Planning your destination wedding with the right travel
agent can be a wonderful experience especially if your
travel agent has good reps or contacts on the ground.
Well here are a few tips to make your destination wedding
planning even more enjoyable and stress free. Our guidelines:
• Tell your travel agent
what's your budget.
• Decide how many persons
will be in your wedding party.
• Get help in choosing your location and
ask for photos to be emailed to you so that you and your
fiancée can view them in the comfort of your
home.
• Find out the distance
of your hotel to the wedding venue and ask about any
additional transportation costs for your guests.
• Decide your theme or colours
in advance; this helps in getting flowers for
your bouquet, especially if they have to be
imported.
• With technology advancements,
you may want to take digital photos and print them
when you get back home, as this helps in reducing costs.
Or you may want to choose the least expensive photography
package and be sure to purchase your negatives so you
can develop at home.
• Ask about video editing
if you require the services of a videographer.
• Most Caribbean islands
have a special rum cake or fruit cake which should
be sampled and so you may want to have a small one
for the ceremony.
• No wedding is complete
without a taste of Caribbean music, either steel band,
local folk group or a local artist.
• Ask your travel agent
for their destination rep's email so that you can have
some contact or familiarity before you visit.
• Ask about tipping and
service charges.
• If you want something
of a local theme ask your travel agent to get the local
places for you, as each destination has a really lovely
cultural side and you may want that exotic memory
to take back with you.
• Ask about local wedding
favours for your guests
• Ask for details of catering
of a small reception or a lovely restaurant to celebrate
after the ceremony.
• And finally if any member
of the bridal party has any disabilities or special
needs, please let that be known in advance.
