How to Get Married in Georgia (the Country) as a Foreigner in 2026: Documents, Costs, and Where to Celebrate

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Updated 1 October 2026·38 min read·Prices and facts checked: September 2026

Two foreigners can marry in Georgia (the country) in a single day, and the registration itself is free. Here is the exact document list, what the 2026 insurance decree requires, the official ceremony and apostille fees, and where to celebrate afterwards.

Yes. Two foreign citizens marry each other in Georgia, the country between the Black Sea and the Caucasus, with no residency requirement, no minimum stay and no waiting period. Registration without a ceremony is free at any Public Service Hall, and a couple whose documents are in order applies and signs on the same day.

The Public Service Development Agency registers the marriage. You bring two valid passports, proof that you entered Georgia legally, and two adult witnesses with ID. You fill in the joint application at the counter. The certificate is issued in Georgian, and an apostille makes it valid in the 130 contracting parties of the Hague Apostille Convention, which Georgia joined on 14 May 2007.

Geostat counts 22,285 marriages in Georgia in 2025, a rate of 5.7 per 1,000 people, and 10,006 in the first half of 2026, of which 1,144 were in Adjara.

The legal part of this guide is the same wherever in the country you marry. The last sections cover where to celebrate afterwards, which is where the Adjara mountains come in.

Both partners must be 18 and legally competent, and neither may already be married to someone else. Civil Code article 1108 lost its exception for 16-year-olds on 16 December 2015, and the transitional court route for 17-year-olds expired on 1 January 2017, so there is no route to marriage below 18 in Georgia.

The agency's list of bars on marriage is short:

• One partner is already married to someone else.
• Relatives in the direct ascending or descending line: parent and child, grandparent and grandchild.
• Brother and sister, biological or not.
• An adoptive parent and the person they adopted.
• A person under support who has not concluded the marriage contract Georgian law requires of them, under Civil Code article 1172(2).
• Two people of the same sex. Article 30(1) of the Constitution defines marriage as a union of a woman and a man.

Cousins are not on that list.

Nationality is not a filter. Two foreigners marry each other, a foreigner marries a Georgian citizen, and nobody asks for an embassy letter or a certificate of no impediment. That absence is why couples come from countries where civil marriage is hard to reach. Iran offers only religious marriage under Sharia, where the bride needs her father's or paternal grandfather's written permission and a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts. Israel has no general civil marriage route at all. Georgia asks for none of it: no guardian's consent, no medical test, no genetic test.

At any territorial office of the Public Service Development Agency, any Public Service Hall branch (the building everyone calls the House of Justice) or any wedding house. All of them register any couple, so pick the one nearest to where you will celebrate. The counter registration is free everywhere.

The halls run on an electronic queue. You tell the information desk you have come for marriage registration, take a numbered ticket and are sent to the application area. Every fee is paid by card or bank transfer, because Decree No.373 allows no cash at the counter, and it is paid before the service and no later than the day you file.

Two pieces of advice come straight out of these buildings. At the Tbilisi hall, come early in the morning: it fills through the day and the queue slows with it. At the Batumi hall, read every letter of both names on the certificate before you leave the counter, because a mistake made at the counter means coming back and paying again to fix it.

If you want a ceremony rather than a counter signature, the official directory of House of Justice branches lists five wedding houses in the whole country: three in Tbilisi, one in Rustavi and one in Kutaisi, which is a room inside the Public Service Hall itself. The Tbilisi N2 hall also runs a wedding space in Mtskheta, at 3 Arsukidze St.

At the Batumi Public Service Hall for the free counter registration, or you pay 255 GEL and a registrar comes out to your venue. Adjara has no third option: demolition of the wedding house at the central entrance of Batumi Boulevard was under way on 25 February 2026, on the initiative of the Adjara government and in coordination with the Ministry of Justice, and the House of Justice is to build a replacement elsewhere in the new boulevard.

That matters for your budget in a way agency pages have not caught up with. The 135 GEL weekday and 225 GEL weekend wedding-house tiers of the state tariff now have no Adjara address to be charged at, and agencies are still selling ceremonies in the Dolphin hall that came down in February. In Adjara the choice is free and plain at the counter, or 255 GEL and the registrar travels.

