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Thanks Christy! I hope that thread helps you! :-)

Congrats and welcome to the site! There are some wonderful travel Agents on here that can help you!

Here it is!!!!! Please know that they are REALLY SLOW to respond! I see that you are both Noobs. Welcome to the forum! http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...r-grand-50403/

I posted dome stuff on an older thread. I'll do a search to see if I can find it. I was going to get married here but it was much too expensice for the guests.

1. Where is your cell phone? nightstand 2. Your significant other? Jad 3. Your hair? curly 4. Your mother? Rosie 5. Your father? Tony 6. Your favorite thing? life 7. Your dream last night?snoring 8. Your favorite drink? pepsi 9. Your dream/goal? wedding!!!!! 10. The room you're in? den 11. Your ex? LOSER!!!!! LOL! 12. Your fear? death 13.Where do you want to be in 6 years? wealthy 14. Where were you last night? concert 15. What you're not? stupid 16. Muffins? orange 17. One of your wish list items? home 18. Where you grew up? Chicago 19. The last thing you did? typed 20. What are you wearing? dress 21. Your TV? Off 22. Your pets? fish 23. Your computer? lap 24. Your life? busy 25. Your mood? tired 26. Missing someone? yes 27. Your vehicle? intrepid 28. Something you're not wearing? socks 29. Favorite Store? many 30. Your summer? busy 31. Like someone? yes 32. favorite color? green 33. When is the last time you laughed? today 34. Last time you cried? thursday

I am constantly finding new threads that I haven't seen before. Hour after hour I'm on here. I haven't Facebooked/talked to my friends, etc. My favorites are the planning threads, reviews, DIY and for sale items. Does that sound like the entire forum? LOL!

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsMiller2b Wow! This is an amazing price for the badges...$5.99 for 50!!!! I wish I had seen those two days ago before ordering for more than $20 including shipping. Also I would have been nervous to order way from China with such little time left before we depart for our wedding!!! Quote: Originally Posted by Jenny310 great find, i'm ordering now!! This was a great buy and the quality is excellent. I got my lanyards from the same company.

Looks good so far! Congrats soon to be Mrs!

OOohhhhh!!!! I love them-so creative. I love the frames too! I love the decor of your home as well! Great job!

Quote: Originally Posted by playa Quote: Originally Posted by playa hi ladies, I have a question about a sand ceremony. For those who had one, did you bring your own vases and sand? Did you write your own words or did they have a standard they used? thanks I am not using the traditional vases but the picture frame. You can see it here If you do a search on here for sand ceremonies, you will find threads and suggestions for scripts. I'll see if I can find it. Thanks you so much for the idea that is really beautiful. Also thanks for looking up the words for the ceremony we will be using one of them for sure No problem. I'm glad it helped you! Quote: Originally Posted by KathyW Hey ladies can anyone tell me how I can go about making a wedding website? I am not very computer savy but I think I may be able to handle it...also if anyone wants to share their creative sites with me for ideas that would be fabulous as well..Im not very creative what should I do first? btw are they free? Thanks... I used Wedding Window. It was super easy and everyone loved our sites. The longer you purchase your site, the cheaper it is. You can see mine by going to www.jadicaandraveyn.com If you decided to go with weddingwindow, you can click at the link all the way at the bottom of our page. Quote: Originally Posted by KathyW Thanks Hey when you booked your wedding did you put down the deposit before or after they told you what location and time your wedding could be at? I spoke with someone over there today and she emailed me some stuff but said she would get back to me about time and location...Im kinda hesitant to send over my deposit before I get the time but Im also worried I will loose the date... Are they pretty good about getting back to you in the beginning or should I continue to pester them? lol If memory serves me correctly, we put our credit card number down and selected our location on the same form. We got a confirmation a little after that.

Di, I've been waiting to read your review. I am soooo glad that everything turned out so perfect for you! Your pictures are beautiful-you made a stunning bride. Thanks for sticking around for us future Royal brides!

So I'm on here all the time and I just saw it too, bummer!

This is amazingly fabulous! Excellent job!

Quote: Originally Posted by zelda062 Did you ever decide between The Royal in Cancun or Playa del Carmen? I am struggling with the same decision myself. You can do a search and pull up threads dedicated to these resorts. I suggest you read from beginning to end then make a decision. I stayed at The Royal Cancun in 2008 but am getting married at The Royal PDC.

Welcome to the forum. The ladies here are so awesome! Be sure to check out the Riiera Maya thread! Lots of info there!

You'll be a posting pro before you know it :-) Welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome to the forum. Everyone here is awesome! You will find more help/ideas than you ever thought possible!!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Charrey We had a get together at a casual restaurant/bar for everyone going to Jamaica the week before where I gave them their OOT bags. We are having an AHR. Much of our 'honorary' wedding party cannot come to Jamaica, so we are having a bbq at our house a week before the reception when we will give the wedding party and parents gifts. As far as decorations--I didn't see the need for many since the beach will be beautiful enough for the ceremony. I do have fans, a sand ceremony frame and bottles, cake servers, and toasting flutes I am carefully packing in a carry on. I am shoving my purse into my carry on and using my dress as my personal item and either we are putting the tux into my dress bag or my fiance will carry it himself. Never thought about putting his clothes with mine, lol! Good idea!

Hi Laura! Welcome to the forum. The ladies here are so awesome! You will find more help/ideas than you ever thought possible!!!!!

I'm sorry. I still haven't been able to figure it out either! Boo!

