Religious Weddings & Blessings


If you prefer a religious ceremony there are several chapels and churches, both contemporary and historic, as well as  religious venues of almost every denomination to choose from.  To make the necessary arrangements for this you will also need to contact the Registered Minister of the religion of your choice.  

Platinum Weddings can assist you to organize your religious wedding either you are Orthodox, Catholic or Maronite.  Platinum Weddings is specialized in weddings of couples from Lebanon.

Maronite Weddings

For Maronite couples, the most important document to get married in Cyprus is the permission to get married abroad given from the priest of the couples' parish. After they get the permission, they will send it to us in Cyprus to issue the wedding license.  The rest of the procedures to register the wedding in Lebanon is same like civil marriage.  We will need all their Ekhraij Eid (personal and family) and wakale (power of autorney) with all stamps (except the stamps from the embassy of Cyprus) to be able to register the wedding in Lebanon. 

In Cyprus we can make Maronite weddings everywhere where there is Maronite Church (or any Catholic or Orthodox Church that is approved from Maronite Archebishopic of Cyprus).  We can make weddings in beach resorts Limassol, Larnaca, Ayia Napa & Paphos as well as in Nicosia. 

We charge for our administration fees and we include the issue of the wedding license, appointment with the church and the priest, registration at the Lebanese embassy, cost of Aramex, bouquet for the bride with seasonal flowers and roses and our assistance during the wedding and the dinner or party that it will follow. 

The couple is responsible to pay the priest and the church (this is an agreement between the couple and the priest)

Orthodox Weddings

For Orthodox weddings, the procedures are different.  Some churches require civil wedding before the church wedding and some others no.  for example in Larnaca, civil marriage is required before.  In Limassol and Paphos and only if both of them are Orthodox, no civil marriage is required.  The Orthodox church also requires permission to get married abroad (same like Maronite).  The Orthodox wedding can also be registered in Lebanon following the same procedures with civil weddings and Maronite weddings. 

Requirements:
1. Civil wedding prior with Ekhraij Eid to register the wedding in Lebanon (the civil wedding is required in case the church of the couple doesn’t recognized the orthodox church wedding in Lebanon)

For the church Orthodox wedding:

1. Passport copies
2. Birth certificate
3. Baptism certificate
4. Single certificate from the Church of their area – same as single paper from Church (Ezen Zawej)
5. Ekhraij Eid (personal & family)
6. All papers to be original with translations , stamp from the ministry of Foreign affairs and embassy of Cyprus
7. Blood tests for thalassemia

Note: Couple should be in Cyprus few days before the wedding to issue the “wedding permission” from the Metropole.


For Orthodox weddings, we charge for the civil marriage and our administration fees and we include the issue of the wedding license, appointment with the church and the priest, registration at the Lebanese embassy, cost of Aramex, bouquet for the bride and our assistance during the wedding and the dinner or party that it will follow.
Same like Maronite weddings, the couple is responsible to pay the priest and the church (this is an agreement between the couple and the priest)
Orthodox weddings can take place everywhere in Cyprus.

The couple is responsible to pay the priest and the church (this is an agreement between the couple and the priest)

Catholic weddings

To contact Catholic wedding in Cyprus, the procedure and costs will be the following:

The Catholic Church is bringing itsown registered priest who is going to sign the papers to be able to register the wedding.  If the couple wants to have the ceremony in Arabic, they must bring their own priest but the registered priest has to be also present during the ceremony (so they will have 2 priests). 

Moreover, the Catholic Church requires civil marriage before the church wedding.  The civil marriage will not be registered.  It is just the procedure that they follow (civil marriage fee will be applied as additional)
The fees of the Catholic Church and the registered Catholic priest are 650 euro.

Main requirements:

1.The couple who want to get married in a Catholic Church should go to the parish priest of the church they have been baptized to inform him that they are getting married abroad.
2.They should get from the church where they have been baptized a copy of their baptism record stating that they are free to marry.
3.The parish priest of one of the couple (groom or bride) should conduct a pre-nuptial enquiry with them.
4.In the case of mixed religion (Catholic and other Christian denomination), the couple should get special dispensation from the regional bishop of the Catholic partner.
5.In the case of widower/widow, he/she should present a death certificate of the previous partner.
6.The parish priest preparing the pre-nuptial enquiry must forward all these documents to the Regional Bishop.
7.The Regional Bishop will then send the papers to Cyprus to this address:

FOR THE ATTENTION OF
THE VICAR GENERAL
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH
P.O. BOX 21964
NICOSIA 1010
CYPRUS

8. These are only the necessary papers that must be sent to the parish priest and be kept in the parish record of marriages.

POST SCRIPTUM:
Before coming to Cyprus, the couple should call the priest of the church where they will get married if he already received the papers required of them.
After arriving in Cyprus, the couple should contact the priest and make an appointment with him to discuss details of the wedding.
If the couple has other questions, they should contact parish priest before their wedding.


KEEP IN MIND THAT CATHOLICS CAN GET MARRIED IN MARONITE CHURCH WITHOUT THE REQUIRMENT OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Our administration fees include the issue of the wedding license, appointment with the church and the priest, registration at the Lebanese embassy, cost of Aramex, bouquet for the bride and our assistance during the wedding and the dinner or party that it will follow.
Catholic weddings can take place everywhere in Cyprus.