The Batumi hall is closed on Saturday and Sunday, which is the real constraint on an Adjara wedding weekend. Couples work around it by registering on the Friday and holding the ceremony on the Saturday, which is legally already a marriage, or by booking the off-site registrar for the day itself.

Registration without a ceremony is free at every Adjara branch, not only the main one. The official directory lists Batumi N1 and N2, Keda, Shuakhevi, Khulo, Kobuleti and Chakvi. For a wedding in upper Adjara, the nearest civil registration point is not Batumi at all but the Khulo branch, 8.7 km below Village Tago at 926 m.

Four things for a straightforward couple, and a fifth if either of you has been married before.

• Valid passports, originals, for both of you. It must be the same passport you entered Georgia on. If you came in on a national ID card, the migration card the border gave you is your entry document.
• A joint written application, filled in at the hall. In it you declare that no legal impediment exists and how many times each of you has been married.
• Proof that you are in Georgia on legal grounds: the entry stamp, the migration card or a residence permit. The agency asks every foreign citizen for this.
• Two witnesses of full age and legal capacity, any nationality and any gender, with valid ID. They attend the signing.
• If either of you was married before: the divorce decree or the former spouse's death certificate. Any document issued abroad, other than an identity document, has to be apostilled or consular-legalised in the country that issued it and come with a notarised Georgian translation.

A certificate of no impediment is not on the agency's document list for a marriage in Georgia. You declare your status in the application and you carry the responsibility for that declaration. The certificate the agency does issue runs the other way: it is for Georgian citizens and stateless persons in Georgia who want to marry abroad, and it costs 40 GEL on the fifth working day, 65 GEL on the second and 95 GEL the same day.

A birth certificate is not required. Turkish and Russian language pages list extra documents that the Georgian side never asks for: an international birth record, a certificate of capacity to marry, passport photographs, a health report, a passport with six months of validity left. The agency's own list has none of it.

You also want a Georgian phone number. The hall sends the SMS that says your papers are ready to a local number, and agencies ask for one before they file for you.

Nothing you hand in comes back. Passports are returned at the counter, but the translations and the apostilled certificates stay with the application in the Georgian archive. Make certified copies of everything before you file.

Officially no, and the agency's own wording is narrow enough to quote: it "shall be entitled to accept the passport of the foreign citizen without Georgian translation, if it contains Latin transliteration of the personal data of the foreign citizen". Nearly every modern biometric passport does.

In practice the answer depends on your name rather than your nationality. At the Batumi hall one partner's passport went through without a translation, because every letter of her name exists in the Georgian alphabet, while her husband's translation was taken into the archive because his surname ends in a Russian letter Georgian does not write. Ask at the information desk before you pay for anything.

Two rules hold whatever your name looks like. The translation has to be made and notarised inside Georgia: a translation notarised in your own country is not accepted. And a divorce or death certificate is always translated and notarised, even when the passports are not. If your witnesses carry foreign passports, theirs go through the same test as yours.

Budget 20 to 80 GEL per document. A Tbilisi office charges from 20 GEL a page with same-day turnaround, plus 2 to 6 GEL a page for the notary; three passports handed in together in Tbilisi came to 45 GEL. Offices facing the House of Justice are faster and dearer than ones a street away.

Not as a marriage document, but you need it to be in the country legally, which comes to the same thing. Government Decree No.602 of 26 December 2025, in force from 1 January 2026, requires an incoming tourist to hold health and accident insurance with a minimum sum insured of 30,000 GEL, roughly USD 11,430, covering the whole stay from entry to departure and no longer than a year. The duty itself sits in article 12 of the Law on Tourism, which entered into force on 1 June 2024 and was then suspended until 1 January 2026.

The decree says nothing about marriage. It is an entry rule, and an officer of the Patrol Police may check the policy at the border crossing. Wedding agencies list it among "marriage documents" because every foreign couple marrying here is a tourist who must carry it.

