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Guests at long tables under the sailcloth event tent at Glamping Tago, with the Adjara mountains behind

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A Glamping Wedding Weekend in Georgia (the Country): How a 3-Day Tent Wedding for 40-100 Guests Works in 2026

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Updated 1 October 202638 min readPrices and facts checked: September 2026

A glamping wedding is not a ceremony with a tent in the photograph. It is a weekend where everyone sleeps, eats and celebrates in one place. Here is exactly how it runs at Glamping Tago in the Adjara mountains: the beds, the 2026 prices, the Friday to Sunday timeline, the food, the legal steps and the rain plan.

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  1. 1Glamping Tago
  2. 2Eco House Merisi Hotel and Restaurant
  3. 3Jewelberry Glamping Hotel
  4. 4Hill Inn Luxury Glamping & Treehouses
  5. 5Ajara Glamping
  6. 6Guest House Welcome, Tago
  7. 7Hotel Khulo Inn
  8. 8Sunrise, Khulo
  9. 9Hotel Posta, Khulo
  10. 10Hotel Anna Palace, Khulo
  11. 11Hotel Ambassadori Goderdzi
  12. 12Haiku Cottages, Merisi
  13. 13Ecorent
  14. 14SoundBatumi
  15. 15Dona Bakeshop
  16. 16Buket Batumi
  17. 17CITYBUS Georgia (Batumi)
  18. 18Khulo to Tago cableway
  19. 19Batumi Public Service Hall
  20. 20Bank of Georgia ATM, Khulo
  21. 21Aversi pharmacy, Khulo
  22. 22Rooms Kazbegi
  23. 23Tsinandali Estate, a Radisson Collection Hotel
  24. 24Lopota Lake Resort & Spa
  25. 25Kvareli Lake Resort
  26. 26Kabadoni
  27. 27Bioli Wellness Resort
  28. 28Panorama Kakheti Resort
  29. 29Chateau Davitiani
  30. 30Chateau Mukhrani
  31. 31Vazisubani Estate
  32. 32Hotel Porta Caucasia Kazbegi
  33. 33Green Lake (Mtsvane Tba)
  34. 34Beshumi
  • Batumi to Glamping Tago by car · 92 km
  • Batumi airport to Khulo by coach or minibus · 81.7 km
  • Khulo to Glamping Tago by 4x4 · 9.2 km
  • Glamping Tago to Green Lake by jeep · 39.9 km
  • Glamping Tago to Beshumi by jeep · 44.9 km

A glamping wedding weekend is a wedding where the venue is also the hotel. The ceremony, the dinner, the party and every guest's bed sit inside one fence, and the celebration runs for two or three days instead of one evening. In Georgia the country, that means buying out a built camp.

This guide is written from the inside of one. Glamping Tago sits at 1,200 m on the ridge above Village Tago in Khulo municipality, mountainous Adjara, 92 km and about two and a half hours from Batumi. Below you will find where 40, 60 or 100 guests actually sleep, the 2026 prices, the Friday to Sunday timeline, the food, the vendor rates, the legal steps and the rain plan, with an honest comparison against the hotels and estates couples look at instead.

What is a glamping wedding weekend, and how is it different from a one-evening venue?

The difference is beds and hours. A restaurant or banquet hall sells you an evening, and your guests then drive somewhere else to sleep. A glamping wedding weekend sells you the whole place for two or three nights, so the ceremony, the dinner, the fire and breakfast the next morning all happen where people are already sleeping.

A couple embracing under a green arch at a wedding at Glamping Tago
A ceremony on the meadow at Glamping Tago, Adjara
Blue and white vases of flowers on a wooden table in front of the event tent

That changes the supplier list more than anything else. A fully serviced venue needs 4 to 6 suppliers. A marquee in a bare field needs 12 to 15: the marquee, flooring, lighting, a generator, toilets, furniture, catering, a bar, heating, waste, entertainment and transport. A built camp sits at the serviced end, because the structures, the beds, the kitchen, the water and the power are already in the ground.

The gain that the tent-hire trade names itself is time: several days with your guests, no taxi queue, nobody leaving at ten, and helpers already on site the morning after. The loss they name in the same breath is the weather, and the fact that anything a hotel would simply hand you has to be arranged in advance. That is a fair summary of a camp wedding, from the people who rent the tents.

Where in Georgia (the country) can you hold a tent wedding where every guest sleeps on site?

Two built camps in Adjara sell a wedding weekend with the beds included, and both sit in the mountains behind Batumi rather than on the coast. Glamping Tago is bought out whole for the weekend; Eco House Merisi is glass cottages with a cliff-edge ceremony platform. Near Tbilisi, Jewelberry Glamping is the only other real glamping venue in the country, and ten domes cap it at about 40 people sleeping.

VenueJust your wedding?Beds on siteSettingGuestsNearest city
Glamping Tago (ours)Yes, the whole camp for the weekend33, plus 64 in the villageTents on a mountain ridge100Batumi, about 2 h
Eco House MerisiAsk: a hotel with cottages54Glass cottages, cliff-edge platform50-60Batumi, about 1 h 10
Jewelberry GlampingAsk: 10 domes20-40Domes in the fields near MtskhetaParty dome for 50Tbilisi, 30 min
Chateau DavitianiYes, bookable as a whole chateau12 roomsChateau in Kakheti100-150Tbilisi
Bioli Wellness ResortAsk: 14 cottages14 cottagesGlass cottages at 1,200 m130Tbilisi, 30 min
Rooms KazbegiNo, not sold as a buyout286Hotel terrace85 seatedTbilisi

Glamping Tago, Village Tago (Khulo, Adjara)

  • Where: the ridge above Village Tago, Khulo municipality, at 1,200 m
  • Drive from Batumi: 92 km, about 2.5 hours: 85 km of asphalt as far as Khulo, then 9 km of 4x4 mountain road
  • Capacity: up to 100 guests seated for the ceremony and the dinner; 33 beds on site and 97 within a ten minute walk
  • Price from: 3,258 GEL a night for the whole camp in April, 6,035 in July and August
  • Season: 1 April to the end of October, with the wedding season from May to mid-October
  • Good for: a two or three night buyout where nobody drives home afterwards
  • Watch out for: no bathrooms inside the tents, cold nights even in August, and a road that big coaches cannot climb

There are three ceremony spots on and around the camp: the meadow facing the mountains, the forest clearing on the valley overlook, and Otsinari lake, about half an hour's drive up the mountain for a couple who want the vows away from the camp.

