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@@Lilian84 awww, that's so sweet.

Thanks!

Has anyone seen convertible dresses anywhere in Canada? SK or Ontario would be best... I'd like to find one for less than $100.

@@Lilian84 That looks pretty good, actually! I think either just choosing a colour for them, or getting them convertible dresses would both be good ideas.

This is brilliant! I don't know how my Bridesmaids would like it, but it looks like a great idea!

@@Lilian84 Do you happen to have a picture of how that looked?

Yikes! $424 for a bridesmaid dress???!?!?!

Eek! That's nerve wracking!

I live thousands of km from my bridesmaids. At best, I might get one trip to see them a year before the wedding. I'm not particularly fussy about what they wear, as long as they are comfortable and look good together. I'd like them all to wear the same colour if possible, but I'm not about to pick the dresses out for them and expect them to buy a $200 dress from a wedding store. I'm considering just arranging for them all to go shopping together and ask them to send me pics if they find something they all agree on. I don't care if they are even the same style. Has anyone sent their bridesmaids to pick out their own dresses without you being there? Is this just a disaster waiting to happen?

@@calgarybride2015 I loved the fact that everything was sort of secluded, so we only even saw the waterpark once while wandering around in the paths along the edge of the resort. Stayed away from the main pool and things were pretty low key. Loved the cat cafe, we spent our evenings sitting in the seating area next to the select lounge on the beach with a cat curled up in my lap.

We have several nieces and one nephew coming, so we are planning on a family friendly resort with adults-only pools and areas so that if the kids are too much we can just hang out there. I went to Sandos Caracol in 2012 and stayed in the select section which had an adults only pool, and when we went to the beach there was an adults only lounge down there with a bar, snacks and internet access. That worked out pretty well for us, we never had problems with loud kids around.

We're going to have my uncle officiate. I lived with my Aunt and Uncle while I was in College and they have kind of been my mentors. I'm not inviting extended family, but they are so important to me that I have asked him to officiate.

You do what you want to do. This is not your sister's wedding, this is not your mother's wedding. If you want a beach wedding in the place you got engaged, then you plan that wedding and you send your invites, and if they can't go, that is not your fault. You are not obligated to plan your wedding around everyone else's desires and end up with something that won't make you happy. As long as you understand that a destination wedding means not everyone will be able to make it and you don't hold it against them if they can't come, then go ahead and plan whatever you want. If they can't make it you can always have a party at home afterwards.

Honestly, I have no idea what I'm going to do. My family lives thousands of miles away, as does my bridal party. No one in our town is invited to our family only wedding, so it would be awkward to try and go with someone here. I might end up asking my future sister in law to go shopping with me in her town a couple hours away. In your case, I think you can invite whoever you want. I'm sure your family would love to go with you and I wouldn't worry too much about the other bridesmaids. I was my sister's MOH and I didn't go shopping with her. I saw the dress later when we went to the same place to get the bridesmaid dresses.

Ooh! I like the sounds of that!

Thanks, @@TauniaS!

I'm going to talk to a travel agent and get some pricing now that I know I can still use that site.

UPDATE: I received this email from the resort: Hola, Maggie Thanks for your email. About your request, up today I'm pleased to tell you the Akumal Location will be available for all the weddings of the resort, included Coba and Tulum...

I'm waiting for a response from a travel agent about the GBP complex now that Akumal has gone luxury, but if that doesn't work out I'll use that Tripcentral as an idea of who to check out next.

Thanks, @@calgarybride2015! I am indeed Canadian.

Update: I received an email that the ceremony site would still be available, but you would have to have your reception and dinner back in Tulum/Coba. I've contacted a travel agent who will hopefully be able to confirm this.

I'm looking at early to mid November 2015. THIS IS AMAZING! Thank you! Obviously it's not going to have rates for next fall yet, but it at least gives me an idea which resorts are in my price range!

I may be a little optimistic, but I'd like to find a nice place that will be affordable for our guests. If you were able to find a resort for under $1500pp all in, where was it? I'm not too fussed about where we go as long as it has a beach.

Your plan sounds great! Yeah, when we made the plan for Coba, you could access the beach at Akumal and Tulum. Now that you can't access Akumal, it's a lot less attractive.

Thanks for the suggestions, we actually stayed at the Sandos Caracol last year and were less than impressed. It's a lovely resort, but our maid stopped bringing us clean towels and facecloths, and the Mexican restaurant was closed the entire time we were there, which they didn't even mention when we checked in, so we had to leave the resort to get Mexican food. I don't want to go off resort, I'm looking to keep this as simple as possible. I really liked the Coba one because it was a very straightforward choice of wedding location, choice of restaurant, choice of package. Going off resort adds more complication than I'm prepared for.