WEDDING TESTIMONIALS

All couples who sent their testimonials are happy to be contacted - 
so please feel free to ask us for any email contact, they will be happy to share their experience.

 

Dear Rosalind & Elizabeth,
Thank you for all your coordination efforts to make our wedding day so wonderful.  Brigitte is a true artist, and the tropical imaging crew are amazing, thank you for connecting us with them.  I thought you might like to browse through some of the photos.  I think the smiles say it all. :)
 
Warm Regards,
 

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I cannot thank you enough for helping me realize my perfect dream wedding day! You were a pleasure to work with, & everything went off without a hitch!! We were just so pleased with EVERYTHING!! I will be sending you a card in the mail, so look for it in about 5 weeks (the mail takes forever to get down there!)

All my best,

Donna

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Beatrix—

We were so overjoyed and delighted by all of your work and your decisions for our October wedding at the Villa Renaissance. You have excellent taste and style and your colleagues are top notch.

You run such a well-organized professional company. It was so relaxing to work with you—everything ran so smoothly—even when you had very little input from me. Weddings can be an emotional time. I thoroughly appreciated having your help getting everything together. The actual date was so relaxing and beautiful and serene.

Like a dream.

Unforgettable.

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you!

Mr. and Mrs. David Charles Schleifer

And family.

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Craig and I wanted to thank you for our special weekend in Provo.  We had an incredible time, and all of our 58 guests absolutely loved Provo! 
 
Everyone had a blast at Hemingway's Restaurant for our rehearsal dinner.  It was a nice casual way to start the weekend.  Our reception at Anacaona was wonderful.  The food was excellent and the staff was very accomodating and friendly.  But our favorite part was definitely the sunset cruise.  The scenery was incredible, and it was so romantic -- such a great way to finish off our special weekend.  None of our guests wanted to get off that boat.  We would do it all over again!  Provo is a very special place to us and such a magical place to start our married lives together.
 
The flowers, music and decorations all looked fantastic.  Thank you for your hard work and your recommendations.  We wouldn't have changed a thing. 
 Nikki & Craig

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Dear Beatrix, It was wonderful meeting you this past weekend - I just wanted to thank you so much for the wonderful job you did helping Gary & Michelle plan their wedding weekend - everything was just perfect (even the weather for all the evening events!!!) - we had a great time and  I'm glad they were able to stay on for a few more days alone!  Hopefully we'll get another opportunity to visit T&C - the Sands was super - thanks again - Jane Serlin

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Hi Beatrix ...
 
Alex and I want to THANK YOU for a most memorable and beautiful wedding.  The weekend could not have been more perfect.  The Rehearsal and the Wedding were everything we imagined it would be THANKS TO YOU !!!!  We had a blast!!! 
 
Not only did Alex and I have a wonderful time but our guests have been raving about the weekend and everything you helped us coordinate.  Thank you for all of your advice and direction.  We can't express enough how grateful we are.
 
Many Smiles and Best Wishes to you always
Cynthia and Alex Lando

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Hi Beatrix,

 
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say what a fabulous job you did for Sheila and Terry for their wedding on February 20, 2004!  I thought that every detail was extremely well orchestrated and congratulate you on a job well done--especially for such a large (and sometimes a bit crazy) group!  We all had a great time and everyone I know really appreciated your help throughout.
 
I hope that all is well with you and wish you much success in the future!
 
Yours,
Paula Douglas
(Bridesmaid!)

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Beatrix 

Thank you so much for arranging our wonderful wedding. It was simply fantastic. Nothing could have been improved: everybody had a superb time on Provo, and our wedding was the perfect finish. Please also thank Oliver for me: he was great. 

Max and I really enjoyed our holiday as we knew that you would take care of all the details for the wedding. I only started getting nervous about an hour before the catamaran arrived - and that wasn't worrying about your arrangements! 

If you ever need a reference, feel free to contact me. We shall be in touch when we return for another vacation! Thank you so much.  

