planning honeymoons
A Trip for Every Type No matter what your vacation style, local travel advisers can help you plan your ideal itinerary.
With the hustle and bustle of wedding-planning taking center stage during your engagement, it’s easy to understand how the honeymoon can fall by the wayside. And with the rise of the mini-moon— that short trip immediately after the wedding, usually to a nearby or inexpensive destination— to supplement a grander honeymoon down the road, planning for a honeymoon feels less urgent than ever before. But with the help of a travel adviser (as many travel agents now call themselves), you can have your cake and eat it, too—or rather, have your trip and no planning, too. The biggest mistake that couples make, says Nicole LaMar of Cruise Planners, is assuming that a travel adviser will cost more than DIY planning. 154
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“We get all our commission from the travel companies,” LaMar says, adding that those strong partnerships often translate into better prices for the client. “We have access to deals that don’t go to the public.” Not to mention the additional expertise that travel advisers have to offer: While you may have never planned a trip to Croatia or Antigua or Kenya, a travel adviser likely has done it dozens or even hundreds of times. “[You get] our expertise and guidance and doing the legwork of creating the package—you can dump all that into [our] hands,” LaMar says. “Especially when you’re planning a wedding—you don’t have time to do all that legwork.” Any reputable travel adviser will begin by asking you and your betrothed what activities and desti-
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BY EMMA FRANKART HENTERLY
