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Oops, I forgot to add, here's a link to the map of the hotel... numbers a blurry, but if you've already been there you can tell what they are: Bahia Principe Map from Locogringo

You can bring in an outside cake vendor - I asked Jazmin - but I can't remember if there was a charge or not - I don't think there is. We ended up going with the resort though. drai - if you're wanting to be close to everything I'd suggest 4... We stayed in 3 - it has a great view, but it's a little futher back than 4 is. The villas that you listed have great views, but they're right by the Gran Tortuga.. which isn't very far but it's further... really depends I guess on what you want to be close to. Also, why don't you want to take the provided shuttle?

I loved my bouquet!! I picked it from her book (and I will admit that there are quite a few that aren't that great)... but I picked the Birds of Paradise with these little purple flowers mixed in... I would suggest bringing an inspiration picture if you're really worried - I did, but I never ended up giiving it to Jazmin as I liked the one bouquet.

Just Martha - I'm not sure if you can have music playing or not - we never even thought of that. The restaurant is not really private - but there was no one else there when we were there (for the first hour). And into the second hour, we didn't even notice the other people. It seems that they try and seat them on the other side. The cake was delicious!! We had the Tres Leche for dessert and then the wedding cake was chocolate - everyone loved both!! We cut the cake right after dinner - stil in the restaurant. We had a tonne left over - We told the waiter's to take it home to their families - I hope they actually did!

The only person who really gave me hassle was my grandma. And her comments usually were about money... "You know, you'd get more money if you married here at home". After ignoring her with the smile and nod about 3 times I finally replied with: "You know grandma, we're getting married because we love each other, not because we want people to give us money. " That shut her up... for about 30 seconds. This is why I'm glad she didn't/couldn't come to the actual wedding - some people just don't get it... still debating if we should invite her to the AHR, haha.

It was at the disco "La Rancherita" or something like that, haha. It's at the Hacienda. You also have the choice of the poolside dance - which is very pretty. We just couldn't afford it and hubby wouldn't justify paying for booze at an AI. Both are private - when you rent the disco, it's only your group allowed in there (although we did have a few people wander in and out - just checking it out I guess - once they saw the dress and everyone dressed up, they would leave). The poolside dance is kind of out of the way of all the other happenings so no one would really be hanging out around there.

We also just got home. I brought my dress as carry on in it's bag (no problems going there and coming home). We flew economy so we just shoved it in the overhead compartment. Once we got there, I hung it up and then got it steamed a few days before.

Here ya go: Could you have gotten different flowers if you wanted then the ones shown? I'm not too sure... I'm not very picky so I just went with what they had. I'm sure you could bring a pic of what you want though (it will probably cost you though). How much extra were the BM’s, GM, moms, dads, hair flower, rose petals for the aisle, etc. that you got… specifically the rose petals! The final bill didn't have everything broken down for us, but in the end we paid about $1500.00 USD. This included our $870 wedding package, $300 USD for the disco rental, $32 USD for the Mexican Fiesta that we attended, and $90 for the photographer (or $180 cause we don't know if they charged us for her assistant or not) How many rose petals did you get and did it completely cover the aisle?I'm not really sure how many we got... they didn't have them down the aisle like I thought they would (I just assumed they would, you might want to specifically tell them how you want them arranged) They had they spread around where we said our vows. When you say you gave her your music, was that for the ceremony? How does that work, you just hand her a CD with all the songs on it?Yup, just ceremony music. We gave her a CD that we burnt. She got us to write on it: 1. Guests be seated 2. Groom and GM 3. BM, flower girl, ring bearer 3. Bride 4. Bride and Groom Did you guys do a rehearsal or did you just wing it on wedding day?No rehearsal, just wung it Oh yeah, were you guys able to cut off your wrist bands for the wedding?Yes, but make sure you keep them (my mom took care of everyone's so they were all in one place). We had to put them back on for the supper (but I'm sure you could argue this and get them put back on later). Hope that helps you out!

