About Florida Sun Weddings
Expert Florida Beach Wedding Planners
Congratulations on your engagement!
This is one of the most important, exciting, and possibly daunting times of your life. Our team of Florida beach wedding planners is here to make sure your wedding is stress-free and flawless. Our services include all-inclusive wedding ceremony packages, wedding planning and day-of coordination, and wedding photography.
Why Choose Us?
Pick Florida Wedding Planners you can Count on
20+ Years Experience
We have over 20 years of experience as Florida beach wedding planners. Our team has the expertise to take the stress out of beach wedding planning.
Our dedication, exceptional organization and personal touch have become our trademark qualities, setting us apart from other beach wedding planners.
We host beach weddings throughout the Sarasota area including: Siesta Key, Venice, Nokomis, Casey Key, Lido Key, Turtle beach and more.
We offer Florida's largest selection of beach wedding ceremony packages. Our packages include unique ceremony sets, seating, an officiant, and more.
We designed our beach ceremony packages to be easily customizable. Choose unique fabric and chair sash colors, as well as alternative aisle decorations.
Affordable Rates
We offer ceremony packages starting at $690. Choose from a selection of affordable ceremony sets for weddings of all sizes.
Beach Wedding Services
With Florida Sun Weddings, planning your Florida destination beach weddings and vow renewals is easy. You can choose from a variety of all-inclusive beach wedding packages, ranging in budget and design themes. Most of our beach wedding package colors and decorations can be customized to make your ceremony truly unique. From tropical scenery to classic elegance, Florida Sun Weddings offers the largest variety of beach wedding ceremony designs on the Florida Gulf Coast.
No wedding is too large or too small for the Florida Sun Weddings team. If needed, we can also organize destination weddings on short notice.
Our team of experienced Florida beach wedding planners will be by your side, planning and coordinating your wedding from day one. Once your wedding package is selected, we will help you select a Florida Gulf Coast beach location for your ceremony and provide you with our recommendations on reception locations, photographers, videographers, florists, entertainment, transportation, decorations, accommodations, hair stylists and make-up artists. With over 20 years of experience as beach wedding planners in Florida, we know the best vendors in the Sarasota area and will work together with them to ensure your beach wedding is perfect.
We offer day-of wedding coordination for our couples. On the day-of your beach wedding, our team will handle ceremony setup and breakdown, coordinate vendors, create your processional and recessional lineup, and play the music from your custom ceremony music playlist.
From the first phone call or email to the last goodbye hug at the end of your special day, we are there, guiding and assisting you every step of the way. As beach wedding planners, our ultimate goal is to meet and exceed your highest expectations.
The Florida Sun Weddings in-house photographer, Cristina Gebel, offers add-on photography packages for all our beach wedding packages. Photography packages include high resolution images delivered via download link within 10-14 business days, including a release of copyrights.
Pricing: Starting at $490 – ceremony only
- Option 1: 60 min, 100 – 125 images
- Option 2: 90 min, 150 – 175 images
- $100 each additional 30 minutes (ceremony location)
Meet The Team
Our History
Florida Sun Weddings was established in 1997 by Sigrid Gebel, wife of renowned animal trainer Gunther Gebel Williams, and is still family-owned and operated. For over 20 years, our team of beach wedding planners has helped hundreds of couples from all over the world plan and coordinate their Florida beach weddings.
Our Wedding Planners
Our team is comprised of three expert Florida destination wedding planners, Tina, Sigrid and Cristina Gebel. The Gebel family works together to ensure your wedding, vow renewal or elopement ceremony runs smoothly and beautifully. With so much experience in Florida, they know all the best ways to make your special day one you’ll never forget. They take a personal approach and can always be reached via phone or email. Work with Florida Sun Weddings and take the stress out of planning your dream beach wedding.
Sigrid Gebel, wife of renowned animal trainer Gunther Gebel Williams, founded Florida Sun Weddings, LLC. in 1997. She is a former German fashion model and Fred Astaire National and Pro-Am Ballroom Champion. Sigrid performed with the “Greatest Show on Earth”, Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey, before changing her career to wedding planning in sunny Florida. Her daughter and daughter-in-law happily joined the Florida Sun Weddings teams as well.
Tina Gebel, also a former performer with Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey, is married with one son. She always aims to please our newly engaged couples and will do just about anything to make your day as special as possible. Tina loves planning dream beach wedding ceremonies and is by your side from day one. Brides love her caring and personal approach to wedding planning and coordinating.
Cristina Gebel, a former gymnast from Europe, married Sigrid’s son, Mark, and joined him as a performer for Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey as well. She and Mark are proud parents of two sons and work together to make sure your Florida beach wedding is flawless. Cristina is also Florida Sun Weddings’ own photographer. You can add her photography packages to any of our beach wedding packages.
We are fluent in German.
Beach Ceremony Packages
Start planning your ceremony by browsing our selection of all-inclusive beach wedding ceremony packages
