Mauritius is made for a wedding or honeymoon in paradise. If you dream of a wedding on the beach or on a catamaran at sunset, your dream will come true in Mauritius. Thanks to the excellent level of hotels and services, it is really a suitable destination for a wedding experience that will stay with you for life. And the great news is that a wedding in Mauritius is legally valid in the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic. It takes place directly on the beach of the resort where you are staying. So you don't have to go anywhere for the wedding ceremony. Each resort has its special place for the wedding and often the couple chooses whether they want a wedding on the beach, or for example in a gazebo or tropical garden.
Mauritius is known for its benefits and discounts for newlyweds. Honeymoon discounts apply both for a legally valid wedding in Mauritius, as well as for newlyweds who had their wedding in Slovakia or the Czech Republic and present their marriage certificate. We offer resort benefits also for round wedding anniversaries every five years after the wedding.
Hotel and wedding venue selection
Given the high demand, almost all hotels are dedicated to weddings, so the choice is wide and depends only on your preferences. Each hotel usually has specialized staff for these occasions who will fully devote themselves to you so that everything is according to your ideas.
The ceremony venue is the cornerstone of the mosaic from which the entire wedding as an exceptional ceremonial event is composed. The wedding venue is closely related to the entire concept and style of your wedding. Whether the wedding will be dignified and noble, traditional, grandiose or on the contrary intimate, romantic, soberly modern or thematic, all of this is connected with the wedding venue.
Honeymoons
Mauritius is also very popular for honeymoon purposes. You will really be well taken care of here and most hotels usually provide a discount for the bride or other newlywed packages. We will be happy to provide you with more information about offers from specific hotels.
All services needed to arrange a legally valid wedding are hidden in your wedding package, which is part of the calculation. Hotels usually have several types of packages that always include all official fees (in Mauritius) and the basic wedding
ceremony. They differ in additional services - cosmetics, makeup, massage, wedding photos and others.
The wedding package usually includes:
The wedding package usually includes:
- all official and administrative fees in Mauritius (local declaration, high court, registry office)
- fees for "APOSTILLE"
- guarantee of one wedding per day at the hotel
- specialized personal wedding coordinator
- transfer from hotel to relevant offices and back
- separate room for the bride before the ceremony (depending on availability)
- decoration and preparation of the wedding ceremony venue
- ceremonial newlywed breakfast in bed
- bouquet for the bride
- wedding myrtle for the groom
- hairdresser and makeup services for the bride including trial
- wedding cake (for 10 guests)
- reproduced wedding music during the ceremony
No later than 40 days before departure to Mauritius, send us the following documents by email. If you are planning a "last minute" wedding in a shorter period than 6 weeks, then it is necessary to ask local authorities for an exception, or they will approve a legally valid wedding in a shorter period
for you. You will take the original documents with you to Mauritius, where you will hand them over to your Czech delegate.
1) The couple must obtain a duplicate birth certificate (so-called Extract from the birth register) with a current date NOT older than 3 months to the wedding date. It is issued by your birth registry office in your place of birth for a fee of 10EUR. You can request a duplicate birth certificate from the registry office in person or in writing (send the request by mail to the relevant office), or your parents or a third party can represent you with your power of attorney.
These documents must be court translated into English or French (translation bound with the original and with an interpreter's note). We will recommend a translator at a good price in your area of residence, so you don't have to unnecessarily send documents by mail.
2) Photocopies of the couple's passports, i.e. the page containing the passport number, photograph, date of issue and expiry date. Attention! The validity of your passport must be at least 6 months after returning from Mauritius!
3) The couple will fill out an application for marriage in Mauritius. This is a simple form in English, which includes the date and place of your wedding and your basic personal details. We will send you the form.
4) If you are divorced, you need to attach the relevant document, i.e. a notarized copy of the divorce decree of the previous marriage. The certified copy must have the signature of a notary or a person authorized to issue, whose signature is registered with the Ministry of Justice.
If the Divorce Decree has multiple pages, we recommend requesting only a short divorce confirmation with the most important details (names and dates of both divorced parties, date and place of divorce, stamps and signature of the relevant court) from the relevant District Court. We point out, that there is no regulatory template for this confirmation and its issuance usually depends on the willingness of officials.
