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Hi Ladies!!! I am using the resort photographer but going with the highest package they have because I want more photos and albums. However, my package includes 50 photos. Since I am doing a separate photo package, can I put the 50 photos towards the rehearsal dinner. I saw brides did this. They had the photographer come the night of the dinner as well to take pics. What do you all think?

Quote: Originally Posted by jstock311 I don't think white napkins will look bad. I'm planning on just ordering overlays and then the matching chair sashes. Someone else on here (can't remember who) said they didn't order colored napkins and the white looked fine. The other thing you could do if you have enough time is wait until you get your overlays and then if you find fuschia napkins on another site, you could just order a sample to see if it matches your overlay? Thanks jstock!! I will probably stick with the white then!

Another question for you all....I just ordered all of my overlays and have they are fuschia. I realized I did not order any napkins to match and the site did not have any at all. It is going to look silly with white napkins and I am afraid that if I order from another site, they will not match.

Quote: Originally Posted by SDbeachgirl Jennifer & Michael May 7, 2010 Beach Girl...did your husband get a free room the night before the wedding?

If anyone is getting the ultimate package, have you heard anything about getting the groom a free room the night before the wedding. The hotel told my TA this would have to be decided closer to the wedding. But that is crazy. Is anyone else having this issue?

Quote: Originally Posted by wisconsinbride2010 I just wanted to let everyone know that Ana e-mailed me today with the ceremony script. I can't download it though cause it's too big. let me know if anyone would like it! This is just the outline. I actually have the complete cermony Can You email me the script from Ana? Is it for a legal or symbolic ceremony or legal? I am having a symbolic... please email it to me at [email protected] Thanks so much!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Missy1 I have had an absolutely horrendous time trying to get someone on the phone or over email to book my wedding date and give a deposit. I've gotten a hold of Ana twice but only after calling the resort 5 times and getting transfered around a million times. Both times she was working a wedding and couldn't take my deposit. The last time I spoke with her she told me the date I wanted was availabe and to shoot her an email and she would immediately email me back with instructions on how to give her my deposit....that was a week ago....Has anyone else ran into this issue? Missy...when I started planning my wedding I couldn't get in touch with Ana at all!!! I finally got a travel agent and she has contacted Ana for me. That has been so much easier!

Thank you for the amazing review Erica!! I can't wait to see your pics!! You made me feel more relaxed about my wedding in August! Did you have to ask for the upgrade or they offered? The package also says that the groom gets a room the night before the wedding. Did you get that?

Quote: Originally Posted by pbjwed Aubry they get you with the coupons.. Private dinner was like 160.00 -210?? as for wine you can have house wine for free... that was fine/ bottles were double what they were in the US. I used my coupon for a massage... 20 bucks off I haven't heard of these coupons....what are they for and when do you get them?

Quote: Originally Posted by SDbeachgirl Their script was fine, but by the time I had gotten it, I had already put mine together. I created it by taking bits and pieces from other scripts (on this forum and other websites). There's a great thread on this site that was very helpful. Thanks BeachGirl! I couldn't open up the attachment because I am still considered a newbie. LOL...can you send it to my email at [email protected] Thank you so much. I saw the thread on here about the scripts. I will have to check it out again.

Quote: Originally Posted by amberm410 We had a guy marry us there. He was great! There was a definite accent though but it just made getting married in Mexico the real thing. We still kid to each other about how he said "love" he kept pronoucing it "Lub". LOL We will never forget this. Amber..did you write your own script or did you use the one provided by the officiant? Do you have a copy of the script that u can send me? [email protected]

Quote: Originally Posted by SDbeachgirl I also wanted to meet with the officiant, but she told me that she didn't usually meet with the bride and groom prior to the wedding. I had her contact info and we exchanged emails. She actually said that she would be at the resort the night before for a wedding and we could have met then. However, I was busy with my catamaran trip. So I didn't even see her until I walked down the aisle. It was ok, but I would have liked to have met her first. I put together our script but she also had a script that we could have used if I prefered. Do you know who your officiant is? If it is Rosa, I have her script and can probably share it with you. I was wondering about this. I am not sure if I should find my own script or use theirs? How was the script they provided? Did it include a sand ceremony? How did you end up finding the script that you used for your ceremony?

