Carlota1981

Hi girls, thanks for your nice words. Please uploaded your images and pics if you want in any of the categories, ask questions, etc Lauren, I am more worried about the weather for the big day now! There is one thing I do not understand (also because when I was in Mexico I did not see a drop of rain). I always have thought that when they talk about rain, this rains last 10-15 minutes and then the sun shines again (or just stops raining). So, why your jobmate did have to go to an indoor site? Did they have a hurracaine or sth similar? For another hand I was thinking in one of the last emails of Vanessa. She told me she usually sees the prediction at 1pm (for weddings at 4pm), if the prediction says is going to rain, then everything has to be moved to the indoor site. BUt she also added that even the weather prediction is the not always right. She explains me that on Monday and Tuesday the prediction was heavy rains and storm but they only have storm during the night... I am starting to think that in the bad case Vanessa told me at 1pm there is a prediction of rain, I am going to go ahead with the beach gazebo! For another hand, I know that offer eggs to Saint Clara or bury knives at the ground are crazy things! hahahhaa But as we say here "I am going to make it just in case..." lol About the videographer, I think he is super! And you can also can speak with him thourgh Skype which I think it's great! You can tell him how exactly you want your video. The most of them he has at the website are combining images with words and music. I want one exactly as the Chrestena and he told me no problem at all. So he is flexible with the requests. Claire, I love your OOT bags!! They are soooooo cute!! I am sure your girls are going to love it!!!! Good job!! You are very crafty!! I have bought simple bags and yesterday I finished with the Spanish and Italian texts I want to stick on them. People is not going to know what are these bags I am giving them so I have decided to write an explanation. I have finally decided to give them at their arrival after their check in. The welcome cards I am going to give them at the recepcionists so they give one for person. Hope the Palladium recepcionists are not going to deny me this! As you I am arriving one week before so I hope to be tanned as well there. So you are soooo lucky you do not have to make the blood tests!!! Why cannot happen the same to me? hahahaha I have panic for that! hahaha Well girls, I am going to work a little bit, hehehe. Saludos

Hello girls, I am making during this month an advance course of social networks in an professional environment. Our teacher has asked us to make a group in Facebook of whatever topic. I did not know what to do and suddenly... So I started it last week, you can see it and is a project of long duration (during the duration of my course that has at least the next 10 months). So I am uploading information, pics and videos of any kind. The website is in English and Spanish. I have sent some invitations with the emails you have written here. Not worries this is a private group so if you form part of the group there is no possibility to see your profile (for the privacy I mean).

I thought this was with all the weddings... As long as I know that is what other brides had told me... For example a Mexican friend showed me this when she got married there at June 2012. That is how it looks the one she sent me... This is more or less what you saw?

Hello Lauren!! So great all the plans you are having for going to Las Vegas. So exciting! The tan thing sounds great, I do not know anything like this here, so I presume i am going to a tan salon. So about your questions. Well first of all, yeah! so funny Vanessa told you that, hehe, i told her that we "had talked" and we were asking about that. About board, I completely understand the word in English and I remember perfectly to see them around the resort. Try to copy and paste this in a email. I am explain here in Spanish with all the details refered to the boards so she can understand Vanessa, con "board" me refiero a los corchos donde ponéis las actividades de animación que realiza el hotel tanto de día como de noche. Esas donde se explica de lunes a domingo qué se puede hacer a cada hora. Por ejemplo, el lunes a las 11.00 clases de arqueria. Me gustaria saber si podriais prestarme una de esas para usarla en La Laguna para poner los nombres de cada persona y las mesas. About the videographer, yes I remember Chrestena told us that had a cost of 500 usd for two hours. If it sounds expensive try mine if you like it. It is called Matias Zalazar (Indigo Wedding company) and based at Playa del Carmen. I have booked 90 minutes for 400 usd because we have booked him and an assitant which costs 100 usd more. So just 300 usd for one cameraman. In my opinion is enough. I want the same type of video that Chrestena had. We will have two videos, one of 5min and other of 15-20 min. We will get it before leaving Mexico (as the photos from our photographer). This is his contact: Matías Zalazar Tinte Indigo SA de CV www.indigowedding.com [email protected] + 52 1 984 1191943 Skype: indigo.wedding Anyway if you are having doubts about things that are not related to the wedding department, write an email directly to the Public Relations. JENNIFER VASQUEZ RELACIONES PUBLICAS - GUEST SERVICES Palladium Hotel Group [email protected] I have contacted here to get the email about the rent car company there (we wanted to know the cost prior to our arrival to compair it with the other companies based at Playa). She is very fast answering! Regarding the weather... I reject to get married at the indoor site!! I have alredy payed a fortune for special flower decorations for the columns of the beach gazebo!! I am crossing my fingers about this!! I know that we are getting married the love of our lives but nooooo please!!! no rain!! Here we have a tradition to have good weather at the weddings. We offer eggs to Saint Clara. I was talking about this with Vanessa and she told me that in Mexico they bury knifes at the ground! I do not know how are this at your countries but this is something in common between Spain and Mexico (and also Latinoamerica) that we have a lot of respect about all these traditions and we make them all. Vanessa was so funny, she told me "do not worry, we will make both so it will not rain at your wedding day". Today I have continued with my DIY projects. I have finished with the tag luggages. I will bring them to the travel agency so when people go at the mid of July to pick up their passages, my travel agent will give them to my guests. This is how the tags looks Now I am trying to decided about seating cards. I bought the starfishes some weeks ago and now I am thinking about several possibilities with my super crafty friend! lol This are the starfishes. I bought them in 4 different colors

