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Paradise Catamarans are awesome. There was a girl Carrie on here who got married at AS and she used them twice during her wedding week and raved about them.

 

We are paying for transport to and from our hotel (50 mins) and then alcohol for the drinks and snacks for everyone. I believe we have 35 people going and the total is just over $2100. Fi's parents are paying for it like the "Rehearsal Dinner" we would have had if we'd had a traditional wedding. We literally booked this last night. You pay 20% down and then the rest you can mail a check a week before you leave to their address in Rhode Island.

 

Also, we are doing a trip to Selevatica for the zipline tours which is $90 pp including transport from our hotel.

 

Lastly, we are doing a night in Cancun clubbing. The RT vans are like $250 each and carry 12 people. I used Riveria Maya Excursions for this.

 

 

DJs:

 

What is this about 3500 for the bells and whistles DJ? I saw $1500 for a DJ on the price sheet and thats it, I didn't know there are options for DJs? I was really hoping that $1500 would include the balloons, glow bracelets, and the other props.

Hi Suzanne! What sort of dinner are you looking to do? Private or non-private?

Honestly, the guests that don't go at all or choose to stay at a different resort will feel like complete douchebags after. Seriously. I wouldn't waste my time trying to convince them... they just won't get it until after the fact unfortunately. However, I promise you that you won't miss them. I swear

Awww Meghan
My advice for this scenario - don't allow men to do anything wedding related unless you absolutely don't care about it lol. DH had ONE responsibility throughout our whole wedding planning process and that was to make the appointment for our rings. I ended up cutting off any sort of physical contact, if you know what i mean, just to get him to take care of it. The end.
P.S I didn't ask him to do anything after that.... it wasn't worth my sanity.

I agree with Katie, reading through the thread is by far the most helpful route to go. To sum it up quickly..... The food is awesome, the service is amazing, the prices for extra's are ridiculous, the WC - I wasn't overly thrilled with but my wedding was great!

Here's a link to some of my pics: MEXICO Destination Wedding Photography, Wedding Photojournalism throughout the Mayan Riviera
Go to Galleries, Nicole & Curt

Hey Meghan, I can totally sympathize with you. Sounds like you need to schedule Saturday morning and afternoon to do them together. I feel if you can put aside time to do them maybe he'll get more serious. Tell him guests are asking when the invites were going out and Etiquette says 6 months for destination wedings (I made that up, but I'd say it to him anyways).

 

I had to send Mark an email telling him that I was upset that he had a few things to do and hasn't done them yet while I have been planning the wedding for the 2 of us and only asking for his input on decisions to be made. That made him relaize he needed to step up.

 

Good luck girl@!

Suzanne - Check out trip advisor too. You are talking about Bree who was on here. I forget what her screenname was - Beckerba - or something. Anyways on Trip Adisor there are so many wedding reviews and you can contact the people who left the rveiew.

I think all of our fiances are the same! My fiance said he really wanted to help with the save the dates; I had a few girlfriends who offered, but my fiance was dead-set that he wanted to help. I set an evening to do it, he made ONE and then decided he wanted to go play Halo instead---gah!! From now on, all of the DIY projects are going to be done with my girlfriends, lol.

 

AmyB, I think you should do the backdrop and make it as incredibly cheesy as possible

 

AmyKH, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your BD pics! You look absolutely stunning. After seeing yours, I was motivated to start going to the gym/eating better. My session is at the end of March, so I have some time to get in shape!

We're happy to have you and answer any questions you may have

Here are some of my favorite things to do that get me MOST excited about my upcoming weddding:

Here's Elizabeth Medina's blog and I searched for AS, click on the different weddings to see the pictures:

Elizabeth Medina Photography

Here's one at Azul from Claudia Rodriguez

http://www.claudiaphoto.com/alberto/matt_andrea/

My second favorite thing to do is search planning threads on this forum. There are four AS planning threads I can think of off the top of my head...

Tracey
KatKen
Nicole
Milejo

These are so helpful with all the details and whatnot. There is a lot to do planning a wedding but these girls keep me sane and grounded and they are your best support system!

Katies suggestion was probably the best, reading through this entire forum will really get you up to speed quickly, it's what everyone does first thing when they get here.

We also have bi-weekly to-do's and check in with each other which really helps. Just remember to do one thing at a time, doin't do one million things at a time (like I keep trying to do) it just ends up getting very stressful.

Good luck, ask us any question you want!

Amy

Hahaha Renee - Halo OMG lol! Ya ladies, the faster we learn that men just aren't into that the better off we'll be

Think about it... how long would you last if you were helping FI clean parts for a car, or shopping for fishing boats or somthing like that? Men and woman are different and its ok lol. It doesn't mean that he doesn't care about the wedding.

Ooo good question, I don't know where they live.

I know! I wish you'd come crash my wedding, that would be awesome

Absolutely, I'll be out there Monday, May 3rd with my laptop so let me know if you want to meet

AMY I LOVE IT!!!

Ever since that JK wedding video came out my bridesmaids and mom have been encouraging me to do it. I totally would I just didn't even know what to choose but Good Night by the BEP is PERFECT!!!

You better have someone recording this... and you better share it with us!!

I can't wait!

Wow, this is all information that I needed! I want to do a zip line tour and also know that we planned on renting vans for transportation into Cancun for my bachelorette party

Thanks so much for this info!