Weddings can be organised on many of the Seychelles islands. However, weddings are mainly arranged on the islands of Mahé, Praslin and La Digue as these islands have all the necessary infrastructures to ensure the smooth running of the event. For the civil ceremony the venue is normally at the hotel where the couple is staying. Many hotels offer a choice of beautiful locations: the exotic gardens, the beach, terraces or hallsoverlooking the ocean. The religious ceremony will be celebrated at the Cathedral or district church.

WHEN: Civil weddings are easily organised from Monday to Friday. On two days a week, weddings can be officiated at the Civil Status Offices. For weekends and public holidays they are subject to the officer’s availability and a higher fee is applicable.

HOW: The civil ceremony will involve a Civil Status Officer (Registrar) coming to the venue and celebrating the brief rite.Two witnesses will be required.

• Copies of relevant pages of both passports showing identity picture, details of name, date of birth, country of birth, and date of validity of passports. Passports must be valid.

• Copies of both Birth Certificates

• Copies of documents to show that there is no impediment or lawful hindrance to the marriage.

• Copies of Divorce Decrees (decree nisi absolute) if applicable

• Copies of Death Certificates of former spouses if applicable

• Copies of Previous Marriage Certificates, if widowed.

• Copies of any Name Change Documents if applicable

All documents must be in English or French. For original documents in any other language,an English Translation must be submitted. A Sworn Translator must certify the translation.Copies of all documents (and translations where applicable) .

Civil ceremonies can be performed on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue at hotels on Mondays to Fridays (except public holidays) between 14:00 and 17:00 local time, subject to availability of Registrar. On request, and for an additional charge to cover transport and expenses of the Registrar. ceremonies can be organised on the other Outer Islands on request and atadditional charge.

Charges and Costs - Our Wedding & Honeymoon manual consist of a basic wedding package in Euro for each hotel which includes:

• Cost of Registrar’s services for weddings held on Mondays to Fridays on Mahe/Praslin/La Digue

• Cost of wedding certificate

• Services provided at the hotel as specified under the appropriate hotel packag.

Other services are quoted as optional costs

• For weddings held during weekends and Public Holidays the cost is Euro 40 as indicated under optional costs ‐ must be included in the quotation where applicable.

• If the booking for wedding with the Civil status (registrar) is done less than 14 days prior to the wedding date, there is a special licence fee of Euro 35 payable as indicated under optional costs.'

• An apostile is required, for some nationalities, to make the wedding legal. The fee for this apostile range from Euro 40. Please check with your Civil Status authorities whether this and/or other requirements are applicable to your country to make the wedding legal.

• For clients from Russia & CIS countries apostile and stamps are required.Additionally the wedding certificate is validated, certified and translated by the Russian Consul in the Seychelles. Posting of translated wedding certificate by courier service.

• As it takes about a week to complete this formality the translated wedding.

• certificates are not ready by the time the couple leaves Seychelles. The documents are then sent by courier service to the couple – needs to provide the couple’s postal address

• Note the legal marriage certificate issued in Seychelles will be valid in Russia however note that no stamps will be put in the wedding couple’s passports. The fee is Euro 250.

• Hotel Charges: (depend on hotel of choice of clients. NB – Hotel Service charges may change without notice)

• For weddings on other islands there will be an additional fee to cover transfer costs of Co‐ordinator, Registrar, photographer etc (where applicable).

• Copies of relevant pages of both passports showing identity picture, details of name, date of birth, country of birth, and date of validity of passports. Passports must be valid.
• Copies of both Birth Certificates
• Copies of documents to show that there is no impediment or lawful hindrance to the marriage.
• Copies of Divorce Decrees (decree nisi absolute) if applicable
• Copies of Death Certificates of former spouses if applicable
• Copies of Previous Marriage Certificates, if widowed.
• Copies of any Name Change Documents if applicable
• Copies of parental consent for parties less than 18 years of age.

All documents must be in English or French. For original documents in any other language, an English Translation must be submitted. A Sworn Translator must certify the translation.

Civil ceremonies can be performed on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue at hotels on Mondays to Fridays (except public holidays) between 14:00 and 17:00 local time, subject to availability of Registrar. On request, and for an additional charge to cover transport and expenses of the Registrar, ceremonies can be organised on other Outer Islands.

• Must be over 18 years old. Women under 18 need parental consent

• .Weddings performed by a Registrar (Civil Status Officer) are recognised in all countries. Special procedures apply for German and French nationals.

• Minimum stay in Seychelles: 3 days provided all documents have been submitted to Registrar for publication at least 11 days before the wedding.

1. The following documents, which must be less than 3 months old, must be submitted directly to the French Embassy in Seychelles, at least one month before the proposed date of the wedding.

•  Certified copy of the Birth Certificate.

• For a non‐French spouse, Certified copy of a translation of the Birth Certificate in French;

• Certified copy of the National Identity Card or the Passport;

• A pre - marriage Medical Examination Certificate from any medical practitioner

• A statement of the professions of the future spouses

2. The French Embassy will arrange for the publication for 10 days of the proposed wedding in the town of residence of the future spouses; after which two copies of a certificate of non-opposition to the marriage is issued by the Mayor, one for the French Embassy, and one for the Civil Status Office in Seychelles.

3. After the completion of the wedding formalities in Seychelles, the spouses must submit to the French Embassy in Seychelles the original copy of the local Certificate of Marriage.The French Embassy will issue a "Livret de Famille", and notify the municipality of the place of birth of the spouses of the marriage.

4. Currently, the French Embassy in Seychelles requires that the future spouses come once,physically, to the Embassy (open Monday‐Friday 08:00 to 12:00, 13:30 to 16:00) with their original documents.

5.No fees are charged by the French Embas