When's the last time you took a thrilling ride down the Twister Waterslide, played craps in a friendly casino, relaxed in a soothing sauna or swam with dolphins in a beautiful tropical port? Well now, you can with a virtual vacation that is the perfect mix of relaxation and adventure.
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Latrell Smith
Travel Consultant
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DESTINATION WEDDING
What You Need to Know About Having a Destination Wedding
A destination wedding is a wedding held in a setting away from your hometown. Oftentimes, a destination wedding and the honeymoon are celebrated in the same venue.
Every wedding detail, from the setting to the officiant to the flowers and the cake, can be arranged at the destination to suit your taste. After the wedding ceremony, you won't have to leave this breathtakingly beautiful location so soon... if you choose to have your honeymoon there as well.
Couples planning a destination wedding without the help of a consultant can work with a hotel's concierge, wedding planner, or banquet planner. Do call an area's Tourist Office to learn the legal requirements for marrying in the destination. Most Caribbean islands require a three-day residency prior to the ceremony, proof of citizenship, completing several documents, and a nominal fee.
1) DESTINATION WEDDINGS USUALLY COST LESS THAN TRADITIONAL WEDDINGS.
Properly planned, a destination wedding can not only save you upwards of $20,000 off the cost of a traditional wedding, it can also turn your wedding day into an unforgettable "mini-vacation" for you and your guests.
2) YOU NEED TO PURCHASE AIR & HOTEL AS A "PACKAGE"
3) DESTINATION WEDDINGS CAN BE A FUN AND RELAXING EXPERIENCE FOR YOU AND YOUR GUESTS.
With the expertise of a travel professional,
4) "NEGOTIATE" DIRECTLY WITH HOTELS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
By working with an experienced travel coordinator, you will only receive a better deal for you and your guests
5) YOU CAN DO IT ALL YOURSELF
Planned right, a destination wedding is truly the most unique way to commemorate your special union.
*The etiquette of a destination wedding generally calls for invited guests to pay their own airfare. The bride and groom pick up the tab for the lodging, food, and beverages at a destination wedding
These are the most popular places to hold a destination wedding:
#1 Mexico
#2 Jamaica
#3 Dominican Republic
#4 Bahamas
#5 Hawaii
#6 USVI
#7 Aruba
#8 Fiji
#9 Florida
#10 Las Vegas
#11 Africa
#12 Europe
#13 Cruise
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Cruise lines are going all-out to entice couples to choose a wedding at sea
Did you know that 10 to 25 percent of all weddings take place away from home? Never slow to catch on to a trend, cruise lines are going all-out to promote cruise weddings — both aboard ship and ashore in some exotic port. Thousands of couples have taken the plunge at sea, often citing the ease and convenience afforded. For starters, you can have a wedding and then sail off on your honeymoon, and there's no travel time wasted between the vows and the celebration. Best of all, you can leave all the legwork to the cruise line's wedding planners and crew.
Standing on ceremony
Susan Breslow-Sardone, author of "Destination Weddings for Dummies," says a cruise-ship wedding is the easiest kind of destination wedding you can have, but you will still have to hire a company that specializes in cruise weddings to help you arrange the ceremony. That's because the actual ceremony will almost always take place in port (Princess Cruises is the only cruise line that enables captains to marry couples at sea), and the requirements of the port's jurisdiction can be complicated, especially if it is overseas. A good cruise-wedding service provider like The Wedding Experience can help you obtain a local marriage license and find a member of the clergy or other official to perform the ceremony pretty much anywhere in the world — and ensure that you are legally married.
Couples can also marry in their U.S. port of embarkation before the cruise begins. That way the guests can come aboard, enjoy the service and reception, and disembark before sailing. Alternatively, friends and family can come along for the cruise, if the couple so desires.
Party time!
Most major cruise lines offer wedding services and wedding packages in a wide range of budgets that appeal to all kinds of couples. Most lines offer such amenities as candlelit wedding chapels, photographers and videotaping, bridal bouquets and flowers, wedding cake, wedding announcements, and champagne toasts with keepsake flutes.
