Pirates’ Week festivities, beach weddings, Stingray City and stormy weather all feature as part of the premiere of the Travel Channel’s ‘Weddings Away – Cayman Islands’ which airs this Thursday evening.
Local company and event planning specialists Celebrations will be the star focus of the series airing on the Travel Channel at 9pm.
The premiere airs for two hours (9-11pm) and will be the first and second of six episodes.
On the Travel Channel’s TV schedule, episode one reads, ‘Holly and Eric are high school sweethearts, but a trip to Stingray City, before the vows could put the wedding in jeopardy. And Marcy and Shane have planned and outdoor wedding, but a heavy storm threatens nuptials.’
For episode two, the second half of the premiere, the website says, ‘It’s Pirates Week and the gang at Celebrations is throwing a pirate wedding, but hurricane season threatens to scuttle their pirate ship. Julio and Kim are military doctors who’ve gathered their friends from around the globe for a beach wedding’.
Besides Thursday at 9pm, the premiere will also air on 10 February at 12am, on 12 February at 1pm, and on 16 February at 4pm.
Thereafter the rest of the episodes can be viewed each week beginning on Thursday nights at 10pm.
Local business lady Jo-Anne Brown of Celebrations was under the spotlight for nine weeks, beginning back in September, as cameras filmed her every move for the new Travel Channel series focusing on her business and the Cayman Islands.
The Travel Channel reaches 77 million homes in the United States and its target audience is adults aged 25 to 54 years of age, with an affluent viewership. This six-episode series focuses solely on Celebrations and Cayman.
The series follow Ms Jo-Anne and her team of event planners and designers and is the longest programme ever done by this channel featuring one area of the world.
The reality show focuses not only on special events being staged by Celebrations, but what life is like here, both for residents and tourists. Coverage was also given to aspects of the culture and community life, such as Pirates Week celebrations.
Perfectionist planner, Ms Jo-Anne has been in the wedding business since 1988. While she handles the creative end of things, her eldest daughter Amanda concentrates on the managerial side. Jo-Anne’s husband is the owner of the business centre where Celebrations is located, and their youngest daughter works in accounting. Her son-in-law is even the company’s computer technician.
Jo-Anne has been consultant to over 300 weddings and acted as Event Planner for numerous events, conferences, festivals and carnivals.
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