Destination weddings are a perfect way to elope with just the two of you or bring friends and family and make it an awesome group vacation to celebrate your union. The unique and creative options are endless with a destination wedding. You can have fire dancers on the beach at your reception, a pig roast for dinner, and a cocktail hour by the rooftop pool overlooking the Caribbean Sea. But we destination weddings aren’t just for the beach lovers – let’s get you on top of a snow capped mountain in the Rockies where you can pop champagne with your beau, or next to Lake Louise where you can see your love reflecting in the ice, or shoot – how about exchanging rings with the love of your life in the wide open space of Montana or Wyoming? There are no limits to what we can imagine and assemble for the biggest day of your life. Start planning with us today – you’ll see your wildest dreams come to reality.

 

​So, you ask why – why do a destination wedding? Here are a few of our favorite reasons:

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Destination Weddings are Almost Stress-Free

​Plans in Paradise is not only a travel agency; we also are a wedding planning agency, so we literally take care of all the wedding and travel planning for you! Our Destination Wedding Planning Specialists will help you from picking where, to taking care of all of the back and forth with the venue, to coordinating all of the travel plans for you and your guests. We literally make it so you just show up, get pretty and say I DO!
 

Destination weddings are almost guaranteed to be simpler (and faster!) to plan than a traditional wedding and reception. Tourist boards are jumping on the bandwagon, with brochures highlighting all of their beautiful ceremony sites and governments are working to ease restrictions and attract to-be-weds.

 

Honeymoon-happy resorts and cruise lines around the world have made it easier and more appealing to wed on-site. They have full-time wedding coordinators on staff who are familiar with that country's marriage license requirements and who offer wedding packages that take care of all your ceremony essentials (photographer, cake, minister, etc.). You step off the plane and sign the papers; they take care of the rest.

 

No matter what locale is calling your heart, you can hire our destination wedding planning specialists who will do all the work of coordinating the where, the how, the design and all of the coordinating travel pieces for you two and your guests. Again, you just show up, get pretty and say I DO!

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Destination Weddings are More Cost-Effective

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The affordability of a destination wedding has many couples speeding off to the airport faster than you can say "I do." For instance, a couple can fly to an all-inclusive resort in Jamaica, get married, and stay for a luxury weeklong honeymoon for a few thousand dollars, including lodging, meals, drinks, and airfare. Compare that with your average 150-guest wedding costing about $33,000 -- which can easily skyrocket to more than $100,000+ in big cities -- plus a few extra thousand for a honeymoon. To ease the financial burden, many couples opt to travel to a place where they can get married, have a honeymoon, and still have some money left over to start their new lives together.
 

Guests are more apt to attend a destination wedding as they view it as a vacation as well. Our Destination Wedding planning specialists will help you determine a location and resort that offers reasonable travel pricing for your guests so the likelihood that a friend and their family of five can come increases.

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Destination Weddings are More Unique

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While formal weddings hold meaning for many couples, linking them to the traditions of their ancestors and culture, others want the experience to be different, with a ceremony and location that reflect their true colors. Perhaps a safari wedding? A snowy mountain-peak ceremony? A cruise ship wedding? The world is your altar.