Hi Ladyluck! Congratulations for your marriage!! Thanks for your review!! It seems you not only got a fantastic day but also perfect thanks to the good weather and the planner!! I am so happy when all the brides are returning saying how amazing Vanessa is. Thanks for the info about the blood tests as well! I hope the nurse/doctor is going to find my vein well so everything goes fast! I heat the syringues!! I have found as well your review at tripadvisor (at white sands) and it is so good to read the resort is still being so fantastic! I have one month to leave Spain and it seems so far to me... days never finish! lol Once again congratulations! Casey, I have the idea to ask Vanessa if the hotel had that kind of vases. I sent her by mail the idea of my cheap centerpieces for the Sports Bar and she sent me that pic you have seen. Palladium is going to let me that 6 vases without extra cost. I am alredy paying enough money for my big centerpiece of tropical flowers for the beach gazebo as well for the the tropical ones for the dinner at La Laguna. So it is great that at least I can save some money. At the end, the tables at Sports Bar are small so I prefer to use some small centerpieces so that idea I think is great! What I suggest you is not to tell to Vanessa that I told you. Just ask her about your idea and if it is possible they let you sth... I have the feeling (for some comments) they do not like a lot when we share here things to save money asking directly to the resort because another bride told to other brides... Mikaela, welcome to the forum!! I cannot help you a lot because I am going with the Diamond package and this owns to the old packages that the resort had available until last year. So I do not have information about the new ones. What I could tell you, is that if the Beach Bush is expensive for you, ask to your planner directly for the Las Rocas private party. The floor is also the sand and this is the bar that has a salt water pool. The location is beautiful. I am going to have 20 guests, plus Thomas and me, a total of 22. We are going to rent 5 chinese lamps adding to the decoration the resort uses there it has a cost of 155 usd for 2 hours (as well as the cable for ipod, microphone and loud speakers). We are going to have our party/dances there. And about the other question you have made. Yes, you have the disco (called Sunset Boulevard) that opens everyday until 2am ¡Un saludo! Carlota

I have received today the crest whitestrips supreme for 10 daysthat I ordered thourgh ebay. I have started today and bad start!! I put it the one for both line of teeth and the flavour that made me feel sick... is so horrible that I have ruined the line of the down teeth. In this moment I am only with the one and suffering because of so many saliva... I imagine I have to get used to them... this is the first time in my life... tomorrow i will make the one of down and then start again with both at the same time. It still lefts 30 minutes to take it out of the mouth... Hope that it works and my teeth are going to be whiter!! I was searching for whitening and I found this threat. I will tell you all how these are working!

Hi Casey, Yes, I took the idea of a DIY project at this site but I have seen it as well at Pinterest. There are a lot of options with different kind of flowers. I would have liked to use the tropical ones that will be at my centerpieces that here is imposible to find the fake ones so for this reason I decided to buy the fake orchideas that will be as my bouquet (white and fucsia orchids). So I had the idea to ask to Vanessa (if not, there are also at the Walmart at Playa del Carmen) so she sent me some pics. They lend the vases without any cost. This are the 3 types of vases they had at the resort: The first one of the right is 38cm high but they only have 3 of these. The one on the middle... they only have 3 too and it is high 30 cm and wide 13cm I had choosen the ones on the left because they have exactly 6, the quantity that I need (there are 6 small tables at Sports Bar for the appetizers) so I decided I prefered all equal. This are 25cm high and 13cm wide. I alredy have the fucsia fake orchids and this week I have the intention to buy 6 floating fucsia candles. Although it will be still clear at the Sports Bar (in August gets dark around 7.30pm) I only want to use them for a decorative purpose as the photo you saw, because to switch on the candles when it is not still dark has no sense for me. Hope to be helpful ; )

