RonNMel

Does anyone know the price for a couple's massage at the spa?

OMG Heidilynn! I'm so jealous that you get Amélie as your photograph! I'm still hoping to win the lottery so I can bring her. Hahaha I loved working with her for the photoshoot I won. :-) Purpleshells, I may be interested in the turquoise parasol (do you only have 1?), the conch shells and the starfish dishes.

Awesome review! Makes me excited for my own wedding there. How much were the Real Touch flowers?

I requested to join too (Melanie). Going to read your review now.

Thanks. We have a credit card, was just hoping for a way to avoid having to pay the surcharge.

Tilly, how did you end up paying?

Congrats on the wedding! So happy you say everything went well. Looking forward to reading the review.

Thanks Siobhan! One more question. LOL You mention bringing the seating plan, but did you know before hand how the tables were going to be set up? It makes a difference if they are tables of 6, 8, 10, round, one long rectangle, etc.

I did think of one question. For the flowers, were the Easter Lillies the ONLY choice offered? Though flowers are really not a huge deal to me, I have to agree with you. It is disappointing when you see all the beautiful tropical flowers that grow freely all around the resort. Also, can you describe the ceremony a bit more in details? Like, how do everyone know when and how to enter, where to be placed, etc.? What about the music? It's from a CD? Can you hear it well?

Great review!!! Will probably have questions to ask later, can't think of any right at this moment.

Also, for the ceremony, is there a microphone? Is it hard for the guests to hear what's going on (both in the gazebo and on the beach)?

Congratulations Chevy!!! Your pics are gorgeous. Makes me second myself for wanting to get married straight on the beach... Do you have pictures of your friend's wedding on the beach? Also, where is that pier? Can't wait for a more detailed review! This is so exciting.

Have a nice week and wedding Purpleshells!!

Welcome back Tracy!! Very happy your wedding was great!! Too bad it rained a bit. Can't wait to see pictures, the ones in your signature look amazing. :-) My wedding planning is pretty much at a stall now. Bought my flip flops, but most of all we are just waiting on people to RSVP and book. Only our parents have booked so far, and two of his friends have RSVPed yes. We are more focused on planning our Disneymoon. LOL

We printed the invitations ourselves. Actually, my FI's work did it for him for free! She just gave everything to us high resolution in a PDF file. Happy wedding week Jstar83!

Quote: Originally Posted by heidilynn28 RonNMel: OMG your boarding pass save the dates and brochure are nothing but gorgeous! I am running into a slight problem.. my FI's sister-in-law's cousin was supposed to design us a monogram.. but that was in March and haven't gotten any news from her! I think I'm going to forget her.. She's young and just got out of school at Concordia in graphic design but can't seem to stick to anything in terms of work, clients, etc. So I'm sh-t out of luck as they say. How much do you think your sister-in-law would charge me for a monogram, save the date postcard (using a pic of us + monogram + text) and boarding pass invites? Is there any way you can ask her to make us a price? Would she want to do more work like this for someone else? Let me know!! We just had our engagement pics taken today on the south shore (in La Prairie). I will have some proofs in two weeks, can't wait! caribbeanlover: How was the wedding? Was it everything you thought it would be? Pics!? We had fun in Mexico.. we visited the Valentin Imperial Maya (where we want to get married next June). We will only give our deposit at the end of June since I want to be sure where I'll be teaching next year in order to book a specific date. Hope to hear back from you girls soon! OMG! You just reminded me that I was suppose to make a referral for my FI's cousin on this board. Oops. Thanks for the compliment. Yes, she would love to do that kind of work again. She said that the work she did for us, she would charge around 200-300$. I don't know if what you're asking would be the same, less or more. If you PM me your email I can pass it along to her so she can contact you. I'm a teacher too, still on a different contract every year. I did not wait to see where I will be teaching next year before booking, as it is in our collective agreement that we can take 7 days off for our wedding, including the wedding day. Are you teaching elementary or high school? Have fun Purple Shells! Can't wait to hear back from you. :-)

I haven't received the notice from Yahimara, but we have decided on a symbolic ceremony so hopefully that extra charge would not apply to us. Can't wait to read reviews and see pictures from you girls getting married soon.

