Stacy Mulcare and her Ceremonies St. John made the first annual International A-List of wedding planners in Destination Weddings & Honeymoons magazine.
She is one of only 30 wedding planners to make the list.
Stacy, an On-StJohn.com advertiser, has been planning weddings on St. John for 24 years now… 3,482 of them so far she says.
“The number one reason brides choose St. John is the laid back lifestyle and natural beauty,” Stacy says. “And the fact that the U.S. Virgin Islands has no waiting period is a plus. Many islands require you to be on island for as long as a week before you can get married.”
Ceremonies St. John has been featured in several bridal magazines, and even on the Travel Channel about four years ago.
The new building that’s been quietly under construction in Cruz Bay for the last year and a half is suddenly quite front a center, with its bright yellow paint and gigantic circular facade.
Construction on the lot, between La Tapa and the police station, started in late 2008. The office building includes covered parking. Banco Popular?
This would be the perfect fit. Guy Fieri from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, paying a visit to Mike Garbo and his kitchen.
It might happen!
Scouts from the show stopped by the G-Spot last week and asked a lot of questions. “They took some pictures and a business card and said they’d get back to us,” Mike tells us.
What would Mike say to Guy Fieri?
“Well, we’re not a diner and we’re not a drive-in, but we’re a great dive. Come on down and spend some time in my tiny kitchen. I’ll show you why we don’t let anybody down.”
If you see a red ’67 Camaro convertible on the car barge, you know Guy is on his way. That’d be so awesome.
Sidney, the jovial owner of Sidney’s Peace & Love on Jost van Dyke, passed away this week after a battle with cancer.
Sidney ran the bar and restaurant on Little Harbor for nearly 40 years.
“I have had a lot of fun and enjoy meeting all the people,” Sidney told us last summer. “It makes you happy and you feel good. You make a lot of friends.”
Sidney’s Peace and Love, famous for its lobsters and pig roasts, will continue under Sidney’s daughters.
They plan a memorial service at Sidney’s Peace and Love on Friday, March. 19.
Here is a cool video, produced by St. John videographer Bill Stelzer, that was commissioned through the Friends of the National Park by Disney. It will be shown to cruise ship passengers and, while it’s pretty basic information, we’re thrilled they will see it.
“The whole idea was to give an easy-to-understand presentation of why the coral reefs are so important,” Bill tells us. “It is meant to be nonspecific, so it applies to the entire Caribbean.”
Bill did the animation himself, using Adobe Illustrator (very nice work, as you will notice if you’re into such things), some of it based on photos, some of it created.
The narration is by Melissa Haizlap, a St. John/St. Thomas native who now does voice work in L.A. (Her husband is the host of Cities of the Underworld on The History Channel.) And the music is by St. John artist Mark Wallace.
It’s an all-star cast!
The video is also being shown to Virgin Islands school kids.
Bill says he based the beautiful cartoon girl on Kristen Maize, the former program manager for friends. (A cute cartoon woman, but not nearly as cute as the real Kristen.)
Very lucky people spot whales this time of year. Jim Murphy at Villa Serendipity was one of the lucky ones this week, spotting a whale just outside of Chocolate Hole.
“The whale came up and breached, but by the time I got my camera and turned it on, the breaching was over,” Jim says. “I’ll be up with my coffee early every morning the rest of this week, with my camera ready.”
Click on the picture for a larger view. You’ll spot it.
