Top Wedding Destinations of 2026: Where the Most Extraordinary Celebrations Are Happening

Just beyond the city, in the pine-lined lanes of the East End, the storied greens of Southampton, and the rolling fairways of Long Island's North Shore, a different kind of celebration unfolds.

The New York estate wedding is, at its best, a world unto itself. Guests arrive on a Thursday and leave on a Sunday. They move between venues within a single property: a church ceremony in a nearby town, a cocktail hour overlooking the ocean, a tented reception that transforms a familiar place into something entirely new, an after-party that keeps the evening alive long after the formal program ends. The celebration is not an event. It is a weekend. The most considered versions of it feel less like a production and more like a gathering of people who genuinely love each other, in a place that means something.

Members-only or private golf clubs, where we have produced multiple celebrations over the years, offer the rare combination of natural beauty, institutional elegance, and genuine flexibility for planners who want to tell a specific, layered story. Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton brings a sweeping, cinematic landscape. The private estates of this corridor, when handled with care, offer a canvas unlike anything a hotel ballroom can provide.

The design language here is personal. It is color-forward and residential in feel, or it is pared back and architectural, but it is never generic. The East End has taste. The couples who choose it have taste. The best planners working here match both.

We return to this world again this year. More to come.

If there is one destination that needs no introduction, it is Italy. And yet it never becomes ordinary.

Part of what makes Italy so enduringly extraordinary for weddings is not just the setting, but the culture's profound relationship with celebration itself. In Italy, a wedding is not a transaction. It is a ritual. A many-coursed, late-evening, wine-soaked, emotionally generous expression of love that guests do not attend so much as participate in. The traditions run deep, from the millefoglie cake to the long dinners that begin as the sun sets and end well past midnight.

For couples with Italian heritage, a destination wedding in Italy is a homecoming of another kind entirely. For those without, it is an invitation into a way of marking time that is slower, richer, and more deeply human than almost anywhere else. For guests, Italy is a destination in itself. The Amalfi Coast, Tuscany, Lake Como: these are not locations people fly to reluctantly. They plan extensions. They bring family. They turn the wedding weekend into the trip they have been wanting to take.

At Easton Events, Italy has been part of our story for years. The layered borgo experience of Castiglion del Bosco in Tuscany, a UNESCO World Heritage estate where celebrations unfold across medieval grounds and sweeping Val d'Orcia views, remains one of the most extraordinary canvases we have worked on. Borgo Sant’Andrea, suspended on the Amalfi cliffs between sea and sky, offers a more intimate, cinematic version of Italian grandeur. Villa Erba on Lake Como, where century-old cypresses frame the water and baroque architecture turns every photograph into a painting, continues to set the standard for old-world celebration.

Later this year, our attention turns further south to Puglia, a region we have long admired for its distinctive whitewashed masserie, its ancient olive groves, and its quieter, more rustic interpretation of Italian beauty. We are looking forward to exploring it more deeply.

Italy, in all its forms, is not going anywhere. Neither are we.

For a deeper look at some of the specific venues where we have produced extraordinary events in Italy and beyond, our Destination Deep Dive: The Best Global Venues for High-Touch Weddings is worth a read. 

Paris does not need to try. That is its greatest gift to the planner, and its greatest challenge. Because when a city is already the most beautiful in the world, the risk is that a wedding set within it becomes merely a backdrop, beautiful certainly, but impersonal. The planners who succeed in Paris are those who understand how to make it specific. How to make it theirs.

We have done this across years of celebrations in and around the city. Château de Villette, the breathtaking private estate designed by André Le Nôtre just outside Paris, offers regal grandeur with genuine estate privacy, its formal gardens and glass orangerie providing a series of distinct, layered spaces across which a full multi-day wedding can unfold beautifully. Le Grand Contrôle sits within the private grounds of the Château de Versailles itself, offering something rarer still: rooms once reserved for royalty, exclusive access to the Hall of Mirrors after the public has gone home, and an atmosphere of intimacy within one of the most storied settings in the world. These are not interchangeable venues. Each speaks to a different vision of what a French celebration can be, and knowing which one serves your couple is part of the Easton approach.

