Wedding ceremonies in the Plitvice Lakes National Park

Have you ever imagined what heaven on Earth looks like? This place, thanks to 16 emerald-green lakes, countless waterfalls and a centuries-old forest, evokes what heaven on Earth should look like. In recent years, outdoor weddings have become increasingly popular. A large number of couples wish their big day to be set in idyllic greenery and natural surroundings. Outdoor weddings are different and unique. They arise from the imagination and wishes of couples, and they come true through good cooperation. Smiling and happy faces, embraced by the smell of the forest, the sound of waterfalls and the emotions of their guests, show that fairy-tale weddings are definitely possible.

To get married under the beautiful Plitvice waterfalls. Is there anything more beautiful than that? The “ Plitvice wedding” was created as a vision of the fusion of man and nature.  On October 7, 1968, the idea of couples, and international ones at that, entering into marriage under the Great Waterfall in the Plitvice Lakes National Park was fully realized. One modest ceremony which took place on August 31, 1968, when a young Lika painter Budo Vlaisavljević — Modri, striving for as much originality as possible, brought his bride to the Great Waterfall and got married there in a traditional ceremony, grew into a tourist attraction of the first order. Young and hard-working workers of the Plitvice Lakes National Park, in an effort to promote this event as much as possible and turn it into an attractive manifestation of world fame, decided to organize an international wedding at the end of every summer season, in early October, when, as they say, Plitvice Lakes are the most beautiful. And so, year after year, brides and grooms arrived under the beautiful waterfalls of Plitvice Lakes in the national costumes of their countries or regions, to enter into marriage characterizing eternal love, as eternal as the waterfalls of Plitvice Lakes.

The couples were chosen in contests held by certain magazines in their respective countries through the representative office of the Tourist Association of Yugoslavia at the time, and every year more and more couples applied, from all over the world. Couples dressed in the national costumes of their countries were the centre of attention from the moment they arrived at Hotel Jezero, at the bachelor party, at the cocktail party in what was then Restaurant Lička sela and at the wedding lunch. What was…