Three islands. Three prices. Nothing hidden.

What the government takes, and what we take

A package price is only honest if you can see the part of it that is not ours. The Civil Status Office charges SCR 3,000 to marry two foreign nationals on Mahe, Praslin or La Digue, and SCR 4,000 anywhere else in the archipelago, with the officer's transport, accommodation and meals charged on top of that. That fee is inside every price on this page. You do not pay it again at the desk.

The same goes for the apostille from the Supreme Court of Seychelles, which is the stamp that makes your certificate usable at home. It is in the price. It is also the single thing couples most often discover afterwards that they were quoted without, because it is far slower and dearer to obtain from your own country once you have flown home than it is here in the week you marry.

How to read anybody's Seychelles wedding quote

The legal core costs the same wherever you buy it. Nobody can undercut anybody else on the registrar or the government fee, because the state sets both. So a quote that comes in far below the field is not a better deal on the law. It is a shorter list somewhere further down, and these are the five places it is usually shorter. Ask them of us too.

The last one catches more couples than the rest put together. A ceremony on Silhouette, Felicite, Bird or any of the outer islands is charged at the higher government rate, and the registrar's boat or flight, room and meals are added on top of that. A quote for one of those islands that reads like a Mahe quote is missing something.

• Is the government marriage fee inside the price, or paid at the desk
• Is the Supreme Court apostille inside it, or arranged later at your own cost
• How many photography hours are included, and what an extra hour costs
• Is the ceremony beach public, and who holds it for your hour
• If the island is not Mahe, Praslin or La Digue, who pays the officer's travel

The timing that decides your date

Two dates matter and neither of them is the wedding. The first is eleven days before it, because the banns are published for eleven days and that period runs before the ceremony, not after. The second is roughly a fortnight before that, because we ask for scans of your documents at least fourteen days ahead so that anything missing is found while you can still do something about it.

If you are already inside that window there is still a way through. The Civil Status Office issues a special licence that shortens the banns, and it costs SCR 500, about 35 euro. Most couples who use it are married within about forty eight hours of landing. Your certificate is issued within twenty four hours of the ceremony either way.