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Weddings, craftsmanship, and evenings by the fire – what goes on at the mill.

Kománkův mlýn from above in autumn. On the right, the words Moravian wedding week: Stay a little longer.

The Moravian wedding week: when your guests fly in from far away

6 October 2026

Guests who fly in from abroad should not come for one evening. How a wedding weekend at a 1748 mill in Moravia can grow into a week, and what to fill it with.

The first dance in the mill courtyard at dusk, guests standing in a ring under string lights

A wedding that lasts four days

31 July 2026

Friday to Monday, the whole estate, thirty beds. What a four-day wedding weekend in Moravia actually looks like, hour by hour, and who it does not suit.

The barn hall with its timber roof, round tables and festoon lighting

What an offsite in Moravia actually costs

31 July 2026

Every English guide to Czech corporate retreats is a guide to Prague. Here is what a three-day offsite for thirty people involves, ninety minutes from Brno.

A wooden ceremony arch and rows of chairs set up under the trees in the orchard

Marrying in Czechia as a foreigner

31 July 2026

The documents, the apostille, the sworn interpreter and the real 2026 fees for a Czech wedding, and the simpler route most foreign couples actually take.

The rolling hills of the White Carpathians looking towards the Slovak border

Getting here: Vienna, Brno, Bratislava, Prague

31 July 2026

Which airport your guests should fly into, why it is Vienna and not Prague, and the practical things nobody tells visitors about money, tipping and weather.

A millwright working inside the new mill wheel, standing against the stone wall of the mill

Thirteen years: from a ruin to a working mill

31 July 2026

We bought a derelict mill at the end of a road in 2013. Thirteen years later it has a new wheel, built by millwrights with axes. What happened in between.