Welcome to the first episode of The Chat Bout Weddings Podcast. This community has been created to support your destination wedding business by providing content on planning your clients' destination weddings in Jamaica, regardless of where you are in your planning career. One thing that we all need is professional and reliable resources and relationships that allow us to plan and execute weddings seamlessly for our clients. Working in Jamaica, for some people, throws up a few pain points that I would like to help you solve on this podcast journey. 

In the spirit of transparency, I recorded and dumped the first episode of this podcast and this is a second recording because I really have a lot to say about how to navigate destination weddings in Jamaica. And I know that some of it will highlight things that impact you and your clients that nobody else wants to talk about. But I really feel that I can throw a light on. If I have to be really honest, I thought long and hard about some of the content that I would be sharing here over the next few months and how different stakeholders will feel about it. But I walked away from the doubt comfortable in the feeling that eventually, this will benefit international professionals and their couples who want to get married in Jamaica, as well as local wedding professionals who work hard to build their businesses and support their clients who want to work with them. 

Let's start with me making myself clear about where I stand. I champion offsite custom weddings, I encourage all of my colleagues and other destination wedding planners to connect directly with local wedding professionals, and to build relationships with those of them that they feel can support them at the level of their brand. In that way, they can plan the wedding that their clients envision without feeling constrained by hotel rules and policies. And of course, the often astronomical costs that come with planning a destination wedding on site. 

Hang out here with me every week, and I will make a Jamaica destination specialist out of you yet!