SOCCER1615

Glad to hear some updates welcome missmini...your wedding is a month before mine. Hope you are finding all the info you need. There is a ton of it on here. Chanelo...I hear ya on weightloss area. With the holidays and all I have gotten off track. Time to really crack down now. I havent used the wedding coordinator much either, which kind of makes me nervous that all my info hasnt been forgotten about! Your wedding is soon tho!! This weekend was full of dyi projects. Hopefully soon I can post some pics

****quiet...sorry about the typo as you can see my brain is fried with wedding stuff

this forum has been quite recently. We never did hear from sabrina..im hoping all went well for her wedding!! I realized that today is the six month mark. Ahhhh its all hitting me how much has to be done still!!! I have no clue how I am going to get all this stuff down there. Hows everyone else's planning going?

sxct...i just ordered the same linens...they look more aqua then tiffany blue? did you put the table runners together?

I love your key card holders. I really want the templete but cant open them because i havent posted enough yet

anudrm..CONGRATS!!!! Im so excited to see the pics!! thanks for the reassurance of the perfect place!!

Wow I was shocked to find several pages to catch up on. I love it!! I'm glad to see that I am not the only one stressing about the flowers. Sabrina you have awesome prices for your flowers!! I really like the parasol idea. I wasn't to fond of just doing to parasol, but I really like what chanelo did with the rose!!! Great idea!! Your dress is beautiful too!! I really cant wait to see selina's pics..I don't know about anyone else but I ready for some new photos. Its been awhile since anyones posted any.

LIST OF WEDDINGS IN DREAMS LA ROMANA anudrm (Selina) 12 November 2011 DreamsBride2011 (Katie) November 11th, 2011 (reception November 12th, 2011) Sabrina December 17, 2011 Amurka 6th March 2012 Cynthia (CynMay2012) - May 4th 2012 brendee2005 May 5th, 2012 soccer1615 July 5th 2012 Jessicalynneh November 10th, 2012

All of us 2012 brides..time is flying by I cant believe it already!! Its been stressful planning!! I'm nervous about the flowers down there. I really love roses and would love to make the bridesmaids my bouquet and about 6 center pieces all roses. I'm afraid that its going to be a fortune. I have about 32 people booked already. More then I ever thought would come so thats kind of exciting. Hope everyone else is having some fun wedding planning!!!

All of us 2012 brides..time is flying by I cant believe it already!! Its been stressful planning!! I'm nervous about the flowers down there. I really love roses and would love to make the bridesmaids my bouquet and about 6 center pieces all roses. I'm afraid that its going to be a fortune. I have about 32 people booked already. More then I ever thought would come so thats kind of exciting. Hope everyone else is having some fun wedding planning!!!

bella...enjoy every minute of your wedding!!!! cant wait to see pics when your back!!

Thank you brendee2005!!! I missed that post somewhere lol

did anyone use an outside vendor for a florist? If so can you post their information. I really wan to to have a lot of roses but with the resort costs so high it makes it difficult. Thanks in advance!

I'm finally at the less then a year mark. Our wedding date is July 5th 2012. Yesterday my bro had his first child on July 5th 2011. So now our wedding day will be his kids 1st birthday. We debated on changing the date, but we already paid for the save the dates. So I guess we will never forget our nephews birthday Hope all planning is going well. Thanks to those who have posted the recent reviews!!

So I'm going to start a 2012 bride list. Feel free to add your date to the list!! Amurka- March 6th 2012 Soccer1615- July 5th 2012

amukra- thanks congrats to you too!! 2012 especially july feels so far away yet so close when we look at how much money we have to save still. britt1222 congrats and welcome to the 2012 brides. For any of the ladies that legalized their wedding in the courthouse or where ever at home. Did you wear a white dress for that day? Is it weird if I want to wear a white dress for that ceremony? We have set up a trash the dress session with HTC. So what my plans are since my actual wedding dress is very formal and also heavy I figured that I could use the courthouse dress for the trash the dress photos since technically that is the actual wedding dress anyway. This way if we do water pictures I wont drown in my dress lol. The FI thinks it will be weird to see two different dresses in the photo albums but I personally don't think it will matter. Any opinions on this idea?

after months of checking out all the info on this thread I have finalized my decision and have a July 5th 2012 date. Shot out to all those 2012 brides...and a huge thank you to all the past brides for the info