My Wedding Review - GBP Tulum I’ll start from the beginning. We flew out of Winnipeg with Skyservice at 6:30am on Sat. Jan 5th (which was an hour late) but no biggie. Skyservice is a lil squishy, their breakfast sucked (you might want to bring your own eats), but their service was excellent. We arrived in Cancun at around 11:30 am (I think – none of us had watches). No problems there, our whole group got the green light! Only one timeshare dude bugged us. It was an hour and a half long bus ride to the resort (with Corona’s for $3 – the guy took both American and then Canadian when my dad ran out of USD – already, haha). We pulled up to our resort and let me tell you – it’s amazing!! The Tulum lobby is king of open air, it’s so nice. When you walk up, you can see straight through to the pools and ocean. Since check in wasn’t until three, the bellboys marked our luggage so we could claim it later. We changed into our bathing suits and headed to the beach, got some grub and waited until we could check in. Around 3:30 we got our room (which was Villa 3, room 321) and a little while later, the rest of the group got their rooms (Villa 33, rooms 3301-3315, I think). It was nice because they were all in the same building. Our room was wonderful! The differences between our room and our guest’s rooms were minimal – our room was a little bigger with an ocean view. We really only have one complaint for the whole vacation – our clock kept going out (we think because of the room’s sensors, but we never got it fixed) which is really not any big deal at all – we just phoned the front desk anytime we really needed the time. We had a note in our room asking us to meet Jazmin on Monday at 10:00 am. (I’m gonna skip to the wedding stuff now) When we met with her – I wasn’t feeling too well (yup, it was mostly self-inflicted so don’t feel too bad, haha) but the meeting isn’t that long. She showed us pictures of the locations again – we picked the beach location (I think it’s called the palapas). She showed us pictures of the flowers we could choose. We picked the Birds of Paradise – sooooo glad we did, they are gorgeous – our package included my bouquet, groom bout and centerpiece for the table. We ordered extras for the BM’s, GM, moms, dads, hair flower, rose petals for the aisle, etc. We had already chosen “The Tequila†for supper, but we had to decide on if we wanted tables of 4, 6, 8, or 10. We chose two tables of 10. We gave Jazmin our music and our cake topper and that was it. Oh, another thing. You think you have confirmed your wedding time right?? Wrong. We thought our planned wedding time of 3pm is a go for sure, until Jazmin tells us that she still has to wait for the JP to confirm. She told us we’d find out tomorrow. Tuesday – we get another package from Jazmin – has all of our details in writing… we have to read over to make sure everything is right. It is. Wedding time is 3pm, whoo! And there’s photocopies of the wedding day events to hand out to our guests… she is one organized lady! Wedding Day – Wednesday January 9th, 2008 We woke up and went to breakfast with a few family and friends – a few were MIA due to drinking the night before, haha. From there, hubby and I split up. My hair appointed was at the BahiaSpa (at the Akumal side) for 10:30. SIL’s appt was for 10:00 so we went together. We waited for a bit when we got there and then they started on us at the same time. ***Bring a picture*** of how you want your hair done. They speak little to no English so a pic makes things so much easier. **Be a little flexible** as both of our hair didn’t turn out ‘exactly’ as the picture, but was very close. We both loved our hair and we were back at our rooms by lunch. FYI, anything done at the spa is charged to your room so remember to bring a little tip money. We decided to grab a bite to eat. But the buffet doesn’t open until 12:30. So we wait (which seems like hours to me – but only end up being 10 minutes). At 12:10 I decided I couldn’t just sit around and wait anymore – I still had bubbles to fill, makeup to do, etc… So I go back to the room – get the bubbles filled. Then my mom phoned… their room had no water… so I now have a group of girls (!!! they take the longest, haha) who have to use my room to shower and get ready… wedding is in two hours. Thankfully, it’s my mom - who can calm me down (rumbly tummy – still not sure if it was nerves or Mexican food, haha). So all girls flowers got delivered to my room and the boys flowers delivered to their room. Not thinking that my dad is here with us, and hubby’s mom is there with them... not a huge problem, just one more thing to organize (thankfully a guest – awesome girl that she is) took control and handled the lil situation. Okay, so one hour before the wedding and our room is full of frantic girls trying to get ready (I’m pretty much ready now, so I get to enjoy my beer and smoke – yup enjoy it, cause I know I’m quitting after Mexico – which I have done now – non-smoker me for four days, whoo!) Get our call from Citlalli (from Claudia Rodriguez Photography) She’s at the lobby…. Yeah! Citlalli gets there. She is such a gem! Very genuine! She starts snapping and we’re all doing the finishing touches. So at 2:55 – the trolley picks us up – it can hold 7 people – and takes us to the wedding location. Now this is cool, the pathway goes through shrubs and stuff on the beach so no one can see you until you’re out (so I’m really bad at explaining stuff, sorry!). Jazmin is there to let us know when to start walking… BM’s go, flower girl and ring carrier that’s what my son calls it) go. Now it’s my turn. My mom and dad both walk me there… so amazing!! Hubby looks gorgeous. Now I’m a little fuzzy on all the details. All I remember is looking at hubby and thinking I’m one lucky gal. Oh, and saying my vows, I remember that too. I also remember hubby’s emphasis on ‘poorer’, haha. Ane the waves, I can still hear those wonderful waves... Then, it’s done… we’re MARRIED!! We take pictures on the beach, in the jungle area, a few around the resort (not many, as we realized that the pictures didn’t quite matter as much to us as we thought they would… we just wanted to get back and join the party!) It was about 5pm anyway and that's all we booked Citlalli for. We then met up with the rest of the group at the lobby bar until supper at 6:30. Supper was awesome! Very delicious - Mexican Appetizers, Azteca Soup, Chicken Breast Medallions, and Tres Leche Cake… there was hardly anyone else in the restaurant until about 7:30. We did the mandatory tequila shots… salt on my neck, on his nipples, shots between the legs and lime in the mouth… so much fun – still can’t believe we did that in front of our parents!!! They brought out our wedding cake – it was huge for 20 people… but there’s no cake topper… they said they didn’t get it… no biggie for us, we’re having a great time. (We never did get the topper back). Then back to our rooms to freshen up before the disco!! We rented it from 8:30 to 10:30 for $150 USD per hour… totally worth it… it was so much fun. We brought two CD’s from home with some music on it – but we really didn’t need to, the DJ played some pretty good tunes. Had the first dance and then boogied with our family and friends for the rest of the time. We managed to sneak off before everyone else at about 10:45pm…. So here’s the deal - The service (and the setting) is really what makes these weddings so much fun!! All week the staff was saying congrats… They are always so full of energy! Not everything went as planned, but that day, you really truly realize how much none of that crap matters. I am so happy for you gals that chose this resort… you are going to LOVE it!! Sorry it’s so long…. If you have any questions at all, post em… and my pics will be posted as soon as I get em!

