From one message to married, calmly.
The plan is simple because we have run it hundreds of times.
Two timelines live on this page. The journey, from your first message to the apostilled certificate on your kitchen table. And the day itself, hour by hour, the way it actually feels.
Six steps, most of them ours
Say hello
One WhatsApp message with your rough month and island. We reply the same day with real availability, honest advice and a clear picture of cost. No forms, no pressure.
Gather the papers
Passports and apostilled birth certificates, plus anything your situation adds. Our documents guide names every paper, and we check each one before it matters.
We file everything
You email scans, we submit to the Civil Status Office and the banns run their legal 11 days while you finish packing. In a rush, the 48-hour express licence exists.
Land and breathe
You arrive one to two working days before the ceremony. The registrar formalities happen without you standing in any queue. The dress gets steamed, the beach is confirmed.
Married on the sand
Chauffeur, flowers, gazebo, registrar, cake, sparkling wine. It runs to the hour and none of the running is yours. The section below walks it hour by hour.
The paperwork flies home with you
Certificate, Supreme Court apostille, authentication or attestation as your country requires, courier if you want spares sent. Legally married, everywhere.
A wedding day, hour by hour
A typical late-afternoon ceremony, the shape most couples choose because the light is kindest as the day cools. Yours is shaped around your island, your season and your beach.
A slow lunch, nothing to organise
The day is already running without you. Beach confirmed, flowers cut, cake boxed, registrar booked. Your only task is lunch in the shade.
Hair and makeup, if you want hands
The stylist comes to your room. Bridal hair and makeup is €260, hair alone €140, makeup alone €165, and the mirror time is famously the calmest hour of the day.
The car arrives
On Mahé a private chauffeur carries you to the sand. On Praslin the wedding transport is arranged, on La Digue a taxi, or the ox cart if you asked for the slowest aisle in the world.
The ceremony
Barefoot on the sand, the registrar conducts the legal ceremony, you exchange the rings from the coconut casket, and the Act of Marriage is signed with the ocean as witness. Around half an hour, and somehow both forever and instant.
Cake, sparkling wine, sand between toes
The quiet celebration at the reception table. Customised cake, cold glasses, and the first photos of two married people.
The golden hour session
The light turns amber and we walk you along the water for the photographs the whole site is full of. Photography is from €750 and this hour is why.
Sunset
This close to the equator the sun drops fast, and the sky does its ten-minute show. If a film is being made, this is its closing shot.
Dinner for two
We can point you to the right table for the evening, from beach barbecue to fine dining, arranged on request. The day ends the way it began, just the two of you.
The honest booking order
First the date with us, because the registrar's calendar is the only real constraint. Then flights and the stay. Then, around two to three months out, the apostilles, which are slower than anything tropical. Photography, film, styling and music can join the plan any time before the final weeks, and the builder on each island page prices all of it in the open.
When you write to us, it helps to mention your travel dates, where you are staying, your religions if a religious ceremony matters to you, whether you bring witnesses or borrow ours, any colours you love for the setup, and the cake flavour. Yes, the cake flavour is a real planning question, and it is the nicest one on the list.