Best Beach Wedding Destinations Worldwide

Official Guide

Andrea WeddingPlanner

ExpertLead Destination Expert

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The Best Beach Wedding Destinations Are Not Where You Think

Every couple I speak to has already mentally booked themselves into the same shortlist: Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cancún, maybe Santorini if they're feeling adventurous. And I understand it. The travel industry has spent forty years selling those destinations, and the imagery is everywhere. But when you're planning one of the most logistically complex events of your life — because that's what a destination wedding actually is, a complex event, not a holiday — familiarity is not the same as suitability.

I've been organising weddings in the Seychelles for fourteen years. Before that, I worked across the Caribbean circuit, managed a resort wedding programme in Phuket, and spent two deeply educational years learning what "beach wedding" means when you're dealing with Atlantic hurricane tracks, overcrowded resort beaches, and photography backdrops that look identical to every other couple's album from the same venue. So when I write about the best beach wedding destinations, I'm not pulling from a mood board. I'm pulling from tide charts, civil registration timelines, inter-island ferry schedules, and the specific memory of a three-tier cake that arrived on La Digue in perfect condition because I packed it in a cooler with dry ice and bribed the Cat Cocos crew to keep it in the hold.

This guide is a direct comparison. Seychelles against the Caribbean, against Mexico and Hawaii, against Florida's domestic beach circuit. I'll cover legal requirements, seasonal weather, destination wedding costs, and the honest trade-offs that resort brochures never mention. If you're looking for inspiration content, this isn't it. If you're trying to make a real decision about where to legally marry, with real guests, in a real location that won't disappoint — keep reading.

The best beach wedding destinations share three qualities: photographic distinctiveness, legal accessibility, and logistical predictability. Very few places on earth deliver all three simultaneously. The Seychelles is one of them.

Caribbean vs. Seychelles: Which Region Wins for Best Beach Weddings?

The Caribbean is not a bad choice. I want to be clear about that before I dismantle the mythology around it. It has established wedding infrastructure, direct flights from the US and UK, and a hospitality industry that has been processing destination weddings for decades. But "established" and "excellent" are not synonyms, and the Caribbean's biggest weakness is the one nobody puts in the brochure: you are sharing your wedding backdrop with several hundred other guests at the same resort, on the same beach, on the same afternoon.

I've stood on the main beach at Sandals Montego Bay and watched three separate wedding ceremonies happen within visual range of each other. The photographers were doing their best. The couples were oblivious, or trying to be. But the images — the images told the truth. Seychelles doesn't have that problem. Anse Source d'Argent on La Digue has a daily visitor limit enforced by the L'Union Estate entrance fee, and a competent planner can time a ceremony to the 07:30 opening window before the day-trippers arrive. The granite boulders, the ink-dark water at depth, the pink-tinged sand — none of it exists anywhere in the Caribbean. It's a genuinely different category of scenery.

Wind management is the other factor. The Southeast Trades hit the Caribbean's eastern islands — Barbados, Antigua, St. Lucia — with enough force between December and April to make outdoor ceremonies genuinely uncomfortable. Veils become projectiles. Floral arrangements require structural engineering. The Seychelles has its own wind patterns, but they're more geographically predictable, and I'll explain exactly how to use that to your advantage.

Jamaica and Bahamas: Crowd Levels vs. Seychelles Seclusion

Jamaica's resort corridor — Negril to Montego Bay — processes an enormous volume of destination weddings annually. The infrastructure is real: licensed officiants, established florists, resort coordinators who know the paperwork. But the beaches themselves are compromised. Seven Mile Beach in Negril is public. You cannot close it. You cannot control who walks through your ceremony frame at 16:00 on a Tuesday. I've seen wedding photographers in Jamaica spend more time in post-production removing background strangers than they spend on colour grading.

The Bahamas is a different proposition — particularly the Out Islands, which are genuinely under-utilised and offer seclusion that approaches Seychelles quality. Harbour Island's pink sand is legitimately distinctive. But the logistics of getting a full wedding party to Harbour Island via Nassau connection, then a water taxi, then a golf cart, are not trivial. And the legal requirements involve a residency period that catches couples off guard.

