The Most Romantic Resorts for Destination Weddings, Marriage Renewals & Honeymoons

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Summary: from Bookviews March 2002
Review: ... Here's the lowdown on the special package deals offered by more than 135 elegant hotels and cruise ships in the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii and the rest of the US. Find out which resorts will marry you or renew your vows for free if you stay there. Learn what the costs will be, which religious ceremonies are conducted, whether they will secure the marriage license and do the paperwork for you, who to contact, and how far in advance to book. It can range from two hours to six months! This is a great way to plan a great wedding or a ceremony in which to renew one's vows. Don't get married without it!

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Summary: Incredibly helpful book
Review: Fabulous book. It looked so beautiful that I picked it up and I found so much information I needed for my wedding in it! I'm trying to arrange a destination wedding in the Caribbean and tried looking up places on the Internet but it took hours and only had the most basic wedding information. But this book told me what I wanted to know. like what religion ceremonies they do since I am Catholic, and whether I would have to do the paperwork which I'm terrible at or whether the place would do it for me, and how much extra it would cost to have my parents at the wedding, and more. I would have found this book helpful if I wasn't getting married, but this way, it was an incredible value. I also liked the comments from people on the Internet. I had tried looking that up on my own too but there were pages and pages of stuff. This book just quoted the things you had to know.

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Summary: This book helped me figure out where to go for my wedding
Review: I could never figure out the difference between all the Sandals hotels and the Beaches and Breezes and Superclubs places and this book had each one with a photo and comments from people who had gone there and told me what the difference wasand what was good about it and what wasn't like a small rocky beach or that a place is far from town. I didn't find that type of stuff on websites for the places and Ifound that very very helpful. Also, it is really beautiful looking (the cover anyway) so I keep it on my coffee table and people comment on it. It looks much more costly than the $... I paid for it.

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Summary: A great time and money saver
Review: I just spent an hour going through this wedding book and I couldn't believe how much was in there. I had no idea there were many places where they would marry you for free with a whole ceremony, flowers, etc., if I stayed there. This book told me which ones were good for that and how long I would have to stay to qualify (most were only 3-5 days but a few required a week or more so I scratched those off my list) and who I should contact for wedding information. (I liked that they had e-mail addresses for the wedding people.) I also found all the comments from people who had stayed there interesting and I think they will be very helpful. I've gotten back the [money] I spent for this book back easy!

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Summary: This book helped me to have a wonderful honeymoon!
Review: I used this book to decide where to go for for my destination wedding and it was easy to look up the hotels (they were listed not only alphabetically but by area) so it saved me a lot of time. I had been trying to research where to have a destination wedding on my own when I found this. I was originally planning on marrying in Europe but found that it's very difficult to marry there if you're American. But this book had resorts in the Caribbean and Hawaii (and Florida in America)where it's easy to have a destination wedding. After looking at all the places in the book, we chose Couples in Negril (the book told us what we needed to know--including that weddings there were free!) and it was wonderful. It's a beautiful book with many pictures of resorts and I'm keeping it to see where we'll go for our first anniverary.

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Summary: Lots of information I couldn't find elsewhere easily
Review: I'm getting married and I contacted about 10 resorts to find out what they included in their wedding packages and it took me so long and then I found this book and I went through the whole thing in a couple of hours and chose which places my fiance and I might go to for our honeymoon. It was great and saved me a lot of time and the book was inexpensive (and is large and looks beautiful.) My only objection is that it didn't include anything in Europe and we are still considering going to Italy to get married.

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Summary: Don't Buy This Book
Review: Provides even less information than you can find on the web. Black & white pictures and super large font make this book little more than a paperweight. Don't waste your time.

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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: The book uses large fonts and superbig headers. all the info can fit on a half a page but they spread it across 2 pages each. I would not mind this if it had useful info but the stuff is mostly general that you can find on any website and gives one line drab reviews from other people.

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Summary: Not what I was looking for
Review: This book is basically 2 pages each for 135 resorts in the Caribbean & gives descriptors like locations for wedding (beach, gazebo, etc), room rates (not helpful at all since it depends on time of year & you can get group rates if you marry there), etc. . Without using this book, I booked my wedding at the Westin in St John & now that I look at the book, some of the information is inaccurate& not really helpful now that I know what the important things to know are...
I could've gotten better information about the resorts on fodors.com and definitely got better information by going to resorts' websites (which are easy to find if you can use search engines).
This would be more helpful for planning a honeymoon, as you can see all the resorts that are out there but as for planning a DW, it is really not useful...

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Summary: Not what I was looking for
Review: This book is basically 2 pages each for 135 resorts in the Caribbean & gives descriptors like locations for wedding (beach, gazebo, etc), room rates (not helpful at all since it depends on time of year & you can get group rates if you marry there), etc. . Without using this book, I booked my wedding at the Westin in St John & now that I look at the book, some of the information is inaccurate& not really helpful now that I know what the important things to know are...
I could've gotten better information about the resorts on fodors.com and definitely got better information by going to resorts' websites (which are easy to find if you can use search engines).
This would be more helpful for planning a honeymoon, as you can see all the resorts that are out there but as for planning a DW, it is really not useful...