Weddings & Honeymoons - Malta

With all-year-round sunshine and crystal waters, the Islands offer a distinctive location for a wedding or honeymoon.

As it is in the Maltese culture to highly celebrate weddings, there is an enormous variety of products and services available, making the organisation of a wedding relatively stress free as well as great value for money. The celebration can take whatever form you wish – from a sit down dinner or cocktail party to a traditional lavish reception.
Venues are in no way limited to hotels – a large variety of grand baroque palaces with gardens, converted farmhouses or more unconventional outdoor venues are available. The Islands have a wide selection of experienced, professional caterers who can offer any type of speciality food or even local fare. Most hotels have a food and banqueting team pleased to meet individual requirements and special requests.

Weddings can be purely in civil form or combined with a church ceremony. In either case, the legal formalities are relatively simple and can even be done from your home country in advance.

Should a church wedding be desired, the presence of some 365 churches on the Islands makes for excellent choice. There is the elegance and splendour of baroque parish churches or the intimacy and seclusion of countryside chapels. Although Malta’s religion is Roman Catholic, couples from other denominations regularly hold wedding services in churches of their own religious denomination in Malta. Foreign visitors who wish to marry in a Roman Catholic church have some formalities to complete in advance, but these are straightforward and involve regular documentation like birth certificates and a letter from the diocese in the country of origin.

For those that are honeymooning, do let the hotel know. Special suites, some with stunning sea vistas and roomy balconies, can be arranged at reasonable rates for honeymooners. When the relaxing and soaking up the sun starts becoming slightly monotonous, there are so many things to get up and do, just around the corner from wherever the hotel is situated.

You’ll never exhaust the exploration possibilities, which range from the busy cosmopolitan side of the Islands to the lure of the romantic, quiet spots of solitude.