Your Big Day should be all about YOU - and not about last-minute hotel bookings, rental car reservations or day tours for your guests.
Let us take care of that for you...
Planning your wedding is a big deal, and if it's a destination wedding you have even more on your plate. The last thing you need to be saddled with, is acting as travel agent to your international guests and giving travel advice, booking tours, recommending restaurants or organising sightseeing trips. At the same time you want to make sure your guests have a truly special time - they've flown thousands of miles to be here after all. What to do?
Well, that's exactly where we come in. We will take all the travel-related stress off your hands, and leave you free to focus on what really matters: creating a magical Big Day. And best of all? There's no additional fee for the wedding couple.
How can we help?
As a Destination Wedding Travel Specialist in Southern Africa, there are a number of ways in which we can make the lives of you and your wedding planner easier in the run-up to your Big Day, and afterwards. Not only will this leave you free to focus on planning your wedding, but it will also ensure your international guests have a magical time in South Africa and our neighbouring countries which complements your beautiful wedding. It's a win-win for everybody. Especially you :-)
Examples of how we can make your life easier include:
- Day Tours: Give your overseas guests a chance to bond with local family and friends on a special day tour. We can organise group excursions for one day or more to explore our beautiful country - from laid-back picnics on a secluded beach to outdoor activities like cycling through the Winelands or driving around the Cape Peninsula in a sidecar.
- Personalised Travel Itineraries: Most international guests want to use their time in South Africa to also go on safari and discover Cape Town, or even travel to other countries in the region like Namibia and Botswana. We will work closely with them to design a travel itinerary that is perfectly personalised to their needs, budget and personality so they have the best time while out here for your wedding without you having to worry about a thing.
- Wedding Day Transport: Save your guests the hassle of driving to your wedding venue on the Big Day by letting us organise shuttles or larger busses to transfer them. An added bonus is that nobody needs to worry about drunk driving late at night.
- Hands-On Reservations and Bookings: In the final weeks before your Big Day you definitely do not want to spend your time giving travel advice, making restaurant bookings or sorting out snags like guests who can't find their guesthouse. We will work directly with your guests or your wedding coordinator to make sure all things travel-related run as smoothly as saying "I do".
- Handcrafted honeymoons: We know all the most romantic spots in Southern and Eastern Africa as well as the tropical Indian Ocean Islands. From a safari in Botswana, gazing out over the Victoria Falls, soaring in a hot air balloon over the Serengeti or kicking back on a gorgeously blonde beach in the Maldives, Mauritius or Reunion - we will work with you to design
a honeymoon that will leave you breathless. One you'll talk about for decades to come.
Contact us now!
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