Seychelles offers comparable — and in most cases superior — seclusion without the multi-leg transfer problem. Praslin is a 15-minute flight from Mahé. La Digue is a 15-minute ferry from Praslin. The inter-island network is functional and bookable. And on La Digue specifically, the absence of cars — only ox-carts and bicycles are the primary transport — means your ceremony site is never going to have a resort shuttle bus idling in the background.

It's more private than the Hilton Labriz on Silhouette, but the sand on some La Digue beaches isn't as powdery — that's the honest trade-off, and it's worth knowing before you commit.

Seasonal Weather: Caribbean Hurricane Risk vs. Seychelles Stability

The Atlantic hurricane season runs June through November, with peak activity in August and September. That's not a minor logistical footnote — that's a five-month window during which your entire wedding investment is exposed to cancellation risk. Most resort contracts in the Caribbean have force majeure clauses that protect the venue, not the couple. I've spoken to three different couples who lost non-refundable deposits to hurricane-related cancellations in St. Lucia and Antigua. Travel insurance covers some of it. Not all of it. Never the emotional cost.

Seychelles sits outside the cyclone belt. That's a structural geographic advantage, not a marketing claim. The islands sit between 4° and 10° south of the equator, which places them outside the typical cyclone formation zone. What you do get are two monsoon seasons — the Northwest Monsoon from November to March, and the Southeast Trades from May to September — and these affect which beaches are usable at which times of year. The West coast of Mahé is sheltered during the Southeast Trades. The East coast is not. April and October are the inter-monsoon windows when almost every beach is accessible.

If you're considering a June wedding on the Southeast coast of Mahé, I'd talk you out of it. The swell and wind make outdoor ceremonies at those exposures genuinely difficult, and no amount of floral canopy will fix a 25-knot headwind during the exchange of vows.

Mexico and Hawaii Beach Weddings Compared to Seychelles

Mexico's Riviera Maya is the most efficiently packaged destination wedding market in the world. I say that without irony — the all-inclusive resort model has been refined to a point where a couple can arrive, marry, and depart without ever making a single independent decision. For some people, that's exactly what they want. But that efficiency comes at a cost that isn't measured in dollars: it's measured in interchangeability. The cenote ceremony photos from Tulum look like the cenote ceremony photos from every other couple who booked the same venue through the same resort coordinator using the same approved vendor list.

Hawaii sits in a different category. The scenery is genuinely dramatic — volcanic coastlines, Na Pali cliffs, black sand beaches on the Big Island — and the photography potential is real. But Hawaii is a US state, which means it operates under US legal frameworks, US vendor pricing, and US crowd levels. Kaanapali Beach on Maui on a Saturday afternoon is not a private experience. And the permit system for beach ceremonies on public land in Hawaii requires applications to the Department of Land and Natural Resources, with fees and lead times that vary by island and location.

Seychelles offers the dramatic scenery of Hawaii without the domestic tourism volume, and the logistical customisation of a bespoke European wedding without the European weather risk. That's a specific combination that almost nothing else on earth replicates.

All-Inclusive Resort Model vs. Seychelles Private Island Experience

The all-inclusive model in Mexico and the Caribbean is built around volume. A resort that processes 200 weddings a year has standardised everything: the arch placement, the approved florist list, the ceremony time slots, the reception menu tiers. That standardisation is why the photos look the same. It's not the photographer's fault. The infrastructure itself produces a specific aesthetic, and deviation from it costs extra — sometimes significantly extra.

Seychelles private island properties — North Island, Frégate, Denis Island — operate on a fundamentally different model. North Island accommodates eleven villas. Eleven. When you book a wedding there, you have effectively taken over the island. The staff-to-guest ratio is higher than most five-star city hotels. The vendor access is different because the island's remoteness means you're working with a curated set of trusted suppliers, not an open marketplace — but those suppliers have been vetted over years of actual use, not just approved on paper.

The honest warning here: if you're expecting the spontaneity of calling a florist the week before and changing your centrepiece concept, a private island in Seychelles is not your venue. Lead times are longer. Logistics require advance planning. I once had a couple decide they wanted fresh peonies three weeks before their North Island ceremony. Peonies. In the Indian Ocean. We sourced them — it required a cargo arrangement through Johannesburg — but it cost four times what it would have in London and added two days of stress I didn't need. Plan early. Plan specifically.

