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Wedding websites for Belgrade Lakes weddings

Belgrade Lakes is a lakes-and-camps wedding, spread across three towns. Your website should be built around that, not around a template that has never heard of this town.

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Getting married in Belgrade Lakes

The Belgrade Lakes are camp country — Great Pond, Long Pond and the string of lakes around them, an hour north of Portland and twenty minutes west of Waterville. It is the classic Maine summer-camp wedding, and it usually turns into a whole weekend because there is nowhere for anyone to go in the evening anyway.

The defining feature for your website is that lodging is scattered. There is no hotel district. Guests end up spread across lakeside rentals, a small number of rooms in the village, and the chain hotels in Waterville and Augusta twenty to thirty minutes out. That spread is fine, but it means the where-to-stay page does more work here than almost anywhere, and a shuttle from the Waterville hotels is often the single best decision a couple makes.

The other thing worth saying plainly: phone service out on the ponds is patchy. Guests should load directions before they leave the village.

What your Belgrade Lakes guests will ask

Answer these once on your website and you stop answering them one text at a time.

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Lodging is spread out

Lakeside rentals, a few village rooms, and chain hotels in Waterville and Augusta. Give guests all three with honest drive times.

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A shuttle earns its keep

With most guests in Waterville, a shuttle solves both the drive and the drinking. Put the pickup time on the site.

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Phone service is patchy

Directions should be loaded before guests leave the village. Say this on your site, not at the rehearsal.

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Rentals for groups

For four or more, a lake rental for the weekend usually beats three hotel rooms on both price and enjoyment.

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Being on the water

Swimming, boats and the ponds themselves are the whole point. It is the reason a Friday night arrival is worth encouraging.

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It is a pond

Bugs are real, though mid-September is usually past the worst. Spray at the bar is a kindness.

Getting to Belgrade Lakes

Portland Jetport (PWM) is about 1 hour 15 minutes south. From Boston, about 3 hours 15 minutes.

Belgrade Lakes wedding questions

Where do guests stay for a Belgrade Lakes wedding?
It is spread out — lakeside rentals, a small number of village rooms, and chain hotels in Waterville about twenty minutes away or Augusta about thirty.
How far is Belgrade Lakes from Portland?
About an hour and fifteen minutes, and roughly three hours fifteen from Boston.
Is a shuttle worth it?
Usually yes. Most guests end up in the Waterville hotels, and a shuttle solves both the drive and the drinking.
Is there phone service at the lakes?
Patchy. Tell guests to load their directions before they leave the village — it is the most common problem out there.

Getting married somewhere else in Maine?

Every town on this coast asks your guests something different.

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Getting married in Belgrade Lakes?

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