Baie Lazare is a wide, calm bay on the south-west coast of Mahe, a quieter and genuinely beautiful part of the island near Petite Anse, where the Four Seasons sits. It is a favourite of ours, a soft golden beach that photographs wonderfully in the late afternoon and suits everything from a two-person elopement to a resort wedding nearby. We have filmed more than one wedding here, and one is on this page.
Watch the real wedding film we shot here
The setting
Baie Lazare gives you the calmer, more local side of Mahe, a broad sheltered bay, soft sand, and hills that catch the last of the sun. It is away from the busier north of the island, so a beach ceremony here feels unhurried and private, and the light in the golden hour is some of the loveliest on Mahe. The area also puts you close to the fine resorts of the south-west if you want to stay in luxury nearby.
Marrying here
A wedding at Baie Lazare is a legal Seychelles ceremony, the registrar comes to the beach and marries you there, and we handle or guide the paperwork so it is valid at home. Because it is a public beach we time your ceremony for privacy and the best light, and we keep a sheltered fallback for weather. It suits an intimate elopement particularly well, and we provide the legal witnesses if it is just the two of you.
How we work here
We know this bay, how it empties toward the end of the day and how the sun sits on the water, which is exactly why we return to it. Whether you are marrying on the beach itself or at a resort nearby, we shoot it the way we know works here. Watch a real Baie Lazare wedding on this page, then tell us your date and we will plan the day around the bay's golden hour.