Wedding on a lightship

More and more couples planning to get married want to ship into the harbour of marriage in a maritime atmosphere. What is more fitting than a wedding on a lightship? After the motto: "Nothing is impossible" - marriage is possible on five lightships in Germany and on one lightship in England at present. A lighthsip wedding has something symbolic: Lightships, that guided the ships the right way in wind and weathers through the shoals of the sea for so many years, ought to also be probably be the ideal guardians for young couples...

All, who want to celebrate the most beautiful day of their life at a unique place like a lightship, should inquire at the registry office at first, which is responsible for the lightship, whether the required date is still available and then order the "public notice" at their home registry office and announce that the wedding should take place on the lighthsip Amrumbank in Emden, for example. The registry offices will then sort all other things out amongst themselves. Normal dates for weddings are Monday to Friday. On request also Saturday - simply ask for Saturday weddings.

A wedding on a lightship is possible at present in:

 


Heiligenhafen
(Germany)

Lightship "Fehmarnbelt"

A very good chance to celebrate a summer lightship wedding is the German lightship FEHMARNBELT, which is visiting Heiligenhafen every July.
Contact:
Registry office Heiligenhafen, Markt 4, 23774 Heiligenhafen.
Phone: ++49-4362-906704, Fax: ++49-4362-6748
Email: info(at)heiligenhafen.de

   



Emden
(Germany)

Lightship "Amrumbank"
e-mail: Registry office
Registry office Emden
Maria-Wilts-Str. 3
26721 Emden
phone: +49-4921-872531 or +49-4921-872532
or fax +49-4921- 872530
Dates:
 Montay - Friday
Saturday Dates 2012:
April 28th, May 19th, June 23th, July 7th, August 11th, September 8th, October 6th, December 15rd.
   


Kiel-Heikendorf (Germany)
Lightship "Laesoe Rende"
Address: Registry office
Gemeinde Heikendorf
Dorfplatz 2,
24226 Heikendorf, Germany
phone : +49-431-240914
   

Cuxhaven
(Germany)

 

 Lightship "Elbe 1"
Address: Registry office,
Mr. Kai Thomas, Rathausstraße 1,
D-27472 Cuxhaven, Germany
phone: +49-4721-700719 or
e-mail: kai.thomas@cuxhaven.de
   


Hamburg
(Germany)

Lightship "LV 13"
Das Feuerschiff
City Sporthafen
Vorsetzen
20459 Hamburg
phone +49 40 36 25 53
Fax +49 40 36 25 55
E-Mail lv13@das-feuerschiff.de
   

Cardiff
(England)

 

 Lightship "Goleulong 2000"
Goleulong 2000 Lightship
Waterfront Park
Harbour Drive
Cardiff Bay CF10 4PA
England

Two, that "dared"

Since yesterday the registry office at Kiel-Heikendorf has an unusual branch in the Möltenorter harbour. For the first time, registrar Martina Meyer presided over the wedding of Friederike and Ulrich Hosch on the "Laesoe Rende", the former Danish lightship and present-day floating club home of the Heikendorfer yacht club. "Now, the ship is a location for weddings permanently " Martina Meyer said. The community hopes that further couples will use this lovely place to get married in the future. Friederike Hosch was born in Heikendorf and currently lives with her husband in Leutkirch (Bavaria). She was enthusiastic after the ceremony. "If I marry at all, then on a ship", the 29-year old had planned earlier. That it had worked out in her home community pleased her and her husband "totally".

Translated from Kiel News July 22nd, 2000