Leeward Islands wedding - let the dream come thrue
Antigua is the perfect location for a Caribbean beach wedding & honeymoon in a beautiful luxury resort. This is the land of the all-inclusive resort offing you a beach wedding combined with a luxurious honeymoon escape in a paradise hotel. Antigua and Barbuda are located in the middle of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean, roughly 17 degrees north of the equator. To the south are the islands of Montserrat and Guadaloupe, and to the north and west are Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Barts, and St. Martin. Antigua, its beaches, climate & hospitality offers the perfect Caribbean escape destination wedding. Wedding ceremonies in Antigua can be held at a beach, historical site, tropical garden, hotel or anywhere you desire on the island. Antigua really does have some spectacular locations where you can get married. Most couples get marries at their hotel in Antigua, usually by the beach under a beautiful gazebo. Getting married is completely legal back home in your own country. Weddings held in Antigua are legal around the world including the US, UK, Australia and Europe. To arrange your wedding in Antigua, you can take a complete package wedding, or combine a holiday with a wedding from a local wedding professional or arrange most of your wedding yourself. For the contracting of marriages on the Island Territory of St.Maarten, the following procedures are applicable and required (in accordance with the Civil Code of the Netherlands Antilles 1869 and as amended): Birth Certificates of both parties are required (article 120). Persons of foreign nationalities should be 21 years and over in order to contract a marriage without consent of their parents or guardians (such also in accordance to the laws of their respective countries of origin). Persons of the Netherlands nationality should be 23 years and over (article 93). Divorced persons may remarry in St.Maarten, but should provide a recent extract of divorce of this current year. Divorced women, can only remarry after 306 days upon inscription into the registry of divorce at the office of Civil State (article 83). A period of 10 (ten) days is required by law in accordance to article 124 of the Civil Code of the Netherlands Antilles to register at the Office of Civil Registry. Persons desiring to get married must first declare before the officer of Civil State of their intentions of contracting a marriage. Office hours are Mondays through Fridays from 8:30am to 12:00noon and from 1:30pm to 3:30pm (article 99,100, 101). Publication of marriage banns starts from the first Saturday thereafter (article 124). On Mondays marriages can be contracted for the sum of Nafls. 30 (approx. US$17). On Tuesdays through Thursdays marriages can be contracted for the price of NAfls. 90 (approx. $51); on Fridays for the price of NAfls. 110 (approx. $63); and on Saturdays for the price of NAfls. 270 (approx. $153). Prices include the marriage book. (These prices are in effect as of December 19, 1996, in accordance with "AB 1194 No. 11, Stampsordinance 1994").
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