Tatiana

sooo cute!! love them!

I had the same problem! but stayed true to my dream! now we have 30 people booked! and keep going! good luck! the most important are you and your fiancee!

yeah! thanx all!

love them!

mine is tatianayemiliano.com Im working on it!

vane those are beautiful!

view of one pool another gazebothe roomterrace I choose for dinner

Hey girl here are some pics i take on my visit to hard rock hotel! the beachgazebo 1another gazeboelement terracethe collections show room

Jay berry I'll send you all the info the WC from hard rock sent me. My email is [email protected]

Vinarum I think you should contact to one of those girls i gave email. Before I did the site visit I was completely lost, but I visited 3 different hotels in punta cana, Carabela, Gran Bahia Pincipe Esmeralda and Hard Rock and I can assure you that hard rock is waaaay better, It´s the best hotel, once you get there, they will arrange everything, I saw 3 weddings while staying there, they have like 10 different events so they´re shure prepared for ours. I know communicating is very hard. but if you signed a collection and have your date I think that´s all. Now I recommend you take care on the extras and dont trust on the resort credit stuff because I hear that a bride on trip advisor had problems getting her resorts credits refound. So bring with you a good credit card just in case. For anything else be shure that this is the best place to do your wedding. The hotel completely worth every penny!

great idiea to do it yourself!

thanks so much for the info!

awsome!

@Deemore I dont know probably the 2 wedding planner also speak english! you should try it

Vane I recomend you talk directly to those girls I talked, the email is in my last post. Since you can write them in spanish!

@vinarum my wedding is in october 11 2012' and I did the site inspection last week, I put the contact of the 2 wedding planners I met at hard rock.

Girls you should read the hard rock punta cana thread http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/t/67577/the-hard-rock-punta-cana Tons of info there

I was visiting this hotel last week and decided not to get married there,(the ones tha already booked here dont feel so worried caise is a nice place but not what I was looking for) The reasons: 1- price for a private reception 1000$ for a small part of the restaurant Il capriccio ( max 50 people) more than this you have to do it in the barbacue ( public place with others) 2- restaurants: if you stay in bavaro or punta cana in 7 nights you can only choose 3 days to dinner at special restaurants (mexican, italian, etc) the other days you eat at the buffet with the rest of the guests of the hotel 3- transportation, the hotel ia too big, so you have to use different small trains to get to your rpmm, or the lobby or the beach but this is a complete mess, the drivers dont know the hotel so they can be ridding around like 30 min sometimes 4- outside vendors: my case is specific about the photographer I have to pay for 500$ extras to bring a photographer from outside ( i didint liked arrecife at all because of the excess of photoshop they use in their pics) 5- beach gazebo be careful with the ceremony time, cause is in the middle of the beach and you have thousands of curious people like naked making a none perfect backgruond to your pics (i think 5pm would be the perfect time 6- night shows are amazing! Change every day! Dont miss those 7- the rooms of the bavaro and punta cana are very bad! ( i was at Hard Rock Punta cana the week before and it was perfect!) but the rooms of esmeralda are very good, clean and new. 8 the service and the workers of the hotel are very poorly prepared ( again cpmparing with hard rock) 9- an extra 750$ fee for the civil or religious ceremony. Ok this is the resume! Feel free to ask any other detail!

The wedding planner I met is Jeanly she is the coordinator of latin american brides. She was simply awsome, answer mi emails instantly send me prices, forms etc. She explained me that the Hard Rock is no longer a palace resorts, thats probably why you're having so many problems contacting with wedding planers from palace in miami. I also met luciana the receptionist from the wedding planner dept Luciana: [email protected] Jeanly: [email protected] Im not shure they can help you as well but they were very nice to me!

Ok girls I just came back from hard rock, and this is definitly the best place to do it if you have like 30 guest. The extras: 1- 6$ for each chair (in gazebo if you have more than 30 people) 8$ more on each chair for the liniens or you can left the chair unchlothed. Thats a total of 14$ more for each dressed chair 2- the reception, on terrace or ballroom you pay 300$ for each table of the collection (8 people each table) or 50$ per person(8 people wpuld be 400$ I recomend the collection here. 3- ouside vendors, like decoration, dj or something like that have to pay an insurance of around 500$ to bring someone from outside. 4- photographer you have to pay for 1 room 1 night, no extra fee besides that 5- outside wedding planner, no fees 6- catholic ceremony 500$ more 7- unlimited private functions ( in case you apply remember only for 30) you can bring your own decorations for this with no extra charge. I foun interesting chossing an area on a different restaurant each day witch they prepare a separeted space for your guest but with the common white chairs and tabble 8- welcome bags: the service of put one on each bed is 2$ or you can put a reception table on the grup lobby and ask someone of the family to give it there 9- dj is an extra cost, you should ask for the packages 10- Hour limit: 3 hs for free and 60$ for each table you have (but the maximun limit is 11 for exterior and 12 for interior) I dont think this should be a problem since you can have your simbolic or catholic ceremony on the gazebo and a small reception there (like 2hs) plus the dormal dinner on a terrace or ballrom (another 3hs) Do not worry about this since the hotel is enormous, everybody will be so tired of the beach and walking around, that wont go more than 5 hours. And if you fell like party go to the moon lounge disco (free) or the oro disco (private and pay extra for entry and drinks) after the dinner 11- The food: forget about this Im so shure you would have more than one getting sick, but for eating and drinking too much. The food of the hotel is very good, and I tried almost every restaurant! So this wont be such important 12- activities! A lot, nigth shows, beach shows a lot to do! 13 would higly recomend a trip to isla saona (1:30 min on bus and 1hour on catamaran boat) you have to wake up at 6:30am to leave but I think it worth it. Dont expect luxury here because is like a virgin island but very beautiful and completely different from punta cana beach. Ok girls this is all I can remember! Feel free to ask anything else and apologise my english and some mistakes!

thanks!

awesome

yogurt

yes, an it's not a really good idea

can wait to read it!