bridetobe1515

Wow, I just got some exciting news! My wedding photos are going to be put in a 2011 bridal calendar, on stylemepretty.com and a video montage up on my TA's website!!! My photog deserves all the credit, she did an amazing job. I would love to show you all some pics she took of the trash the dress and the wedding, but I'm having issues uploading them on the site. All of the one's i've posted so far are from the resort photographer. Cecilia Dumas is amazing!! Now she is going to get a chance for her business to grow through all of this, I'm so happy for her!

Quote: Originally Posted by msglave Does it matter who these three people are? Relatives vs. a hair stylist? I couldn't tell that the girls flowers were real touch. I am in Chicago too and may need that info. I love the florist that Di used, but I am so tired of adding a vendor's fee to everything. There are so many things i want to add but I keep seeing dollar signs in my head. She said it didn't matter. You just give them the names. If it is a vendor though like a hair stylist you will have to pay for them. Unless it is family or friend in which case you can probably get away with it. The lady who did them did an amazing job. I can give you that info, just PM me. Quote: Originally Posted by msglave This is great to know since I am in Chicago too. Did you register your certificate with the county clerk or deeds/records? No, I was thinking about registering it with the deeds/records only because if I happen to lose it down the road they can always reprint it for me at a fee, like a birth certificate.

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMrsYak That's right you just reminded me. Now that I had to change my reception time...I have an uncle staying at a timeshare nearby who is coming for the wedding. It is a $20 cab ride each way for him. I'm not going to make him leave between 2:30-5...has anyone come across this? How strict are they..guess I would have to purchase a day pass for him for the full day to get by that rule... You can chose up to 3 people that you want to have access to your hotel at least 3 hours prior to the wedding for free. Make sure when you get there you tell them this. Zulma gave me this information when I was down there...would have helped earlier, but at least that rule exists!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di Ravelyn, we just decided not to file a marriage certificate with the county. We don't want to get married again. We just need the marriage certificate translated to English in case anyone questions us about our marriage and if i want to change my last name. I am pretty sure SS office won't accept it unless its in English. I went to the social security office and they want it in Spanish, because it has a official seal on it. they translate it there for free to determine if it is real. DO NOT PAY FOR THE EXTRA COST TO TRANSLATE IT! I know a lot of girls on here were talking about that, but you don't have to. I had no problems at all!

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMrsYak Great pictures! Beautiful! I am using the photographer from the resort. Now I just told Ana I would be doing the Platinum package...which only includes 2 hours. We are only having semi-private reception which doesn't start until 4 hours after the ceremony so I'm not going to have the photgrapher there. Should I add an hour or is 2 enough? I'm thinking like he would come a half hour before or so while getting ready...the ceremony won't be more than a half hour...then some time after to take pictures... The photographer from the resort did take some pics of us too, and they came out good. I liked my photographer way better, but it could be because we spent more time with her. I think 2 hours is not enough time. I only say that because if you plan on them taking any pics during cake cutting, bouquet toss, etc. then you will need to rush it all in the very beginning of the reception or else they will miss it. We faked our cake cutting so we could get some good pics and then did our bouquet toss, etc. early so we wouldn't have to pay for more time. It worked out pretty well.

Quote: Originally Posted by msglave I just watched the whole show and LOVED IT! You were such a beautiful bride. I almost selected the same bridesmaid dress. In fact I bought the one with the one shoulder drape for myself to wear to the rehearsal dinner. Did you order your flowers through the resort? I don't remember seeing those colors in the catalog. I got my flowers from the resort (it was the first option on the catalog with the roses). The girls flowers I got from a vendor back home, they were real touch flowers.

I just wanted to post the link to our slideshow for you ladies: Your Photo Slide You have to hit HQ by the volume on the screen or else the pic quality is bad.

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Stephanie~ SO another question, I heard today that you now have to be a high room catagory to eat at chefs plate... wtf?! This wasn't the case when I made my reservation! Are they going to honor that?! AH, yes I forgot to mention this in the review!!! So you need to be a beachfront walkout or higher. The reason everyone booked oceanview was for that chef's plate!! Unbelievable.