Hello Leonina, Your wedding is in Nov 2014, so this is more than one year... Dont they have the possibility to look for a job to pay sth? If not, I would talk about this with your parents, I do not think is fair you pay all the expenses... At least half and half. And regarding the rooms... yes of course, I will not be responsible of possible destroys at the rooms so ask them for their credit cards. Say sth like the hotel does not accept the same credit cards for so many rooms... (just in case they decline to do it). For what I have learned about guests and family in particular, about my destination wedding is to try to do not involve too much in things like that. I started doing this at the beggining of my compromise and I have fastly learnt to do not do it. So I would not really give your credit card. If not, give your parent's one. OK I know they are your siblings but you are not their parents. I have two sisters and the smallest is 25 years old and no job. My parents are paying her the flight and hotel. I alredy have a lot of expenses to do that. Believe you are still have a lot of months until your wedding day arrives so I suggest you to not start adding more, at least at the moment. Hope to be helpful ; )

This are mines! And I am not good with heels and being at the sand the most of the time I took them flat.

This is mine, I bought it thourgh Amazon and my dad has painted the bride hair of brown as my hair is.

Hi again girls!! Vanessa is so fast answering doubts! I have just emailed here with some doubts that I had and I added the one for the bathrooms. I have just received her answer about this. "En todos lados habra baños cerca, pero estos no son privados, se compartiran. Sobre la Laguna, normalmente nunca hay gente cerca, el sport bar esta a un lado del lobby como es de dia la mayoria de la gente estara en la piscina asi que no tendras mucha gente ahí tampoco, y las rocas el bar solo se abrira para ustedes, a esa hora normalmente no hay nadie, al menos uno que otro despistado que este perdido o explorando el hotel. Pero normalmente van de paso no pasan al baño". She says that in every location there are bathrooms near but these are not private during our wedding, so we have to share them. About La Laguna she says that normally there is no people around and about Sports Bar being in a side of a lobby, the most of the people would be at the swimming pool so there not will be a lot of people around neither. Las Rocas Bar it will be open only for the wedding so at that time there are normally nobody, unless someone that has lost his/her way or is exploring the hotel. But normally they do not go to the bathroom. Once again the great Vanessa answering promptly and in a very detailed way!

