TammyWright

ok, i have updated up to this point.

glad to see another great review for one of our long standing vendors.

gorgeous pictures...nathaniel is a super nice guy!

try this link: Best Destination Wedding - Travel Agent Contact Form

sally is correct...we do have TA Becky on here that works with our canadian brides..

hey cass, i do an annual trip to cabo every year for a site inspection. what are you looking for? AI, what price range, a larger resorts, smaller resort, etc. i checked out about 9 resorts this past june and have the contact for all the wc's...i may be able to suggest something for you...

have you thought about contacting one of the bdw travel agents here: Best Destination Wedding - Travel Agent Contact Form

bumping the message for our weekend warriors...

they were put on hold while worked on the forum conversion but once we are back and running, we will do newsletters again...

Hi Jeremy, yes, the posts should be moved over without a problem (at least that is what I am hoping

hey ladies, Just a quick message that we have a new canadian agent on the forum. Here name is TA Becky and she is a destination wedding specialist. if you would like to inquire about her services, you can pm her (username is TA Becky) or use the BDW travel agent link in the banner ad at the top, right hand corner of the forum. tammy

thank you again! and i really have to thank my mods....i made them take a course on how to use the next software that was GRADED...yes, GRADED!!! it was like 40 chapters!! it has been a little nuts so i will take all your good vibes for an easy conversion and no tech hiccups...

thanks everyone for your words of support. until we get siggies up, you will be able to post your image in your avatar tammy

Hey everyone, Dreams is having their book 5 rooms get 6th free promo *. if you want me to arrange your block or get more info, contact me by pm or in this thread. Quote: Dreams Gatherings, Getaways and Groups - Terms & ConditionsBook six or more rooms at Dreams Resorts & Spas from June 7th, 2010 thru October 28th, 2010 for travel from June 7th, 2010 thru April 30th, 2011 and for bookings made from June 7th, 2010 thru April 30th, 2011 for travel from May 1st, 2011 thru December 22nd, 2011. Valid for new reservations or requests only. All reservations must be booked through the same source in order to qualify for this offer. In addition, to take advantage of this offer, a designated group leader must email the resorts Groups Department, 7 days prior to arrival, specifying the bookings that apply to this offer. •Dreams Cancun Resort & Spa – •Dreams Riviera Cancun Resort & Spa – •Dreams Tulum Resort & Spa – •Dreams Puerto Aventuras Resort & Spa – •Dreams Los Cabos Suites Golf Resort & Spa – •Dreams Huatulco Resort & Spa – •Dreams Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa – •Dreams Villamagna Nuevo Vallarta – •Dreams Punta Cana Resort & Spa – •Dreams Palm Beach Punta Cana – •Dreams La Romana Resort & Spa – There is a 6 room minimum for this offer and 20 room maximum, including complimentary rooms. Social groups are defined as groups that do not require any additional services, planned events, meeting space, food and beverage events, etc. Any group requiring services of any kind must be directed to the hotel’s Groups Sales Manager and are subject to a surcharge. Additionally, each group will receive the following: •Private check-in •Every sixth room within the group will be complimentary with a maximum of three complimentary rooms per group booking (room nights calculated daily and are not cumulative). •1 complimentary VIP room upgrade for every 10 room nights paid with a maximum of two upgrades per day (room nights calculated daily and are not cumulative). •$200 in resort coupons per room (rules of use apply and are listed below). The complimentary room(s) will be issued in the same room category as the other 5 paid rooms. Room upgrades are based on availability and apply to the next room category where a room block of 10 rooms are achieved for the average length of stay. Private check-in is applicable when the group arrives to the resort all together and the resort has been notified at least 7 days prior to arrival. Resort Coupons Resort coupons can not be applied toward the following items: beauty salon services, spa product purchases, telephone charges, dolphin experiences, gift shop purchases, boutique purchases, internet service, marina services, dive shop, medical services, car rentals and travel agency services. Resort Coupons must be redeemed at the time of reservation or service. Resort Coupons do not hold any cash or commercial value, are not refundable and non-transferable. They are not applicable for tips, taxes, private functions and/or special events such as Christmas and New Years Gala dinners. Resort Coupons are not accumulative and cannot be combined with any other promotion or special offer. They are only valid during the original stay and cannot be deducted upon check out. This promotion is based on double occupancy and is combinable with early booking bonuses and other promotions however, cannot be combined with other Groups Promotions or the Complimentary Wedding Package. Restrictions may apply and this entire offer is based on availability. Blackout dates and restrictions may apply. Valid for agents from United States and Canada only. Employees of tour operators and wholesalers do not qualify. * Terms and availibity may vary. Dreams Resorts can discontinue this promotion at any time without any warning.

