposure. It is not for businesses without experience of luxury or destination weddings.
The focus is relevance, not reach. We are a selective platform for a specific market.