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Monthly Archives: February 2008
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Happy Valentines Day
February 14, 2008 – 10:45 pm
David Medina Photography wishes you all a Happy Valentines Day!
Top Ten Reason’s to have a Destination Wedding
February 14, 2008 – 10:43 pm
Destination I Do Magazine just published a great list of why destination weddings are great.
1. The Combo Burrito
Having a destination wedding can combine a family reunion, romantic travel and your big event all in one, which makes it something special for everyone involved. Weddings away allow for all your guests to benefit from your decision.
2. Keep the Guest List to a Dull Roar
Inviting every acquaintance you know can really add up when considering a hometown wedding. Many people feel obligated to invite every Tom, Dick and Harry. The result many times, is an exhausted couple who can barely remember talking to their best friends because they had to make endless “rounds” to see everyone. Destination weddings help to keep your guest list in check. Due to monetary reasons or time constraints, a destination wedding may not be a feasible option for everyone you know. Those acquaintances (mom’s knitting buddies or the girl from cubicle six) most likely won’t make the trip ensuring that your wedding ceremony is witnessed only by those who truly mean the most to you.
3. Your Dream Wedding at Your Dream Price
A destination wedding can prove to be more cost effective since the guest list is smaller. Sure, you can choose to break the bank even on 50 guests, but when the numbers decrease on the guest list, your budget will shrink too. Additionally, many hotels and travel options offer packages or reduced rates for special event groups.
4. Control Freak, NOT!
Too many times brides find themselves losing sleep over how many roses will be in their bouquet or if the minister will pronounce their names correctly. Yes, weddings can create anxiety, but when you decide to have a destination wedding, you are likely going to relinquish most of the control to the professionals you’ve hired. Therefore, when W-Day comes, you’ll be thinking more about the important things – spending time with your friends, loved ones and new spouse rather than the little details no one else will even notice.
5. Minimize the Family Feud
The opportunity to get married some place different sets up an equal playing ground between families. This way there will be no hard feelings about setting the wedding in one family’s hometown or another. If the destination is something new for both families, it will become a place special to them as well as to you.
6. Boys Dig It
Time and time again, we hear that the groom is getting more involved in the planning – but this is usually only the case with a destination wedding. Grooms get excited about travel, about the destination and the things to do there. They will help in getting the smaller events organized such as golf outings or kayaking tours. They feel they have more to bring to the table with wedding getaways. With hometown weddings they feel like fish out of water. What fun is it for them to pick out aisle runners and the color almonds that will go on the table? Destination weddings allow for grooms to participate in things they otherwise wouldn’t get to plan.
7. The Ice Breaker
With you and all of your guests spending time in such close proximity and away from home, it creates a much more intimate setting. It gives you plenty of quality time with loved ones, and most importantly the opportunity for the most important people in your newly joined family to bond and really get to know each other.
8. The Weekend Getaway
Because weddings away from home require the couple and guests to travel, they will spend more time in the destination than they would at a hometown wedding. A hometown wedding only allows the couple 4-6 hours of time with their loved ones (and that’s being generous because much of that time gets eaten up by picture taking and traditional things like dances and the bouquet toss). If you have your wedding in another place, you will likely end up spending more along the lines of a few days with your family and friends rather than just a few hours.
9. Leave Home, Must Travel
Since so many families are spread out all around the world, most guests are required to travel to attend the wedding anyway. It could be logistically easier to select a destination that could serve as a midpoint or a place with more available accommodations that is potentially easier to get to than where you currently live.
10. Break The Wedding Mold
A wedding away from home allows for more creativity with venues, cuisine, activities and attire. You can even opt to adopt some local wedding traditions of the destination to make the event even more unique.
Do You Want to have an Awesome Sunset Wedding?
February 8, 2008 – 11:06 pm
This is Rincón: The Sunset Capital Of Puerto Rico. It offer two of the best boutique hotels for your one of a kind destination wedding.
Rincón is a place where natural untouched beauty welcomes visitors with the friendliest people and the most extraordinary experiences. Where you can have leisure time, enjoy watersports, whale watching and world-renowned surfing or just watch the sun set. Rincón is the perfect spot for a dream vacation, or just a little time off.
In the middle of this wonderful setting, you’ll find some of the most wonderful boutique style resorts in the Caribbean with all the amenities you love and the uncomplicated atmosphere you yearn: The Rincón Beach Resort in Añasco and The Rincón of the Seas - Grand Caribbean in Rincón.
