Visiting The Virgin Islands is truly a delightful experience. Island hopping is always exciting and made easy as there are numerous water taxis, ferries, flights and even sea planes that travel from island to island daily.

David Breslin’s carefully planned marriage proposal to his longtime girlfriend, Cristina Lambert, veered off track in the course of the day. Luckily, the unexpected mishap that took place will make the day that much more memorable for the self-described “casual” couple. It will be a day they can look back on together and laugh.

After no mention of the “M” word during three and a half years of dating, John set up the proposal while they were travelling in St. Thomas. As Shankia tells it: “John was looking at jewelry and rings for me, while visiting our favorite jeweler, and at the last jewelry case door, one of the jewelers put the ring on my finger. Of course, John always jokes, so I thought nothing of it. I then said to the jeweler: “Why do you keep putting that ring on my finger – John doesn’t want to be married! John replied: “How do you know I don’t?”

Amazing how the news of fabulous Virgin Islands wedding venues gets around! Especially when the venue is the British Virgin Islands aboard a VOYAGE catamaran managed by VOYAGE charters, who constantly and carefully make magical, waterborne dreams come true.

Every young woman hopes that the celebration of her sixteenth birthday will be a joyous and memorable occasion, extraordinary enough to appropriately mark her transition into womanhood. In bygone eras, age sixteen often represented a woman’s eligibility to date and even marry. For Krystal Wheeler, marriage may not have occupied her thoughts as her sixteenth birthday drew near, but love was certainly on the horizon.