Photo Credit: Elena Belevantseva
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If you’re looking for a more rural location, but still want to be close to Copenhagen, getting married in Stevns is a great choice!
You might also be interested in: Danish Town Halls to Have Your Wedding in Denmark.
Why Get Married in Stevns?
This town hall is approximately 1 hour from Copenhagen and offers beautiful nature, stunning places to get married outside of the town hall. The town hall has good availability in terms of dates for your ceremony if Copenhagen or Frederiksberg are not available.
Weddings are held in the town hall but we also have options for weddings on the beach or in an old church, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for couples looking for something a little extra.
Even if you have your wedding at the town hall you can easily go to the beaches / cliff top after your ceremony to have beautiful portraits taken.
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and the first Saturday of each month.
From May to August weddings will be conducted every Saturday at 10am-2pm.
Witnesses are provided only on Thursdays, and the first Saturday of the month.
Witnesses are KEINE provided on Tuesdays, and subsequent Saturdays (during the summer when they are open for weddings).
If you wish to get married on Tuesday or subsequent Saturdays, then you MUST bring 2 witnesses with you.
Response is usually same day.
Passports and residency permits/Visas, if applicable, must be presented to Stevns Town Hall on the morning of your wedding.
Yes, you can hire a registrar to conduct your wedding at a location, other than the town hall, for an extra fee of € 150 charged by Stevns town hall.
The Look & Feel of a Wedding in Stevns
Our couple, Ann Marie & Timothy, had a lovely wedding in Stevns as can be seen in the video above, created by the wonderful Elena Belevantseva.
The Stevns town hall is a modern building but that does not mean it’s any less intimate or special than some of the older town halls in Denmark.
In fact, Stevns town hall is one of the town halls where we hear the most comments and feedback from couples after their wedding.
Photo Credit: Elena Belevantseva
The main thing being how incredibly kind, warm and special the staff at Stevns made them feel, which is exactly what you should feel on your wedding day.
The town hall itself is modern and new, with a huge car park located right outside (it’s free too). There are 2 rooms inside where weddings are held, the smaller more intimate room, and the larger conference room. Where your wedding is held depends on what else happens to be happening at the town hall at the time, if there are meetings being held at the town hall, then it’s likely your wedding will be conducted in the smaller room.
How to get to Stevns Town Hall?
The closest airports to Stevns are Copenhagen and Malmo, you can also easily drive there from Hamburg.
From Copenhagen Airport to Stevns
If you come by car it will take you approximately 50 minutes to get to Stevns.
You can also take a taxi which should cost between 150€ – 250€.
If you don’t want to go by car, don’t worry, there are trains and buses that go to Stevns from Copenhagen airport.
It will take you between 1h 45min and 2h 10mins, depending on the route.
You can have a look at the routes and train/bus timetables here.
From Malmo Airport (Sweden) to Stevns
By car it should take you around 1h 30mins to get to Stevns.
You can also take a train/bus which takes approximately 3 hours 20 minutes.
Für die Strecken- und Fahrpläne von Zug und Bus: Klicken Sie hier.
From Hamburg (Germany) to Stevns
You can easily drive from Hamburg to Stevns, it should take you around 4 hours 30 minutes.
Photo Credit: Martina Lanotte
What Can We do While We are In Stevns?
You’re getting married so our first recommendation is to relax and enjoy your wedding ceremony! 🙂
If you’re planning to spend a little bit more time in the town there are quite a few lovely things to do:
1. Højerup Old Church 📍
When visiting Stevns Klint don’t miss this unique church that hangs on the cliff, almost falling into the sea.
It was built around 1250 by a sailor who was close to drowning and promised to build a chapel if he survived.
Since the church was built the cliff has been steadily falling away causing a serious threat to the church.
A local legend says that every Christmas the church moved a little step towards the land, but it wasn’t enough.
On the 16th of March 1928 a part of the cliff collapsed causing the chorus from Højerup Old Church to fall.
The church was then reinforced against further slides and the vanished choir was replaced by an observation deck.
Nowadays you can go inside the church and enjoy spectacular views of the cliff and the sea.
2. Saint Katharina Church📍
When having a stroll around the peaceful old town you can visit this charming church and the icon of Store Heddinge.
Built at the beginning of the 13th century it was hit by a lightning strike in the 1670s, after which the octagon had to be renovated.
Then the church was thoroughly restored in 1853, obtaining its current form.
Stevns Klint – this spectacular cliff, apart from being a UNESCO World Heritage site, is a reminder of the Earth’s dramatic history, when 66 million years ago an asteroid hit the Earth, causing half of all animal and plant life to go extinct.
Now it’s a truly breathtaking wonder of nature!
You can have a lovely, romantic walk on the beach alongside this 40 metre high white cliff.
3. Stevns Lighthouse 📍
A 27 metre chalk-built lighthouse situated on the edge of the cliff, built in 1878.
You can climb up the stairs and enjoy stunning, panoramic views of the fields and the sea, all the way to Sweden.
Museum Stevnsfort – if you’re looking for a little bit of adventure and mystery you will find it here at the Cold War Museum.
You can explore the underground tunnels of the nuclear-attack proof fortress built deep into the cliff during the Cold War. It’s one of Denmark’s most secret places with a very interesting history.
If you decide to go on a guided tour get ready for exciting ‘time travel’.
Do you wish to get married in Stevns?
The History of Stevns
If you choose to get married at the town hall your wedding will take place in Store Heddinge, a town in Stevns municipality on the beautiful southeast coast of Zealand island.
It’s a small town with a long history going back to the 13th century when its church, Saint Katharina, was built.
In 1441 Store Heddinge obtained the very privileged status of a merchant town and, in 1838, the Director for the Royal Danish Academy of Art, architect Jørgen Hansen Koch, built the assembly house (which was actually a town hall, assembly hall and a jail all in one!) on the Nytorv plaza.
A famous Water Tower, which is often called the town’s gate, was built in 1911.
10 minutes drive from Store Heddinge you have Stevns Klint, a breathtaking cliff that played an important role in the Cold War.
It was one of Denmark and NATO’s most important (and beautiful!) positions with large radar towers and 1.8 kilometres of underground passageways where, for 40 years, up until the year 2000, the military was ready to go to war at any time.
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