Adventure Travel Overseas

Today as brides become more imaginative in wedding planning, destination weddings are becoming increasingly popular. Although this normally results in a much smaller wedding guest list, it opens up some fun opportunities for activities.

Many brides would love to have a wedding seaside, so they locate the celebrations to a beach locale, perhaps on their neighborhood coast or somewhere more exotic like Jamaica or the Seychelles. In any event, there are lots of activities that can be arranged around this theme. If the wedding ceremony is also a weekend event where guests will be around for morethan just the celebration, the bride could arrange a sailing excursion. Rent a boat for the day or half day and invite your guests out on the water to relax and swim, and perhaps enjoy a meal.

If the ceremony is in the Caribbean, what about a cooking demonstration? The bride could arrange for thewedding guests to enjoy a cooking demonstration by the hotel chef or a local cook. Since much of the food the guests will eat while visiting the wedding location will be very different from the food they eat back home, they might like learning how to prepare it at home.

Say the wedding is in Hawaii, another popular wedding destination. Here, you could plan many activities around the destination. How about a luau? Maybe this could even take the place of a more conventional or formal rehearsal dinner.

Also in Hawaii, many wedding guests will like a hula lesson.

Other pre-wedding activities could include guided tours, shopping excursions and wine tasting activities, if applicable. If you choose to include any of these activities remember that the bridal couple, or their family, will be expected to pay for the bulk of them. If you arrange a sailing excursion, for example, you will be expected to pick up the expense for the trip. So do not tell the wedding guests ahead of time that the activity will cost x dollars. It’s likely that won’t sit well with them.

As one of the great advantages of the far off wedding ceremony is that only your best loved friends and family will share the moment with you, you could set up some meaningful activities that you wouldn’t set up if the wedding was going to be a larger celebration. For example, you could plan a slumber party night with close friends that includes movies, drinks and popcorn in your hotel room, villa or cottage, depending on where the wedding ceremony is taking place.

If you choose a far away wedding, for most people this may be their vacation. In that event you may not want to plan too many activities but instead allow guests to find their own activities and entertainment both before and after the wedding celebrations.

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