Paradisus Riviera Brides - POST HERE!

Hey everyone!! I've been lurking for the past 3 days reading all 89 pages of posts!! SOOOO much WONDERFUL information!! I'm so excited!

 

The only thing that is stressing me right now is reserving our date!! We are working through destinationweddings.com and they said that they contacted the resort on Tuesday and still have no reply on availability. How long did it take for them to get back to you? My FI is finishing his MBA and we have a SUPER tight time window that we are working with. If we don't get our date we're going to have to move the wedding out 9 months!!

Welcome egsarah! Normally Perla responds pretty quickly (within a couple of days) but I know that Daniela left Paradisus at the beginning of DEcember so as far as I know Perla is on her own.. I would email again on Monday... Perla doesn't work on Sundays for the most part.

Ahhh..thanks Missy! That makes me feel a lot better! Can't wait to start sharing some wedding planning.

Thanks Fanny~ it was fabulous! I'm going to work on a review soon.

I got a massage at the spa. It was good, but not as good as I've had here in the states. I actually thought that they mixed up my treatment with someone elses because the 2nd half of my massage was reflexology, which I didn't ask for but wasn't going to complain about at the time. I also used the spa for my hair and my moh and bm hair. I'll put more in my review, but lets just say it also wasn't what I expected.

She was very sick! We were supposed to meet on the 6th and she had to cancel and didn't come in to work that day. We met on the 7th and I think she was going to try to go home early because she was till not feeling very well. Also, there were atleast 5 other weddings during the time that we were there so she was busy busy busy! Daniela was there also and although I didn't deal with her at all during the planning I LOVED her when I met her. If you guys can email with her I bet she'd be great also. She was very happy and upbeat. I loved her personality!

We burned cd's for the ceremony and one to play before the ceremony when everyone was being seated. They played them at the right times and they were very loud. This was not an extra charge. It is included. We used our ipod for the reception and it was awesome. It was VERY windy while we were there which might affect the sound during the ceremony, but for us it was ok.

We went with the paper bags for the oot bags and they worked out great. I just made cute name tags for them and stuck a logo sticker on them. Guests loved them and most had already brought a beach bag with them so they didn't need anything more. Oh, and you might want to look into those battery tea light candles. We used them in the centerpieces I brought down and they look totally real. We also used battery paper lanterns and they looked so cute hanging on the terrace.

Do you have a docking station for it? My MIL brought her bose down and we used the ipod on that. It was perfect for what we needed and definitely loud enough. Not to mention free..

I reallly wanted to get a cigar roller as a surprise gift for my FI but it was WAY too expensive for me. Especially since we only had 28 guests and only maybe 12 would have a cigar. Once we got to the resort I found that they had a guy each night in the lobby selling really good cigars so my brother bought a really nice box of cubans and gave them to FI at the reception and he shared with everyone. It worked perfectly and saved like 600 dollars!

There are a couple of pics here...

http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t35407

Congratulations Kelly! Your photos are so pretty!

 

I had a question for those of you who have seen a wedding (or have been married) on the beach. I was hoping to have my father-in-law play his guitar at the ceremony. Do you think the waves and wind will be too loud and that a microphone & speakers will be needed? I was hoping that he could just play and it would be fine.

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks!

 

Meredith

Thanks Meredith! I think that it may depend on the size of your group. If you have a small group and he can possibly move around while he is playing, it should be ok. With a larger group it may be more difficult for everyone to hear, especially if he stands in one place (but if he can move around it might be ok still). It was REALLY windy some of the time that we were there and it really drowned out a lot of the sound.

Hi girls, I have a couple of questions ...

 

First, I was wondering if anyone knew if there are any other ceremony locations besides the beach.

 

Second I was wondering if anyone knew whether the PRC had any of those beautiful rattan or bamboo aisle runners.

 

Thanks - and congratulations Kelly! You looked beautiful!!

Thanks everyone. Here are a couple more pics I posted. I'm working on a review.

 

http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...555#post665197

Kelly your pics are gorgeous!

 

Has anyone used the mariachis that paradisus provides? How were they? The price tag is steep for 45 min IMO- as I have said before and I have been working on using an outside vendor (I'll keep you posted.. still figuring that out). Kelly, Missy, Rebecca? I can't remember hearing about that in your reviews. In some cases it's worth paying the outside vendor fee because it's still significantly cheaper than the paradisus rate so I was just wondering what everyone else was planning to do...