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St Vincent & the Grenadines Wedding
How to have a wedding in St Vincent & the Grenadines
Getting married in St Vincent & the Grenadines offer many spectacular locations for you to escape to your Caribbean paradise wedding. If you really want to escape the Caribbean over touristed islands & truly find an escape, then a St Vincent & the Grenadines wedding is for you.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines are located 1600 miles southeast of Miami. The closest neighbors are Grenada (75 miles to the south), St. Lucia (24 miles north), and Barbados (100 miles east.) Temperatures average 78 degrees year around, and there is no stormy season because of the islands' southern Caribbean location.
Most weddings in St Vincent or one of the Grenadine Islands are arranged by the hotel or resort you are staying in - or an outside professional who can put the wedding you want together. The most popular wedding destinations in St Vincent & the Grenadines are St. Vincent Island, Mustique, The Tobago Cays, Canouan, Palm Island, Young Island & Bequia. Weddings in Bequia are particularly well catered for, though the other islands offer some amazing resorts for your wedding & honeymoon. All these locations offer some great locations for a beach wedding or beachside from the hotel.
You can take a St Vincent & the Grenadines package wedding, a local wedding organizer or arrange your wedding yourself.
The island of St. Vincent is 18 miles long and 11 miles wide and is a lush volcanic island of steep mountain ridges, valleys and waterfalls. La Soufriere, the dormant volcano, rises over 4000 feet. The rich volcanic soil produces an abundance of fruits, vegetables and spices. The interior flat lands and valleys are thickly planted with coconuts, bananas, breadfruit, nutmeg and arrowroot.
Legally it is relatively simple to marry in St Vincent & the Grenadines. Weddings are legal for UK, USA, Canadian, Irish & other European citizens.
Wedding Requirements St Vincent & Grenadines
To get married in St. Vincent or one of the Grenadine islands is legally very simple. Normally you need 3 days residency but under special licence you can apply for a marriage license to permit a non resident to be married after one day. The main problem is you will need to apply in person in St Vincent - no matter which island your ceremony is. Often hotel resorts & wedding coordinators hire A plane or boat to make this possible. St Vincent & the Grenadines Marriage license laws state that the only documents required are your passports unless you are divorced - then you will also be required to present your final divorce papers. All documents must be translated into English.
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Quotes from couples married in St Vincent & the Grenadines
'The location couldn't have be more beautiful. The resort hotel and grounds where we were married were jaw-droppingly beautiful. Overall a lovely relxed location to have my wedding.'
- Angela & Andy, wed in St Vincent & the Grenadines Nov 2009
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