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Quote: Originally Posted by starchild I think the mainstream confusion comes from the fact that Mormons used to practice polygamy. I think it was something that was practiced/accepted into the 20th century. Please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't want to put false info out there, but I seem to recall that from my studies. I agree it is ignorant to categorize all Mormons in the same manner (just like some people do to Muslims so often). I don't think the intention is to be rude but is just ignorance that comes from people being absorbed in their own religions and not exploring others enough to get the truth. Lauren I saw that the count escalated on the news, it's so crazy! Here's the answer to your question. The LDS Church (Mormon) discontinued polygamy in 1890. April 6, 2008 - LDS Newsroom - Polygamy Investigation Here's some more interesting documention on the topic of "Mormons and Polygamy" May 10, 2006 - LDS Newsroom - Mormons and Polygamy

Quote: Originally Posted by CaliaA07 I'm so glad those kids were taken out finally! My only beef with any of it is people generally mistake the FLDS with mainstream LDS (mormons). I was raised mormon up until I was about 18 or 19. People always make some snude smart remark how my dad must have 5 wives. I think its rude and ignorant of people to think this. Mormons (LDS) DO NOT practice polygamy!! I am glad to see the government finally doing something about it though. For example people can go on Oprah and other shows and actually say " I have 3 wives and 90 something kids" and its public and nothing is done. It's illegal right? Do something? Sheesh! I second that, I'm in the exact same boat as you!

We should have a spin-off poll of this thread....

Quote: Originally Posted by Autumn kee beach on the north side of the island was my favorite for snorkeling - clear water, great reef and lots of huge sea turtles (I love the turtles!) we went there practically every day Awesome! Do you have anymore recommendations?

For all of you who've been to Kauai before, where's the best snorkeling spots? I've heard Larsens Beach is pretty good. My FI and I are going there at the end of June and I wanted to start doing some planning.

I'm just glad the government is finally cracking down on this! It also bugs me that people think that polygamy is all throughout Utah when it's really not.

I looked at every resort you have on that list and in in the end, we choose the Excellence Riviera Cancun.

Absolutely amazing photos! Has he gotten them yet?

What lucky FI's you girls must have!

Quote: Originally Posted by lambert13 That happens all the time in the Riviera Maya south of Cancun as well. If you are going to be driving, keep $20 in your wallet and leave the rest of your money in a different pocket. If they say something about taking your license to the police station.... say go ahead and tell them that you will follow them down there. Ask for their name and badge number too. Most of the time that will make them give up all together. It sucks that it happens, but that's how it is there. Great suggestion! Our party got pulled over 5 years ago when we were down there too.

Quote: Originally Posted by wade2893 I think every bride/groom is different in exactly what they're looking for. For us we wanted some of the same attributes you mentioned, but we didn't want a large property. We wanted our wedding party to pretty much take over the place ;-) So, for us, we looked at hotels with less than 300 rooms. So that narrowed down the list for us and knocked out some of the more popular wedding spots like Dreams and Moon Palace. Then we looked at the price point for our guests and the fact that we would have a handful of children. So that of course knocked some out,...like Le Blanc...still one of my personal favorites. So, we actually took the route of seeing if some of the smaller full service hotels would offer and inclusive meal/drink plan option and that is what we ended up doing. So don't limit your search to a hotel that is called "all-inclusive". If you find a regular resort you really like such as Marriott, Le Meridien, Hyatt, Hilton...call/email and ask about the pricing and a package that is inclusive of rooms, meals, drinks and taxes. Good luck! Great suggestion, I appreciate your input! =)

Quote: Originally Posted by Chelle We're getting married at the Excellence resort in Playa Mujeres and I can tell you they have two weddings a day - at 11am and 3pm. Ahh, that makes sense. Ours is at 11am.

I'm sorry but I don't see how my last post could be considered "sassy". I apologized and I've been open to being wrong. People do make mistakes so I'm hoping we can move on from this little mishap instead of turning this into a "Infinity22 Bashing Thread". Again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And for the record, I'm not bashing Dreams and I do appreciate all of your help.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tammy Host regarding dreams: they are good at what they do so people go to them. you have offended a few people by your remarks and i can understand that things can be misread on the web but you may want to re-read some of your comments before you post them. If I offended anyone then I'm sorry but I don't feel like I came right out and said "dreams sucks", because I honestly don't feel that way. I've just been objective about them, given what I've seen. I guess I was in the wrong to suggest that Dreams could be a "wedding factory", I've just seen so many people on here suggest or talk about them. So yeah, they must be doing something right if some many people are flocking to them. Anyway, moving on.....

Quote: Originally Posted by jilly76 There are lots of beautiful resorts in many different areas. I didn't choose to get married at dreams because it was "the" place to have a wedding, there were lots of reasons why I chose it, as I'm sure there are lots of reasons why you chose your resort. Do you have an issue with the "quality" of dreams? Have you been there? If you haven't been there then I don't think it's fair for you to pass judgement and criticize people that have been there and were very happy with it. Trust me, I'm not criticizing anybody for choosing their resorts. I made a comment based on what I've seen but as soon as someone else points out that I'm wrong, I'm open to what they have to say, much like the beach comment. I never claimed that I knew everything about anything. But anyway, I've seen some recent photos of Dreams rooms and they didn't look very promising. If someone else comes forward with different photos, then I'm open to changing my opinion. Again though, not criticizing, just asking a few questions.

Quote: Originally Posted by jilly76 Not anymore than excellence is. There are a lot of dreams brides on this forum, since it was started by a dreams cabo bride, so it's not that dreams is a wedding "factory", it's that they do a really great job with their weddings, that's why all of us chose them. For the most part dreams just does one wedding per day. I can respect that. Since we're on the "dreams" subject though, how many of those brides do you think take the overall quality of the resort into consideration?

Wow! I keep hearing Dreams, Dreams, Dreams! It must be quite the wedding factory.

Quote: Originally Posted by jilly76 I guess it depends which beach you're talking about, one of the beaches is rather large, the ones on the tower side are smaller, but you really wouldn't want to swim over there anyway. Most people hang out at the pool, so the beach is never crowded. I think the beaches there were beautiful and dreams is a smaller resort, so there really isn't a need for miles of beach. Hmm, my bad. Do you have any photos of the bigger beach?

Quote: Originally Posted by becks I was in Puerto Morelos in February (at the Paradisus) and the beaches were in good shape. Awesome! Do you know if you were near the Excellence Riviera?

Quote: Originally Posted by xJuicyJx This is the best I got from the beaches - This first pic is from Riu Cancun, you can see Dreams on the end..it had the best beach. I'm guessing the north beaches of Cancun weren't affected as bad as the other beaches along the western coast: Here's the beach from Riu Palace Las Americas: Here's the beach from Oasis Cancun..most beaches look like this. Seems they lost more than 20ft. of sand: Wow, they look quite a bit different from when I was last there in August 2003.

Quote: Originally Posted by jilly76 I'm not really sure what you mean by this, but they have beaches on two sides of the resort, so Yes, there are beaches there, I just don't think they were affected. I said that because from what I've seen, their beach or beaches look really small.

What about other locations? Perhaps Dreams wasn't affected or fixed their "beaches" because they really don't have any.

Yeah, if anybody had any recent photos of beaches in/around Cancun, that would be awesome!!!

What about the beaches around Puerto Morelos?

Hmm, the rooms don't look that grand at the Dreams....