This coastline, part of the Costa del Sol, boasts some of the world’s great surfing areas and beaches, coastal forests, Dry Forest, deep sea fishing, whale watching, kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, wave sailing, wind surfing, a World Biosphere Reserve as well as excellent sea food.
Both Hotels are located in the Sunset Capital of Puerto Rico and offer package that best fits your needs.
Rincón Beach Resort - (Añasco, PR)
Rincón Beach Resort - an intimate beach front resort hotel- is located between Puerto Rico’s panoramic mountains and the Atlantic Ocean on the shore of the Sunset Capital of Puerto Rico. This exclusive boutique-hotel is one of the most unique and interesting Hotels in Puerto Rico and has the ideal ambiance for a well deserved fun filled vacation, a tropical wedding, a honeymoon or just a weekend off.
Combine your wedding and honeymoon at Rincon Beach Resort’s fabulous getaway made for romance! Surrounded by key friends and family members - or perhaps just the two of you and an officiant.
Rincón Beach Resort is a 2 hour drive from San Juan Airport, it is located on the West Coast of Puerto Rico, Road 115 KM 5.8, Añasco.

Room amenities include independent climate control air conditioning, iron/ironing boards, sprinkler system, smoke detectors & fire alarms, cable TV, in-room safe, refrigerator, ceiling fans and hairdryer.

The Rincon Beach Resort offers the following restaurants: Brasas Restaurant - Open for breakfast and dinner–features contemporary Caribbean cuisine accompanied by signature fresh-fruit sauces; and Pelican Grill - Located poolside for lunch, snacks and tropical drinks–features light fare, grilled hamburgers and fish wraps
You can contact the Rincón Beach Resort at 787-589-9000, 787-589-9020 (toll free)866-589-0009
Rincón of the Seas - Grand Caribbean (Rincon, PR)
Live an exuberant experience at Rincón of the Seas-Grand Caribbean Hotel. Enjoy an ambience of casual elegance, which blends Caribbean motifs with the splendor of classic Art Deco design. Custom-made furnishings and unique masterpieces from around the world combined perfectly with hand-painted murals and marble flooring adorn the spaces of this very glamorous oceanfront hotel.
Outside, among the masterfully designed botanical gardens, you will find an impressive collection of rare palm trees as well as interesting examples of local flora. Exquisite interior design, magnificent gardens and a superb location 
accentuate the exuberant experience of Rincón of the Seas- Grand Caribbean Hotel.
Rincón of the Seas-Grand Caribbean Hotel offers you the ultimate setting for your picture-perfect Caribbean wedding, rehearsal dinner and honeymoon. With the assistance of their in-house certified wedding coordinator, you will be assured that your special day will be nothing short of what they promise… “An exuberant experience.”
They offer a wide selection of venues within the hotel to hold your wedding ceremony and reception. If you prefer a formal sit-down dinner they offer the Grand Caribbean Ballroom, but for a laid-back wedding ceremony you have the option of a beach wedding with a beautiful sunset and Desecheo Island as a backdrop.
The Rincón of the Seas has 112 Rooms with Handicapped Rooms Available, Babysitting, Ballroom, Meeting and Event Facilities, Beach On-Site, Beach Volleyball, Children’s Pool, Doctor On-Call, Fitness Center, Game Room, Gift Shop, Golf (Nearby), Laundry Service, Multilingual Staff, Parking Facility, Outdoor Swimming Pool, Poolside Beverage and Meal Service, Restaurant, 2 Bars/Lounges.
The Royal Palm Café - a charming outdoor restaurant with a relax, casual ambience. Serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. It features an a la carte menu as well as special buffets with live cooking stations during the weekends. Within walking distance from the beachfront and located within the botanical gardens. The Royal Palm Café is the perfect place to relax while enjoying savory Caribbean cuisine and an excellent wine list.
In the Rain Wine Bar is one of the trendiest and most unique bar in the caribbean where you can feel the vibrations of the rain forest. In an eclectic fashion, hand-painted murals with rich vegetation and exotic birds have been combined with cast glass, stainless steel and digital effects in this modern interpretation of Puerto Rico’s rainforest, El Yunque. Twelve excellent wines and champagnes served by the glass, and a very creative list of martinis make this one of the island’s favorite “watering holes.”
Rincón of the Sea Resort is also a 2 hour drive from San Juan Airport, it is located on the West Coast of Puerto Rico, Road 115 KM 12.2, Rincón.
You can contact the hotel at their toll free number 1.866.2RINCON [1.866.274.6266]; 787-823-7500 or info@rinconoftheseas.com