The policy must name the parties, the covered territory, the subject of the insurance, the start and end time, the insured risks, the sum insured with its limits, and the premium with the place and term of payment. Paper or electronic, in Georgian or English, from a Georgian or a foreign insurer. At land crossings and at the Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi airports the officer accepts either a PDF or printout or a digital border card with a QR code linked to your policy on file with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The exemptions are narrow: holders of a diplomatic or special visa, holders of a diplomatic, official, service or special passport, accredited staff of missions and international organisations together with their accredited family members, people whose entry is covered by Georgia's international agreements, and drivers on international freight and passenger runs. Transit passengers who never clear passport control are outside it, and so are Georgian citizens and permanent residents. Visa-free entry changes nothing: the 98 nationalities who may stay a year without a visa need the policy like everyone else.

What it costs is small. Unison sells the compliant policy at 1.7 GEL per person per day, with the 30,000 GEL limit split into 20,000 GEL of emergency hospitalisation and 10,000 GEL of emergency outpatient care, plus 5,000 GEL of repatriation and 2,000 GEL of medical evacuation after a sports injury. Ardi and Aldagi sell the same cover. Buying at the border is legal and costs more.

There are three ways to get this wrong, and wedding parties get all three. Every traveller needs their own policy in their own name, infants included, so a family of four buys four. Buying at the airport on arrival leaves a gap, because the Unison policy sold through Cover excludes any event in the first six hours after purchase, which covers your taxi and your first evening. And a gap between two policies counts as non-compliance, so extend the one you have instead of buying a second. A policy that ends on the day you fly out is fine; one that ends the night before is not.

If you cannot produce a policy at the border, the officer asks you to buy cover before you are let through.

1. Sixty to ninety days out. Apostille any divorce decree or death certificate in the country that issued it. Book the venue and, if you want the registrar at it, the date.
2. Before you fly. Buy insurance that names Georgia and clears 30,000 GEL for your whole stay. Get a Georgian SIM on arrival.
3. Translations, on arrival. Notary translation offices sit around every hall and turn a document round in hours. Bring originals, and check the spelling of both names before anything is filed.
4. File the joint application. Both of you, at the hall, with your passports and proof of legal entry. The paperwork itself takes about 20 minutes at the counter. An agency can file for you in advance on a notarised power of attorney.
5. Wait for the SMS. It says the documents are ready. Filed in the morning, it comes the same day, usually within one to four hours; filed days or weeks ahead, it comes the evening before your date.
6. Sign, with your two witnesses. The signing visit takes 20 to 50 minutes at the counter, half an hour as a ceremony. You leave with the Georgian marriage certificate.
7. Order the apostille. Straight after signing if you fly out soon. Pick the speed you are willing to pay for.
8. At home. Take the apostilled certificate, with a certified translation if your registry asks for one, to your own civil registry.

The paperwork is bilingual only in the sense that the staff speak English and Russian. The record itself is kept in Georgian and the ceremony is conducted in Georgian, so bring an interpreter if neither of you speaks it. A planner does this, and so do we for weddings at the camp.

Registration is free. Everything on the bill is a ceremony, a translation, an apostille or somebody's time, and the state fees are set by Decree No.373 of 18 July 2022, which replaced the old tariff on 1 August 2022.

2026 prices

Done yourselves, the legal part lands between roughly 100 and 400 GEL: free registration, one apostille at the speed you need, and translations if your names need them. The ceremony tier you choose moves it. That is USD 35 to 145.

Agencies start at EUR 390 and the spread above that is wide. Register in Georgia unbundles it into witnesses at 100 GEL, a full service at 600 GEL with government fees on top and legalisation alone at 300 GEL. Bineli prices a Tbilisi express day at EUR 970, a standard registration at EUR 780 and a registry-office ceremony at EUR 910 on a weekday or EUR 995 at the weekend. Kate&Co starts at USD 450 for registration with an apostille and advertises an outdoor registration from USD 1,800, against the 255 GEL the state charges to send the registrar. What the money buys is real: queue management, witnesses if you arrived as a couple alone, a car, and somebody who speaks Georgian to the registrar. It is worth paying when you land on a Sunday and want to marry on Monday, and it is worth skipping when you have a week and a planner already.

Two working days is the honest plan, and one long day is possible. With documents already in order, about three hours separates filing the application from holding the certificate: 20 minutes at the counter, one to four hours for the SMS, then a signing visit of 20 to 50 minutes. Submit in the morning for same-day service and expect the ceremony in the evening, often after 17:00.

