Wedding Planning Tips
and Checklists
Six
months to a year before your wedding:
First decide what kind of wedding the two of you want, the time and
date. Please take a look at all the islands on our web-site and try and
decide which island you would like to be married on. They are all
exciting, wonderfully romantic, and all have different regulations and
ceremonies. (Check out the details for the particular island you choose,
they vary considerably. Some have more restrictions than others. Some do
not have wedding services yet. You will have fun exploring the net.)
Choose the wedding and reception locations. ( On a luxurious yacht, next
to a tropical waterfall, at your hotel's tropical gardens, or under a
coconut tree on a pearly white beach?)
Pick your tropical wedding dress, or bathing suit with a wedding shawl,
or native islanders ceremonial attire. ( Most choose the bathing suit!)
Choose the bridesmaids, groomsmen, ushers, and honored roles, or leave
them behind and have a native wedding and native chorus. (Warning! They
will bring tears to your eyes.)
Send announcements of your engagement to your fiancé's and
your local and hometown newspapers about your tropical island wedding.
(Caution! They will be green with envy!)
Decide if you want a native florist, photographer, caterer, videographer,
and entertainment to discuss budgets and options. (Did you know that
fabulous island weddings can be had for 1/10 the price of a wedding back
home?)
Do you want to invite anyone, and if so should we make the travel
arrangements? (We have great bargains on group travel rates.)
What kind of music and food do you prefer at your wedding and reception
party? (You wouldn't believe the exotic selections available in the
islands!)
When you have a tropical island wedding you don't have to plan a
honeymoon, you are already in paradise!
Don't forget to let you employer know you are leaving as soon as you
have a date. (You never know, he may want to contribute to your wedding
and honeymoon.)
Or would you prefer we arrange for an expert wedding coordinators to do
all of the above for you? (Smile) Note! There are some islands that do
not have wedding coordinators available yet.
Four months before your wedding:
Start thinking about where you are going to live when you return from
your tropical island paradise. (You may want to stay!) Register wedding
gifts and patterns for those who want to buy you gifts instead of
contributing to your island wedding and honeymoon. Order
announcements, invitations, programs, bathing suits, suntan lotion,
passports, and personal stationery. Arrange for physical
examinations. (Hopefully there will be no surprises.)
Two months before your wedding:
Wedding bands and engraving, unless you plan to buy them abroad and save
a bundle. Last minute travel arrangements, airfare and lodging can be
costly so let us know how many guests you plan to bring with you.
One month away from bliss:
Did those passports arrive? Make sure you bring all the documents
necessary for the wedding. Birth certificates, divorce decrees if you
have been married before. (Time to let the cat out of the bag if you
haven't already.) (Smile)
Two weeks!
You should have received your airline tickets from us, flight bags,
personalized baggage tags, maps, an extremely detailed itinerary, our
customer support phone number, assurance and our best wishes.
Don't forget your cameras, and extra digital memory cards. You can get
film except on the remotest of islands.
You don't need to pack much. Bathing suits, shorts, cosmetics, personal
diving gear, mask, fins and regulator. (Most resorts have a
complete selection of dive gear available.) You won't need a watch!
For those of you that can't leave your lap top computer behind you will
need adapters to plug into the local phone systems. (Our plug ends and
phone jacks don't fit at all!)
Note! We will be happy to get
a wedding coordinator to arrange an elaborate native wedding ceremony on
any tropical island where the services are available. There are some
islands that do not provide wedding services yet.
To
offer you the absolute value Escape to Eden
Vacations has created air-inclusive weddingmoon
packages featuring a number of ways to save money: special low airfares
are included, all inter-island and hotel transfers are included, and
many wedding & honeymoon packages featuring most, or all meals and
activities! This means you can plan and budget your weddingmoon
in advance---and enjoy a carefree vacation! Our travel consultants will
save you a lot of time, money and stress!
A word for the wise. Always shop for value, convenience, quality, and
dependability----all of which we at Escape to
Eden Vacations specialize in. Let our agents know what your
vacation budget is and we will pack your vacation with as much enjoyment
as possible. Price shopping your wedding or honeymoon on the Internet is
bad idea! There's a great probability you will compromise your precious
wedding, honeymoon, and cause yourself an immense amount of aggravation,
and possibly ruin the most special time of your life. Remember, it
isn't what you pay, it's what you get in return. Escape
to Eden Vacations depends on its customers loyalty, we
will not sell you a wedding that is not up to our high standards!