The cost of a shipboard wedding ranges from a few hundred dollars to thousands. There are a lot of options available, so it's important to work with the cruise line's wedding planner to design a package that suits your dreams and your budget. The ceremony itself can take place aboard ship in a public space or, on some ships, in a wedding chapel; shore locations can be pretty much wherever you please — on a Caribbean beach, in a European villa or on an Alaskan glacier.
Some cruise lines offer special ways to wed. Princess Cruises offers a live "Wedding Cam" to couples exchanging vows in their shipboard chapels; the cameras can stream video over the Internet to family and friends who cannot make the ceremony. Couples sailing on Tahiti itineraries aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises' Paul Gauguin can have blessings performed by native women at their ceremony. Disney Cruise Line offers a secluded spot for weddings on its private Bahamian island, Castaway Cay. On some cruises, Windstar Cruises sets off a fireworks display after an onboard wedding as the ship sails out of Venice. And, for something completely different, Royal Caribbean offers adventurous couples the chance to wed while surfing on its shipboard FlowRiders — or underwater during a Caribbean snorkeling trip.
Less stress, more romance
Cruises have always offered a romantic honeymoon experience and because they are nearly all-inclusive, they offer an incredibly convenient way to celebrate. Newlyweds can dine on their private verandah at sunset, enjoy chocolates and champagne in their staterooms, watch a romantic movie, stroll under star-filled skies on deck, or go for a pampering couple's massage in the ship's spa. On a cruise ship, there is a romantic opportunity around almost every corner.
A cruise-based wedding is really a fun and thrilling way for couples to start off life together. Add the convenience of having everything all in once place and professionals who take care of your every need, and it's a great way to keep a wedding rosy and thorn-free.
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LAS VEGAS WEDDINGS
No other city in the world is known for its weddings more than Las Vegas. Getting a marriage license in Las Vegas is easy. No blood test, no waiting period - not to mention the fantastic hotel value only Las Vegas can offer.
Each chapel has wedding experts to handle all of the necessary planning. Wedding packages include everything from flowers to photos and can be enhanced to accommodate each couple's specific needs and desires.
WEDDING CHAPELS
Little White Chapel
Limo picks you up, takes you to get your marriage license, then to their wedding center for grown/tuc, hair and make-up, etc. A limo reurns you to your hotel.
Candle Light Chapel
Located in the hotel district on the Strip. Featuring fresh or silk flowers, professional photographs, video/DVD, broadband internet and stretch limousine service.
Little Chapel of the Flowers
Elegant and Traditional the prettiest decor of any freestanding wedding chapel in Las Vegas.
Little Church of the West
Orginally built in 1943 on the grounds of the Last Froniter Hotel. Quaint and rustic charm has provided the perfect romantic wedding backdrop to countless happy couples from all over the world.
A Special Memory Wedding Chapel
Escape the ordinary for your romantic wedding in this New England Chapel. Curved staircase, stained-glass windows, seats 110. Popular drive-up wedding window.
Gothic Weddings
If you are Goth, adore vampire lore, or are searching for alternative Las Vegas weddings, our Gothic Weddings is right up your alley...or wedding alter should we say -- which leads directly to our wrought-iron cemetery gates, of course! Our Las Vegas wedding chapels will be transformed into a foggy graveyard by a feat of unearthly magic. You may select either Count Dracula,emerging from his coffin, or The Grim Reaper, bearing his sickle staff, to perform the gruesome deed. We can always accommodate your special request and help you create the Las Vegas wedding of your dreams.
Chapel Reviews
About Vegas Weddings publishes Las Vegas wedding chapel reviews, news, pictures, and wedding stories. Visitors are encouraged to contribute wedding chapel reviews and information to help create a valuable resource for brides and grooms planning to get married in Las Vegas, Nevada
Many properties house wedding chapels, spas and golf on-site. Bachelor and bachelorette parties, weddings, honeymoons and renewal of vows cermonies have never been more convenient and inexpensive.
