Advice for Brides-To-Be:

· Create a new email address that is used only for wedding planning. It was so helpful to have everything wedding related be separate from my personal emails, especially since 95% of our communications with vendors abroad was over email. This is a great trick for all brides, not just destination weddings!

· Hire a great wedding planner. We could not have planned a wedding without someone who knows local vendors and can handle all of the day-of details for you without a hitch. I trusted Gemma, our planner, implicitly—meaning I could relax and enjoy our wedding day without having to worry one bit!

· Do your research on vendors. Spend time looking for vendors you “click” with. After we had our planner secured, we found our wedding photographer here on SMP—Shannon Moffit Photography. Knowing I wanted a photographer who shot film and digital photos, I found Shannon and the rest is history! It felt like the stars had aligned for us with each wonderful person we found to help us achieve our wedding day vision.