Have you fantasized about your perfect wedding day? Imagined endless white sands, turquoise waters, and your emotions being swept away with the peaceful sounds of the ocean?

 

The Cook Islands is the wedding destination you have been searching for! And what’s a more stunning island than Rarotonga? Aitutaki! Secluded, romantic and home to the world’s most beautiful lagoon, Aitutaki is perfect for an intimate wedding with your nearest and dearest in the Cook Islands, providing a backdrop that is nothing short of simply breathtaking. Check out this cheeky video and see it for yourself!

 

 

We have extensive networks in the Cook Islands that enable us to create refreshing all-inclusive destination wedding experiences for families all over the world. We work alongside some of the Cook Islands and New Zealand’s best wedding vendors and design custom wedding packages at all of the best places to get married in the Cook Islands.

 

Wedding She Wrote, your wedding and honeymoon specialists are amongst the best in the business. Our exclusive destination wedding planning services have been designed to include absolutely everything you want and need, to ensure a seamless, stress-free and totally admirable wedding. 

 

More and more couples are looking for distinctive, often exotic, experiences to make their wedding day a one-of-a-kind. Planning a wedding can be a very stressful event, and even more so when you’re trying to organize it from another country. We handle all the paperwork and the fine details, along with making suggestions that the bride and groom-to-be may not have even considered, making the entire process as simple as possible.

 

At Wedding She Wrote, our destination wedding industry experience will ensure that not just the wedding is perfect, but that your honeymoon is as well – and that the planning process runs smoothly and effortlessly for you.

 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GETTING MARRIED IN THE COOK ISLANDS

1. Male and female only. Gay marriage is illegal.
2. Couples need to be in the Cook Islands 3-full days before the ceremony to obtain their marriage licence. The Registrar may waive the requirement in special circumstances, but your wedding coordinator must apply in advance and a small fee is payable to the government.
3. Application for a marriage licence cannot be made outside the Cook Islands.
4. Bride and groom need their passports and birth certificates. If one or both parties are divorced, legal proof of that divorce will be required. If you're a widow or widower, a death certificate for the previous spouse needs to be produced.
5. The legal age of consent is 21 years old. Anyone younger will have to produce written approval from their parents or legal guardians.    

 

WHO TO CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION

Marriage Inquiries
Registrars Department
Department of Justice and Lands
PO Box 11, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific

Phone: +682 29 410

Email: offices@justice.gov.ck

 

YOUR BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE AWAITS!

We work with all venues and locations throughout the beautiful Cook Islands. Contact us to design your dream wedding experience in the heart of Polynesia. 

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