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HONEYMOON REGISTRY
Imagine Your Dream Honeymoon - and Register for it as a Wedding Gift!
Elite Travel has the experience, destinations, resorts and vacations complete with all the special amenities to make your special time together sheer delight. Let us help you plan and register for your ideal honeymoon.
Customize your honeymoon vacation with luxurious touches and small delights
When you create your honeymoon gift registry, you can customize it with just about anything you'd like to receive as a gift - airfare to anywhere, a night in a hotel, breakfast in bed, diving adventures, a couple's massage or other fun extras. Explore our honeymoons now.
Honeymoon planning tools make registering fun
• Easy set-up
• Free honeymoon registry web page
• Detailed lists that make sending thank you notes a snap
• Friendly people to help you at every step
If you are ready to set up your Honeymoon Registry, follow this link or call 1-888-711-3046.
Traveler's Joy is an online honeymoon registry. Simply set up a free account, and Traveler's Joy will provide you with a registry page to share your honeymoon travel plans with your wedding guests. Friends and family visit your page and use their credit card to give a gift toward part or all of your trip. It's the best of both worlds: your guests can easily give you a special wedding gift and you receive what you really want — the honeymoon of your dreams. Tips to make your honeymoon go smoothly from Traveler's Joy Honeymoon Registry
Register for the perfect wedding gift — a honeymoon!
Register for specific items and fun activities for your honeymoon. Guests can then select and buy these items or activities for your honeymoon. To find out more, click below to visit:
Just about everything you can eat, drink, and do is included in one simple upfront price.
All meals, from tantalizing breakfast buffets to sumptuous dinner feasts. Even late night snacks. All you can eat, all the time.
All drinks, from soft drinks to top-shelf premium brands.
All entertainment.
All tips & gratuities.
All provided land and watersports
All hotel taxes and airport transfers
And MUCH, MUCH MORE!
A Tropical escape made just for you. Fun, Romantic, Active, And best of all, Super Inclusive, which means that absolutely everything you can eat, drink and do is included in one simple upfront price. With no tipping allowed, so you never have to carry a wallet. Imagine that. Every land and water sport. Every meal. Even the free-flowing premium brand cocktails and hot, live entertainment. At Super Clubs Resorts, it's all included. All for you.
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Super-Inclusive Honeymoons
Maybe it's the water. Or the moonlight. Or the gentle tradewinds. Maybe it's just being in exactly the right place at the right time. Somehow, for more than thirty years, SuperClubs has been the right place for so many couples just like you.
Romantic and sensual. Fun and elegant. Sophisticated but never stuffy. There's a perfect SuperClubs Super-Inclusive Resort for you, no matter who you are. Grand Lido Resorts & Spas, Negril Beach Villas, Breezes Resorts, Hedonism Resorts, and Starfish Trelawny Resort. If you can't find heaven here, you may as well stop trying.
Super-Inclusive features of each resort
One category room upgrade (Based on availability at time of check-in.)
Bottle of Champagne, iced, in room
Free night stay for honeymoon*
* Free night honeymoon stay if 6 nights booked, 7th night is free. Excluding Brazil and the Dominican Republic. Schedule your wedding at SuperClubs. With the purchase of a honeymoon stay of at least three nights, your wedding is FREE. What could be more hassle-free? For more information on our wedding program, click here or schedule your exact wedding location and time online.
Weddings are free at SuperClubs; however, we've created a vast selection of wedding upgrades, available at a nominal charge, to allow you to tailor your dream wedding to your exact desires.
You can now order your wedding amenities online.
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SuperClub’s 08/08/08 Wedding Deals
SuperClubs Resorts’ Grand Lido Resorts & Spas and Breezes Runaway Bay Resort & Golf Club are offering a “Lucky Love” promotion, honoring the “lucky” wedding date of August 8, or 8/8/08.