Florida and US Beaches vs. Seychelles for Destination Weddings

Florida is the most popular domestic destination wedding market in the United States, and I understand why couples consider it. No passport required for US residents, no international flight costs for guests, established vendor networks in every price bracket. Clearwater Beach, Siesta Key, and Destin all have legitimate appeal — Siesta Key's quartz sand is genuinely distinctive, and the Gulf of Mexico is calmer than the Atlantic side for outdoor ceremonies.

But Florida is not a destination wedding in the way that phrase is meant to function. It's a domestic event in a beach setting. The photography backdrop — flat horizon, white sand, blue-grey Gulf water — is competent but not distinctive. I've seen Clearwater Beach ceremony photos that could have been taken in Marbella, in Queensland, or in the Algarve. There's nothing in the frame that says "this specific place." And the summer heat and humidity in Florida — ceremonies in July and August regularly hit 34°C with 80% humidity before 10:00 — creates a comfort problem that no amount of event tenting fully resolves.

Clearwater, Siesta Key, and Destin vs. Seychelles: Budget Reality Check

The assumption that Florida is the budget-friendly alternative to international destinations needs examining. A mid-range beach wedding at a Clearwater Beach resort — venue hire, catering, photography, florals, officiant — runs between $25,000 and $45,000 for 50 guests before accommodation. That's not cheap. And unlike Seychelles, where the remoteness creates a natural guest list filter — only your most committed guests will fly to the Indian Ocean — Florida weddings tend to expand in guest count because everyone can easily attend. More guests means more cost. The budget logic inverts quickly.

Seychelles destination wedding costs for a bespoke ceremony on La Digue or Praslin, for 20 guests, can be structured to come in at a comparable total spend when you factor in the smaller guest count and the accommodation packages available through properties like Constance Lémuria or the Hilton Seychelles Labriz. The per-head cost is higher in Seychelles. The total cost is often comparable — and the photographs are not comparable at all.

For couples genuinely working with a constrained budget, Florida is the honest answer. But if you're spending $30,000 on a wedding, you should be asking whether you want $30,000 worth of Clearwater Beach or $30,000 worth of Anse Lazio. That's a real question with a real answer, and only you can make it — but you should make it with accurate numbers in front of you, not assumptions.

Legal Requirements: Seychelles vs. Other Top Destinations

Legal requirements are where most destination wedding planning falls apart, and they fall apart specifically because couples research the scenery first and the paperwork second. By the time they discover the residency requirement in the Bahamas, or the document apostille timeline for Italy, or the waiting period in Hawaii, they've already emotionally committed to a venue. That's a bad order of operations.

Seychelles has one of the most straightforward legal frameworks for foreign nationals marrying abroad. The Civil Status Office in Victoria handles the registration, and the requirements are clear: both parties must be present in Seychelles for a minimum of 11 days before the ceremony, you must submit a Notice of Intended Marriage to the Civil Status Office upon arrival, and the ceremony cannot take place until that 11-day notice period has elapsed. Required documents include valid passports, birth certificates, and proof of single status — either a single status certificate or a decree absolute if previously divorced. All foreign documents must be apostilled.

Compare that to Italy, where the banns must be published in both your home country and Italy, a process that takes a minimum of three months. Or to France, where one party must have been resident for 40 days prior to the ceremony. Or to Thailand, where the legal marriage must be conducted at a district office in Thai, and the beach ceremony is legally a symbolic event only — meaning you're paying for a ceremony that isn't actually binding without a separate civil registration.

Seychelles gives you a legally binding ceremony on the beach. Not a symbolic one. Not a "blessing." An actual marriage certificate, recognised internationally, conducted in a setting that no registry office in Victoria can match.

Marriage License Timelines: Seychelles 11-Day Rule vs. Other Destinations

The 11-day rule in Seychelles is the single most misunderstood aspect of planning a wedding here. Couples read "11 days" and assume it means 11 days of bureaucratic waiting with nothing to do. That's not how it works in practice. You arrive, you submit your Notice of Intended Marriage to the Civil Status Office — the office on Independence Avenue in Victoria, not the satellite offices, which have inconsistent hours — and then you have 11 days to explore the islands, do your pre-wedding photography, finalise your florals, and actually enjoy the location before the ceremony. The waiting period is built into the trip, not added on top of it.

