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There are photographers that the resort uses as part of their package, beyond that I did shoot of an email to both Ana at DRC and Cecilia at Secrets Maroma to give them a heads on which outside vendors I like and got their 'ok' on it. I dont know that they would have a fuss, but there is an outside vendor fee, sometimes as my DJ experience is proving, that can be very substantial, grr still cant believe it... sorry just had to vent
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfazzina Do you mind telling me what you pd for Ms Medina? I dont care if I splurge in that area- I want great pics!!! How do I get in contact with her to see her work. I will be in Mexico Sun-Tues night... Yes thats great- we will have to have a drink at SECRETS!!!! so excited... Hmm I just typed in my response and it kicked me out – bah humbug Let me start off saying I am super excited that we got Elizabeth, she is a treat to deal with, and was the second contract that we signed and after saying ‘yes’ - like he even had to ask - is probably the best decision I have made. Alrighty, so I wont go into recapping all her prices – let me know if you need more info. and I can post her price list here, but basically for wedding day coverage for 6 hours the price tag is USD 4,750, for 8 hours it is USD 5,250, 10 hours it is USD 5,750. With all these you get a copy of all the pictures taken, we went with 8 hours and also will get 550 pictured edited – that is included. E M then basically has a # of packages, the one we went with is the 8 hours, plus 2 hours on a separate day, that is what we will be using for our TTD session. That option is USD 6,700. The things that I am struggling with the most and maybe you ladies can help me out on this one, and weigh in, is the wedding album. For E M the wedding album, 30 pages that 12†by 12†is USD 2,250 which in my opinion is just crazy, maybe I am naïve but I expected it to be like one tenth of the cost.
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Hmm I have just done lots of looking, we have our contract with Secrets Maroma for ceremony and Elizabeth Medina is booked but thats it, I keep trying to get a formal contract from Ana but she keeps saying oh dont worry you got the date - but no formal contract - yikes We have our save the dates prepared but not sent out yet, we havent even booked our flights or hotel - I am trying to enjoy and not get too worried, famout last words
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Ashlynn its a tough one, for us it took about 2-3 months to get our resort situation / ceremony site all figured out and that was a big pain in the bum so by then the hubby to be just said spend whatever to make you happy - think its going to be a different story when we get the full bills for everything, but I figure you only get married once
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I think I already have the answer but cant find it - how far in advance do we have to order? I still have a ton of time but would be nice to make a mental note
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfazzina Boo, Who are you having take your pictures? Are you getting married at Maroma or DRC?? BTW- In November I stayed at Secrets Capri and the guy there took some shots of us and they were fantastic... his name was Jaime Torres. I am in contact with him but I want to make sure we have a FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPHER. I am big into pics and want to make sure we have some fantastic unique shots! Congrats you are getting married a week after us. When do yu arrive? We are heading to maroma for our honeymoon Sunday the 14th~ - I am super excited we booked Elizabeth Medina! got her for the day plus planning TTD, she offered the next morning, but I am going to wait and see if she has more wedding coming up that week in the area and can day it one or two days after - The ceremony is at Secrets Maroma with a reception to follow at DRC and yes its insane - Pictures were a huge deal for me too, Elizabeth is probably double what we had in our 'budget' is there really such a thing, ours is twice what the FI had though it would be and we are not even done yet, yikes! - Oh fun, we arrive on Nov 14th, and will be at Secrets Maroma from Nov 18th to the 28th - hope to see you there!
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Quote: Originally Posted by lilly129 Awww! Laura 2210 you're wedding is soooo close that's super exciting! It's going to be amazing!! Thanks for the info about the maracas! I just found a website worth a look too: Mexican Sugar Skull | Offering Day of the Dead / Dia de los Muertos Mexican Folk Art, Sugar Skulls, Calaveras de Azucar, Molds and more - for the paper banner things - super cute! Thats great thank you for the link, its super fun because some of the flags reminded me of our 'borrowed' save the dates - not sure how to incorporate these, but how fun! save the date.doc
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We actually did not think about guests staying around at first, but as luck would have it we are already planning on staying 5 nights at DRC and then 7 nights or so at Secrets Maroma - I think if you can swing it money wise, the change of scenery and the added privacy might be nice. On a side note, nice to see some activity on this blog, I was starting to miss all the ladies
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chelsey & Travis Awesome idea! I'm also curious of the prices! Maracas start at $4.50 usd each for a simple design, two-tone maraca. An example of that would be Lacy Romance or White Flowers in my blog. It's $5.00 (total order) for each additional color and $.25 per maraca for line of text (i.e. $.25 for date, $.25 for location, $.25 for names). You can check out her site and she is on Facebook for all the different designs - as they are all hand painted you can pretty much get whatever. I have already spoken to Mishka and what I love is they also deliver these to your hotel, depends on where but I believe DRC was USD 40 delivery charge
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Ashly just about every hotel, Dreams or otherwise, has an outside vendor fee, at DRC I believe its USD 80 (ladies correct me if I am wrong I looked into this some months back) at others I have checked it was USD 100, so in that ball park, in any case I havent come across a fee as steep at USD 500 - yikes - the fee that I was quoted is per person though One of the things that has urked me a fair bit though is that Dj Doremixx quotes USD 650 for 3 or 4 hours, but at DRC its USD 300 per hour, so for the same 4 hours its USD 1,200 - thats double! and Ana says that any Dj booking has to go thru her - Dj Doremixx and Dj Mannia are the two they work with - the hotel is pocketing USD 550 for nothing
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ha ha I am sure we all our own biggest citic, I had no idea what to get the FI first, and this seems like a fun once in a life time idea so why not - but I have to say now that I started to think of like outfits/poses etc. I think the whole experience itself might be fun. The hard part now is finding a place which will be less than 750 with an album, that 300 one of the ladies was quoted I think is a steal!
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Sounds great - I am debating to have it as a wedding present to the soon to be hubby - the idea is def. growing on me
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please see attached for the back up location - Ana just sent me this morning, it actually doesnt look that bad to the lady who tried to attach it earlier, jpeg is not a format in which we can attach - I just had to copy it into word and attach it that way also finally got a responce from Ana regarding the fire dancers, its USD 1,000 again not sure what we get for that - so that will be another email (jeez eh?) Happy planning! back up location at DRC.doc
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sorry just had to post to bump up the post - was hoping to get some confirmation that all the items will actually show the day of