: About Me

Travel has always been my passion, and after I graduated from Travel College back in the summer of 2000, I became a travel agent during a time where there were many world events, changes and uncertainty in the travel industry occured.

I couldn't have started in the travel business at a better time, because with many of the changes in the travel industry today, including access to many travel sources over the Internet, has challenged me to contineously educate myself and be creative.

My biggest satisfaction is when someone comes back from their trip and they come to personally thank me for sending them to a destination they have never thought of visiting before, and that's what is truly rewarding to me.

My passion is ...

seeing the world

I know too much about ...

everything

My parents always told me ...

to never grow up like them, and I won't.

My childhood ambition ...

to find that one ice cream store that still sells blue licorice ice cream.

My favorite memory ...

Meeting my soul mate in travel college.

Why I write ...

To hopefully help people.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading travel magazines, watching Lost, listening to Rock and Roll until I die.

My first job ...

Delivering newspapers at the age of 12.

My best moment ...

Getting married on the spectacular island of Cuba.

My inspiration ...

My wife.

Celebrations & Holidays > Wedding Planning Should you tip a wedding planner?

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Absolutely, a wedding planner should receive a tip if you're classifying them as a valuable service. When someone provides unique services such as planning weddings, they bring certain acquired skills that many people do not have, and when they spend the time to do the job right to make a wedding as perfect as it can be, there's no doubt that a tip shows your gratitude for their hard work and effort. Many would question that a wedding planner is already getting paid a good sum of money to do a required job, and I agree with them to a point. However, professional wedding planners have years...

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