Planning a wedding in Corfu
Two foreign nationals can marry legally on Corfu without holding any ceremony at home first, but the paperwork goes through the Municipality of Corfu and Diapontia Islands and every foreign document — certificate of no impediment, birth certificate, passport copy, and proof of your legal stay in Greece — has to be translated into Greek by an approved translator, which in practice means the Foreign Ministry's translation service, a Greek consulate, a qualified Greek lawyer or a graduate of the Ionian University translation department in Corfu Town; apostille certification is required only for documents issued outside Europe. The island's air link is more seasonal than couples expect: Corfu's airport sits 2.7 km south of the old town and handled 4.34 million passengers in 2024, but traffic runs April to October and most of the direct European routes simply stop outside that window, so a shoulder-month date can leave half your guest list connecting through Athens. The other constraint is water — Corfu is the wettest of the Greek islands at 1,111 mm a year, nothing like the dry Aegean, so an outdoor plan needs a covered fallback from late September onwards.
- When to marry — June and September are the sensible months: the sea is warm, evenings stay comfortable, and you avoid both the August package-holiday peak and the heavy autumn rain that starts arriving in October and peaks in November.
- What it costs — Venue hire on Corfu commonly runs somewhere between €600 and €2,500, but that figure is close to meaningless on its own — catering is quoted separately at roughly €250 to €600 a head, and it is the per-person side that decides the total.
Once the venue is settled, the next thing most couples deal with is telling everyone. A digital wedding invitation carries the address, a map, your timings and a live RSVP on one link — which matters more than usual when guests are travelling to Corfu and need directions, and plenty of notice.
