A barefoot ceremony on Negril’s Seven Mile Beach. A garden gazebo wrapped in tropical florals at a Sandals resort in Ocho Rios. A sunset vow exchange on a Montego Bay terrace with the Caribbean rolling out behind you. Jamaica’s mix of palm-fringed beaches, lush gardens, and warm island hospitality has made it one of the most popular destination wedding spots…
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There’s something undeniably romantic about saying “I do” on a soft Mexican beach with turquoise water stretching out behind you and your favorite people kicking off their shoes in the sand. And here’s the surprising part: a destination wedding in Mexico typically costs between $5,000 and $20,000 for an all-inclusive package, with most of our Destination Wedding couples spending around…
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Once you’ve settled on a country, you still have to pick the actual building you and your wedding guests will stay and where your wedding will be performed. That’s the decision that determines where you stand to say your vows, what your guests eat for five days, whether there’s anywhere to go when it rains, and how much of your…
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Choosing where to get married is the one decision that makes every other decision easier. Venue, budget, guest list, time of year, what people wear: all of it follows from the place, and almost none of it can be settled until the place is. It’s also the decision couples agonize over the longest, usually because they start by looking at…
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There’s an old assumption that the groom’s job is to show up in a good suit and stand where he’s told. It was never really true, and at a destination wedding it falls apart completely, because this kind of wedding has more moving parts than a wedding at home and none of them sort themselves out. The good news is…
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It takes a small army to pull off a wedding abroad. A coordinator who has answered forty of your emails, a banquet captain quietly rearranging tables while you’re getting ready, a bartender who remembers what your dad drinks by the second night. Somewhere in the last few weeks of planning, you realize you have no idea what any of that…
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Twenty people, one long table, nobody there out of obligation. On this coast that usually means a small venue rather than a small resort.
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The first thing you do on a wedding week is look for everyone else. Montego Bay is built at the scale where you actually find them.
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Everyone you love in one place for five days, which is the hardest thing to arrange at home. Where in Montego Bay a full wedding week actually fits.
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Open sky above the chuppah is simply how it works here. The rabbi and the catering are the two things worth settling before you fall for a property.
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A Catholic wedding abroad is planned from your own parish outward. Here's the route couples take in Montego Bay, and the year it genuinely needs.
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One wedding, one date, and a certificate from the place you actually said the words. Jamaica asks for a single day on the island before you marry.