Filing a few days or weeks ahead is calmer and costs nothing extra. The SMS comes the evening before, and the signing itself takes half an hour. Standard registration at the hall runs two to three hours on a normal day and longer in a busy summer week.

The apostille is the part that sets your flight home. Same-day costs 150 GEL, the eighth working day costs 30 GEL, and a planner can collect it later and post it. Agencies that promise an apostilled certificate in two working days are charging for the speed, not for magic.

Then watch the calendar. Georgia's public holidays in 2026 are 1 and 2 January, 7 January, 19 January, 3 March, 8 March, 9 April, 10 to 13 April for Orthodox Easter, 9 May, 12 May, 26 May, 28 August, 14 October and 23 November. Georgia does not move a holiday that falls at the weekend. The Easter block moves with the Orthodox calendar: it fell on 10 to 13 April in 2026 and runs 30 April to 3 May in 2027.

Yes, for 255 GEL, anywhere in Georgia. The line in Decree No.373 is "conducting the marriage ritual outside the building", and it is the same 255 GEL whether the venue is a Tbilisi garden or a ridge in upper Adjara. The one exemption from the fee is a person being treated in a medical institution where the ceremony has to be held.

Book the slot and pay it properly, because the decree is strict about both. Half the fee is due within one hour of the booking being confirmed and the other half when the application is registered, and if you do not file in time the booking money is not returned. Cancel before the application is registered and you get the whole fee back, within 10 working days of asking in writing, and you have three months to ask.

There is a second route, and experienced planners prefer it. You register at the Public Service Hall on day one and hold the ceremony wherever you like on day two, which is legally already a marriage and costs nothing beyond the free registration. It is cheaper, and it takes the weather and the traffic out of the legal part. The registrar who travels arrives at a fixed time and does not wait for a late couple.

If you want the registrar at the venue, book early and lock the details. The date, the time and the place go into the application and are hard to change afterwards. Seven days is the minimum a planner will quote; one to two weeks is the realistic booking window for both the date and the specialist. For a wedding with guests between June and September, the venue and the registrar go 2 to 12 months ahead.

At Glamping Tago the on-site civil registration is 255 GEL per wedding, the same figure the state charges to send a registrar out. We arrange the registrar and interpret at the ceremony.

One of three answers, and it decides what you do in your last two days in Georgia. Eventive keeps the fullest country-by-country list.

Apostille, one stamp. The United Kingdom, the USA, Israel, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Pakistan, Canada, Australia, China and the EU states. Vietnam moved into this group in September 2026. The agency apostilles the Georgian certificate at the tariff above, and it is then valid in all 130 contracting parties. Put the apostille on the Georgian certificate, not on a translation of it.

Consular legalisation, three stamps. The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Inside Georgia it is two stages, the Public Service Development Agency and then the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the agency forwards the document itself, so you apply at any Public Service Hall. The third stamp, at the receiving country's mission, is what that country then asks for, and a legalised document only works in the country whose mission stamped it. The UAE and Qatar have embassies in Tbilisi. Where your country has no mission here, only the Georgian stages can be done before you fly.

Nothing at all. Under the Minsk Convention of 22 January 1993, a Georgian document needs neither apostille nor legalisation in eleven countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. A notarised translation into that country's language is enough. It runs the other way too: a divorce certificate from those countries is accepted in Georgia as an original.

The House of Justice translates the certificate into English, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Greek at 30 GEL a page, but only as part of the apostille or legalisation packet: it does not sell a plain translation on its own. A translation office does that from 20 GEL a page plus the notary's 2 to 6 GEL.

Everything about the residence permit that follows, and nothing about the marriage itself. Under Government Resolutions No.416 and No.417 of 26 August 2026, in force from 1 September 2026, the foreign spouse of a Georgian citizen gets a separate spouse residence permit for one year, extendable two years at a time to a maximum of five years on that basis. Permanent residence comes only after five years of a continuing marriage, so marriage to a Georgian citizen is no longer a direct route to it. The agency decides within 90 calendar days, and that review can be extended by a further three months. Applications filed before 1 September 2026 finish under the old rules.

