Carlota1981

Hello Lauren!! I have missed you!!! Thanks for your kind words! You are so nice my Canadian friend! I am happy you "are" here again! Great to know you are alredy living in your new house! This is so emotional, is not it? And answering your question, yes! I am starting to be nervous!! hahaha The days have flown away so fast that I cannot believe is only 5 weeks to leave and 6 for the wedding! This week is being quiter, but the past two weeks were crazy!! Guests were phoning me and emailing me at least 4 times per day asking me the same questions again and again!! Some of them just contacted me to tell what other friends of them had made when those were at Riviera Maya (i am not interested! hahahaha)... The craziest of all was again with the Italian part as they are all travelling with my travel agency here in Spain (in Italy the same travel was really expensive). So as I speak Italian and I have more time free at job than my fiancè to answer phone calls and emails they were driving me crazy about the second and last part of the payment to the travel agency, etc... Fortunately, this has finished but I am afraid that I am going to "hear" them some days before I am leaving... Are your guests asking you all the time info you have alredy told them thousands of times? hahaha For another hand, to be less busy has permitted me to continue with a lot of things that I had to do, related to the wedding. The most important is that I have found my sandals! I am so happy for this! And I have been buying some other things as the bags for the oot bags, luggage tags (and making the design), starfish for the rings and coloured small starfishes for the card seats. We have also decided the menu for the dinner (that we are going to have the previous evening August 5th) that Vanessa sent me. Being 22 people the menu must be the same for everybody. We are going to have supper at La Adelita mexican restaurant. The worst for us is that we did not have the option to decided the hour. Vanessa explained me that for more than 8 people the restaurant only permitts big groups to the wedding department and being so "many" people we have to dinner at 6.30pm! This is soooooo early for us, but OK what can we do? Two days ago I went with Thomas to pick up his suit. I really love it as the colour is like dark sand. Not exactly beige. Now he has to look for summer boat shoes. Something like this (but in other colour). I am not sure you call this kind of summer shoes "boat shoes". Is this correct? We were also working at the text for the ceremony sand. I thought it was great this text was in Italian, Thomas did agree and he is going to ask to her aunt to read it. She has a beautiful voice and I think is going to be a very beautiful and emotional moment. Thomas has just translated into Italian. I took one text from this website as an idea but we changed some sentences. We have also receiving some presents (being money the most of them which is great of course, haha). What is the "typical" in your countries? In Spain the normal has been always to open a wedding list in a store with different articles for your home, but from some years ago is normal also to add the info about a bank account number for those that prefer to give money. And the last thing we have decided to not buy a kit for a ceremony sand. First of all because here in Spain this does not exist and for what it seems neither in Riviera Maya. Buying thourgh internet is good but the delivery cost is too expensive in my opinion (90 usd) which is normal because of the distance from the States or Canada. So I decided to buy things separately. So, Thomas and I are looking for the "final" recipient (for the mix sand). Vanessa is going to lend us the other two recipients and we have token sand from one beach here. I have seen a great video on Youtube about how to color the sand. And this Saturday I have the second try on of my dress. The normal here is to have 3 tries at the wedding stores. This time I have to carry my shoes for the length. I will try to make a photo so I can show it to you all! I am very happy with my gown as it is so fresh!! So, many things I have alredy done! But I am still so many other details to make!!! Busy weeks indeed !! Norma, I dont have info about their rates for every flower, as I asked them directly for centerpieces, bouquets, bouttoniere, with specific flowers that I am going to have as orchids, hawaians, bromelias and heliconias. They answer with the costs of each thing and I payed the 50% of the balance through Paypal (although they accept other ways of payment but I prefer Paypal). The email is this [email protected] and website: http://floreriairisplaya.com/ Do not pay attention to the costs of the website. They gave me best costs... also because I have ordered loads of things!! lol Any doubt just ask me Norma!!

Hello all the new brides here!! Jen, to find a flowershop with good costs was a nightmare. I was really shocked about the costs they were sending me. So I decided to ask to Vanessa, my planner, and she suggested me Floreria Iris at Playa del Carmen. They have costs 3 times cheaper than other flowershops I emailed. Iamlizzy, welcome to the forum! I think Vanessa is great! and i am surer that I was going to be happier when I met her. She is really nice, helpful and funny! Ok we speak the same language and this maybe permits that both are more comfortable writing mails. She not only is a good planner but she also gives me great ideas to save money or help me with other things that are not related directly to the Palladium. I am also making the Las Rocas Bar party! And about Portofino I recommend you the sirloin!

