by Danielle Andrews Sunkel
On May 21, 2010, Destination Weddings and Honeymoons Magazine held their annual "Celebrate Romance" Wedding Symposium at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. The Symposium is an Invite-Only affair for the Media and select individuals from the Wedding Industry.
Tracey Manailescu, Producer, The Wedding Professionals Conference; Darcy Miller, Editorial Director, Martha Stewart Weddings; and Danielle Andrews Sunkel, President, The Wedding Planners Institute of Canada.
Guests of the symposium were greeted with a designer bag to collect all the wares from the Showcase. Destinations on display included, our friends at The Boca Raton Resort & Spa and The Breakers in Palm Beach, as well as the Tourism boards of Trinidad & Tobago, Anguilla and Puerto Rico, to name but a few.
Cake Alchemy created the stunning show centerpiece. I can personally attest to the fact that this gorgeous Mango puree and buttercream confection tasted even better than it looked! I saw more than one person take two helpings.
Representatives from the Wedding Professional Associations ABC, WPIC and AfWPI were in attendance:
L-R: Lois A. Pearce, Director of Ethnic Diversity for ABC; Danielle Andrews Sunkel, President of WPIC; Richard Markel, President of AfWPI; and Tracey Manailescu, Vice President of WPIC.
The Plaza Hotel treated all the delegates to a wonderful luncheon, which was followed by a "State of the Destination Wedding Industry" Panel discussion. The Panel featured Top Destination Wedding Professionals, such as Destination Wedding Stylist, Michelle Rago, Wedding Blogger extrodinaire, Liene Stevens of Blue Orchid Designs, and Bud Carmichael, founder of DestinationWeddings.com and Editor-in-Chief of Destination Weddings and Honeymoons magazine, Susan Moynihan.
L-R: Liene Stevens, Michelle Rago, Bud Carmichael and Susan Moynihan
See our upcoming post on Destination Weddings for tips and information from the speakers.
What a beautiful place! The place really suits the feeling and mood for wedding. Nice post! Keep it up.
Great line up. We will be linking to this great article on our site. Keep up the good writing.