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Wedding Requirements: St. Lucia

St. Lucia is the perfect destination for Caribbean weddings and honeymoons. The natural beauty of beautiful Caribbean tropical island seems to have been created for romantics. Palm fringed beaches, elegant old plantation houses, the soft tropical air, hypnotic steel band music, the tantalizing aroma of the cuisine combined all make weddings, honeymoons and anniversaries popular on St. Lucia. Wonderful climate, astounding beauty and friendly islanders makes St. Lucia simply perfect for your special wedding day. St. Lucia offers you the freedom of doing your wedding the way you want.

Marriage:

It's easy to get married in St Lucia. For a normal wedding license you just need to stay here for 4 days before the wedding. After you've been here for 4 days a local Solicitor can apply for a license on your behalf. However there is a Special License which requires no residency period. The fee for the special license is EC$540 but if you arrive with all necessary legal documents and file them with a lawyer in the morning by the afternoon of the same day you can obtain the special license. Here is a list of the documents that you need to obtain a marriage license in St Lucia:

• Passport
• Birth Certificate
• Decree Absolute (if one of the parties is divorced)
• In the case of a widow/widower a Death Certificate of first spouse is required
• If a name has been changed, a Deed Poll is required
• If one of the parties is under the age of 18, evidence of a consent of parents is required in the form of a sworn affidavit stamped by a Notary Public
• If any required documents are not in English, an authenticated translation must be available

Fees:

Marriage License (7 days before date of marriage) EC $335
Special Marriage License (less than 7 days or same day of marriage) EC $540
Registrar fees EC $100
Marriage Certificate EC $8
All of these details are taken care of by your hotel from whom a variety of Wedding packages are available. However you may wish to speak to your Reps or Tour Operator about getting married in St. Lucia.

The hotels can also usually arrange any other requirements – bridal bouquet, button holes and other floral arrangements, photos, video, steelband music, wedding cake etc. Prices vary.

Catholic Church Weddings

In the case of Catholic Church weddings, your local parish priest would need to liaise with a priest on island to ensure that you have undertaken the necessary counseling period prior to the marriage and that you have met all the necessary criteria to enable you to be married in a Catholic Church.

Please find below details of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, which is situated in the centre of Castries (St. Lucia’s capital) . The cathedral is beautiful church in which to be married:
Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
c/o Castries Presbyteries
Micoud Street
CASTRIES
Tele: 758 452 2271
 

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