About this vendor
We do what others can't... Customized travel planning to ensure that your trip and experience far exceeds your expectations. Nothing is cookie cutter! We specialize in luxury honeymoons & destination weddings (Yes-Indian & Jewish destination weddings too). We make it all about you - VIP treatment!
Current Destination Wedding Specials.... FREE airfare for the bridal couple, FREE Private Events, FREE wedding packages!!
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Day-Of Coordination
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Honeymoon Planning
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Honeymoon
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Engagement Party
- Wedding
Reviews
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4.5
out of 5.08 reviews
We were extremely disappointed with the quality of service provided by Angee and her staff. We booked our vow renewal over a year prior to our event date. We were provided with our...
invoice March 2018 and had until May 2019 to complete payment. Well, April 2019 less than 60 days until final payment is due; Angee then sent us an "updated invoice" advising that there was a discrepancy in the child rate and we were now responsible for paying the difference. Neither Angee nor her staff did anything to help us or our guests due to their error. Instead, Angee stated that we should have looked at the rates on the resort website and crossed referenced them with the rates she provided. Clearly, I should have booked directly through the resort instead of through Vacations with Flair since Angee was no help whatsoever. The resort wedding coordinator was much more helpful than the Vacations with Flair team.
From day one Angee was so attentive and helpful while helping us plan our honeymoon. She answered all of our questions and was so timely with any requests that we had. She went a...
bove and beyond when our flight from Chicago to Miami was delayed an hour and a half. We missed our flight to St. Lucia by 30 minutes and were stuck in Miami for the night. This threw off our reservations for our helicopter tour as well as the fact that we were going to lose a whole night in our butler suite. We called her as soon as we landed in Miami and within 2 hours she called us back and said everything was taken care of. She had pushed our stay out an additional night and rebooked our helicopter ride. She took the stress off of us and allowed us to enjoy our little detour stop in Miami. She was absolutely amazing and would recommend her to anyone who is traveling!
Our Destination Wedding at El Dorado was like a fairytale. We were lost in trying to figure out a location that would accommodate all of our guests with varying budget needs so we...
enlisted the help of our Travel Agent Aimee from Island Getaways guided us here. We are so thankful that we found Aimee who guided us through the entire process of planning a wedding in another country and coordinated seamlessly the individual travel for each and every one of our guests. She was flexible and easy to reach at any time and most importantly saved us and our guests a lot of money and possible headaches.
Our wedding date and days leading up to it was storybook. We worked on the planning for approximately 9 months prior to our wedding date with the onsite wedding coordinator and our travel agent. We stayed in the Casitas section and our guests stayed in the Royale side (budget friendly) as well as the Casitas (more luxurious). We even had a few guests including my sister who wanted to bring her children but since we chose an Adults Only resort our Travel Agent had them accommodated at the neighboring sister resort, Generations, which is connected to the Casitas and my sister & brother and law had unlimited access to the Adults Only side. It worked out fantastic because my husband and I didn’t have to compromise our choice in having an adults only resort.
Our wedding coordinator Valeria that our travel agent chose for us was fantastic. She detailed out with pictures and prices all the options to make our wedding unique and fun. We had a private welcome reception with our guests the night prior to our wedding rather than having a rehearsal dinner. Our Travel Agent arranged this for us complimentary. It was a great way for our friends and family to all get to know each other, I definitely recommend going this route. Valeria was on point with all our details and kept an ongoing spreadsheet so we always knew where our budget was at.
Our guests were all across the board in whether they wanted to relax or explore off the resort. Some just wanted to sit at the pool bar and soak up the sun while others wanted to explore. Our travel agent took care of each of our guests excursions as well as our group excursion (my husband and I planned a booze cruise for all our guests as a gift for coming) prior to departure.
