Wedding Cost in Georgia (the Country) 2026: Real Prices by Guest Count and Vendor

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Updated 28 October 2026·32 min read·Prices and facts checked: October 2026

A 30-guest wedding weekend in mountainous Adjara costs about 24,600-30,800 GEL (about $9,500-11,800) in 2026, beds and four meals included. Across Georgia, 20-50 guests cost $4,000-10,000; registration is free.

A 30-guest wedding weekend in the mountains of Adjara, Georgia (the country), costs about 24,600-30,800 GEL (about $9,500-11,800) in 2026: two nights for everyone, four meals, the ceremony, a photographer, a videographer, music, flowers, make-up and the minibuses from Batumi. That is the wedding Glamping Tago is built for, and this guide prices it line by line from the 2026 quotes of the vendors who work in Batumi and Adjara.

Across Georgia, the Tbilisi planners at Eventive put a wedding at about $1,500-4,000 for up to 20 guests, $4,000-10,000 for 20-50 guests and $10,000-25,000 or more for 50-100 guests. The legal part is cheap: registering the marriage at a Public Service Hall is free, and a ceremony costs 75-255 GEL. What moves the total is the venue, the food, the vendors and getting your guests there and to bed. Prices below are in the currency the venue or vendor quotes; the National Bank of Georgia rate is 1 USD = 2.60 GEL and 1 EUR = 2.92 GEL.

The venue decides most of the bill, because it fixes the per-guest food price, whether guests sleep on site and how far everyone travels. Here are the venues in this guide side by side.

Glamping Tago (our venue), Adjara

• Where: on the hill above Village Tago, Khulo municipality, mountainous Adjara, at about 1,200 m
• From the airport: about 87 km from Batumi airport, about 2 hours; the last 8.9 km is a mountain road for 4x4 cars and minibuses
• Capacity: made for weddings of about 30 guests and retreats of up to 30 people; the whole place belongs to one group and everyone sleeps on the ridge (12 Lotus Belle tents and a nine-bed dome)
• Price from: the whole camp costs 3,258 GEL per 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 the event tent included
• Season: the camp is open April to the end of October

This is the venue for a wedding weekend, not a one-evening banquet. You book the whole camp, it closes to other guests, and everyone sleeps on site on the ridge. Most couples hold the ceremony on the meadow facing the mountains and move into the 150 m2 sailcloth event tent for dinner; meals come from Yurtalicious, the vegetarian yurt restaurant on site, and meat comes from a BBQ live station. The organizer guide lists every price, the spaces, the vendors we work with and a day timeline. The Wedding in Georgia agency lists the camp among its dream locations. In our Google reviews, guests mention the view first, then the staff and the food.

It is the wrong venue for a 200-guest banquet, for guests who expect hotel rooms with private bathrooms, or for a winter date.

A 30-guest weekend at Glamping Tago in September costs about 24,600 GEL with typical vendor prices and about 30,800 GEL with the dearer packages (about $9,500-11,800). The venue is about 40% of it, and that line already includes every guest's bed for two nights.

The chart shows the typical column of the budget below. "Typical" is the median 2026 quote of the vendors who work in Batumi and Adjara; "upper" uses their dearer packages.

What the total covers: every guest's bed for two nights, the welcome dinner, the wedding dinner, two breakfasts, the ceremony and the transfers from Batumi. Drinks are extra: homemade lemonade, compote and water come with the supra, our drinks menu carries a 10% wedding discount, and your own wine costs 15 GEL corkage per bottle. Our speaker with two wireless microphones is free for weddings, which is why a DJ alone often covers the music for 30 guests.

For up to 20 guests, plan $1,500-4,000; for 20-50 guests, $4,000-10,000; for 50-100 guests, $10,000-25,000 or more. Those bands from Eventive match Be Loved Weddings in Adjara, which starts at $1,500 for up to 10 people, $5,000 for 30-50 and $10,000 for 100 or more.

The low bands describe a dinner in a city restaurant. A destination venue with a planner, transfers and decor costs more per head even for a small group: a fully priced 20-guest wedding at Kvareli Lake Resort in 2023 came to $13,770 with transfers, photo, drone video, host, DJ, decor, dinner without alcohol and a 10% organisation fee, and agencies quote 20-guest weddings at Chateau Mukhrani from $13,500-15,000.

In Batumi and Adjara a wedding photographer's entry package typically costs about 570 GEL, a DJ about 900 GEL, a host about 1,080 GEL and a bride's make-up about 250 GEL. These are 2026 quotes from the vendors who work in the region, with the number of vendors priced for each service: the bars show the middle half of the quotes and the dot the typical price.

