Your Caribbean wedding

I had the pleasure of spending three days in the beautiful island of St Lucia. I know what you are thinking its a tough job. The St Lucian tourist board decided to lanch an annual wedding symposium.
Planners worldwide were invited to see the island to to see what a wonderful location for a wedding St Lucia is.
The interesting this for me as a wedding planner in Essex is that St Lucia offers couples a stunning location to marry and somewhere they can have a fabulous day at a fraction of the cost of a wedding here in the UK. The other interesting thing is that if you want your wedding in the Caribbean, you don't have to have a tour operator wedding or what the Yanks call a 'cookie cutter wedding'
As you know, if you read my blog or website I hate package weddings. Brides aren't packages and so should have the option of planning their day how they want it. Why shouldn't it be the same in the Caribbean. Well it can and very soon Louise Perry Weddings will be offering bespoke wedding planning the Caribbean but specialising in St Lucia and we won't be offering packages.
I took millions of photos so plenty of blogs on the way but here are just a handful of shots of the gorgeous island. Personally I can't wait to go back.

Beach wedding

Wedding on Pigeon Island

The Piton Mountains

Ladera Resort

You Caribbean wedding here

Destination Weddings

I am getting quite a few enquiries from couples in Essex who would like to get married overseas. I am currently planning a wedding in the Caribbean for a client and hopefully I'm heading off to Italy for a study trip with the www.ukawp.com this year and then early next year I am off to Las vegas to look at some venues and meet with some suppliers and these won't be your typical Vegas weddings.

Whilst looking for stunning locations for a wedding ceremony, this venue was recommended to me. It has some of the wonderful views you'll find in parts of the Caribbean but won't cost anywhere near as much to travel and stay there. This is the Santo Winery in the exclusive Greek island of Santorini.

It is quite simple to get married on a Greek Island. All of your documents need to be translated into Greek and this can be done here in the UK or they can go to Island you have chosen for your wedding, where they will be translated. They need to be there four weeks ahead of your wedding. You must be on the Island five working days before and a minimum of one day after to have your marriage leaglly regsitered.

Do you want to get married in the Caribbean?

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a lovely couple who want to get married in the Caribbean. They would be my first client who'd like to get married overseas but obviously there are different legal requirements whereever in the world you want to marry.
Fortunately the Caribbean is fairly straight forward. You need your passport and your orginal birth certificate and you only need to be there two days before your intended wedding. Let me tell you this varies across the world and you must do your research to find out how long you need to be somewhere before you can legally be married. Its always worth consulting a professional wedding planner in London to discuss this.
Whilst putting together a proposal I searched the internet for some ideas for their day. At least by getting married in the Caribbean you can guarantee sunshine, although we aren't doing to bad here in the UK at the moment.