The registrar who actually answers their phone — and I say this from experience, because not all of them do — is the one you need to confirm your specific ceremony date with at least 60 days in advance. I've had couples arrive with their documents in order only to find their preferred ceremony date was already allocated to another couple. The Civil Status Office does not have an online booking system as of my last check. You book by phone and confirm in writing.

Jamaica requires couples to be on the island for 24 hours before applying for a marriage licence — technically simpler, but the processing time at the registry can extend to 48 hours, which compresses your schedule. Barbados requires 48 hours of residency. The Maldives requires a declaration of non-Muslim faith for non-Muslim couples, which involves a separate administrative step. Seychelles has none of those complications. The process is linear and predictable, which is exactly what you want when you're coordinating flights, guests, and florals across multiple time zones.

Cost Breakdown: Seychelles vs. Caribbean vs. Mexico

Destination wedding costs are quoted in ways designed to obscure the true total. A resort in Cancún advertises a wedding package starting at $3,500 — that's the ceremony coordination fee, not the wedding. By the time you add catering, photography, florals, music, and accommodation for 30 guests, you're at $40,000 minimum. I've seen Caribbean all-inclusive wedding packages balloon to $80,000 for 50 guests once every line-item add-on is included. The base price is a marketing number. The final invoice is the real one.

Seychelles operates on a different pricing architecture. There's no "wedding package" in the resort sense at most bespoke venues — you're building from components, which means the costs are transparent from the start. A ceremony on Anse Source d'Argent with a licensed officiant, a florist working with locally sourced heliconias and orchids, a photographer, and a private dinner for 20 guests at a La Digue property runs approximately $18,000–$28,000 in direct event costs, excluding accommodation. Add accommodation for 20 guests at mid-range La Digue properties and you're looking at $35,000–$55,000 total for the event week.

The Caribbean mid-range equivalent for 20 guests — Jamaica or Barbados, three-night minimum stay, resort wedding package — sits at $30,000–$50,000 with less photographic distinctiveness and more standardised vendor output. Mexico all-inclusive for the same group runs $25,000–$45,000 with the highest level of logistical convenience but the lowest level of customisation.

Guest Travel and Accommodation Costs by Destination

The honest conversation about destination wedding costs has to include what you're asking your guests to spend, because that affects who actually shows up. A flight from London to Mahé with Air Seychelles or Emirates via Dubai runs approximately £700–£1,100 return, depending on season and booking lead time. From New York, connecting through Dubai or Doha, expect $1,200–$1,800. Those are real numbers, and they mean your guest list will self-select. Only genuinely committed guests attend a Seychelles wedding. That's not a problem — it's a feature. I've watched couples who planned a Seychelles wedding for 18 guests have a more emotionally significant celebration than couples who invited 120 people to a Cancún resort and spent the reception managing table politics.

Caribbean flights from the US East Coast run $400–$800 return to Jamaica or Barbados, which is why Caribbean weddings attract larger guest lists. More guests, more complexity, more cost. Hawaii from the US mainland runs $600–$1,000 return from the West Coast, more from the East. Florida, for US guests, is a drive or a $150 domestic flight.

Accommodation in Seychelles ranges from $180/night at a guesthouse on La Digue to $2,500+/night at North Island. There is a functional mid-range — Constance Lémuria on Praslin at $450–$700/night is genuinely good value for what it delivers. Your guests don't all need to stay at the same property, and on La Digue especially, the cluster of small hotels and self-catering villas within walking distance of the ceremony sites means you can accommodate a mixed-budget guest list without anyone feeling like a second-class attendee.

All-Inclusive Packages vs. Seychelles Bespoke Weddings

All-inclusive wedding packages exist because planning a destination wedding is genuinely difficult, and most couples don't have a specialist on the ground. The package removes decisions. It also removes distinctiveness, flexibility, and — frequently — quality control over individual vendors. When a resort has an "approved photographer" on their vendor list, that photographer is approved because they pay a referral fee to the resort, not necessarily because they're the best photographer for your specific vision.

I've reviewed the photography output from five major Caribbean resort wedding packages in the last two years. The technical quality is consistent. The creative quality is not. Every image has the same arch, the same beach, the same late-afternoon light at the same angle because the ceremony time slots are fixed and the photographer has done this specific setup 300 times. There's nothing wrong with the images. There's nothing memorable about them either.

