The Seychelles Bride Guide
The things we wish every bride knew before she landed.
After hundreds of weddings on these islands we have learned what the glossy blogs leave out. How makeup behaves in the humidity, what the trade winds do to hair, which dress feels right on hot sand, and the month the light is at its kindest. Here is the honest version, written to actually help.
Seychelles is one of the easiest places on earth to marry, and one of the most beautiful. It is also hot, humid and, for a few months a year, breezy. None of that has to touch your day. It only helps to know it in advance.
These guides are the same advice we give couples on WhatsApp every week, written down and free. We are photographers and filmmakers first, so we have watched what happens to hair, makeup and light at the exact hour you say yes, on the exact beaches you are choosing between. Nothing here is borrowed from a generic beach-wedding blog. It is what we have seen with our own cameras.
Read the guides
Bride guide · makeupBridal makeup in the heat
How to look fresh at four in the afternoon when it is thirty degrees and humid, and still glow in the golden-hour photographs.
6 min read
Bride guide · hairHair, frizz and the trade winds
What tropical humidity and the island wind really do to a hairstyle, and the looks that hold from the first photograph to the last dance.
6 min read
Bride guide · the dressThe beach wedding dress
The fabrics that breathe, the silhouettes that move on sand, and how to get a dress to the islands without a single crease.
6 min read
Bride guide · when to marryThe best month to marry
A month-by-month guide to the light, the sea and the mood, from a team that has filmed weddings in all twelve.
7 min read
Bride guide · the essentialsThe honest master guide
Everything we tell our brides in one place. The light, your feet, what to pack, and the one thing that matters more than all of it.
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