Hi Andie

A wedding in St Lucia is a great idea! There are so many wonderful tropical venues to enjoy your day.

You'll need to be in St Lucia for at least 2 days prior to wedding and it's recommended that the Attorney General receive your application about four working days prior to your wedding date. St. Lucia has a waiting period of two business days for civil marriages and at least 15 days for religious marriages. If you want to be married in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in St. Lucia, you need to have your local parish priest contact the Cathedral to make sure you meet their requirements. The tel no is: +17584522271

From the legal point of view, if you've been married before, St. Lucia requires that you provide your passport and birth certificate, show a Proof of Absolute if you are divorced or if you are a widow/widower, then you will have to provide a copy of your former spouse's death certificate. There are also a number of fees you'll have to pay, such as Notarial Fees & Marriage License, Registrar fees and a fee for your marriage certificate.

St Lucia is great for tropical island weddings and popular locations include the beach, looking out over the sea on a cliff top, in a private garden or villa, or even on a yacht! Unfortunately, weddings can't take place in St Lucia on holidays or weekends and must be performed between sunrise and sunset.

Below are a couple of companies who will help you plan your wedding from your mode of transport to your bridal bouquet and photographer. They will also give you more ideas about where to get married:
- www.aweddinginstlucia.com/
- www.weddingsinstlucia.com/

I hope you find what you're looking for and all the best for your wedding day!

In response to Free Legal Advise, I just booked a wedding at Sandals and was told that I need to be a residence for 72 hours, this was yesterday, when did it all change?

We have booked a wedding at sandals in april 2009, we were told we dont need a birth certificate as well as passport both of us have been married before we do know that we need the legal divorce paperwork, can any one confirm whether we need a birth certificate too, my husband to be has lost his!! sandals said we dont need it?

Im getting married in Almond Morgan Bay St Lucia in September 09. We have booked through Virgin Holidays. The legal requirements are passport,birth certificates and decree absolutes. We have been informed from virgin holidays that they require our legal documents 10 wks prior to departure. We have now found out my partner decree absolute will be a delay the courts wont state how long due to major backlogs, but have been informed we will have it before departure. My questions is as we have to produce the original documents in person to the registrar once we get there is it acceptable or do we have to cancel our wedding for a later date as we wont have his decree absolute so far in advance... At a loss what to do...