Definetely fresh flowers. My bouquet will be of.teo colours of orchids. So at my hair i will use two orchids. For other brides I discovered they last a lot of hours. I really like the idea of having tropical and fresh flowers at my hair!!

I think the normal is they stay the number of hours you have booked with them. But normally for what I have heard they usually arrive before and stay more time that the hours you talked with them At least is what several vendors told me whrn I was looking for. Ask them directly to do not have doubts.

Hi Claire I think the hostess ia going to be nice with you and try yo help you if you explain he/him that you are carrying your wedding dress as well as other things. I love your sandals for the bridesmaids! These seems comfortable and I like the fact this are sparkly. This is exactly what I am looking for. Fortunately i will found mines today or i hope so, hahaha. I am do excited for all the upcoming weddings! After all this months writing here all of us is so exciting to see how little but little people is getting married! I was watching the calendar today and I have seenthat remains 6 weeks for leaving 7 to the big day!! Last year i almost have no vacation except for some weekends outside so for this other reason I am wishibg the day arrives!!

Lots of things!! So great! Today I started the research and I am having doubts between some of them. This is being more difficult to me than choose my wedding gown!! hahaha

AAk2, welcome to the forum!!! Your day is really near!! I could imagine how you feel now! I am now realizing how near is my day and start to being alredy nervous! hahaha Jen and Claire!! How near are your weddings!! Times pasts really fast!! Jen, great idea of having a remember of the whole wedding-evening! Tell us what you have finally decided!! I do not know how many could cost with Indigo Wedding videographers because when I was looking for information I directly asked for the time we actually were going to have. Claire, if I were you I would try to up the plane the first ones. I think what you airline told you is the typical explanation that they always tell. But just in case there was no space, I think you could always keep your gown at the floor just behind your front seat. I am going to make as you! Of course I am keeping with me my wedding dress as well as my jewels. My flight are direct. The day before we are going from my city to Madrid (50 minute of plane) and then the next day we are going Madrid to Cancun (direct flight). I know being direct flights there are almost no possibilities of loosing my gown, but certainly this is not a risk I want to run!! I suggest to explain the hostess that is your wedding dress and anyway I will try to seat the first ones. That is what we are going to do. FI is going to make the same with his suit. And yes!! It is going to be hot. I was in July in Riviera Maya and it was quite hot. But more than hot is because there is a lot of humedity. I am marring in August 6th, I think it is going to be worst! lol But well I was living in the past in Madrid and other cities of Italy that in summer reach 50ºC (122 farenheit). So I am able to stand everything after that!! Emailing with locals they told me it is hot but no possible ways to reach the Italy or Spain high temperatures!! lol How long are you staying at Riviera Maya? I am not sure I am going to read your reviews at your return. I am living for Spain's capital on July 28th and going to Cancun on 29th. What about your shoes girls? I am looking for sandals and it is being hard!! I have decided to not use heels, as I am not usually confort with them if I have to be for so long with them. So I dont want to have tired feet on my wedding. I am looking for silver sandals and it is being soooo hard to find ones I like! In this moment I am writing laid at the sofa because this is the second day in a row looking for them in mall and stores. I will continue on Monday. And I am nervous because my second fit of gown is this Saturday and the shopassitant told me that I have to bring my shoes this time!!

That's it! Why people do complicate their lifes so much? say "i cannot come" and that's it...

Maridr2012- thanks for so many lovely words. I have liked so much that I have read it twice. Your friend is very wise! SammyAnna- I am so sorry to hear your mom is not showing her enthusiam about your wedding. My mom is also "old school" so maybe your mom is not very emotional about your DW? This happened to me with mine at the start...

Hi Jen, of course!! The videographer is Matias Zalazar, from Indigo Wedding. We found him in January after looking for options. For the same time, other videographers asked us 900 usd! This is the website: http://indigowedding.com/ How many hours are you looking for? We have just wanted to have a video like the Chrestena. We talked with Matias and he told me no problem. So we booked him and an assistant for 90 minutes for 400 usd. If you dont book an assistant is 300 usd. We just wanted to have the before moments, ceremony and after. But I know he has several packages so you save money. He is an Argentinan guy based in Playa del Carmen and I liked his videos. He is very flexible so you can ask him how exactly you want the video. For example, in a lot of the videos he has in his website this starts with people talking while a song sounds and mix with some images without words. I prefered to have an structure as Christina's videos, I mean no people talking (except the minister). We payed the 40% of the total amount thourgh Paypal. He is going to give us our video before leaving Mexico. Living in Spain neither the videographer nor the photographer wanted to pay the high costs of delivering so both are giving us our dvds some days later. For 400 usd we are going to have 2 videos: one of 4-5 minutes and other longer of 15-20 min Matias speaks English so you can talk with no problem with him. He is also available for Skype sessions if you want to ask him directly any questions. Hope to be helpful ; )

