Hilton Seychelles Labriz sits on Silhouette, a dramatic, mountainous island ringed by national park a short boat ride from Mahe. It is one of the wilder, greener places to marry, with a long beach the resort largely has to itself and a real sense of being away from everything. We filmed a full wedding here, both the reportage and the highlights, and you can watch it on this page.
Watch the real wedding film we shot here
The setting
Silhouette is nature first, a protected island of rainforest and peaks with the resort strung along a generous beach at its foot. For a wedding it offers length and emptiness, a long stretch of sand for a private ceremony and portraits, backed by jungle and mountain rather than other hotels. It suits couples who want their beach to feel genuinely wild and their day to feel far from the crowd.
Marrying here
A wedding at Labriz is a legal Seychelles ceremony, performed by the registrar who travels to the island, with the paperwork handled so it is valid at home. Reaching Silhouette is a short boat transfer that the resort arranges, and we plan around it. Hilton's team can set up the ceremony on the beach, and we join as photographers and filmmakers, or we arrange the whole trip with SeyBooking.com for a single point of contact.
How we work with the resort
A long, wild beach is a gift to a filmmaker, and we use its space and its backdrop of forest and mountain to make the day feel epic and intimate at once. Whether Hilton plans your ceremony or we do, we shoot it quietly and completely. Watch the real Labriz wedding on this page, then tell us your date and we will plan the day around the island's light and its quiet.
The beach here, and when it is at its best
Seychelles has two seasons blowing from opposite directions, and that is what decides whether a beach is calm or blown on your date. From roughly May to September the south east trades run dry and steady, pushing chop and drifting seaweed onto anything facing south or south east. From roughly November to March the north west monsoon takes over, wetter and lighter on wind, and the exposure flips. April and October are the changeovers, when it goes quiet on every coast.
the Silhouette shoreline faces east and west on the same island, which puts it at its calmest across most of the year. Silhouette is big enough to have a lee whichever way the monsoon is running, which is a quiet advantage over a single beach on the mainland.
We will still confirm the exact spot and the exact hour for your date before you commit to it, because the sea has moods and a beach is not one single place.
The paperwork, and what the government charges here
The legal side is lighter than most couples expect. As two foreign nationals you need a valid passport and an apostilled birth certificate each, plus a divorce certificate if either of you has been married before or a death certificate if widowed. The banns are published for eleven days before the ceremony. Two witnesses must be present, and if you are marrying as just the two of you we provide them.
The government marriage fee here is SCR 4,000. That is the rate the Civil Status Office sets for any island other than Mahe, Praslin and La Digue, and the officer's transport, accommodation and meals are charged on top. It is a real cost of a private island wedding and we would rather you saw it here than in a final invoice.
One detail that catches people out. The Civil Status Office expects to register the marriage at its own office, so if the registration is to happen anywhere else, which is exactly what a ceremony at a private island means, it asks to be told at least a week beforehand. That is our job, not yours, but it is worth knowing the week exists.