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Destination Weddings can be a most rewarding experience, however, even
more planning and long distance preparation is needed than for a
traditional local wedding. The primary question to be answered
immediately is : what are the marriage law requirements? With thousands
of excellent venues available, it is dangerous to consider any location
where there is not a record of a substantial number of routine weddings
of foreign nationals without administrative delays. Some foreign
locations require a residency period, health tests, and are
administratively burdensome.
The entire wedding procedure can be facilitated by working with a
knowledgeable representative in that area. In many cases the foreign
assistor may not necessarily be a formal business person, but may be a
hotel wedding coordinator. Those wedding couples who have been most
successful and satisfied at destination weddings have tended to keep
control of most of the detailed planning and arrangements, and have
used foreign help as assistance only. Unlike honeymoons, where the
wedding couple have to please only themselves, Destination weddings
must please the entire wedding party, and be reasonably affordable for
all invited guests.
One option is to hire a wedding consultant who is familiar with the
location where the wedding couple wants to get married. The consultant
may located in the place where the wedding will occur or a travel agent
who has experience in planning remote destination weddings. In some
locales there are wedding consultants whose primary business is working
with foreign couples.
All told, this may be the safest way to plan a wedding, but it will add
to the cost. A flat fee may be charged, or a surcharge applied to the
cost of all services are contracted on the wedding couples behalf.
References are required, and still the ultimate responsibility for
detail verification must be retained by the wedding couple.
A second option is to find a hotel or inn, or bed & breakfast that
offers wedding planning services for guests who stay there. Many of
these have hosted weddings in the past, and some have a salesperson who
helps with the wedding planning, often for a ceremony and reception
right on site.
Another option is to find a wedding chapel at the location the wedding
couple has chosen. These tend to have complete packages with
photographs, flowers, music, officiant, even license built right in.
The wedding couple’s work is usually limited to showing up. This is
easiest, and may be least expensive. However, the wedding couple
doesn’t have control over some of the details, and might be put off by
the relatively impersonal nature of the ceremony.
A destination wedding opens up possibilities to be creative. Simply by
having a destination wedding, the wedding couple has, to the degree
they choose, abandoned the conventional. People's expectations have
been altered, so the wedding couple might be less likely to feel bound
to a traditional wedding template. If the setting is particularly nice,
the wedding couple may be able to simplify other aspects of the wedding.
For example, a wedding in a beautiful historic inn may need no
additional decoration or flowers. For weddings in Hawaii, Jamaica , or
other tropical location, where the natural flowers and outdoor setting
are naturally beautiful, just having the bride and groom, officiant,
and wedding party looks perfectly natural. And may completely avoid the
cost of flowers and rental of a venue for the wedding.
One successful strategy for destination weddings is to complete as many
tasks as possible before leaving home. Packing of clothing should be
carefully planned well in advance. Make certain the right-sized
suitcase or box is on hand. Much luggage can be generated when
traveling to a destination wedding. When traveling by air plan to carry
on as much as possible, and farm out to the excess to family and
friends who are also traveling to the same location
Wedding parties having successful destination weddings have discovered
that “less is more” when planning extra curricular activities at the
wedding site. Because it is presumably an intriguing, exotic place, and
guests will take great pleasure in exploring new and unfamiliar
terrain, many of the normally requisite get-togethers may not be
scheduled. For example, the rehearsal dinner may be unnecessary. If
“the medium was the message”, then the location is the entertainment.
Wedding vows are promises made by the bride and groom to each other
during a wedding ceremony. In Western culture, these promises have
traditionally included the notions of unselfishness ("love, comfort,
keep"), faithfulness ("forsaking all others"), unconditionality ("for
richer or for poorer", "in sickness and in health"), and permanence
("as long as we both shall live", "until death do us part"). See also
marriage. |