Live music has fewer quotes than the other services, so here are the real prices: a solo violinist charges 1,200 GEL and the SUL band 4,000 GEL plus 500 GEL for the trip, and on our own organizer page two Georgian musicians for an evening cost 800 GEL, an Adjaran folk ensemble of three singers with a panduri 900 GEL plus 50 GEL transfer, and a full party band with its own sound up to 2,500 GEL. Prices quoted in USD or EUR are converted at the National Bank rate, so treat those as approximate. Most vendors charge their ride to the mountains on top of the fee, and for make-up artists and hair stylists the trip can cost more than the work: one hair stylist charges 500 GEL and a make-up artist 1,000 GEL to come up to Tago.

Here is how those numbers compare with the price lists of the Tbilisi agencies, which mostly quote in US dollars.

The tamada is the Georgian toastmaster who leads the toasts at a supra. Most international couples book a bilingual host who mixes that role with an MC's.

At Glamping Tago our own team builds the decor: the arch costs 1,500 GEL, flowers on the tables and in the event tent 750 GEL, flowers around the rest of the camp another 750 GEL, fireworks 600 GEL and a photo booth 1,000 GEL. A bride's bouquet from a Batumi florist costs 150-600 GEL.

A wedding photographer in Batumi and Adjara typically charges about 570 GEL (about $220) for an entry package and about 1,900 GEL (about $735) for a full-day package; at hourly rates, six hours come to about 1,620 GEL. Bringing a photographer from Batumi to Tago adds 100-200 GEL for the drive, and three of the photographers include it in the price.

Almost every photographer and videographer for a wedding in Adjara lives in Batumi, so "bringing your own" is the normal case. The drive is about 2 hours each way. Most photographers quote the trip on top of the fee. If you would rather pay one fixed price, our vendor car costs 530 GEL from Batumi and back, and the photographer, the stylist and the DJ can ride up together. A photographer who covers the whole weekend also needs a bed, so put them on your rooming list.

Here is every photographer and videographer in Batumi who gave us a 2026 price, apart from the three with a card below. Three photographers include the trip to Tago in their price; most others add 100-200 GEL for it.

Our own guide to wedding photographers in Georgia compares more of them, with portfolios.

A Batumi wedding host charges about 350-1,300 USD, a DJ about 400 USD and a solo violinist about 1,200 GEL; a bride's make-up costs 200-600 GEL plus the trip. These are the vendors with published 2026 prices.

Photo: @arina_dukmasova

Photo: @event.decor.ge

Batumi salons are the budget end for the bride's look: LAKmousse prices a bridal make-up at 250-300 GEL and a wedding hairstyle at 150-250 GEL, and Irichka Hair styles from 130 GEL. A salon look means a morning appointment in Batumi, so it suits a city ceremony better than a mountain one.

Registering the marriage itself costs nothing. The Public Service Development Agency registers it free of charge at a Public Service Hall when you do not book ceremony services; you pay only for a ceremony, for the apostille your home country needs and for translations.

The ceremony fees come from the government decree that raised them, reported by CBW; the apostille ladder is on the agency's apostille page. You need two adult witnesses, both partners must be 18, and foreigners show proof of legal stay in Georgia. A passport with your name in Latin letters is accepted without a Georgian translation; other foreign documents need an apostille and a notarised Georgian translation. A first-hand account in T-Zh puts a notarised passport translation at 40 GEL per passport. Agencies charge $350-500 for a private registration with the apostille: Miel from $350, Be Loved from $390, Violet Weddings $450-500.

At a Public Service Hall without a ceremony, the decision takes about 2-5 hours and the certificate comes the same working day, Monday to Friday 9:00-18:00, as the Wedding in Georgia agency describes. The Batumi Public Service Hall is open Monday to Friday 9:00-18:00 and closed on Saturday and Sunday, so a weekend date means booking a ceremony. The full process is in our guide to getting married in Georgia as a foreigner.

In Batumi, demolition of the Wedding House at the entrance to the Boulevard began on 25 February 2026, as the Batumi Boulevard news page reports, and a new wedding palace is planned on the new boulevard. Batumi couples now register at the Public Service Hall, free without a ceremony, or book the 255 GEL registrar to come to their venue.

A church wedding is a separate ceremony with its own price: Lotus Wedding starts at $250, and WedInGeorgia at $1,190 for its church package, with a donation to the church of 200-500 GEL.

Expect $40-150 per guest for food, plus $15-40 per guest for alcohol. Eventive's bands are $40-60 for a basic menu, $60-90 standard and $90-150 premium; Kate&Co puts a dinner from $40 and a full banquet with drinks at $90-100.

