{"id":180909,"date":"2014-10-03T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=180909"},"modified":"2014-10-03T04:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:00:05","slug":"modern-bride-mag-feature-saipan-tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/modern-bride-mag-feature-saipan-tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Modern Bride\u2019 mag to feature Saipan, Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_180912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180912\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Modern-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180912\" alt=\"China\u2019s Modern Bride Magazine conducted photography at Coral Ocean Point Resort on Sept. 11, 2014, in preparation for an article on the Northern Mariana Islands in December 2014. (MVA)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Modern-3-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China\u2019s Modern Bride Magazine conducted photography at Coral Ocean Point Resort on Sept. 11, 2014, in preparation for an article on the Northern Mariana Islands in December 2014. (MVA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s Modern Bride magazine visited Saipan and Tinian last month to prepare an article about getting married in the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Sites visited during the familiarization tour from Sept. 10-14 included Coral Ocean Point Resort, Mariana Resort, Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa dinner show, Managaha, La Tratorria, and the International Festival of Cultures. On Tinian, sites included the Tinian Blowhole, Taga Beach, and Tinian Dynasty Hotel &amp; Casino.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Chinese actress Wang, Luo Dan served as the model for the article. Wang has over 33 million followers on Chinese social media Weibo and will be featured on the bridal magazine\u2019s cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the recent celebrity wedding [on] Saipan last month, there is increased awareness in China\u2014especially via social media\u2014of the Northern Marianas as a wedding and honeymoon destination,\u201d said Marianas Visitors Authority marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cThe Modern Bride magazine article with Wang will be a good follow-up to that earlier coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Modern Bride magazine is published by Cond\u00e9 Nast Media Group and has a circulation of nearly 500,000 a month, targeting readers between ages 21-30 with higher income and higher education. The article \u201cCNMI: Wedding Paradise\u201d is scheduled to appear in their December 2014 issue.<\/p>\n<p>Following the FAM tour, Wang also earned her beginning dive certification and posted photos of her visit to Saipan on her Weibo account. <em><strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Modern Bride magazine visited Saipan and Tinian last month to prepare an article about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":180912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,1080,43,121],"class_list":["post-180909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fam","tag-fiesta-resort-spa","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-northern-mariana-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}