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Did anyone get married at the end of July? or has been to cancun at that time? what is the weather like then?

Also, rather than having a cocktail reception/hour, instead could we get married and then just go to one of the bars? as we're all hotel residents and all inclusive i feel like spending $400 per 10 people for drinks and nibbles is a bit of a waste of money, when we could just go to a bar and get free drinks?

Great thank you! i'll have a look at that link!

you get married the day we fly home! hope it goes really well! what have you got sorted so far? have you got many going?

Oh, how fun!! I have my resort booked and that is about it! I am kind of far behind. I am working on my save the dates and website right now. My goal is to have those sent out by the end of the month. Pretty much all of my guests know, but I still want to give them a full 9 months to plan for the trip. I think we will have at least 40. I am hoping for 50 or 60 to take advantage of the free private functions! I am actually getting married at Le Blanc, but it is a Palace resort as well. I think we have the same wedding coordinators. What all have you done so far?

i haven't heard of le blanc, is that in cancun too?

well i was hoping i wouldn't have to do much, turn up, get married, done! i didn't realise i'd have to choose somewhere for the ceremony, then choose somewhere for the cocktail recpetion and then choose somewhere for dinner, plus choose colours and flowers etc etc!! it's nice to have a choice but i totally didn't expect it!!

we've booked our trip as have our parents and our brothers and some friends. so far we have 18 confirmed, and i would imagine it will get up to about 25-30, which im really impressed with (we're all travelling from the UK, so a 11.5 hour flight, and it's not cheap!) what do you get for free and how? i know about the cocktail hour if you book a certain amount of rooms right? but do those rooms have to be booked direct? because we're doing everything through travel agents!

I've got my dress (YAY!) and i've planned colour schemes. i designed and made my invites (I'm so pleased with them) half have gone out, the others are going out this week.

we're having a party once we're back in the UK too, and that's all sorted. booked the venue, the DJ, the food and photographer so that's good.

the DJ/Music at the moon palace is SOOOOO expensive compared to at home!! a DJ at home for 5/6 hours including all his equipment and lighting etc is about £250 ($380) and i see at the moon palace it's $1400!!! JEEEEEEEEZE!!! do you know if we can bring our own ipod and our own docking station and just use that?

sorry, that was an essay!

Welcome to all you new MP brides!!!

If you will look in my review (link below my siggi pic), I used David Pena. I also originally looked into Tamms Photography but they were already booked for my weekend. I love artsy photography and this is the one area I would of changed and that has been a big issue after the wedding. (I've shed many a tear, as a matter of fact). Don't get me wrong, David's work was good but it wasn't outstanding or artsy in any way. I had asked for some specific things, and he wasn't able to provide that. I did see where he did some of the things I asked of him for another bride, Honey, one week later. I guess he went and figured it out the week following our wedding.

Looking back I should of found a destination Photographer from the outside to document the main nights of the event and all day of the wedding. We probably should have also done a trash the dress session (I had talked to Claudia about this but we chose not too due to budget). I didn't feel we got any good photos (the quality I demand) from the event. It has been such a sore subject, DH and I are just now, four months later, going to go through our photos from the day of the wedding and hopefully find something we can blow up to a canvas size. I was so upset and disappointed, I couldn't even look through our photos until recently and I had to stop looking through other peoples on this thread that did what we should of done.

A bit of advise to all of you. If you know in advance some part of your wedding is going to be important to you, make sure you do it even if it pushes your budget. I knew that photography was THAT but I let our budget and DH talk me out of this part of it and it has turned out to be the BIGGEST mistake.

Fortunately, The rest of our wedding was so perfect, and I am now married to best friend and love of my life. I just don't have any great photos to document our great time.

Woodsylou,

We took the approach that we didn't want to do much once we got to MP. We had a three hour session with our wedding coordinator the day after we arrived (Monday), and never worried much about it after that point.

If you don't want to make decisions on things like location, flowers, etc., just pick a package and ask your WC to make those decisions for you.

Nibsmom brought and used their IPOD and docking station during part of their wedding. I think she talked about it a few pages ago. We brought ours but only used it in the room and at the pool. We rented the music system ($400), because we had a group of over 40 people the day of the wedding.