For the couple, they have the opportunity of going away to an amazing destination and experiencing it with their friends and family which turns into DAYS worth of an experience not just a few hours.

Destination weddings are really very affordable when you consider what couples are spending on average to have a wedding.  Again, with a destination wedding, you are spending this money on days worth of an experience instead of just a few hours of a wedding day.   The value is in the memories you will have during this time at the destination.

When you hire an experienced travel professional who specializes in planning destination weddings, your experience is all the more enjoyable.  Sometimes dealing with vendors in a foreign country can be challenging.  Trying to do that when you are on your lunch hour can be next to impossible.   Some travel professionals stick to handling only the travel portion of planning the destination wedding while others will handle all communications with the resort and vendors making it a seamless experience.   You simply arrive and begin enjoying yourself when you hire a destination wedding specialist to help you plan your wedding away.    Going it alone is doable but so is planning any wedding on your own.  The difference is really the experience you want to have for yourself throughout the entire wedding planning and when you are in the destination.

Bringing your destination wedding specialist with you further insures you will have a smooth experience while at the destination.   Your specialist will be acting as your advocate throughout the time you are at the destination.  Your destination wedding specialist is managing the setup and flow so you don’t have to worry.

It is common for resorts to have multiple weddings occurring on the same day….resort coordinators often have multiple weddings that they are personally handling.  Having your destination wedding specialist with you is the difference from being the most important wedding for that resort planner’s day vs just another wedding.

As your destination wedding specialist we have resources and relationships that we can rely on when the time comes.

We LOVE destination weddings!

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Were you in a hot air balloon?  Did he get all of your friends involved?   Were you COMPLETELY surprised?

Tell us your story and enter to win a FREE Engagement Photo Session with one of the industries most amazing photographers, Miranda Laine.

And you will also win a 1 hour wedding planning consultation with me!

Here are the details:

Wedding Proposal Contest-Valentine’s Day Give Away!

In honor of the upcoming love holiday, Miranda Laine Photography and The French Connection Events have teamed up to offer something special to one lucky couple!!

We absolutely LOVE proposal stories and want to hear yours!! If you are newly engaged and would like to share how you or your fiance popped the question, enter the contest to win.We are looking for the most unique, sweetest, outrageous proposal. We will choose 3 finalists who will have their stories shared on our Facebook page and we’ll open up the voting! The story with the most votes will win a free engagement session with Miranda Laine AND a one-hour consult with wedding planner Tracy French!

Winners will be announced on Valentine’s Day 2.14.14

To qualify for the contest you should be recently engaged and planning your wedding for 2014-15.

How to enter:

1) Like both business pages on Facebook: Miranda Laine Photography & The French Connection Events

2) Like this “Share your love story” page (we will post the 3 finalists to this page for voting)

3) Send your written proposal story to:  info@mirandalaine.com *be sure to include both of your names, contact phone number and a valid email address (your privacy is very important to us and we want you to know we will not share your info) Proposal entries are due by 2.10.14 at Midnight.  *must do all 3 steps to qualify

What better way to kick off your engagement than with some beautiful portraits of you two and expert advice on how to get your wedding planning started!

WE CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR YOUR STORY!!

Meet the vendors:

Miranda is the lead photographer and owner of Miranda Laine Photography. She has been photographing weddings since 2006. After graduating from Texas State University with a degree in fine art photography and starting her career working as an award winning news photojournalist she fell in love with documenting wedding stories. Her style is a blend of art and photojournalism and capturing natural moments is her specialty. She has photographed from the Caribbean to Europe. Her favorite place in the world is Italy, she always reads magazines back to front and loves black & white movies.

Tracy is the owner and creator of The French Connection Events. You may have seen Tracy French before. She has been planning weddings for 12 years and was a featured core planner on the Style Network. She has had her work featured on two hit wedding television shows, Whose Wedding is it Anyway? and Married Away. She is an A-List Planner for Destination Weddings and Honeymoon’s Magazine, is the go to gal on WOAI 1200 Radio for all things wedding and has had many of the weddings she has expertly planned featured both online and in print. She loves the country, can’t live without coffee and baking is one of her favorite things to do at home.

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SAN ANTONIO –The rise of social media has infiltrated one of the most intimate and memorable day of a person’s life: their wedding day.

Wedding websites, Facebook pages and designated hashtags are now par for the course when it comes to weddings.

Some are wondering about how to have a perfect day and navigate the murky waters of the World Wide Web simultaneously.

We asked wedding planners and our Facebook friends what they had to say:

Wedding websites: Some details are a must

When it comes to the wedding website, there are a couple of elements our wedding planners all agreed on.

Couples should make sure to give details like directions, the terrain or recommended attire to the wedding, especially if the venue is difficult to find.

Letting the men know whether or not you expect people to wear black or a little bit more casual attire is acceptable, said Tracy French of The French Connection. If you have the expectation, then you need to tell people. Otherwise, people are going to show up in something other than what you’re wanting.

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