This document must also be court translated into English, or French (translation bound with the original and with an interpreter's note).
4) If you are widowed, you need to attach a notarized copy of the death certificate of the deceased spouse.
This document must also be court translated into English, or French (translation bound with the original and with an interpreter's note).
5) Conditions valid for divorced women or widows before marriage in Mauritius:
In the case that the bride is divorced or widowed, then the wedding in Mauritius can take place no earlier than 10 months from the divorce or from the date of issue of the husband's death certificate. If you wish to marry earlier, then the bride must at her own expense undergo a medical examination in Mauritius with confirmation that she is not pregnant (either in a state hospital or with a private doctor with a license and practice in Mauritius).
During the wedding ceremony the officiant addresses the bride by her maiden name. The bride's maiden name will also appear on the marriage certificate (if the bride has already changed her surname by legal act, this current surname will be stated).
6) If the bride or groom changed their name or surname by legal act, the relevant document and its court translation into English, or French, is required.
7) If the couple does not reach the age of 18 by the wedding date, a sworn declaration is required, which grants permission to hold the wedding and its court translation into English, or French.
8) If the groom or bride were adopted, a certificate of adoption and its court translation into English, or French, must be submitted.
In Mauritius, couples always state the matrimonial property regime, see below.
40 days before the wedding is the deadline for submitting documents, then the authorities may no longer accept them. We therefore strongly recommend submitting documents with sufficient advance notice.
PROCEDURE AFTER ARRIVAL IN MAURITIUS
1. Wedding formalities in Port Louis
In Mauritius, it is necessary to personally complete all legal formalities at local offices during one working day. This process of arranging all necessary formalities takes approximately half a day. Your CZECH DELEGATE can accompany you on the journey.
We will arrange transport by vehicle to Port Louis and escort during the arrangement of legal formalities. You must also stop at the Civil Status Office in the area of your accommodation for the publication of the wedding announcement. You will also specify the ceremony time here.
2. Civil ceremony
The civil ceremony requires the presence of your two witnesses - we can arrange these for you.
If you have your own witnesses, or choose them on site (friends from the hotel etc.), don't forget to write down the names, places and dates of birth of these your witnesses, because you must report this information to the authorities in the Slovak Republic after returning from Mauritius.
3. Matrimonial property regime
In Mauritius, you will announce the matrimonial property regime, so-called Matrimonial Regime / System, for which you have decided. You choose from three property regimes:
1) Legal system of community of property (i.e. common property) - The legal system of community of good
2) Legal system of separation of property (i.e. separate ownership) - The legal system of Separations of property
3) Marital settlement embodied in a notarial deed in accordance with the common wish of the future spouses- A marriage settlement embodied in a notarial deed in accordance with the common wish of the future spouses
If you choose point 3 mentioned above, you must already have a document prepared by your notary with you. If you have decided to enter into a so-called Prenuptial agreement, do so before departure.
Explanations of property regime options:
Ad 1) Legal system of community of property
The Civil Code establishes the system of legal community of property - this means that if future spouses do not choose a specific marital system and if they enter into marriage without determining which marital system they would like to follow, it is considered as if they had chosen the legal system of community of property.
The legal system of community of property, as established in the Civil Code, is community reduced to "acquisition" characterized by the following characteristics:
(A) With regard to property ownership between spouses, the main existence is a quantity of property that is common to both partners and which differs from property belonging personally to each of them separately.
Common property belongs in a state of division (in co-ownership) to both spouses during the marriage. In the event of divorce or judicial separation, the common property is divided equally between the spouses. If the marriage is terminated by the death of the husband, or wife, or both, the common ownership is divided between the surviving spouse/wife and the heir of the deceased husband/wife or between the respective heirs of both spouses, depending on the case.
Common property consists of "acquisition", it is all movable and immovable property acquired from the date of marriage by each of the spouses, which is not expressly considered personal property by law. (It consists mainly of property purchased with money obtained from the income and wages of the spouses).