Some Tbilisi hotels price the room instead of the plate. The ballroom at Paragraph Freedom Square seats up to 200 and has a minimum spend of 8,000 GEL on Tuesday to Saturday evenings and 10,000 GEL on Monday and Sunday evenings; its wedding reception packages of 55-65 GEL per guest cover the ceremony space, the reception room, the table set-up, the lighting and the music system.

At Glamping Tago children under 6 eat free and 6-12 pay half, homemade lemonade, compote and water come with the supra, and your own wine costs 15 GEL corkage per bottle.

City restaurants often charge no rent and set a minimum spend instead; estates and chateaux charge for the space. Eventive's ranges are $500-1,500 for a restaurant with catering (minimum spend often $800-1,500 for 30-40 guests), $800-2,500 for hotels and estates and $1,500-5,000 or more for chateaux. Kate&Co quotes venue rental from $350 to $5,000.

In Adjara: the Keda hills and the Batumi coast

• Where: Eco House Merisi in the Merisi valley near Keda, and the Batumi seafront
• From the airport: Eco House Merisi is about 50 km from Batumi; Sheraton Batumi is 8.7 km from Batumi airport
• Price from: Eco House Merisi prices each wedding individually; dinner $50 per guest at the Sheraton; wedding menus from 80 GEL per guest at ORTA Batumi; Kate&Co weddings in Batumi from $1,850

Eco House Merisi is a hotel of villas and glass cottages above the Merisi valley. Its wedding page describes an open ceremony platform of about 50 m2 on the cliff edge, a restaurant hall for up to 50 guests with two open verandas, and a full hotel buyout on request.

Batumi is the dearer city. The Wedding in Georgia agency notes that halls, photographers and other vendors cost more there, hosts and show teams often travel from Tbilisi with transfer and hotel on top, a ceremony on the rocky shore needs an equipped terrace, and you need a rain plan. Our comparison of the coast and the mountains in Adjara goes month by month.

In the mountains: Kazbegi and Gudauri

• Where: Stepantsminda (Kazbegi) and Gudauri, on the road north from Tbilisi
• From the airport: Rooms Hotel Kazbegi is 169.9 km from Tbilisi airport; Gudauri Lodge, at about 2,000 m, is 134.7 km and on the same road
• Price from: Kate&Co packages in Kazbegi or Gudauri start at $1,600; Lotus Wedding starts at $2,990 at Rooms Hotel Kazbegi

Rooms Hotel Kazbegi seats 80-100 in its restaurant and up to 200 in its ballroom.

Gudauri Lodge is a ski hotel with 121 rooms next to the first slope, and it prices weddings on request.

In the wine country: Kakheti

• Where: the Alazani valley, east of Tbilisi
• From the airport: Tsinandali Estate 92.9 km, Kabadoni in Sighnaghi 99 km, Lopota Lake 105.1 km and Kvareli Lake Resort 139.8 km from Tbilisi airport
• Price from: Kate&Co Kakheti vineyard packages from $1,800; the Wedding in Georgia agency quotes Alazani valley weddings from $2,600, with guest dinners outside Tbilisi from $60 per person

Kvareli Lake Resort has 100 rooms, a 224 m2 Kakheti Ballroom and a 120 m2 Alazani hall. You do not need to close the hotel or buy out rooms for a wedding, and its private terraces seat up to 100 guests.

At Lopota Lake you rent each space separately. The agency grid on wedding-in-georgia.co.uk lists, venue only: the small pier from $755, the large pier from $2,265, the Oval Restaurant's indoor hall from $3,375, the second floor of the resort's chateau from $4,550 on weekdays, the whole Oval Restaurant event space from $5,660 and the whole chateau from $13,250.

Tsinandali Estate is the premium end of Kakheti. The same agency grid lists the garden lawn from $2,400, the vineyard terrace from $3,150, the ballroom from $5,900 and exclusive use of the resort from $28,000.

Kabadoni is a boutique hotel with a restaurant, a sunset lounge and a pool in the hilltop town of Sighnaghi. It quotes weddings on request.

Near Tbilisi: Mtskheta and the city

• Where: Chateau Mukhrani is a palace and winery 60 km from Tbilisi airport; the city hotels are 17.7 km from it
• Capacity: about 150-300 in the Chateau Mukhrani Orangery; up to 200 in the Tbilisi Marriott ballroom
• Price from: agencies quote a 20-guest wedding at Chateau Mukhrani from $13,500 (wedding-in-georgia.co.uk) and from $15,000 (Shu Wedd), and 50 or more guests at the winery from $22,500-25,000

In the city, the Tbilisi Marriott publishes its catering line: $45 per guest for a dinner, lunch or reception. Tbilisi ceremony packages at the Wedding in Georgia agency run from $950 for a wedding hall ceremony to $2,000 for a Tbilisi wedding package with the registration, a photographer, the bouquet and a flower arch, and Kate&Co starts Tbilisi weddings at $1,200.

