Guest flights from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and France
Irish lists often route through Dublin toward Barbados, Antigua or Jamaica with a UK or US connection. German lists use Frankfurt or Munich toward the Dominican Republic and sometimes Cuba-adjacent Caribbean searches we do not match. Dutch lists use Schiphol, with Curaçao and Aruba in the family vocabulary—those Dutch Caribbean islands are outside this matching map, which you should say out loud in week one. French lists use CDG or Orly toward the French Antilles in their heads; Martinique and Guadeloupe are also outside this map. The islands we do match—Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Saint Lucia, the Bahamas, Antigua, Turks and Caicos, Cayman, Grenada—are reachable, but the default fare is a connection. Publish the connection. Do not pretend Punta Cana is a local hop from Lyon.
- Name the European origin cities, not ‘Europe’
- Dutch and French family islands may not be on this matching map
- Connections are the product; direct metal is a bonus
This is not the UK, US or Canada origin guide
The UK page is about legal declarations versus Certificates of No Impediment and Grantley Adams habits. The US page is about Saturday Punta Cana and Montego Bay volume. The Canada page is about winter NAS and peso-versus-dollar resort weeks. European couples who land on those URLs will mis-file their papers and mis-brief their guests. Irish documents are not automatically a UK UK no-impediment certificate story. German civil status papers and apostilles follow a different home desk. French couples who want a locally binding marriage may be carrying an entirely different consular habit. Read the island licence guide for the destination. Read this page for the origin. Do not staple a GOV.UK checklist to a Frankfurt guest list and call it done.
- Irish papers are not a silent UK clone
- German apostille habits are a home-desk question
- US Saturday volume is not your Schiphol problem
Schengen-adjacent guest mix and the invitation footnote
A couple in Amsterdam with cousins in Cologne, Dublin and Lyon has four fare shapes. Pick the airport you will print on the save-the-date, then say the others may connect. Dual-origin UK/US lists are already a Jamaica-versus-Barbados argument; adding Schengen cities is a third filter. Visa questions for non-EU spouses travelling through the US to a Caribbean island belong in month eighteen, not at the airport. Currency in contracts is often US dollars even when the couple thinks in euros. Write the currency. Write who pays rooms in a language grandparents in Cork and Stuttgart will both understand. Silence looks like indecision in every language.
- Print one default airport even if the list is four cities
- US-transit visas are a real row for some European passports
- EUR thinking versus USD contracts should be explicit
School holidays are not half-term copies
German Pfingsten, French juillet, Dutch summer and Irish mid-term weeks do not line up with UK half-terms or US spring break. If guests pay, those calendars decide whether a February Saturday is possible. A Barbados week that suits Manchester teachers may collide with a Bavarian ski holiday. Ask the actual schools on the list. Do not copy a British planning-from-the-UK calendar onto a continental RSVP and then wonder why the German uncles declined.
- Ask each origin city’s school calendar
- July in France is not February in Manchester
- Guest-pay only works if the holiday week is real
What to put in a European wedding profile
Three origin cities, the printed airport, the civil product, and the fact that some relatives still think the wedding is in Curaçao or Martinique. That last sentence saves a year of comparing islands we do not match. We independently source planners on the islands we cover. We do not invent Aruba coverage because a Dutch cousin asked. Start a profile when two islands on this map remain. If the family will only land in the French Antilles, this matching service is the wrong tool—say that early. Peace of mind for a European list starts with named airports before you hire anyone.
- Origin cities on the profile, not ‘Europe’
- Out-of-map family islands named so we can refuse them
- Matching follows the corridor we actually cover
Common questions
Questions couples ask
Is planning from Ireland the same as planning from the UK?
No. Airports, documents and school calendars differ even when the language feels shared. Use this page for Irish origin cities and the UK guide for British register-office clocks. Do not staple the two checklists together.
Do you match planners in Aruba, Curaçao or Martinique?
No. Those islands appear in Dutch and French family searches and are outside current Caribbean matching coverage. We will say that on the profile rather than publish a fake coverage page.
Which Caribbean airport is easiest from Frankfurt or Schiphol?
Easiest is the airport your specific cities actually fly, usually with a connection. Punta Cana and Montego Bay have more metal than Maurice Bishop or Providenciales. Check the list, not a ranking table of ‘best for Europeans’.
Should contracts be in euros?
Island vendors often quote US dollars. You can think in euros; the contract should still name a currency and a payment path. Ask the planner how transfers are handled before you assume a European bank transfer payment lands on a villa invoice.
Do European couples need different legal papers?
Home-side evidence follows the country you live in, then the island officer’s list. Irish, German, Dutch and French desks are not interchangeable with GOV.UK. Confirm both ends in the year you marry; this page is orientation, not a consular kit.