Eco House Merisi, Merisi (Keda, Adjara)

  • Where: the Merisi side valley above Keda, in lower Adjara
  • Drive from Batumi: 48 km up the Keda and Merisi valley road, about 70 minutes
  • Capacity: a 50 m2 open ceremony platform on the cliff edge and a covered panoramic space of about 100 m2 as the weather plan
  • Good for: a smaller mountain wedding in glass cottages, an hour from the coast
  • Watch out for: the Merisi valley is a separate trip and not a stop on the Batumi to Khulo road, and the cottage count sets the real guest limit

Jewelberry Glamping, Shuaguli (near Mtskheta)

  • Where: Shuaguli park, 9 km from Mtskheta and about 30 minutes from Tbilisi
  • Capacity: ten geodesic domes of 28 and 38 m2, each with its own toilet, shower, kitchen corner and grill zone, for up to 4 guests, so 40 people sleep on site; a separate large dome holds 50 for a party
  • Good for: a celebration for a small party that wants a pool, a sauna and a short drive from the capital; the whole glamping can be booked for a programme of several days
  • Watch out for: a wedding party of more than 40 cannot all sleep there

The Adjara places that are not wedding venues

Two more glamping sites sit on the lower Adjara road, and both sell rooms by the night rather than a whole-property wedding. Hill Inn in Dandalo, 59 km and about 80 minutes from Batumi, has tents and tree houses, a home cinema, a bonfire amphitheatre, a forest spa with a sauna and an outdoor bath, and an outdoor pool. Ajara Glamping at Kokotauri is 53 km and about an hour from Batumi.

How do you sleep 40, 60 or 100 guests when the camp has 33 beds?

In three rings, and the bed count is the number to settle before anything else. The camp itself sleeps 33: twelve Lotus Belle tents for two people each, with a wood stove, a gas heater, electricity, linen and towels, plus a nine-bed dormitory dome with single cabins and a glass roof on the top tier. Seven families in Village Tago keep 27 rooms with 64 beds at 150 GEL a room a night, three to ten minutes on foot below the camp. About 60 camping spots fill the gap between the two. That is 97 real beds under a roof for a guest list of up to 100.

The tents of Glamping Tago on the ridge with the village and the valley below
33 beds on the ridge, 64 more in the village guesthouses a few minutes below

The village houses are held as one block and the allocation list goes to whoever is organising the wedding, so nobody has to book seven guesthouses separately. Bathrooms there are usually shared, every house has a balcony or a terrace, and guests sleeping in the village use everything at the camp: morning yoga, the sauna, the campfire, the bar and the restaurant. Everyone eats together up at the camp.

WhereRoomsBedsWalk to the camp
Glamping Tago, 12 tents and the dorm dome1333On site
Otari375 minutes
Irina5133 minutes
Maria41110 minutes
Dali4910 minutes
Gulnazi497 minutes
Marina477 minutes
Nodari385 minutes
Camping spots-about 60On site and in the gardens

The largest group the camp has hosted is 120 people, using the village houses plus an extra tent bought for that season. The weddings on our own wedding page have run smaller: 17 guests in August 2025, 24 in August 2025, 27 over 25 and 26 July 2026, 35 over 3 to 7 September 2025, and an alcohol-free family wedding for 38 guests including ten children on 6 and 7 September 2026.

The guests who should not sleep in a tent

Some people will be happier in a hotel room with its own bathroom, and it is kinder to decide that for them in advance than to let them discover it at midnight. There are no bathrooms inside the tents: the camp has two bathhouses with four hot showers and four toilets between them, two hair dryers, and an iron or steamer on request. There are no baby high chairs.

Guest House Welcome sits a few hundred metres below the camp in Tago itself and the family cooks. Nine kilometres down in Khulo there are four small hotels with private bathrooms, and one full-service hotel sits up on the Goderdzi pass.

Planning this yourself? See how Glamping Tago can host it

What does a three-day glamping wedding in Georgia cost in 2026?

The camp is priced as a place, not per tent. One wedding at a time, the camp closed to other guests, and the privatisation and the event tent are already inside the nightly price. Food, decor, music and transfers are quoted on top.

