We plan Hindu, Sikh, Gujarati, Punjabi and fusion destination weddings for families here, and we have been doing it for over thirty years. Below is what is specific to your market: the airport, the realistic routings, and the local considerations that decide how many of your guests actually come.
ORD / MDW
Illinois
Naperville, Schaumburg, Devon Avenue, Aurora, Bolingbrook, Hoffman Estates, Skokie
Cancun, Punta Cana, Montego Bay, Nassau, Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta, Liberia, Dubai, Delhi
Flight length moves your attendance rate more than almost anything else you decide. A guest who will happily fly three hours will think twice about seven with a connection, and that difference shows up in your final headcount. When guests are departing from three or more cities, a group air contract usually beats individual bookings on both price and flexibility.
Devon Avenue is one of the oldest South Asian commercial districts in North America, and the Chicago community now stretches well out into Naperville, Schaumburg and Aurora. It is a large, established, multi-generational market, and it is almost entirely unserved by specialist destination wedding agencies. Search for one from Chicago and you get national directories.
O'Hare is a major hub with nonstop service to every destination on our list plus direct flights to Delhi, which makes group air contracting straightforward. Chicago winters also do something useful for this business: a February wedding in Cancun is an easier sell to a Naperville guest list than to almost any other market in the country.
Most families begin with a conversation about guest count and budget, then work backwards to a shortlist of three or four properties that can genuinely handle the events they want. We will tell you honestly if a resort you have fallen in love with cannot do what you need.
Room-night minimums, capacity, Indian catering and ceremony permissions across every major property.
A real itemised budget from a wedding we ran, plus the honest range per guest.
Seven weddings with guest counts, venues and what actually happened at each.
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