Destination Wedding - Who do i invite... and to what?

Can find some ideas on Pinterest but honestly I would just look at what's going on in the area and then base it around that. I would probably assume that many of your guests have not been to Puerto Rico so I think on the first day it could be good to do a tour of the island. Maybe even hire a tour guide for the eclipse. When one of my friends got married in New York once her maid of honour arrived we and one of her friends from work at the time just took a tour of Manhattan. It wasn't formal and we just went around and saw stuff. Puerto Rico especially San Juan is close to some nice beaches as well as Old San Juan so really you could probably spend half a day just going around the island and taking some time to sit and eat the local food and Old San Juan at night is actually pretty nice so you could plan a little bit of informal outing for those that want to grab some drinks or something. By the way this is speak and text so if something sounds odd I apologize haha.

So I am not doing a destination wedding. Although I've been to two. First one was Puerto Rico's we stayed in a villa and wedding party stayed upstairs while we stayed downstairs. They did tourists things with us we parted for dinner and such. The bride and groom took off one morning for an intimate breakfast and spent time apart from us while the rest of us just hung out.


Second one was in Jamaica in an all inclusive resort the only planned together event was the rehearsal dinner. Other then that we crossed paths and met up for one big dinner all together before we left.

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Very helpful!! Thank you! I had heard that couples doing destination weddings often invite everyone to the rehearsal, so that was the big one I was wondering about!

We had a DW. We invited everyone to the RD and we had a hosted morning after brunch, in addition to the wedding of course. It's nice to do extra hosting during DW cause guests are spending so much to attend your special day.

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Great advice! Thanks for your input!

We are having a semi-DW (same state but a 6 hour drive) and to be totally honest I hadn't really planned on doing any events besides a rehearsal dinner and maybe a breakfast the day after? Our crowd is looking forward to exploring the area and I do have information on our website about things to do in the area. Should I be planning events for everyone?!