Elegant and Memorable Weddings:

How to Do It in Barbados

Live your dream. If you have been wanting to experience a blissful wedded life then might as well have it started in the beautiful exotic island of Barbados where you can make your dreams come true.

Barbados is truly a paradise on its own where the romantics can experience love whispering in the air all day long everyday. Nothing can really compare the atmosphere in Barbados with the music, food, people, and places perfectly blend with each other making it as the most romantic wedding destination in the planet. 

Have your wedding that you have been dreaming for so long happen in the most elegant and memorable fashion effortlessly. Let the wedding experts in Barbados do the worrying for you and let them pamper you with services and care while you and you are partner are enjoying a grand vacation in the island. You can’t escape the beat of the calypso music and dance your way to the sparkling and cool waters that is as irresistible as saying ‘I do” on your wedding day.

Enjoy the thrill of the excitement of the places to visit and the activities to take leisure on while your wedding day draws near. These are just but prelude of the more exhilarating occasion to unfold before your very eyes, as if you are transported to fantasyland, but this one is real and as good as you can get.

So what are you waiting for? Take the nest flight not to Barbados and surprise your partner with the loveliest gift, she will never have in her lifetime, and that is Barbados wedding getaway.

But first things first, here are some of the information you ought to know to make sure that your wedding is truly elegant and memorable, the Bajan way. Barbados provides every couple, especially the tourists, the convenience that they need in preparing for their wedding. Hence there is not much of requirement couples have to produce.

In fact it does require a minimum length of stay in the island just to get a marriage license, however the couple should appear before the office of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Bridgetown, St. Michael parish in securing a license.

So what are the other requirements?

Valid Passport Or Birth Certificate- this is for proper identification, which both partners must comply with.

Return Tickets- couple must present their return ticket to the country or origin to convince the authorities the both partners have no intention of overstaying.

Original Decree Absolute- this is only required from any of the partners who has been divorced, if not available a copy of the Final Judgment duly certified will do.

Copy of Marriage Certificate- is required from both parties who have been previously married; likewise a certified copy of the Death Certificate of the deceased spouse in case the other partner is has been widowed.

Parents’ Consent- for couples who are 16-18 years old must present the consent of their parents and likewise the parents must be present when the application of the marriage license in secured.

These are the only requirements that are needed from the couple, however for those who are planning to have it done in a Roman Catholic rites, the bishop where the couple is from to the bishop of Bridgetown must forward all the pertinent papers. For non-English speaking couples, all their documents must include English translation duly certified by a Notary Public.

The Wedding Planners

Now that you already know, which necessary things to prepare, it is about time which wedding planner in Barbados to get their services from. Obviously there are plenty of wedding planners in Barbados to choose from. All of which have already proven their mettle in this field. So, practically the choice now rests in your hands. Here is the list:

Tropical Wedding Barbados- it helps the couple recreate that fantasy wedding into a reality. The couples will never have to worry what to do next and prepare because the wedding planner will ensure that the both partners have in mind are carefully and creatively executed.

The couple will never have to worry where to celebrate the occasion because it can provide different celebration options to cap that very special event.  If what you want is a reception by the sea or by land, it can readily provide you with just the kind of plan you have in mind, and it can perfectly execute just he way you wanted things to happen.

Weddings by Melissa- nothing can really compare a grand wedding that is ironically simple in terms of preparation yet nothing short of elegance and romantic. If what you want to is make that long held dream a reality then Weddings by Melissa is the answer.

Just give them the details and you will never have to worry what is going to happen next. All you have to think about is to enjoy the momentous occasion in Barbados where you are about to exchange “I do” with your partner. Melissa has different packages available for the couple. There are bride and groom only, bride and groom plus 2-10 guests, bride and groom plus large wedding parties, renewal of vows, and wedding for cruise ship passengers.

Island Weddings- saying the word “I do” with much anticipation over a cliff, by the seashore during sundown, in an old British church, or simply near the poolside can always be romantic is possible with Island Wedding. Their wedding packages are the pearl, the sapphire, the ruby, and the diamond. Just everything the couple needs are delivered just the way they wanted it to happen.

It also has different ceremony settings like the Clifftop, Gardens, Sunset, and Beach. Every moment the couple can enjoy their stay while the staff is preparing the wedding. There is no time to worry about anything, except how to make your stay in Barbados truly especial with the one that you love.

Weddings at Sunbury Plantation House- celebrating the best time of your life with the one whom you want to spend the rest of your life with can be more memorable in Barbados. Wedding made in paradise is just what it can provide to the eager couples. A blissful wedding ceremony without the frills yet filled with elegance and its own surprises are all possible with Weddings at Sunbury.  

Couples and guests are transported back in time as they treated with classic ambiance, filled with music while food and drinks are in their best taste to fit the occasion. Weeding has never been so grand with at Sunbury Plantation House.

Your Fantasy Wedding- creates your wedding fantasy with the help of the professionals who are expert in this field. If you dread the thought of having to spend countless sleepless nights just to think of to make your wedding just exactly what you have been dreaming it to become, then your worry time is over.

