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Welcome to the forum. This is a great site. I had originally planned for Dreams Palm beach but have switched to Ocean Sands/Blue as it is more affordable for guests. They have a good wedding package as well. Good luck making your decision.

Everything looks great. Have a good trip and an amazing wedding.

I love my dog so much so the part about joey is heartbreaking but he had awesome owners. Your FI is a definite keeper, a puppy and that ring for your engagement, congrats.

I agree, go for the border

Wow, beautiful pictures. Beautiful bride and groom.

Congratulations Juliet and welcome. This site is truly so helpful and alot of fun.

Everything looks great. Thanks for posting and have a great wedding.

We are gettting married at 5:00pm as that was the time the judge had available. Works for me!

This is your wedding and not your fathers. Have you explained to him that this is what you've dreamed of for your wedding? I'm sure he'd nderstand and an AHR would be just as good. My aunt and uncle are throwing us an AHP (against my wishes) for those that can't attend and I have now accepted this and am getting the wedding video taped for those that can't be there and will show it at the party. This is your day. Don't let anyone take it away from you.

What about reception

I don't want to cover my tattoos, I have 3 and they are part of me and who I am and everyone knows I have them. I actually want to reink the one above my left breast so it'll look good as it had faded.

I would check out Ocean Blue and Sands. I just switched from Dreams Palm Beach because it was a bit expensive for our guests and for the dinner packages. Ocean Blue & Sands packages are dinner for up to 40 and an additional $35 per person. We are choosing the Sands Extravaganza that also has a cocktail hour for up to 40 people among other items and the cost is $1,950. Good luck!

Quote: Originally Posted by Amelie-Mellow Hi Chan, We are working with Ashley from Weddings by Oceans a Toronto based company(they are amazing) and got quoted 1550 + 332 (tax) OCEAN SANDS BY H10- JR SUITE- ALL INCLUSIVE - 7 nights - February 4, 2012 SQ $1550.00 per person, double occupancy $332.16 Taxes per person EARLY BOOKING BONUS: Book and pay in FULL by October 23, 2011 to receive above rates. COMPLIMENTARY CONCESSION: When booking 10 adults the 11th adult is complimentary based on double occupancy same travel dates, duration and room category excluding taxes. Hope this helps! Hi there, I just switched from dreams Palm Beach to Ocean Sands because dreams was too expensive and my guests wouldn't pay. Ocean Sands was my second choice and I got a great rate through ITravel 2000's group coordinator. We are paying out of Ottawa: $1520 double occupancy, junior suite $230 taxes Everything else is pretty much the same as above except my guests have to pay in full by October 17, 2010. The wedding coordinator and my TA have been great getting things switched over. Looking forward to planning with other Ocean Brides!

Congratulations, picking the resort is the hardest thing but also the most fun because then you get to picture yourself getting married there.

Congratulations, you look beautiful and your wedding sounds amazing. Glad to hear you were happy with HDC as we booked them as well.

