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Quote: Originally Posted by Kelly C Depends on your resort...Where are you getting married? We're leaning towards Finisterra... we're so low-key, and Finisterra seems to be best suited for that.

So back to the huppas. Do the WC's at each hotel get them, or are they rented from somewhere in town? We'd like one for our ceremony.

Quote: Originally Posted by sstotz Yes!! It is for the most part all pick and choose!! They give you a whole bunch of info, and you can take pretty much anything you want out of it.. The only thing you can not do is use anyone else for your food and bev.. oh--and flowers.. but if you have ideas for anything, they do a great job catering to you. I am on a very small budget because we are paying for this ourselves, so the WC is great with our ideas (i.e. we are bringing our own officiant down to make it more personal..and to not pay those fees--we'll get married here at a courthouse to make it legal, we're doing a cupcake cake to save on cutting fees, we're getting our own photographer,..etc..) Let me know if you need help getting in contact with the people! Actually if you could point me in the right direction, that would be a tremendous help! We're doing a similar thing, courthouse here in the States and then symbolic down there. Did you mean you have to use their florist? We likely would anyway, since we aren't going to bring anything in on ice from the States lol I suppose we'll use their food people, we should have some booze on hand I guess. Did you have to use them for the cake too? What sort of fees have you been running into?

Quote: Originally Posted by zethers Hello boston 012, There is quite an extensive review on the Finisterra by JENGONDA9, http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t2636 I am also getting married at the Finisterra in June 2009, finally started planning last week!! If you have any questions feel free to ask. I have a lot of information on the Hotel and pictures, they also have an onsite coordinator. SSTOTZ will be getting married there the week after me, and she has been so helpful in my research!! Good Luck! Thanks for digging up that review. I did read it, but my main query remains, as her review didn't really address it. They don't advertise packages on the Finisterra site, so is it a pick and choose situation? That would be ideal for us as it's just us two doing a symbolic thing, so we don't need 90% of the typical wedding stuff... no music/food etc etc. A wee bit of flowers for bouqets and such would do it,.plus a huppa and a person to perform the ceremony. We'll just hit up a nice restaurant after on our own.

Hi Jen Brilliant review! Few questions though: Was your wedding ala carte? I ask because we're trying to put something together in Cabo, but just the two of us, and we don't need music/food/alot of other common wedding things. The Finisterra website makes it seem ala carte, which would be a good thing, since the package deals encompass stuff we simply don't need. The ATV trip: do you think it was just that company, or the Cabo ATV tour industry in general?

Hi Has anyone here done the deed at Finisterra? I searched for threads and found a bad link to jengonda's review. Based on the site, it seems like they don't do packages, so much as it's ala carte... which we prefer since we don't need music and tons of other stuff, it's just us doing a symbolic thing on the beach. All we need is someone to perform the ceremony, a bouquet and a huppa; we'll bring the rest.

Hi I need some suggestions. I will never have need of a light coloured suit again after my wedding in Cabo, so I prefer not to buy, but to rent here for the entirety of the trip would cost as much as purchase. Can anyone recommend a rental place in Cabo?

The only decent vows I found on Google, while searching for "Wedding Vows As Gaelige". Chun grá a thabhairt dá chéile go dilis, Má fearr sinn, má measa, Má saibhir, má bocht, Má tinn nó má slán Go scara an bás sinn. A (Ainm), caith an fáinne seo mar chomhartha ár ngrá agus ár ndílseacht. In (ainm) an Athar agus an Mhic agus an Spioraid Naoimh. That last part is religious, but suitable for all Christian denominations.

thanks everyone... i'm catching a second wind and starting to post a bit. :-)

So if you bring a cd... how does that work? Does the hotel (Dreams) just whip out a boombox?

These are sort of old school Irish traditions, many from the pagan days. If that suits you, more power to ya! Personally, I think (though you and your fiance would have to be okay with it) vows in Irish would be way cooler than carrying around a 5-pound horseshoe. Maybe not even the entire vow, but just a section of it. My $0.02.

Hi Juan Carlos Tapia is clearly a great wedding photographer... but he doesn't come cheap, even by American standards. His associate can be hired for 1/3 of his price, but her site (MagdaOssorio) doesn't have anything on it. Is anyone here familiar with her work?

FYI, if requesting one by phone, "chuppa" is pronounced "huppa" ;-)

Quote: Originally Posted by Leia78 I'm so sorry, for your bad experience w/ Yesica. But I agree w/ Tammy, there is so much info on this forum, that you can pretty much plan your wedding all yourself. I'm using Yesica, and I will agree that she's not the fastest w/ responding to emails. But I have noticed that since my wedding is getting pretty close she has gotten back to ma A LOT faster. Do you mean plan one on a public beach, and skip doing the hotel thing

That sucks... but honestly, who would leave so much property/cash around? Better yet, who would bring that much to Mexico at all? Crime is always the fault of the criminal, but that's no excuse for not using common sense. If you must bring such things with you abroad, keep it on your person, at all times.