We are so very happy we chose El Dorado for our special day. After our return we received a credit based on the number of rooms booked. We actually forgot about this credit that we learned about in our initial planning stages and our Travel Agent sent us an email letting us know what our credit was going to be about a week after we returned. We were so stoked and we are going to save that money to put toward our Anniversary return visit to Casitas. Definitely go with a Travel Agent when going through the Destination Wedding process. It helped us to take the fear out of the “unknown”. A big shout out to Aimee from Island Getaways (aimee@myislandgetaways.com), she was awesome throughout our entire planning process and we could not have done it the way we did without her.
My wife and I worked with Angee to book our combined 40th birthday trip to the Caribbean and were extremely appreciative of her expert knowledge of various locations, options, etc....
Honestly, it was like she knew every resort personally. She was excellent at getting us the most for within our budget, and always provided timely responses to our questions/concerns. She didn't even blinked as we got to the end of the planning process and had a minor glitch with one of our passports - she truly was wonderful. I do not, in anyway, hesitate to COMPLETELY recommend Angee for your travel planning needs.
We worked with Angee from Vacations With Flair and had the best honeymoon ever! We met with Angee at a nearby Panera and she had several honeymoon packages for us to see based on ...
a survey we had sent her on our honeymoon preferences. She found us the most perfect honeymoon spot at Sandals Emerald Bay! Angee was awesome to work with and was very responsive to our needs and questions. She also checked in with us before, during, and after our honeymoon to make sure we had a great time! We will most definitely use Angee's services when planning our next trip!
I've worked with Angee two times. Once for planning a getaway to Jamaica, and then again when she helped plan a destination wedding for Punta Cana. She is knowledgeable, helpful, e...
asy to contact, and gets you great deals. I received a big travel kit from her when she hand delivered my travel documents... amazing! Both trips went off without a hitch and we even were comped to bigger/better rooms in Punta Cana (went from a standard room to a Presidential Suite at the Hard Rock... we will never forget it!), and I'd like to think it's because we were working with Vacations with Flair. I would definitely work with Angee again and you should feel confident in doing so, too.
Angee was such a dream to work with. She truly made our honeymoon planning process so easy and stress free! I am so grateful for her attention to detail - she had answers to quest...
ions I would have never thought to ask! She really was amazing. I would recommend her to absolutely anyone thinking about traveling. We had a fairytale honeymoon thanks to her help. She really is the best!
Ohh Angee-
How to begin a review when you have so many wonderful things to say...
My name is Keli and I have been planning our wedding for November 9, 2013. We are hosting our de...
stination wedding at Dreams Punta Cana- Dominican Republic.
When beginning the booking process, I was lost. I did a lot of research, and read a ton of reviews online. I came across 'Vacations with Flair' and decided to give Angee Shields a call. My life was made so much easier from that day forward. Angee has really gotten to know Joe and I as a couple, what our interests were, and what we are looking for in a wedding. I have worked with travel agents before for vacation bookings in the past, but NONE as personable, professional, and honest as Angee at 'Vacations with Flair'. She does more than book your vacation, she has been contacting our wedding coordinator and helping plan all of our events taking place. Gathering information about Joe and I, Angee was able to come up with different countries, locations, resorts, etc. All offering different options for us. We ended up choosing a family friendly, large, well known resort because we are traveling with our nephews and cousins. We are hosting a destination for around 60-80 people at this point, and it has nothing but smooth sailing with Angee's help. All of our guests have contacted and booked their trip with her, so it saves me all of the stress and hassle of dealing with a million questions. She is also helping take care of all of the small details of our day, from flowers, to the paperwork, even to group excursions for our guests to attend during their stay! She is so meticulous, detail oriented, and caring. I know her organization skills and truly caring personality will make our ever dream come true for our wedding day! If you want to work with a company who will make every aspect of your special day Perfect (as if it was her own), then I hope you choose to work with Vacations with Flair. I can promise you will be nothing but 100% happy and will use her for future vacations as well! Thanks so much 'Vacations with Flair'!
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Chicago Area, IL
Travel Specialists