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Quote: Originally Posted by Yessi Hello Ladies, I am new at this site... I am loving all the information I am getting from this... My wedding in April 26, 2014 and I have the Tangerine Package .. I was communicating with Marlene but now Hildelbrada is replying to me... did something happen to Marlene? Welcome! Marlene is no longer working at BBPD. Not sure where she went but everyone that had Marlene is assigned a new coordinator.

Hey Trish, Most of the stuff that needs to be taken care will be done at the meeting when you get to the resort. My wedding is just about 2 months away and I have only emailed the wedding coordinator once about 2 weeks ago. You are not a priority to them until you are about three months away from your wedding date (as they are busy dealing with weddings that are happening sooner). They have everything there and you just sit down with them and then pick what you are wanting (chair sashes, flowers, wedding cake). I love this way of planning as I really haven't had to worry about too much yet and know that they will have everything taken care of after our meeting! At least those are my thoughts! Happy Planning! Quote: Originally Posted by Trish Upshall ok so i am probably the WORST when it comes to wedding planning! My wedding is still 7months away (April 2014) I have the date booked and ceremony time and reception etc...but haven't booked or discussed anything else with the coordinator. Which I believe from reading through the past comments, is no longer working there so I emailed the other day and still ahven't heard back. Should I be booking and reserving a dj this far in advance? and with decor etc do I need to let them know colours or does most of this get dealt with once we are there? I am the WORST wedding planner ever!!!!!!!!!!! Ps.. Thank goodness for this thread or else i would be even more lost! I love all the pictures and posts from all the past weddings!! Makes me so excited for mine!!

We were told that if we were to do a symbolic ceremony that we would have to have a marriage certificate to show the resort before they would do a symbolic ceremony. That was by our travel agent though. You might want to call the resort and check on that!

Thank you! We paid our travel agent because she is a destination wedding specialist so on top of all the group travel booking she organized all the beginning wedding details! She finalized the date and time, all the judge info, everything so that I didn't have to be going back and forth with the resort wedding coordinator. She did way more than just booking flights and rooms for everyone. She also had so many ideas for the wedding itself and really worked to make things happen for us (we rented the Presidential suite for our reception (an idea we had heard from her) and then was able to get the two night minimum waived for us so we only had to pay for the night of our wedding!!! We worked with Tanja Walsh out of Calgary. Best money my fiance and I could have spent on our wedding. I didn't have any contact with the resort up until last week (as we are now less than 3 months away from the wedding date). With lots of the comments that I have read on here about coordinators taking so long to get back to people, I'm happy that I didn't have to do all that running around.

Has anyone found a place to buy sand dollars in Canada? I have found a bunch of websites but they don't ship to Canada. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

AngeliniC - I need your email if you are wanting me to send you the centerpiece llewald and tricia-m - I sent an email with the picture of the included centerpiece. Tricia-m - we did the transfer for our deposit through our travel agent as she was the one working to set everything up with the resort and get our wedding booked. There was no extra fee for that but we had paid her to take care of all the wedding set up and group travel bookings. SoonMrsD - could you send me the list of extras please too! My email is [email protected]

myyooths - I sent you the picture. SoonMrsD - It is a fishbowl and yes it does look rather small but a definite improvement on what some other brides were shown as the centerpieces! That is interesting that there is an IKEA so close to the resort. Perfect for those last minute things!

I received this from Aris this morning as the centerpiece that is included in the Tangerine package. It looks nicer than what I had seen before that looked like Christmas tree and a pinecone candle holder.

I received an email from Daniela as well. She has taken over for Marleen. I just found out that my wedding coordinator will be Aris! I'm excited as many of you have had many good things to say about working with her. Hope that helps a bit.

We are just setting up an ipod for our music. There is a really neat app called Wedding DJ that I have on my i phone. It lets you set up all the music you want for different parts of the wedding day. So you would make your playlist for the cocktail hour and add it to that section then just have someone hit play. Then you would add your first dance song and just hit that and it will play that song for you. Saves someone searching for songs. Hope that gives you another option. I find the price of the DJ to be super expensive and we have a small group (23 right now) going and not many of those people are huge dancing people. So for us i think it wouldn't be worth paying for the DJ.

Just wondering if anyone has experience with anything other than round tables. With the people who have decided to come I was thinking that one big table (a bunch of rectangular tables pushed together) would work better for our group. I'm worried that the resort will only want to use round tables as that is what I have seen in all the pictures. Thanks!

Thanks for the ideas on where to look! My maid of honour was in the city (Calgary) yesterday and found them at Dollar Giant for $1.25 each (I think they are converting the Dollar Giants into Dollar Trees in Canada).

Love these ideas! Now if only I could find tumblers!! I have tried many different places and can't find them. I guess it's a popular item right now. Thanks for sharing!

These descriptions have been very helpful! Thank you!

How do you create the sleeve that you put the invitation in? Is there a template for that? Thanks!

These look awesome! I'm totally using this idea! Thanks!

Awesome review! Thank you for the information!

Hello Misskay, We are having our reception on the outside balcony of the presidential suite, it will be a private function. There is additional cost for that though. If you would like more information just let me know. I don't know of any other outside balcony that could be used for dinner. Some brides that have been there might be able to comment on if there would be something else that would suit what you are looking for.

Those are beautiful! Where did you get your flowers from?

Has anyone used or are planning to use the bebe catamaran tour company. Looking for some information on the private charter. Thanks!

Has anyone used or plan on using the bebe catamaran company? Looking for some info on their private charters. Thanks!

Hey, My finance and I are living in Hanna. So funny story, I had clicked on your link to your wedding website as I'm in the process of making ours. I was looking through to get some ideas and came across your family/ wedding party page. I actually curl with your parents! Talked to them about it last night when we were at mixed curling. Small world!!

For our travel booking and coordination we hired a travel advisor who specializes in destination weddings out of Calgary. It was the best decision we have made in terms of our wedding. She finds all the travel prices and just forwards you the information then you decide which resort you would like to go with. We originally met with her in person and talked about what we were looking for in a destination and a resort. We went through the travel brochures and talked about the different resorts / destinations. She has been to most of the resorts and had some really good insight. We picked 5 resorts and then she went and got group quotes from different companies. I then received emails with all the information : price, how many people before you get a free person, dates, flights, upgrades, room categories ect. Once we chose a resort she contacts the resort and makes the arrangements for the wedding date and time (and coordinates with the judge). She will then set up a website with all your travel information for you. Your guests simply contact her and she books all the travel for you. Again I will repeat, the best $300 dollars we have spent on our wedding. Her name is Tanja Walsh, and she works out of Calgary. We live 2 hours outside of Calgary and she was willing to meet with us for our initial meeting at 7pm on a Friday night so we had time to get into the city. I definitely recommend her for anyone looking to use a travel coordinator. She even found us a later booking deadline than we were originally quoted to make booking easier for our guests. Let me know if you have any other questions. Tanja is awesome!!

Glad I found this post. I am wearing ivory and was worried about the guys wearing white shirts. Thanks for the posts.