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great review, duprak! i had my ceremony at 4 and at pelicanos and it was still a bit crowded...people were walking by in the background. if you want a private beach, go to secrets marmoa. they have a private beach.

Quote: Originally Posted by bridetobe1515 Not sure if this will work for everyone, but here is the link to my albums. I didn't post all pics, because there are way too many and I am at work. The pics are at home on my computer. But here is what I have at work: Best Destination Wedding Forum ~ The Ultimate Destination Wedding Resource Congrats! She was great!

B2B - Cassie MRS - *Kat*

I got them last night! 1,200k something. It's so hard to pick favorites for the online slideshow and album. Let me know if you want to see them!

Have fun, Amy! Can't wait to see pictures!

Quote: Originally Posted by orbitingbklyn thanks for this information!!! had no idea! i am considering having my photographer stay as a guest at Gran Porto (wedding is at The Royal) and then listing him as a person who i want to have access to the hotel 3 hours before like you say. i assume this will work & i will avoid the $350 vendor fee. any thoughts? it seems like from all i've read here that doing that will work. even paying for him to stay is less $ than vendor fee. but the issue i have is: should i have him stay the night before or the night after the wedding? i assume that they make you check out & leave the property at a certain time? does anyone know about this? my ceremony is 4pm and since it is winter, we will take photos before. so i'd need my photographer there by 2pm at the latest and stay the whole night. also, do you have to pay for the photographer as a guest at ceremony, cocktail hour & reception if he's not sitting & eating & just taking photos?? thanks ladies!!!!! I had my photographer stay at Gran Porto for 3 nights since he was flying form California. I would suggest for you to pay two nights starting Friday and checking out Sunday. It is common sense to pay for your photographer for dinner...how is he going to eat? it is nice to give him a plate so he can eat. Our photo sat and ate his dinner then went back to work. Quote: Originally Posted by duprk452 Okay, so I'm going to try to post a few teasers from my photographer. She just sent them and I LOVE them. She is from Louisiana, but travels for destination weddings and has amazing prices. If you would like her information PM me and I can get it to you. Love your pictures!! Quote: Originally Posted by ~Stephanie~ Ok so I am not going to get to my review for a while but I wanted to share the 2 major problems I had with my wedding with you girls so you can be prepared and not have the same problems I did....I am still trying to get over it, I have been so upset ever since my wedding but there is nothing I can do and I just hope when I get my video back that I don't feel upset all over again...since its all on video! I took so long writing my own ceremony script, I finally had it perfect. At the wedding the Minister (who I understand does most of the weddings and I see her pictured above) messed up our ceremony by skipping an entire portion of our script. She didn't ready any of our sand ceremony script except for one small paragraph at the end. I didn't know what to do at the time, if I stopped the wedding it would have been worse, everyone would have know. It would have looked terrible on video- stopping the wedding. But I was so angry that for a "wedding factory" everything should be smooth and no major errors as they do this everyday, several times a day! The other problem was with the music. The was a short or something in the cord they used to connect my IPOD to the sound system.. the music kept cutting out. The control of the music for the ceremony was just terrible, songs cut off, the music cutting out. It was very upsetting. We decided to give it a few days, try to "get over it" but by the end of out stay I was still crying over it. We went to talk to Zulma before we left, she was unaware of the problems with the ceremony script. After talking to her about it (which she was great and very sorry) she took action and by the end of the day had provided us some compensation for the minister's error. It was great of her to do this, it obviously didn't make up for what we can't get back but she did everything she could to help make it up to us. The sour taste in my mouth comes though with the phone call we recieved from the minister to our room shortly after my conversation with Zulma. The minister didn't apologize, she didn't understand why I would be upset and she was upset with me because the resort was apparently going to take part of the compensation from her. She was basically asking me to reconsider but without any apology. It made me so angry, what was I supposed to do? She skipped a huge portion of our script. I feel like my perfect wedding was ruined. It made me more angry that she confronted us about the money instead of her employer. (yes she works for the resort). I want to say thought that Zulma was very professional in all of this and she was just so wonderful with everything. She is amazing and she does take complete care of you when you get there! She is aware of everything that is going on with the MI office moving and she does know what is going on with all of us brides. I just felt that everyone should know what we encountered. I don't want to worry anyone but at the same time if I can prevent any problems I want to do what I can. Every bride plans and hope for everything to be perfect and when its not and its errors by someone else and its out of your control, well, its heartbreaking, at least to me. We do miss The Royal so much already though, we have already been trying to figure out when we can go back... aside from a few problems with the ceremony, everything else was wonderful. Aw, I am so sorry, Stephanie. That is so tough to get over. I would be very upset. How inconsiderate of her to ask you to reconsider UGH!

Beautiful pictures...love the sunset pictures!!

Quote: Originally Posted by msglave I see. I wouldn't want to get married again either because you had your real (and legal) ceremony already. That US website you posted said your marriage is legal so it is. Good for you that you found a solution you're happy with! Where are you going for your late honeymoon? We are staying at Secrets Maroma in October after attending his cousin's wedding in Cozumel. I am excited! Quote: Originally Posted by N&J2011 Hello Ladies! I am a newbie getting married at the Royal in April, 2011. I was originally going to get married at the Palladium, but I switched to the Royal. I look forward to getting to know all of you. Welcome! you'll find useful info here! Quote: Originally Posted by astreit Hey Ladies, Sorry I haven't been on in a while since my wedding, but just a little update on the marriage license/name change situation with a Mexican marriage license. It all worked seamlessly! I didn't have to have it translated at all. If you go to the SS office first, that is the best bet. They have Spanish speaking people there for all the Hispanics in the states, so they are perfectly able to find somebody to translate it there. All they need off of it is the location, date, and a certificate number off of your license. I took both papers in...the one with our parents' information, and the other one with our witnesses' information. I actually just walked the lady through it in English, pointing out the different areas of the license where she needed information. It all went through just fine, only took about 10 minutes in total. Once my SS card came in the mail a week later, I took it in to get my drivers license. I took in my new SS card, and my marriage license. They basically only needed the SS card, and said all was good. And this is Nebraska....I'm sure it'd be even easier in Texas with the large Hispanic population. Basically, the most trouble I had was at my bank. They didn't have anyone in the entire bank system that could read my marriage license, so I just had to wait for my drivers license and SS card in order to change my name on my account. Hope that helps! That definitely gives me hopes!! Thanks so much.

