Experience Luxury, Oceanfront Style The New Year is looking bright for Tybee’s Wedding Chapel. We have brides coming to view our lovely facility and exploring our great island for their destination wedding. The families are looking at hotels, restaurants, shops and every nook and cranny of our fabulous island. We just love those wedding web sites that the bride and groom develop to show off our beautiful island and all of our businesses! Ray, our Director of Events, recently enrolled The Tybee Wedding Chapel in several wedding shows. Carla Michael, his assistant, and I attended the first show called “The Southern Girls Show”. That was fun! Ladies from Augusta, Macon and our areas surrounding Savannah attended in anticipation of picking us great ideas about the details of their wedding. Many were still trying to select the perfect place for that wonderful wedding and reception of their dreams. It was encouraging to meet the prospective grooms who seemed very interested in having some input into the destination for the wedding and reception. Now, the mothers... they have some real firm ideas as to what they want. The chapel seems to fit many of their “wish lists”. We had a wonderful birthday party complete with DJ for a very special 11 year old. How sweet is that? Lannie and I would like to thank the new City Council for the 2011 Planning Commission for approving our doors to be installed on the lower level of the Chapel. It seems that no one parks there unless you count all of the family members who sit downstairs until the wedding begins and returns to the lower area to wait for the real party to start after our wedding chapel is converted to the reception of the bride’s dreams. You will notice a lot of commotion around the chapel when the porcelain arts school returns. Most of their meals will be enjoyed at the chapel since they have now out grown the Old School House Cafeteria. FYI: I am still waiting on the first Sweet 16 party! Thank everyone on Tybee for your continued support. We look forward to many more events and need everyone on Tybee to help us become a wedding destination to work our way as a community out of this recession. Best wishes! Lannie and Stacye Jarrell No One Covers Tybee Like The Breeze
The last months of 2011 were wonderful for relaxing at home, visiting friends or enjoying Christmas parties. However, other than the beautiful holiday lights our island has been a little quiet. Good news! The bookings have begun for 2012 and they look good for early in the year. We are hopeful to have a great first quarter of 2012 and the spring and summer season looks very good year to date. Cornelia Stumpf, the publicist for The Critz Marathon, has done a wonderful job promoting our Tybee Marathon. It is going to be a big success! Oceanfront Cottage Rentals, LLC is one of several sponsors of this event and we are proud of the way that the promotions will make the first weekend of February busy for our local businesses. You had better watch out! Suzanne Painter, the director of Georgia Seminars by the Sea (International Porcelain Arts School... not Chinese china painters) is coming back to Tybee on February 23. We look forward to the return of this internationally famous school. These world masters of porcelain painting, hand building and more will be holding classes for advanced teachers to enhance and continue the study of porcelain arts continuing and enriching this wonderful art form. There is also a class for beginners available. Oceanfront Cottage is so proud to be the host of this very special group for the 5th year. Thank you, Suzanne, for having faith in us and our beautiful island. Lannie and I have been a little under the weather. My sweet husband had a cervical surgery and it has gone very well. If you haven’t seen us out and about it is because he has the good sense to stay home and make sure that he fully recuperates. Lannie’s surgery was the second week of the New Year and I know my best blessing is that everything has gone great for him after surgery. Wow! I never know how much he did around the house and at work. That boy didn’t look like he was always busy, but I can tell you that I really miss my Lannie in full action mode! Oceanfront Cottage Rentals, LLC has been blessed with wonderful employees and fabulous home owners and even better homes. Everyone on Tybee knows how vital the vacation rental market is to sustain our island’s economy. We at Oceanfront Cottage Rentals, LLC pledge once again to try to be good neighbors in our lovely neighborhoods and ask you should you have any problems in 2012 to call me personally to let me know so that Lannie, our staff and I can make our Tybee Island a wonderful place to live and work. Lannie and I look forward to seeing you around Tybee in full action mode! Stacye, Lannie and The Oceanfront Team Tybee Breeze
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