2026 prices

WhatPriceNotes
Whole camp, April3,258 GEL a nightAll 12 tents, the dorm, the event tent, both yoga spaces, the yurt
Whole camp, May3,711 GEL a nightSauna and campfire every evening included
Whole camp, June and September5,041 GEL a nightMorning yoga, the sound system, tea and coffee all day included
Whole camp, July and August6,035 GEL a nightThe busiest and dearest months
Whole camp, October3,646 GEL a nightGolden weeks, cold nights
Second event tent1,000 GEL per weddingOnly if you want a second structure
Extra mattress in a tent50 GEL an adult, 30 GEL a childPer night
Village room150 GEL a room a night27 rooms, 64 beds, held as one block
Extra night per tent, outside the buyout173 to 336 GELBy month, for the couple and early arrivals
Mountain supra, 3 courses85 GEL a guestUp to 100 guests
Euro-Georgian buffet125 GEL a guest
Signature menu, 5 courses215 GEL a guestFrom 30 guests
BBQ live station45 GEL a guestCooked for the whole group, not for part of it
Meat khinkali on the supra15 GEL a guest
Your own mangal set-up20 GELYou bring the meat
Arrival snack or full arrival buffet25 or 37 GEL a guest
Reception appetizers15 GEL a guestServed with the toast after the ceremony
Breakfast buffet32 GEL a guest09:00 to 11:00
Dinner buffet on the other evenings37 GEL a guest19:00 to 21:00
ChildrenFree under 6, half price 6 to 12
Corkage on your own wine or spirits15 GEL a bottleFive-litre bottles counted per litre
Sparkling wine from the bar45 GEL a bottle10% wedding discount on the drinks menu
Wedding arch, built by the camp team1,500 GELHandmade on site
Flowers on the tables and in the event tent750 GELA further 750 GEL for the rest of the camp
Extra decor and stylingfrom 1,000 GELQuoted after the mood board
Fireworks600 GELAllowed, and so are fire shows
Photo booth set-up1,000 GEL
Bride's bouquet and boutonniere150 to 600 GELFrom a Batumi florist, delivery from 200 GEL
Event lightingfrom 1,000 / 2,300 / 3,000 GELString lights; plus uplights and lit paths; full rig with a technician
Civil registration at the camp255 GELThe registrar travels to the venue
Venue only, you or your planner book the vendorsFreeOur vendor guide once you book: vetted vendors for every service, mostly based in Batumi, with contacts and approximate prices
Our coordination, only if you ask2,000 GELFixed fee, no percentage: we book and manage every vendor, build the timeline and run the day on site
Dog15 GELOne-off cleaning fee

Tablecloths, linen napkins, plates, cutlery, glasses, tea lights, three kinds of candle holder, lanterns, haystacks, the wooden photo frame and the welcome board cost nothing. The team builds the light poles and you bring plug-in string lights. Whatever decor you buy, the camp buys back at half price afterwards, and the planner's team eats free for the whole stay.

What a real weekend adds up to

Here is a two-night September weekend for 60 guests, built line by line from the table above. It is the shape most couples end up with.

LineSum
Whole camp, 2 nights in September10,082 GEL
12 village rooms for the 27 guests who do not fit on the ridge, 2 nights3,600 GEL
Arrival buffet, 60 guests2,220 GEL
Reception appetizers after the ceremony900 GEL
Mountain supra for the wedding dinner5,100 GEL
BBQ live station2,700 GEL
Two breakfasts3,840 GEL
Dinner buffet on the second evening2,220 GEL
Arch and flowers for the tables and tent2,250 GEL
Host, DJ and sound as one partner team5,000 GEL
Photographer, full day1,500 GEL
Registrar at the camp255 GEL
Return transfers, four 15-seat minibuses each way3,280 GEL
One vendor car from Batumi and back530 GEL
Our coordination, if you want it2,000 GEL
Totalabout 45,500 GEL

Built from exactly the same lines, the weekend comes to about 33,500 GEL for 40 guests in May and about 65,000 GEL for 100 guests in September. At 100 guests the village block is full at 64 beds, so the last few people take a camping spot or a room down in Khulo. None of those figures include the dress, the rings, the flights or the cake. Our own wedding page puts a wedding for 30 guests with dinner, breakfast and accommodation between 5,000 and 15,000 USD depending on the season and the decoration.

For scale outside the camp, Matilda Events puts a Georgian destination wedding at 6,000 to 10,000 EUR for 15 to 25 guests, 12,000 to 22,000 EUR for 40 to 60, and 25,000 to 45,000 EUR and up for 80 to 120.

How does the weekend actually run, Friday to Sunday?

Most couples arrive two or three days before the wedding day, and at least two nights is the sensible minimum: one to arrive and set up, one for the wedding itself. This is how the wedding day runs at the camp.

Lit tents around the fire circle at Glamping Tago in the evening, village lights below
Friday night: the fire circle seats 35
Inside the sauna tent: wooden benches, a wood stove and a round window onto the mountains
TimeWhat happens
09:00Leave Batumi
12:00Arrival, welcome lemonade, check-in; the couple gets ready in the yoga dome
16:00Ceremony on the meadow, facing the mountains
17:00Canapes, the toast, and golden-hour photographs by the yurt
19:00Dinner in the event tent
20:30Cake, first dance, fireworks
21:00The party starts in front of the tent with the DJ
22:30Bonfire at the fire circle
00:00Music outside stops and the party moves into the yurt
09:00 next dayMorning yoga and breakfast; check-out at 11:00

Two rules make that timeline hold. Leave about 30 minutes between blocks, because the same team has to turn the event tent from a ceremony room into a dining room. And put the photographs in golden hour rather than during dinner, which at this altitude means the hour before the light goes behind the ridge.

What does the venue already have, and what would you have to hire in a field?

This is where a built camp earns its price. Everything in the left column below is on site and included in the buyout; everything in the right column is what the same wedding would cost you to truck into an empty meadow.

