If you’re still waffling about destination wedding sites, here’s some easy inspiration: Five spots where the world’s luckiest couples are headed in 2019. Not that you want to follow in anyone’s footsteps, but these places are so over-the-top seductive, you can’t go wrong. My recent piece for The Bridal Council lays Read more…
St. Barts (or St. Barths, if you’re of the French persuasion) took it on the chin during the 2017 hurricane season, but today things are looking downright peachy on this gem of the Caribbean. That includes The Christopher, a 42-room clifftop enclave that spent the past year giving itself a Read more…
The sub-zero temperatures that roared across the country last week got a lot of just-engaged couples dreaming about weddings in places where the sand is talcum-soft, the water is as clear as acrylic, and tropical flowers perfume the trade winds. Exotic escapes like these aren’t a frugal wedding choice, but Read more…
A Spanish Colonial treasury of Andalusian tile floors, mahogany beams, and butter-yellow archways, Puerto Rico’s most beloved hotel, El Convento, has been a favorite wedding spot for many years. Much of the allure is the setting. Smack in the middle of the cobblestone byways of Old San Juan, the former Read more…
For couples who’ve been eyeing the Caribbean island of Nevis as a potential wedding spot, there’s a new game in town. Paradise Beach Nevis, a boutique villa resort, has just opened its doors on the island’s talcum shores—Nevis’s only villa compound directly on the sand. That means you can revel in Read more…
There are over 700 islands in The Bahamas, which can make choosing a site for your destination wedding a challenge. Take our five-question quiz and we’ll point you to the tropical spot that has “just our style” written all over it. Take the Quiz: 1. During the ceremony, your guests will watch Read more…
Any couple that chooses to marry on a tropical beach wants the seaside essentials: rolling waves, a boat or two on the horizon, and sand that demands you abandon your shoes. But a beach wedding also needs a focal point, places for guests to sit, and a bit of romantic embellishment. Read more…
Great beaches. Great food. Great rum. What’s not to love about a destination wedding on Barbados? Especially now that the Barbados Tourism Authority has dreamed up a deal where brides can say “I do,” for free, including accommodation and airfare from pretty much anywhere in the U.S. There’s always the Read more…
Last year, when we put together a list of our favorite Caribbean destination wedding hotels, Anguilla’s Cap Juluca was among them. As we noted, its beach and its service are among the best in the region, attracting such A-listers as Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and Caroline Kennedy to its Morocco-meets-Mykonos Read more…
Destination weddings may sound expensive and exclusive, but we just learned of an insanely good deal at the Occidental Grand Xcaret, a vast all-inclusive resort on Mexico’s Riviera Maya–south of Cancun on the country’s Caribbean coast. Their most basic package, called Simple Love, includes the planning services of a coordinator, Read more…