Brides and grooms who book their eight-day wedding getaway at Grand Lido Resorts & Spas with a wedding date of August 8 will enjoy a free wedding ceremony, accommodations in a beachfront suite, $388 in spa credits, an eight-course meal, and eight special turn-down services. This package is $3,888 per couple and also includes an onsite wedding planner.
Breezes Resorts offers couples a package that includes eight nights in an Oceanfront guest room, an on-site wedding planner, $288 in spa credits, a romantic breakfast the day after the wedding, and a private romantic picnic. This package is $2,888 per couple, tax and gratuity included.
Wedding Coordinators & Event Planners Corner
Do you need help with planning your wedding day? Here are some of the best Wedding Planners that can help you turn your vision into reality!
FLORIDA
Cecilia Mathis Wedding and Event Planner
721 S. Disston Ave. Tarpon Springs, Fl., 34689
Phone: (727) 485-5605 (727) 946-2014ding and Event Planner
Don’t Let Your Honeymoon Cruise Be A Disaster At Sea!
Does choosing the perfect honeymoon cruise seem daunting to you?
A cruise specialist will tell you what to look for when reserving your honeymoon cruise.
Are you looking for warm, sun-filled days and romantic moonlit nights? How about sipping wine on a beautiful tropical beach, or spending your honeymoon on a cruise in the Caribbean? How about cruising in the clear blue waters of Tahiti or enjoying parrots flying above in South America....These are only a sampling of the many wonderful places to take your newly beloved.
Can you see you and your new partner spending romantic days and nights when you cruise to ports of call in Paris, Rome, Barcelona or Greece? Even Alaska cruises offer warm days and cool romantic evenings.
Now you can honeymoon anywhere in the world!
With the professional expertise of a cruise specialist, you will be able to take a beautiful honeymoon cruise customized just for you.
When should you start looking for your honeymoon cruise?
You should start looking at honeymoon cruises at least one year before your wedding date especially if your cruise date is in peak season. By reserving your honeymoon cruise this far in advance you will have a better selection of staterooms and if you are on a budget, this allows you time to make payments towards your honeymoon cruise.
What should I decide first?
The first thing to determine is WHERE you would like to go on honeymoon cruise. Take into consideration what you would like to do while you are on your cruise.
You will also want to check out the Shore Excursions for your cruise. Look to see if the things you’ve been dreaming about doing are listed in your shore excursions on your honeymoon cruise itinerary.
To help you make this determination, go to the cruise lines’ web sites and look at their itineraries to find a cruise. All cruise lines’ web sites have Shore Excursions that you can look at for each port of call. Take a look at these excursions to find any special activities that you would like to do on your honeymoon cruise.
Cruise lines have some perks for honeymoon couples. Since cruise lines vary on perks, your cruise specialist will be able to inform you about what perks are included in your honeymoon cruise.
What do I do once I have looked at the itineraries and the shore excursions?
This would be the best time to call a cruise specialist. Aside from choosing where to go on your honeymoon cruise, another important decision you will make for your cruise is choosing an experienced cruise specialist and a reputable cruise line. An experienced cruise specialist will be someone who will answer all of your questions, no matter how silly you think they may be. To a reputable cruise specialist, there are no silly questions. Your cruise specialist will be the perfect person to call to help you with your chosen itinerary and that special balcony suite that you and your new spouse may want to reserve now to save money.
Your cruise specialist is your “go to” person to plan your honeymoon cruise. Don’t be afraid to ask for references. You want to be assured that when you reserve your honeymoon cruise that your cruise specialist follows through with all of your questions. Your specialist should be working with you from the first phone call, to all of your follow-up questions, to a call upon your return from your cruise.
Make your honeymoon cruise the cruise of a lifetime and give your cruise specialist a call.
Isn't time to make your honeymoon dreams come true?