Marianne and Max 

Marianne Slight [marianneslight@yahoo.com] 

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Dear Beatrix 

Can I congratulate and thank you for the wonderful job you did in helping 

my daughter Marianne have such a memorable day when she married Max last 

Friday. It was magnificent. We are busy getting the photos sorted and I 

will certainly pass some on to you if you like. 

Do you know if Oliver has e-mail access? If so, could you let me have his 

address - or if not, his mailing address (and his surname please!). I certainly 

want to write to thank him and also ask him if he could let me have a copy 

of the "service" he used. It was very apt and moving. 

Again many thanks 

Kind regards 

David Slight 

e-mail to fernbeck@tiscali.co.uk

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Faye and Jason

.. first off, i just wanted to thank you and your assistant for everything! our wedding was the most beautiful day of our lives--it was even better than I had pictured it in my dreams...everyone is still talking about it--and you should see the pictures, they are magical, and the video also---he did a magnificent job, everyone that saw it wished they were there. i will never forget it or you for making it all possible, you are the best!! Maybe one day we'll come back with our kids and show them where we got married.
Please let Oliver Ferguson know that  he was the best minister in the world, the vows were beautiful..
anyway, thank you again--you made our dreams come true--that will be one of the most unforgettable days of our lives--                                           

sincerely,
                                                        Faye

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Becky Lanwig and Jason Urso - June 07

Beatrix!
 
What a fantastic wedding and honeymoon.  Everything was magical and perfect!  We can't thank you enough!  
 
We miss the island terribly and will most definitely be back! Thank everyone again and please know that you are doing a fantastic job!
Lots of love,

Becky and Jason


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Rachel & Paul Jenkins June 04, 2003

Beatrix,

Well we are back in the real world again and very sad to have left Provo.  I don't think we could have possibly had a better trip.

We also want to thank you for helping us with exactly what we wanted with the wedding ceremony.  It was the perfect amount of planning (not much for me!), perfect company, perfect ceremony, perfect flowers,  perfect weather, and we had great wedding cake every morning for breakfast!  We also want to tell you that we were thrilled with the quality of pictures.   So thank you for all that and making the arrangements.  It really allowed us to enjoy our entire stay on the island without having to worry about pulling it all together.

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Jennifer and Haj - February 14 2003

hi there! we are back safely and missing you all so much.  there is no place finer than T&C.  we had a truly splendid time.  I took my wedding photo album to work today and everyone was oohing and ahhhing. I felt still very much the glowing bride.  haj sends a hello and lots of appreciation for all your hard work.  Keep playing in your beautiful  beach, and do not  work too hard. by the way, coyabas was truly delish!  Take care and hope too see you again next year!

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Kimberly and Mitchell Rubinstein

Beatrix,

     Thank you so much for all of your hard work in planning our wedding. As you know, I have spend some time as a Bridal Consultant. I was a little worried about having someone else plan all the details of my wedding, especially in a place that I had never even been to before! But, hats off to you. You did a great job and I wouldn't have changed one single thing. The minute we sat down together to go over the final details,  I knew that I didn't have a thing to worry about.

     Everything was perfect. The flowers were perfect. The location was breathtaking. Everyone involved with the wedding did their part and were on time for everything. The cake was awesome- and much larger than we ever expected. (We fed everyone in the restaurant that night!)

     Not only were you pleasant to work with, but everyone on the island was so nice. They spoiled us rotten everywhere we went. We really did not want to leave. :(     I would suggest your services and the Turks & Caicos Islands to anyone. If you ever need another reference, feel free to give me a call.

      Thank you again. It turned out better than I ever imagined!

