WestJet Christmas Miracle: real-time giving

We just couldn't resist sharing this video. We love Westjet. They've always treated our destination wedding guests, couples, honeymooners,, and proposal clients like kings and queens so it's not surprising they would create a surprise like this for their valued guests.

Happy holidays everyone.

Virgin America Safety Video

We just had to share this great safety video from Virgin America.

We bet the next time you travel you'd be paying attention to the seat belt fastening demonstration if this is how the flight crew presented it. Way to go Virgin America on making such a great video.

Destination Wedding JigSaw Puzzle Game

I thought for the holidays we'd do something fun and interactive on the blog. I've created a JigSaw puzzle of one of my favourite Canadian destination wedding spots. Can you guess what popular wedding spot it is?

 Enjoy the JigSaw Puzzle everyone. Let me know what you think of it. Should this become a regular feature of the blog?

Wedding Industry Experts Award 2012

We admit it. We're not very good at updating this blog; but we were so thrilled to hear that we had been nominated for a Wedding Industry Experts 2012 Award that we just had to tell the world.

It's true what they say. It is an honor just to be nominated; especially when it's our very own peers and brides who are voting so we'd like to thank that very special bride who nominated us. Our category is Best Destination Wedding Planner. Everyone is invited to vote here

The good people at The Wedding Industry Experts Awards are allowing people to vote daily until August, 31, 2012.

Thank you to everyone who has been voting. We sure do appreciate it.

Samantha Goldberg & Sandra Aaron on Savvy Living With Marcinho Savant

Thank you to Marcinho Savant for welcoming Samantha Goldberg and myself into his radio home.

If you would like more information about the seminar happening in Toronto March 16-18th mentioned during Marcinho's show feel free to click this link The Sassi Entrepreneur with Samantha Goldberg

If you missed the show; here it is:

Listen to internet radio with Marcinho Savant on Blog Talk Radio

Celebrity Event Designer Samantha Goldberg wants to meet you!

Are you a fan of the Style Networks hit television show Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? Do you love that shows sassi star Samantha Goldberg? Are you a wedding planner, wedding designer, wedding vendor, any type of business owner at all, or maybe just someone who wants to open up their own business? If you said yes to any of these questions then I have some really exciting news for you.


Sassi Samantha Goldberg herself wants to meet YOU. Not only does she want to meet you; but she wants to teach you how she grew her business into a large operation that employs 15 of New York and New Jersey's top wedding planners, PLUS has numerous other departments with many employee's. She wants to help you and your business be the best it can be.


Samantha will be in Toronto, Canada between March 16 and 18, 2012 conducting a seminar that Mindless Sophistication Events is sponsoring called The Sassi Entrepreneur with Samantha Goldberg. She's secured an incredible price on a room block at a luxury hotel. She's bringing gifts for everyone that will knock your socks off. This woman means business and when the weekend is over your business is going to thank you for going.

You will Learn

The True Logistics of Sales
Closing the Sale with the Right Clients
How to Find Your Niche'
Event Planner or Event Designer?
Learn to Market Yourself and Your Business
Does Social Media Pay Off...and How You Can Benefit
To Organize Better with Samantha's Simple Tools For Success
AND, MUCH, MUCH MORE!!

For an extra cost there will be an opportunity to have a private or semi-private mentoring session with Samantha. How great is that?

Early bird pricing is subject to a limited amount of spots and there are still a couple left so hurry up and register before the higher prices take effect.

For full pricing, host hotel, itinerary and other information log onto The Sassi Entrepreneur Web Site

Win A Maya Wedding In Belize

Photo by Richard Holder Photography

We're very excited to be able to tell you about an incredible contest that our friend Lara Goldman of Romantic Travel Belize is running. She's giving away a 10 day wedding-moon in Belize. That's right, you read that correctly 10 romantic days in Belize.

Here's the best part; if you don't win or for whatever reason decide that entering a contest is way to much trouble you can still purchase the wedding package. There is one slight catch, it's a Maya Marriage of Many so you won't be alone as you wed. You will be celebrating the end of the Mayan calendar with 35 other couples at a real Mayan temple in Belize on December 12, 2012.

Here's what Lara has to say about the Maya Marriage of Many:

"According to the Maya, December 2012 will mark the end of a 5,126-year era, and is a time of renewal, rebirth, renaissance and new beginnings. In honor of this historic moment in time, 12 Productions Belize teamed up with Romantic Travel Belize and Destination Bride to create an epic event designed to bring love from around the world to the epicenter of the Mayan world. The 2012 Mayan Marriage of Many will be a celebration of love with a marriage en mass for 36 lucky couples on the Maya ruins of Cahal Pech on 12 12 Twenty 12.


Each couple will be able to invite 6 of their closest loved ones to witness the marriage and partake in the celebration from December 9th through 13th, 2012. Package prices range from $14,030 to $24,030 depending on the chosen hotel, with other add-on options available and then be whisked away for a tropical paradise honeymoon on the exotic paradise, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize."

Now you might have noticed that it says Romantic Travel Belize has teamed up with "Destination Bride". Again, you saw that correctly. If you don't know, Destination Bride, LLC is owned by Celebrity Destination Wedding Planner, Lisa Light. The photographer they are working with to photograph the wedding is a celebrity too. It's an awesome once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Now for the contest. It's pretty simple. Register via their Facebook page: Click Here!!

Then get all your friends to vote for you. You might want to consider rallying up support with your local community. Call the newspapers, call local wedding vendors, call your old school, be creative.

Contest ends January 7, 2012. The prize includes accommodation; but does NOT include airfare. Winners will be announced February 13, 2012.

If you would like to purchase a wedding package email me at info@mindlessSophistication.com and I will put you in touch with Lara.