Municipal wedding officers ousted, only mayors and their deputies can officiate
Municipal staff are no longer able to perform marriage ceremonies in Cyprus following a decision by the ministry of the interior to only permit mayors...
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Coronavirus: no handshakes, kissing, hugging or dancing at weddings or christenings
The health ministry on Saturday expanded on the protocols for weddings and christenings limiting the time for congratulatory greetings and forbidding handshakes or greeting with...
Coronavirus: Following complaints, ministry reiterates regulations for large gatherings
The health ministry on Monday reiterated that weddings, concerts and festivals are allowed only under specific terms after authorities received complaints about irregularities in events...
Hold off on any plans for September mass gatherings, very large weddings, health ministry warns (Updated)
The health ministry on Wednesday urged organisers planning unrestricted mass social gatherings, including concerts, festivals and very large weddings from September 1, to hold off...
Coronavirus: 90 per cent of Paphos weddings rescheduled for later in 2020 and 2021
Ninety per cent of weddings in Paphos have been rescheduled for later in 2020 and the next three years because of the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Cyprus has highest rate of marriages in the EU
Cyprus has the highest marriage rate in the EU, a Eurostat report published on the occasion of Valentine’s Day showed. In 2018, the European Union...
People marrying later but before 34 years old
The average age of marriage in Cyprus is 30 years old, while one in three marriages ends in divorce, the national agency for demographic and...
Paphos municipality funds boosted by civil marriages
Paphos municipality made over €610,000 from civil marriage ceremonies during 2017, it emerged on Tuesday. In total, 1,310 weddings took place, an increase on the...
Midnight marriages usher in Australia’s same-sex wedding laws
At the stroke of midnight and in the early hours of Tuesday morning dozens of same-sex couples exchanged wedding vows across Australia as laws making the nation...
Mayor officiates at first Paphos wedding booked online
THE mayor of Paphos on Thursday officiated at the first wedding to take place in the town which was booked using an innovative online platform....
Paphos gains four new entries on cultural heritage list
PAPHOS has secured four new listings on the national list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which is under the Cyprus national commission for Unesco and...
Weddings given online boost
Bureaucracy and lengthy waiting times for civil weddings will be slashed in Paphos as the municipality has joined an innovative online platform, the mayor said...
Half of wedding tourism comes from the UK, CTO says
The UK market remains the main source of wedding tourism accounting for 50 per cent of the 4,000 ceremonies that take place annually in Cyprus,...
Our View: State should consider renting out archaeological sites
A BIG FUSS was made in the social media and some papers because the Antiquities Department gave permission for a private concert to be held...
Wedding tourism booming in Paphos
PAPHOS, as the mythical birthplace of the goddess of love, is increasingly becoming a popular destination for civil weddings, municipalities and tourist agencies said on...
Around 35,000 Lebanese tourists visited Cyprus in 2015
It is estimated that the number of tourists from Lebanon will exceed 35,000 this year, with most arrivals having involved short breaks throughout the year,...
70 couples from Israel tie the knot in Larnaca
SEVENTY couples from Israel were married in a mass civil ceremony Friday evening at the medieval castle in Larnaca, a popular location for the joyous...
Shipwreck backdrop to Peyia weddings
By Bejay Browne PEYIA MUNICIPALITY has launched a new wedding venue which offers a unique experience for couples tying the knot. Found close to a...
Population up, weddings down, divorces up
Cyprus’ population rose 0.5 per cent in 2012, according to the Demographic Report published by the Statistical Service on Friday. Despite having one of the highest...
Peyia looks forward to wedding boost in 2014
A total of 650 civil marriages took place in Peyia in 2013 according to the municipality’s marriage coordinator Maria Yiangou. She said that Peyia was...