                                                                Cheers,

                                                                Mrs. Kimberly l. Rubinstein

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Cindy and Dan

Hello Beatrix: Just wanted to touch base with you and tell you what a magnificent job you did for Dan and Cindy. There wedding was so lovely thanks to you. They were very pleased. I saw the pictures yesterday and the photographer did a great job!!!! I will keep my ears open regarding a possible rep job. We don't have a lot of tour operators selling the Turks and Caicos. It is a very expensive Island to visit and the average traveller looks for cheaper destinations unfortunately. I think the Beaches is probably the most popular with Canadaian Families. Our group certainly enjoyed themselves other than the little bug bites. Everyone enjoyed the food at the Allegro as well as the magnificent beach, pool and fabulous evening entertainment,not to mention the fact that the resort was not busy. It was great meeting you and I hope our paths cross again someday.

Sincerely:

Diane Ellsmere ( mother in law )

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KIM & STEVE SMITH

 My name is Kim and my husband is Steve and we were married on 02-02-02 in Provo. What a dream. We hired Beatrix to handle everything and she did. We met with her the first morning we were on the island to provide documentations, to meet with the person who was performing the ceremony, and the photographer. (She arranged all that) Then we proceed on to enjoy our week before the wedding. Saturday came and we were the most relaxed couple to be married on the beach because Beatrix handled everything and I mean everything. She arranged for the flowers, dinner reservations, when to start (sun down), the champagne for the toast. I had several email interactions with her prior to arriving and she made herself very accessible to us after arrival. We can not say enough positive things about Beatrix. You made a great choice with her and a great choice of islands to get married on. Provo is beautiful, we can not wait to go back. If there is anything else we can help with, let us know.

I was just sending a message to you when I received yours, so let me add on. We had a very small wedding, just Steve and I. (This is both of our second marriages) I think the only thing I would of done differently would be my hair! Our day was perfect and very dreamyyyyy. I put everything in Beatrix's lap and she took care of everything. Our pictures are 5 by 7s and they gave us the negatives so we can do different sizes back here. If you what something different, express that to Beatrix. The owner of the photo studio is very pleasent and helpful. The whole island is very accomadating. We can't wait to go back to see the people we became friends with. When is the day? What else can I help you with? We stayed at the Royal West Indies. Where are you staying? How many people are attending? What are you wearing? Im so excited for you. We had the best time, we even ended up extending our stay from 7 days to 9.

Kim and Steve Smith

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AUDREY & STEVE

We had a wonderful time in Turks and Caicos.  It is really a water island -- so if you are into sitting on the beach, scuba diving, snorkeling, etc.  It is perfect. 

Beatrix made our wedding the success and occasion that it was.  She is very attentive to details and responsive to what you are looking for.  I was also trying to work with the wedding coordinator at our resort, the Allegro, and got very frustrated b/c of their lack of responsiveness.  For that very reason, I insisted on working with Beatrix.  In addition, Beatrix is very sweet and smart.  I felt like she understood what I wanted to do and how this was the biggest day of my life.  She offered great suggestions - like decorating the gazebo we got married in and even had thoughts on how to decorate it.  It did look great, as I think you can see from the pictures.

I think the important thing to remember is that you are in the islands and they don't have access to everything we have in the states and such.  For this very reason I enjoyed it b/c it made decision making much easier.  Three choices of musicians -- keyboardist, guitarist or steel drum.  Highly recommend the steel drums & bongos.  It gives a true island feel and is so fun.  Another thing was flowers and what was available down there.  I just used the island flowers of daisies and bourganvilleas (which are beautiful) and then had them get white roses shipped in.  Not too complicated and very much doable, plus I provided a picture of the bouquet that I liked for me.

I felt that any decisions I made with Beatrix I could trust her judgement and know they were going to get done correctly.  I also think she is extremely well priced for her services.  Plus, she has great contacts on the islands that help in getting things done right.

I highly recommend using Beatrix and NILA Destinations.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Best of Luck!

Audrey

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MARC SILVERSTONE

It is not a problem asking me questions about my Turks experience. I am an event planner, planning a wedding for a client in the Turks. Beautrix and her company are handling
the Destination Management items on her side for us and she is great. NILA
is very responsible and organized and I would highly recommend them.

