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As Yellow Umbrella’s Wedding Sales Consultant, Fabiola works one-on-one with our clients to help them choose the best resort, venue, and room block options for their destination weddings. Before joining Yellow Umbrella Events, Fabiola spent 10 years selling and operating weddings at the top resorts in Cancun and the Riviera Maya and has visited nearly every resort Yellow Umbrella works with today. As a Mexico native and resident of Playa del Carmen, Fabiola knows the Mexican Riviera inside and out. She loves helping answer couples’ questions about the area (and she understands that if you haven’t been to Mexico before, you probably have a lot of them!). When she’s not scoping out the newest activities and attractions in Cancun, you can find her playing with her two doggies on the beach.
As one of our Groups Coordinators, Monica takes very good care of our clients’ guests by handling resort reservations, preparing guests for travel, and answering all their questions along the way (so our couples don’t have to!). Monica has extensive experience within the travel industry, having owned her own full-service travel agency for 10+ years before joining Yellow Umbrella. A self-professed perfectionist, she doesn’t let any guest details fall through the cracks. Now an Alabama resident, Monica was born near Cleveland and enjoys rooting for the Browns and Buckeyes once football season rolls around.
As Yellow Umbrella’s other Groups Coordinator, Mia also works with our couples to help them manage their guest reservations and needs leading up to their event. Mia’s strong project management skills keeps her groups well organized; before joining Yellow Umbrella, she ran a Texas-based non profit organization that provided support, supplies, and scholarships for children in need. Today, she enjoys the opportunities to travel with Yellow Umbrella (is there any better office than the beach?!). An amateur photographer and artist at heart, Mia loves telling people’s stories through photos.
As our Onboarding Coordinator, Kaitlyn helps our couples get set up with the initial steps associated with their destination wedding, including creating their custom web page, reservation forms, and the backend processes that make booking a breeze for our team. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations, Kaitlyn has always had a strong interest in web design. Before joining Yellow Umbrella, she worked as a Wedding Planner and Venue Director at an Austin-based venue and Media Coordinator at an Austin church. Outside of work, she enjoys playing tennis and spending time with her husband and two dogs, a blue heeler named Bear and a corgi named Rafa (yes, she’s a huge Rafael Nadal fan!).
Emily is one of our Group Coordinators at Yellow Umbrella Events, assisting guests with their reservations while acting as the main point of contact for any questions they may have. With a background in customer service, Emily ensures that every guest feels heard; she knows that this process—and perhaps international travel in general!—may be new to them, and so she takes her time ushering each guest through all the details. Emily has been with the YUE team for 2+ years and loves that she gets to help guests plan trips to some of her own favorite places (particularly Hotel Xcaret). Outside of her work with Yellow Umbrella Events, Emily enjoys putting together unexpected outfit combinations (she’s a fashion lover!) and scouring local shops for her collections of oddities.
As our social media manager, Jennifer keeps the Yellow Umbrella social channels, website, and blog looking pretty and up to date. Prior to joining Yellow Umbrella, she was a wedding photographer for nearly 20 years—so she has a keen eye for getting the perfect shot. Today, she loves that she gets to work closely with her friends (she’s known Cheryl and Shea for a decade!), and the occasional work travel trip to Mexico doesn’t hurt. Outside of Yellow Umbrella, Jennifer enjoys interior design, spending time with her two dogs, and developing her 30-acre property into a wedding venue.
Because we offer expert guidance, comprehensive travel management, and responsive support. Couples who choose to work directly with a resort often flounder – because they are forced to make every decision themselves. If this is your first time planning a destination wedding, you are making those decisions in a total vacuum.
But this is what we do, day in and day out. We’re able to quickly identify your best options based on your unique needs, group size, and vision. Then, we work our connections to secure it all for you (what would take you months of back and forth can take us just days). Simply put: Resorts won’t walk you through the process – but we will.
We are destination wedding travel planners – meaning we will manage all the travel related components of your destination wedding. This includes helping you decide on the perfect resort, securing your wedding package, managing your guest room block, assisting with resort communication, and more.
You may still wish to have the support of a “traditional” wedding planner – they will help you with the wedding day side of things, like choosing vendors and picking out flowers and linens. Resorts offer on-site wedding coordinators, or you can choose a local wedding planner for more in-depth assistance (we know the best and are happy to give you an intro!).
