Average Cost of a Destination Wedding in Barbados
Barbados has a way of slowing your wedding down. Most couples who choose the island stay seven nights (longer than nearly anywhere else in the Caribbean) and bring just one or two guests.
Barbados has a way of slowing your wedding down. Most couples who choose the island stay seven nights (longer than nearly anywhere else in the Caribbean) and bring just one or two guests.
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 Puerto Vallarta destination wedding has the kind of cinematic backdrop that practically does the photography for you, but the planning process has more moving pieces than couples typically expect: choosing between a symbolic and a legal ceremony, navigating apostille paperwork, locking in a room block, deciding between Puerto Vallarta proper and the Nuevo Vallarta…
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 at every good destination wedding when the whole group, finally relaxed after a long travel day, drifts together for the welcome dinner.
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.
Some destinations were practically built for the big family wedding. Hawaii is one of them.
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…