Quote: Originally Posted by dee414 We just got married on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm at the gazebo. Here is my review: The Good- We arrived on Tuesday, June 8th and met with Ana in the evening. She is very friendly an she took us around the property to show us all of the ceremony, cocktail hour and reception locations. We had our ceremony at the gazebo, cocktail hour at the jacuzzi and reception on the deck. I gave Ana written instructions on how I wanted everything that I brought down to be laid out for the ceremony & the reception. Here I thought that this would make things easier. The resort is very pretty and clean. All my guests were really happy that we chose this resort. The Bad: Rehearsal was set for the morning of the wedding day at 9:00 am. We are a group of late 20's to early 30's. Ana was a whole hour late to rehearsal. Needless to say, that really pissed me off. She did not even bother to call to let me know, we had to go to the front desk to hunt her down. She told me on the phone that she would be 20 minutes late. 20 minutes later we had the front desk call her again and she said another 15 minutes. She did not start my day off well. It also set back the rest of my wedding party for their hair/makeup appointments at the spa. Ana finally met us up at rehearsal and apologized many times, she had to knock off the price of the flowers and let all of my guests coming from other properties with no day pass fees. The ceremony was beautiful and cocktail hour went smooth. Here is what made my day bad again...when I got to the reception, and the emcee announced that we were going to cut the cake. The cake was not even at the reception, they were literally rolling it in and that was embarassing. After we cut the cake, they never brought it back out. We rented the sound system and the technician or whoever lost my cd. Thank god my husband (now) had all our songs backed up on his Iphone. And the tech refused to turn up the music. The contract states that music has to be turned off at 11pm. It was not even close to the time. My uncle had to go and confront him. The spa messed up all my aunt's appointment times at the spa. That was not needed. I'm was really fortunate to have my friend who is an makeup artist and hair stylist come down to get me ready for the wedding day. All my aunts and my mom were not happy with the results with hair and makeup from the spa. Ladies, be warned, they do not do a good job. Overall, the wedding events looked really pretty, but I was not happy with all the things that went wrong. Ana did what she could to make things better. DRC has over 388 weddings scheduled this year and this should be second nature to them. And they still do not have it down and that was really stressful. They picked the wrong bride to mess with! I am so sorry so many things went wrong! I hope you remember all of the good things though! I am nervous now.,,including hair and makeup! Why was the rehearsal on the morning of the wedding. I was hoping we could do it the day before. You're right...they should have this down by now!

Quote: Originally Posted by SDbeachgirl Cocktail hour in the "garden area" and yes, the reception/dancing was on the deck. We had wanted a lit up dance floor but somehow that never happened. So we just danced on the deck...which worked out fine but we would have liked a little more light. I am worried about there not be enough light. Most of the pictures I have seen look like it's pretty dark on the deck. I'm not sure what I can do about that. The light up dance floor was a little expensive I think.

Quote: Originally Posted by jpcmartin Pictures and slideshow taken by the Dreams resort photographer during our site visit: Our Dreams Vacation Wow!!! Beautiful Pics!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by cindyshininger We just got back yesterday from my daughters wedding. Do not worry about things, Ana is amazing. We met with her the day before the wedding and picked out all the food. We had a cocktail hour which I do not feel we needed. It was good, but our guest were ready for dinner. We used their DJ, we should have also skipped him. He said nothing all night and just played songs. We could have done the same with our ipod, which we took so that we were sure we had the right songs. So $300 an hour, the $900 was not worth the $ at all. You just need to rent the sound system and play your own. Exspecially since the DJ did not speak. Not for the cake or dances, NOTHING. The cake is pretty ugly. They said it was just white frosting, so we assumed there would be some type of edgeing or something, NOTHING So we took the BM bouquet apart and put the flowers on the cake for pictures. But no one ate it because you are so full and had dessert for dinner. So I would not pay to upgrade, just bring artificial or taking our bouquet apart worked. The flowers were pretty dead by the end of the night anyways. You can't take them home, so double use them. The table decorations were glass with rose petals and candles in the middle. If you are outside the candles blow out, it is real windy. We had our inside because of the air conditioner. We also took our own chair sashes and colored cloth napkins. The The had everything set up just like we asked. We took maracas to sit on the napkins and that gave the guest a little extra favor. Shake for a kiss. We used fushia napkins and put an orange ribbon on them and then the maracas. Added alot of color at a low cost. We got the sashes for $1 a piece. The plain white chairs looked pretty stark by themselves. The sashes really look pretty there. Our ceremony was on the beach. It is off to the side and gorgeous. The gazebo is right in the middle of everything. NOT private at all. Exspecially if you have it during the day. Lots of people floating around the pool right next to it. And walking all around. It was pretty, but to much going on for our taste. We used the photographer from the resort. The pictures were amazing. Our package includes 50, but there is not way to only pick 50. They also did trash the dress which they could use as part of their 50. They were all so good that it is impossible to pick ones. The bride and groom are still there and still are trying to dwindle the pictures down. As far as hair and makeup, they did a perfect job. Their hair stayed all night. Lots of product and LOTS of makeup, but they know what they are doing. I had a visor on the few days before the wedding and it is so windy when we were taking pictures that my hair blew off my WHITE forhead. I never even thought about it, so make sure you tan your forhead too. The service is wonderful, but it almost seems like you have to tip. They were very accomadating, but you do have to consider quite a bit of extra $ for tips. They upgraded the happy couple to a master suite. It was bigger than an apartment. They covered their room with roses and candles the night of the wedding. Their is NO privacy on any of the balconys. We never saw anyone in them. And the plung pools only were used by a few people that had little kids. There are kids there, but mostly they were fine. There were two boys around 10-11 and they were terribly obnoxious. We along with others told them we were taking them to their parents. They finally left the infinity pool and went to one of the others and bugged people over there. Alot of kids crying in the restaurants, but we would go to dinner between 6 -8 pm. And remember they are on Mexican time. Evertyhing runs late, so don't frett. Our wedding was first set at 7, we moved it up to 6:30 when we met with Ana. It still did not happen until 7:10. Sunset was at 7:30 and we had to hurry to get pictures, We did not get group shots on the beach because we only had enough light time to get the bride and groom. If we would have known, we would have bumped it to 6. We watched lots of weddings, on day they had 3. They never ran into each other, it is very well organized. So do not worry if there are others on your same day, we had two others and it was just fine. We did not even see the other ones. Any questions that you have, just ask, I will be happy to try and answer. Thanks! Great info! Quick Question....Did the bride and groom have to ask for the roses and candles on the night of the wedding? We really want that done but aren't sure if we have to ask for it.

