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I had a friend create these for me.

Are any of you putting your invites boxes instead of envelopes? I am trying to find little 5x7 boxes to put them in b/c they can't go in envelopes. I was thinking the little cardboard craft boxes tied with a starfish. If I do this then I will have to put them in something bigger to mail them in. All input from others doing this would be appreciated!!!

If we use the resort photographers, do we get a cd the rights to all of the photos they take??

Maybe a swim with the dolphins excursion?

This dress is gorgeous! You look beautiful. If you do the veil I would keep the jewelry simple.

Thanks for the reminder:)

Hi I was wondering if anyone has ordered pashminas from wholesalepashinas.com and could tell me if they were good quality?

These are great! Nice find!! Gotta love that dollar tree.

I Like #1!!!

Our local drug store has the inflatable pillows.

I wanted to add loofahs to my bags and found these at Dollar Tree! I thought they were so cute and festive:)

You did a great job! Everything looks fantastic! One questions though. Did you have any problems getting the starfish into or out of Mexico? I wondered if it was an issue going through customs with them?

I was in FL and saw these bags at a boutique shop. They are the reusable grocery bag fabric but I love the print. They were made by earth wise bags and were only $2.99ea. I have been looking everywhere and everything I like was $5 and up. Sooo happy I got these. I think everyone will use these again and they can carry them around as a beach bag if they want!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Princess402 Girls, when you look up the sunset time, does this indicate the time the sun starts to set, or literally the time the sun completely sets (i.e. the time it gets dark)? When I look up December 8th, the sunset time is listed as 5:06pm. My ceremony time is currently set for 3pm, so I think this is okay if the sun is setting around 5pm, but if it's DARK at 5:06pm then obviously it's gonna start setting earlier than that... and so now I am wondering if maybe I should try and have my ceremony earlier? Help, advice please and thanks!!! Good question!!!! My wedding is at 3pm on Nov 30th. I feel the same way as you. I want some pics when it is daylight out...but I don't want to have to have my wedding at 1pm.....

Hi Girls, I know some of you are doing the sunset catamaran. Are any of you doing a catamaran snorkel trip? Can you message me with company names and quotes you've received? I appreciate any help I get! Thanks!!

Quote: Originally Posted by amberm410 Ok so here is my full review. I will try to rememeber everything. I will start out by saying I really enjoyed DRC and would probably return in a few years but they do have some kinks to work out with service etc.. but overall the resort is awesome, food is the best I have ever had at a all inclusive, and the rooms and grounds of the resort are beautiful. I really did have an awesome wedding there. Check in: ok so this is where the kinks started. We were booked for a perferred club room and apon checking in with two other rooms of my family members in the perferred area check in the concierge there didn't seem to know what she was doing. From the start we had to wait about 30 - 45 minutes in this perferred check in area for them to call are name to check in. Once we started to check in with her I informed her that I was getting married at the resort and was supposed to check in with Ana when arriving. I had to remind her to call her once she was finished checking us in and then she couldn't reach her so she said she would have Ana call us. The concierge didn't seem to care about anything I had said. Anyways, once we went to the room we realized out of the 3 rooms that checked in that we had recieved the worst view on one of the outsides of the resort. A few hours later we ended up getting a call from Ana to arrange our meeting and things were fine. Ana had our room moved within 2 days to a lot better view overlooking the resort. The rooms: While I could see the privacy issue with the bathrooms etc being a problem for some people we really didn't have the issue. I am a very private person and it did not bother me at all. The bathrooms and bedrooms were beautiful. The only issue I had with our room which was a perferred honeymoon suite on a corner was the lighting in the bathroom. My family had all complained of the issue as well. Bring a really good makeup mirror with a really bright light. I brought a makeup mirror but the light on it wasn't bright enough so it didn't help at all. The closet space and drawers were adequate for us. We had two weeks worth of clothes and we are both big clothes people and it was fine. The pool/lounge chairs/beach: The infinity pool was awesome and the swim up bar was our favorite spot to hang. The drinks are the strongest at that bar. The swing bar on the beach was very fun in the evenings. The beach was very nice and don't see why people would complain about seaweed etc.. its natural. Food: AWESOME!!!!! The french and asian place was our favorite. The french place had always had diff things on the menu and each thing we tried was phenominal! The asian place had great food and their outside patio is really cool. Usually during the mornings and lunches we had the seaside grill out by the pool and they had really good taco's and nacho's and all sorts of stuff. I cannot say more about the food at this place it was delish! I have stayed at two other all inclusive top rated resorts in Cancun area and this by far was the best food. Wedding: It all comes together once you meet with Ana and or Yasmin. You can tell how busy they are. Once we met with her she really took care of everything within an hour. our wedding was at the gazebo and I'm telling you girls this is the place to have it. Surprise its pretty cool being out there in the middle of everything going on. Our wedding was at 3pm and she had me walk up around one of the sides and everyone was watching and cheering when we were done. I thought I would like it to be more private but it is pretty cool. I did not have chairs set up since our was so small (my choice) but I could see if you had more than 15 guests having chairs set up would make it more private and intimate but it is really cool having everyone watching. That night and the next day I had so many women come up to me remembering my wedding and saying how cool it was. We had our dinner in the wine room which is off od the french restaurant and it was perfect for our small 12 people. Only 2 small quirks about the eve... we arrived for our dinner and they had only set up for 10 people so there was a communication issue even though Ana had confirmed with me the 12. Also, they brought my cake out to the gazebo and we wanted it at the dinner in the wine room so I asked her to have it then and she said no problem it would be there waiting for us. After dinner they brought out a half eaten choc square cake for us. we looked at it and laughed and said this isn't our cake because ours was a round milk cake (which by the way is so so good. It was recommended by Ana as the best and it was). Also we had not even cut into our cake so obviously this was someone else cake. LOL They fixed it right away and brought us our milk cake. Our photographer was Juan Navarro which did an outstanding job which I mentioned in my previous posts. This was the best part of my wedding besides being married to the best man on earth. The downside: Really like I said everything was great I just think they have some major communication kinks at this resort compared to the others I stayed at. On the first day we waited and waited around in the lobby area to try to schedule something for the concierge for my mothers birthday. The same clueless gal who checked us in also tried to make a reservation for us at the tapenake tables and totally screwed it up. I just felt like I was always being lied to by her and kept having to follow up with her instead of her getting back with me. At first after about 3 hours we were under the impression we had a reservation with the restaurant for 6:30 or 7 on Thursday but she would confirm the time with us in a few hours. The next day after not hearing from her we followed up and she said we didn't have a res but would get back to us. We never heard from her until 5:30 pm on Thursday. She then confirmed it but at that point snce we still hadn't heard from her we already made plans for everyone to go eat in Playa de Carmen. It just seemed like she really had no cust service skills at all. I could tell it also seemed like she was expecting a tip for setting it up. I kinda felt like they are expecting tips all over the resort but didn't get this feeling at the 2nd resort we went to the following week. Another comm issue was that I had contacted the reort about 2 1/2 weeks prior to our arrival to find out about golf. We were told to e-mailthis certain e-mailt to set up a tee time. Well no one replied at all and my brother also had the same response. I think they just need more concierge people and need a little more training. There was one concierge and I cannot remember his name but he seemed to have his stuff together and was able to get us a timely reservation on the patio at the asian place and was able to set up a birthday celebration, beach dinner and cake on the pool deck for my mother. Everything was wonderful except that we were supposed to get the cake at 8:30 for the birthday on the pool deck and we ended up waiting around till about 9 pm with no drinks or anything. I had to ask about 9pm where the cake was and where the bottles of wine we had bought were. They kept telling me it was coming. They brought out the alcohol very soon but I finally had to tell them to forget the cake becuase it was so so late. We had a 8 and 4 year old falling asleep. They insisted the cake was coming. It was about 10pm before getting the cake. Overall things were good and I hope they get the communication issues worked out soon. Congratulations!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for the review!!! very helpful:)