Hey everyone, Dreams is having their book 5 rooms get 6th free promo promotion *. if you want me to arrange your block or get more info, contact me by pm or in this thread. Quote: Dreams Gatherings, Getaways and Groups - Terms & Conditions Book six or more rooms at Dreams Resorts & Spas from June 7th, 2010 thru October 28th, 2010 for travel from June 7th, 2010 thru April 30th, 2011 and for bookings made from June 7th, 2010 thru April 30th, 2011 for travel from May 1st, 2011 thru December 22nd, 2011. Valid for new reservations or requests only. All reservations must be booked through the same source in order to qualify for this offer. In addition, to take advantage of this offer, a designated group leader must email the resorts Groups Department, 7 days prior to arrival, specifying the bookings that apply to this offer. •Dreams Cancun Resort & Spa – •Dreams Riviera Cancun Resort & Spa – •Dreams Tulum Resort & Spa – •Dreams Puerto Aventuras Resort & Spa – •Dreams Los Cabos Suites Golf Resort & Spa – •Dreams Huatulco Resort & Spa – •Dreams Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa – •Dreams Villamagna Nuevo Vallarta – •Dreams Punta Cana Resort & Spa – •Dreams Palm Beach Punta Cana – •Dreams La Romana Resort & Spa – There is a 6 room minimum for this offer and 20 room maximum, including complimentary rooms. Social groups are defined as groups that do not require any additional services, planned events, meeting space, food and beverage events, etc. Any group requiring services of any kind must be directed to the hotel’s Groups Sales Manager and are subject to a surcharge. Additionally, each group will receive the following: •Private check-in •Every sixth room within the group will be complimentary with a maximum of three complimentary rooms per group booking (room nights calculated daily and are not cumulative). •1 complimentary VIP room upgrade for every 10 room nights paid with a maximum of two upgrades per day (room nights calculated daily and are not cumulative). •$200 in resort coupons per room (rules of use apply and are listed below). The complimentary room(s) will be issued in the same room category as the other 5 paid rooms. Room upgrades are based on availability and apply to the next room category where a room block of 10 rooms are achieved for the average length of stay. Private check-in is applicable when the group arrives to the resort all together and the resort has been notified at least 7 days prior to arrival. Resort Coupons Resort coupons can not be applied toward the following items: beauty salon services, spa product purchases, telephone charges, dolphin experiences, gift shop purchases, boutique purchases, internet service, marina services, dive shop, medical services, car rentals and travel agency services. Resort Coupons must be redeemed at the time of reservation or service. Resort Coupons do not hold any cash or commercial value, are not refundable and non-transferable. They are not applicable for tips, taxes, private functions and/or special events such as Christmas and New Years Gala dinners. Resort Coupons are not accumulative and cannot be combined with any other promotion or special offer. They are only valid during the original stay and cannot be deducted upon check out. This promotion is based on double occupancy and is combinable with early booking bonuses and other promotions however, cannot be combined with other Groups Promotions or the Complimentary Wedding Package. Restrictions may apply and this entire offer is based on availability. Blackout dates and restrictions may apply. Valid for agents from United States and Canada only. Employees of tour operators and wholesalers do not qualify. * Terms and availibity may vary. Dreams Resorts can discontinue this promotion at any time without any warning.

Dear BDW Member, I know I have been a little absent from the forum, but for good reason. Best Destination Wedding Forum was founded in Sept. 2007 and was just a hobby site of mine. I had a vision of creating a place where destination wedding brides and grooms could go where they could help and support each other plan the wedding of their dreams. I did the best that I could with the limited technology/internet knowledge that I had (and a little help from my husband). At the time, V-bulletin software was the out-of-the-box forum software I could find and worked fine as the forum was growing. I did what I could to make BDW a more personal and fun place for its members by installing “hacks” to the forum. These “hacks” worked fine until newer versions of the forum software were released and the “hacks” stopped working and there was no tech support to make them work again. That is why you see parts of the forum that do not work, causing the forum to run slower and members to wonder why things were not working properly. Once we hit a million posts, the forum became even slower and it has been a lot of work to optimize the forum to run more efficiently. I knew it was time to start looking for a better alternative to v-bulletin. Best Destination Wedding Forum is very important to me and I have always wanted to improve it as well as enhance the user experience. I envisioned a platform that took BDW to the next level - web 2.0 - where we could give vendor and hotel reviews star ratings and integrate the reviews to a section of the site that is easy to find, where vendors and resorts can have fan pages so brides and grooms can monitor the latest announcements from their favorite vendors. Most of all I wanted BDW to work completely and run faster. While BDW has excelled in some areas, there has always been ways to improve the site. Our next step is to move Best Destination Wedding away from V-Bulletin and to a new platform where I can work directly with a technology and development team to implement better forum functions for BDW and its members. What types of new/improved additions will we have as a result? Search: Search Capabilities will be better and the search results will be more relevant Wiki: This is especially useful for Resort and vendor information to be in an easy to find place Reviews: Capable of giving vendors and resorts star ratings and reviews Subscribed Threads: updates will be shown on your own homepage Customized Forums: You can now close/ignore forums that you do not choose to participate in Customized Homepage: You will be able to customize your own homepage to have vendors, threads, forums that you are subscribed to show up first Blogs: The site will also have a feature that integrates with Wordpress blogs. Photo galleries: We will now have a working photo gallery that will have images/image gallery and they can be easily tagged for relevancy. Chat feature: We hope to have the chat box back soon. This was very popular with the members and missed when it stopped working. Mobile Site: we hope to launch a mobile site for your iPhones, androids, and blackberries. What is the site going to look like? At the bottom of this post are some very highly conceptualized mockups (sorry they are so small). As you can see we have re-designed the overall look to freshen up the forum. What are the tradeoffs? Change is never easy. We all know that. Most of the old forum functions will remain. Things may work differently than you are used to, may be placed in different places etc. What we are trying to achieve is a foundation that will eventually take us well beyond the offerings of most other "forums" and a development team to help get us there. Our goal is not to replicate the current experience - but rather elevate it where possible. It will be a continual process on our end to constantly look for ways to improve Best Destination Wedding. Here are three examples of changes that could fall under the category of "tradeoff" for you. No images in siggy (we are working on this function) No standard bb-code editor but we are working on limited BB Code support. No post icons to help reduce clutter How long will this take? We have scheduled the conversion to be on Tuesday, July 27. The URL and such will remain the same. The conversion will begin at 6am PST on launch day and the site will likely be back up and running by early evening. While this does mean that the site will not be up for a day, ultimately it's the safest time for us to do the conversion as anyone we would need to reach would be open for business. It will take a couple of weeks to find and fix and bugs or issues that popped up during the conversion, but this should not hinder your ability to post, search, etc. on the forum. Your Cooperation I ask for your patience and support during this conversion. It is going to take a couple of weeks to work out any bugs and get everything up to speed. Please do your part to report any issues that may arise when using the forum. You can either report bugs/issues in the feedback forum or use the feedback form page which is also located at the bottom of the page. I hope you are as excited as we are for this conversion. I know it is not going to be easy to re-learn how to navigate on the forum, but in the end we will have a more useful forum that will be a much better user experience for you. Thank you for your continued support in Best Destination Wedding. Tammy & the BDW Team Home Page Mock Up: Thread Mock Up:

