Boston Bride 2009

Congrats, Diva!!! I haven't been on here in so long. Everything looks great!!! Hope your wedding was just fabulous!

Both weddings look fabulous! Glad it all went so well for you.

We used travelers checks to to avoid fees on our cc for purchases out of the country. It was safe and easy.

We used an outside photographer. You do not recieve any discounts if you don't use something in the package. I also had my own make up artist and there was not a discount and no one else could use that part.

I just went back to our pricing we paid $200 for 1/2 hour sax. Are you sure it's $350? I would agree that it's not worth $350. That's outrageous.

I was told when I was planning that they only do one wedding per day. You can move the time of the ceremony if you want to. I think ours was at 5 because you can't start your recpetion at the cascade pool until 7 and I didn't want that much time in between. For our weddding it was SUPER hot for the ceremony and the reception (I think it was the hottest day of the trip). We used the cascade pool which is beautiful and I would do it again there but because it is surrounded by buildings and away from the water there wasn't really a breeze.

Quote: Originally Posted by Future Mrs. M Hi Congrats everything looks great! Can you tell me where you got your invitations? What parts were DIY? I'm not the craftiest but I'm hoping to work something to keep pricing low. How much were yours? Thanks!!! We bought the boxes and the printed part of the invitation from the White Aisle. I did not have the best experience with them so I would not necessarily recommend them. There is a website that sells the boxes from Thailand where she orders from http://www.thaisilkbox.com/Silk-Invitation-Boxes.html. You could pretty much get your invitations printed where ever. We gave her a template of exactly what we wanted. The DIY parts were the assembly, the ribbon around, the punch out flowers and the Promises insert that has a box and velum paper. I will tell you the boxes are pricey. There was a minimum order of 50 so we bought them all used 35 and sold the rest on this forum.

If you are doing a legal ceremony you have to use the judge. He does not do legal weddings from what I understand. Rick's fee is $300.

Quote: Originally Posted by mdb Does anyone know if I have to contact an officiant on my own? or does the resort do this for me? they told me they didnt' know who it would be! We were married in November and our options were a judge for a legal wedding or the WC for a symbolic. We were having symbolic but wanted a religous person to perform our ceremony so we contacted Rick York on our own. Not sure if you can book him through EPC now or not.

I'm pretty sure I asked that and they need you to be there 3 days ahead to essentially plan your wedding. There is a lot that they have to prepare on their end.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sunshine731 Hi Ladies, I am getting married July 31st at EPC and could not be more excited! We will be having an intimate ceremony on the beach with Pastor York officiating. Photo Souvenir will be doing our photos. Does anyone have any feedback on Pastor York? I'm hoping that things are not too good to be true considering he did not have me sign any contract or make a deposit. We used him and he did a great job. He is very nice. He met with us a few days before the ceremony to go over everything.

Quote: Originally Posted by JellisRN We're planning our wedding with a coordinator @ Destinationweddings.com. We also tried using a local travel agent but the coordinators seem to have a connection with the resorts planners..... more so than travel agents. It's nice to have a "middle man" so to speak. Anyone else use Destinationweddings.com? Haha...out TA from Destinationweddings.com was useless for our wedding planning. I know more than her on just about every aspect of our wedding planning. For me their whole pitch was a bunch of crap. They are regular TA's that have a contract with dw.com and know no more than a regular TA and for me she didn't even know that stuff.

I had the same vases 3/table. I packed them very well in a suitcase and only one broke. I did check them. I wrapped each in the paper from the store, bubble wrap and the beach towels from the OOT bags.

It sounds like the options have changed since November. We had a silver package that included food and liquor for 20 people and we had to pay I think $45 per person over that for food and liquor. I'm not sure where the see and sea bar is I haven't heard of that. Seems to me like you would have to pay extra if you have more than 20 people anyway because they have to eat.

Oh my...I'm interested to hear what happened. I hope nothing to to bad.

The bags were pretty nice in my opinion. I mean they surely aren't land ends canvas but everyone loved them. a lot of people are still using theirs. But for 4 bucks you can't beat it. My dress is maggie sottero.

If you want to send me your email I can send pics. They are I believe 30X60 and I have aqua and a blue.

There are two EPC threads on here that you will find very helpful. You can also read my review or search for others reviews of EPC....it's wonderful

We had several people say oh yea i'll book i'll book. They waited until last minute and flights were over $1000 from boston to Punta Cana needless to say some people didn't come and a few had to suck it up. The rest of us paid under $500 because we booked super super early. I will say with the rooms though that the prices went down dramactically in august for our november wedding. If anything encourage people to book their flights. The TA was able to rebook everyone at the lower rates but it was a process. So bottom line really encourage people to book their flights early.

Our welcome party was a cocktail party where we gave our guests their welcome bags and just had a good time. Our invites were ordered through the White Aisle. We designed them and she printed them and ordered the silk boxes through thailand...the woman was very ill during our process so I can't say I would recommend going through her.

There are hundreds of reviews on resorts. You may consider reading through them to help you decide. There is a ton of information on this site you just have to do some digging.

$300 for the ceremony

The one wedding I saw with a judge he did not speak english. The coordinator would translate. I also think that they only use the judge when it is a legal ceremony not for the symbolic.

Roxy it is anywhere from 45 mins to an hour from the airport. you have to book transportation but are able to book for a fee through the hotel. Our TA did the transport for us. Glad my review helped!

I went in October and there were none but at our wedding in November they were pretty bad. think it depends on the rain and the wind. Either way bring deet.