It's coming.... haha, I'm such a procrasinator (sp??) I'm sorry. I'll start on the write up today - but we might not get our pro pics back for another week or two.

Yes, there is a charge. I believe it's $90 USD per person. But to tell you the truth, I'm not sure if they charged us or not... our end bill didn't have it seperated from the wedding package (but they might have lumped it in).

We bought postcards when we were there and had the guests write their wishes, advice, and so on on the back.

Just Martha - We ate at the Tequila (it was absolutely awesome!!) We chose to have two tables of 10. But we had the option of choosing tables of 4, 8, or 10. Our tables were rectangular (as I think most were square or rectangular). At the Gran Tortuga they have round and square tables (the round ones seat 6 the square ones seat 4). I'm going to post my review with pics sometime this week - we just got home yesterday so hang in there, haha- all I can say was the wedding was so freaking amazing!!! You ladies are going to love this resort!! And Steph77, sorry I can't be more help but I would definitely give your WC a call - and try not to stress too much (I know, easy for me to say). There were quite a few things that didn't go as planned for our wedding, but we had the greatest time, all our guests had a blast, and in the end, you realize how much none of the bubbles, cake toppers, decorations, etc. even matter cause you just married the love of your life in paradise!!!

Wow!!! You look fantastic!!! Great pics!!!

Thanks girls for all the awesome responses! I will definitly tell you how FH reacts! My plan is to get one of my BM's to deliver them (I'm making a photobook from shutterfly) before the ceremony and have the photog take pics of his reaction!

Congrats Amber!!! We need pics!! Quote: Originally Posted by steph77 Who was your wedding coordinator? My wedding is in April and she hasn't communicated with me a lot so I'm a little nervous. How many details get ironed out before and after you get there? I'm getting married at the Tulum side (sorry I don't remember which side you're getting married at). My WC is Jazmin and she has usually gotten back to me within 3-4 days (sometimes sooner, sometimes later). I've asked her a lot of questions but here's a list of what we've decied on BEFORE we get there: - Wedding Package - Wedding location (but we can change our minds when we get there) - Dinner location (we chose the Tequila resturant) - Dinner Menu - Dance location (we're renting the disco for 1 or 2 hours - FH couldn't get his head around paying for booze - if we do it by the pool - at an AI, haha). - Wedding Time (I can't remember right now but its at 2 or 3pm) Here's what we choose AFTER we get there: - Flowers (I asked Jazmin if she could send me pics of a few examples but she said she didn't have any - so if anyone knows who supplies the flowers - could you let me know cause I'd like to contact them personally) - Cake (we chose the tres leche (sp??) before but I think we choose the decorating when we get there) I think that's about it

Just got my pics back this weekend and I already have my photobook almost finished!!! I am soooo happy. So here's a few for ya: And the fun one: Wow, if you sitting on the edge about getting boudoirs done - DO IT! It is an amazing experience!!

Hiya, sorry for the late reply... I found Playa Del Carmen Weather to be helpful. I've never been so I can't really help you first hand but that page will give you the averages.

I made my own this weekend too. But after seeing FutureMrsButler's I don't want to post pics, haha. But I will, as soon as I get my camera back!

Hey, sorry for the late reply - Jazmin emailed me and apparently the Tequila restaurant is their rained out location. Here are the pictures she sent me:

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbride how did it go? did you make some good progress Umm, no, not at all! I brought my sister to swimming lessons last night and by the time we were done, I was wooped - yes, me - not her!!!. And I decided I wanted to put pearls (not real ones) on the sandal and I don't have any. I'll pick them up tomorrow... hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll have some pics to show you girls! Quote: Originally Posted by beachbride I ended up just getting these.... they were $15, so I really didn't think I could go wrong... Those are awesome!!! Where did you order them from?

maddy, I just emailed Jazmin to ask her. I should get a response within a day and I'll let you know what she says! I feel kinda silly cause I didn't even think to ask her this, so thanks!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Tlseege plan on putting a very low number just incase they see a high number and feel the need to rip us off! Oh, good thinkin!

I voted for #2 cause I think it flatters you. They're both beautiful dresses though...

I think I have everything I need so I'm going to attempt making mine tonight... hopefully!