Weddings Abroad Specialist Jobs

Perfect Weddings Abroad is delighted to announce that we are currently on the look out to create 20 homeworking positions within our travel agency "Perfect Weddings & Honeymoons".

We are looking to expand our team and are keen to speak to individuals who have experience ideally within the travel industry and / or wedding planning industry.

By the end of 2011 we hope to have increased our team to a network of over 20 weddings abroad and honeymoon specialists.

We'll give you the tools to carry out the job and you'll have our help, support and guidance throughout.

For more information please visit our special Jobs Page on Facebook (below) and then speak to Danny Waine on 0844 770 8270 or by emailing danny@perfectweddingsabroad.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=24101980#!/pages/Weddings-Abroad-Honeymoons-Planner-Jobs/151946591491483

Volcanic Ash Update

PERFECT WEDDINGS & HONEYMOONS STATEMENT – VOLCANIC ASH

13:00 Monday 19^th April 2010

Perfect Weddings & Honeymoons Staff have been all weekend, and are currently working extended hours to deal with the ongoing Volcanic Ash Situation. We would like to reassure all of our customers that we are doing everything we possibly can to help and we will contact you directly should you be affected. We understand the concern and worry that the situation is causing and so we would like to keep all of our customers updated via our Facebook Page with all of the latest news.

 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Perfect-Weddings-Abroad/43565382234

Clients Currently in Resort

We have contacted all clients who are currently in resort and should have travelled home, or are due to travel home in the next 48 hours. We recommend that you stay in contact with your tour operators’ in-resort representative for latest updates. We are working with your tour operator to ensure that you have a place to stay, and where possible, without moving hotels and hopefully without the need of incurring any additional costs – many of the tour operators that we work with are offering Free Accommodation on a Bed & Breakfast basis until we can get you home.

For couples who have married overseas and are due to go on honeymoon this week from the UK – we are working flat out to change your flights, where physically possible for you to fly on to your honeymoon destination without the need to fly back to the UK. For couples in Cyprus who are getting married this week, or married last week and are flying on to an onward destination such as Dubai / the Maldives. We are working closely with your tour operator, and Emirates Airlines to reroute your flight in order for you to fly from Larnaca to Dubai, rather than have to fly back to the UK; ensuring that your honeymoon goes ahead as planned.

Clients Booked to Travel from Saturday 24^th April 2010 Onwards

If you are booked to travel from Saturday 24^th April 2010 onwards through our Travel Agency ‘Perfect Weddings & Honeymoons’ or if you have booked a wedding abroad package through our wedding supplier ‘Perfect Weddings Abroad’ your booking is currently unaffected and remains confirmed as per your confirmation invoices.

Please do not call us for further information as the situation is changing so quickly, we will contact you later in the week with information as to how you are affected.

Clients Booked to Travel from Today up to Saturday 24^th April 2010

If you are due to travel before the 24^th April 2010 and you have a cancelled flight – most airlines and tour operators are being as flexible as possible and offering for you to amend your booking free of charge to an alternative date. A member of our team will speak to you about the options available.

If you are due to travel before the 24^th April 2010 and your flight is still scheduled to go ahead – your travel details currently remain the same. We are monitoring the situation on an hour-by-hour basis and we will contact you should your flight be affected.

If you have booked a Wedding or a Honeymoon through our Travel Agency – ‘Perfect Weddings & Honeymoons’ through a tour operator. We are currently taking a lead from the tour operator your booking has been placed with, and we will liase with them to amend your booking.

If you booked a Wedding directly through our wedding supplier ‘Perfect Weddings Abroad’ – We are trying to be as flexible as possible. We understand that legal documentation restrictions in certain countries may mean that we need to reschedule wedding dates as flight cancellations take place. We are working closely with our wedding coordinators overseas and the local registry offices to ensure that plans go ahead where possible with minimum or no disruption.

Final Note

Our staff are working extremely hard to help all of those affected and we are working around the clock. Our out of hours emergency telephone number is stated on the bottom of your Perfect Weddings Abroad Wedding Voucher. We will be open all weekend next weekend in order to help with any customers who are affected.

We appreciate your patience during this extraordinary situation, and for anyone who is not travelling before the 24^th April 2010 please bear with us, and please check our Facebook Page for further updates. If you have called or emailed our office with queries regarding your holiday or wedding in the past 7 days and you are not due to travel until after the 24^th April 2010 please bear with us whilst we deal with our customers overseas and imminent departures, we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible with further information.

Finally, this Wednesday (21^st April 2010) Perfect Weddings & Honeymoons Ltd celebrates its 5^th Birthday, we would like to thank all of our wedding couples and customers over the past years for their continued support!

