Ours was a destination wedding (well I had never heard that term until after we announced it). We got married in Portugal (I'm Canadian, wife's Australian, we live in the UK, so people were going to have to travel regardless so we figured we'd just get married in a place we love and that would be awesome).
We fully didn't expect many people to turn up, since the closest anyone travelled from was Paris, and weren't offended at those who couldn't attend. In the end the turnout was way more than we expected, 70, and we had a great (but expensive) time--we had visitors from Canada, Australia, Singapore, USA, France, UK.
We arranged it so that it was pretty informal, you could do whatever you wanted in the days leading up to the event, there were a few optional activities/drinks. We had the bachelor/ette parties a couple days before the wedding in and around Lisbon that it wasn't really any added time or expense.
Number one piece of advice though is to get a local wedding planner, there is absolutely no way we could have done it without ours (especially if it's in an non-English speaking country).
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