I agree...can you come to my house too?? Lol. So beautiful!

Ravelyn, we just decided not to file a marriage certificate with the county. We don't want to get married again. We just need the marriage certificate translated to English in case anyone questions us about our marriage and if i want to change my last name. I am pretty sure SS office won't accept it unless its in English.

Quote: Originally Posted by RunningBride24 Yeah for sure! I emailed her yesterday and haven't heard back so I'm hoping Monday! $70/page? Wowzers! How many pages? They gave us 2 copies (one with witnesses info) so that is 4 copies. I scanned front and back. Please let me know if you hear back from her! Quote: Originally Posted by kenlyn8984 no the cylinder vases i bought down there at wal-mart. they were about $5.50 a piece. the yellow flowers i made out of tissue paper. i was originally going to purchase lemons to put inside the vases, but once i got down there they kept directing me to the limes. i wanted yellow! so i finally found the lemons, and they are not pretty like lemons here..they are almost brown! ewww. so i had to redo what my plans for decor.. i used the yellow tissue flowers for inside (that i originally made to use as napkin rings). Wow, so cheap and they looked great! Quote: Originally Posted by Lisa DSO Well, my dress ordeal is over and I got my dress a few hours ago. I am for sure gonna die of heat in it, but not too bad in November from what I hear. I'm gonna have them cut a lot of the train off so it's not too ridiculous: Angelina - by Maggie Sottero So beautiful!! At least, your dress ordeal is over!

jesmcan - I would think it would need to be official...we just want to make sure we have everything covered, you know? Steph, welcome back! Great pic!!

jcooper, yeah, we got two copies! runningbride, can you ask your WC? I was mistaken that it is $70 total. It is $70 per page. Yikes.

Quote: Originally Posted by RunningBride24 Did you not get a translated copy when you were there? I'm doing a legal and I just got assigned a new WC so I'll email her today! No, we didn't. Thanks though, we found a place that will do it for $70. Better than $300 that I've seen on other threads!

Congrats, Kendra! Loved your decorations and you looked beautiful! Anyone who is doing legal ceremony, can you ask the WC if the Royal will send a translated copy of the marriage certificate after the wedding? I emailed Lilia earlier this week but I guess she is really busy so I haven't heard from her. I am hoping that they will send one at a reasonable charge.

Our wedding trip wasn't our honeymoon trip(its not a honeymoon if you hang out with friends/family. ) so we are going back to Riviera Maya and staying at Secrets Maroma in October. Can't wait!

great review! sorry to hear that half of your group got sick! the picture of the ceremony is breathtaking.

great review! so glad to see that your wedding went off beautifully!! can't wait to see rest of your pictures!

I just got married at 27...at 18, I wasn't even ready to be married even though I had a boyfriend. Just remember, you will never get your young years back and you have plenty of time to get married. You may think you are all grown up but there is lot of time to grow up. I sure grew up last 10 years. You learn so much and you can apply to your marriage. I am not saying you shouldn't get married...just give it some time! You have lots of years to be with your husband. Good luck!

Quote: Originally Posted by msglave So, occasionally I look at The Royal PDC on Tripadvisor to see what people are saying. A few of the recent posts were complaining of all of the weddings/receptions and called it a wedding factory. One person even complained about all of the loud guests from Texas. I was thinking-I know whose party that was! LOL! I love it! We Royal Brides Rock!!!!! Haha, that wasn't our party! Most of our guests stayed at Gran. Hehe.

Thank you Lisa!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisa DSO I know there is a thread for this elsewhere, but I want to ask YOU ladies lol. Are any of you getting a brazilian wax or the likes for your wedding? I know it's advisable to start well in advance, but I'm scared lol. I've had laser hair removal and that hurts, so I definitely don't want to do it in THAT area...hmm, i wonder which is worse... I was supposed to do whole nine yards brazilian wax but i chicked out and had the landing strip. I never did it before so the lady told me to get the strip until i am used to it. HOLY COW BALLS. That's all I have to say. Like Jenny, I am getting ingrown hairs and it sucks. I have been using Bliss No Ingrown hair product so it is supposed to be helping. I did it three days before the wedding and I had no problems. I also applied "No scream" Bikini wax cream 30 min before and took two tyenlols.

Ok, I retract my statement...lisa, get married in TX if you want to avoid any potential headaches but your marriage will be legal if you get married in Mexico. Do get the marriage certificate translated before you leave the Royal!! We didn't do that. Do your research and see if the SS, DMW and your company will accept translated marriage certificate if you want to change your last name. We are just going to get our marriage certificate translated then leave it alone. We are married. Nobody can tell us that we are not.

Thank you so much, Maureen. This is exactly what we need to know...we weren't sure if we HAD to register with our county. So many misinformation on this! I was upset because they were basically telling us our marriage is fake. ktchi, you are not being snarky at all. I am glad that we got married in Mexico.

Karen, same here! Still no pics!!