El Dorado Royale (EDR) Brides - POST HERE!

[ctpetch]

Originally Posted by nolaroy724

Your EDR coordinator should be able to email it to you. I know Monica sent me a copy, but I can't seem to put my fingers on it for you.

I have been to a friends DW in Mexico and it is still really nice with the translation. Afterall, we are in Mexico!!!! You may want to consider writing your own vows because this will help to make the ceremony more personal for you. You could also have someone do a reading. This may help you feel more comfortable with the ceremony since only a small portion will be in Spanish then.

We had a few reading done by our guest. We didn't do our own vows and wish we would of to make in more personal. Especially since they don't even do the normal vows and you repeat them. The only thing you have to remember is to say I DO... Yet we still loved the ceremony and it will be a day to remember forever!!!

[Kits55]

Originally Posted by shannon

Here is website I bought my sand unity ceremony set from--- they turned out really cute - I'll pull them out tonight and take a picture and post...They packed it really well, so I'm not worried about them breaking during the trip.....
Sand Ceremony Sets, Sand Ceremony Examples, Sand Ceremony

for our reception at tucanes, we are doing 10 tiki torches and 15 floating candles (I'm bringing my own votives)... we are having a private dinner on the beach the following night, with our guests, we are having 10 tiki torches, and 30 beach candles and my votives from home....

Thanks for posting where you got your sand vases from, i had no idea where to look!

[Kits55]

Originally Posted by shannon

We got married there legally. At first, I was going to do symbolic, but changed a few months ahead of time. I have the script at home- I'll post it tonight! :)
Vince was like -"I can't believe you got us going down there and it being in spanish, etc" -but he was sold after the ceremony and said he was glad we did it legally there...

The ceremony was kinda blurry for me-honestly-- i had a slight freakout right as we were driving up in our golfcart and my dad (who coached me in basketball all during HS) was telling me to get my "game face on" and my sister (also in the golf cart) was telling me to lean over and "throw up and get it over with"---- so it was good times- hehe :) ...... we laugh about that now...
The judge would say something and then the WC would translate.... the legal part. But they had something about a Mexican philosopher and how important marriage is (like a nice speech) that was totally in English done by the WC. Only the legal part was done by the judge and done in Spanish and translated.

Then we were able to do our own vows, our own ring exchange and the sand ceremony-- and that was all done by the WC in English- the judge didn't do any of that-- there was no translation done for that...

So the parts I remember-- I enjoyed! and it seemed to go really smoothly and we still got our personal parts in just English......I'm glad we did it legally there.
They mailed us the translated documents and I had no problem getting my name and everything changed here with doing it legally in Mexico....

Shannon: How long did it take for you to receive the translated legal documents?

[Rhonda]

Has anyone had any experience with any of the "approved" photographers/videographers at EDR? My FI and I have decided to use one of the resorts photographers to avoid the $500 fee. The choices are Caribe Photo; Royale Photo; Claudia Rodriguez, or Mexican Wedding Photos. I know a lot of people on this forum have said positive things about Claudia, but, I'm wondering about the others....the prices vary quite a bit, so, I'm wondering what the best choice is... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Mandy]

Originally Posted by Rhonda

Has anyone had any experience with any of the "approved" photographers/videographers at EDR? My FI and I have decided to use one of the resorts photographers to avoid the $500 fee. The choices are Caribe Photo; Royale Photo; Claudia Rodriguez, or Mexican Wedding Photos. I know a lot of people on this forum have said positive things about Claudia, but, I'm wondering about the others....the prices vary quite a bit, so, I'm wondering what the best choice is... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Wow, that's new. When I got married, we only had one choice, I believe Caribe Photo. I haven't heard a ton positive about them, but apparently they're getting better.

There's a thread here if you will go search for Claudia. She would probably be your best bet if pics are important to you.

[shannon]

Originally Posted by Kits55

Shannon: How long did it take for you to receive the translated legal documents?

Umm-- maybe a week or 2?? Not very long. We had documents when we left too- I get confused about what is what.. Right now, I have about 5 documents- some of them are copies I think though, and some are in Spanish and some in English. I just took all of them to the Social Security's office and the DMV when I went to change my name and had no problems.

[shannon]

Originally Posted by Rhonda

Has anyone had any experience with any of the "approved" photographers/videographers at EDR? My FI and I have decided to use one of the resorts photographers to avoid the $500 fee. The choices are Caribe Photo; Royale Photo; Claudia Rodriguez, or Mexican Wedding Photos. I know a lot of people on this forum have said positive things about Claudia, but, I'm wondering about the others....the prices vary quite a bit, so, I'm wondering what the best choice is... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

WOW- that is new. I am glad to hear that EDR is trying to change some of their policies and offering more options when it comes to photographers. I always thought they should include some more local photogs as vendors. I agree with Mandy- out of those, I'd go with Claudia Rodriguez I think...

[ctpetch]

Originally Posted by Rhonda

Has anyone had any experience with any of the "approved" photographers/videographers at EDR? My FI and I have decided to use one of the resorts photographers to avoid the $500 fee. The choices are Caribe Photo; Royale Photo; Claudia Rodriguez, or Mexican Wedding Photos. I know a lot of people on this forum have said positive things about Claudia, but, I'm wondering about the others....the prices vary quite a bit, so, I'm wondering what the best choice is... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm with everyone else. That is awesome they are giving more than one choice for photographers. Here we paid the $500 because caribe was the only choice in may. I too would go with Claudia. I wasn't impressed with Caribe from other brides that used that photographer when I seen their photos. Check out their sites and see how the photos look. Possibly someone on here has used some of the others. Claudia was one of the biggest ones recommended when I was searching. Unfortunately she was booked when I finally decided to go outside. I think it is worth paying the money for your wedding day. I also felt the 3 hrs I had with photographer was plenty of time. That included 30 min. pre ceremony for myself, ceremony, photos of family, guest and bride and groom after. Then we even did about 30 min. at private reception set up and guest again. The photos friends took the rest of the night turned out beautiful too. Hopefully that helps you.

[Rhonda]

Ok, thanks, guys! I think I'll post a question for others in the forum and ask if they've heard/used the others.
We do want nice pics, but, we're also willing to sacrifice a little if it saves us some $$. So, I'm just wondering if the others are somewhat comparable in quality, then, I might just go with one of them. But, if I hear a lot of negative stuff...then, probably not.

[jfwolfe72]

Wow!!! Claudia is now one of EDR's approved photographers?! That's great! I used Claudia and Mike Cantarell for our photography and videography, but we had to pay the $500. The only one that we could use was Caribe. In the beginning of my planning process, Caribe just seemed to be getting started and the samples that I saw on-line were just ok. However, after I had booked Claudia, I saw that Caribe had really started to step it up. So, Caribe might not be bad at all. However, I'm totally biased since I used Claudia. Here's a link to our slideshow if you're interested (I actually just posted this as an add-on link to my review in another thread - sorry for the extra post).

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