Quote: Originally Posted by lexibride I'm back!!!! We had a wonderful wedding and a great day too! Yay for no rain on the 15th! Sorry to anyone else who did have rain - we saw many brides who got rained out boo! I finally got on here - I've had to catch up at work before I could do anything remotely fun. Our wedding was great - some bumps in the road but I'll do a review hopefully later on tonight (American Idol finale is tonight, so we'll see how far I get). Bridetobe1515 - I think that you were in the chair right next to me getting your hair done for the wedding!! I was a bit too shy to ask in fact I think your wedding was right before mine in the gazebo (right?) my wedding coordinator was saying how they had to get all the blue petals up before we got there, LOL!! Also I don't know which one of you guys it was, but I could swear that there was someone waving and yelling during our ceremony Was one of you in a balcony room near the gazebo?? I told my husband (lol...I love typing that) that maybe it was one of my online buddies! Here's a montage that my photographer made so you guys can get a sneak peak at our welcome dinner (at Alux), wedding and trash the dress. animoto - Jessica & Brian's Wedding OMG, that was you!!! I was so angry because they totally did not do my hair how I wanted it. I told her I didn't like it and she looked at me like I had one eye. She did the makeup well, but I was so sad about my hair. Once I got out of the chair I decided to not care or else it would ruin my day. Not to mention I didn't figure out until the middle of the reception that I forgot to put my veil on!!! How does that even happen I was in such a rush and worried about everyone else that I totally forgot. Yes, sorry about the blue petals I didn't even think about the wedding after ours! Oops.

Quote: Originally Posted by dianep it's true. we stayed at both places and went back and forth all the time (the beach is nicer in front of the royal). all of the beaches in mexico are technically public. you could walk the shore from playa to cancun if you wanted to! so they can't have any say over who is on their beach or when they show up... Our guests only got stopped at the Royal front entrance because 2 of them were not wearing pants, they had shorts on. If they are eating at the royal I guess they need to wear pants (almost all of the restaurants are like that). We just had to get special permission or have them change.

Quote: Originally Posted by RunningBride24 Ha, the infamous Angie sarcasm. In one of my emails I asked her how to go about getting guests from the Gran to the Royal (as far as for the wedding, dinners, etc..), her reply? "they walk". Yeah, thanks for that. LOL! I can't believe she is like that! They are really strict at The Royal about people from the Gran coming in, but if they say the wedding party they are with then they are allowed to come 30 minutes prior to the event. A surprise that I didn't know and found out once I was there was that Zulma told me I could have 3 people from the Gran or whoever I chose to come into my room on the wedding day 3 HOURS BEFORE THE WEDDING! What That was something that would have been useful prior to me being there! I was so relieved though because my dad was at the other resort. So for you brides that have special people at the other resort...know that this is allowed!

Quote: Originally Posted by RunningBride24 So........I just went to open my 'Wedding Stuff' folder on my desktop only to realize that it's GONE. G-O-N-E. I can't find it anywhere on the computer, and go figure, I hadn't backed it up. This is 6+ months of every photo/link/idea/website/contract/email EVERYTHING I HAD in there. Fiance claims he didn't "accidentally" delete it but for some reason I think differently. UGH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the random vent, I just had to get it off my chest! Oh no!!!!! Did you check in your trash folder? Also, did you do a search on your computer for the file? Go to Start and then Search, then files or folders. If it was once on there it couldn't just disappear. Even if you did accidentally trash it, then you would find it in the trash bin icon.

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Stephanie~ You can get parasols on 5th?! Anyone know what size and colors they have? Like would I be able to get Pink or Turquoise? May make more sense to buy them there.... May Brides- So happy your time at the royal was so wonderful and your weddings went so smoothly! Can any of the recent brides tell me what cake flavors ya'll picked? I am having a terrible time deciding! Also, anyone care to give reviews on the reception food now that they are back? What to get and what to stay away from? One other question.... sorry... Should you bring beach towels from home or does the Royal provide plenty of towels to use on the beach and at the pool? Thanks! We leave 2 weeks from today! They definitely have parasols! Pink and Turqouis for sure. I actually have one that is for sale so you can get an idea of the look. They do say Playa Del Carmen on them which is perfect! It is listed under Parasol... Flickr: tutti1299's Photostream Cake I picked the tres leches and it was unbelievable. Nobody really wanted to eat it though because they feed you so much during dinner and dessert. The food was so good that everyone ate it all and then left no room for cake. Those who did try it, including myself, loved it though. They said as long as you aren't doing a multi layered cake then it won't melt at all, and it didn't. It was outside for at least an hour and didn't move. The spring salad with goat cheese was surprisingly good. If you aren't a fan of goat cheese though then I would stay away from it because it is overpowering. The beef was delicious (going off of the luxury menu). It was very large and cooked perfectly! So yummy!!! The asparagus mint soup (princess soup) so delicious as well. I was actually surprised by this. It seemed like most people ate all of theirs. The dessert was the cheesecake with chocolate, and it was devine! I loved every last bit! One of my bridesmaids was so impressed that she ordered it for roomservice every day after that. They provide SO MANY beach towels. The only plus to giving everyone one is that when you lay them out on the chairs yours is distinct and they can't steal your chair. If I were to do it differently I wouldn't have brought them. Instead what I saw was useful was thermal mugs. I know weird but their drinks seriously melt so fast from being in the sun, that those who were smart and brought their own did not have this problem at all! Also useful was the room key and tip holders. I got the ones that you could zip and put those wrist coils on them and everyone loved them. Very useful!

