The honest answer is that rain is a variable we plan for, not a risk to lose sleep over. Tropical showers in Seychelles are usually short and heavy, passing through in twenty minutes and leaving the light softer and everything greener than before. A full day of rain is genuinely rare. Because we work here every week, we never leave the weather to luck, and we have a plan for it that has saved many a wedding day.
How the rain actually behaves
Seychelles has two gentle seasons rather than a wet one and a dry one. The northwest monsoon from November to March is the warmer, wetter half, with the most rain in January and February, though even then the winds are light, the seas calm and you still get around six hours of sun a day. The southeast trade winds from May to October are drier, June to August the least rainy of all, but breezier with livelier seas. Either way, when rain comes it tends to arrive as a short, dramatic downpour and move on within half an hour, often leaving the cleanest, most glowing light of the day. The picture in most people's heads, a wedding rained off entirely, is not really how the weather works here.
The plan we always have ready
We never arrive without a sheltered option, a plantation veranda, a pavilion or a covered terrace near your beach, so if a shower comes through during the ceremony we simply pause with a cool drink and let it pass, then step back onto the sand. We also choose your beach for the season, favouring the coast sheltered from that month's wind, so the sea is calmer and the sand cleaner for your photographs. The result is that a passing shower becomes a twenty-minute interval in your day, not the end of it.
The free next-morning reshoot
Here is the promise that puts couples at ease. If a rare shower lands right on your ceremony hour, we will redo your beach portraits the next morning at no extra cost. This is a real thing we have done many times, and it has given us some of our favourite images, because a calm golden morning after the rain is a gift. Knowing this exists is often all a couple needs to stop worrying about the sky and simply enjoy the day.