Most weddings postponed for second year
Those taking place are much smaller events By Mary Spyrou After over a year of cancellations or at best hugely scaled-down affairs, the wedding sector...
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Coronavirus: event protocols issued for May-July
The health ministry on Tuesday said the maximum number of people allowed at ceremonies is subject to epidemiological changes as it published the four phases...
Wedding industry faces uncertain future
The wedding industry in Paphos is hanging in the balance this year, with professionals hoping that regular flights from the UK, the biggest market, will...
Smiles in Ayia Napa and Paralimni as Brits plan weddings
Cyprus is set for a summer of love as hundreds of Brits are planning on getting married on the sun-splashed island following an announcement that...
Coronavirus: Event planners say more than 13,000 weddings have been postponed
More than 13,000 couples have postponed their wedding in the last year because of lockdown measures, the association of professional event planners said on Monday,...
Coronavirus: Government explains ‘contradictory’ new measures
Amid mounting criticism over apparent discrepancies in its latest raft of Covid-19 measures, the government on Monday scrambled to explain why it had decided to...
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...
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...