A six-member interdepartmental commission now checks that the marriage is genuine: two members from the Public Service Development Agency, two from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and two from the State Security Service. It may interview you together or separately, repeat the interview, and visit and inspect your home and interview the relevant people there, with at least two members from at least two agencies present at an inspection. Cooperating is not optional: failing to appear, refusing to cooperate or refusing a home visit means the application is rejected.

Three details catch people out. The summons to the interview is published on the Public Service Development Agency website and counts as served on publication, so you watch the website rather than wait for a call or an email. A refusal cannot be appealed to a higher administrative body, only to court, within 10 calendar days of the decision being delivered. And the commission's own protocol cannot be appealed on its own: it travels with the final decision. If the commission suspects a sham marriage the file goes to the investigative body where the Georgian spouse lives, with a copy to the Prosecutor's Office, and the permit review is suspended until the investigation ends or a prosecution begins.

Money in your own bank account counts towards the income test, and it must be at least twice the monthly subsistence minimum for an average consumer in Georgia across the permit's validity.

In most countries, yes, and you do not re-marry. Most legal systems apply lex loci celebrationis, the law of the place of celebration: a marriage valid under Georgian law when it was registered is recognised. The UK government puts it the other way round, that whether you can marry abroad depends on the law of the country you marry in, and it tells you to check the process and the documents with the authority that registers marriages there before you travel.

Georgia does not notify your home country. You report the marriage yourself, through your embassy or your civil registry, and some countries set a deadline for doing so. Ask your own registry what it wants before you fly, because the answer decides whether you need the apostille in hand or can have it posted.

The certificate takes an afternoon. The wedding is what your guests remember, and Georgia puts four very different backdrops within a few hours of the halls: the Adjara mountains and coast from Batumi, and the Kazbegi high mountains and the Kakheti wine country from Tbilisi.

Our own comparison of the mountain regions, with beds, drive times and prices, is in Mountain wedding venues in Georgia, 2026. If you are weighing coast against mountains, see Wedding in Adjara: Batumi coast or the mountains?, and for how a multi-day tent wedding actually runs, A glamping wedding weekend in Georgia.

Which of them fits your wedding comes down to a few plain questions:

Glamping Tago, Village Tago (Adjara)

Where: the top of the hill above Village Tago, Khulo municipality, at 1,200 m. Drive time: about 2 hours from Batumi, 89.3 km, the last 30 minutes on a mountain road. Capacity: up to 100 wedding guests in a 150 m2 event tent, 33 beds on site and 64 more in the village. Price from: 3,258 GEL a night for the whole camp in April. Season: April to the end of October. Good for: a two or three-day mountain wedding where the whole property is yours and the registrar comes to you. Watch out for: the road, the cold nights, and the fact that we host one wedding at a time, so dates go early.

Hotel Chateau Iveri, Keda (Adjara)

Where: Varjanisi in the Keda valley, 48.7 km and an hour from the Batumi hall. Capacity: 7 rooms and a hall for about 40 seated guests plus terraces. Price from: USD 2,990 for a wedding package, as Lotus Wedding advertises it. Season: all year. Good for: a small vineyard wedding an hour from the airport, and the one Adjara venue genuinely on the road to the mountains, adding 1 km and 5 minutes to the Batumi-to-Tago drive. Watch out for: the restaurant. Rooms, views and staff draw praise, and the food is what recent guests single out as the weak point, so taste the catering menu before you sign for it.

Eco House Merisi, Keda (Adjara)

Where: Silibauri above Merisi, 51 km and 68 minutes from the Batumi hall at 803 m. Capacity: a hall for 50, ceremony and dinner for up to 60, and 54 beds in 12 cottages and 3 villas that each take 2 to 10 people. Price: quoted individually. Season: all year. Good for: a 50-guest mountain wedding with a real wet-weather plan, a 50 m2 clifftop ceremony platform and a covered 100 m2 panoramic platform for rain. Watch out for: it is a separate trip from upper Adjara, not a stop on the way, adding 23.3 km and 38 minutes, and there is no shop nearby, so bring what you need.

