“Tie the Knot on the Beach” at Reef Residences on Grace Bay

The Reef Residences on Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos Islands is offering a special wedding package. For couples booking a minimum of 10 suites for seven nights, the Reef Residences “Tie the Knot on the Beach” package provides the following $2,840 value completely free of charge: Minister/Justice of the Peace (documents, fees and officiating); official wedding license; wedding reception for 20; Caribbean wedding cake; Champagne; romantic beachfront setting for ceremony; two half-hour massages; bridal bouquet and groom’s boutonniere; photographer (photo of bridal couple); wedding coordinator; special airport transfers in limousine with complimentary island punch; “Explore the Island ” trip for two; Tide Affair dinner on the beach for bridal couple; and dinner for bridal couple at Epicurean, the resort’s signature restaurant.

One-bedroom oceanfront suites at the Reef Residences on Grace Bay are $400 per night between April 8 and December 21, 2007 including the most popular months for weddings, June through September. In high season, January 1 to April 7, the suites are $550 per night. Rates include full American breakfast daily, free airport transfers, two complimentary half-hour massages, welcome cocktails and free snorkeling equipment, beach towels and chairs. The growing popularity of destination weddings – a 77 percent increase in the last year – has changed the face of the traditional American wedding, according to a recent survey by the publishers of Bride’s, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride. These days, 16 percent of all couples choose to have their wedding away from home and they spend an average of $25,806. About 45 percent of destination weddings – 368,000 of them – are held outside the continental U.S. and 40 percent of those take place in the Caribbean. “We have one of the most romantic settings that a bride and groom could wish for,” explains veteran Caribbean hotelier and Managing Director Andre Niederhauser. “When you’re getting married in our island paradise, you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars for the perfect wedding venue. We provide the setting and nature does the rest. And because we are small, we make a point of organizing only one wedding a week.”

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