Paris rewards the multi-day format. A welcome dinner in a candlelit bistro in the Marais. A ceremony followed by a reception that moves through gardens and onto a terrace as the evening deepens. A farewell brunch with views across the rooftops. Each moment its own editorial chapter, with the city providing the connective thread.

The South of France, with its lavender and limestone, its farmhouse light and unhurried pace, offers a quieter counterpoint and one we know well. Le Mas des Poiriers in Provence brought that same restraint and intention that defines the best work we have produced in this region.

France, in all its registers, continues to define the conversation around what Ultra-Luxury destination weddings can be.

There is a Saint-Tropez that belongs to the yachts and the nightclubs, the rosé and the beach clubs. There is also the Saint-Tropez that reveals itself when you go further in, up into the hills, past the umbrella pines, to places like Château de la Messardière.

This 19th-century château, perched above the bay of Pampelonne with 13 hectares of gardens and sweeping views of the Riviera, was built as a wedding gift and has been hosting extraordinary celebrations ever since. It balances grandeur and intimacy with genuine ease: lush gardens for ceremonies, terraces for candlelit dinners, five restaurants that reflect the full range of Riviera cuisine, and 86 rooms and suites for guests who need no excuse to extend their stay. It is a venue we know intimately, and one that rewards planners who understand how to balance the Riviera's natural exuberance with a quieter, more considered design sensibility.

Saint-Tropez itself delivers effortlessly on guest experience. The private beach clubs, the Pampelonne sunsets, the proximity to Provence and its vineyards: arriving for a wedding here is, for most guests, already a gift. The planner's job is to layer meaning on top of that and to ensure the production precision matches the natural beauty of the setting.

The light in Greece is immediately, almost unreasonably generous. The Aegean in late summer shimmers in a way that defies description. Whitewashed villages cling to cliffsides. Ancient stone meets the sea. Everywhere, there is a quality of timelessness, of a landscape that has been beautiful for millennia and has no intention of stopping.

Greece has been on our radar for years, and the conversation around it as a premier destination for Ultra-Luxury weddings is growing with real momentum. The 2026 Destination Weddings Tourism Forum held in Athens confirmed what we have long sensed: demand is surging, particularly from high-spending US and international couples seeking something that combines natural drama with genuine cultural depth.

Beyond Santorini's iconic caldera views and Mykonos's world-class production capacity, what excites us about Greece in 2026 is the quieter tier of destinations emerging beneath the headlines. Islands like Sifnos, Hydra, and Spetses, places where luxury is found in the simplicity of a long dinner under olive trees, the quality of the light, and the genuine warmth of local teams who have built careers around this kind of hospitality.

Greece is a destination we are actively and enthusiastically watching, and we have a feeling 2026 will be an important year there for us.

Mexico is a country of extraordinary range, and to speak of it in a single sentence is to do it a disservice. From the colonial grandeur of its highland cities to the dramatic Pacific coast, from the Yucatán's jungle-fringed ruins to the Baja peninsula's desert landscape meeting the sea, each region offers a distinct identity, a distinct design palette, and a distinct approach to celebration.

For US-based couples seeking an international wedding experience without a transatlantic flight, Mexico offers something increasingly compelling: world-class hospitality, profound cultural richness, and a genuine capacity for the kind of multi-day, immersive guest experience that defines the Ultra-Luxury space.

San Miguel de Allende, the UNESCO World Heritage highland city, holds a particular place in our experience and our affections. The Rosewood San Miguel, with its lush gardens framing the iconic Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel cathedral, its castle-like architecture, and its seamless weaving of Mexican and international hospitality, offers a venue of genuine distinction. We have produced celebrations there that drew on the full richness of the city: mariachi at welcome parties, late-night mezcal bars, fireworks over the cathedral, and tablescapes that burst with the vivid, layered color that San Miguel does better than almost anywhere on earth. The city itself becomes part of the celebration, and guests who arrive as visitors often leave as devotees.

Further south and west, the coast of Baja, with its dramatic meeting of desert and sea, its extraordinary clarity of light, and its growing infrastructure of world-class properties, is a conversation we are increasingly having with clients looking for something that feels both adventurous and effortlessly elevated.

Mexico, in all its diversity, is a destination that rewards planners who approach it with curiosity, respect, and a willingness to let the place lead.

We will be there later this year. We cannot wait.