With its multi cultured traditions and customs & picturesque locations, Sri Lanka offers a perfect location for your ceremony of getting married. For a celebration of love, friendship, laughter and family consider, the Serendipitous Sri Lanka is the perfect location for your wedding or honeymoon.
A simple ceremony of colorful rituals and vows, rows of burning oil lamps, threads of fragrant white jasmine flowers draped over a garden wedding arch. Simple and Stylish… and more!
Alternatively a Traditional Sri Lankan wedding will overwhelm you with exotic Kandian dancers, drummers and a rite of ancient Buddhist rituals and kind blessings.
Begin your new life lighting the lamp together and relax as we take you to a private beach, where for auspicious good luck, you can invite a caparisoned elephant for a sunset beach ride and enjoy chilled champagne served on the sands as the Indian Ocean sips away the setting sun on ‘your day’.
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
- Weddings can be conducted from Monday to Saturday excluding all public holidays.
- The minimum legal age for marriage is 21.
- There is a legal minimum period of residency prior to the wedding of 4 days (3 nights).
The following original documentation is required in advance to be provided to the District
Registrar of Marriage:
- Birth certificate
- Valid 10-year passport
- An affidavit confirming ‘Un-Married’ marital status from solicitor
- If divorced, a decree absolute with court stamp of the previous marriage and an affidavit to declare marital status stamped by a notary
- If widowed, death certificate of former spouse and marriage certificate
- If adopted, an adoption certificate
- If name changed by Deed Poll, legal proof stamped and signed by a solicitor
- A document with full names and address of bride, groom and both sets of parents
- A document with the details of the bride and groom’s professions and that of their fathers
Locations
- Capital Colombo
- Hill Station – Kandy
- Western Coast – Bentota
- Eastern Coast – Passikudah
THE PORUWA CEREMONY
This traditional ceremony lasts 45 minutes and involves the couple arriving at an auspicious time (decided by a local astrologer) on to the Poruwa podium. Once on the Poruwa the couple is blessed by the Monk, they then swap 7 betel leaves, the couples index fingers are then tied together to signify unity and water is poured over their fingers.
Following further blessings from the monk the couple finally light the traditional oil lamp and feed each other Kiribath (Coconut Milk Rice). As the couple step down from the Poruwa a fresh coconut is broken in two.
WEDDING STYLES
LOW COUNTRY WEDDING
KANDYAN STYLE WEDDING
HINDU CULTURAL WEDDING
MIXED CULTURAL WEDDING
WEDDING LOCATIONS
With its diversity; Sri Lanka offers venues for your dream wedding in Sri Lanka. It may be a Sri Lankan Traditional Wedding, Hindu Cultural Wedding, Wedding in Western Style or a wedding of your own style, Sri Lanka is The Location for your day of life…
CAPITAL COLOMBO
HILL STATION – KANDY
WESTERN COAST – BENTOTA
EASTERN COAST – PASSIKUDAH