Bride2012

Which photographer are you usin using? We used hdc for the day of and Katya nova for the day after. She will take you to some beautiful places, one of there best decisions made was to use her and cancel our main photographer. She blogged our shoot, it's in my signature link.

LOL! I am so glad its all over! Financially we have left a lot of money free/open. We paid for our wedding by ourselves using only cash, now we are freed from those extra expenses. We have our photos and video, its so great reliving the day and seeing everything we worked so hard fro for months!

My husband did, we just got married two weeks ago

OMG Congratulations Joanne!!! Thats such great news!!!

Thanks for all the kind words! The Elegance had better reviews and we heard if you stayed on the elegance side you could eat at both resorts, not the same if you stayed at the colonial. I didn't get a chance to take a good look around the colonial, but from what we saw the elegance was more up to date and a whole lot larger. I would definitely do the Elegance Club, we didn't because we wanted our guests to be able to come by at any time, we did get a suite and they honestly waited on us hand and foot. They even dropped off a bottle of wine to our room every night without us asking/requesting. Room service came to our room every day without us even asking or requesting. The suite was the best! I would definitely do the Elegance over the Colonial...but thats my opinion Borrow away, we got ours from Vistaprint, part of the $17 for $70 of product, plus the www.vistaprint.com/groupon50, we got a lot for that $17 Thank you! He's precious

You won't be disappointed!!! We thought that 3 hours on a boat was too much..but it went by sooooo fast, and my guests told them to take them back out on the water! LOL! I wish we added more time it was so much fun! I bought the blank chalkboard signs from tlgcrafts and the ones with words from lovinglymine, lovinglymine will put whatever words on there that you want, but we wanted the blank ones so people could add their own personal touches to them.

Reception: The best decision I have made, besides marrying my husband, was having my reception off the resort. The Jellyfish was booked for Valentines day, so we took a shot with the La Barcaza since there are not many reviews posted. It was honestly the best time of my LIFE. I loved the food, the crew the atmosphere…it was EVERYTHING I could have asked for and more! Our cake topper was purchased off etsy from dealeasy Weeks Events: We had our welcome dinner at the Japanese restaurants, followed by advice to be given to us and introductions in the lobby Day 1 we had a volleyball game and a day at the pool, where the men played water volleyball… Day 2 we met in the lobby to play cards and give our bridal party their shirts to wear for the day before the wedding, Day 3 we went on the Bavaro Splash Excursion, a lot of fun, make sure you eat before you go, theres no food served on the 4 hour excursion That night we went to the Jellyfish for the rehearsal dinner, perfect atmosphere and ambiance, the food left little to be desired and my Groom didn’t get the $56 dollar dinner the whole 2.5 hours we were there, they said it was a new ordering system and it was their mistake…they still made us pay for his meal even though it went uneaten. This left a bad taste in our mouth. We did do the fire dancers, nice visual…not worth the cost… Day 4: Wedding day, so amazing, memorable and one I would do all over again in a heartbeat We had our going away dinner as it was part of the package included, at the steakhouse. we did our photo guestbook that night, we bought props off etsy….so much fun and one I will keep and look at for life In closing my advice to future brides is don’t sweat the small stuff. If you are getting married in Punta Cana DEFINITELY at least take your guests on a welcome cruise on La Barcaza, some of my guests weren’t to fond of the resort food and they really enjoyed their time off the resort and a chance to eat a FAB meal. If you are having your wedding on the resort but having your reception off the resort, give yourself ample time to take pictures with your photographer, we were pressed for time and missed A LOT of photos of just me and him…this is my BIGGEST regret and something that I cant change now because its too late Take your guests off the resort at least one day, they will appreciate the break from resort food. Take Immodium AD and a first aid kit, ours