A long wooden table with flowers and food in front of the sailcloth event tent
On site at the campThe same thing hired for a field
Sailcloth event tent, 15.2 by 9.7 m, about 150 m2, on a wooden deck, walls 2.4 m, peak 5.9 m, sides that close for rainA sailcloth marquee at 4,300 to 13,000 GBP or a giant tipi at 1,800 to 9,000 GBP for the structure and furniture; inside Georgia, Eventive hires marquees only up to 10 by 10 m
12 furnished tents and a 9-bed dorm, beds made up, stoves lit30 to 40 bell tents for 100 guests, from 165 GBP empty and 200 GBP furnished each, so 6,000 to 8,000 GBP in tents alone
Mains power, sockets at the event tent, extension cordsA generator sized on peak load: a marquee event draws 20 to 35 kW, and Ecorent hires a 33 kW machine at 230 GEL a day plus fuel, cabling and delivery from Tbilisi
Two bathhouses, 4 hot showers and 4 toilets, hot water from the camp systemPortable toilets at one unit per 25 to 50 guests, quoted per job in Georgia, plus hand washing, drinking water and somewhere for the grey water
Kitchen, yurt restaurant, bar, tea and coffee all dayCatering, a bar, refrigeration and a service team
JBL party speaker with two wireless microphones, free for weddingsA rig: the camp's partner crew is 2,600 GEL with two technicians and delivery, and SoundBatumi hires single fixtures from 30 to 100 GEL
Fire circle for about 35 people, firewood included; sauna with a cold plunge for 15A fire pit, the fuel for it, and no sauna
Starlink wi-fi at about 300 MbpsA booster, and no guarantee of signal in a valley
10 wooden tables, benches of 2.44 m seating 4 to 5 each for up to 100 guests, about 20 chairsFurniture hire, delivery and collection

Be equally clear about what is not there. The camp has no high-power generator, no stage, no event lighting rig and no baby high chairs, so a big dance-floor set-up or a stage show is hired in and its transport up the valley is part of the quote. The free speaker carries a ceremony, the speeches and dinner music; it is not a dance floor.

How do you feed 100 people on a mountain, and what about meat and drinks?

The kitchen is fully vegetarian and cooks fresh each morning, and it feeds a hundred people from a yurt. Meat is possible, but as a whole-group decision rather than a plate-by-plate one.

Khachapuri, salad and cake on a wooden table on the hillside at sunset

Yurtalicious, the yurt restaurant, seats 36 inside and 20 outside around a wood stove, which makes it the warm room when the weather turns. Breakfast runs 09:00 to 11:00 at 32 GEL, dinner 19:00 to 21:00 at 37 GEL, and the wedding menus are the three in the price table. Local women cook, and guests are asked not to bring their own food or drink.

For meat you have four ways to do it: a BBQ live station at 45 GEL a guest cooked for the whole group, meat khinkali on the supra at 15 GEL a guest, your own mangal set-up at 20 GEL where you bring the meat, or a dinner down in a village guesthouse for the part of the group that wants meat and the local table. Groups routinely move the barbecue to lunch, and it can be done without pork.

Drinks are the other lever. Bring your own wine or spirits at 15 GEL a bottle corkage, with five-litre bottles counted per litre, or buy from the menu with a 10% wedding discount. Not every wedding here drinks at all: one real wedding at the camp ran entirely on lemonade, compote, tea and coffee, with ten children among the 38 guests, and the kitchen plans the whole menu around it.

The cake is ordered down in Batumi and the camp kitchen adds fruit and the final touches on the day. Dona Bakeshop in the centre is the kind of patisserie couples use.

What do the vendors cost in 2026: host, DJ, sound, photography, video, flowers and light?

These are the approximate rates in the camp's vendor guide, which you get once you book, including the trip up the valley where noted; you agree the final price with each vendor and pay them directly. The market numbers next to them are what Georgian agencies publish, so you can see where a mountain job sits.

VendorAt the camp, 2026Georgian market
DJ, Georgian600 to 1,500 GEL plus transport400 to 800 USD for 4 to 6 hours
DJ, Russian-speaking, 6 hours2,000 GEL with the transfer from Tbilisi
Host or MC, Russian-speaking, 6 hours3,000 GEL400 to 800 USD for a tamada or a bilingual host
Host plus DJ plus sound, one teamfrom 5,000 GELUsually cheaper than booking the three separately
Sound rig, 2 technicians, delivery2,600 GEL (1,500 rig, 800 crew, 300 transport)From 850 USD, up to 5,000 to 6,000 for a big set-up
Live music800 to 2,500 GEL600 to 1,500 USD
Adjaran folk trio with a panduri900 GEL plus 50 GEL transferThree singers who play around Batumi and Adjara
Photographer, full day800 to 2,700 GEL850 GEL for 4 to 5 hours and 1,300 GEL for a full day in Batumi
Videographer650 to 2,000 USD, drone in every package600 to 2,000 USD for a full day, drone +200 to 400
Hair and make-up, bride, at the camp400 GEL including the trip from BatumiExtra people 150 to 250 GEL each
Event lightingfrom 1,000 to 3,000 GELFixtures 30 to 100 GEL each in Batumi
FlowersArch 1,500 GEL, tables 750 GELFrom 740 USD for a flowered arch in the regions

Videography is worth reading in detail because the packages are unusually clear: five hours with a clip up to three minutes is 650 USD, eight hours with a film up to five minutes 980 USD, ten hours with a 7 to 10 minute film and a teaser 1,500 USD, and two operators 2,000 USD.

Flowers are seasonal here in a way that matters. Local women pick flowers and greens from the village gardens and the forest, so the palette follows the month. Early August has very few, and they have to be brought up or ordered from Batumi.

You have three ways to run the planning. Venue only is free: you or your own planner book and coordinate the vendors, and once you book you get the camp's vendor guide, with vetted vendors for every service, mostly based in Batumi, their contacts and approximate prices; you agree the price and pay each vendor directly, and their transport up to the camp is usually extra. Or use the camp's partner planner, Iremi Wedding, who charge their own fee of usually 10 to 15% of the wedding budget, work in Russian and English, and cost nothing extra from the camp. Or ask the camp to coordinate it all for a fixed 2,000 GEL: we contact, book and manage every vendor, build the timeline and schedule, take as many planning calls as you need and run the day on site. Whichever you choose, our venue team runs the camp on the day: rooms, food and kitchen timing, the tent changeover and one contact on site.