Thank you so much Claire and Lauren! Now I have to get tan!! It seems the summer is never going to come!! It does not stop raining!! Such a nightmare... Although I have a very white skin I get tanned really fast and quite brown but with this weather I am thinking in doing some tanning sessions because I would not like to arrive to Mexico so white!! And talking about the weather, I have just begun to be a little bit worried about the weather for the wedding day. When I was in Mexico at the start of July, we had the best of the lucks because we did not see a drop of rain!! But I remembered the bus driver that brang us from Cancun airport to the resort told us that the previous week they had had rain every single day!! Guys, do you have heard about a bride that had to cancel her wedding outside? I know they have an indoor site but I really do reject to get married there!! I am not travelling more than 7000 km for going to an indoor site! Vanessa told me that the last check of the weather she makes is at 1pm. If the weather report says that is going to rain then we will have to get married inside... The only fact of thinking in this possibility gets me upset!! What do you think about this girls? Lauren, I am also on a diet but it is difficult with an Italian fiancè (you know Italians eat pasta a lot) and I love pasta so it is being very difficult, haha. But I am trying to do a low- carbohydrate diet specially with low-glycemic carbohydrates that helps to loose weight faster. I just want to loose some kilogrames because as you have written, I do not want to be fat in front of the other guests. Except but old sister, every girls is sooooo thin!! So believe, I completely understand you!! And arriving there with one week notice even more difficult!! hahaha I love your ring box, it is so cute! One thing that I have learned with this great website is the huge amount of DIY projects I have learning and we can make. Your ring box is so nice! About what happen with your gown... I cannot belive it!! I was shocked when I did read it! Did you phone the store to ask for explanations? In this kind of situations I would have thought that the fault is from the store but maybe are the ones from the post service. Two months ago, it happened to me the same when I ordered a dress and some sandals from Accessorize. They sent me to home but not certified so I emailed the store. They did assure me that they always send their stuff with signature required. So i finally discovered it was a fault of Spanish post.... Luckily nothing happened to your dress!!! And look the positive thing of all of this, at least is big enough you can fit it to your body, and not small! About what you ask about the toilets... Very good question!! I had not tought about that!! I have no idea... And anybody does know if are there any bathrooms at Las Rocas Bar? I cannot remember this. What I think is if this two events (dinner at La Laguna and cocktails at Las Rocas) are private, the normal would be that nobody from the hotel could reach the bathrooms while we are there... but no idea about this. Yesterday I emailed Vanessa to ask about the ironing of the dress. I was worried about the clothing of my wedding dress. I know they iron them almost once a day with so many weddings they have, but my gown is very delicate. It is real authentic crape (also called "crepè) of silk. I asked to the saleswoman at the store and she told me they cannot iron directly, only with steam iron but the iron cannot touch the dress. I thought that maybe you all could be interested in the next information. Vanessa told me to not be worried because they iron all the dresses in the same way: the iron never touches the dresses. They just iron them with a powerful steam. She also sent me a picture about the iron they usually work with. This is the way they iron the dresses: And this is the proffesional iron they use: This weekend I have also payed the final balance of the flowershop. I have ordered some centerpieces for the Sports Bar as well as the ones for La Laguna. I was shocked when I received the costs for only just the ones for the Sports Bar. I have decided to use some tropical flowers in all the tables and pomander balls as well. They just asked me 350 usd only for 6 small centerpieces and 4 small pomander balls. So the DIY projects at this website are great. I have cancelled this two things and I am going to create it by myself after reading so ideas of other brides. After so many money spent at the flowershop I dont really want to spend 350 usd more for just 90 minutes of appetizers... So I am going to put one of this on each table. I have bought a faked fucsia orchids in a flowershop. They seemed so real when I saw them, that I had to touch them to see if they were real or fake. This has cost me 8 usd all of them. Vanessa is going to lend me the recipients at no cost which is great so I have not to bring them at the baggage or going to buy it to Playa del Carmen. And about the pomander balls I have found this great video at Youtube about how to make them. I only have to find the fake flowers which is not simple to find a big quantity of them... But the video is great. This is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dE4QQy7AI Claire, oh my good! I cannot believe that you are leaving in only 2 weeks! Write us before flying to Mexico to tell us how exciting you are! Hope all this two weeks you are not going to be stressed with all the last things and moments!! I am starting to be a little bit stress now that I have 5 weeks to leave and 6 for the wedding! You are great too! So many DIY projects as well!! My dad has also made my fingerprint guestbook as well!! I have seen it last Friday and I love it as he is also very good painting! I asked my dad to do it some weeks ago because I like a lot the idea of having this not only as a remember of my wedding but also as a remember of my dad! I took the idea of one from Etsy and next week I would like to buy the inks (two different colours of green) for this. Claire, just in case you are not going to be able to write here again, I wish you the best of the days!!

Hahaha I was seeing now my face at the first pic... terrible! I was so tired as I have a terrible headache from this morning.... but happy trying on my wedding dress.

Hello brides!! Lauren your bouquets are beautiful!! I love them!! So nice with the shells on it. You are also advancing a lot with other things! It is great you have made the bags for the oot bags, i am not so good making that (iron process, etc). I have just boughted in fucsia for the girls in a store. Now I would like to write something to explain people not only what is an OOT Bag but also what contains). Have anyone of you some idea/text for this? I am searching on this website but i cannot find anything. Well brides, today I have gone to the store for the second try on of my wedding dress. I have bought the dress at Rosa Clara, a famous Spanish woman designer here in Spain (http://www.rosaclara.es/en/index.html) I have brung my sandals because the saleswoman needed to take the lenght (in the pics below you could see is long) and I decided the first time to put something else at my gown. So this is the photo of me... I have decided to add around the breast some glass beads. So last time I asked for making just one to see the final "effect" of it. Today I have seen the result and I liked a lot so I have decided to put one more where is one alredy and other two at the down part of the breasts.... Uff so difficult to explain this in English! hahaha This is a detailed pic of today. It is not well sew so they have to correct it and add the other 3 "lines". I will show you all the final result when I will return in 4 weeks to the final try on. And this are my silver sandals. Good weekend to everybody!!