A Catholic wedding in Jamaica is planned from your own parish outward, not from a resort brochure. Here's the route couples take and how long it really needs.
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Jamaica asks for 24 hours on the island and no more. You can land on Thursday and be legally married on Friday, with the certificate from the place you married.
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A symbolic ceremony hands you the hour. Sunrise over the water, the gold half hour before dark, any day of the week, with no registrar's diary involved.
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Twenty people, one long table, nobody there out of obligation. Jamaica has more genuinely small properties than anywhere else in the Caribbean.
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You know within an hour of arriving whether a resort is a village you're sharing or a city you're lost in. For a wedding week, medium is the one that works.
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Twenty rooms, somebody's family running it, and the bar knowing your drink by Wednesday. Jamaica's most affordable places to marry have the most character.
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The saving on a four-star room is the difference between a cousin booking a flight and sending a card. On this island it buys you the same beach either way.
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Jamaica's luxury tier runs from a 40-room house above a cove to a resort with its own offshore island. The rating tells you almost nothing about which is which.
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Six people on a clifftop with the sea below, or ten on a pier with the sun going down in front of you. Jamaica's most memorable places to say the words.
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Level ground, lights already in place, and water that keeps throwing them back at you at midnight. Why poolside beats sand once dinner is over.