Best Wishes

The Perfect Weddings & Honeymoons Team

2009 Weddings Abroad Survey

2009 Perfect Weddings Abroad Survey

We are conducting a UK-wide survey in to Weddings Abroad and how the recession has impacted upon your wedding plans.

If you are already on our database we will be contacting you by email over the next 24 hours to offer you the chance to take part, via our monthly e-newsletter.

However, if you're not currently on our database and would like to take part in the survey please send an email to news@perfectweddingsabroad.co.uk and we can send you the link to take part.

The great news is that one lucky couple will be picked at random from the 2009 Perfect Weddings Abroad Survey to win a free 'Perfect Weddings Abroad Confetti Wedding Package'! If you've already booked with us we will convert your Confetti Wedding Package from it's cost to Free, or if you are yet to book you will be able to book your Confetti Wedding Package once the date is available in your selected destination.

(Please note the Free Wedding is the Confetti Wedding Package available in your chosen destination and does not include legal fees, wedding reception arrangements, flights or accommodation).

So in most locations this offers you a saving of over £500! Good Luck!

2010 Cyprus Wedding Packages and Holiday

We are delighted to announce that the first set of Cyprus 2010 Holiday Packages have been released in advance of the expected first week of July release date. Weddings abroad packages and prices for Cyprus 2010 are now on sale

Most prices and weddings abroad packages currently available are for departures 01 May 2010 through to 31 October 2010 for 7 and 14 night departures.

Flights available from Birmingham, Manchester, London, Newcastle and many others.

Our Wedding Package Prices for 2010 have been frozen at 2009 prices, so prices for the wedding start from just £529 and include:

- Full Assistance and wedding planning from Perfect Weddings and Honeymoons ABTA bonded travel agency
- Guidance with legal documentation and paperwork for your wedding abroad
- Reception planning and confirmation for your 2010 Cyprus wedding
- Confirmation of the date and time of your wedding in Cyprus (Usually within 72 hours of booking)
- Personal in-resort Wedding Coordinator to meet you shortly after your arrival in Cyprus
- Wedding Coordinator attendance on your Big Day in Cyprus
- Civil Wedding Ceremony to be performed in a Town Hall (hotels and churches available at a supplement)
- Medium Bridal Bouquet of Roses for the Bride
- Complimentary Rose Buttonhole for the Groom
- 24 Wedding Photographs presented in an album
- International Marriage Certificate for your 2010 wedding in Cyprus

To check prices and to book your wedding package in Cyprus for 2010, please call your wedding coordinator here in the UK:

Alexandra, Danny, Helen, Nikki and Suzie: 01543 686884
Andrea: 01889 575100
Mandy: 01344 768759

General Enquiries - please call the main office number on 0844 770 8270

***Please note, further prices will be released over the next four weeks which will offer more local departures and flexible durations.

Congratulations and Good Luck with your 2010 Cyprus wedding
The Perfect Weddings Abroad Team

Cyprus Weddings Abroad 2010

Cyprus Weddings Abroad 2010 - Don’t be Late, Save the Date!

Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico 28/04/09

Swine-Flu Outbreak in Mexico

28 April 2009 – 10:30

For all couples who have booked or are considering booking a wedding abroad or honeymoon to Mexico.

Overview of the Current Situation:

We are currently monitoring the situation on a daily basis. This information will be updated as the situation changes, so please check back on a daily basis for further details (on our Website, Facebook Page and Blog).

Due to the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Tuesday 28th April 2009 has updated their advice: “We are now advising against all but essential travel to Mexico”

ABTA, The Travel Association, has issued further guidance to travellers this morning (which can be seen below).

If you have booked a package holiday with us or an ABTA company such as ours. We will be able to advise you and make necessary arrangements to travel plans where applicable. This may involve changing your holiday to an alternative destination or offering a cancellation.

If you have booked independently your scheduled flight may still go ahead and you may be unable to get any refund from the airline or for any accommodation bookings you may also have.

TRAVEL INSURANCE: It is imperative that you have travel insurance from the time of booking your holiday. As you MAY be covered in the event of changes in the situation of the Swine Flu outbreak.

Future Bookings to Mexico:

If you currently have a booking with us travelling to Mexico

We will have already been in contact with you by lunchtime today and all bookings are being dealt with on an individual basis. If you haven’t spoken to a member of our team please call the office on 0844 770 8270 or check your email as we will have made contact with you by phone or email.

