Destination Wedding Fundamentals is our multi-step system for creating and honing your overall wedding vision, pinpointing your perfect wedding location and ensuring it all fits within your budget.
Expect straightforward teaching, practical advice and downloadable tools to enable you to begin planning your destination wedding with confidence.
Destination Wedding Fundamentals
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This chapter is all about discovering what you want and don't want from your wedding. We'll give you a fun exercise that really dives into this and helps you hone your overall wedding vision. We'll also highlight some crucial considerations and give you guidance to make sure you've got a stable foundation from which to make all your decisions.
What's inside
As experienced wedding planners, we've got lots to share! We'll talk you through the different types of venue, giving you our expert advice on the pros and cons of each, along with some tips that could help you get more for your investment. We'll also provide an overview of design and aesthetics, logistics and guest experience.
A key component of successful wedding planning is managing your budget effectively, so we'll explain how to to this. You'll get access to our proprietary Budget Planner tool, which will give you all you need to keep track of your budget at all times and help prevent you overspending.
We'll provide you with a 5-step framework that helps you apply what you've learned in the first two parts, so that you can evaluate any wedding destination and understand whether it fits both your wedding vision and your budget. We'll also provide you with some great places to find venues, as well as tips on how to reach out to them.
Part 1. Discovery
Part 2. Education
Part 3. Application
Part 4. Budgeting
To help make the process as simple and enjoyable as possible, we'll provide you with:
• Our proprietary Budget Planner tool
• Our Couples' Questionnaire to help with the Discovery process
• Email scripts to use when contacting each type of venue
Bonus tools!
Our Budget Planner tool: each category (venues, photography, transport, etc) has its own tab, allowing you to easily compare dates/pricing/notes. Once you have your favorite venue/vendor in each category, use the 'select' feature to display that information on the 'Summary' tab. Here, you'll see all of your favorite suppliers and a running budget total, all in one place. And, of course, our tool allows you to input either USD/GBP/Euro for each supplier whilst still converting the overall total into a currency of your choice!
Sneak Peek - Budget Planner Tool
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