Quote: Originally Posted by pbjwed Allison, I am so happy that you were able to find them! i do love them too.. I think they are perfect and they were a great price! I was able to put more stuff in the bag!! my fiance' was not happy tho.. lol LOL...mine either..I told him now we have to fill it up!

Quote: Originally Posted by SDbeachgirl I wanted to post the photo album that I created on Shutterfly from the photos that my guests took. These are not the professional photos. I am still waiting on those. Please keep in mind that there are a few photos that were taken with a disposable camera (probably a bad idea) but those look really dark. The cocktail hour and reception were not as dark as they look in these photos. I think the professional photos will come out lighter. Shutterfly | View share Your Pics are amazing and you looked beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo We are doing marachas (by Mishka) Mishka Designs' Blog: A Maraca By Any Other Name... these will have a tag of 'shake at the kiss'. I did however also break down and get some bubbles, not quite sure why aside from the fact that I was at a store and got 50 for about 7 bucks as they were on sale. That is what I was going to do too. I love the maracas. I emailed mischka and she wants me to send her my invitation so she can see the colors.

Quote: Originally Posted by jstock311 I like the towel idea! Where are you getting the towels and personalization done? We're definitely doing a just in case kit with tylenol, bug spray, sun block, aloe...things like that, but I haven't thought about any of the other fun things to put in it. I was thinking I would look for a tote bag with maybe a clear front pocket to slide the welcome note into it. I'm going to ask Ana if these could be handed out by reception as people check in rather than be put in their rooms. I hope they can do it. For some reason I like the idea of them getting something right as they check in. I would like the same thing...for the guests to get the bags as they check in. i got these awesome beach towels from Kmart...couldn't believe it. They aren't personalized but they are really nice,brightly colored towels. A few weeks ago they had them on sale for $3! Couldn't beat that!

Is anyone having rose petals or bubbles or anything along those lines for guests to throw after the "kiss"? I know it may be windy for bubbles. What are you all doing?

Quote: Originally Posted by pbjwed OOT BAGS... Cute bag from dollar store for girls.. hot pink liner and Guys a Jute bag... Luggage Tag Memo Pad with pic frame and pen Passport Holder Survival Kit ( bought first aid kits from dollar store and will add aspirin, tums, rolaids, gas ex) bought all this on Medco website 10.00 off first order! It was a great deal check it out! Energy drink Crossword Puzzles Flip Flops (couple, singles, and families) Nerf water foorballs ( dollar store) two pack.. (for kid bags) 2010 fun sunglasses neon and bright colors (oriental trading) Playing cards Candles Bath & body works lotions/hand santizer (on sale now) Mexico magnet Mexico post cards we will go to costco and get water and candy bars to add to bag! So far thats it... Any other suggestions I am also putting in lip balm and going to BJ's for some gum and maybe mints or something like that. I was also thinking sun tan lotion.

Quote: Originally Posted by pbjwed Thanks for the review.. I can tell Ana will be great once we get there!!! I am so EXCITED!! 5 Months to the Day we say I DO!!!! Woohooooooooooooo PBJ...Thank you soooo much for the recommendation of the tote bags from the dollar tree! Yesterday I called so many of them and finally found one that had a bunch of the tote bags. I picked them up for my OOT bags and I love them! They are perfect! Thanks!!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by jstock311 I'm getting ready to order my invitations soon but I just thought of something. Do I need place cards? Anyone else doing them or did you just let everyone sit where they wanted to for the reception? Thanks! I am only having about 30 people so I am not going to do place cards. Figured I would just have people sit wherever they like.

Quote: Originally Posted by rdsjcr Do we have to buy the overlays? I am guessing they do not come with the package?? The overlays do not come with the package. I ordered mine because they were only 4 or 5 dollars each. The resort wants to charge you about $25 for each overlay and I don't think they have great colors to choose from. That is insane! I ordered overlays for round tables, chair sashes, as well as a few buffet table overlays. Otherwise, the resort will use white overlays for you. The site I ordered from is weddinglinensdirect.com It has been mentioned a lot on here. Great prices!