Telling your family you’re having a destination wedding is one of the hardest conversations of the whole planning process. It’s not that they don’t want you to be happy. It’s that they have expectations (hometown church, grandma’s backyard, that venue your cousin used), and a destination wedding rearranges the picture they had in their heads. The good news: nearly every…
Destination Wedding Tips & Advice
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A destination wedding isn’t a single event. It’s a multi-day experience that your guests build their calendars around. The best destination wedding weekends feel effortless: welcome cocktails on arrival, a group excursion or two, a great rehearsal dinner, a wedding day that doesn’t rush anyone, and a farewell brunch that ends the trip on a high note. Building that itinerary…
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Every couple planning a destination wedding gets flooded with advice, some of it useful, most of it recycled from the internet. This list is different. Every do and don’t below comes directly from our network of Certified Destination Wedding Specialists, the same people who plan hundreds of destination weddings a year and have seen firsthand what works and what doesn’t.…
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Here’s a truth most couples don’t realize until they start planning: you don’t need to visit your destination wedding venue before the wedding week. In fact, most couples we work with don’t. Between video walkthroughs, virtual tastings, dedicated on-site coordinators, and Certified Destination Wedding Specialists who have physically toured the resorts they recommend, planning a destination wedding from your couch…
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Mexico’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts host thousands of destination weddings every year, and most of them go off without a single raindrop. But the country’s official hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, and that stretch includes some of the year’s most popular wedding months. Knowing when storms are most likely, how to build in real backup plans, and…
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Getting legally married in Montego Bay is one of the simplest legal-marriage paths in the Caribbean: 24-hour residency, no blood test, no apostille, $40 license.
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Wondering the best time to get married in Puerto Vallarta? November through April brings dry days, humpback whales, and cobblestone-lit old-town magic.
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Wondering the best time to get married in Tulum? December through April brings dry days, clear cenotes, and sargassum-free Caribbean blue.
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A Jamaica destination wedding sounds simple from the outside (pick a Negril or Montego Bay resort, get on a plane, say your vows in front of the Caribbean) and it can be. Jamaica’s legal process is actually one of the easiest in the Caribbean: 24 hours of in-country residency, no apostille required, no translation, and a marriage license issued within…
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A Los Cabos destination wedding has all the visual drama of the Arch at Land’s End and the cobalt of the Sea of Cortez, but the planning process has more moving pieces than couples typically expect: choosing between a symbolic and a legal ceremony, navigating apostille paperwork, locking in a room block, deciding between Cabo San Lucas, the Corridor, San…