Are you girls back yet? How were both of your weddings?

I think I may have found my shoes! As we were passing by a store I've never been into, FI spotted a sign saying Disney Couture. As we both have caught the Disney bug, we walked in. Not really much Disney stuff, but as I was looking at Tinkerbell earrings I saw some flip flops and immediately fell in love. I believe they are the Ipanema by Gisele Bundchen. Anyone have any feedback and/or ever tried them?

I'm so jealous that you live in Florida. If I lived there, I'd be at Disney every month at least. LOL I think the best park hands down is Magic Kingdom. So many rides he should be able to go on, and it's such a magical park. All the other parks are great too, it just depends on his personality. But for just one day, then for sure Magic Kingdom.

I was thinking that one way to make it up to FI's daughter would be by asking her to choose 1 thing in each park that we absolutely have to do for her and take a picture. That way she'd somewhat be part of the trip. Even if it means going back to Tom Sawyer Island. LOL We are thinking of staying a bit longer than a week to really have time to see everything (well, everything we want to see, we know we can't see everything). We'd spend roughly two days each in Epcot and magic Kingdom, one day each in Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios (and not on a Fantasmic day, we don't want to see it again). Then one half day at each water park, a half day or an evening at Downtown Disney, and some quiet time relaxing at our resort. :-)

I'd love to watch it more often, but I'm always busy Friday evenings. If only it were on at a better time.

Thanks. Well, we've already told her that we plan on going back to Disney when our future kids are old enough to remember it, and that she will be coming with us. Only thing is, she'll be close to 18-20 y.o. by then. BUT her grandparents might go back to Orlando (not Disney, but they might visit for one day. They want to do other parks like Seaworld) in 2012 and they want to bring her, so we can for sure use that as a bribe. Haha And yeah, she's probably old enough to understand. It's really her mother I'm afraid about. We only get her on weekends during school time (every weekends), but one day this winter his daughter called saying her step dad had a hockey game near our place, could she come hang out at our place during that time. My FI said well I'm going to the gym after work and won't be home before 8pm, but Mel will be there so just call her when you are on your way. Well his ex (her mom) told his daughter "he must not love you very much if he can't give up gym one time for you. What's the use going if he's not there and it's only his girlfriend"... Anyway, this last part might better fit in the venting forum. Haha

Last summer my FI, his 10 y.o. daughter and I went to Disney for a week. We LOVED it so much that we keep rewatching our disney video (FI made a video montage of all our pictures to Disney park music) and Disney dream all the time... At first we were not going to have a honeymoon at all (thinking of our time in Cuba as a honeymoon with lots of people LOL), but now that I've done some number crunching, and given up on professional pictures, I believe we can afford one. We thought about going to an all-inclusive in Jamaica or Mexico, but really don't feel like it as we will have just spent a week in Cuba. Plus summer is not the best time to travel south (we can't honeymoon right after our wedding as I'm a teacher. We will go in July or August). We thought about it and what we REALLY want to do is go abck to Disney just the two of us, get to experience it all as a couple. The problem is, how do we tell his daughter, who loves Disney almost as much as us, that we are going there without her She has gone to Disney one extra time before with her grandparents, and has visited Universal with her mom last summer too, so it's not as if she has never been there. Still, we know she will be pretty disappointed about not coming. But I really to have this ONE trip just the two of us, as right after we'll be trying to start our own family. Any advice on how to approach the subject with her? And how to do any damage control that her mom might cause (she has a tendency to twist every action of my FI and make her daughter think her dad doesn't love her enough...)? Thanks! other than that, I'm soooooo excited about going back there! I already know of one romantic thing I want to do: after eating dinner at Ohana (FH's request), I want to watch Wishes from the beach of the Polynesian.

Those rings look great!!