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About Our Services
All products and services must be purchased from, or provided through, Avalon Magical Weddings, such as: Walk-Down-The-Aisle Style Ceremonies, Flowers, Cakes, Chairs, Arches, Party Favor Sun Parasols, London Cabs, on-Island Group Transportation, Photography and the like. No other entity or vendor may be hired by you, the client, to perform services or provide products which clash with the details, products, packages, or photography provided by Avalon Magical Weddings without special permission from us. Exceptions would be your own Minister, Ceremony CD, Cake Topper, Cake Cutting Tools, Flutes, Guest Book or Personal Party Favors for guests at the dinner tables only. You may make your own Boat or Air Transportation reservations to and from the Island and/or Hotel Accommodations or Lodging. Any other special requests may be taken into consideration for approval by Avalon Magical Weddings.
Family members may take photos if they wish, but only with small personal cameras. No large or professional cameras may be used by any guest. Any and all professional photos must be either purchased from or provided by Avalon Magical Weddings. If you wish to provide your own photographer, you will need to pay an additional fee for an extra 1/2 hour to be added, either prior to, or at the end of, your ceremony time. This time and fee are included in our photography services for the ½ hour of photos taken after the ceremony. We do not provide pre-ceremony photos or reception photos in our photo package. You are welcome to have someone take photos at the reception free of charge.
Stand In Place Ceremonies, and all small packages such as the “Golden Getaways”, “Sweet Heart Special” and the “Aloha Catalina regular pack”, are all stand in place style ceremonies. If you desire to walk down the isle, then you will need to purchase a package that includes this service. The client may not provide such services on their own. Ceremony Packages are scheduled for one hour of services.
All packages are listed according to the size of the entire number of guests that it will accommodate and must be purchased as such. If your wedding party should grow, you must upgrade to a package, or package combo, that accommodates your group size. You can always increase, but never decrease the “group size” contract of these packages. If you start with the purchase of a small package that includes items such as a cake, or other such items for that “group size” and your guest count grows, you would be required to move up to (at additional cost) a larger package or combo package that also includes the same, or similar, items for your new larger group size. Custom Packages may be purchased for larger wedding ceremonies only. The cost will depend upon the extent of the customizing, and “coordination” fees will be added depending on the over all work involved in the coordinating of any custom package. We “may” exchange one item for another, depending on the item, but only in a smaller package, upon request. We will not delete an item from an existing package and adjust the price downward.
“Champagne Toast & Cake Cutting Package” ceremonies are held at The Cottage Restaurant. There is a 1 ½ hour maximum time limit for champagne and cake cutting packages at the Cottage. Royal Reception Dinners will take place at Steve’s Steak House & Seafood Restaurant. There is a two hour maximum time limit for Royal Reception Dinners. Your head count is absolute, including, the Bride and Groom, and any small children over the age of 3 years old, meaning, those requiring a place setting or a high chair and seating at the ceremony and/or reception. In the event of a dinner package, exceptions for children will be made to the dinner menu to a children’s menu, or a vegetarian meal made special by the chef him/herself that day.
We can provide entertainment for your reception at an additional fee. Fees vary depending on the type of entertainment provided. If you would like to provide your own entertainment then you may do so by scheduling it with us. There will be an additional fee for the area, set up and tear down time. When using our services this fee is included in the cost of our entertainment. But, if you are going to bring your own reception entertainment, you must schedule it with us, or he/she will not be allowed to set up and perform. You may provide your own Ceremony Musicians or Live Music if you like, however, there will be an added fee for additional time of ½ hour pre-ceremony time and coordination for any live music you might want to hire or bring with you on your own. Otherwise, we use Traditional Ceremony Processional and Recessional pre-recorded music. You may bring your own personal pre-recorded ceremony music CD with you if you wish at no additional charge. It must be one song only and burned onto its own CD disc. We will not use any original recorded discs.
V.I.P. Island Romance & Simple Beginnings Packages: A Royal Reception Dinner package may be added to the package price listed for those who would like to include guests with that package. There will be no additional charge for chairs and tall standing flowers at the alter for those adding on Royal Reception Dinner for 20 people or more. This package arrangement is the “Only” exception offering free additional chairs and standing flowers.
The Ultimate Fantasy: This package may NOT be enlarged on a “per person” basis. You must purchase the next larger package size for any additional persons up to the next larger guest limit and at the price for that increased guest count. With this package, due to space limitations, it is important to count “larger guests” as two persons for available seating arrangements. It is the Clients Responsibility to recognize this upon booking this adventure package
All free and public locations are subject to change. All Avalon Beaches and Buena Vista Point Cliff locations are free and open to all the public to use, by and for the public, and this would include wedding ceremonies. Ceremonies are on a first come first serve basis. Such locations are Central Beach, Cabana Beach, Step Beach, Via Casino Way, and Buena Vista Point. In the event that a free public location is not available then we will relocate your wedding to another area that is available on our map of locations. Paradise Island Garden, The Beach Platform and any Ultimate Fantasy Locations are all Paid for and these Locations are Reserved by us in advance and will always remain as scheduled. If you have a small ceremony package, your location may also be upgraded due to a larger wedding happening that same day, possibly in a reserved/ paid beach location. In this case you would get a lot of extras for Free. We can be very generous when it comes to moving your wedding location due to something on our part, but keep in mind that changes can happen with the public or city locations due to unavailability on any particular day. This would be a rare occurrence in most cases, but should be noted. We are Licensed, Insured, and hold Permits to use Public Properties, some companies may not be, and this cost is included in all of our packages and free of charge to you.
In the event that it should rain you will be offered options. If we see that there may be a storm coming into Catalina Island the day of your wedding ceremony we will call you a few days in advance and give you the first option of changing your wedding to another date available on our calendar at No additional charge to you for the date change. This would be considered an act of God on our part. In the case of rain fall or a light drizzle, we may be able to offer the option of doing the ceremony in an outside covered area, for smaller packages only. The next option would be to hold the ceremony indoors. In which case you the client, would have to pay for a banquette room. We would offer you, upon availability, the best options and prices we can find. Note: This is a VERY rare occurrence. Weather usually flows right over Avalon and leaves us with little rain. We are usually in a water shortage condition due to lack of enough rain. So, the need to move a ceremony indoors is “almost” non existent.
Licensing and gratuities are not included in our packages!
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