I am dropping prices because I have to get rid of all of this stuff!!! 1. 1 Bride Coozie never used -$4 2. 1 Bridesmaid Coozie never used -$3 3. Wedding Beach cake topper never used -$15 4. Hair Flower with feather never used - $10 5. Garter with Bow never used - $5 6. 1 Parasol with "Playa Del Carmen" on it never used -$8 7. 4 white LED submersible lights never used - $3 8. Bridal Purse slightly used for 1 hour-SOLD 9. Bride hat never used - $3 10. Bridal Sandals size 10 used - $8 11. Bronze peep toe heels never used size 9.5 -$15 12. Bridal Guest Book never used -$10 13. Guest Pen set never used -$3 14. White AHR or dinner rehearsal dress size Large- SOLD 15. Gold jewelry set (earrings and bracelet-gorgeous CZ diamonds)-$25 16. Wedding Jewelry Set (Earings, Necklace and bracelet-absolutely stunning!)- SOLD

For those of you not interested in the royal makeup and hair this is a cool place I saw: Waves Beauty Salon Playa del Carmen by Canadian Hairstylist Trevor Kohlman | Wavesplaya.com They actually do airbrushing for makeup which i've done before and I LOVED!!! They do a free trial, pick you up from your resort and drop you back off, and even feed you. seriuosly cheap too!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisa DSO The bridesmaid flowers look so much prettier in your picture than on the pdf. Very nice! I can't remember if you said you got your bouquet through the royal as well....do they just make the bridesmaid ones smaller? Love the bridesmaid dresses too- my MOH put that dress as one of the ones she would like for them to try on. What did your girls think about it? The bridesmaid flowers were real touch flowers. They were from a vendor back home. My flowers were from the Royal. Bridesmaid dresses were great! At the end of the night they knotted them and stuck it under to make it short. Sort of funny!

Quote: Originally Posted by dianep was your reception, by chance, on the beach close to pelicanos? i think i saw people dancing with those balloons! (we were on the beach just on the other side, by the bar with the swings). p.s. i think we had the absolute PERFECT weather for our wedding day! i couldn't have asked for anything better! Yes we were by Pelicano's!!! I think I saw you guys while we were on our way to Blue Parrot! You said hi and congrats to me!!! Yay!!! I told the FI I thought that was you! It was perfect!!!

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Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di Thank you! They will provide the huppa free of charge and you can bring your own decorations for the huppa like the tulle. They will charge like $500 for the huppa flowers. Crazy expensive! Lady Di, I just wanted to say I hope you have a great wedding! Don't stress, everything will come together perfectly! Good luck!

Silver wedding set is now sold.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di Jess, we are going to do the announcing part with the DJ. I haven't really thought about it but we are going to do it. jujeemd, thanks so much for your review! You had a beautiful wedding!! We had Ivan announce our whole party. We lined them up as they had walked down the aisle and we had a song for them and one for us. It was great!!

Quote: Originally Posted by jesmcan Thanks Jenny!! Jujeemd - once again thank you so much for all this great information! and it does not sound like you are complaining. I was on the fence about the OOT bags, I know now what to do thank you For ours we decided base on previous reviews not to give them to the hotel. They don't really understand a lot of english and they really do run on slow time there. So we went to Maria's for the rehearsal dinner before everyone showed up and put them on everyone's chair. It was a lot of fun. Plus when people got there they were totally surprised that they were getting a bag of goodies!

Quote: Originally Posted by duprk452 Just realized that we leave in three weeks! Still haven't heard anything from Lili though.. Any advice on last minute things I should be getting together? Make a lot of lists! They helped me out a ton! Packing list, vendor list, tip list (envelopes), binder with invoices, binder with emails (I did need one email), make sure that you don't have more than $300 per person in wedding items on you. Customs is tricky, I did get stopped. Make a list of things to remember to do before you leave (like turning off lights, turning thermostat down, etc.).

Quote: Originally Posted by Jenny310 Does anyone know if I order flowers from a local flowershop in PDC and have someone pic them up do I still have to pay the vendor fee?? I would say no to that! Only if the vendor is coming on the premise, and they really don't even pay attention to that.

Rhinestones, this is for the wedding jewelry set right? I have a pending bid on them, but I will let you know if it falls through.