Destination Weddings Have Their Benefits Are you planning your wedding right now? Thinking about having it a little far from home so you can build in a vacation? Then you're definitely in good company. The down economy is making people try to bundle as much as possible, whenever possible. Building your vacation along with your dream wedding just sounds like a good idea. There are many last minute travel deals and even some good deep discounts on regular travel that this makes sense. If you are living in an area where your family isn't really responsive to what you want, then a destination wedding makes even more sense. Not everyone will have the resources to attend, so the guest list will almost certainly write itself. You just need to make sure that you are willing to step up and plan as soon as possible. This is because the destination wedding is a little more complex, and you don't want to try to wait till the last minute. One of the top things that you will want to have is a good list of vendors that are willing to work with you. If you're not using a wedding planner, that's fine, but you will need to be much more organized than if you had a planner to coordinate things. You have a lot of moving parts with a wedding, and that complexity grows once you talk about flying in all of the supplies. You need to make sure that you have