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t’s a new dawn for the wedding industry in the Golden Isles. The area’s brightest and best, tried and true wedding professionals are coming together as members of the Golden Isles Wedding Association (GIWA) to support each other and grow the industry in the Golden Isles. Founder and President of GIWA, Justin Henshaw, a longtime member of the wedding community as the owner of Island Sound, has focused his passion and business acumen on joining forces
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with others to promote the Golden Isles as a top wedding destination. According to Justin, the Golden Isles does more wedding business per capita than any other wedding destination on the East Coast. But brides and grooms from outside the region who are checking national databases or online industry advertisers like WeddingWire or The Knot can be led to outside competition simply because they don’t know any better. Businesses on those sites may look like they’re in coastal Georgia, but
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they’re really Jacksonville-based or from even more distant states. One of GIWA’s missions is to solve that problem by launching the area’s first and only wedding resource directory. Having an all-encompassing unbiased resource for hotels to share with guests and industry members to share with clients is an invaluable tool. The directory will be printed twice a year, with Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter editions. The first edition, arriving this Spring, will see 20,000 copies distributed (continues)