Quote: Originally Posted by lilly129 Hey ladies! I know this is totally off topic but I'm super excited...we got our wedding invitations in today! They're totally not DIY or even remotely DIY because I'm not crafty...not crafty at all and completely stressed out about the programs/welcome letters/table cards and tags that I somehow convinced myself to make...but anyway... here are my invites - what do you think?! These look fabulous!!! You did an awesome job!

Quote: Originally Posted by aubry Chair sashes: Ok, looking at the pictures, I assumed these were part of the package, but I see it says "white covers". In the picture, I see wood chairs, no cover and a bow - anyone know what the "standard" actually looks like? Is the website what it looks like as standard? Thanks! I was let to believe that the standard chairs are white and you can use the white covers if you want. If anyone knows different please correct me.

Quote: Originally Posted by reaganlane Ok, I know that there is another post that I could put this under, but I figured I'ld post here too. I am wanting to put some cups in our OOT bags but I only need 20 or 25 of them. I was wondering if any of you brides would like to split an order of cups? I'm getting married in Oct but we could just do something like 2010 and Riviera Maya or something like that. Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks! I was going to do cups but have read reviews saying they didn't use them so now I am not sure. What cups were you thinking about? I would also love to do bags like this. Is anyone interested in going in on bags too?

I found my bm dress from Banana Republic. It look sooo much better in person! It is more corally in color and my bm's love it (they are size 0 to size 16 and it flatters all of them)! Apparel, Handbags, Shoes and Accessories for Women and Men | Banana Republic

Quote: Originally Posted by alisonpaige From what I have heard and what my TA told me you need to be there a couple days before. Will you be getting legally married there? If so you may want to be there about 3 days before to get all your documents translated and your blood work done. I think some people just get legally married in the states then have a symbolic or renewal of vows type ceremony in Mexico. We are doing a symbolic ceremony and getting married after we get back home. Ana said we still have to be there two business days before we get married (she said saturday counts). We arrive on a sat and have to wait until that tuesday to have our wedding...

Pretty dress! When you get it will you post a pic? I want to know if the color is the exact same as it is on their website. Thanks and congrats!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Laur13 try the limited...cute orange dress out there right now 70 bucks with coupons Funny as I had one of my bm's try this on already!!!! Unfortunately it didn't work out I will keep looking!!

Does anyone know what the price range is for winnie couture or avante mariee dresses? I saw some online but cannot find prices anywhere? Thanks!

I sent an email to Ana today and got a response within 10 minutes!!!!! Woohoooo!!!