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I am also getting married at The Royal in Playa...in 16 days! You can find all the pics you need by going into the Royal, Playa del Carmen forum. There is a ton of information on it. Read through every page!! It will be worth it. Congrats and happy planning!

Congrats! I am getting married at the Royal in Playa in just 16 days!!! Head over to the Royal thread and there is a boat load of information on it. You may need to spend 3 nights to get through it all, but it will be well worth it. Trust me, although the planning process is frustrating, you are making the right decision!!! The Royal is gorgeous!

Welcome to the forum!! Head on over to our Royal thread and we can help you with any info you need!!! You have plenty of time =)

Quote: Originally Posted by jesmcan Hi Ladies, I am wondering about tipping to, whats everyone doing and if you are tipping how much do you think is appropriate? By the way Welcome Playa! I also am curious about this. I asked it a while back, but nobody responded. Here is some info I found, not sure if it is true or not: Makeup artist or Hair Stylists - You don't have to tip them if they come to you. If you go to the salon, then you should tip them 15%. Why you ask, well the salon makes the money, not the individual. If you have received a good job, and you would tip normally, then go ahead. DJ - If your DJ owns the company then the tip is optional but if the DJ is an employee $50-100.00. If you have 2 DJs (DJ & MC), give each person $50.00 in separate envelopes. When your guests rave about your reception later, it's the DJ that had everything to do with the fun. Photographer and Videographer - If these vendors own the company, then the tip is optional. If they are employees $50.00 goes to the main photographer and he/she can give a split to the assistant. Officiant - To tip them is to trivialize their profession and extremely bad etiquette. Generally you pay your fee and that's it. If you wish to make a financial contribution to the church, you can do that separately. Florist - You don't need to tip the florist for making your arrangements but you can tip them an extra $5.00 per delivery location (3 locations=$15.00) or $10-20.00 per staff member in one lump sum, for set-up and delivery. Your Wedding Coordinator - If this vendor owns the company, then the tip is optional. If they are an employee = $50.00 Ceremony or Reception Musicians - $5-10/hr per person, in one lump sum given to the person in charge. Again, I don't know that you need to tip all of these people, it is just what I saw online. On another note...I am having a horrible morning and need to vent. Someone used those little black box things on our ATM card and we got taken to the cleaners They took all of our wedding money. The bank is saying they will refund it but they need to investigate first. I told them that I leave in 12 days and they really need to get on this fast! Just what I need now, more stress. Hold onto your ATM's ladies...they are NOT SAFE!!!

YES!!!! The stuff I shipped made it Mexico!! Such a relief. Now I just need to get past customs. I leave in 17 days and I can't believe how much is left to do still!! Just wanted to drop you future brides a note to say that shipping to Mexico isn't all that bad.

Quote: Originally Posted by jesmcan Hi girls, as you can see I am a vendor now as well as a member here on BDW I started my own blog ( Destination Inspirations) specifically for inspiring those planning a destination wedding. I wanted to personally thank you girls because it was you guys that really helped me come up with this idea. You guys help inspire me daily and I can't wait to see all your amazing weddings So thank you again Congrats on your new blog!

Quote: Originally Posted by rosieposie paid my deposit and looking over the contract! i'm so nervous and excited!!! YAY!!! Congrats!

Quote: Originally Posted by dianep for fabric for the huppah, i'm just going to buy whichever looks better (or whichever is less expensive!). i think any somewhat sheer fabric would look great and provide the pop of color we're looking for. so i finally got my final payment in on friday! i e-mailed both my WC and the manager at the royal (thanks LadyDi) and told them i wanted to take care of it that day. my WC responded later that day, saying that she had already sent me the corrected invoice (it showed in her e-mail, but i've been watching my inbox like a hawk and i NEVER received it). so i don't know what happened there. she was extremely short with me, but at least i got my final payment done! so my FSIL e-mailed my WC about a month ago to try to set up spa appointments the morning of the wedding. she never heard back from her until today, when the WC gave her the info of the mexico coordinator. my FSIL e-mailed me, all excited about a new coordinator (she knows my frustrations with the michigan WCs). ha, i hadn't even heard that i'd been assigned a coordinator in mexico yet! what!? haha has anyone had any experience with Denys Magaña? this is my assigned onsite coordinator. i'm hoping for good things! So glad you finally got that taken care of! Now lets pray for no rain on our day!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by LynnieS bridetobe I also have been working with the onsite WC since early Jan due to problems as well. I can tell it is starting to get busy down there because it takes Michel four to five days to respond to my emails, usually after a followup email. This is really unlike her too! I would call the spa yourself because the spa was completely booked when I tried to add one more hair appt onto may 14 (Michel tried to get me one last week). But still, don't stress. They will do everything they can for you and Im sure you can do a lot when you get there! Thank you Thank you THank you! What number do I call? I am so clueless! I feel like we should have had an orientation on what we need to do and what they will take care of for us. It's just all so confusing.

