You’ve decided you want a destination wedding.
Exciting, right?
And then you start thinking about everything that comes next.
Where should we get married? Which resort should we choose? How much will it cost? What will our guests pay? Do we need a room block? When do we send save the dates? Who do we contact? What are we supposed to do first?
Suddenly, that excitement can turn into a whole lot of questions.
If that’s where you are right now, you’re in very good company.
You’re Not Supposed to Know How to Do This Yet
Most couples have never planned a destination wedding before. Why would you already know how it all works?
But that doesn’t stop couples from feeling like they should.
So, you start Googling.
You look at resorts. Then more resorts. You read reviews. You look at wedding packages. You join Facebook groups. You save photos. Maybe you fill out a few resort contact forms or email a few wedding departments. Before long, you have 37 browser tabs open and somehow feel less certain than when you started.
That’s because choosing a destination wedding resort is about so much more than finding a beautiful resort online. There are hundreds of options, and what is perfect for one couple may be completely wrong for another.
Start With a Little Research
If you’re not quite ready to schedule a call with us yet, that’s okay. Spend some time on our website first.
Our team has personally written our website to be fun, helpful, informative, and genuinely useful for couples planning a destination wedding. It isn’t designed to pressure you into working with us. We want you to learn.
You’ll find hundreds of destination wedding planning blogs, dozens of stories and photos from real destination weddings, resort information, planning tips, answers to common questions, and lots of information to help you understand how destination weddings actually work.
Read a few blogs. Look through some real weddings. Explore resorts. Learn about room blocks. Figure out what questions you have.
And while you’re doing that, you’ll also get to know us. You’ll get a feel for our personalities, our approach to destination weddings, and what it might be like to have Romance Travel Group helping you plan yours.
What Makes RTG Different?
When you feel comfortable with us, the next step is simple.
“But Are We Ready to Schedule a Call?”
This is where so many couples hesitate.
You may think you need to know your exact wedding date first.
Or your guest count.
Or your budget.
Or whether you want Mexico or the Caribbean.
Or which resorts you’re considering.
You may even think you need to know what questions to ask us before you schedule a call.
You don’t.
You don’t need to have the answers before you schedule your call. That’s what the call is for.
What Happens During Your First Call With Us?
When you visit our website, you can choose a day and time that works for you. At your scheduled time, we’ll call you.
Then we spend about an hour together. We’ll explain how the destination wedding planning process works and what you can expect along the way. More importantly, we’ll get to know you. We’ll ask about your guests, budget, travel preferences, wedding vision, resort style, priorities, concerns, and all those little details that help us understand what you’re really looking for.
You can ask us anything.
And we’ll probably answer questions you didn’t even know you should be asking yet. By the end of that conversation, our goal is for this whole destination wedding thing to make a lot more sense.
You Don’t Need to Contact Any Resorts
This is one of the biggest ways couples can get stuck in the weeds early in destination wedding planning.
When you don’t know which resorts are truly a good fit, it’s easy to start contacting random resorts yourself. The problem is that a beautiful website or wedding package doesn’t tell you everything you need to know.
We’re looking at the details.
Does the resort work for your guest budget? Is it easy for your guests to get to? Does it have the atmosphere you want? What are the wedding venues like? How are the food, beach, pools, rooms, and overall experience?
And there are things you will never see online.
What is the resort like to work with? How responsive is the wedding team? How do they handle groups? What are their contracts and group policies like? Do they offer good group perks? Those things matter, too.
Instead of reaching out to resort after resort, we use everything we learned during our conversation to handpick the resorts we believe are genuinely good matches for you.
Now you’re not trying to choose from hundreds of resorts. You’re choosing among a handful of options selected specifically for you. That feels a whole lot easier.
“Why Did We Wait So Long to Schedule This?”
We hear some version of this all the time.
Couples come into that first conversation feeling overwhelmed, unsure where to start, and sometimes frustrated by how much time they’ve already spent trying to figure everything out.
Then we talk.
Questions get answered. The process starts making sense. There’s a plan for what happens next.
And suddenly, destination wedding planning feels exciting again. That’s when we hear it.
“Why did we wait so long to talk to you?”
Or...
“We should have done this first.”
We love hearing that because that feeling of relief is exactly what we want for you.
You Don’t Need to Have the Answers. That’s Our Job.
You don’t need to research every destination wedding resort before you schedule a call.
You don’t need to understand room blocks. You don’t need an exact guest count. You don’t need to have your destination chosen. And you definitely don’t need to know every question you should be asking.
You just need to know that a destination wedding is something you’re seriously considering.
Start by spending some time on our website. Use the resources we’ve created for you.
Get to know us a little. Then, when you’re comfortable, schedule a day and time for us to call you.
Bring your ideas. Bring your questions. Bring your Pinterest board. Or come to us with absolutely no idea where to begin.
That’s what the conversation is for.
And hopefully, when we hang up, you’ll be wondering why you waited so long to schedule it.
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