Important Things to Know Before Flying to Your Wedding Destination

Important Things to Know Before Flying to Your Wedding Destination

If you are a bride and planning for your destination wedding, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) suggests you carefully outline your trip through airport security as carefully as you plan that trip down the aisle to avoid unnecessary hassles.

“Brides-to-be can definitely bring their wedding dress through a security checkpoint,” TSA employee and blog contributor Lynn Dean said.  But she said if the wedding dress can’t lay flat in its garment box and fit through the X-ray machine, TSA officers will screen the dress manually.

If that happens, “Stay calm,” said Jack Ezon, president of Ovation Vacations, a well-known Virtuoso agency that plans 200 destination celebrations or more a year. “Many dresses have wires and fancy jewels and other decoration that may need to be inspected. And even through TSA agents wear gloves, you can ask them to put on a fresh pair before touching your dress.”

For the flight, Ezon suggests brides book a first-class seat to get early boarding and first pick of storage space. “I’ve had brides whose dresses were so elaborate that we even booked the dress its own seat.”

Ezon also expressed that though it is important to take care a wedding dress on the plane, there are other outfits to be taken care of as well. “You have the mothers of the bride and groom as well. They’re all focused on getting their clothing there, too.” Jewelry and other valuables should be packed in carry-on bags.

Another important thing to consider is your identification. A bride leaves for her destination wedding with one last name but returns with another. TSA’s current rules require that the name on a ticket match the name on an ID exactly but, often, honeymoon tickets are made in the married couple's name.

TSA’s advice: “Take your marriage license with you in the event you booked your plane tickets in your married name but haven’t updated your driver’s license.”

In a nutshell: Be sure that your flight to your wedding destination, like your partner, is perfect.

Posted by Sophia Andrews on Thursday March 22 2012, 4:07 AM EST. Ref: Reuters. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Travel. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0