Getting Married in Barbados

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The weather

Tee shirts, shorts and bathing suit weather all year round. With that in mind, when you are choosing your clothing including your Wedding dress please keep our temperature in mind if you choose a thick suit or very warm dress you will be very uncomfortable.

The wettest time of year is the end of summer between August and October although our hurricane season starts in June. Most hurricanes that you hear about in this area are only tropical storms when they come out way with the last major hurricane hitting us in 1955

Marriage License

The bride and groom have to apply in person at the office of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Bridgetown, Barbados. You can call 1 (246)228-8950 this will take you to the PBX and the receptionist will direct you. Make sure that you have your paperwork in order; you will need some form of identification eg. Passport or birth certificate with some form of picture ID, and proof that you are single and free to get married. If you were married before you will need proof that you are no longer married.

Photography

If you are reading this, there is a chance you or someone close to you is getting married, if so congratulations, I wish you all the best.
As a photographer I take pictures in a journalistic style, I cover the whole story and look for everything both the traditional and anything unusual that happens from the loving gaze in the eyes at the ceremony to the children steeling icing off of the cake.
You may be planning a very small intimate wedding with just the two of you or a big wedding with all of your family and friends. Either way the pictures of your wedding will be the one thing that you have to remind you of the love you shared on that day.
If you are planning a big wedding I usually start about two or three hours before the ceremony and take pictures from the time you are getting ready. This covers the relationship that you have with your mum and your bridesmaids if they are there and other little things like putting on the garter or the special earrings that you borrowed or the blue heart on your big toe and special shots in the mirror.
I then cover getting in and out of the car, the ceremony, the group shots and the after party.
The time of day to get the most beautiful pictures is the one hour before the sun goes down and you would make my day if you would allow me to use that hour or half hour to take your bride and groom pictures. That would mean planning the timing of the wedding so that you arrive at your reception location about one hour before sunset.

Just a thought – let’s take the bulk of the group pictures before the wedding.

Taking pictures before – traditionally the groom does not see the bride before the church but for pictures can we rethink that.
The first time the groom sees the bride on that day she should be completely ready, hair, makeup, shoes, flowers everything and it should be in a romantic setting where he sees her coming, the petals on the ground and even perhaps the flower girl and brides maids, her choice. That way he can greet her and hold her without the pressure of 400 eyes.
Then pictures can start and we can get the pictures of the wedding party and the special people in the couple’s lives, these can all be invited to the pre wedding pictures time.
Perfect timing – my idea of perfect timing would be for the wedding to be planned with the time of sunset in mind because one hour before sunset is the best time to take pictures. For me as the photographer, the ideal day would be.
Bride and groom get ready, Groom and bride meet, Group pictures, Ceremony, Half hour to one hour couple pictures, Sunset, party .
One disadvantage of my ideal day is that we break tradition by a few hours and you are going to get a lot of trouble from parents and grandparents. The other disadvantage is that group pictures will end up being in the middle of the day when outdoor in the sun pictures just don’t work, we will have to do them indoors or find a place that is shady and pretty.
The advantage is that after the ceremony and a few more pictures at sunset the couple can spend their time partying or with their guests the whole picture thing is over except for perhaps a few with close friends who were not invited to the pre wedding pictures time.
If you prefer to be traditional please remember that the best time for pictures is the hour before sunset unless you want to get really romantic and get your pictures takes just after sunrise.

Two things to watch out for

Our sun – Wear sunscreen, sunburn is very uncomfortable and you don’t want to spend your wedding day or honeymoon saying “don’t touch” or being bright red with tan lines in your pictures. Unless you are looking for that “guess what happened to us when we got married in the Barbados” story. I would suggest resisting lying in the sun between 11.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. and if you decide to go for it any way do it for a short time the first time just to see how it affects you because sunburn doesn’t show or hurt for the first few hours.
You can get burned even on cloudy days especially in summer. Walking on the beaches of our east coast doesn’t even feel hot but our sun is deceptive. Wear sunscreen.

Barbados Rum - We make rum, really good rum, but be careful of something we call rum punch, it has a lot of punch, it’s not like the bottle stuff that you can get at some other places. It tastes great and invites you to drink too much. Of course I love when the rum punch is really flowing and everyone is really happy because that is when I get my best party shots.
If you are a first time visitor, have a really great time and if you have been before, we welcome you back.

Photographer - Joanne Spencer

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