Destination wedding event with partial planning and design service for couples looking for a little help on their big day. Excellent services offered at an affordable price..
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Before your destination wedding week-filled or weekend of festivities, you will receive the following services:
Time & Consultation
- Advice and consultations via phone, email and in person limited to twenty (20) hours
- Guaranteed scheduled meetings between Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Expert consultation and guidance with etiquette and other considerations
- Advisement of local culture, customs and traditions
- We guarantee that we will respond to your inquiries within forty-eight (48) hours
- Impromptu meetings can be scheduled with forty-eight (48) hours notice
Vision, Concept & Design
- Wedding conception and design assistance in designing the entire celebration itinerary beginning with finding the perfect location, selecting the wedding ceremony and reception décor, style and colors within you twenty (20) hour allotment.
- Develop event enhancements such as atmospheric design, lighting, custom furnishings, and specialty props
- Linen, table and chair rentals
- Provide room lay outs
Navigating the Island
- Personalized island tour guide for Bride and Groom for site visits and inspections
- Site Selection Assistance. Your Island Wedding Specialist will assist you in choosing the ceremony and reception locations that align with your wedding dreams + any other wedding related events such as welcome get-togethers, pre-nuptial parties, bridal luncheons, man cave retreats, bachelor & bachelorette activities, rehearsal dinners, beach bashes, bonfires, and farewell brunches
- Will visit new locations and take photos/videos
- Advise of pros and cons of potential locations
- As allowed by your twenty (20) hours of consultation time
Wedding Planning Management
- Use of our Signature Easy Breezy Wedding Planning System™, an easy mobile-friendly web-based project management tool to ensure tasks and decisions are executed in a timely and stress-free manner
- Guide you through our Easy Explore Exuma Wedding Planning steps to create your fun and imaginative destination wedding day and island experiences
Wedding & Event Professionals, Introductions and Selection
A Wedding Breeze prides itself as the only company that has created a written “A Code of Standards for Wedding and Event Professionals. A Wedding Breeze interviews its vendors and reviews with them our signature Code of Standards prior to hiring and ongoingly reviews their work and performance to make sure that they maintain the quality of service that you deserve.
- Introduction and access to our pre-screened and quality vendors that can successfully produce your wedding event
- Schedule vendor appointments as requested
- Facilitate all vendor appointments as an impartial party
- Review and negotiate contracts
- Confirmations and constant contact with all professionals involved
- Provided convenience of itemized billing for all subcontracted professionals on one invoice
- Plan closely with your vendors to ensure all aspects of your wedding day will flow seamlessly
- Timeline and contact distribution for all vendors prior to wedding
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Guest Care, Comfort & Experience Management
- Recommend, reserve and assist with group contract negotiation for accommodations and secure best rates and all available discounts and amenities
- Arrange for any hosted guest rooms: parents, grandparents, children, nannies, bridesmaids, guest, Officiant, etc. that you are planning on gifting or paying for
- Manage all hotel rooms for all invited guests
- Manage hotel room blocks and cut-off dates
- Organizes group activities, tours, meals and transportation for all of your guests
- Access to web-based tools to generate and manage guest lists
- Assist with design, content for your wedding website to keep guests informed of all the details regarding your wedding events, activity options, travel information and island offerings
- Provide detailed and informative itineraries for wedding day and surrounding activities
- Assist with guest amenities such as welcome bags, favors, programs, in addition to other requests
- Provide authentic Bahamian island gifts selections and arrange for ordering of locally handmade items
- Provide tourism welcome packs to be included in welcome gifts
- Greet guests upon arrival and assist with villa/room check-ins
- Distribute welcome gifts
Photo by Reno Curling
Photo by Joe Goger
Photo by Joe Goger
Photo by Reno Curling
Wedding Party Management
- Email correspondence about what’s expected for a “FUN” Island Wedding Party and their respective roles as Island Bridesmaids and Groomsmen that is unique to the island vibe
- Email detailed wedding day itinerary in advance as to keep them informed of events so they can identify opportunities where they can plan surprises for the Bride and Groom as they deem appropriate:-)
Personal Chef & Catering Management
- Manage the coordination of all catering/food & beverage needs for then entire length of visit to the island including the welcome party, rehearsal dinner, bridal dressing, wedding reception, beach parties and bonfires and any other catering needs.
