FutureMrsM2018

Thank you & I'm glad you had a great wedding there, it is exciting!! The family drama has settled down a bit, I think now they are starting to get excited for their vacation and accepting our choice Some of the family members who said they were absolutely not going now have booked and now we have 32 people coming with us in total so things are slowly coming around and now we can start the planning process. So we will have friends & family attending, some entire families aren't even attending but my fiance and I have accepted this & all that is expected with a destination wedding and we are just excited to go away and get married! Thank you!! It's exciting to meet other past Bahia brides that had a great time The planning is just beginning , the girls picked their bridesmaids dresses and we ordered them in so that is quite exciting things are starting to get real. We have to figure out the boys attire, I have a couple ideas in mind. it is exciting to finally feel like a bride and get to start the planning

Nice to meet you @@bridechris! Congratulations! Sorry for the late post I haven't been on. Family has been extremely difficult, even more so since the last post...drama I could never even imagine but it seems to have settled down to a minum curently (thank goodness!). Some people will never change lol Where is the Tulum? The planning is so exciting, my entire bridal party backed out ( even though they said they would be there prior to booking)....so my planning has taken a back burner:( I really want to do totes and gifts, shirts etc but it's hard when I still don't know my numbers. What are you doing for your totes and gifts

It is OFFICIAL!!!!! We booked the Grand Bahia Principe for Dec 07th 2017 Wedding in Jamaica for 2pm at the Gazebo. We were torn back and forth deciding a resort, finalizing our decisions and dates....dealing with family and everrrryttthing else, BUT it is finally over! I am soo relieved that we can finally relax, we have our date and now we can send out our invites! (I made them and ordered them on-line today. TOO CUTE!) I can't believe it's all coming together...FINALLY! ANY OTHER GBP 2017 BRIDES OUT THERE?! Share your dates & planning!! Let the countdown begin! 258 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you! Our TA has been amazing getting all the requested information from both resorts and dealing with the wedding coordinators directly to get back to us so quickly so we can go ahead and book asap. They are around the same price, RIU will be around 5$ more expensive for adults. Both packages are pretty comparable and we're finding it difficult deciding. Riu -slightly more expensive -kids travel cheaper -spa credit all guests 10% -max 10 people for wedding ceremony and semi private receptiom (free wedding) -legal fees are the same -gazebo on the beach, 3pm ceremony time. OR Bahia -all same except no spa credit -slightly cheaper adult price but more expensive child ticket -4pm wedding gazebo by beach -no spa credit -free wedding up to 30 people max Sooooo please give any helpful tips or advice to help us decide! Both look great. We're trying to keep costs down. Both have available wedding dates ( 1 wk apart). We don't know how many people will go as we haven't asked everyone yet as we don't know details. The scary thing is the resort wants deposit FIRST, then book flights and pay flights deposit...THEN they will ask the judge if they are available to dobour legal civil ceremony. IF the judge can't I am forced to do symbolic as all deposits nonrefundable unless Iose both. So we can book everything to find out we can't have civil. Tough decisions! Please share:)

Hey guys!! I'm new to this forum, my fiance and I have our entire wedding planned for 2018 and just decided recently to call of the whole thing and do a destination wedding which is quote exciting to say the least. We have never traveled ourselves and we couldn't even afford a honeymoon the original plan, so this way we get to have our wedding AND honeymoon! SOLD We have narrowed it down to Jamaica, and there are 2 resorts that we are looking into: The Riu Ochos Riu and the Grand Bahia Principe. It is quite difficult to find wedding package online besides the basic post on their website. We are waiting to hear more from our agent but I fear this could take some time and we want to start planning and finalize and cancel our other plans so we have been trying to do our own research. I need help!! Anyone have any advice as to which resort is better for couples, families, weddings, food, in general etc. They both look stunning and I have compared the packages but don't have prices for all the extras. Any advice would be greatly appreciated . Thanks!! A NEW destination Bride-to-Be