Couple things I forgot to write... After the wedding some of us did go to the disco. It really did smell like cat pee, but we were have a lot of fun and didn't really care. If you are wondering about getting a dj..we didn't and we were just fine. We used an ipod that had the music set up for the ceremony. They did a good job of getting the music on! They also did the wedding toast and first dance in the hut. If you have a semi small number of people attending the wedding this is a very intimate setting. The staff took care of carrying up the speaker and ipod to the hut for the toasting and dance. One thing I really like was that a security guard stayed in the hut while we left our things there for pics on the beach. He stayed til all of us were gone. A side note that bride and grooms could pass along to their families and friends is that they offer a private dinner on the beach. In the meeting point lobby there is a set up of what it looks like. The set up includes rose petals and a red carpent making it very romantic. My family decided to all chip in a give it to the bride and groom as a gift. So the night after the wedding the couple enjoyed the dinner on the beach. They raved about how good the food was and how nice it was. They were only the second couple to ever do it so the hotel staff actually took pics to put on the website. There are 3 options to choose from starting at $50 per person. The meals were like chicken, filet, or whole lobsters. It also included heart shaped desert and champagne. We chose the lobsters they were 75 per person. They said that it was worth it!!

My brother got married on June 30th. It was a very windy day. My recommendation to those if the day is extremely windy to try to put your hair out of your face as much as possible because it will blow no matter what. I also pinned my sister in laws veil to the back of her dress so it would not be blowing in her face for the ceremony and pictures. Hair: We did have our hair done by the ladies in the spa. The ladies speak very little english so I recommend bringing pictures of what you want done with you. They also do have a book you can choose from as well. I think the hair was a bit pricey, but unless you have your own hair dresser with you or someone that can do hair there isn't much else you can do. My hair and the brides hair were a hundred each. There were also four children in the wedding their hair was $80 each. The ladies did a nice job. Because we had 6 people getting hair done the appointments started at 11 and llast one starting at 2. Because they ran over an hour on some of the hair it put us behind. The wedding was 4:30, but we had to be out for pics at 3:30. We were a bit rushed because hair ended a little after 3. Flowers: The Brides flowers were pretty, but due to the humidity thanks to hurricane alex they wilted very fast. I recommend that you ask them to keep them in water as long as possible. The bride also wasnt going to get the bridesmaids real flowers. I talked her into doing at least a single flower. They gave the bridesmaids a single lilly that was wilting before we even got them because they didnt have them in water. The price for bridesmaid flowers was more then they wanted to spend so they did the single flowers which were $10 each for a dead flower. Food: We went to the steak house. The tables were set very nice. I bought maraccas from the hotel shop which were 2 sets of 2 for $5.(this was actually cheaper then you could find them downtown) We used them as favors. As the bride and groom came in we shook the maraccas and it was a nice touch to add some mexican flavor to the wedding. We also used them to get the couple to kiss.(instead of the traditional tapping a spoon to a glass to get the couple to kiss). We had 15 people so they couldn't make one table together, but we did have 3 tables right next to each other. We had brought our own candle holders because we didnt know what they would have but we really didnt need them. The food here was the best of any of the restaurants. The service was also the best of the hotel. The champagne is also very good as well!! Photography: I'm working on the name of the photographer. He also was around taking pics by the pool with monkeys lizards ect. There is a fairly tall guy that also takes the pics by the pool it is not him though. Hes a shorter guy. If you have a wedding soon ask Maria because she will definetely know who he is and ask not to have him. I previously posted about this topic so I won't say much more then to not use them if at all possible!!!!! Hotel itself: We heard that the hotel recently changed ownership. It did seem that there were a bunch of big wigs walking around the week we were there as well. The hotel was a bit unorganized and Im not sure if it was due to the change over. We waited a long time for rooms to be ready. After they gave us keys we went to check out the room to find that it was still really dirty. They finally did get everything straigtened out. If you think that your guests will have rooms next to each other it probably will not happen. We asked Maria and others several times to put the rooms together and they were all spread out anyway. I can tell you service in the restaurants was very slow (we always said they are on mexico time-slow paced) Food wasn't bad if you have been all inclusive before its similiar. One place a lot of people were not at was the spa. It says you can only go once a day for an hour, but we went several times a day because it has an awesome pool with lounge chairs that have jets under them. Kids can't go in there so I recommend spending some time in there! If anyone wants to see pictures or know anything else let me know. Luckily we did have someone else with us taking pictures along with the photographer so we have tons of pics. you can email me at [email protected]

hey girls..my bro just got married at sandos last week. Im advising other brides to not use the photography from the resort. pictures didnt come out very nice. peoples heads were cut off or in front of each other. they rushed the whole wedding and to top it all off they made my sister in law sit on the ground before the wedding placing a huge stain on the front of her dress. the photographer would not cut them a deal on the wedding pictures. They were also not coorperative and were rude. Maria however was great she tried her best to make things better but because the photography company is not owned by the hotel they couldnt do much for us. If anyone needs any other info let me know!!