Batumi Botanical Garden (Adjara coast)

Where: Green Cape, 11.8 km and 16 minutes north of the Batumi hall, climbing from the shore across 108.7 hectares. Price: 25 GEL at the gate for a foreign visitor, 10 GEL for Georgian citizens and permanent residents with ID, sold only at the entrance ticket offices. Season: open daily, 09:00-20:00 in summer and shorter hours from October to March. Good for: an off-site ceremony with the sea below and no mountain road, which is where our partner planner held a wedding in September. Watch out for: this is the coast instead of the mountains, not as well as. As a stop on the way to Tago it adds 24.2 km and 27 minutes in the wrong direction.

Rooms Kazbegi, Stepantsminda

Where: Stepantsminda at about 1,740 m, 152.9 km and about 2h33 from the Tbilisi hall. Capacity: 155 rooms, and the largest meeting hall seats 120 at a banquet or 150 theatre-style, as the Convention and Exhibition Bureau of Georgia lists it. Couples also marry on the terrace, which is the shot people come for. Season: all year, with the Jvari pass the weak point in winter. Good for: a large hotel wedding with Mount Kazbek in the photographs. Watch out for: restaurant and bar service, the repeated complaint in recent reviews, with staff stretched thin when the hotel is full.

Lopota Lake Resort & Spa, Kakheti

Where: Napareuli in Kakheti, 117.1 km and 2h11 from the Tbilisi hall. Capacity: 310 rooms across 16 buildings on 60 hectares around the lake; the wedding locations run from the Oval restaurant at 80 guests to the Chateau Buera winery at 220 and the Ike restaurant at 250. Price from: USD 3,500 for a wedding, as Shu Wedding quotes it. Season: all year. Good for: a long guest list with everything on one site, two piers on the lake and a working winery. Watch out for: 4.4 is the lowest rating of the venues here, and recent guests found the restaurant they wanted closed because it was booked for a wedding, activities payable by card only, and service slow when the resort is full.

Chateau Mukhrani, Mtskheta region

Where: Mukhrani, 42.9 km and 38 minutes from the Tbilisi hall, the closest venue to the capital on this list. Capacity: palace halls and gardens. Season: all year; the estate closes at 18:00 Monday to Thursday and stays open to 21:30 Friday to Sunday. Good for: a castle and vineyard setting half an hour from Tbilisi. Watch out for: we name it without recommending it. Recent reviews repeat that the tour and tasting are rushed, that the restaurant lets the visit down and that basic hospitality misses, which is a poor basis for planning a wedding by email from abroad.

For the legal side around any of these, the planner we work with is Iremi Wedding, who handle registration and legalisation of a foreign marriage in a day and coordinate in Batumi, Tbilisi and Kutaisi. Their basic package is EUR 390 and covers the passport translations, the filing, the state fees, agency witnesses and the apostilled certificate in two working days; EUR 850 adds the transfer, the bride's hair and make-up, a bouquet and two hours of photography; from EUR 1,500 adds an off-site ceremony with a host, a flower arch and a videographer.

You take the whole camp for at least two nights, register the marriage on site for 255 GEL or at the Batumi hall on the way up, and 100 guests eat under a 150 m2 tent at 1,200 m. We are in Village Tago, Khulo municipality, upper Adjara, about 2 hours and 89.3 km from Batumi, and we host one wedding at a time.

The numbers that decide whether we fit: up to 100 guests on wooden benches or chairs in the event tent, 33 beds on site in 12 Lotus Belle tents for two and a 9-bed dome, and 64 more beds in 27 rooms across seven family guesthouses in the village, 3 to 10 minutes on foot, at 150 GEL a room a night. There are 60 camping spots on top of that. The biggest group we have hosted is 120 people. The yurt restaurant seats 36 inside and 20 outside around a wood stove.

There are three ceremony spots: the meadow clearing with the mountain view and an arch our team builds, the valley overlook, and Otsinari lake 30 minutes away. The event tent is a sailcloth tent of 15.2 by 9.7 m on its own wooden deck, walls at 2.4 m and a 5.9 m peak, with sides that close for rain. It is fixed to the deck and cannot be moved, so the rain plan is the tent and the yurt, not a different field.