Personal property includes immovable property, which belonged to one of the spouses before entering into marriage or which the husband or wife acquired by inheritance or gift after the wedding day. Such property will remain in the exclusive ownership of the spouse to whom it belonged, or who acquired this property by gift or inherited it.
(B) According to the legal system of community of property, the administration of personal property differs from the administration of common property as follows:
- each of the spouses has the right to use and freely dispose of their personal property
- each of the spouses has the right to manage common property that was acquired by his/her work
For example, the wife freely manages her common property, which is derived from her profit, remuneration, earnings, while the husband manages all other common property.
Ad 2 - Legal system of separation of property and ownership
If spouses want to follow this system, spouses must clearly express their wish in accordance with the conclusion of their marriage. Within this system of separate ownership, the husband or wife retains ownership of property that he or she owned before entering into marriage, and of property that he or she acquires during the marriage. Each of the spouses can manage such property and freely dispose of it without interference from the other spouse, as if he or she were not married. In the event of divorce or separation, each of the spouses takes back their personal property. If the marriage is terminated by death, the property of the deceased spouse/wife will go to his heirs. There is no division of property.
Ad 3 - Marital settlement embodied in a notarial deed
Before the wedding, future spouses can draw up a prenuptial agreement together with a notary, which will determine the given system in marriage, which the future spouses wish to follow (common ownership limited to "acquisition", general co-ownership of property, separation of property, etc.) and which contains all agreements that they consider desirable.
1) The couple must obtain a duplicate birth certificate (so-called Extract from the birth register) with a current date NOT older than 3 months to the wedding date. It is issued by your birth registry office in your place of birth for a fee of 10EUR. You can request a duplicate birth certificate from the registry office in person or in writing (send the request by mail to the relevant office), or your parents or a third party can represent you with your power of attorney.
These documents must be court translated into English or French (translation bound with the original and with an interpreter's note). We will recommend a translator at a good price in your area of residence, so you don't have to unnecessarily send documents by mail.
2) Photocopies of the couple's passports, i.e. the page containing the passport number, photograph, date of issue and expiry date. Attention! The validity of your passport must be at least 6 months after returning from Mauritius!
3) The couple will fill out an application for marriage in Mauritius. This is a simple form in English, which includes the date and place of your wedding and your basic personal details. We will send you the form.
4) If you are divorced, you need to attach the relevant document, i.e. a notarized copy of the divorce decree of the previous marriage. The certified copy must have the signature of a notary or a person authorized to issue, whose signature is registered with the Ministry of Justice.
If the Divorce Decree has multiple pages, we recommend requesting only a short divorce confirmation with the most important details (names and dates of both divorced parties, date and place of divorce, stamps and signature of the relevant court) from the relevant District Court. We point out, that there is no regulatory template for this confirmation and its issuance usually depends on the willingness of officials.
This document must also be court translated into English, or French (translation bound with the original and with an interpreter's note).
4) If you are widowed, you need to attach a notarized copy of the death certificate of the deceased spouse.
This document must also be court translated into English, or French (translation bound with the original and with an interpreter's note).
5) Conditions valid for divorced women or widows before marriage in Mauritius:
In the case that the bride is divorced or widowed, then the wedding in Mauritius can take place no earlier than 10 months from the divorce or from the date of issue of the husband's death certificate. If you wish to marry earlier, then the bride must at her own expense undergo a medical examination in Mauritius with confirmation that she is not pregnant (either in a state hospital or with a private doctor with a license and practice in Mauritius).
During the wedding ceremony the officiant addresses the bride by her maiden name. The bride's maiden name will also appear on the marriage certificate (if the bride has already changed her surname by legal act, this current surname will be stated).
6) If the bride or groom changed their name or surname by legal act, the relevant document and its court translation into English, or French, is required.
7) If the couple does not reach the age of 18 by the wedding date, a sworn declaration is required, which grants permission to hold the wedding and its court translation into English, or French.
8) If the groom or bride were adopted, a certificate of adoption and its court translation into English, or French, must be submitted.
In Mauritius, couples always state the matrimonial property regime, see below.
