Any Gran Bahia Principe brides out there?

Hey ladies,

I booked my wedding for Feb 22nd at 2PM. Our package is $2000 a person, a lot more expensive then your packages, I'm going to assume it's beacuse mine is at more of a peak time? either that or I'm totally getting ripped off.

Maybe I'm the cheapest bride ever, but we're going to go with the photographer at the resort. if the pictures suck, I'm sure that our guests will have taken some nice ones. And my fiances brother is a photographer, so I KNOW they will take nice pics. I just don't want to spend $2400 on a photographer, considering the pics aren't that important to me. I want a few nice ones, but thats it, and I will probably only get one framed. I'm not a big picture girl, the memories will be more important to me. And maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but we'll look so good all dressed up I can't imagine the pictures are going to be awful.

But now that I"m seeing everyone else is getting profesional ones, its making me nervous.

Planning a destination wedding is easy, but a bit stressful beacuse it doesn't seem like you have too much control over very much. And the wedding planner is super bad for getting back to me. It took me a month to finally set the date, and I sent her the forms with my credit card information a month ago and I still haven't been charged.

Sorry for the rant!

Yeah Beverly defnitely isn't very fast about getting back once you email her but I figured she's got a ton to do down there and I've read really good things about her once you are at the resort, so I wouldn't worry too much! However it is odd that she hasn't charged your card yet...guess the aren't too concerned about it lol.

Photographers are def expensive but to me its really important and I'd rather have a great photographer than tons of flowers etc... I'm bringing someone with me that way she'll be able to cover more than just the wedding. I always have a camera with me so thats something I didn't want to have to worry about, I wanted someone else to do that for me

Thanks for the reminder about birth certificates! So many little details I'm sure that I'm forgetting!

Hope everyone is having a great week!! Has anyone else bought their dress yet?

Hello Ladies!

OMG I am so happy to be finding this info from other people planning weddings at the GBP! The place looks so beautiful I was totally shocked that there wasn't any information about anyone having a wedding there!

We will also be there the same time as a few of you as we have our date booked for May 7, 2011. I am thinking we are going to do a 3pm as to not run out of sunlight. We are bringing our own photographers as well but they told us to say that they were our relatives just to be safe so there wasn't any surprises once we got there.

I have my dress, the bridesmaids dresses are ordered, we have the guys pants and shoes, just have to find their shirts. Our colors are tangerine and fuschia.

Is anyone having something besides the CD playing during the ceremony? What about chair decorations? Are you renting those things down there or are you buying them and shipping them down? We haven't gotten our package prices for accomodations and airfare yet as our travel agent said the airfare wasn't available yet?!

I don't know what to do about the chair decorations yet. I don't think they're included in the package, but I asked Beverly to see what chairs are included and she hasn't sent me anything. So I"m hoping that worse case, I can pick them up when I'm there maybe.

I'm not having bridesmaids, so thats something I don't have to worry about since none of my bridesmaids are even coming. I bought my dress a few months ago, before I set a date too, ahhaa. But that is the most exciting part of planning the wedding!

I'm not too worried about flowers, I want it simple, I don't want anything too crazy, so I'm also waiting to see exampes from Beverly, but on another thread there is this company that does the chair wraps and flowers and it is SUPER cheap, I'll see if I can find it again, but its much cheaper then the resort prices.

I have NO IDEA what music I am going to use yet. Its stressing me out. What songs are you guys doing? Traditional or something more personal? I'm interested to hear about your music choices!!!

I don't know about your travel agent, but mine actually wrote to the hotel to get price quotes, beacuse the packages aren't out yet. So you might want to see if your TA can do that for me. Mine aws great about calling the resorts, she even initially called the wedding planner for me and got the wedding packages when Beverly wasn't returning my emails.