marny, glad we have another happy bdw bride....

welcome janet... tammy (we emailed earlier)

beautiful pictures...hope you have time to write a review to help future ceiba brides...

Hi Shannon, Welcome to BDW. to be honest, i don't know how easy or successful it will be to fish from the beach. Most of the beaches have sort of dangerous waves so it can be a little rough. also, to get the big fish that cabo is famous for you need to go "deep sea" fishing and that entails taking a boat out pretty far. your time and $$ might be better off spent doing something else like golf, atv, sail/snorket tour, than to rent equipment and spend time fishing off the beach.

my husband had a guys outting, actually they had a few...i just asked that it was early in the morning (most fishing trips start really early, or they can golf or surf early)...and made it a point to be social with everyone else when he was back. i didn't mind eatting breakfast with just my family and friends one morning. it worked out great...he was happy, i was happy he was being really social. it is his dream trip as well...are you going to feel guilty later on if you do not allow him to have a guys outting?

Quote: Originally Posted by littlemisssunshine Hi Ladies! We are hoping to book at Dreams Cabo for either end of June or beginning of July 2011. We live in Virginia but most of our guest are coming from Canada (Calgary and Toronto) since that's where we're from. Just wondering what route you all took to book things? Local travel agent? I'm kind of confused about the whole thing really! I contacted Tammy on here but she said she could only book the hotel for our guest and not flights because they are from Canada I'm assuming. I would rather have things as a package since I imagine it would be cheaper. Just wanted to ask another Canadian Dreams bride how she went about it Hi Littlemiss, if your guests are ready to book as a package, they should do so from a canadian supplier. we have a canadian agent on here so if you want me to forwrd your email to her, i can.

my client got married at Zoetry. I also just had some clients stay there last week. the resort is awesome. let me see if i can get a review for you. are you working with mariana or yarai?

there are a bunch of cabo photogs on here as well as non-cabo photogs that would be willing to travel. if you go to the vendor marketplace you can see samples of their work. Vendor Marketplace - Best Destination Wedding Forum ~ The Ultimate Destination Wedding Resource

Quote: Originally Posted by AZKimberly Wow, this really helps a LOT!!! Thank you! Who is your TA? I have never used one before... should I just google Travel Agents in Arizona? Thank you so much girls! have you thought of using one of the TA's on the forum... Quote: Originally Posted by KarenM Weddings in Mexico[/url] our TA was Teresa Stauring at vacations4less.com. She's in LA and we're in NYC so we never met her, but she provided really good service & got us great rates! PM me if you'd like her email. I know hotel rates increase every year, so the rate I had (which was a 2009 rate) probably won't be available for a wedding next year, but it's worth finding out. Teresa works with Dreams PV a lot so was able to get really good rates. We booked our air through her as well, but there wasn't a discount for that so you could book airfare wherever you find it cheapest. We also got the transfer from/to the airport which was great! Teresa is one of the TA's on the forum. you can either email her directly or fill out the form above to get her.