Our BACKSTAGE Event wedding team meticulously plans your dream wedding down to the finest detail. We professionally manage all processes including engagement, henna night, wedding ceremony, and reception.
We carefully plan every detail.
We bring your dream wedding or gala to life with unique concepts, elegant floral arrangements, and captivating venue designs.
From Michelin-quality menu design to custom cocktail bars, we deliver an unforgettable gastronomic experience for your guests.
From DJ performances to live bands and special shows, we meticulously plan the entertainment program to make the night unforgettable.
We provide a privileged experience for every guest through welcome reception, seating arrangements, private transfers, and gift coordination.
BACKSTAGE Event plans and produces luxury weddings, destination celebrations and gala dinners in Istanbul and across Turkey. We are a full-service event production company: concept, décor, catering, stage, sound, light and guest logistics are handled by one team, under one budget, with one point of contact. The production standards we bring to corporate launches and summits — for brands such as Ford, Toyota, Lexus, Tüpraş and İş Bankası — are the same standards we bring to your wedding day.
Few cities in the world let you exchange vows with two continents in view. Istanbul offers Bosphorus-front mansions, palace-era halls and restored industrial venues within a short drive of two international airports — practical when your guest list spans London, Dubai, Mumbai and New York. Beyond the city, Bodrum and Antalya deliver sea-and-sunset resort weddings, and Cappadocia offers a landscape found nowhere else.
The best light and weather come in May–June and September–October; winter dates trade gardens for chandeliers at significantly friendlier venue rates. If you are weighing regions, seasons and budgets, start with our destination wedding guide for Turkey, then explore what a wedding in Turkey with BACKSTAGE looks like end to end.
Every wedding starts as a blank page: a theme developed around the two of you, then drawn, budgeted and built. Floral installations, custom backdrops, table styling and lighting design are produced by our own team — not assembled from a catalogue — so the room you walk into exists only once.
Menus are designed with our partner chefs and confirmed at a tasting session. Turkish and international kitchens, halal, kosher-style, vegan and regional menus, late-night street-food stations and branded bars are all within scope.
This is where an event production company differs from a decoration studio. Stages, LED walls, line-array sound and show lighting come from our own production stack — the same equipment standard we rig for corporate arenas. Live bands, DJs, traditional Turkish shows and choreographed first-dance moments are produced, cued and rehearsed.
Seating protocol, multilingual hosts, VIP hosting for elder family members, kids’ corners and accessibility planning: the invisible layer that decides how the day feels. Airport pickups and hotel room blocks connect to our VIP transfer and logistics service and group hotel accommodation service, so guests are looked after from landing to last dance.
The same team produces corporate galas: award ceremonies, anniversary dinners and year-end celebrations. Recent productions include Tüpraş’s corporate new-year celebration and İş Bankası’s 100th-anniversary event — both full productions with staging, décor and guest logistics. If you are planning a gala dinner in Istanbul for clients or employees, the wedding-grade attention to detail carries over one to one.
We work in four phases. First, a discovery call sets the guest count, date window and budget frame. Second, we scout venues with you and lock the concept. Third, the production plan comes together: menus and tastings, décor drawings, artist bookings, day-of timeline. Fourth, on the day itself, a single producer runs the show — suppliers, cues, protocol — while you are a guest at your own wedding.
Most couples start 8–12 months ahead for peak May–June and September–October dates; with the venue already chosen, a full production can be delivered in less time. International couples typically make one or two visits to Istanbul before the wedding week; everything else moves online.
We produce in Bosphorus-front event mansions, luxury hotel ballrooms, historic industrial spaces and open-air coastal venues — in Istanbul, Bodrum, Antalya and Cappadocia. Multi-day programmes are a speciality: henna nights, welcome dinners and after-parties, and complete Indian wedding productions with mehndi, sangeet and baraat across several days and venues.
A typical destination weekend in Istanbul: guests land on Thursday and Friday and are met at the airport; Friday evening opens with a welcome dinner or henna night in a smaller, warmer venue. Saturday belongs to the wedding itself — ceremony at golden hour, cocktail as the Bosphorus lights come on, dinner, first dance and a show block that carries the floor past midnight. Sunday closes softly: a late brunch, or a private boat along the strait before the first flights home.
Behind that easy rhythm sits a production calendar that started months earlier — load-ins, rehearsals, backup plans for weather, a minute-by-minute cue sheet. That contrast is the point: the more engineering behind the weekend, the lighter it feels to live through. If that is the wedding you want, tell us about your date and guest list and we will come back with a first frame.
For peak dates in May–June and September–October, 8–12 months ahead is comfortable: the best Bosphorus venues are reserved early. Off-season dates and weekday celebrations can come together in a shorter window — if the venue is already chosen, a full production is possible in a few months.
Yes. Foreign couples can hold a civil marriage in Turkey with the right documents (passports, birth certificates and certificates of no impediment, apostilled). Many international couples complete the legal ceremony at home and hold the celebration in Turkey — both models work, and we plan around either. Our destination wedding guide covers the paperwork step by step.
The honest answer: it depends on guest count, venue and production depth — a 100-guest mansion wedding and a 500-guest palace gala are different projects. Rather than quote a misleading single number, we publish current budget ranges in our destination wedding guide and prepare a line-item budget after the discovery call.
Yes. We produce complete Indian wedding programmes — mehndi, sangeet, baraat and the wedding ceremony — across multiple days and venues, including décor changes overnight, artist bookings and guest logistics for several hundred travelling guests.
Yes. Award ceremonies, anniversary galas and year-end celebrations are produced by the same team, with references including Tüpraş and İş Bankası. Stage, décor, catering and guest protocol are handled end to end.
From concept to execution, we handle every detail of your event.