FYI-The Royal PDC has a sister hotel across the street that is for families. Non-adults are allowed to come over for he wedding. Their is some policy for day passes if your guests are staying at the Gran Porto (sister hotel) and want to visit The Royal outside of wedding time.

I am constantly finding more threads/ideas that I want to incorporate. Thanks for posting.

Playa, I am copying and pasting the scripts. Hope this helps! Sand Ceremony #1 "Before the two of you met, your lives were on separate roads ... each going in different directions and seemingly leading to different destinations. But somewhere along the way (through some twist of fate) you did meet, and you fell in love. Today, you find yourselves standing here together at the threshold of a new path, and have promised to forever join your once separate journeys into one. Before each of you there is a container of sand. Each container represents the separate journeys you once were on. They also represent your own sets of friends and families, that until today were apart from each other. I now ask that you blend these individual containers of sand together. As the sand has blended together, your lives too are joined. Your once solitary journeys have become one of companionship, as you now set forth on a single path together into your future. Your friends and family are as one as well. You will now share those who are a part of your lives as you walk hand-in-hand Sand Ceremony #2 As you stand beside the ocean, may your love always be as constant as the tide; waves flowing endlessly from the depths of the sea. Just as water is the eternal force of life, so is love. Love is the force that allows us to face fear and uncertainty with courage. You have just sealed your relationship by giving and receiving of rings. But although you will be sharing one life, never forget that you are two separate people. Cherish and affirm your differences. Love each other. Keep your commitment primary. Together you will laugh and cry, be sick and well, be happy and angry, share and grow. Grow sometimes together, sometimes separately. To symbolize this union and the importance of the individuals within the marriage, two separate colours of sand will be combined. Each one holds its own unique beauty, strength, and character. They can stand on their own and be whole, without need of anything else. However when these two are blended together they create and entirely new and extraordinarily more intricate entity. Each grain of sand brings to the mixture a lasting beauty that forever enriches the combination. Please pour the sand into this common container to symbolize the union of your two lives. (Begin pouring sand) Sarah and Michael, just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual container, so will your marriage be a molding of two individual personalities, bonded together forming one heart, one life, and one family. Sand Ceremony #3 Now we shall celebrate this union as it is symbolized through the pouring of two individual containers of sand. One represents (Bride/Groom) and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be. The other represents (Groom/Bride) and all that you were and all that you are, and all that you will ever be. As the two vials of sand are poured into the third keepsake vase, the individual containers of sand ceased exist as they are now joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual vases, so will the love and bond between the two of you render you inseparable. Sand Ceremony #4 Before you met, your lives were on different paths with different destinations. Love has brought you together and joined these separate paths into one. The sand in these jars symbolize your separate lives, separate families, separate sets of friends, and the different life journeys you once traveled. I ask that each of you take one of the jars and that you fill the center jar together. ~The couple steps forward and takes their individual jars and fills the center jar.~ With the mixing of these grains of sand you have now symbolically joined your once separate lives. As your two lives have been inseparably combined, so now are your friends and family joined, through you into one. And your once solitary life’s paths are also now one. All that was once separate is now shared and in this sharing you both will find great comfort.

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Stephanie~ Officially off to mexico! Heading to KC airport. Gotta be there by 3 am! I will check in! Let me know if u have any questions! Thanks for everything ladies! I could not have done this without u! Xoxo YAY!!! Good luck! Praying for no rain!!! Quote: Originally Posted by artistique You can check out Weather Underground for past data on your date and dates around yours. If you go to Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground and put in Playa del Carmen Mexico the current conditions come up. Then if you look for the link in the lower middle of the left side, you will see a link that says "Weather history for this location" or something like that. Then you can scroll around for different dates. Hope that helps! Michelle Thanks for posting this! Quote: Originally Posted by 2mckee No, we had to pay the vendor fee, but even with that $100, it was still way cheaper to go with him for everything. (and he is giving me what I want, which is bouquets with green cymbidium orchids, white cymbidium orchids, white dahlias and green hypercinum berries) I wonder if you COULD just pick them up and avoid the fee? We have already paid, but maybe for the rest of you? I think Jesmcan had a great suggestion for a florist as well awhile back? Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di We also paid $100 vendor fee...like mckee said, it is cheaper going with the florist! Before the MI office closed, I asked this and was told even if I pick the flowers up, I must pay. Lady Di, Congrats on being member of the month! Quote: Originally Posted by KathyW Hi girls, Ive been having so much fun reading all your posts on the Royal. I am new to this site but since reading I have decided that I want my wedding at the Royal as well. April 6th 2011... I tried to do a request through the royal website to get someone to contact me about times avail. I only saw that there was only one option for beach location, which was pelicanos, but I heard through here that they have 3 beach locations. The pelicanos is only avail at 1pm which I dont want to do it that early. Does anyone know if they have other beach options that they share with you later? Also I havent got a responce back from anyone yet in order to book. Should I try again or is it just going to take them longer with all the location changes there? Also does anyone know if you can have your wedding ceremony and reception on Porto side if you are staying at the Royal? I was just noticing that they have later times over there for ceremony. One more thing...Does anyone know how to change your username? Somehow mine was put as my email address.. Thanks ladies...look forward to learning and sharing with you all Kathy Welcome to the thread, Kathy! Congrats on your wedding! Quote: Originally Posted by playa hi ladies, I have a question about a sand ceremony. For those who had one, did you bring your own vases and sand? Did you write your own words or did they have a standard they used? thanks I am not using the traditional vases but the picture frame. You can see it here If you do a search on here for sand ceremonies, you will find threads and suggestions for scripts. I'll see if I can find it.

I am going to pay for his.