How do 100 guests get up a mountain road, and what does that cost?

Batumi is the gateway, not Tbilisi. The road is 92 km and about two and a half hours: 85 km of asphalt as far as Khulo, then 9 km of mountain road that needs a 4x4 car or a minibus. Our own directions page gives 2h30 for the private 4x4 from Batumi straight to the camp, and 30 to 35 minutes for the last stretch from Khulo. A big coach cannot make the last climb. The standard solution for a large wedding is your own coach as far as Khulo and the camp's 4x4 cars and minibuses from there.

Off-road vehicles parked on the meadow at Glamping Tago
The last stretch up to the camp is a 4x4 road
LegDistanceTimePrice 2026
Batumi to the camp, 4x4 car for 492 kmabout 2.5 hours265 GEL one way
Batumi to the camp, 15-seat minibus92 kmabout 2.5 hours410 GEL one way
Khulo to the camp, 4x4 car for 49 km30 to 35 minutes75 GEL
Khulo to the camp, 15-seat minibus9 km30 to 35 minutes135 GEL
Batumi airport to Khulo, coach or minibus81.7 kmabout 2 hoursCharter rate, see below
Vendor car, Batumi and back184 km5 to 6 hours530 GEL
Kutaisi airport to the camp, per 4x4 car215 km via Batumi5h30465 GEL
Tbilisi to the camp, per 4x4 car447 km via Batumi8h30925 GEL
Akhaltsikhe to the camp, per 4x4 carover the Goderdzi pass4h30360 GEL
Waterfall picnic stop on the Batumi run50 GEL extra
Marshrutka Batumi to Khulo, every 30 min 08:00-20:0082 to 85 km2h305 to 10 GEL

Transfers are paid in cash at the camp reception and never to the driver. Pool your vendors into one car: the DJ, the host and the photographer in a single vehicle is 530 GEL for the round trip instead of three fares.

Three things every driver coming under their own steam needs to know. Use Maps.me for the last stretch and follow the wooden "Glamping Tago" signs, because other maps send cars the wrong way here, and Chao is a different village: it is 1.6 km west of us but 13 km and about 20 minutes away by road. With a 4x4 you park at the top of the camp by the sign; without one, park anywhere in Khulo centre and take the camp's taxi up for 75 GEL. And there is a second, easier way in for a normal car or a minibus: turn off the Batumi to Akhaltsikhe road at Zamleti, 4.7 km before Khulo, and follow the Skhalta valley south through Cheri and Dzmagula, 94 km and about two hours from Batumi in total. It is a little longer than going through Khulo and the road is kinder.

For the airport leg, CITYBUS Georgia charges 1,500 GEL a day for a local charter with driver, fuel, up to 250 km, parking and water, VAT included, and 200 GEL for each extra 50 km; driver accommodation is on you. Its Batumi office is at the central railway station.

Guests flying in from Europe generally come through Kutaisi, because Batumi airport has only one direct western European route, Riga with airBaltic, alongside Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Dubai, the Gulf, Central Asia and Tbilisi. Wizz Air flies into Kutaisi from Warsaw, Katowice, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Budapest, Berlin, Dortmund, Memmingen, Milan, Rome, London and Prague among others. Kutaisi airport to Batumi is 123 km and about two hours, and three bus companies run from the arrivals hall around the clock: Georgian Bus, Omni Bus and Metro Georgia.

Is it legally a wedding? Registering the marriage in Khulo or Batumi

Yes, and it is one of the easiest legal weddings in the region. Two foreigners can marry in Georgia with no residency requirement, no minimum stay and no waiting period, and a couple with clean documents files and signs on the same day, in about three hours. There are two routes.

The registrar comes to you for 255 GEL per wedding, arranged through the camp, and signs the marriage at the venue. Or you go down to the Public Service Hall branch in Khulo township at N5b Queen Tamar Street, 9 km and about 30 minutes below the camp, so nobody drives back to the coast for the paperwork. Registration at the counter is free there, and a ceremonial registration is 75 GEL, the same rate as in a Tbilisi branch. Our own guide for foreign couples walks through the whole day.

What you need, per the State Services Development Agency: valid passports, proof of legal entry into Georgia, and two legally capable adult witnesses. Both people file a joint written application and both must attend in person, and nobody can send a representative. A foreign passport needs no Georgian translation if the personal data is in Latin transliteration; any other foreign document needs an apostille or legalisation with a notarised Georgian translation. The minimum age is 18.

The certificate is issued in Georgian. The apostille that makes it valid abroad costs 30 GEL by the eighth working day, 60 GEL by the fourth, 120 GEL by the second and 150 GEL the same day, and it is recognised in about 130 countries; the eleven Minsk Convention countries need none. Two rules catch couples out: a translation has to be made and notarised inside Georgia, and a divorce decree issued abroad must be apostilled in the country that issued it, which takes 5 to 30 days, so start it 60 to 90 days before the date. If you would rather hand the whole legal side to somebody, Georgia Assistant charges 990 USD for on-site registration including translations, notarisation, witnesses and the ceremony, and Iremi Wedding sells a basic legal package at 390 EUR.

What do your guests need to sort out before they fly?

One new rule changes the invitation. Since 1 January 2026, government decree No. 602 requires every incoming tourist to hold health and accident insurance with a sum insured of at least 30,000 GEL, valid for every single day of the stay, and it is checked at every land and air border including Batumi, Kutaisi and Tbilisi. A policy that covers fewer days than the stay, or a gap between two policies, counts as non-compliance. It is an entry rule and has nothing to do with marrying. A compliant policy starts at about 2 GEL a day from Georgian insurers and about 3.50 USD a day is the usual price, infants are included, and entry can be refused without it.

