Now Sapphire Weddings Formerly Paradisus Riviera

[ps31]

thanks Sarah. I like the sound of that, I'll just let them do it:)  Thanks for all your other helpful information!

[AmyG]

Thank you for all this information.  I feel like me and a few other brides on here have weddings there at the beginning of 2012 so they are fast approaching....all of this feedback is so helpful and appreciated!!!    :-)

 

Originally Posted by 82turtles 

Hi Jeunesse,

Picking the menu was hard, because the descriptions weren't necessarily easy to understand! Here's what we used for our menu (Eternity package):

 

Cocktail hour apps -

1. Goat cheese mousse and sundried tomatoes
2. Prosciutto ham bruschetta
3. Mini cordon bleu
4. Ginger scented crème brulee

The mini cordon bleu and creme brulee bites were sooo good! The proscuitto ham bruschetta was also good, and while the goat cheese mousse was okay, it wasn't my favorite.

 

Dinner:

1. Appetizer or Salad: Spinach salad with goat cheese, roasted apples and walnut confit, mustard dressing
2. Soup: Mushroom & squash blossom soup with parmesan cheese
3. Entrée: Chicken supreme, spicy almond sauce, fettuccini and sautéed vegetables
4. Desert: Strawberry cheesecake

 

Everything was just amazing. Like almostmarried said -- the wedding meal was the best meal of the whole stay (and we didn't have a bad meal at all in our 10 nights). The spinach salad just wasn't what I was had expected based on the description -- was more a leaf or two of spinach with the roasted apple on top of it and the walnuts and dressing drizzled on top, but tasted wonderful.

 

Cake: Tres leches

Everyone loved the cake, no complaints there at all, just wish we weren't so full by that point, and had room to eat more of it!

 

 

Think it was already answered, but the standard/base decoration are white covered chairs. They look fine that way on their own, but I did add a colored chair bow since I thought it could use some color.

 

As for music, I think they probably have some stuff you could borrow, but we just loaded up an iPod with 4 different ceremony playlists:

1. Guests seating (8 songs) - but i have no idea how many of those they actually made it through

2. Groomsmen and bridesmaid entrances (1 song)

3. Bride's entrance (1 song)

4. Recessional as we walk out and as guests leave (2 songs)

 

We went with classical sounding type music versions of popular songs. Vitamin String Quartet if you want to look it up on iTunes or something (we picked "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the guys & girls entrance, "I'm Yours" for my bridal entrance, and "Don't Stop Believing" and "Orinoco Flow" for the recessional). Just some fun songs, but they sounded very nice as instrumentals!

 

Hope this helps. Sorry I haven't had time to do my review yet.. between two AHR's, Thanksgiving, and trying to get ready for Christmas I just haven't had time!! Feel free to ask any question though, I would love to help out! And I know it sounds cliche and everyone says it, but just try to relax and not be stressed about it. They really do know what they are doing and do an absolutely AMAZING job of it!!

thanks,
Sarah

 

 

 

[82turtles]

Yes, time really does go by quickly, and before you know it you'll be on your way to Mexico to get married!!!

 

Please don't hesitate to ask any questions.. I remember what it was like right before going down there! It was a kinda frustrating and stressful there at the end, as I had thought/expected the wedding coordinators to contact me a couple months out or so to finalize everything, but I didn't hear anything from them. At one point about 3 weeks before the wedding date I sent them an email with some final questions and to send them my planning form to go over, so I could get a quote. They answered the questions but didn't send me a quote. I had decided at that point that I was going to pay by credit card, since I didn't want to travel with that much cash, so decided not to worry about it anymore. I had made my own spreadsheet of costs, so I had a pretty good idea of where we would be anyways. Thought it would be nice to have heard from them that my estimate was accurate!

 

My biggest suggestion is to be organized on your part and have an idea of what you want things to look like -- fill out that planning form, listing out any and every detail you want, and paste in pictures to that form if you have very specific things in mind. I found bouquets and arrangements that I wanted, as well as the cake design, so I put those pictures in the form, and they recreated everything exactly.

 

Trust me, we are very lucky to have a resort that uses such a form.. One of my co-workers got married in Playa del Carmen, and her resort didn't have anything like that, so she was left with a lot of guessing and last minute decisions on things that she hadn't even realized were options.

 

When you have your meeting with the wedding coordinator, they will go over that planning form from start to finish, so the more details you can give them, the better they can envision how you want things to go and then make it happen!!

 

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Originally Posted by AmyG 

Thank you for all this information.  I feel like me and a few other brides on here have weddings there at the beginning of 2012 so they are fast approaching....all of this feedback is so helpful and appreciated!!!    :-)

 

 

 

[babestaaa]

Your pictures are great! Do you know the name of your photographer? I've finalized 70% of the wedding in regards to location, DJ, photographer, and additional event coordinator which I went with Denise Courtney from Eventos Euforia. I am beyond excited, in a nutshell, lots of black magic roses, cigar roller, fireworks! Now I just hope my photographer snaps photo's of all the lil details. Almost 7 months to go.. eee!

[Vanessa56]

82turtles and almost married....thank you so much for all of the information!

[Molly57]

 

These are some pictures I promised I would post of some of the resort and wedding setups I saw when I was there on my site inspection trip.

[Keine Dennis]

I just posted another 59 pictures of this property in my profile, they should come up on the image Gallery under Now Sapphire, there is pictures of the rooms, ballroom ( plan B - but it's not allowed to rain on your day! so you wont need it!! ), some of the pool Gazebo and the other Gazebo (#3) they have one more, other than the pool and beach one... enjoy the pics, feel free to ask any questions 

 

NOTE: The Pool Gazebo has a swim up bar behind it, if it's a busy time it could be noisy or lots on viewers....
Petal Keine

 

Merry Christmas, your wedding year is almost here!!!!!!

 

 

[AmyG]

Thanks for posting the pics Petal Keine!!!

 

How's everyone doing these days now with the holiday out of the way??   I'm feeling a litle nervous with less then than 75 days to go.   :-/

[kmm8984]

thanks for the info on the menu 82turtles! my wedding is February 18th and that's one thing i'm having a hard time deciding on, espeically since you can only pick one entree

[Vanessa56]

Amy - you are sooner than I am, but I am feeling the same way. Have you had any contact with the resort? Other than reserving my date, I have not spoken to them at all.

 

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Originally Posted by AmyG 

Thanks for posting the pics Petal Keine!!!

 

How's everyone doing these days now with the holiday out of the way??   I'm feeling a litle nervous with less then than 75 days to go.   :-/