The next morning I had two offers for writing in my email, as a direct result of that post. One was for a new online magazine about the BVI and one was from Rick himself who has a doctor friend who read the post and wanted an expanded version to go into two medical journals.
I am still waiting for more information about the journals but a few days ago I wrote my first paid-for travel related article. I am thrilled, to say the least, and am hoping it will lead to more opportunities to write about the places I love so much.
The article won't be available to the public to read for a few weeks yet. As soon as it is I will post a link to it. But until then, here is a taste to pique your interest.
When my daughter told me that she and her fiancé were planning to get married in the
British Virgin Islands, I will admit I was hesitant. It seemed like a daunting task to plan a
destination wedding in a location which no one we knew personally had ever visited.
Not only that, we didn’t know anyone who had even planned a destination wedding thus
we had no one to go to for advice. To complicate matters, my daughter was still living in
London and I was in Vancouver right up until a month before the date. But as she was
from Vancouver, Canada and he was from London, England, their choice of a middle
ground, as it were, seemed ideal.
After 6 months of emails, phone calls, tears, excitement, frustration, and at times feeling
like a blind person working in a dark room - the time to pack our bags and head to the
Caribbean was upon us. We had done all that we could and the rest was up to the
wedding planner we had hired, the resort’s event planner, and fate.
It was the most beautiful and perfect wedding I have ever attended.
There were one or two things we had tried to have happen that never did, there was lost
luggage, and there was a struggle with the wedding planner for where exactly the
ceremony would take place but, in the end, the location trumped everything. So if you
are looking for a spectacular setting for your special day, and you don’t mind a little
effort to get there, then nowhere on earth could be more beautiful for a wedding than
the BVI.
If you are considering a BVI wedding, here are a few things that might help you from our
experience:
I can't wait until you can read the rest. And I hope there will be many more articles to come!
Congrats Sandra, and we also hope that there will be many more!
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Thank you Mike!! I can't wait to read YOUR article in Multihulls Quarterly. May there be many more paid writing ops for BOTH of us!
DeleteWay to go Sandra - Gate #2 just opened.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. Not sure what Gate #2 is? I felt that the offers to write that came in the morning was confirmation of what I had sensed the night before so, to me, that meant that - yes indeed, a gate had definitely opened. But hey, if you think it's two gates, I will take it! That gets me closer to my dream!
DeleteWow such great news you deserve it ! Never give up on your dream my dear friend !!!
ReplyDeleteTana xox
Thanks Tana. I could never give up on this dream!!! And you know why. You've been there too! Think we will end up there together??
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