Why not let Carnival Cruise Lines take care of all your wedding needs? They can coordinate your ceremony, cater your reception and your honeymoon! Carnival Weddings
Disney Cruise Line Weddings on the Waves - Sail away on a magical cruise voyage and have your wedding cruise on Disney's private island. Disney Wedding at Sea
Royal Caribbean presents Royal Romance, a full-service wedding and vow renewal program. ... You can add anyone of these packages on to your cruise! Royal Caribbean Wedding
Lucky Love Wedding Packages
SuperClubs' Grand Lido and Breezes Resorts are hosting nuptials this summer with themed ‘Lucky Love' destination weddings.
Particularly in Chinese culture, the number eight is considered the luckiest of all numbers, with the triple ‘8' combination of Aug. 8, 2008, a rare once-in-a-century occurrence.
SuperClubs' Lucky Love packages are available for one week only, Aug. 5 to 12, 2008, with the wedding day on Aug. 8, 2008 At Grand Lido Resorts & Spas, this package combines eight features:
eight nights in a beachfront suite;
a complimentary wedding ceremony at an on-property location of the couple's choosing;
$388 spa credits at the onsite full-service Blue Mahoe Spa; breakfast in bed the morning after the wedding;
an eight-course private dinner at the fine dining Piacere restaurant;
romantic turndown services daily, e.g. rose petals, specialty chocolates, etc.;
government fees for nuptials are included, a savings of $275; and an anniversary present of 18 percent off a return trip to your wedding resort.
At the newly renovated Breezes Runaway Bay in Jamaica, and Breezes Bahamas in Nassau, also offering the "Lucky Love" package.
Breezes' ‘Lucky Love' destination weddings are $2,888 per couple, and includes:
eight-night's accommodations in an oceanfront room; complimentary wedding ceremony and the services of an onsite wedding planner;
$288 spa credits;
romantic breakfast in bed the day after the wedding;
a romantic picnic in a secluded spot with a picnic basket for two; government fees of up to $275 is included in this package;
and couples are invited back to celebrate their anniversary with an 18 percent discount.
Be sure to mention the promotional code ‘888' at the time of booking. Call 800-GO-SUPER or visit
www.superclubs.com.
The Kind of Honeymoon You Dream About
No other resorts in the world are so completely dedicated to couples in love. That's why a Sandals honeymoon is the kind of honeymoon you dream about. And only Sandals offers the ultimate luxurious accommodations, the Caribbean's best land and watersports -- from golf to scuba, and an array of gourmet dining options. The best part...it's all included. So leave your worries and wallet behind and spend your honeymoon dedicated to each other.
Honeymoon Package is Included!
Upon arrival, bottle of chilled sparkling wine elegantly arranged on ice bucket.
On first night, turndown service will include flower petals on your bed.
On one morning, you'll receive a breakfast in bed served with fresh flowers.
Note: You must check-in online and show proof that your marriage took place within 30 days of travel dates.
Adventure
Embark on a Jamaican adventure and become one with this rustic and mountainous country by enjoying three different exhilarating journeys to help you explore the island in different ways.
Romance
At Sandals, romance truly abounds in this “all about love” Romance Package where your wish is our command – start your experience with a private transfer from the airport and end it with a romantic sunset cruise.
Luxury
Let us treat you to the epitome of luxury in St. Lucia and the Bahamas with your very own Luxury Package complete with a personal butler to cater to your every whim, a private courtyard dinner for two and so much more!
Make Your WeddingMoon™ Even More Special Candlelight Dinner
What could be more romantic than a private candlelight dinner served by a white-gloved waiter under the stars.
Butler Service
The intuitive servvices of a personal butler will attend your every shim and handle every possible request.
Honeymoon on the Caribbean's Beaches
Every Sandals resort sits directly on a stunning beach, on four of the most gorgeous islands in a region famous for its endless white sand expanses and exquisite turquoise waters. Each Sandals resort wraps up the very best of the Caribbean and offers it to you in a glorious all-inclusive package.
Sandals Grande Ocho Rios Sandals Grande St. Lucian Sandals Halcyon Beach Sandals Inn Sandals Montego Bay Sandals Negril Sandals Regency St. Lucia Sandals Royal Bahamian Sandals Royal Caribbean Sandals Whitehouse
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