Hello brides! It is only 2 months to our wedding!! In which things are you working these days? I am desperately looking for my shoes!! Am I the only one that I have not yet the shoes? Lol

Thank you so much Steph. Yes, I have to change argument because it is impossible with her. I have been very sad this weekend thinking of her behaviour all this past months. She is still treating me like if i was a child of 10 years old. Everything is also more complicated because my elder sister (the one who got married 2 years ago) commented everything about her wedding with my mom. It is possible to say that it was the wedding that my mom wanted. But my sister and I are completely opposite. And my mom does know this, but she really does not want to realize. Thanks again for your nice words. It is indeed sad for me that all this things are coming from the family.

My friends are shocked at the cost of wedding package!

Thank yo so much for your nice words and advice Allie. I am handle with this situation for 10 months and it is more difficult to me each time. I have the support of my FI and my best two friends, one of them is the made of honour. The worst of my mom`s behaviour is that I have to listen her everytime saying/arguing/shouting me things and for another hand it makes me sad because this is the remember that I am going to have about her when I was planning my wedding. FOr example when we had the arguing about the wedding dresses store, I was so upset that I did not want to talk with her for days. My FI saw her and he told her (my dad was listening too) that I was really sad about her behaviour. She seemed she was calming after that but unfortunately she only was nice during some weeks and started again. Each time more I feel like is better she would not come there.... I do not ever want to think about her saying things, complaining or with bad faces at the resort. Once again, thanks for your help. It is so good to have this great website. I really appreciate your opinion and all the possible supports.

Yes, it is my situation nowadays! I am getting married in two months and I am still "waiting" my uncle and cousins (his sons) give me an answer. They have not only have told me congratulations but also they have not told me if they are coming or not. I presume not as they have not gone yet to the travel agency to book but c'mmon, how you could behave like this? And talking about avoiding... two friends that I invited were really excited to me and happy when I gave them the invitations personally. They were saying inmediatly they were coming. When the TA had the offer for the travel, I sent them an email but one of them has never answered (and this was in January) and the other told me that her husband had probably to work in August (when I discovered it is a lie). Since January I do not know anything about them. I have tried to phone them or send them a whatsapp but never replied. So I decided I was not going to insist them to come to my wedding (and I also was going about to tell them to be my braidsmaid). After all of this, I do not want they are coming! They have showed me they are rude and have no interest at all.... I never thought that making a DW it was going to show me this type of things. But I am happy to know better who is around me. For another hand, there are other friends that I was not expected to come as they 2guys) are from Italy and living there. So we are not so many in contact as if they live in my city, obvioulsy. They are great and write me every week emails or whatsapp telling me how exciting they are for coming.

Your wedding is so near!! Good travel and have the best of the days!! Tell us at your return!!