The useful part for a wedding: one person can buy the policies for the whole guest list. A Georgian insurer's mandatory tourist policy can be bought by the traveller or by any person or company arranging a group of visitors, so the couple can cover 60 guests in one purchase. A PDF, a printout or a digital border card is accepted, in Georgian or English, and buying at the checkpoint is dearer than buying online. The exemptions are narrow: diplomats and consular staff on assignment, international-organisation staff on mission, travellers covered by a bilateral treaty, international freight and passenger drivers, and transit passengers who stay airside.

Tell your guests three more things. Bring cash: the village rooms and the transfers are paid in cash, and the nearest machine is the Bank of Georgia ATM at the Khulo service centre on Abashidze Street, 9 km below. Bring a warm layer, because nights are cold even in August. And bring anything medical they actually need, because the pharmacies and the clinic are also down in Khulo.

The nearest clinic is the Khulo clinic on Khimshiashvili Street, 9 km and about 30 minutes below the camp, and there is a second pharmacy, Pharmadepot, in the same town.

Which month should you pick, and what is the rain plan?

September and early October are the best weeks, and August is the driest and clearest. The camp is open 1 April to the end of October and closed from November to March, when there can be three metres of snow. The wedding season runs May to mid-October.

Clouds in the valleys of the Adjara mountains seen from the ridge
MonthDay / night at KhuloRain daysWhat it means for a wedding
April12 / 3 C11Camp opens; green and wet, cheapest buyout
May17 / 7 C11Everything green, flowers at their best
June20 / 10 C11Warm days, rhododendrons, high season begins
July22 / 13 C9Dearest month, the fewest wet days, warm nights
August23 / 13 C12The clearest month, but very few local flowers early on
September20 / 9 C11The month most weddings pick: warm, golden, quieter
October15 / 5 C10Autumn colour, cold nights, cheap buyout, snow possible late

Temperatures are the daily averages Weather Spark publishes for Khulo, where the warm season runs 5 June to 21 September and the clearer half of the year 8 June to 25 September. August is the clearest month, with a sky that is clear, mostly clear or partly cloudy 91% of the time. The rain days are the days with at least 1 mm that Weather and Climate counts, and they never drop below nine in any wedding month, so a covered plan is not optional at any date. Tago sits about 300 m above Khulo, so take a degree or two off the nights.

The plan itself is simple. The event tent has walls 2.4 m high and sides that close, and it stands on a wooden deck, so it is dry and the ground under it stays dry. The yurt takes 36 people inside around a wood stove. The ceremony can move under the sailcloth. Tents are heated with a wood stove and a gas heater, and the sauna is lit every evening.

Is a glamping wedding cheaper than a hotel or restaurant wedding in Georgia?

It is usually cheaper per guest for a weekend, and more expensive than a single evening in a restaurant. The honest comparison is not the sticker price but the seats-to-beds ratio, because that decides whether you are also paying for hotels, shuttles and a second venue.

VenueSeatsSleeps on siteCeremony fromDrive
Glamping Tago, Adjara10033 on the ridge, 64 more in the villageWhole camp 3,258 GEL a night2.5 h from Batumi
Rooms Kazbegi85156 rooms3,400 USD3 h from Tbilisi
Tsinandali Estate, Kakhetiup to 1,200196 rooms, 386 guests1,800 USD2.5 h from Tbilisi
Lopota Lake Resort, Kakhetiup to 400231 rooms3,250 USD2.5 h from Tbilisi
Kvareli Lake Resort, Kakhetiup to 200100 rooms2,200 USD2.5 h from Tbilisi airport
Kabadoni, Sighnaghi8021 rooms, 45 guests2,350 USD2 h from Tbilisi
Bioli, Kojori13014 cottages, up to 40 guests2,700 USDKojori, above Tbilisi
Panorama Kakheti Resortup to 13039 rooms from 130 USDQuoted per eventKakheti
Chateau Davitiani, Kakheti100 to 15012 rooms from 89 USDBookable as a whole chateauKakheti
Chateau Mukhraniup to 600none2,600 USD45 min from Tbilisi airport
Vazisubani Estate, Kakhetiup to 20019 rooms, up to 40 guests1,580 USD2 h from Tbilisi
Hotel Porta Caucasia, Kazbegi60-plus33 rooms from 150 USD at 1,700 mQuoted per eventKazbegi

Three of those venues carry a warning rather than a recommendation. Chateau Mukhrani seats 600 people and sleeps none of them, and its reviews from August and September 2026 repeat a rushed tour, a restaurant that turns guests away and a phone nobody answers. Vazisubani Estate seats up to 200 in 19 rooms, and recent reviews report bathrooms that flood and plumbing that does not work, one of them from a guest at a wedding there. Porta Caucasia is on paper the fair mountain comparison, and four one-star reviews in August 2026 describe rooms never cleaned over a five-night stay.

Against a restaurant wedding at home, the Georgian numbers for 2026 are these: a restaurant supra starts at 120 GEL a guest, minimal restaurant decor with the couple's table about 1,500 GEL, a 100-slice cake about 900 GEL and a full day of photo and video 1,800 GEL. Rings, dress, hair and make-up, cake, the signing, a photographer and a 100-seat supra together average more than 26,000 GEL, with restaurant prices about 10% up on the year. A wedding dinner in the Tbilisi agency market runs 40 to 150 USD a guest.

Two more things move the price in your favour. High season, May to June and September to October, carries a 20 to 30% premium on venues and popular vendors, and a Friday or a Sunday runs 10 to 20% cheaper than a Saturday. And a venue in Georgia normally owns no professional sound or light rig and no technicians, so the line you see at a hotel is not the line you actually pay.