For each guest from abroad, budget a flight, a compliant insurance policy, two or three nights of accommodation and transfers. Insurance is the small part; rooms and the drive are the big ones.

Flights. Wizz Air flies from Kutaisi to more than 30 European destinations, with sample one-way fares from EUR 50 (Athens) to EUR 110 (Barcelona) and Istanbul daily from EUR 60. Batumi airport is about 87 km from Glamping Tago; Kutaisi is 215 km away by the road through Batumi.

Insurance. Government Decree No. 602 asks for a policy in Georgian or English, paper or electronic, from a Georgian or foreign insurer, covering at least 30,000 GEL for the whole stay; arriving without one means a fine of about EUR 100 at the border. Policies that meet it cost from EUR 0.99 a day, or EUR 9.90 for 7 days, at 100doc, from 3.95 GEL a day or 36 GEL for 10 days at GeoCover, and EUR 2.50 a day at Georgian Insurance. Georgia Today lists the mistakes visitors still make with it.

Rooms. In Tbilisi a guesthouse room costs 60-100 GEL a night, a 3-star hotel 120-200 GEL and a 4-5-star hotel 300-700 GEL (Sakhva Travel). Batumi hotels run 60-450 GEL a night by class and season (BatumiLife). At Glamping Tago the whole-camp price covers the 33 beds on the ridge, so a 30-guest wedding pays nothing extra for rooms.

Wedding-day transport. Baltija prices a minibus for up to 15 people at about $165 a day, a bus for 30+ from $275 and a car with driver for the couple from $220 a day; Kate&Co prices a guest bus for 7 hours at about $550.

Getting your guests to Glamping Tago

The last stretch is a mountain road that big coaches cannot climb, so groups come up in 15- and 17-seat minibuses and 4x4 cars, in waves from Batumi, the airport or the train station. A popular option is your own coach to Khulo and our minibuses from there. Transfers are paid in cash at our reception, never to the driver. The full route, with the map, is on how to get to Glamping Tago.

Paying, parking, Wi-Fi and rain at Glamping Tago

• How you pay. The venue is paid in lari by bank transfer or a payment link, and companies can get an invoice in GEL or EUR. What you use on the day is settled on site, in cash or by transfer, against an itemised invoice. Vendors you book yourself are paid directly.
• Driving and parking. Batumi to Khulo is 85 km of asphalt and fine for a normal car. The road from Khulo up to Tago needs a real 4x4: guests without one park in Khulo centre and take the 4x4 taxi at 75 GEL per car, and 4x4 drivers park at the top of the camp by the sign. Khulo centre, 6.5 km before the camp, has Bank of Georgia, Liberty and Credo cash machines, a pharmacy and fuel stations, so take out the cash for the transfers and fill up there.
• Wi-Fi. Starlink Wi-Fi runs at about 300 Mbps, enough for your vendors and a live stream for family at home.
• Rain. Every wedding has a plan B: the event tent walls close and the ceremony moves under the tent or into the yurt restaurant with its wood stove. Mountain nights get cold, so tell guests to pack a warm layer. September days usually reach 22-25°C with nights of 10-13°C; in October days reach about 18°C and nights fall to 5-8°C, and both months bring rain on about 12 days, so plan B is always set up.
• Evenings. The sauna and cold plunge (15 people at a time) and the fire circle (35 people) are open every evening for everyone staying, firewood included. Music stays outside until midnight and then moves into the yurt.
• Good to know. Dogs are welcome for a 15 GEL cleaning fee. The village mosque calls to prayer mostly on Fridays, and we time the ceremony around it.

Each budget lists real 2026 prices from the sources above. Low uses the cheaper option in each line, high the dearer one. Flights and guests' insurance are not included.

An elopement for two in Tbilisi

Elopements have their own guide: eloping in Georgia.

30 guests at Glamping Tago, 2 nights in September: 24,637 GEL (about $9,500) with typical vendor prices, 30,790 GEL (about $11,800) with the dearer packages. The line-by-line budget and the chart are in the 30-guest section above.

80 guests at Glamping Tago, 2 nights in June

Bigger weddings, up to about 100 guests, work with the family guesthouses in the village: 33 guests sleep on the ridge and the rest in village guesthouses a few minutes below, at 150 GEL per room per night, which we book for you.

