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Welcome and good luck with finding the perfect resort!!!

Congrats!!! I am planning on getting married there but not untill 2011

Your hair looks soooo pretty!!! Great review!

$10 admisson fee!! That's so weird! Great review!!! Thank you!

Those pink and oranges seem wayyy more fitting then the yellow and black! The yellow and black remind me more of a dinner party than a wedding!

According to the Martha Stewart Wedding magazing I just bought yesterday... 6 bucks ouch!... the new 'it' colors for a destination wedding or a wedding on a lake are yellow, black, and white. What do you think? What were your wedding colors?

Your hair looks so cute! thanks for the review!!

Very nice review!!! congrats!

Those pictures are amazing!!! Congrats and thank you for such a great review!

You both look awesome!! Like you are right out of a magazine!! Congrats!

Those pictures are amazing!!!! You look awesome!

You looked gorgeous! Great review!

Congrats! Awesome review!! I hate when you have to pay for luggage or pay extra because it was over the weight amount

I am planning on getting married at Secrets in May 2011. It's so far away But I figure the more planning I do ahead of time, the less stressed I'll be!!! Can not wait! This Secrets fourm is so awesome!

that is amazing to have! thank you!!!

Courtney - That is amazing!!!! How awesome! Things work out at the Magic Kingdom that's for sure!!! We actually breifly looked into the destination wedding being in Disney World or on the Disney Cruise but it was wayyyyy too pricey!!! But it would have been cute

In March 2009, my FI and I decided that we were wayyyy over due for a vacation. Our anniversary is May 7th and this would be 5 years. What better time to go somewhere and celebrate? So after much research, we settled on Walt Disney World for a long weekend over the Memorial Day holiday. Even though this was a couple weeks after our real anniversary! Work and vacation hours got in the way Anyway, we booked into the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel. Florida was going through a huge drought so I heard the weeks before our trip. 90 degree weather and sun all day! Yayyy!! Well, Mother Nature decided she was done with that because the day we arrived in Florida, a huge storm hit. Of course it did. It was thunder storming and raining so hard that you could not see 2 feet in front of your face!!! I was bummed! All that pre tanning was for nothing! I was not getting a tan let alone a burn or anything! So the night we arrived, we decided to brave out the weather and go out to dinner for our anniversary. We went to Downtown Disney and ate at Foultons Crab House. Food was amazing! I had a little hope that we may pop the question. I mean, come on! It would have been the perfect time and place. But no. Nothing. I was not going to get my hopes up. I did not want to be bitter the whole trip. But I do have to admit that I had a tiny little tiny bit of an attitude. The next day we woke up and it was cloudy but not rainy!! So we hurried up, booked it outta the hotel and headed to The Magic Kingdom. It drizzled hear and there on our ride there. We got there it was so not crowded! The rain sure does keep people at bay. My favorite thing at the Magic Kingdom is Cinderella’s Castle. I love the murals that you can see while you go under the castle. But of course, the walkways through the castle were closed for some show they were going to do several hours later. Ok fine. Carl took me around the side of the castle where there is a wishing fountain. I really wanted to go in the completely different direction and go to the Haunted Mansion while the lines were short. But no, he had to see this wishing well. Hmm... Is he going to propose We were almost to the fountain and he reached into his pocket and pulled out 2 quarters... and then.. And then.. There was a sign on the fountain and it was roped off. The fountain had just been painted. Oh well.. He only had money in his hand. No ring. Oh well. That was how the rest of the day went. One thing after another did not go our way. I was starting to get a little grumpy. It was drizzling on and off and I was trying my darnest to not let a little rain ruin my trip!! So my FI said we should sit down and take a break. I told him to get me a funnel cake. Mmm.. I am a typical girl and when something is not going my way, what else do I do? I eat my emotions. After I ate an entire cake, and drank a large pop, I was not feeling pretty. I was pretty much ready to pack it up and go back to the hotel. But it had stopped raining!! By mid afternoon, the sun peeked through a little. There was hope! We were on our way back to some rides after taking a break and walked by the castle again. My FI pointed out that is was open!! Yes!! I took out my camera and started taking pictures of the murals. They are so beautiful. I turned around after I was done and saw my FI one knee with a ring!!!!!!!!! OMG!! So many emotions hit me at once! After last night and all day I figured it would never happen. I was about ready to say move it or lose it buddy. But there is was. A gorgeous diamond wedding band. He actually paid attention when I told him I wanted a band!! (I'm a Dental Hygienist and did not wasn’t anything that could cut or rip my gloves) Funny thing is that the box was upside down. Very typical of my FI lol. After the pop, funnel cake, and long day in the rain, if that box was not upside down and I didn’t smile and laugh a little, I probably would have puked all over him lol. I think I said yes. It all happened so fast. People around us were clapping and taking pictures. So needless to say, I am in someone’s vacation scrap book!! I guess my FI was going to do it when we first walked in but the castle was closed. Then by the fountain. Nope. So, running out of ideas, he took a break to think and watch me eat funnel cake lol. Then the sun came out and the castle was open. Fate I tell ya. It rained the rest of our trip but I did not care

We were dating for just over 5 years. He proposed 2 weeks after we celebrated our anniversary! It will be 7 years by the time we get married!!!

Thank you everyone for such a warm welcome! I am soooo excited to start planning!

Hello everyone! My name is Alison and I live in Macomb which is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. I recently got engaged to a wonderful man that I have been dating for over 5 years I plan on getting married in Riviera Maya in May 2011. So I have a lot of time to plan! But I have always wanted a destintation wedding!! So here I am!