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It looks like Le Chateau is the place to go! They had three different options for khaki coloured linen. If anyone is planning to wait to get the groomsmen outfits, the sales person said they usually only carry them in store until August when the fall stuff arrives, so if you want to try them on, now is the time!

We have groomsmen across Canada (and 1 in New York) and we are trying to find a nationwide (or international) chain that carries linen pants for a beach wedding. Linen shirts as well, although we can pick up plain white collared shirts anywhere if need be. Where did you get yours?

@@ElisabethC The first post in this thread has a link to the resort photo tours which were recently updated to include the new akumal beach site. For some reason the links aren't working for me today. http://bdw.stevewright.netdna-cdn.com/cdn/monthly_05_2015/post-279779-0-23525000-1431801232.jpg

Does anyone have the wedding menu for Portofino? The resort didn't send it to me and didn't answer my request for it.

I had the same questions about the tulum site, since they have the same awning. Another bride who got married there said that it wasn't a problem with the professional photographer. I booked the Akumal site just in case, but now that one is the same thing.

Hi, @@nicolesal. I'm getting frustrated with Linda as well, I was told that we would get a coordinator 6 months before. I was sent the form to fill out with my choices, but I can't get them to answer my question about which restaurants are in the Coba resort. Posts here said that Portofino was in Coba, but it wasn't one of the options she sent me, so I'm stuck waiting another month before I can ask a coordinator.

I have been emailing with the resort and they said that they would probably be replacing it with something similar to the Tulum site before my November wedding. I just wish they had said that BEFORE I spent months fighting them to get married at that site.

When it was dark wood with white draping, I didn't think it needed anything. If it's still up and still white when we get down there, I feel like I'd need something, probably flowers on the posts?

@@nicolesal @@DonnaandDaz I'm booked for November 11th. The email I got was in broken english, but I asked whether the Akumal site had been painted white and they said "Yes has been change and we are sure that will change too for November... we will try to do something similar to the beach front in Tulum"

@@nicolesal @@DonnaandDaz I just got an email from them that they will probably be tearing it down entirely before my wedding and putting something similar to the tulum one up in its place!

Oh my god, they ruined the site. Why would they paint it white? It's not even a good paint job! I just spent months fighting with the resort to get this ceremony site. I chose this resort specifically for that site. And now it looks terrible! White fabric on a white arch? There's no contrast! How can I go back after months of fighting and tell them I don't want the site now because they ruined it?

My father will be turning 60 while we're at the resort a few days after my wedding. Any ideas on something special I could do to celebrate?

Congrats! Glad it went so well! How did it work with the awning? Did they set you up in the sun and your guests under the awning so you didn't have the shade from the awning on you in the photos? I convinced them to let me use the Akumal Hammocks site for my ceremony because I don't want weird shadow patterns on all my photos.

There is also a lovely beach location at Tulum with a large wooden awning over top which should be available for Coba brides. Can you see the above images?

I'm starting to waffle on when to have the legal part in Canada. Originally, I thought that doing it before we leave for Mexico made the most sense, but now I'm starting to change my mind. I kind of feel like if we are legally married before the ceremony, then the ceremony might not feel as special, whereas if we do it afterwards, then we will get married in Mexico and register it in Canada afterwards. My fiance wants to do it before and then go back to work the day after we get home from Mexico. I want to take a couple extra days and maybe do the legal stuff before we head back to work. I'm also hoping that the resort will give us some sort of symbolic wedding licence that we can frame when we get back, then file the legal Canadian one with the other documents.

You mean you hired him for an hour extra after the ceremony, or just the included ceremony and posed pictures?

If you know she won't be able to come, then not sending an invitation serves no purpose except to spite her. Unless you are uninterested in being friends any longer, you should send the courtesy invite.

Sask has a website that lists available commissioners along with their contact info and there is a set rate for the service as well as a mileage rate for travel, although I assume that they are allowed to refuse to travel?

@@calgarybride2015 as far as I know, we can do it anywhere we want. My coworker had them come to his house, paused his video game, signed the paperwork, then went back to his game. Figuring out where to do it is the tough part. We don't want to do it at our basement apartment, but we don't want to make a big production out of it. I'm thinking maybe we'd invite his grandmother who can't come to the wedding over for lunch at either his parents or his sister's house and have the marriage commissioner drop by for a brief signing then.

Saskatchewan is a mess. You have to get your marriage licence from a jewellery store and then have a marriage commissioner come to you. I don't exactly want to get married in my basement apartment, so I'm not sure what to do there. My FSIL might not be able to come, maybe when we get home from the wedding or a couple days before we'll have the marriage commissioner come to her house and she and her husband can witness it?

I went to three different TAs and directly to the airline as well. Air Canada quoted me $1550 per person, roughly. A local travel agency quoted me $1420 pp with westjet and $1550 for Air Canada. LaurieLee was able to get me $1519 pp with Air Canada, and $1321.53 pp with westjet and convince the resort to honour their initial email saying that I could get married at the beach site of another of the complex's resorts. It has definitely been worth it for me.

Her email is laurielee at tieronetravel.com and if you can use a read receipt, it's a good idea, she sometimes doesn't receive all the emails I send her from my gmail account.

photomexico@@Tropiconestudio.com They will send you a form to fill out with your dates and whatnot, then send you a price list. All I have is the 2014 packages that I got from another bride.

For me it's more meaningful to have it symbolic, because instead of having a judge performing a ceremony in Spanish that I have no control over, I can have a loved one perform a customized ceremony in English.

I'm arriving saturday night, and I was originally scheduled for Thursday (symbolic), but I got them to reschedule me for Wed so I wouldn't spend the whole trip worrying about sunburns. Plus, now I'm getting married on Remembrance day, which is a holiday in my province, so we'll have the day off for our anniversary from now on!