Aruba calls itself "One Happy Island," and LGBTQ+ couples who get married here usually understand why pretty quickly. The Dutch Caribbean island sits below the hurricane belt with trade winds that keep the air comfortable year-round.
Destination Inspiration
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A big destination wedding has its own particular kind of magic. The night before, your favorite cousins are at the swim-up bar swapping stories with people they'd just met at the welcome dinner.
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There's a moment at every good destination wedding when the whole group, finally relaxed after a long travel day, drifts together for the welcome dinner.
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A big wedding in Barbados has a particular kind of warmth to it. By the second night your guests have figured out their favorite rum cocktail, half the group is already trading dinner recommendations from the Oistins fish fry.
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Some destinations were practically built for the big family wedding. Hawaii is one of them.
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Hawaii has been quietly one of the most welcoming wedding destinations in the world for LGBTQ+ couples for a long time before the rest of the country caught up. Same-sex marriage has been fully legal here since 2013, and the islands have built a wedding culture around the kind of warm, ceremony-honoring hospitality that recognizes every couple’s love story on…
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A wedding in Jamaica has a particular rhythm. Trade winds carry the smell of jerk smoke and sea salt, the soft pulse of reggae drifts in from the resort bar, and the Caribbean shifts from impossibly clear at noon to amber-soft by evening. The big question for most couples planning a Jamaica wedding isn’t whether the island will deliver. It’s…
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Mexico is a country that checks the boxes to almost any wedding daydream. The Caribbean coast delivers powdery beaches and cenotes glowing beneath the jungle. The Pacific coast brings whale-filled bays, dramatic desert cliffs, and bougainvillea spilling over cobblestones. Inland, the colonial heart of the country offers candlelit courtyards and historic plazas that turn any ceremony into something cinematic. The…
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There's a moment a few days into an Aruba wedding when the rest of the world goes quiet. Trade winds drift in off the Caribbean, your guests are barefoot in the sand with a drink in hand, and the sun is just beginning to slip behind the horizon.
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Somewhere between the first sip of cold rum punch and the second time you look up at the Pitons, St. Lucia stops feeling like a vacation and starts feeling like a setting. The light here does something you’ll only really notice in photos later, the way it pours down those volcanic peaks at sunset, turning the rainforest gold and the…
