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LUXURY BUDGET ALL-INCLUSIVE
Many couples are willing to splash Not all couples can afford to spend For clients anxious about escalating
the cash on a memorable wedding or a fortune, but there are cost-effective costs, all-inclusive resorts are a safe
honeymoon. Cyprus boutique hotel alternatives. Flights are often the option. Almond Resorts has five
Londa offers a four-day honeymoon biggest expense, so clients on a tight all-inclusive properties in Barbados and
break, including champagne breakfast budget should look closer to home. St Lucia, and offers free marriage and
in bed, massages, facials and dinner, A good European destination is honeymoon packages to guests booking
from £1,210 with Planet Holidays. northern Cyprus, where specialist oper- 10 nights in a deluxe room.
Rome’s Cavalieri Hilton offers the ator Direct Traveller runs direct flights Occidental Hotels and Resorts offers
ultimate wedding package for up to 100 from the UK to Larnaca. Packages start free honeymoon deals at its Caribbean
privileged guests with the neat price tag from £310 for a poolside wedding at a resorts to couples staying a minimum of
of $1 million including suites, a private hotel, flowers and 25 buttonholes for three nights. Windjammer Landing
jet and a service at a Vatican church. the guests. A cocktail party for 50 Resort in St Lucia has a “platinum all-
The Indian Ocean and Far East are guests with canapes and unlimited inclusive” deal, including meals and
popular. For a remote tropical paradise, local alcohol and soft drinks costs from water sports. Verandah Resort & Spa,
try Paradee on the Thai island of Ko £600. Settings for the ceremony can Galley Bay and St James’s Club in
Samet, where a wedding package with include historic Bellapais Abbey, which Antigua all offer free wedding packages
Cleveland Collection costs £2,450. dates from the 13th century. for clients booking 12 nights or more.
Something
different
DANNY WAINE, MARKETING
DIRECTOR, PERFECT
WEDDINGS & HONEYMOONS
If the couple has a
big budget, suggest
helicopter rides,
fireworks and local
bands as part of the
PRIVATE VILLAS CRUISE
reception. Don’t just
offer typical wedding Many upmarket resorts now offer For a wedding with a difference
venues such as hotel private villas, which can be the ultimate couples can get married onboard a
settings – suggest a setting for a wedding or honeymoon. cruise ship, with the captain hosting the
Sound of Music theme For a very private experience, try ceremony. Princess Cruises offers its
in Austria, or an igloo the new DoublePool villas at Banyan “Tie the Knot” package on several itin-
or ice hotel in Finland. Tree Phuket, Thailand: the couple are eraries. Clients could also get married
You are looking at whisked through customs to a private on the harbourside before the ship
places that we don’t car and chauffeured to their villa – leaves port. Weddings can be arranged
have in the UK. Also which features a garden, infinity pool on several Mediterranean, Hawaiian
try to get clients to and bedroom on a floating pavilion. and Alaskan cruises.
think about the timing. Beachcomber has reopened its private River cruises are another option.
For example, if they island resort in the Seychelles, Sainte Connections’ 2009 Elegant River Cruises
get married in Cyprus Anne Resort & Spa, after refurbishment. brochure includes a 10-day European
at 4pm then they can A third of the 87 villas have private River Romance trip from Paris to
get their pictures taken pools leading down to the beach. Prices Nuremberg taking in vineyards, castles
with a lovely sunset. with Beachcomber Tours start from and medieval cities. Prices start from
£4,936 per couple for seven nights. £1,545 per person, March to October.
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