Hello everybody! I am Carlota from Spain (so sorry for my English) and I am getting married in 2 months in Riviera Maya. I am so excited and wishing the day finally arrives but I am really tired about my mom's behaviour. At least once per month she is ticking me off/annoying me and we finish arguing about things related to the wedding. In 2011 my elder sister got married and she decided to have a wedding at home. She and her (now) husband in spite of living in London, decided to do it in Spain. That was taken as a bad decision for my mom because my sister decided to "use" my mom as her wedding coordinator and mom was REALLY stressed. She was saying "I hope my other 2daughters want to make a DW" So from that moment we told to my parents we were getting married, my mom is driving me crazy. This is other kind of wedding comparing with the one that my sister had and decisions about wedding things are taken by my FI and me, so I have to recognize that from the start I was not asking her opinion in every detail (and now of course almost anything). I think this is the thing she bothers her because from 10 months ago she behaves like a child. Some examples: 1) Wedding dress. I had seen with her several in two stores and I decided that I did not want to go any other place to look for. She talked me about other store that I dont like the style and she yelled me at me at phone 2)Later she was like saying that my day was not going to be a real wedding because only few people was coming (which BTW is other thing we wanted to have an intimate day). At my sister's there was 210 people. At my wedding there will be 22 people and Fi and I are soo happy for that! 3) She wanted I gave my wedding invitations with 2 or 3 months in advanced. Although I explained her that was not possible because for obvious reasons, she was phoning me several days to do not do it. In her opinion was really early giving them in November and that I was crazy! 4) She complained me a lot because she wanted that I celebrated my wedding at the start of June because is my parent's anniversary so she can celebrate it being in holidays in Mexico... I WAS SHOCKED!! Is this about you or my wedding? We decided to do it in August because in other way the family and friends of my Fi as well as my friends could not have come. August is the official month of holidays in Spain. My parents could come in any month as they are retired but not the other people because of their jobs. 5) I am making small details to my guests like OOT bags, welcome cards, etc and she told me that what stupid things I am doing I could tell you a lot of them, the last one is because I want to wear sandals with no heels and today it was the 4th time she phoned me to tell me (and yell me) that I was going to seem a stupid and silly bride because everybody was going to wear heels but not me (when BTW she obviously does not know this but who cares what other guests are wearing, right?). I am really dissapointed about her behaviour. Instead of supporting me and be happy for me, she is all the time looking for controversy. Last Sunday I went to my parents home for lunch and I showed them a youtube video about other bride that got married at the same resort. Today at phone she told me "looking that video is like you are going to make a show and not a wedding". These have been such hard words to me... Everytime she comes to me with things like this I finish really upset. I told to her today and in other occasions, try to reason her but it is impossible. She says she is happy to me but it does not seem so. When she gets angry because I am not taking her advice, I just make like I am listening her... but no way. She repeats things all the time. Somedays I just do not pick her the phone because she stresses me a lot. I cannot handle her behaviour. I just tell her information when she asked but very few. I do not want to talk with her about my wedding because the 90% of the times she puts a bad face or says bad things I am just "tired" of her... This upsets me quite a lot... I do not really know how to handle her and this situation....

Thanks for your advices girls!! Yes we will arrive 2days before our guests that are all staying at Palladium. Fi and I have planned to wait for them drinking cocktails at the lobby. At the time they arrive they have to go directly to one of the buffets to dinner so, will be they "umconfortable" being with the OOT bag at the "hand" until they go to sleep? Norma, I had asked that to Vanessa but she told me no exception. Bre, inside the OOT bags I am just putting some "funny" things: coloured sun glasses for the pools/sea (so they have not be worried of loosing the expensive ones), "chinese" fans (in Spanish we call this "pay pay" but I have no idea of how to say this in English), mini cards, flower hairpin.. (you can see the photos at the right side of the computer screen where it says "recent images in this thread") Welcome to the forum Kylie!!! I I am bringing several vendors at there are no fee for this but things have changed at GP with the new wedding packages and costs. I suggest you to write a mail to your planner in which the only thing you are asking her is about the photographer. Which is your WC by the way? About the pass or night cost I think it was sth around 40usd for the pass, I remembered it was cheaper one type of pass. Sorry to not be helpful !

Hello girls! How is it going the wedding preparations? This week I was thinking about OOT bags. I know there are other threats about this but I would like to have your opinion. The thing is that I asked Vanessa for the delivery after Lauren told it here (thanks for the advice ; ) She told me that they make this from 11 am to 5pm. My guests are arriving from Spain at Cancun airport at 6pm. So between the distance from the airport to the resort, taking luggages, passports control, etc they are not going to be there until 7.30 or 8pm. So the option of the girls/women see them at their arrival at their rooms is not possible. But at 11 am the next day seems quite late to me because they are not going to see it probably until they are going to the rooms for changing clothes for dinner. What could I do? Other options I was thinking is in giving them personally or ask them to the receptionists... I am not sure if last option is possible. But any ideas are very welcome! Thanks in advance girls! Carlota

Becci I do not recommend you at all the photographer at the resort. There was also a bride here that booked that one and did regre it a lot. She had said photos were terrible. I personally do not lik e their photography style plus they are REALLY expensive. I have booked with claudia photo studio. they have great references at this website plus they are really professional. It is enough to know this seeing their blogs. But there are others ver good as well: Del sol, Gonzalo Nuñez, etc.

Hi girls! This is an interesting threat because I was starting to think I was the only one that is afraid to say "wedding" at Riviera Maya! lol My wedding is in 2months and although the most of the payments are crazy ( the extra fee for bringing more people) for me the worsts are the flowershops and photographers. After days of asking costs I found the best costs with a flowershop that my planner suggested. I was completely desesperated with the super high costs and I wrote my WC telling her my problem It is 3 times less expensive than the cheapest cost i had found. But still crazy for me. Mexico is cheaper than Spain and even with this it seems Riviera Maya is some city of Japan (to say one expensive country). The other issue is the photographers. I am shock the hundreds of dollars they ask!