Your Antigua Destination Wedding, Negotiated Right
From the private-island seclusion of Jumby Bay to the established scale of Sandals Grande Antigua, we match American couples with the island's finest properties — and use volume most advisors don't have to negotiate the contract terms that actually matter.
A Boutique Travel Matching Service
Destination Wedding Planners exists to do one thing well: match couples with the right luxury resort for their wedding, then negotiate a contract they could never get booking on their own — priority room upgrades, group concessions across the guest block, and direct access to property leadership built on substantial annual booking volume. It's the difference between a good resort pick and a great one, and it's how we help couples avoid the nightmare stories that follow far too many destination weddings booked cold.
Why Book Through a Verified Travel Advisor
Destination Wedding Planners is the luxury romance division of Travel Time Agency, where your advisor is Lois Barbour, CTC, ECC, DWS — a verified Virtuoso travel advisor and a Charter Member and Global Trainer for the Destination Wedding & Honeymoon Specialists Association (DWHSA), with a substantial, multi-year track record of luxury resort bookings.
That volume is what turns a resort's reservations line into a direct line to sales leadership — and on an island as small and relationship-driven as Antigua, it's also how we know which properties' wedding departments are genuinely equipped to handle your day, before we ever recommend one to you.
Antigua's Premier Wedding Resorts
Antigua's best wedding properties span a wide range of personalities, from sealed-off private-island seclusion to established all-inclusive scale. We work only with resorts whose wedding departments match the quality of the property itself.
Jumby Bay Island — Private Island, Antigua
A private-island Oetker Collection resort reachable only by a short private ferry from the mainland — one of the most exclusive wedding settings in the Caribbean, for couples who want their entire guest list sealed off from the outside world for the week.
Hermitage Bay — Antigua's West Coast
An intimate, all-suite hillside and beachfront property with no more than a few dozen rooms — favored by couples who want a genuinely small, quiet wedding rather than a resort built to accommodate hundreds of guests at once.
Sandals Grande Antigua — Dickenson Bay
Antigua's flagship all-inclusive, with multiple wedding venues on one expansive beachfront property — the strongest fit for larger guest lists who want an established, full-service wedding department alongside resort-wide amenities.
Contract Advocacy & Room Concessions
Every resort above will quote a couple a rate directly. What that quote won't include, by default, is the group concession structure available once your guest list is booked as a block: complimentary upgraded rooms per a set number of paid bookings, waived resort fees, early check-in and late checkout for the wedding party, and priority handling for your welcome dinner and reception space.
On an island with as few large-scale wedding venues as Antigua, that same relationship also means earlier access to the dates and spaces your guest count actually needs — before they're gone.
Travel Logistics for Your Guest List
V.C. Bird International Airport (ANU) is Antigua's only international gateway, with direct flights from several major U.S. hubs. From there, guests either transfer directly to their resort or, for properties like Jumby Bay, complete the final leg by private catamaran or launch.
We map arrival windows across your full guest roster, coordinate private transfers where the resort requires them, and manage the contract cutoff dates that come with group room blocks.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does an Antigua destination wedding cost?
It depends heavily on which of Antigua's resort tiers you choose — an ultra-private island retreat like Jumby Bay carries a very different price point than an all-inclusive like Sandals Grande Antigua. Rather than quote a flat number, we build your cost around the group contract terms we can secure for your specific guest count and travel dates.
Can U.S. couples legally marry in Antigua?
Yes — Antigua and Barbuda permits couples to marry legally on-island, typically through a marriage license application filed with the Ministry of Legal Affairs and a short waiting period before the license is issued. Requirements and processing timelines change periodically, so we confirm the current process with your resort's wedding coordinator before you book travel, and most couples still choose to have their symbolic ceremony be the one their guests actually see.
Do wedding guests need a visa to enter Antigua?
U.S. citizens generally do not need a visa for short stays in Antigua and Barbuda, only a valid passport. Entry requirements can change, so we always advise your full guest list to verify current passport and entry rules before booking flights.
Should we use the resort's wedding team or an independent on-island planner?
Antigua's wedding market includes both — well-staffed resort coordination teams and independent local planners with deep, years-long relationships across the island's vendor network. Neither is automatically the right answer; it depends on your resort and how much of the day happens on-property versus off. As your advisor, we know which of Antigua's resort wedding departments can handle everything in-house and which genuinely benefit from bringing in local expertise, and we build that into your planning from the start.
Which airport should our guests fly into?
V.C. Bird International Airport (ANU) is Antigua's only international gateway, with direct flights from several major U.S. hubs and short transfer times to resorts across the island. We map your full guest list's routing and arrival windows before your resort contract is finalized.
Why book through an advisor instead of directly with the resort?
A resort's reservations line has no incentive to give you more than the published rate. An advisor with meaningful annual volume at that property has a direct line to sales leadership and, often, the general manager — which is where room upgrades, group concessions, and contract flexibility actually get negotiated.
Let's Find Your Antigua Resort
Tell us your guest count and travel dates, and we'll tell you which Antigua resorts can actually deliver the contract terms your wedding deserves.
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