I'm starting to get really nervous. I leave in 19 days for my wedding and I still have not heard anything from Zulma since I sent in my checklist. She asked for it 30 days out, so that is when I gave it to her. I sent it with questions I still had about the wedding. I need to book out all the hair appointments, etc. too. I don't really know what to do, but I am starting to panic for the first time in this whole process Have any of you other ladies that have weddings coming up been able to get a hold of your WC at the resort?

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Here is my puppy murphy, and my fat cat Winston (I call him mouse) is below in my signature. murph.pdf puppy.pdf

I absolutely love the dog card! That might be the greatest idea ever!

I decided to hand out the OOT bags at the rehearsal dinner. I'm just going to put them on everyone's chairs since they are unisex. They will have tags with their names on them anyway.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di girafexx, we still save $$ by booking directly with Ivan so it's whatever. lluna, The resort charges like 1k just for the DJ without the light up dance floor. With DJ Ivan, the dance floor is included. It was definitely cheaper booking through Ivan, even with the vendor charge the resort has.

I am leaving in 27days for my wedding and I just now realized that we need to set up tip money for the judge, etc. Does anyone know who I need to tip and what would be a normal tip amount?

Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di Julie said I have to pay the vendor fee for DJ Ivan since we booked directly through him so I am gonna fight that! I will email Ivan and ask him about it as well. That dress looks really heavy so I think you should get a simple dress for the TTD! Zulma told me that if I booked through the resort there was no vendor fee, but we would get Ivan. Since we booked through Ivan we do have to pay that $100 since it was before the price change. From what I know that is still the case as I was told this a week ago.

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbum1285 OK I'm having TTD issues! I really don't mind trashing my own wedding dress that isn't the issue, but I bought a more traditional dress thinking I was going to have an at home wedding and then switched to DW. So anyone else that is doing this, do you think a more "fru fru" dress will work in the water/sand, etc, or do you think I'd be better off getting a simple J Crew dress? In fact I'll post the pic of it I know fiance doesn't get on this site LOL... the dress in the pic is champagne mine of course is white but HELP please I'm so confused I need girl advise! :/ I would get a different dress for the TTD for a few reasons: 1. It is going to weigh you down if you go in the water with it. 2. You can sell that gorgeous dress after the wedding. 3. You can buy used dresses from oncewed.com or a site like that, that is what I did. I got it for $100 and it is awesome (it is a jcrew dress)! Just my thoughts on it.

congrats and it is never too early to start planning! Plus with a destination wedding it is always best to give those you are inviting a lot of notice so they can save up and plan!

Hi congrats! I am getting married at The Royal in Playa Del Carmen, beautiful! Check it out you may like it.

Congrats! Good luck on planning!

Congrats and happy planning!

congrats and you are going to love this site! I also was never into wedding planning, but that all changed once I got bombarded with ideas from this site. happy planning!

Quote: Originally Posted by msglave Thanks for the map! In the DIY forum, one bride put the map on the front of a postcard and put the agenda for the weekend on the bag. She was putting them in her OOT bags. So cool! Our group is so small (so far) that I'm not doing any numbers. I love the sex on the beach ;-) Ladies, do you all have any guests who are nervous about the violence in Mexico? One of my BM (a very close cousin) told me she wasn't gonna make it because of the violence! I'm so pissed! Tell your cousin to pull out a map and look at it. Trust me, where you are going to be is FAR away from any violence. Plus the resort area is gated off. You won't have to worry about it and she shouldn't either. I had some guests that were concerned but I pulled up a map and showed them how far away they were and they felt better.

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMrsYak Ok I am having major anxiety here, and need someones help! 2011 prices were just listed and they are ALOT higher than my travel agent estimated. We were hoping for Real around 300 a night for our guests that don't have a huge budget just for our wedding. They are listed at $574/night! I can't ask my guests to pay that. We have 11 people including ourselves with flights booked. My first thought was if I can't find anywhere in the price range I'll need to take a loan and pay all of these people back. Now I'm looking at the first week in Dec which is still in the price range, I don't think it's major to us to move the wedding up a month... My question is now all of these people with flights booked, would it be possible to just move the dates ahead...or would they be out the money and have to pay again? I thought DW was supposed to be easier than a regular wedding!!!!! You had people book their flights already? Don't panic! I know it is stressful but a DW isn't easier than a regular wedding. I thought that too. But it really all does come together and you just make it work in some magical way. I wouldn't have any more of your guests book though until you figure out exactly what you are doing. It will cause more stress on you and them. Get yourself situated first with your booking, then have them book. You definitely need to talk to your TA, since it is early maybe they can work something out. The cost will definitely come down. Mine went up but it was because of the time of year I am going.