I am okay with a guest putting everything out. I am fortunate enough that my mom's best friend is a former florist and wedding coordinator and if going to make alot of the stuff for us to save us big money. He will be in charge of the tables and flowers and has offered to do it all for us!
As of now I am just going to keep my mouth shut with Ana and not really go into any more details to avoid the"no's" and the costs. I think I will just wait to speak to the onsite at the wedding about the photographer. I am sure they will say not a big deal. Thanks so much for all your feed back! Makes going through all this alot easier!
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ChicagoBride2011 
I used Marvin for my centerpieces, bouquets, and boutanaires (sp?). We met his delivery person in the lobby to avoid the fee. The problem with doing it that way is that you'll have to have someone set-up the centerpieces for you, if you want the resort to do it then you get slapped with the fee. The bellboys helped us load the centerpieces onto luggage carts and wheeled them to my aunts room, then when she was ready to put them out for me she called the bellboys again and they wheeled the carts onto the beach for her. We got VERY lucky that these bellboys were willing to be so helpful!
I got really sick of dealing with my off-site coordinator so I didn't really tell her much, then when I got down there I told my onsite coordinator this is what we are doing. The off site coordinators will tell you no and try to charge you for everything however the onsite ones are much, much more flexible with things. It was easy for us to do it that way since we were not relying on the resort for much and used outside vendors for alot of things.
