Destination Weddings: MALDIVES
The picture-postcard Maldives is an obvious wedding choice and several resorts offer memorable non-binding ceremonies.
The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, formerly the Hilton Maldives, is a spectacular twin-island setting with seas so blue you may end up spending more time caressing your Sony camera than your spouse-to-be. Water bungalows step right into azure lagoons rich with curious fish, and a romantic stilted above-water spa complex will take care of any post-nuptial aches. You can choose to have your ceremony in the “Chapel of Love” – a pavilion overlooking the lagoon, in “Ithaa” the world’s only glass chapel under the sea, or among the corals, complete with an audience of fish.
Also check out the intimate Angsana Resort and Spa Maldives, and Soneva Gili by Six Senses.
Four Seasons Resorts can handle several aspects of the wedding ceremony or blessing with the degree of options varying region by region depending on local legal requirements. In the Maldives check out the swish Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa, with its bungalows, some over-water right above the cavorting marine life, and the second Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru. Leave your footprints in powder-white sand.
Those content with a non legally-binding ceremony could consider a private-island affair courtesy of the One&Only Maldives Reethi Rah. With a rose-petal-strewn aisle along a white beach and a private, personalised candle-lit dinner under the stars, those legal worries may just fade away.
Banyan Tree Resorts offers wedding packages at its Maldives, Phuket, Bintan, Bangkok, Lijiang, and Seychelles properties. Exchange vows among the corals at the Banyan Tree Maldives Vabbinfaru looking out over some of the bluest waters in the world. The coral-fringed island offers sugar-white sand, luxury accommodation, and an unbeatably romantic location for a destination wedding to remember.