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Congrats and welcome to the forum!

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Congrats and welcome to the forum! You'll definitely find some resources to help you pick your location, good luck!

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We are doing a registry because of our AHR, the registry information will only be supplied with the AHR invites, we don't want anyone traveling to Mexico spending more money on us.

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Congrats and welcome to the forum!

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Congrats on your wedding, and good luck helping your friends!

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Quote: Originally Posted by eholt I am getting married in Jamaica on May 19, 2011. I have secured a date, gotten my dress, ordered STD's (they were shipped today). How early is too early to book a photographer? definitely not too early, I booked my photographer last September! Quote: Originally Posted by pineapplebride Thanks Rose!! Dress shopping went really well! I found 3 dresses that I love... so I am going to take my girlfriends out with me and help me narrow it down! I'll keep you posted on which one I choose! fun, good luck narrowing it down and be sure to sneak some pics!

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Beautiful pics Kat!

Oh no, hopefully she has them done when he goes up there or is at least almost finished, If she gave you a finish date they should have been done at that time especially since she picked it. SO sorry you have to deal with this stress right now.

great planning thead

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the ones I was going to choose have already been nominated! thanks for the nom Cindy!

Heather - I can't believe I never mentioned this thread to you, haha totally slipped my mind. I've added the newbies to the list and will probably update it weekly or bi-weekly as we have more people join the thread.

Quote: Originally Posted by WestBacaniWedding Ordered dress today, booked travel agent, booked photographer! Finishing STDs & logo....it's been a big day!!! Super excited! Maybe i'll sneak over to Tulum & say hello! haha! sounds like you had a very productive day! Quote: Originally Posted by msredd3129 I got my contract today...faxing it over tomorrow. I am so happy, I can finally start my save the dates and logo. congrats on getting your contract ready! I'm almost finished with our guest book, and my BD book! I also have been working on fabric pomanders slowly over the past 2 weeks and I have 3/6 finished! haha They are extremely time consuming and going to school full time and working 3 jobs makes is making it a little difficult to get them finished.

Quote: Originally Posted by AmyandRich We fly out of Cleveland every time ... never for this much. You should be able to find a package that averages to be about $1300 - 1500 for 7 nights per person. This will rise and fall a bit with airfare. Part of the problem may be that some rates have not been released yet. Airline rates are usually not valid until you hit about 6 months out from travel. Also, there seems to be about 2-3 sales for Dreams packages a year, which brings down prices. We had a May wedding and advised our guests not to book before October/November to get good rates. In the fall, you start seeing Spring sales. I'm wondering if I should try another TA, even though we put a deposit down to say we would use them. They specialize in DW and honeymoons. All of our rates are finally out I had to wait until this month to get flight rates. From what I was looking at last year as I kept watching prices it seemed the best time to book was between August and November. I almost feel like telling my guest to just find the cheapest deal and take it and screw qualifying for a group rate.

ok my BM just emailed me the quote she got from our TA The rates listed are per room based on double-occupancy & include roundtrip air from Cleveland (see schedule), roundtrip airport transfers, 7-nights’ accommodations at Dreams Tulum, all-inclusive package (drinks, meals, & gratuities), taxes, and cancel-for-any-reason trip insurance. 7-night stay in deluxe garden view room = $3174 (deposit = $1420; final payment due 3/13/11) 7-night stay in deluxe ocean view room = $3638 (deposit = $1454; final payment due 3/13/11) is it just me or does that seem a little high?

They typically vary and can be almost any week in March. I think if you do the last week in March though you should probably avoid the most of it.