For context on how the format is priced abroad, Under Canvas markets weddings, corporate retreats and private events across its American camps and quotes each one on request, and WedStay's whole-estate weekend buyouts start at 8,000 USD including lodging.

What do you book, in what order, and how far ahead?

Book at least three months out, and 6 to 12 months for June to September. Georgian venues and popular vendors go 6 to 8 months ahead, and a guest room block is normally secured 4 to 6 months out.

  1. Pick the date and hold the camp. A 30% prepayment of the total confirms the date. It is non-refundable and it counts towards the minimum spend rather than on top of it. Site visits are welcome at weekends, and there is a live video walk-through if you cannot come.
  2. Decide the format, because it drives everything else: number of nights, guest count, and whether you book the vendors yourself or with your own planner, plan with Iremi Wedding, or have the camp coordinate it all for 2,000 GEL.
  3. Book the vendors who travel: host, DJ, sound, photography and video. Pool them into one car.
  4. Block the village rooms and the Khulo hotel rooms for the guests who need a private bathroom.
  5. Arrange the legal side: the registrar at the camp for 255 GEL, or the Khulo Public Service Hall.
  6. Send the programme and timeline, the vendor list and the mood board 30 days before arrival.
  7. Confirm the final food count in writing 7 days before, with the rooming list. That count becomes the invoice.
  8. In the same week, confirm the menu, the drinks order and bar tab, the cake size and the address where the alcohol is collected.
  9. A few days before, send arrival times and pick-up addresses for every guest.

Anastasia, the camp's events and groups manager, answers wedding dates within 24 hours on +995 599 29 97 57 and sets up a video call to walk you through the spaces. A shared WhatsApp group with your planner and the camp team is the working channel from booking to the day itself.

The terms are worth reading once. A wedding books the whole camp: there is no partial booking and the number of tents cannot be reduced later, because the price is for the place and not per tent. The food headcount can move until 7 days before. The balance is invoiced before arrival, and meals and transfers are invoiced separately. Payment is by bank transfer in GEL, a 24-hour payment link with no commission, or a company invoice in GEL or EUR. Russian Visa, Mastercard and Mir cards do not work in Georgia, so plan a transfer or cash.

What couples get wrong about a mountain wedding weekend

  • Sending a coach all the way up. It cannot climb the last 9 km. Coach to Khulo, then the camp's 4x4 cars and minibuses.
  • Booking the weekend of Shuamtoba. Shuamtoba, the highland festival at Beshumi above Khulo, fell on Sunday 2 August in 2026, and the roads to it climb through Khulo. Summer traffic and fog on that road are bad enough on an ordinary day. Pick another weekend.
  • Trusting a Khulo forecast. Tago is about 300 m higher and behind a ridge.
  • Planning a big light and dance rig without pricing the transport. The camp has no high-power generator and no lighting rig, so both the kit and its journey up the valley are on the quote.
  • Ordering a cake that will not fit. The freezer door is 60 by 50 cm.
  • Assuming early August means flowers. It is the month with the fewest, and they come up from Batumi.
  • Letting guests arrive on the marshrutka on the wedding day. From Batumi they leave every 30 minutes between 08:00 and 20:00, from the old bus station yard at 1 Mayakovsky Street and not the new terminal; coming back down from Khulo the vans go when they fill up and the fare is not fixed.
  • Forgetting that the music stops outside at midnight. After that the party moves into the yurt, which is the point: the tents have to sleep.
  • Bringing no cash. Transfers and village rooms are cash, and the nearest ATM is 9 km down.

What can the guests do on the Saturday morning and the Sunday?

Quite a lot, which is the argument for the third night. Morning yoga and the evening campfire come with every stay, and the activities list prices the wood-fired sauna with a cold plunge from 300 GEL a group, a guided forest and herb walk from 50 GEL a person, a movie night on the panoramic platform from 5 GEL a person, and an Adjaruli khachapuri workshop with the kitchen team.

A small mountain lake in green meadows at Shuamta above Khulo
The highland meadows above Khulo, a half-day trip for Sunday

For a day out, the camp's own jeep trips take 1 to 14 people a car. Green Lake over the Goderdzi pass is 39.9 km and about an hour from the camp, climbing to just over 2,000 m, and works as a half day; our Green Lake guide has the detail. A jara honey tasting at a sixth-generation beekeeper's table is another half day. Ghorjomi with its wooden mosque, watermill and village bakery, and the Uchkho canyon with its ten waterfalls and certified guides, are full days.

Beshumi, the highland meadow resort at 1,850 to 2,000 m, is 44.9 km and about an hour from the camp. It is not on the Green Lake road: adding it costs another 18.4 km and 30 minutes, so treat it as its own trip up the same valley.

One thing worth building into the programme, whatever else you do: Georgian polyphonic singing has been on the UNESCO intangible heritage list since 2008, and it is a secular tradition, which is exactly why it belongs at a supra. The trio the camp books sings Mravalzhamier and Suliko, and guests ask for both by name.

Glamping Tago for this

A mountain wedding weekend at Glamping Tago

We are a built camp on the ridge above Village Tago in Khulo municipality, mountainous Adjara, at 1,200 m and about two and a half hours from Batumi. A wedding takes the whole camp: one wedding at a time, no other guests, and the privatisation and the sailcloth event tent are already inside the nightly price.

You get 12 Lotus Belle tents and a nine-bed dorm dome, the event tent on its deck, the ceremony meadow with benches for 100, the heated yoga dome as the getting-ready room, the yurt restaurant, the sauna and the campfire every evening, morning yoga, our speaker with two microphones, and tea and coffee all day. Seven families in the village keep 64 more beds three to ten minutes' walk below, held as one block.