40 days before the wedding is the deadline for submitting documents, then the authorities may no longer accept them. We therefore strongly recommend submitting documents with sufficient advance notice.
PROCEDURE AFTER ARRIVAL IN MAURITIUS
1. Wedding formalities in Port Louis
In Mauritius, it is necessary to personally complete all legal formalities at local offices during one working day. This process of arranging all necessary formalities takes approximately half a day. Your CZECH DELEGATE can accompany you on the journey.
We will arrange transport by vehicle to Port Louis and escort during the arrangement of legal formalities. You must also stop at the Civil Status Office in the area of your accommodation for the publication of the wedding announcement. You will also specify the ceremony time here.
2. Civil ceremony
The civil ceremony requires the presence of your two witnesses - we can arrange these for you.
If you have your own witnesses, or choose them on site (friends from the hotel etc.), don't forget to write down the names, places and dates of birth of these your witnesses, because you must report this information to the authorities in the Slovak Republic after returning from Mauritius.
3. Matrimonial property regime
In Mauritius, you will announce the matrimonial property regime, so-called Matrimonial Regime / System, for which you have decided. You choose from three property regimes:
1) Legal system of community of property (i.e. common property) - The legal system of community of good
2) Legal system of separation of property (i.e. separate ownership) - The legal system of Separations of property
3) Marital settlement embodied in a notarial deed in accordance with the common wish of the future spouses- A marriage settlement embodied in a notarial deed in accordance with the common wish of the future spouses
If you choose point 3 mentioned above, you must already have a document prepared by your notary with you. If you have decided to enter into a so-called Prenuptial agreement, do so before departure.
Explanations of property regime options:
Ad 1) Legal system of community of property
The Civil Code establishes the system of legal community of property - this means that if future spouses do not choose a specific marital system and if they enter into marriage without determining which marital system they would like to follow, it is considered as if they had chosen the legal system of community of property.
The legal system of community of property, as established in the Civil Code, is community reduced to "acquisition" characterized by the following characteristics:
(A) With regard to property ownership between spouses, the main existence is a quantity of property that is common to both partners and which differs from property belonging personally to each of them separately.
Common property belongs in a state of division (in co-ownership) to both spouses during the marriage. In the event of divorce or judicial separation, the common property is divided equally between the spouses. If the marriage is terminated by the death of the husband, or wife, or both, the common ownership is divided between the surviving spouse/wife and the heir of the deceased husband/wife or between the respective heirs of both spouses, depending on the case.
Common property consists of "acquisition", it is all movable and immovable property acquired from the date of marriage by each of the spouses, which is not expressly considered personal property by law. (It consists mainly of property purchased with money obtained from the income and wages of the spouses).
Personal property includes immovable property, which belonged to one of the spouses before entering into marriage or which the husband or wife acquired by inheritance or gift after the wedding day. Such property will remain in the exclusive ownership of the spouse to whom it belonged, or who acquired this property by gift or inherited it.
(B) According to the legal system of community of property, the administration of personal property differs from the administration of common property as follows:
- each of the spouses has the right to use and freely dispose of their personal property
- each of the spouses has the right to manage common property that was acquired by his/her work
For example, the wife freely manages her common property, which is derived from her profit, remuneration, earnings, while the husband manages all other common property.
Ad 2 - Legal system of separation of property and ownership
If spouses want to follow this system, spouses must clearly express their wish in accordance with the conclusion of their marriage. Within this system of separate ownership, the husband or wife retains ownership of property that he or she owned before entering into marriage, and of property that he or she acquires during the marriage. Each of the spouses can manage such property and freely dispose of it without interference from the other spouse, as if he or she were not married. In the event of divorce or separation, each of the spouses takes back their personal property. If the marriage is terminated by death, the property of the deceased spouse/wife will go to his heirs. There is no division of property.
Ad 3 - Marital settlement embodied in a notarial deed
Before the wedding, future spouses can draw up a prenuptial agreement together with a notary, which will determine the given system in marriage, which the future spouses wish to follow (common ownership limited to "acquisition", general co-ownership of property, separation of property, etc.) and which contains all agreements that they consider desirable.
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