That is full privatisation of the camp with the event tent included, so neither is charged separately. A second tent is 1,000 GEL. Food is per guest: Mountain Supra 85 GEL for three courses, Euro-Georgian buffet 125 GEL, the five-course signature menu 215 GEL from 30 guests, a BBQ live station 45 GEL for the whole group, meat khinkali added to the supra 15 GEL, arrival snack 25 GEL, reception appetizers 15 GEL, breakfast buffet 32 GEL, dinner buffet 37 GEL. Corkage on your own wine is 15 GEL a bottle and we can collect and chill your drinks in Batumi. The kitchen is vegetarian and the BBQ station is what we add for weddings.

A wedding for 30 guests with dinner, breakfast and accommodation usually lands between USD 5,000 and 15,000 depending on the season and how much decor you add.

Three ways to plan it. Venue only is free: you or your own planner book the vendors, and once you book you get our vendor guide with vetted vendors for every service, mostly based in Batumi, their contacts and approximate prices. Use our partner planner Iremi Wedding, whose fee, usually 10 to 15% of the budget, is agreed with them directly. Or let us coordinate it all for a fixed 2,000 GEL: we book and manage every vendor, build the timeline and run the day on site. Vendors come up from Batumi: a Georgian DJ 600 to 1,500 GEL, a Russian-speaking DJ 2,000 GEL for six hours with the transfer from Tbilisi included, a host 3,000 GEL, host and DJ and sound as one team from 5,000 GEL, a sound rig with two technicians and delivery 2,600 GEL, bride's hair and make-up 400 GEL including the trip up, with the groom, mothers or bridesmaids at 150 to 250 each.

Booking is the whole camp or nothing: no partial booking, and the tent count cannot be reduced later. Two nights is the minimum, one to set up and welcome everyone and one for the wedding. A 30% prepayment of the total confirms the date, and the day itself is settled on site in cash or by transfer against an itemised invoice. The full programme, timeline, vendor list and mood board come 30 days before, the rooming list and the final food count 7 days before. June to September dates go 6 to 12 months ahead.

The camp is open April to October and the wedding season is May to mid-October. May and June are green, September and early October are warm and golden, late August can be wet, and the nights are cold even in midsummer, which is why the tents are heated. Forecasts for Khulo do not describe the weather at the camp, so pack warm layers and umbrellas whatever the app says. In winter there can be 3 m of snow up here.

Starlink gives about 300 Mbps at the camp, which is enough for a live stream to the relatives who could not travel. Music outside runs to midnight and then the party moves into the warm yurt. Fireworks and fire shows are fine, dogs are welcome with a 15 GEL cleaning fee, and the village mosque calls to prayer mostly on Fridays, which we time the ceremony around.

There are two roads up, and picking the right one decides whether your guests need a jeep. Through Khulo, the last 15 km is a 4x4 climb: down to the river a little before Khulo, over the iron bridge, then 20 to 35 minutes of zigzag. The Skhalta valley way is the alternative, 94 km and about 2 hours from Batumi: turn off the Batumi-Akhaltsikhe road at Zamleti, 4.7 km before Khulo, follow the valley south to Cheri, then climb through Dzmagula to us. It is a little longer, the road is easier, and it suits normal cars and minibuses. It is still a mountain road.

Navigate with Maps.me, not Google Maps, and follow the wooden "Glamping Tago" signs where the app is wrong. Chao is not Tago: it is a different village 1.6 km west of us but 13 km and about 20 minutes away by road, and it is where wrong routes end up.

With a 4x4 you park at the camp. Without one, park anywhere in Khulo centre and we bring you up.

We move a wedding party in waves of 15- and 17-seat minibuses and 4x4s. The option most groups choose is their own coach from Batumi to Khulo and our minibuses for the last 15 km. Transfers are paid in cash at reception, never to the driver.

Guests coming independently take the marshrutka from Batumi bus station, which leaves every 30 minutes from 08:00 to 20:00, takes about 2h30 for the 85 km of asphalt and costs about 10 GEL, with ბათუმი - ხულო in the window. It stops halfway for food and a toilet. Then the 4x4 taxi from Khulo, 30 to 35 minutes, 75 GEL a car for up to four, with no timetable. A taxi app to Khulo (Bolt, Yandex or Maxim) takes about 2 hours and up to 175 GEL, and stops at Khulo.

