Booking a destination wedding can be extremely stressful and it is full of details that can be not only hard to keep up with, but easy to mess up. And think about the time that it will take up. And we are talking very valuable time that you could use to attend to other wedding details or just readying yourself for your big day. The last thing you want is to have a major headache when your wedding day rolls around. The best solution to these problems is to hire a professional travel agency to help you work through all of the details and to take the burdens off of you and your fiance. Keep in mind that a travel agent is an expert in the field of getting people to where they are going and providing them with a place to stay so let them handle what they know so well. Also, you will save quite a bit of money because they will know how to obtain some great discounts that you would never have access to. And one thing we haven't mentioned is the fact that not only will they help you book a trip, they will help you build a trip. So, what are we saying? This is a connection that you need to make for everyone's sake. For yours, your your guests, and for your overall wedding plans. You need to find some professional travel agencies in the Portland area to begin with. We would like to help you as much as possible so we have developed this guide that should help you with your search and eventual hire.
So, how do you come up with candidates to consider. Well, we have a few ways that we can recommend. Your first move should be to harness the power of the world wide web. Do a Google search for “travel agencies in the Portland area.” You will get a number of candidates back that you should start checking out. When a candidate strikes you as someone you want to check out further, write down their name and contact information. If you have already hired some of your wedding vendors, talk to them about any travel agencies they might know. Have they worked with any that they can say really good things about? One more great avenue to pursue is a first hand account that might be provided by your family, friends and coworkers. Maybe someone you know has worked with a travel agency and everything worked out perfectly. If so, add the agency to your list. Now it is time to setup some interviews.
When you sit across from each candidate, get ready to ask some questions that are very important in the scope of the evaluation process. First of all you need to discuss the location of your destination wedding. Do you have a location? If not, ask each candidate how they might be able to help you decide on one. Is there a limit to the number of guests that you can you can bring on this excursion? Or put another way, do you have to have a certain number of guests in order to with the agency in the first place. What can they do in terms of the actual ceremony? Will they help you with all of your wedding plans? Is it best if all of your guests stay at the same hotel? Will they provide your guests with a booklet of things to do in the area? How does the agency get paid? We suggest that you not work with an agency that asks you to pay them. Their payment should come from all of the vendors that they work with and recommend. Make sure that you take all of the information that you receive into account when it comes time to make your final decision.