Seychelles bespoke planning — which is what Weddingsey specialises in — means your photographer is chosen for your brief, not assigned by a venue coordinator. Your ceremony time is set by the tide chart and the light angle, not by a resort's scheduling system. The sun drops behind the granite at Anse Source d'Argent at approximately 18:12 in April — that's your ceremony window if you want the backlit granite and the ink-dark water in the same frame. No all-inclusive package will tell you that. They'll tell you the ceremony is at 16:00 because that's when the officiant is available.

Photography and Venue Amenities: Resort Packages vs. Seychelles Settings

Photography is where the Seychelles case becomes almost unanswerable. The granite boulders of Anse Source d'Argent — some of them 4 metres high, worn into organic forms by 65 million years of erosion — create a backdrop that no resort can manufacture. The pink-tinged sand comes from crushed coral and shell fragments specific to that beach's composition. The water shifts from cobalt at depth to mercury in the shallows where the granite reflects the sky. No filter produces that. It's the actual place.

Resort venues in the Caribbean and Mexico are architecturally designed to be photogenic — manicured, symmetrical, predictable. That predictability is a liability for couples who want images that look like their wedding, not a wedding. The Seychelles natural environment is chaotic in the best sense: the light changes, the boulders cast different shadows, the vegetation creates organic framing that no event designer can replicate with a floral arch.

Venue amenities in Seychelles are not always equivalent to a five-star resort corridor. Power supply on La Digue is managed — the island runs on a combination of grid and solar, and large sound systems require advance coordination with the venue and sometimes a generator hire. That's a real logistical consideration, not a dealbreaker, but it needs to be planned for. I've had a sound system fail at 17:45 on La Digue because someone plugged a 2,000-watt speaker into a circuit rated for 1,200 watts. We had a backup Bluetooth speaker in the kit. The ceremony happened. But that's the kind of detail that separates a planned Seychelles wedding from an improvised one.

How to Choose Your Best Beach Wedding Destination

The decision framework I use with every couple starts with three questions, in this order. First: how many guests are non-negotiable? If the answer is over 60, the Seychelles becomes logistically complex and expensive in ways that may not be worth it — the inter-island accommodation spread alone creates coordination problems. Second: what is your legal timeline? If you're planning a wedding in four months, destinations with long residency requirements or complex document apostille chains are off the table. Third: what do you want the photographs to look like in twenty years? Not "beautiful" — everything looks beautiful in wedding photos. What do you want them to say about the specific place?

If your answers are "under 30 guests," "we have 12 months," and "we want images that are unmistakably somewhere specific," the Seychelles is the answer. If your answers are "60 guests," "six months," and "we want convenience," Mexico or Jamaica are honest, functional choices that will produce a good wedding. I'm not here to tell you those destinations are wrong. I'm here to tell you they're different, and that difference is worth understanding before you commit.

The planning approach matters as much as the destination. Couples who attempt to plan a Seychelles wedding without local expertise — without someone who knows which registrar answers their phone, which ferry schedule is reliable, which florist can actually source what they've promised — consistently encounter problems that are entirely avoidable. I've spent 14 years building those relationships specifically because the difference between a Seychelles wedding that works and one that doesn't is almost entirely logistical.

Weddingsey Service Model vs. Planning Alone in Other Destinations

Planning a destination wedding independently in Jamaica or Mexico is genuinely feasible. The resort coordinator model exists precisely to support couples without local expertise, and in those markets, the coordinator has usually managed hundreds of weddings at that specific venue. The system works because it's been refined by volume. You are not the first couple to want a beach ceremony at that resort. Everything has been done before.

Seychelles is different because the bespoke nature of the best ceremonies — on specific beaches, at specific times, with specific vendors who aren't on any resort's approved list — requires ground-level knowledge that a remote planning approach simply cannot replicate. Weddingsey's model is built around that gap: local coordination, established relationships with the Civil Status Office, vetted vendor networks across Mahé, Praslin, and La Digue, and the kind of operational knowledge that only comes from having actually moved a three-tier cake from Mahé to La Digue on a Cat Cocos ferry in 30-degree heat.

That cake, for the record, arrived intact. Dry ice, a rigid cooler, and a conversation with the ferry crew about hold placement. The couple never knew it was a logistical operation. That's the point. The best Seychelles weddings look effortless because someone behind the scenes made them that way. Planning alone in the Seychelles is possible. But the margin for error is narrow, and the cost of getting it wrong — in a location this remote, with guests who have flown 10 hours — is high.

