Product Description

This unique guide is:

The first book to identify everything you need to know about destination weddings, marriage renewals, and honeymoon packages offered by more than 135 elegant hotels and cruise ships in the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii and U.S.

The first book to tell you which resorts will marry you or renew your vows FOR FREE if you stay there.

The first book that reveals what hundreds of people really thought about the resorts after staying there. The resorts chosen for this book will put everything together for your wedding (or renewal). All offer a ceremony with an official. Many also include a beautifully decorated wedding site, flowers, cake, photographers, and special touches, like free romantic dinners, or breakfast in bed after the ceremony. And in many places–and only this book tells you where–they'll even provide all of this for free! You'll also learn the lowdown that you won't find in any other guidebooks. The secrets and details your travel agent doesn't even know. Vital information that will help you decide which resort you want to choose.

You'll learn:

Which offer wedding, renewal or honeymoon packages,

What these packages cost,

What is included in each package,

Which religious ceremonies are conducted, Whether they obtain the marriage license and fill out the paperwork for you,

Whom to contact at the hotel to arrange a ceremony,

How much extra it costs to bring guests to the ceremony, How far in advance you have to book a wedding or renewal (from 2 hours to 6 months!),

How long you have to stay before you can get married,

Whether it's an all-inclusive hotel,

The most romantic rooms,

Whether it's an adults-only resort,

If children are allowed, whether there are special prices & programs for them,

How large the resort is,

What their web page is and how to contact them by e-mail,

How far they are from the airport,

Most important – this book will tell you what these places are really like. Other travel guides only relate the experiences and opinions of the author. This one tells you what hundreds of guests who went to these resorts really thought about them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #642205 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
"It’s all covered in this book, spotlighting more than 150 resorts and cruise ships." -- Travel Weekly, February 25, 2002

"Something old, something new...It's all covered in this book, spotlighting more than 150 resorts and cruiseships." -- Travel Weekly, february 25, 2002

"This is a great way to plan a great wedding or a ceremony...Don’t get married without it!" -- Bookviews.com, March 2002

The Most Romantic Resorts for Destination Weddings, Marriage Renewals & Honeymoons is a book filled with helpful info. -- Cerie Segal's Travel Tips, KRLD FM, June 25, 2002

About the Author
Paulette Cooper is the author of 15 books (and over 1,000 published articles) which have sold more than a half a million copies and have won five writing awards. She is also the author of two nationally syndicated travel columns, "Travel Tips" and "First Class" and is Vice President of the National Travel Journalists’ Association, as well as a member of the Travel Journalists Guild. Her articles have appeared in the NY Times, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times of London, Cosmo, etc. She has been on TV programs such as 60 Minutes and the Today Show, and on over 250 radio shows. Some of her titles are: 277 Secrets Your Dog Wants You To Know, 277 Secrets Your Cat Wants You To Know, Scandal of Scientology, etc.

Paul Noble is a Vice President at Lifetime Television, the winner of 5 Emmys, and co-author of 4 books with his wife, Paulette Cooper.

Customer Reviews

A great time and money saver
I just spent an hour going through this wedding book and I couldn't believe how much was in there. I had no idea there were many places where they would marry you for free with a whole ceremony, flowers, etc., if I stayed there. This book told me which ones were good for that and how long I would have to stay to qualify (most were only 3-5 days but a few required a week or more so I scratched those off my list) and who I should contact for wedding information. (I liked that they had e-mail addresses for the wedding people.) I also found all the comments from people who had stayed there interesting and I think they will be very helpful. I've gotten back the [money] I spent for this book back easy!

This book helped me to have a wonderful honeymoon!
I used this book to decide where to go for for my destination wedding and it was easy to look up the hotels (they were listed not only alphabetically but by area) so it saved me a lot of time. I had been trying to research where to have a destination wedding on my own when I found this. I was originally planning on marrying in Europe but found that it's very difficult to marry there if you're American. But this book had resorts in the Caribbean and Hawaii (and Florida in America)where it's easy to have a destination wedding. After looking at all the places in the book, we chose Couples in Negril (the book told us what we needed to know--including that weddings there were free!) and it was wonderful. It's a beautiful book with many pictures of resorts and I'm keeping it to see where we'll go for our first anniverary.

Only buy this if interested in a Carribean Wedding
This book is okay if you are interested in a Carribean wedding (most resorts are in Jamaica), however, the pricing is already off if some cases up to $1,000. I was very disappointed to see that there were very few destination sites other than tropical. The title should be The Most Romantic Tropical Resorts for Destination Weddings. However, there are a plethora of resorts listed and if you are aching for a beach wedding it gives you plenty of options.