- Coordinate menu selections and food tastings
- Provide signature drink ideas
- Arrange for wedding cake and delivery
- Ensure that caterers provide imaginative food presentation, creative menu design, all contracted items and appropriate décor
- Create online registration and management for menu selections and RSVP’s
- Provide final guest count and menu selections to caterer by specified cut-off date
Island Concierge Service
An Island Wedding Specialist shall be on call to answer any questions or make any arrangements for you. You are our distinguished guests when you are here; it’s Your Island ~ Your Wedding ~ Your Way!
- Advise you on logistics regarding shipping, receiving and customs/duty clearance
- Bride & Groom’s complimentary use of steamer for wedding weekend
- Facilitate all communication to keep the bride, groom, key family members and wedding party on track during every stage of the wedding planning and during the event
- Provide on-site support to the bridal couple with one or more Island Wedding Specialists who will be present at the rehearsal, the wedding and the reception
- Schedule salon and spa services
- Schedule golf tee times
- Arrange for personal chefs and private dinners
- Provide recommended restaurant lists
- Provide suggested packing lists for guests
- Travel & honeymoon arrangements if required
Arrangement of your Bahamas Marriage License and Ceremony Consultation
Bahamas law requires that at both bride and groom present themselves in person to make application, show identifications, sign the necessary paperwork, and provide documentation for obtaining your Bahamas Marriage License. For this reason, it is very important that you arrange your itinerary to allow time on a week day (that is not a holiday) prior to your wedding day to do this. This appointment will be scheduled twenty-four (24) hours after your arrival in The Bahamas.We handle all of this for you and you just show up with the documentation we instructed you to bring.
- Schedule your appointment for your Bahamas Marriage License with the local Administrator’s office on your behalf prior to your arrival to The Bahamas. Pay for your our Marriage License and affidavit fees
- Pre-Wedding Review/Consultation in George Town and assistance to obtain your Bahamas Marriage License. Arrange for your desired Bahamas Marriage Officer (civil or clergy) to conduct your wedding ceremony
- Schedule a pre-consultation with your Officiant
- Discuss family arrangements, special seating, processional and recessional order
- Ensure any special and sentimental touches are included in your ceremony
- Assistance with wedding program design
- Proof, edit and approve final program for printing
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Pretty Paper & Signage
Save-the-Dates, Invitations & Wedding Day Signage
- Advise on proper wording based on locations of your events
- Provide ideas for unique directional signage and boat/golf cart decorations
Budget and Financial Management
- Manage deposits and payment schedules with vendors
- Provide basic spreadsheet templates and/or web-based programs to track and manage spending and payments
- Reconcile final guest count numbers regarding tables, centerpieces, favors
Photo by Reno Curling
The celebration we have all been anticipating with excitement! We will expertly produce, coordinate and manage every aspect of ALL your planned activities and events for your island wedding week or weekend to create the fabulous wedding of your dreams
Total Events Management
- Provide One (1) Island Wedding Specialists on-site to assist your Lead Consultant
- Coordinate and supervise delivery of contracted supplies including the decor, cake, centerpieces, party favors, guest book, limo, boat or other transportation, etc.
- Rehearsal coordination and direction of rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, the after-the-wedding party plus any other welcome receptions or farewell brunches, beach parties
- Oversee and manage wedding day installations and complete set-up
- Troubleshoot as necessary
- Arrange for retrieval and placement of guest book, pens, toasting flutes, cake serving set, flower baskets, ring pillow, aisle runners or other items being provided by couple
- Ensure flowers are placed as designated in floral agreement
- Proper placement of favors, place cards, table settings and signage
- Handle any last minute emergency needs of the bridal party
- Use of Emergency Kit
- Monitor special tasks and desires for the reception including the wait staff duties, do’s and don’ts for the band or D.J., post reception transportation and delivery of gifts and clothing, etc.
- Distribute any final payments and gratuities to wedding professionals
- Collect and secure all wedding gifts and keepsakes at the end of the reception
- Coordinate couple’s memorable exit
- Remain until the guests have departed
Photo by Reno Curling
Post-Wedding Activities & Events
- Oversee break down and proper return of all rental items to all vendors
- Assist with submission of wedding announcements to newspapers
- Submission of photographs to local and national magazines and/or websites, if desired
Rush Document Service
*RDS is an exclusive Service offered by A Wedding Breeze
- Marriage documents HAND DELIVERED within 7 days for IMMEDIATE processing to Registrar General in Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas
- Procuring Certified Marriage Certificate
- Procuring Apostille (Convention de La Hague du 5 Octobre 1961)
- All fees associated with obtaining documents
- Delivered WITHIN 14 DAYS to Newlywed’s home via FedEx, UPS or other trackable delivery service
