Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #426667 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
AS SEEN IN USA TODAY! Couples don't run away to get married these days - they get away, with twenty or thirty of their friends and family! An alternative to the traditional ceremony and reception, a destination wedding can be tailored to reflect a couple's unique sense of adventure and style. Whether it's a glacier in Alaska, a hacienda in New Mexico, a chapel railcar in Wisconsin, or a lighthouse in North Carolina, the perfect wedding site is waiting for you in this guide.
100 Best U.S. Wedding Destinations includes venues chosen for their picturesque settings, varied amenities, reputation for excellent service, and access to a wide range of wedding vendors experienced in fulfilling a couple's every need. Many of the sites also offer wedding packages and trained staff to help coordinate long-distance planning.
Look inside for:
Wedding sites for every taste and budget
Details about facilities, amenities, and catering
Pricing options and policies
Suggested activities for visiting guests
Other considerations such as climate and accessibility

About the Author
Travel writer and wedding photographer Kathryn Gabriel Loving lives and works in the Santa Fe-Albuquerque area of New Mexico, where she's been on the sidelines of many destination weddings. In this book she shares her expertise about the best of the best places to run away and get married throughout the United States.

Customer Reviews

destination wedding book
No pictures, outdated information. There are thousands of sites I've found online that are not included in this book. And, the ones they rate as the best are definitely not. Very disappointed. Their research is flawed.

Wedding Destinations is just that
I own a info website and thought that this book would be useful for assisting in the reviews and generating ideas. It did just that, although some of the desinations seemed to mundane.

Marginally Useful Resource for Getaway Weddings
While the information provided for each venue in this book is useful and detailed in its own right, the actual venues chosen are quite suspect in many cases. It seems pretty clear there is an arrangement with some of them to be included in the book, rather than being places that were discovered through research by the author. IOW, many great places are left out because they weren't part of the "marketing plan". Also, while it's admirable to include as many states as possible, the plain fact is many states simply lack any real destination "pull".

Example: South Carolina is a state with literally dozens of beautiful seaside resorts, huge gardens and old historic places where one might want to have a ceremony. There is ONE listing for South Carolina... the same number of places listed for Minnesota (Mall of America???). The fact that Mall of America made it into a listing of America's 100 best "destinations" for a wedding, tells you something about how carefully the places in this book were considered. Similarly one listing for Alaska seems incredibly short-sighted, considering all the cruises and beautiful National Parks there. Meantime there are more than 12 locations listed for New Mexico. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some beautiful locations in NM, but that is a disproportionate number of listings for a place most people will not have on their "short list of states".

Another problem with the book is that it has about a dozen pictures total, all in the front of the book, so there are many many locations you don't even get a sense for. How is the average couple supposed to say "Yes, that's the place we want to look into!" if you can't even see a picture of it? Bottom line: many great locations are overlooked in favor of those the author presumably has some connection with, and that helps no one...

...I do not recommend this book other than to borrow from someone (just in case the place for you happens to be here).