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Hi Tjjam23! YAY--another St. Lucia bride-to-be!! I am looking into a St. Lucia wedding in Nov 2015. Unfortunately, neither my FI or myself have been to St. Lucia (but planning on taking a trek this fall) Currently, I am trying to decide between St. James and Windjammer to have ceremony and have my guests and us stay. What have you heard on St. James so far? Tripadvisor gives mostly good to excellent reviews, but a few of the not-so-good have me slightly concerned. (older crowd, not as nice as the online pamphelets make it out to be, crappy food...etc.) Temper this info knowing you cannot please everyone all the time--so taking it with a grain of salt considering more than 75% are great reveiws. Are you planning on having you and your guests stay there? Age range and what are you looking for in terms of ceremony and location? Think this is the best area for most midrange hotels and the property looks pretty. Also, Gros Islet seems to have a decent amount of stuff to do off property should you guys stay there and want to adventure. Happy to share whatever other info I have gathered on St. Lucia with you! ps: Also just spoke with Wright Travel agency the other day and Kristi was incredibly helpful if you need travel advice or ideas on where you should look.

Hi Everyone! I too am am looking into having our wedding in St. Lucia in late Nov 2015. I have been doing extensive research on the all inclusive hotel options to make this as affordable for my guests as possible (maybe going about this backwards in terms of planning?) Windjammer seems the best option as it has a wide variety of accomodation pricing tiers in our sweet spot for $$ as well as the best suited based on the look and feel of a resort I would like spending 7 days in. However, Not the ideal location on the island for us and our guests as it sounds like the south (Soufriere) has the most "stuff" to do there. (Average age of our group is around 35 yo, ranging from single to married with kids) We are an active bunch that like vacation options with outdoor activities; hiking/water sports during the day with a decent nightlife of fun, local loungy bars to hang out in at night. Are there other places I am missing? Or mistaken in that the area near Windjammer is great for what we are looking for? With that said, I am in love with alot of the high end hotels in the south (who wouldnt be? IE:Sugar Beach, Hotel Chocolat, Ladera...) as location for a simple beach ceremony (backdrop of the Pitons) followed by reserving a section of a outdoor/open air restaurant for the reception (hoping for no more than 25 guests) Any suggestions on how to make this happen if we arent staying in the hotel where I want to have the ceremony/reception, but also trying to keep this affordable as possible for us? (We will have all of our legal paperwork done in the states prior to coming to St. Lucia) Someone told me you can just "rent" an area of a beach nearby a luxurious hotel and only concern yourself with the restaurant reservation as the bulk of your spend...is this realistic or a pipedream? Any input of past brides here for help in directing me to a company that can help with this would be greatly appreciated. I have never been to St. Lucia, so going about this totally blind.... Thank you Ladies!!