Both Glamping Tago budgets include every guest's bed for two nights and four meals (welcome dinner, wedding dinner and two breakfasts), which a city banquet price never does. If you would rather hand the planning over, our partner planner usually charges 10-15% of the budget, about 2,000-6,000 GEL on a typical 20,000-40,000 GEL wedding, or we coordinate every vendor for a fixed 2,000 GEL.

Most surprises are percentages and travel that no price list shows on the first line.

• Vendor travel to the mountains. Photographers add 100-200 GEL for the drive to Tago, but a make-up artist or hair stylist can add 500-1,000 GEL, more than the make-up itself. Ask for the trip in writing, or put everyone in one 530 GEL vendor car.
• Rentals from Batumi. Delivering rented furniture to the mountains can cost more than the rental: Ivory Events Rental charges 1,200-1,400 GEL for the trip to Tago. At Glamping Tago the tables, benches, tablecloths, plates, cutlery and glasses are lent free.
• Agency and planner fees. Be Loved Weddings adds 10% of the wedding budget with a $300 minimum; planners usually take 10-15%, about 2,000-6,000 GEL on a typical 20,000-40,000 GEL wedding.
• Hosts from Tbilisi. In Batumi hosts and show teams often come from Tbilisi with their transfer and hotel on top; a Russian-speaking DJ from Tbilisi costs about 2,000 GEL with the transfer.
• Old fee figures. A guide that quotes a 50 GEL registration or a 50-80 GEL apostille is out of date; use the official figures above.
• USD price lists. Most agencies and videographers price in US dollars while venues and the state charge in lari, so a weaker or stronger lari moves your total.
• Copied price grids. One agency site repeats its Lopota Lake rental grid on its Kvareli Lake page line for line. Get every venue price in writing from the venue or the planner who books it.
• The wrong Georgia. Many "wedding in Georgia" cost articles are about the US state. Check the currency and the cities before you trust a number.

Book the venue first, because the date, the guest count and the region decide everything else. Then book the paperwork, the vendors and the guest logistics in this order:

1. Set the guest count and the region. A 20-guest dinner in Tbilisi and a 30-guest weekend in the mountains are different budgets; use the tables above.
2. Book the venue 6-12 months ahead for June to September. At Glamping Tago, high season books 6-12 months out and a 30% prepayment confirms the date; it is non-refundable and it is your minimum.
3. Choose the legal route. Free registration at a Public Service Hall, a 75-255 GEL ceremony, or a registrar at your venue. In Tbilisi, book a wedding hall at least 2 weeks ahead; an agency filing for an outdoor registrar needs about 2 weeks.
4. Book the photographer, host and music next. Get prices in writing with the travel included. Couples who book Glamping Tago get our vendor guide with vetted vendors for every service and their approximate prices.
5. Tell your guests about the insurance rule and the nearest airport (Batumi for Adjara, Tbilisi for Kakheti and Kazbegi).
6. 30 days before: send the venue your programme, timeline, vendor list and mood board.
7. 7 days before: confirm the final headcount for the food in writing and the rooming list.
8. A few days before: send every guest's arrival time so the transfers can be planned.

Planning to involve an agency? Our post on choosing a wedding planner in Georgia covers what each type of planner does and what they charge.

Ready to plan a mountain weekend? See weddings at Glamping Tago or our guide to a glamping wedding weekend.

Glamping Tago for this

A mountain wedding weekend at Glamping Tago

You book the whole camp for one wedding: 12 Lotus Belle tents and a nine-bed dome on the ridge, the 150 m2 event tent, the yurt restaurant, the sauna and the fire circle, closed to other guests for your weekend. Glamping Tago is made for weddings of about 30 guests and retreats of up to 30 people; the whole place belongs to one group and everyone sleeps on site.

We are Jonas and Lisa, a Belgian couple who fell in love with Georgia and opened Glamping Tago in 2021. Our kitchen cooks vegetarian, with a BBQ live station for meat. You can plan the vendors yourself with our vendor guide, work with our partner planner, or let us coordinate every vendor for a fixed 2,000 GEL. Every price is on the organizer page.

Guests

About 30 for weddings; 33 beds on the ridge, everyone sleeps on site

Whole camp

3,258 GEL per night in April to 6,035 GEL in July and August, event tent included

30-guest weekend

About 24,600-30,800 GEL for 2 nights in September, meals, vendors and transfers included

Wedding dinner

Vegetarian supra from 85 GEL per guest; BBQ station 45 GEL

Season

The camp is open April to the end of October

From Batumi

About 2 hours; minibus for 15 at 410 GEL one way

Booking

30% non-refundable prepayment confirms the date; we recommend at least 2 nights

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