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My FI and I have just decided we want to get married at DT as its beautiful!!! I just have a couple questions (considering therre are 431 pages, they may have been answered before, but I dont have time to go through all the pages!) 1. Are outside photographers allowed? 2. We want to have a ceremony in the later afternoon that will allow us to take sunset pictures. How much before sunset should we plan our wedding?? 3. I'm a bit confused about this having to be there four days before. So that means if we get there on a Sunday we can get married on a Thursday? or Monday we can get married on a Friday? Thanks so much for all your help!!

That is supposed to say might NOT come, instead of might now come. It's been a long day !!

Hi everyone!! I'm recently engaged and we have decided we want to get married sometime in early 2012 in Mexico. I have run into a dilemma though, my Fiances' brother and sister in law are both teachers and the best time for them to come is during February break (something we have in Alberta). I was looking up prices online, and it seems like during this time prices for vacations are almost $400 more then during the week before or after!! I know if we book it for a different week there is a good chance they might now come, however, I don't know if Im willing to pay that much extra money! What would you do?

I love dress #2!!!!

I have been to Maui a few times and have always stayed at the Outrigger Palms at Wailea. They are beautiful condos that are decently priced! They are spacious, have a small living room and kitchen, nice bathrooms and one or two bedrooms (One bedrooms do mostly all have a pull out couch). They also have a BBQ on the deck which is a must for my family. The only down fall is its not right on the beach, but they are still only a 5 minute walk away.

I would try to find a resort where you can make your own custom wedding package so you only pay for what you need (then you dont end up paying for dinner for 20 guests, and extra flowers ect) or resorts that offer free wedding packages if you book so many nights in a certain room.

Your puppy is so cute! And your ring is beauuuuutiful!!!

Congrats!! Your pictures are fabulous!! And I love you dress.

Thanks for the great review with tons of useful information!!

I have tried to search this forum but have not found many results. I want to have my hair half up and half down and curled. However, Im torn between a flower and a veil or both. Originally I didnt want a veil, but I realized, when else in your life can you wear one? And I love the look of them. But I also want flowers. Would it be to much to do both? And if anyone has pictures that would be great!

Don't give up!! This will eventually fall into place. I was very confused when starting this whole process, but found it helpful to pick a place, and then a resort first. Once the resort was picked everything else seemed to fall into place. There is tons of useful information here that you can definetly use! Welcome, and happy planning:)

I'm just not sure if I want to spend the extra 200-300 per person for preffered club when I dont know how much we will use the services provided. As well, the view to us is not that important as we dont plan on spending a ton of time in our room. Thanks for all the info.

Welcome. Hope you can find the information you need here!

We chose to do STD but not formal invitations. We are only having 15 guests (mostly all immediate family and close friends) and set up a web site. We chose not to do formal invites as everyone we want there has already told us they are coming. We thought it would just be another expense we didn't need.

I think we are going to do Jelly Belly jelly beans in little shot glasses (we are only having 15 people). We are going to go to the bulk store and get only the colors we want to make them so we dont have to buy so much!

Just curious for those who have been married there (or there for honeymoon or any trip) is it worth paying the extra money for the preferred club? And did all your guests purchase rooms with preferred club?

We are arriving the same time as all our guests seeing as we are all on the same plane!! Our guests are immediate family and a few friends (a total of about 15) and we are all together. It would be nice to arrive a few days early, however, i think it will be nice to be able to have family and friends on the way down.

Congrats on the engagement and welcome to the site! You will find tons of useful information...and make sure to use the search feature so you dont spend hours searching for information!

Welcome and happy planning!!

Welcome!! What we did is write out what is important to us, such as room amenities, all inclusive vs non all inclusive, wedding locations at resort, and size of resort. Using those we were able to narrow it down easier and chose Mexico as it was cheapest for ourselves and guests!

I have fallen in love with this resort!! We are wanting to get married here, however, we are torn between the gazebo or beach for our ceremony. We love the look of the gazebo, however, being right beside the pool I am worried about having people in our pictures that we dont want as well as the noise level. Again, the beach has potention to get a lot of extras in our photos. For those of you who have married there did you find this to be a problem? And where did you choose to get married and why? Thanks so much!!

I didn't know where to put this so I thought this might be appropriate. My FI and I are in the early stages of planning. We are having a small wedding with just closest friends and family. We first considered Maui, but after a bit of research we have realized its just to expensive and not practical for our guests. As well, Maui has no all inclusive options which we feel is important as we don't want to spend our vacation cooking and doing dishes or eating at a restraunt and paying for each meal. We then decided Mexico would be a good option as its affordable and has all inclusive resorts. Neither of us have been to Mexico before. My mom, who has a severe milk allergy has expressed some concerns over what she is going to be able to eat at the resorts restraunts. Just wondering, for those of you who have been to Mexico, do you think she will have enough to eat at the resort and are the restraunts pretty open to cooking special food for people with allergies?? All your help is much appreciated!!!

I have been to Maui a few times and I have noticed there is a big differerence in amount of rain and sunshine in certain months. I found that January had much more rain and way less sunshine then April did. As well, I found that January tended to be a bit busier with more people then April. Do you know what area of Maui you are interested in getting married? We always stay in the Wailea area and that area tends to get a bit less rain then areas such as Lahaina. Another thing to consider is temperature. Temperature during February will be a bit cooler then in May.

Thanks for all your ideas!!

My fiance and I are currently planning our dream sunset Maui wedding. I am having two bridesmaids. I am having an extremely difficult time trying to chose a color for their dresses. I want something fun and fits with a sunset wedding that still stands out against the grass, beach, water and sunset. Any ideas would be appreciated!! As well if anyone has pictures of the color of the dresses they used, I would appreciate that! Thanks so much!