Updated my entry due to a change in resorts June 2010 LaToya & Micah: June 18, 2010 Dreams Punta Cana (congrats!!!) Michelle & Wesley: June 19, 2010 Moon Palace Casino, Golf & Spa Resort Punta Cana, DR Emily and Steve: June 21, 2010 Excellence Punta Cana Christina Russo: June 26th, 2010 Punta Cana- Melia Caribe Tropical July 2010 Natasha & Benjamin - July 2, 2010 Dreams Punta Cana Jessica & Hudson - July 5, 2010 Dreams Punta Cana SabBrew- July 6, 2010- Ocean Blue & Sand Asheley1316- July 8, 2011- Bahia or Majestic Lynette and Darnel July 13, 2010 - Dreams Punta Cana Laura & Zach July 15, 2010 - Majestic Colonial or Grand Palladium Palace Tracy & George- July 16, 2010- Paradisus Palma Real James and Jessica- July 17, 2010 -Paradisus Punta Cana Jenn & Andrew - July 21, 2010 - Majestic Colonial, PC Liz & Miguel - July 26, 2010 - Undecided location {Santiago, Puerto Plata, or Punta Cana Tie & Mike July 30, 2010 - Occidental Grand Punta Cana August 2010 Jeanette & Julio - undecided Punta Cana, (PPC or PPR) Aug 2010 Linda & Robin: August 3, 2010 - Paradisus Punta Cana Lisa & Todd: August 6, 2010 - Excellence Punta Cana Jess & Eamon: August 7, 2010- Melia Caribe Tropical Denise & Julio: August 7, 2010- Punta Cana- Melia Caribe Tropical Michelle & Eli: August 11, 2010- Excellence Punta Cana Ashley and Eric: August 31, 2010- Paradisus Palma Real September 2010 Nadia & Serge: September3, 2010- Dreams La Romana Jennifer & Elvin: September 4, 2010- Dream Palm Beach Bianca & Cosmin: September 10, 2010 - Dreams La Romana Diana & Eddy: September 3, 2010- Majestic Colonial October 2010 Glenny & Anthony - October 9th, 2010 - Gran Bahia Principe Punta Cana Kim & Anibal - October 9th, 2010 Riu Palace Punta Cana Autumn & Dominic - Oct 16th, 2010 - Dreams Punta Cana Michele & Andrew - Oct 19th, 2010 - Majestic Colonial Luciel & Emil - Oct 23th, 2010 - Catalonia Royal Bavaro Sarah & Erik - October 23rd, 2010 - Melia Caribe Tropical Angi & Tony - October 24th, 2010 - Paradisus Punta Cana Monica & Brandon - Oct 29, 2010 - Excellence Resort Punta Cana Ulonda & John - October 29, 2010 - Moon Palace Casino, Golf & Spa Resort November 2010 Dana & Mike - November 16, 2010 - Grand Palladium Bavaro Tiffani & Merlin- November 21, 2010 Paradisus Palma Real Taniya& Kendell- November 1, 2010 Dreams Palm Beach Michele & Jon - November 22, 2010 Majestic Elegance December 2010 Eliana (username) and Miguel - December 1, 2010 - Dreams Punta Cana Atrott (Username) - December 6, 2010 Excellence Punta Cana Coley88 (Username) - December 11, 2010 - Paradisus Punta Cana Nicole & Keith - Dec. 11th 2010 - Majestic Elegance January 2011 Marian & Manav - January 8, 2011 - Melia Caribe Tropical Katey & Brian: January 11th 2011 Melia Caribe Tropical Punta Cana Ashlee & Daniel - January 12, 2011 - Paradisus Punta Cana Lisa & Dave - January 13, 2011 - Majestic Colonial - Punta Cana Laura & Dustin - January 14, 2011 - Melia Caribe Tropical - Punta Cana jerzeegirl (username) - Jan 17, 2011 - Majestic ?? Pam & Cem - January 27, 2011 - Majestic Colonial - Punta Cana Kasia & Rob - January 29, 2011 - Majestic Colonial - Punta Cana Shannon and Chris - January 2011 - Punta Cana, undecided - Iberostar, Excellence or Dreams February 2011 Renée & Paul - February 3, 2011 - Majestic Colonial, Punta Cana Diana & Manny - Feb 19 2011 - Gran Bahía Príncipe Bávaro. Sherri & Ryan - February 21, 2011 - Dreams Punta Cana Jenn & Kraig - February 25, 2011 - Majestic Elegance Amanda & Jason - February 26, 2011 - Riu Palace Punta Cana March 2011 Chris & Wendy, March 5, 2011, Majestic Elegance, Punta Cana Sonya & Serge - March 14, 2011 - Ocean Sands, Punta Cana Khalia & Questle - March 14, 2011 - Excellence Punta Cana April 2011 Isabel & Francis April 5, 2011 - Grand Palladium Palace Andi & Jed - April 8, 2011 - Iberostar Bavaro Pierre & Shannon - April 12, 2011 - Grand Palladium Bavaro, Punta Cana Cindy & Chole April 14, 2011- Dream Punta Cana Paul & Lindsay - April 28, 2011 - Grand Palladium Bavaro Tracy & Keith-APril 29, 2011- Grand Palladium Punta Cana Natalie & Kyle - April 30, 2011- Grand Palladium Palace May 2011 Vanessa & Noel - May 6, 2011 - Paradisus Palma Real Naeemah-Anne & Claudy -May 6th 2011 -Paradisus Punta Cana Jodi & Darryl - May 11, 2011 - Dreams Palm Beach Michaela & Stew - May 21, 2011 - Gran Bahia Punta Cana Theresa & Johan - May 22, 2011 - Paradisus Palma Real June 2011 Flore and Marek-June 11, 2011-Paradisus Palma Real Shannon & John- June 16, 2011- Iberostar Bavaro Qubi & Rukiya - June 18, 2011 - Dreams Palm Beach, Punta Cana Jim & Laura - June 21, 2011 - Dreams Punta Cana, Punta Cana Eric & Anna - June 25, 2011 - Paradisus Palma Real, Punta Cana July 2011 Ashley1316- July 8, 2011- Bahia or Majestic July 2011/ 2012 Yvonne and Andrew- last week of july 2011/ 2012 (money dependant), dreams la romana

Great planning, I love the seating tags and your flowers are beautiful. Love those colours.

Those are great, I wish I had the talent to do that. I can barely sew a button.

Due to the high prices of DPB we have changed our resort to Ocean Sands. Ocean Sands was one of my original top picks so I am happy that we were able to switch there so it can be more affordable for our guests it is just unfortunate that I was unable to get my top choice. On a positive note, we were able to secure a good price for flights and our TA and the Ocean Sands wedding coordinator Ada have been very helpful in making the switch over.

I've heard complaining and we haven't even officially sent out invitations yet just the STD. I'm with everyone else, if you come great and I will be honoured but if you can't that is fine, I just don't want to hear you whining about it or the prices. When we told my FI's sister we are trying to get pricing in the $1500 range she freaked and said, "that's too expensive, we only spent $750 on our trip to Mexico and the resort had statues and everything." My response was, "well I guess our resort will have 3X the statues".

Wow, everything looks so amazing. Thanks for sharing, you truly are inspring. Have a much deserved wonderful wedding. Can't wait to hear all about it.

Hang in there and take a deep breath or deep glass of wine which usually works for me. Sorry to hear about your TA problems and yes it canbe very frustrating but picture your day as positively as you can. Does it really matter if your sides are uneven? Mine probably will be and I'm Ok with that because it's not going to change my wedding day and getting married to my FI. Whoever can make it great and if not that's OK. Good luck with everything.

Quote: Originally Posted by barbiegirl_27 Mind me asking which site you're using to check pricing I normally use itravel2000....but if you have a different one I'd love to know! I used Itravel and Sell Off which gave me the same rates.

Thought I'd let everyone know that some AI prices have dropped online. Our resort was $2456 CDN and is now $2108 for the week of our wedding. Was very happy to see that this morning.

Hello fellow Ottawa bride. Yes, planning for 40+ people is stressful and I'm in the same situation. I keep telling myself those who can make it great and if not that is OK too and everything will be fine. Looking forward to hearing and sharing planning stories.