The kitchen is fully vegetarian and feeds 100 people, with a BBQ live station, meat khinkali or a village dinner when a group wants meat. Plan it the way that suits you: venue only is free, with our vendor guide for you or your own planner; our partner planner Iremi Wedding plans it for their own fee; or we coordinate everything for a fixed 2,000 GEL. Write to Anastasia, our events and groups manager, with your date.

Guests
Up to 100 seated for the ceremony and the dinner, one wedding at a time
Beds on site
33: twelve Lotus Belle tents for two and a nine-bed dorm dome
Beds within ten minutes
64 more in 27 village rooms at 150 GEL a room, plus about 60 camping spots
Whole camp from
3,258 GEL a night in April, 6,035 in July and August, privatisation and event tent included
Wedding menus
Mountain supra 85 GEL a guest, Euro-Georgian buffet 125 GEL, signature five courses 215 GEL
Event tent
Sailcloth, 15.2 by 9.7 m on a wooden deck, sides that close for rain
Transfer from Batumi
92 km, about 2.5 hours: 265 GEL per 4x4 car or 410 GEL per 15-seat minibus, one way
Season
1 April to the end of October, weddings May to mid-October

Questions people ask

What is a glamping wedding?

A wedding where the venue is also the hotel. You take over a built camp with furnished tents, a kitchen and a covered event space for two or three nights, so the ceremony, the dinner, the party and every guest's bed are in the same place. The difference from a marquee in a field is that the structures, beds, water and power are already there: a serviced venue needs 4 to 6 suppliers, a bare field needs 12 to 15.

Where can I have a glamping wedding in Georgia (the country)?

In mountainous Adjara, behind Batumi. Glamping Tago above Village Tago in Khulo municipality is sold as a whole-camp buyout for up to 100 guests, and Eco House Merisi in the Merisi valley near Keda has a cliff-edge ceremony platform and a covered backup space. Near Tbilisi, Jewelberry Glamping is the only other built glamping venue, and its ten domes sleep up to 40 people, so a larger wedding party cannot all stay on site.

How many guests can stay overnight at a tent wedding at Glamping Tago?

Thirty-three sleep at the camp itself, in 12 Lotus Belle tents for two and a nine-bed dormitory dome. Seven families in Village Tago keep 27 rooms with 64 beds at 150 GEL a room a night, three to ten minutes on foot below the camp, and there are about 60 camping spots. That is 97 beds under a roof for a guest list of up to 100. The largest group the camp has hosted is 120 people.

How much does a three-day glamping wedding in Georgia cost?

The whole camp is 3,258 GEL a night in April, 3,711 in May, 5,041 in June and September, 6,035 in July and August and 3,646 in October, with privatisation and the event tent included. A two-night September weekend for 60 guests with four meals, an arch and flowers, a host with a DJ and sound, a photographer, the registrar and return transfers comes to about 45,500 GEL. For 40 guests in May it is about 33,500 GEL, and for 100 guests about 65,000 GEL, where the village block is full and the last few people camp or take a room in Khulo.

What happens if it rains on the wedding day?

The ceremony and the dinner move under cover. The sailcloth event tent is 15.2 by 9.7 m, about 150 m2, with walls 2.4 m high and sides that close, and it stands on a wooden deck so the ground under it stays dry. The yurt restaurant takes 36 people inside around a wood stove. Rain falls on at least nine days a month in every wedding month at this altitude, so the covered plan is used regularly rather than kept in reserve.

Is the food at a Glamping Tago wedding vegetarian?

The kitchen is fully vegetarian and cooks fresh every morning, and there are four ways to add meat. A BBQ live station is 45 GEL a guest and is cooked for the whole group rather than part of it, meat khinkali on the supra is 15 GEL a guest, your own mangal set-up is 20 GEL where you bring the meat, and a village guesthouse dinner suits the part of the group that wants meat and the local table. The barbecue can be moved to lunch and can be done without pork.

When is the wedding season at Glamping Tago?

The camp is open 1 April to the end of October and closed from November to March, when there can be three metres of snow. Weddings run May to mid-October. September and early October are warm and golden with the quietest roads, August is the clearest month with a clear or mostly clear sky 91% of the time, and May and June are the greenest. Nights are cold even in summer, so guests need a warm layer.

How do guests get to a mountain wedding in Adjara?

From Batumi it is 92 km and about two and a half hours, 85 km of asphalt as far as Khulo and then 9 km of mountain road. A 4x4 car for four is 265 GEL one way from Batumi and 75 GEL from Khulo; a 15-seat minibus is 410 GEL from Batumi and 135 GEL from Khulo. Big coaches cannot make the last climb, so a large group usually takes its own coach to Khulo and the camp's minibuses from there. Transfers are paid in cash at reception, never to the driver.

Can foreigners legally marry at a glamping wedding in Georgia?

Yes, with no residency requirement, no minimum stay and no waiting period, and a couple with clean documents files and signs on the same day, in about three hours. A registrar comes to the camp for 255 GEL, or registration at the counter of the Public Service Hall branch in Khulo township, 9 km below the camp, is free and a ceremony there is 75 GEL. You need valid passports, proof of legal entry and two adult witnesses, and both people must attend in person. A passport with Latin transliteration needs no Georgian translation.

Do wedding guests need travel insurance to enter Georgia in 2026?

Yes. Since 1 January 2026, government decree No. 602 requires every incoming tourist to hold health and accident insurance with a sum insured of at least 30,000 GEL, valid for every day of the stay and checked at every land and air border. It costs about 3.50 USD a person a day, infants are included, and entry can be refused without it. One person or company arranging a group can buy the policies for the whole guest list in a single purchase.

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