The wedding I am putting together is for 70 guests as well, however I have
found the Turks to be beautiful but not the easiest place to obtain all the
items I need. We will be importing flowers, musicians and equipment to make
the wedding reality.

I am confidant in recommending NILA and Beautrix however be very clear on
your expectations and wants, because not everything is possible in the
Islands.

Yours truly,
Marc SIlverstone

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JOHN AND SRILU


Yeah, Srilu and I would be more than glad to provide any info we could
to you. Actually, I think we've been itching to tell someone all the
things we learned at our wedding (lot's of, "If I had to do it over
again, I would have done it like...").

Anyway, if you want we could just email back and forth, or if it would
be easier we could actually setup a phone call sometime--that way we
could get a lot of your questions answered up front.

Srilu and I were very happy with our wedding overall, and, frankly,
it turned out great. Of course there are some things that didn't happen
as planned, and some others that we would do differently, but oh well.

Anyway, here's some details on our wedding.

We, too, found Beatrix over the Internet. We had actually chose the
islands first, and then after trying to get some info on caters,
photographers, etc., we decided it would be easier to just have someone
there help our with all the arranging.

I'm not sure if you've been down to the Caribbean before, but if you
have I'm sure you realize that things move at a much slower pace,
and trying to get anyone to do anything (let alone do it over the
phone from 4000 miles away) was just something that wasn't happening.
Beatrix did a great job of meeting with the seemingly endless number
of people to arrange things.

Anyway, we had about 42 guests at our wedding (of which 5 were young
kids). We had a private ceremony at one of the houses we rented,
and then had the reception (dinner, music, etc.) at another beach-front
house we rented. Beatrix arranged the caterer, music, pastor, wedding
certificate, video-agrapher, flowers, hotel rooms for before and
after our week stay (we rented houses for a week, but arrived
early and left later), and some other items. Of those, the
caterer was definitely our favorite--the food was fantastic, we arranged
for a bartender the night before (we had a kind of rehearsal
dinner/party
the evening before) and for the wedding night, and the price was very
reasonable (one of the other caterers was asking for around $95 per
head,
if I remember correctly).

We also had a photographer, but in our case we actually flew in him
from Miami for two days (the island photographers prices were awfully
high [there's only 2 of them], and found someone in Miami we really
liked).

A lot of the passing of information to guests we took care of ourselves,
although she did send us some info about what to do on the islands once
you arrive. There are only a few flights to the islands each day (when
we went there were 3), so arrangements aren't too difficult. We also
had rented the three houses side-by-side-by-side, so the majority of
guests stayed there. I had looked into a few other places and passed
the info down.

Whew! That's a lot of typing. Anyway, that's probably enough
information
to start, but by all means if you have more questions or want to talk
on the phone, let me know.

-John

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WENDY GORDAN

I can recommend Beatrix wholeheartedly!  She is wonderful.  All of her arrangements were impeccable.  She is very well known on the island, and her business associates are wonderful, professional and top notch.  
I did not plan a wedding in TCI.  Beatrix helped me plan a 6 day photo shoot,  There are many similarities between the two.  She showed me many locations, was thorough and understood my needs very quickly.  She arranged transportation for 30 people to a variety of locations on the island, made preparations for feeding these people, was very well connected with the hotel managers and was able to get me great prices for my group.  I took care of all my travel arrangements to/from the islands with my local travel agent, but let Beatrix deal with the accommodations.  I cannot recommend her highly enough.  Her attention to detail was terrific.  She thought of things I never would have, and she takes a personal pride in making sure everything is up to her standards (which are tasteful, and refined).  She is a lovely woman to deal with, and if I were to get married, I would let her take care of everything.  The island is beautiful (let her plan an excursion for your group, if you can).  The food is great, the locals are so nice.  And there aren’t too many tourists there yet.  I have done several shoots down there, and will continue to go back and hire Beatrix.  

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have additional questions.  



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