Why We Recommend Karisma Destination Weddings

This first Testimonial Tuesdays’ post covers our most recent visit to Karisma Resorts. We’re excited to share our business travels with you in hopes that it will make your destination wedding decisions a little easier. Look for future posts as our Beachside Brides tell us about their personal experiences with properties and destinations.

What a trip! From August 25th to the 29th we were in the Riviera Maya, Mexico with the tropical sun warming our skin, feasting on gourmet food and visiting Karisma properties.

Although we had fun, it was business and it’s what the industry calls a “Fam Trip”. This is an exclusive invitation to travel professionals by hotels/tour operators to conduct site inspections of the resorts, check out the hotel amenities so that we may become `familiar’ with the product and refresh our knowledge of the wedding package inclusions.

It’s an important aspect of our commitment to you to remain up-to-date with all our resort recommendations so that you know what you’re getting for your destination wedding.

Basically, we experienced everything you do when you book a destination wedding at a Karisma resort! Over the four days, while based at the 5-star El Dorado Casitas Royale, we inspected all six of the El Dorado Spa Resorts & Azul Hotels. We were invited to a mock wedding and reception dinner complete with dance floor and DJ on the beach, sampled gourmet meals, spoke with the wedding planners, met key managers of various properties and travelled around the Mayan Riviera visiting the Karisma properties.

Our trip also included a full day in Karisma’s GI (Gourmet Inclusive) University. This program was designed by Karisma for industry professionals to teach us about their GI philosophy: every detail of a guest’s stay becomes part of an “experience”. From the quality of the food to the variety of services, to décor and amenities nothing is generic. And the inclusive part is merely a convenience of no cash transactions.

The only downside was that we were all alone in our amazingly romantic Casita suites! What a phenomenal place for couples, though. Among the pampering we experienced, they drew us a romantically decorated Jacuzzi bath with rose petals and served us tuxedo-shaped, chocolate-dipped strawberries. Ooo la la.

And this is only a sample of the treatment you can expect from any of the Karisma hotels on your destination wedding!

Based on our Fam Trip, we can say with absolute certainty that Mexico is ready for business once again and El Dorado Spa Resorts & Azul Hotels by Karisma are waiting to welcome you!

If you’re thinking about a destination wedding in Mexico, stay tuned to our upcoming post, “118 Useful Spanish Phrases”.

Top 8 Ways a Destination Wedding Specialist Gives You Peace

Planning a wedding can be stressful. Planning a destination wedding adds a whole other dimension to an already detailed and complex event.

Luckily, destination wedding travel specialists are available to ease the anxious beachside bride mind.

Here are the top 8 ways a destination wedding specialist gives you peace:

1. Your Cyber Maid of Honour. From the beginning stages of planning until you tie the knot (and even after, if you need us!), we are by your side. Many of our brides have said how reassuring it was to have the guidance from a supportive and responsive destination wedding pro at hand throughout the entire process.
2. Frees your time & energy for wedding details. You have your dream destination wedding in mind and want to have fun planning it. Easy. By hiring a destination wedding specialist to book and arrange travel & hotel plans for you, your husband-to-be and wedding guests, you allow us to do what we do best. And with most of the work in our hands, you’re free to create the most memorable day of your life!
3. Liaison for you and your resort/island wedding planner. Planning a wedding from a remote destination can be daunting. Have no worries with the help from a destination wedding specialist! We introduce you to your resort/island wedding planner and make sure you two stay connected and on the same page right up until the Big Day.With a Weddings By Oceans’ specialist, you have the added benefit of someone who speaks fluent Spanish and French to avoid any language-based misunderstandings.
4. Satisfied, stress-free destination wedding guests. Most of our couples take a personal interest in their guests’ comfort and arrangements so that it’s a momentous occasion for everyone. That’s why we specialize in group bookings. When guests book with a destination wedding specialist, we take care of all their travel and accommodation plans so they don’t have to.
5. Avoid the typical `surprises’. One of the most common complaints from travelers is the disappointed, “It wasn’t what I expected.” Our wedding destination specialists have personal experience with all the destinations and resorts that they recommend for your budget. This way you, your fiancé and weddings guests can all be sure that your destination resort is really the paradise it appears to be on its website.
6. Access to the best deals. Destination wedding travel experts save you (and your guests) money because we lend you our travel industry experience and connections. Over the years we’ve acquired negotiating power and arrange the best air and hotel packages for your entire wedding group. We know when group rates are better than individual rates and vice versa. And because we only work with tried, tested and true affiliates, you’re guaranteed to get value for your dollar.
7. Assurance all your guests make it to the wedding. If left to their own devices, guests may be unable to arrange timely flights, adequate lodging or even be able to afford it! Our expertise focuses on planning, organizing and coordinating travel and hotel plans for 10 to 100+ people. Booking with a destination wedding specialist assures that everyone will arrive on time, get affordable packages and stay in the best hotels close to all the action.
8. Peace of mind. Are you concerned about missed flights with no emergency support? Hidden hotel clauses that leave the married couple financially responsible for covering liabilities? Or dropped reservations that force couples and their guests to find alternative, less than satisfactory accommodations? These things have and do happen with couples who decide to plan their own destination wedding.Fortunately, experienced and devoted wedding destination travel specialists never allow their beachside brides to go through these types of avoidable circumstances.

Weddings By Oceans offers our brides FREE wedding planning services. Knowing how much work is involved and some of the things that could go wrong, wouldn’t it be great to have the help from someone who’s been doing this for years? Leave all the tedious travel plans to us while you focus on wedding plans. Contact us if you’d like a Cyber Maid of Honour!

And if you think we’ve missed an important aspect of how we provide our brides peace, let us know in the comment section below.

Welcome to the Beachside Brides Blog

Bringing you valuable information and providing an open forum for discussion, we present you the Beachside Brides Blog, hot on the heels of launching our new website!

As Cyber Maids of Honour, we specialize in destination weddings and that’s what we aim to post about here on this blog. From featured weddings and hot destinations to tips and industry news, you’ll find it here. Please click here for more…

Plus, we want to have some fun with you so be prepared to get in on some contests and giveaways!

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If you’d like to know a little more about us, your destination wedding specialists and bloggers, we’ve introduced ourselves here.

As part of our commitment to service, we’re always looking to improve and we welcome your constructive feedback. If you are so inclined, please leave your thoughts, ideas and opinions about our revitalized website and the Beachside Brides Blog in the comment section below.

We’re looking forward to chatting with you!