At Your Fantasy, everything is assured that you will be transported where you feel like in your dreams that you wish time would stand still. From arranging the wedding accommodations, photo and videography, to the menu, location and the ceremony, all these and more are just some of the worries that would-be couples have to go through but never with Your Fantasy because everything will be taken care of.

Wedding Locations

Undeniably Barbados is truly a paradise. Marrying couples will definitely feel the romantic the swirls in the air. Barbados may just be a small island, but one can never intimidate its size because it has one of the most spectacular places scattered all around the island that are worth visiting. It would suffice to say that this island nation is the perfect wedding destination of the world.

In Barbados, would-be couples will never run out of wedding location to exchange their vows and say their “I dos”. There are more than enough, locations both at sea or in land. Couples can truly satisfy all their own fantasy, the wedding planners can even recreate the couples’ own wedding location that can be truly made just for them.

Il Tiempo- for Italian couples who want to have an Italian inspired wedding the Bajan way, Il Tiempo can do jus that replete with all the stuff that makes up an Italian wedding. Il Tiempo offers the best authentic Italian cuisine from the great Italian chefs imported and trained from Italy. Non- Italians who also want to have their wedding set in an Italian feel, then is no other place to go but Il Tiempo.

Good Times Barbados­- will delight marrying couples with truly unique flavor of wedding escapade that makes the ceremony and the reception truly special. It provides with the most intimate and relaxing wedding location aboard a 42ft catamaran. Perhaps exchanging vows in the middle of the sea on a luxurious and spacious watercraft ahs never been so exciting for the couples who would opt of this arrangement.

Atlantis Adventure- is only for the most daring and adventurous couple who are in for the most totally distinct wedding occasion held underwater inside the Atlantis submarine. Be with the creatures under the sea as your living witnesses together with your select group of friends and family to enjoy with you this joyous occasion of your life.

Bougainvillea Beach Resort- is a posh hotel in Barbados where most of the elegant wedding ceremonies are held. It is the one of the perfect wedding locations that can give the most romantic ambiance while savoring great food and wines, dancing to cool music, and celebrating with friends and families or just the newly wed couples who want to relish every romantic moment.

The wedding package can include personalized wedding coordinator services, elegant decoration on the site as per requested by the couples, flowers and bouquets, wedding gifts courtesy of the resort, discounted jewelry, wedding cake, and more.

The Boatyard- can make your imagination come true to the very details that you want it to happen. The location is just as heavenly as it is a paradise. One romantic occasion is truly personalized for the couples and in one tastefully orchestrated event.

Imagine being swept by the setting sun as it cascades it orange-glow on a lavender-purplish skies, while the couples re waiting for the symbolic time to kiss with the family as just the of them. Here is one enchanting wedding location that anyone who dreams of a totally unique wedding ceremony worth paying the price.

Wedding Photographers

There is only one possible way to make the eventful moment to truly last a lifetime that is to capture it on film. Wedding photographers are just as important as the bride and groom themselves. The photographer is taking charge in documenting the whole event and record in film.

In Barbados there are only two most reliable wedding photographers to choose. However given their excellent service and creativity, thus they have become the talk of the town. Any wedding planner would not fail to recommend these two wedding photographers.

Magical Moments Photographic Services- assures picture perfect souvenirs in this very special occasion. The photos are taken exactly show how the event actually unfolds. Couples’ pictures are taken in their most romantic mood thus capturing only what is essential in the occasion-joyful and blissful wedding.

Joe Singh Photography- is also the expert in this craft. Pictures are truly fabulously taken that family and friends could resist seeing the pictures even for the umpteenth time. The vivid pictures are true treasure that perhaps even greater than any other gifts that the couples could would receive.

Other wedding planners and wedding locations may recommend different wedding photographers other than the two most-sought after. Still it is up to the couple to choose which one they want to have their pictures taken on this very momentous occasion.

Honeymooners’ Nest

Right after the wedding ceremony, the next concern of the newly wed couple is no other than where to stay for their honeymoon. With the countless hotels that are fit for the romantic lovebirds who had just exchange their vows, they will surely have one that will fit to their budget and their taste.

These are the hotels that are offering wedding and honeymoon packages: Accra Beach Hotel, Allamanda Beach Hotel, Amaryllis Beach Hotel, Barbados Beach Club, Blue Orchids Beach Hotel, Cobblers Cove, and Coconut Beach Hotel. Other hotels are Coral Mist Beach Hotel, Coral Reef, Discovery Bay Hotel, and the Crane Resort and Residences.

There are still other hotels that offer wedding and honeymoon packages for the eager would-be couples. These hotels are The New Edgewater Hotel, Sandy Bay Beach Club, Sea Breeze Hotel, Sea-U Guest House, Silver Sands Resort, South Beach Resort, and Southern Palms. Still others include Time Out At The Gap, The Sandpiper, The Savannah, and Treasure Beach.

Choose Barbados

For the very obvious and simple reason why couples are choosing Barbados, as their wedding paradise destination is that Barbados is truly one fantastic, fascinating, and fantasy-filled country where all the imagination for a dream wedding can actually come true.  Barbados is the land to beat when it comes to the most romantic event for the people who are in love and wants to be in love.