Average Cost of a Destination Wedding in St. Lucia
Most couples first see a photo of the Pitons rising straight out of the Caribbean and immediately assume St. Lucia is going to be the most expensive wedding they’ll ever plan.
Most couples first see a photo of the Pitons rising straight out of the Caribbean and immediately assume St. Lucia is going to be the most expensive wedding they’ll ever plan.
Aruba has a reputation. Boutique-luxury resorts, glittering Palm Beach high-rises, eco-anchored Eagle Beach hideaways, and the kind of polished service most couples assume comes with a serious five-figure price tag.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Some wedding destinations earn their luxury reputation slowly, over decades of word-of-mouth and quietly perfect dinners. Barbados is one of them. The Platinum Coast on the west side of the island has been a favorite of the kind of guests who prefer the second glass of rosé to the first, where the Caribbean settles into…
Barbados is often pegged as a luxury wedding destination thanks to Sandy Lane and the Platinum Coast, but the island actually has one of the deepest affordable resort scenes in the eastern Caribbean.