ROYAL PLAYA DEL CARMEN BRIDES: were kids allowed for the day? ...and other questions

Hi all Royal brides!! Man, I haven't been on here in FOREVER so I'm playing a bit of catch-up and tried to MQ as much as I could. There's been lots of activity & new names on here since I last checked in! So great!

 

Update: We've booked and paid for our trip! June3-10, 2010! Soooo pumped! Now that we've done that I feel like we're almost there, ha!

 

Here goes!

 

Yep, on the intieraries we're putting for everyone to meet in the restaurant/bar for drinks around 5:30. Then, move on to dinner around 6:30-7

 

We're doing a symbolic and going to write our own (w/the help of fellow Desties, of course!). If you do a search on here for ceremony scripts, you can find some great ones to start with. I guess I should check w/Kimberly to make sure that's allowed, but I can't see why it wouldn't be.

 

 

Yay!! CONGRATS! I can't believe that's only 3months away! Soooo exciting!

 

CONGRATS to you, too, becks!!

 

Aww bummer I remember that question and answer during the webinar! I wonder what is up w/that? Luckily, I'm doing the free wedding so I'm not too worried about the pricing for the packages. You'll have a wonderful wedding no matter where you have it so don't worry!! Happy Planning!

 

We're staying 7 nights (4 nights after the wedding) at the Royal. 11 would be amazing!

 

I'm right there w/ya on the stress-free part! I can't believe how close you are!!!!!!!! So awesome! I don't have answers to all your questions, but I'm so excited for you!

4) I'm just sticking w/the all white (tablecloths & chair covers) and will bring some table decorations (they'll set up the decorations you bring for free). Colored ribbons for the chairs are $5/chair.

 

What form are you supposed to put that dance floor request? I haven't received a form, yet.

 

I hope you're having a BLAST!!!!! Can't wait to hear about your trip!

 

OMG, Tracey!!! Your wedding looked absolutely AMAZING!! And you looked GORGEOUS!! Where did you get your dress?? Its the perfect beach dress!! FI and I were looking through your pics saying "I wish we were there for their wedding!" hahahaha! Matt did a fantastic job!!!!!

 

Hahahaha! I want the palm trees, now, too!

 

Good idea on showing her. Not that I know for sure or anything, but it kind of sounds like they didn't really want to be there so I'm sure that didn't help w/any kind of negative experience they came across.

 

Sorry this was so freaking long!

Candice--

I just wanted to say that I think you have a GREAT website! I 'borrowed' a few ideas from your site when I started working on my own. I'll post my link too when it's finished!

I have a question for anyone who may know... We are doing the luxury package and we were wondering what the timeline looks like from ceremony to reception? How long between the ceremony and reception? We are trying to time how long we want our photographer for! Any insight would be great!

 

Jen

Tracey... what an awesome wedding...looks like you guys had a blast!!! Your pictures are amazing, and i love the dress!! Can't wait to see your review!!

Hi All!

I'm a "newbie" here and have my wedding booked for March 2010. I'm in the process of booking hotel rooms...however, I have been having a lot of problems and my guests have been having a lot of issues with Angie and the staff with everything from charging the wrong amounts to credit cards, not returning phone calls, booking wrong rooms, etc. I feel really embarrassed that my guests have to experience this lack of professionalism, but I feel that there isn't much I can do. Has anyone else had issues with Angie and her staff? What have you done about it? For those who have already had their wedding, did you have issues before you went to Playa and if so did you have issues in Playa with the staff at the resort?

 

If anyone has any advice on how I should handle this please help:) My fiancé is so frustrated with our guests calling to complain about the hotel he wants to cancel the wedding at the hotel and do it somewhere else. -- I would rather not do this...

 

Thanks for everyone’s help:)

 

Holly

Holly and Scotts Wedding Website

For those of you who opted for the Ultimate Wedding Package, do you know of anyone just using the music this provides - 1 hour of: mariachi band, Mexican trio, live Mexican band, then your own music? I haven't looked into a DJ or band or anything because I thought this would be fine...after thinking more about it, however, I'm kinda nervous about it - especially the dancing and whatnot. Let me know your thoughts!! THANK YOU!!

Adriana -

 

We are thinking around 10-14 days. We figure that we will want to get there a good 3-4 days before the wedding and then have a bit of time after, more so after friends and family leave! As of right now we aren't counting this as our true honeymoon but more of an extended stay!

 

Kerri

Wow it has been a long time! Great to see Tracey's pics - thanks for sharing, really beautiful. We are on the less than 2 month countdown. Getting crazy close! As for timing, we are staying 11 days also, some before and some after. MOst our guests are staying 7 days, so it really does not give us much alone time, but we will do a "real" honeymoon in a year. I think we will be doing Cook Islands for that.

 

I still feel like there is so much to do, but yet not much I can really do. What a conflict. Tracey-did you feel this way? Any tips of things not to forget when heading down there? Last minute reminders Thanks in advance.

thank you very much, becks!! I worked my booty off on that thing so that is great to hear I 'borrowed' some stuff from other Desties, too, so I'm more than happy to pay it forward! yes, definitely post yours! I'd love to see how it turned out!!

Jen, I don't know for sure but figured there is about an hour b/t the ceremony and reception bc they offer the 1hr cocktail hr b/t the two. We decided against the cocktail hour just bc we aren't having too many guests so it didn't make sense to spend that much.

Oh my gosh you're soooo close!! How exciting!!! Ya, our guests are staying 5 days and we're staying 7 so I feel you on that. We're hoping to do a "real" one next year, too. Not sure exactly where, yet.
I was wondering the same about when you get to that point. I emailed Kimberly a few days ago to get a timeline of planning stuff just so I could have an idea of when I can finally start making decisions but haven't heard back, yet. I'll let you know what she says.

Your photos are beautiful....love the lit up tables and dance floor!