Sandy Malone

Sandy Malone is the owner of Weddings in Vieques, LLC, parent company of Weddings in Vieques, Weddings in Culebra, and Flowers in Vieques. Weddings in Vieques is a full-service destination wedding planning company based on Vieques Island, seven miles off the coast of Puerto Rico. She is also the star of TLC's "Wedding Island." A regularly featured wedding blogger for The Huffington Post, Sandy also writes for Purple Unions, Wedding Wire's "Wedding Aces," and her own column. Sandy and her team (including her husband Bill, a retired SWAT team commander) have planned and executed more than 400 weddings in the Spanish Virgin Islands. A veteran event planner and public relations expert from Washington, DC, she has years of experience organizing large and small weddings, press conferences, and corporate and political events. She has planned hundreds of events on Vieques, beginning with her own wedding back in 2004. Since that time, her professional staff has executed large and small weddings of all styles * everything from intimate elopements and vow renewals to fabulously posh events at multi-million dollar waterfront villas. She has also arranged family reunions, destination baby showers, corporate retreats, and a variety of other events for clients from all over the United States and Canada. Prior to moving to Vieques, Sandy was the Vice President of Public Affairs for a publicly traded marketing company. She began her career in journalism, and was Managing Editor of Campaigns & Elections Magazine through the 1996 Presidential election cycle. She was also a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, where she wrote the Politics.Net column. Sandy first fell in love with Vieques Island in1999 as a media strategist for Puerto Rican Governor Pedro Rossello's campaign to oust the Navy from Vieques. Sandy is also the owner of Weddings in Culebra (wedding planning services on Vieques' little sister island), Flowers in Vieques (a full service floral and décor firm) and Boutique in Vieques (a clothing and home decor shop). She and her husband are also the owners of a police support and victim's advocacy non-profit organization that serves the community and visitors of Vieques Island, and Sandy serves on a number of committees for the Policia de Puerto Rico.