The guests who found love in Middle East hotels
Hoteliers from Ajman, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the UAE shared their most memorable love stories of hotel guests with romance on their minds, from surprise mass wedding-vow renewals, to a boardroom romance and several sandy beach proposals.
A boardroom romance at Crowne Plaza Beirut
Crowne Plaza Beirut senior banquet sales executive Mayssa Achkar recalls the time two delegates fell in love during a meeting at the hotel, only to return there later to propose…
Knowing that Crowne Plaza Beirut is a business hotel, we have several events daily and two years ago something special happened in one of the conferences.
By coincidence two attendees met each other during the meeting and a spark flew between them.
After one year, the guy came back to the hotel and suggested he propose to his lover in the same meeting room where they first met.
We made all of the preparations to create a suitable atmosphere for this special occasion, w covered the table in red flowers, put red balloons and candles up everywhere and played love songs.
The lady said ‘yes’. It was a great moment and the couples were so happy.
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Le Meridien makes a proposal out of towels and sunbeds
The front-office team at Dubai’s Le Meridien Mina Seyahi BeachResort & Marina went the extra mile for one couple with romance on their minds…
Always up for a challenge the Mina Seyahi front-office team exceeded expectations after receiving an email from Mr Quddus, a guest coming to stay with us who wanted to propose to his girlfriend.
With the help of several different departments, our team created a heart shape using more than 30 sun-beds and laid 70 or more white towels on the lawn area to form the words “Heather I love you, let’s get married”.
As you can imagine, Heather was overwhelmed and said ‘yes’! We received an email from Mr Quddus after their stay thanking our team for all their help and for making their stay and his proposal so memorable.
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Love in the air at Kempinski Ajman
From Cinderella-themed weddings to strange, sandy proposals; Adnan from Kempinski Hotel Ajman shares some of the hotel’s most memorable love stories…
A white wedding
Kempinski Hotel Ajman hosted a wedding recently, wherein the bride requested a Cinderella concept with.
It was a white themed wedding, wherein the whole ballroom’s carpet was changed to white for just one evening.
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Strawberry delight
A couple celebrated their anniversary in November and the wife’s favourite fruit is strawberry, For dessert everything was strawberry themed.
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Rainy day
Last week a couple was on vacation from Russia. The lady wanted to propose to her guy. She asked the recreation manager to write a message on the beach and then took her man to the balcony.
The message was written in Russian and translated to ‘Let it rain’
The sentence did not make sense for a proposal, but the lady said it had a hidden meaning for her fiancé to be.
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Surprise vows renewals at InterContinental Al Jubail
Reynante Pattung, sales and marketing manager at the Saudi Arabia hotel remembers catering to an event where the gentlemen surprised their wives by renewing their wedding vow…
InterContinental Al Jubail catered to a ‘love event’ that many couples from the Filipino community in Saudi Arabia signed up to.
It was a really amazing evening of delicious food and fun, and as it approached 10pm the gents surprised the ladies. Music played and one-by-one the gents went to their lady sitting at the opposite side of the room and presented a rose to them and asked ‘can you be my partner tonight?’
Everyone was so excited and then the music stopped and a man said over the microphone ‘all men please hold the hand of your partner’. At that point, the gentlemen renewed their vows to their wives, as did the ladies to their husbands.
It was a very successful, elegant and memorable evening.