🥂 DESTIHOUR 15: COVID-19 DESTINATION WEDDING Q+A (PT. 3) W/ SARAH KLINE @ TIME FOR TRAVEL

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WTF IS GOING ON?!?

Welp - I'm bringing travel pro, Sarah Kline of Time for Travel BACK to update and advise us on the current Coronavirus COVID-19 destination wedding landscape!

Sarah was our travel agent and has helped hundreds more Bridefriends plan the destination wedding of their dreams all throughout the Caribbean and beyond! Her interview from Episode 6 is one of the most downloaded episodes - and for good reason!

Back in March when the ish hit the fan, she's returned to share all she knew about what the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is doing to the destination wedding industry and how we can power through it! If you missed that, you can find it here: I’m calling that PART 1

She returned when we started seeing some movement with borders reopening for PART 2 and told us what we needed to know and more importantly, what we can and could be doing.

Since then, she’s taken an EPIC 11-day trip to Riviera Maya, Mexico - staying at 4 resorts and visiting 10+ venues and we’re gonna hear allll about it!

SO IT’S CATCHUP TIME AGAIN!

Join us for Part 3 of our Coronavirus Catch-up and stay in the know!

WATCH SARAH’S INTERVIEW!

LINKS DISCUSSED:

Part 1
COVID DESTINATION WEDDING LIVE Q+A: Postponing, Airlines, Contracts, Venues + All! ∙ DESTI 29

Part 2
Part 2 was recorded Live in the DESTILOVERS Community as DESTIHOUR 10.
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Episode 6
Sarah’s 1st interview on the DESTI Guide to Destination Weddings

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U.S. Department of State Travel Advisories
Currently: LEVEL 4 - DO NOT TRAVEL Global Health Advisory as of 03.30.2020

AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBER JAZMIN LACHÉ FOR FILLING IN AND SHARING HER EXPERIENCE WITH US TOO! THAT'S BRIDEFRIENDS LOVE 😍If you’d like to show her some love, follow her on Instagram @jazmin_lache

CORONAVIRUS DESTINATION WEDDING PLANNING
QUESTIONS + TOPICS COVERED:

💕 Destinations, Resorts, Venues, Airlines, Vendors...what are they doing and how should we handle them?

💕 What’s it really like to travel in the days of COVID-19 and what should you and your guests know? 

💕 What are the most recent developments with resorts and venues at this time?

💕 Passports! What’s up with the agencies?

💕 When/how to (and not to) postpone?

💕 Advice for 2020 + 2021 + 2022 couples…

💕 Insurance, contracts, negotiating, travel advisories, borders closing…

💕 BONUS: What are the new venues Sarah found in Riviera Maya and what does she think of them?

💕 We're going over all of this AND MORE!

OTHER QUESTIONS ASKED: (time stamps coming)

❤︎ How can we get our guests excited about the trip despite the news/media? 

❤︎ What are you hearing about these COVID-19 spikes? 

❤︎ My resort Jewel Grande Montego bay has already done a few weddings and the wedding coordinator told me everything went great. What are you hearing about resorts in Jamaica? The process seems pretty good from what I’m hearing.

❤︎ Are you seeing smaller guest lists? If so, what are resorts doing about it?

❤︎ Are resorts telling you about any new regulations? Is dancing allowed? 

❤︎ Any interesting incentives being offered by resorts?

❤︎ I’m on the choosing destination stage still...should I be deciding based on current rules or ignore them? 

❤︎ Would you say destination weddings are more risky than @ home? 

❤︎ Are other countries really scared of Americans? 

❤︎ Is it too late to plan a Spring/Summer 2021 destination wedding considering how many 2020 couples have moved to 2021?

❤︎ What destinations are your faves right now?

*All information is as of the date of our interview - September 3, 2020. Be sure to check back for updates!

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Drop a comment in the box or submit your questions and/or stories to the form below and I’ll answer in the next DESTIHOUR!

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See you soon!
xx, Omi

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