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Ohhh I can't wait to see the pictures too! I really want to do this as well!

These look amazing! Great job!

Quote: Originally Posted by amberm410 Hey girls! I just returned from my wedding there on the 10th! I will post a full review later in the week but have no fear once you get there everything comes into place! Ana and her assistant Yasmin are on top of it. The best part of my wedding is the awesome pictures. I would highly highly suggest Juan Navarro. His crew did an such a great job capturing every part. I have 3 cd's of pictures. Some are color, some black and white, some black and white with just flowers or somehting in the picture being color and sepia photos. So creative. We had so much fun. Here is a link to a few of the pictures on his site. JEFF & AMBER DREAMS RIVIERA CANCUN 10 APRIL’10 Juan Navarros Blog Also if you just go to his site you can check out his work. www.juanphots.com Full review of the resort and wedding etc.. to come within the next few days! Happy planning! Congrats MRS!!! The pictures are awesome! Looking forward to your review!!! Thanks so much!

Quote: Originally Posted by noonie Regan, it will take a while to hear back from the resort, as they work more with people that have booked already, general inquiries take quite a while. Noonie! Don't stress!!! It's a tropical climate - so the weather will always show 40-60% rain...it's probably one rogue cloud that will blow through in the afternoon and clear up quickly! Just flight florida! and Houston...where I live! I swear, all through april it says it'll rain every day and occaisonally we'll get a quick little rain that passes through.

Quote: Originally Posted by blondy Hi everyone, I just got engaged a few weeks ago, and we are in the process of looking at different resorts. Dreams RC is on our short list, and I really love the gazebo idea. It is quite possible that we will have a pretty big wedding (maybe 70ish people??) and I am wondering what the capacity is for the gazebo and beach. Anyone have any idea?? I have emailed the resort a little while ago but haven't heard back. Thanks!! Regan Regan - we're also expecting somewhere around the 70 person rage - either location will be fine for that size. I saw in a magazine that the resort posted the "outdoor ceremony capacity" was 150...I believe Carina had 100 guests and had a beach ceremony. Also - for your reception, the deck can fit 200.

Quote: Originally Posted by normajeane77 We had a preferred club ocean view jacuzzi room on the 5th floor and it was absolutely amazing. I'm so glad we didn't spend all the extra money for a honeymoon suite. We had a beautiful view of the ocean and resort from our bed! I also had a great view of the gazebo from our balcony, so I got to see my groom and the guests waiting for me! Normajeane!!! Congrats MRS!!! I'd love to hear your review and if you have any pictures I'm sure we'd all love to see them!!!!! Welcome back!

Quote: Originally Posted by Thomasjsgirl I really love how the envelope is lined with the same pattern as the invite. That looks so classy. aww thanks! I'm so glad you mentioned that because I had to seriously sell my fiance on the extra 30 cents per envelope for the patterned liner hahaha.

We booked ocean view as well - and for our site visit Ana booked our room and I have no idea what she booked but I'm assuming it'll be garden view based on the rate she quoted us. It will be interesting to see the other categories...We go down May 6th for our site visit so if anyone has specific room categories or anything else that you want pictures of, let me know! Also, if there are questions you're desperately trying to get answered, let me know, I have a full page of questions and I'm happy to add to them with yours.

Quote: Originally Posted by 2010 Bride! Well we booked this room for our wedding next month and now we have found out that our "Ocean Front" room is nowhere near the ocean and we do not even have a view of the ocean! This is crazy! Just wanted to let anyone know who has booked this room so that they are not disappointed on arrival. The true Ocean Front plunge pool rooms are the Presidential and Governor's suites. ohhh that totally stinks! We actually avoided the plunge pool rooms because we don't want to be on the first floor...but my fiance's mom just booked the ocean front plunge pool...

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMrsRobart g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s! Thanks ladies! I'm hoping that getting them out 4 months in advance will push people to hurry up and book!

Thanks for all the kind words ladies!

Thanks ladies! I appreciate all your comments!

My invitations came in today and I'm soooo super excited - I totally love them! I'm not crafty at all so we decided to order our invitations but I hope I can still share them in this section...because I'm so in love with them For the brides in the Houston area - I highly highly recommend my friend's store - Katie & Co. She totally helped us pick the perfect invitations and save the dates! Here they are!

Yikes that's huge! I'm so sorry! I'm new at this whole picture posting stuff!

Hey ladies! I know this is totally off topic but I'm super excited...we got our wedding invitations in today! They're totally not DIY or even remotely DIY because I'm not crafty...not crafty at all and completely stressed out about the programs/welcome letters/table cards and tags that I somehow convinced myself to make...but anyway... here are my invites - what do you think?!

Quote: Originally Posted by reaganlane Is anyone planning on doing a TTD session while in Mexico? I am going back and forth about it and can't decide! If I do it, I don't know what photographer to go with. I already have Claudia booked for the wedding and I think another session with her is just too pricey. Anyone have any advice? What about the resort photographers? And they're included in your package! I'd send them an email - someone posted Anel's email address in an earlier post - and see if they could do it! OR check with the other brides and see if they have a photographer booked for later in the day (assuming you're doing the ttd the day after your wedding in the morning...but you know what I mean!)