From Kutaisi airport, the train to Batumi takes 2 hours and costs 31 GEL, the bus 2 hours and 25 GEL, and a private 4x4 straight to Tago 5h30 and 465 GEL. From Tbilisi, the train to Batumi takes 6 hours and 35 GEL and a private 4x4 straight to us 8h30. Coming over the Goderdzi pass from Akhaltsikhe is 4h30 and 360 GEL by 4x4, asphalt almost the whole way, and the pass closes in snow: call the road department on +995 32 2 31 30 76 before you try it in winter.

The Khulo cable car has been stopped for a third year, so build the guest plan on the road. It is the question we are asked most.

• Leaving the divorce apostille at home. It cannot be fixed from Georgia, and it is the one document that always needs both an apostille and a notarised Georgian translation.
• Paying for a passport translation nobody asked for. Ask at the information desk first. If your names are written in Latin letters in the passport, the rule says no translation.
• Believing the 225 GEL figure for the off-site registrar. It is 255 GEL. 225 GEL is the weekend wedding-house tier, and Adjara has no wedding house.
• Booking a Saturday at the Batumi hall. It is closed at weekends. Register on the Friday, or pay for the registrar to come to you.
• Bringing cash for the state fees. The counter takes card and bank transfer only, and half of a booked ceremony slot is due within an hour of confirming it.
• Treating the insurance as a formality. The minimum sum insured is 30,000 GEL for the whole stay, every traveller needs their own policy, and buying at the airport leaves a six-hour gap.
• Ordering the slow apostille before a fast flight. The 30 GEL option takes eight working days. If you leave in three, pay 120 or 150 GEL.
• Arriving as a couple with no witnesses. Two adults with ID must be there in person. An agency supplies them, and most packages include them free.
• Ticking the surname box and then not changing the name at home. The certificate prints your answer and the mismatch follows you for years.
• Reading "capacity" as "beds". Ask any mountain venue how many people sleep on site, then ask where the rest sleep and how they get there.
• Booking a September mountain date in July. High-season Caucasus weekends are gone 6 to 12 months ahead.

Glamping Tago for this

A mountain wedding weekend at Glamping Tago

Register at the Batumi hall in the morning and you are at 1,200 m in upper Adjara for the afternoon, 89.3 km and about 2 hours up the road. Or skip the drive: we arrange a registrar to marry you at the camp for 255 GEL, the same figure the state charges for an off-site registration.

We host one wedding at a time and the whole camp is yours. Up to 100 guests sit under a 150 m2 sailcloth tent on a wooden deck, or in the Yurtalicious yurt when it rains. Ceremonies happen in the meadow clearing with the mountain view, at the valley overlook, or at Otsinari lake 30 minutes away, and the arch is made by our team.

33 guests sleep on site in 12 tents for two and a 9-bed dome, and 64 more sleep in seven family guesthouses in the village, 3 to 10 minutes on foot, at 150 GEL a room. The biggest group we have hosted is 120 people.

The honest limits: the road up from Khulo is a 4x4 climb unless you come the easier Skhalta valley way, the nights are cold even in August, and we close from November to March.

Guests

Up to 100 under the 150 m2 event tent, on wooden benches or chairs

Beds on site

33: twelve Lotus Belle tents for two and a nine-bed dome, plus 64 beds in the village at 150 GEL a room

Whole camp per night

3,258 GEL in April, 3,711 in May, 5,041 in June and September, 6,035 in July and August, 3,646 in October

Civil registration on site

255 GEL per wedding, the state off-site fee, registrar arranged and the ceremony interpreted

Food per guest

Mountain Supra 85 GEL, Euro-Georgian buffet 125 GEL, five-course signature menu 215 GEL, BBQ live station 45 GEL

Getting here

About 2 hours over 89.3 km from Batumi; 4x4 through Khulo, or the easier Skhalta valley road for normal cars and minibuses

Internet

Starlink at about 300 Mbps, enough to live-stream the ceremony

Season and lead time

Open April to October, wedding season May to mid-October; June to September dates book 6 to 12 months ahead on a 30% prepayment

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