Tony&Jessica

Quote: Originally Posted by sunitam the only outside DJ they allow into dreams to do wedding is DJ Mannia, who you probably need to book through your WC. or you can just rent the sound system for your reception and bring your own music. there is a sound technician that comes with the system that will play the right songs when they need to be on and blend the music for you. We are particular about our music and have tons of songs that we want to play for our wedding so we just got the sound system and are burning our cds and labelling them for the technician (dinnner music, first dance, cake cutting, dance, etc) hope you have an awesome wedding!!! Thank you!!! I put my mom, dad, brother, and bridesmaids to work throwing some playlists together, and I think we're just going to rock the iPod! For some reason I just thought music was included! Thank you so much to everyone who contributes to this forum! I didn't post a lot - b/c most of my questions were already answered, but I hope when I get back I can help some of the newbies out as much as you all have helped me!!! We leave tonight!!! YAY!!!

Okay...so we leave on Wednesday to go to Dreams and I just realized that we don't have a DJ. Do they handle this when you get there? I e-mailed Cecilia and got no response. Panicking a little bit!

Quote: Originally Posted by cubsfan hmm... I know they have given extra people at dinner instead of cocktail hour, but im not sure about salon services because its the spa so its different department (not sure if that makes sense or not) Maybe she meant that she could not do extra people AND SALON SERVICES, that she would only be abe to do extra people at dinner and gazebo decor/centerpieces? Does that make sense?! I would just keep trying! It could have been that she was going to do it for me because I previously had a different coordinator that stated that she would do that, but she was no longer w. dreams so maybe she was doing stuff she was not supposed to, yet Cecilia had to allow for what the old coordinator had said. I ended up not needing the extra people though, because I had less guests than expected. I think you may have been right...I searched these threads and sent her the names of people she had done it for, and she offered 5 more people and gazebo decoration. Thank you for your help!

I'm at about 25 people right now, and when I e-mailed Cecilia to ask if we could swap out the cocktail hour for 5 more people and hair/makeup for my bridesmaids, she said that the only thing she could do was offer us extra centerpieces and gazebo decoration... Any suggestions?

Awesome review! You looked absolutely beautiful!!! I'm so excited to see pro pics!

Thank you so much for this review and all of the pictures!!! I am set for October 10th and all of your tips are sure to be useful!!! You are an absolutely stunning bride - and the fuschia was amazing, I'm almost regretting going with green!

Quote: Originally Posted by cubsfan I think that you will be fine w/o the cocktail hour. I have read many posts on here and people say they can just go to any bar and have cocktails, the only thing they would miss out on is appetizers and if u want to just save money, I would do it this way. I am skipping cocktail hour as well. During this time, you and your party will be taking pictures as well. Thank you soooo much for this suggestion! I'm going down in five weeks and we just had some last minute adds to our guest list, and this is an awesome idea to save some money. I had no idea how we were going to accommodate the late additions!

So...my Travel Agent called and said that as of right now, Gaby is still at Dreams...in her e-mail to me she said that this coming Monday was her last day...but so far no one else seems to have heard this but me. Does anyone else know what's going on?

Hey girls, I'm never here...but I just got this from Gaby after I tried to check in with her about some things and wanted to let everyone know: Unfortunately I’m not going to be longer with the company they think that I’m not good here so this Monday you are going got have another wedding planner I’m not going to be working here anymore L It was a pleasure to work with you J Gabriela de Freitas So...of course...I panicked and sent an e-mail to Claudia and got this in response: Dear Jessica: Your wedding is scheduled with us on the date you asked Gaby, next week you will be informed who will be your wedding coordinator Thank you Claudia Cantillo.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kat81 Also when the tile stuff gets wet that the walkways are made of they get a bit slippery. I thought my DH was going to eat crap a few times ha ha ha. But there are ramps everywhere that there are stairs. Haha, as long as my FI doesn't fall down BEFORE the wedding. There will be no casts in my pictures!!!

Hi everyone!!! Kat, your photos are beautiful!!! I have a few questions, I've read MOST of the forum and I don't know if these have come up...sorry if they are repeats!! -Did anyone need a handicapped room? One of my guests has a really difficult time getting around, and we were thinking of booking a handicapped room...I've been waiting FOREVER for Dreams to get me a picture of what they look like. (On that same note, how difficult would it be for a person with difficulty walking to get around Dreams?) -We're trying to do a live webcam feed for people who aren't able to make it. Dreams says that they'll have it up and running by April of '09...but has anyone else been able to pull it off? How did you do it? -A few travel websites that I've read about have said that Dreams sometimes overbooks and people get kicked out and moved to other hotels. Did that happen to anyone? -With guest passes...I know Kat said that she didn't need them, but did anyone else manage to get them for free or at a lower rate? My travel agent said that they've done it before, but I didn't know how cheap they would be willing to go! Sorry so many questions!!! It's still a whole year away and I'm already bouncing off the walls waiting for it to come!

So...we are thinking about doing a site visit. Has anyone else thought about this? There are just so many options and questions...I don't know how confident I am about making all these decisions without seeing everything!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mrs McGuire 2B!! hey everyone! im getting married on the 13th july 2009!its all finalised now thank god!just hope everything runs smoothly and dnt get too stressed!lol good luck to you all and congrats!! kelly Hooray!!! Congratulations Kelly!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by PhillyBride09 Soooo....I am not having any luck so far with this DW thing!! Sunday will be TWO weeks since I sent my first email to them just to set my date!....Then this past Monday, I sent them e-mails directly from the addresses I got off the Web Site.... I know everyone on here told me it may take a little while, but I dont understand how hard it is just to set my date!! I don't need them to do anything else until it gets closer to the wedding...My Travel agent (my new one...not the one that filled the same online request form that I did and i still haven't heard from him!!) Anyway, my TA will take care of the travel and things like that (Obviously), but I can't even get prices until I set a date. My family & friends want to come, but they also need to know how much money they are gonna need for this and it's less then a year away (hopefully) I'm sounding like a broken record, but it's very discouraging :-( I'm so excited for this and it's like I'm stuck one spot! I know you girls have probably been there done that..LOL so thanks for letting me vent :-) I went the whole calling card route, but I had a really hard time getting a hold of people at the hotel. I was COMPLETELY frustrated, but then my travel agent took over and my date was set the next day, and Gaby has been e-mailing me regularly ever since. I have no idea what she did, but maybe you can ask your travel agent to try making some calls for you.

Yeah...I don't know it's just the language barrier or if she really is beating around the bush. She seems to get back to my e-mails quickly, but she rarely answers my questions fully. Is anyone having better luck with Claudia or another WC?