Quote: Originally Posted by ebernard4985 I asked Ana specifically about this because we had already confirmed Juan. She kept sending me pics from Adventure Photos so I was concerned that there was a change, which there obviously was. However, Ana told me that Juan would still be my photographer in June.... I hate to say this but we all know how unreliable Ana's word is!!!! I am getting super frustrated because the communication with this resort SUCKS!!! My wedding is in about two months and you would think they could respond to an email. I don't care how busy Ana is or how many weddings they have booked, they are a resort and they are providing a service, so they need to hire more people to match the demand!!!! (Sorry... I am just tired of being nice about it because it is sooooooo frustrating!!!) Before I booked I told Ana I wouldn't book unless I could have Elizabeth Medina and she responded telling me she'd make that "exception" for me. Then I told her I'd use the hotel's photographer for the welcome dinner which she said she was fine with. My advice to you is to make sure you keep the email from her that says you can have Juan and hold her to it...maybe you should contact Juan too just to be sure? I'm sorry girl - I know it's so frustrating! With two months to go you're supposed to be getting EXCITED! Not frustrated!!

Ohh fun! Love this thread! Here are my reception shoes: I realize they look super bright highlighter pink but in person they're more fuschia/raspberry! And my ceremony shoes:

Hey ladies - one of my friends did her first dance to a song by Tyrone Wells - so I went on itunes and just downloaded a bunch of his songs - they're awesome! I think I'm going to walk down the aisle to "Sea Breeze" but while everyone is arriving/being seated I'm going to have a few other songs playing: Happy as the sun - tyrone wells Quando Quando Quando - michael buble Looking at her face - tyrone wells All We Are - Matt Nathanson and then my bridesmaids will walk down to an acoustic/instrumental version of come on get higher from Matt Nathanson.

Ohh wait I would really like to get more information on Zuniga Productions - I've been trying to figure out what to do about our welcome dinner - I don't want the standard party set up from dreams so I was looking into doing lounge furniture and a few tables but if I go through drc it's going to cost soooo much...I'm assuming you found the prices from this place to be a lot more reasonable then DRC? How did you get in touch with them? I went to the website but it's not loading correctly so if you could pass the contact info along I'd really really appreciate it! Thanks ladies!

Quote: Originally Posted by pbjwed Ladies, Does anyone know how the cocktail hour is set up and if you have the DJ how he moves his equipment from each location ie.. cocktail hr location to wedding reception on pool deck? The dj is only for the reception, so for the cocktail hour you can have a mariachi band or a caribbean trio - if you have the ultimate package you get one set from either the trio or the mariachi band as part of the package...and you can use it at any time. So we're doing a cd for the ceremony, mariachi for the cocktail hour and dj for the reception. As for the tables, I'm going down next month and I'm planning to get that from Ana -it's top of my list - because we want to bring our own linens for the welcome dinner to keep the costs down. I'll be sure to post that AND the size of the arch they use on the beach for anyone who wants to bring thier own decor for that as well.

I wonder if Ana was referring to Marina La Bonita - they're at the Zoetry resort down the beach from Dreams. The prices I got from them were: 6 hour sail and snorkel for 16 ppl = $2500 / Catamaran Sail for 16 people was $787 for the first hour, $385 for every hour after that. Open bar included, no food. And they have a private dinner cruise but I didn't get the details on that. And transportation is $200 for 16 people.

Absolutely! Here they are! For the table card - I realize it looks gigantic but when you go to print it you click on properties, then click on features and under "sizing" change the paper size to the size of card stock you have (mine is 4x6) then check off the box that says "print to paper size" I bought paper from www.paperpresentation.com - I got the metallic Flame and I'm printing in pink ink then I got raspberry card stock in 5x7 to go behind it... I have white pearly paper for the programs and I slide them in a raspberry pocket and tie a ribbon around them. You do not need to mess with the printer paper size on these - the template is for 5x7 cardstock. I've been channeling Martha Stewart hahaha. Table Cards.ppt Program Template for Forum.doc

Quote: Originally Posted by soon2BMrs.Prince Hey Casey! In an earlier post you mentioned you were bringing your own photographer. Is the photographer from the Houston area or friend/relative? Just curious...I'm wondering if it's more cost effective this way?? We actually were really picky about photography, as soon as we picked Mexico we started researching locations by checking out photographers websites/blogs - which is when we came across Elizabeth Medina. So in our case it wasn't so much a cost savings as we just really fell in love with her work and were going to make it work. I've heard some girls in other threads bringing friends / photographers from home AND it is quite inexpensive to fly from Houston to Mexico it might be more cost effective for you. I've actually been looking into Christine Tremoulet for my BD Shoot but I saw on her website that she does destination weddings too.... Christine Tremoulet - Houston Based Destination Wedding Photographers - Boudoir Photography Hope that helps!

Quote: Originally Posted by lorijfletcher Another question ladies. Inviations. Who are you sending them to and when? Will they be part of your OOT bags? Sending them in the mail before the wedding just to people coming or everyone? Do I really need to do an invitation at all? Obviously everyone coming, knows why they are there.... We're inviting 150 people, so we're doing invitations and we're sending them out mid may (4 months out from the wedding date) and requesting thier reply by August 1st (just over a month out from our wedding). We're sending them to everyone. I'd say if you have a small group and you're looking for ways to cut costs, you could probalby cut this out - or make your own maybe! Also - if you haven't been to Wedding Invitations, Bridal Shower Invitations & Announcements by Wedding Paper Divas yet there's pretty reasonalbly priced invitations on there that might work.