Thomson Airways today cancelled their departures from London Gatwick and Manchester:

Flights affected
TOM 161 MAN / CUN departing 0930 local time
TOM 095 LGW / CUN departing 0915 local time
Thomson Airways are currently reviewing further flights scheduled for later this week and next week:

Flights due to operate from 29th April onwards are currently under discussion and decisions will be made later today

All other airlines and tour operators that we work with are reviewing their immediate services on a daily basis.

If you are currently planning a holiday to Mexico

All operators and airlines are continuing to take bookings as normal for future departures to the country. Please call our office on 0844 770 8270 for further information.

Other destinations which have reported cases of Swine Flu

The FCO has not placed any restrictions on travel to any other country, so it’s business as usual to all other destinations.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) assistant director general has insisted that the WHO was not recommending closing borders or restricting travel.

“Closing borders or restricting travel really has very little effects in stopping the movement of this virus,” he said.

If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact the team on 0844 770 8270

Winners of the TTG Big Idea 2008

Business partners Danny Waine and Helen Doyle are set to launch the UK’s first weddings abroad specialist tour operator – ‘Perfect Weddings Abroad’, after their new business idea was voted the best in the country by one of the UK’s leading travel trade newspapers and its panel.

Danny and partner Helen have won the TTG Big Idea competition, run by UK Travel Trade Gazette newspaper. They have scooped the top prize - a massive £100,000 investment in the company plus expert advice from some of the industry’s top bosses.

Danny says: “This is a real dream come true for us. The business will benefit enormously from the £100,000 financial investment, but the other part of the prize, which is expert support from some of the leading lights in the travel and tourism industry, is invaluable. ”Four travel industry "dragons" each put up £25,000 of their own money for the competition prize as well as offering their expertise, guidance and access to their companies’ products for the eventual winner to benefit from. They include Steve Endacott, from On Holiday Group, with a background in tour operating in some of the UK’s largest travel companies, Terry Fisher, of Gold Medal Travel, who built up his own travel agency network from the age of 19 before selling up to Airtours in 1988, Simon Powell of Comtec, one of the most successful travel industry technology companies and David Speakman of Travel Counsellors, the UK’s largest homeworking travel franchise, which is now operating worldwide.

Danny says: “In the long term we want to become the UK's Number 1 Weddings Abroad operator." The investors voted unanimously to back the pair. On Holiday Group Chief Executive Steve Endacott said: “We were impressed that they were willing to put in some hard graft to make this work. We think this is a great business plan."

‘Perfect Weddings Abroad’ is a spin off from Danny and Helen’s current travel agency specialist business 'Perfect Weddings and Honeymoons' and will see the pair launch the new brand early in 2009. It will offer weddings abroad services to direct clients, independent travel agents and travel trade affiliates. The company will create jobs across the UK by expanding its network of homeworkers and in its head office in Staffordshire by developing its tour operation and trade-friendly business.

Danny says: “Perfect Weddings Abroad will offer a full overseas wedding planning service and add on the holiday arrangements. This is a totally new concept, putting the wedding at the heart of all the arrangements. We will offer a range of services including the option for fully inclusive or ‘wedding only’ arrangements, the provision of a personal wedding co-ordinator to accompany the couple from the UK to their location, a full pre-departure wedding planning service and we will also offer renewal of vows and civil partnership packages.”

"Most Innovative Agency 2008 Award"

Weddings abroad specialists, Perfect Weddings and Honeymoons Ltd, were awarded the accolade of "Most Innovative Agency" at the Travel Weekly 2008 Awards this week. The award was part of the Midland Travel Trade Ball taking place at the Hilton Birmingham NEC. Attended by some of the highest profile names in the travel industry the company based in Burntwood, Staffs was one of the main winners on the night.

The judges singled out Perfect Weddings and Honeymoons for its dynamic approach and ability to adapt in the changing marketplace.  Also the company's innovative approach in marketing the business, developing it's weddings abroad and civil partnerships abroad packages, and its excellent customer service record, both in the UK and overseas. The business has shown the expertise and knowledge of its staff, and showcases the hard work and effort throughout the whole team.

Travel agencies across the Midlands were represented and among the nominees were some of the regions largest multiple agency chains and best performing independent agencies.

This is the first time that the company has been nominated for the Travel Weekly Agent Excellence Awards, and builds the previous Midland Weekly Media, Small Business of the Year 2006 success and its nominations in the Travel Trade Gazette 'Specialist Agent' and 'Young Agent' categories in 2007.

Managing Director, Helen Doyle said that she was "absolutely thrilled to win this award. I couldn't have imagined less than three years ago that we'd be here as one of the best weddings abroad companies in the UK by 2008. But we are 100% committed to building on our success and providing our clients with that extra service that other high street and online agents struggle to match."