Start the conversation early. Twelve months is not too much lead time for a Seychelles wedding. It's about right.

The Trade-Offs Are Real — But So Is the Difference

Every destination in this guide has a legitimate case. Mexico delivers convenience and value at scale. The Caribbean offers established infrastructure and accessible guest logistics. Hawaii provides dramatic American scenery within a familiar legal framework. Florida is honest, affordable, and genuinely easy. None of them are wrong choices. But none of them are the Seychelles.

The Seychelles delivers a combination that nowhere else on earth currently replicates at scale: legal simplicity for foreign nationals, geographic stability outside the cyclone belt, photographic environments that are structurally irreplaceable, and a level of seclusion that the Caribbean's most private out-islands approach but don't quite reach. The 11-day residency requirement is a feature, not a bug — it forces couples to actually be present in the location before the ceremony, which means by the time you exchange vows on Anse Source d'Argent, you know the place. You've watched the light change on those granite boulders at 06:45 and 18:12. You've heard the fruit bats in the takamaka trees. The ceremony means something specific because the location means something specific.

If you're serious about finding the best beach wedding destination for your actual circumstances — not the one that photographs best on a mood board, but the one that will work logistically, legally, and emotionally — the Seychelles deserves to be at the top of your shortlist. Weddingsey exists to make that specific destination accessible without the logistical risk of navigating it alone. The inquiry process starts with a conversation about your guest count, your timeline, and your document status. Not your colour palette. Not your floral vision. The logistics first — because that's what makes the rest of it possible.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best beach destination to get married at?

The honest answer depends on what you're optimising for. If you want the most photographically distinctive setting with a legally straightforward process for foreign nationals, the Seychelles — specifically La Digue's Anse Source d'Argent or Praslin's Anse Lazio — is the strongest choice available. The granite boulder formations, the cobalt water, and the absence of resort-corridor crowds create a setting that no Caribbean or Mexican beach replicates. If you're prioritising guest accessibility and lower travel costs, Jamaica or Barbados are functional alternatives with established wedding infrastructure. If you're a US couple working with a tight timeline and a large guest list, Mexico's Riviera Maya delivers the most efficient all-inclusive model. But for couples who want a ceremony that looks and feels like a specific, irreplaceable place — and who are willing to invest in proper planning — the Seychelles is the answer I give without hesitation.

How much does a beach destination wedding cost?

Destination wedding costs vary significantly by location and guest count, and the advertised "starting from" prices are almost universally misleading. In the Caribbean — Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas — a complete wedding for 30 guests including venue, catering, photography, florals, and accommodation runs $40,000–$70,000. Mexico all-inclusive packages for the same group run $30,000–$55,000 with less customisation. Hawaii for 30 guests, factoring in permit fees, vendor costs, and accommodation, runs $45,000–$80,000. Seychelles bespoke weddings for 20 guests — which is the realistic sweet spot for the destination — run $35,000–$60,000 total including accommodation for the wedding party. Florida domestic weddings for 50 guests run $25,000–$50,000 but with a larger guest list that inflates catering and accommodation costs. The key variable in every case is guest count. Seychelles self-selects for smaller, more committed guest lists, which frequently brings the total spend into line with — or below — larger Caribbean events.

Which Caribbean islands are best for beach weddings?

Of the Caribbean options, I'd rank Harbour Island in the Bahamas first for seclusion and photographic quality — the pink sand is genuinely distinctive and the Out Island scale keeps crowds manageable. The logistics require a Nassau connection plus a water taxi, which adds complexity, but the result is closer to a Seychelles-style private experience than anything on the main resort corridors. St. Lucia's Anse Chastanet is my second recommendation — the volcanic backdrop is dramatic and the resort has genuine photographic character. I'd actively steer couples away from the main Negril and Montego Bay resort beaches in Jamaica for ceremony use — the public beach access and crowd levels make private ceremonies genuinely difficult to execute. Barbados is efficient and legally straightforward but the beaches on the West coast, while calm, are not visually distinctive. Antigua's Dickenson Bay has the same problem. The Caribbean's best wedding beaches are its most under-utilised ones, not its most famous.