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Happy birthday Mel! I hope you have a fantastic day!

Jenn I love the first one, but I also love the very last one, lol! Decisions, decisions.... You look very pretty in all of them, but I think the suggestion that someone made about going to a few other stores is a good one, because maybe if you can't decide you haven't quite found "the one"

I didn't know it was still going, damn, I need to get to a store tomorrow!

Quote: Originally Posted by pryzeless I just hope when people are doing their reseach they look at all the information but not just the "sticky"s. Every other week there is a new resort being complained about regarding a new outside vender policy or new fees those resorts are charging. Perhaps there should be a sticky of all those resorts or a call to boycott them. This is just my opinion and I am clearly biased but it really should be changed. I loved EDR and I hope people will look at ALL the happy brides who got married there. Quote: Originally Posted by Rhonda Pryzeless, Thanks for posting this...I'm getting married in May at EDR despite what is written in this thread. I am SO happy with my decision because my wedding coordinator is great and I know so many other brides have been happy there. Plus, I've visited the resort before and it is gorgeous...I can't wait! I think you are right a lot of other resorts have similar issues. The reason this thread was started was to get EDR to work with brides to change the policies. And because of it, the policies were changed. It's really not such a bad thing that this thread was started.

Quote: Originally Posted by smashingbp311 Today I received my deposit confirmation from Jacy, and I had asked her when we could go over some wedding details. Considering I have 4 months to go, I figured she would have something constructive to say. Her reply was simply 'Regarding your wedding plans as soon as you have final decisions please let me know.' Final decisions? We haven't discussed anything! All I know for sure is that I am getting the Ultimate wedding package. *sigh* I'm at a loss. What have you discussed with her in those regards? Just so you don't feel so frustrated, most of your decisions can be made or changed once you get to mexico. You will sit down and meet with the WC and she'll go through everything. Believe me, I know it can be SO frustrating, I was in your shoes not that long ago! But they really do know what they're doing and your wedding will turn out beautifully. One suggestion I would make for all of you, as I do with my brides, put together a bulleted list of everything concerning your wedding day. Times, flowers, locations, food, decorations, etc.... everything you can think of and email the finalized list to either the wedding coordinator, or your travel agent if they are helping you with your wedding. I wouldn't send the list until you are close to positive on all of your decisions. And then either the WC can get back to you with questions, or get back in touch with your travel agent. I think this usually works best because sometimes so many emails get sent back and forth saying, I want pink flowers, no make that yellow, I don't want a bouquet, etc.... (you get my point) I think it makes it much easier for them to have one document with all of your final decisions and then when you arrive you can re-confirm or make changes, and you'll be off and running. Hope this helps.

You can buy them at walmart and staples as well. I bought mine at walmart, but they didn't come with the loops (they're actually called badge holders) and I just used ribbon in my wedding colors to make the loops. I printed on card stock and stuck them in the holders.

Welcome to the forum, good luck with your planning!

Welcome to the forum! There is a lot of information on the forum about photographers and also a lot of photographer members, you'll be able to find tons of information!

Welcome back Mishi!

Welcome! Good luck with your plans!

Congratulations on your engagement and welcome to the forum!

Quote: Originally Posted by SIMBASIM I have the photographer scheduled for 3 hours starting at 4pm and the videographer for 4 hours starting at 4pm. Also I emailed Claudia last week about moving my ceremony to 5pm but no response (imagine that) guess I am not as "lucky" as some people (Adrienne) LOL!!! :0) Jen if you don't hear back from her let me know and I will get a hold of her for you Quote: Originally Posted by Michelle&Steve aaaah!!! im leaving in 6 days and still havent heard back from claudia!! :-( i thought shes supposed to get back to you quickly when its right before your wedding.. sooo frustrating.. do you guys know whats the best form of payment for all the wedding bills there? check? check card? travelors checks? we paid with travelers checks, only because our bank card has a daily limit, so I didn't want to rely on that. But beware if you are paying with travelers checks and you use your debit card as your credit card on file with the resort, they tried to put a hold on the total amount due for our wedding when we arrived (which wouldn't work because of the limit, so I was able to stop them) I let them know I would be paying for the wedding with travelers checks and that I didn't want them to put a hold on a lot of money in my bank account because then we couldn't use any of our money.

Welcome to the forum and Good luck with your planning!

This is a great idea!! The only problem is I'm not sure if I can burn DVD's on my computer. I only have one disc drive, so I'm assuming I can't, but maybe someone that's done it before can tell me if there's a way to do it. I have: Cindy Crawford - the next challenge Turbo jam - 5 workouts including learn & burn, 20 minute workout, turbo sculpt, cardio party, ab jam The firm - fat blasting cardio, complete body sculpting, total muscle shaping, hips thighs and abs, express cardio (this set is 5 dvd's) Amy Bento - HI/LO extreme I have this beachbody sampler, that I've never even opened, it was a free gift, but if anyone's interested in it, it has 15 minutes of hip hop abs, 10 minutes of power 90, 10 minutes of Fast 10, 10 minutes of yoga booty ballet, and 6 minutes of slim series express I also have all of the P90X dvd's

The promotion is all of the dreams and secrets resorts, but the conditions are different at each resort. For instance,with the promotion at dreams cancun guests have to travel before May 1st. Some of the resorts you have to travel before the end of june, some the beginning of April.

Quote: Originally Posted by sunitam thanks jill, your awesome. I have finally finished my contract with Gaby and am giving the deposit this weekend For all brides in the planning phase, I have lots of current information if you need it. I have pictures of the garden, ballroom, club tower and lobby. I have pics of cakes and bouqets and decorations. I have the new dinner menus and appetizers. and i have the list of prices for all the extra stuff. Please let me know if I can send you anything thanks everyone for all your advice and help love sunita sunita, once I post all the dreams cancun stuff in one place, maybe you could post the files you have there, or email to me and I will, whichever is easiest. I think I have most of the current files, but you may have some additional ones that Claudia didn't send to me. I will let you know once I post it.

I just joined online last week and I agree that not much has changed. Supposedly the "filling foods" that they talk about are similar to the core program. Yeah, about the activity points, I put in the step class I did yesterday and it gave me 12 extra points! Umm, that's great and all, but I'm trying to lose weight not gain it, I don't need that many extra points! I thought it was going to give me like 2 extra points. If I did step 5 days a week I'd end up with 60 extra points a week! Does that not sound odd to anyone?

Quote: Originally Posted by JC0721 Hi everybody! I'm in Michigan (brrrrrr). Date is not set but we are looking at 2010. We are looking at Mexico primarily. I have gathered quite a bit of info on this site so far - but I'm assuming it's the same for everyone in the U.S., that the only ceremony in Mexico recognized as legal would be the civil one? (We are Catholic and would like to have a Catholic ceremony) My understanding is we'd have to do both a civil and Catholic one? Thanks for any input! Yes, you are correct, you would have to do both for it to be a legal mexican wedding. Good luck with your planning!

Hi Sunita, It may be that the none of those rooms are available for the dates you are looking, especially if you're looking on sites like orbitz or travelocity, a lot of times they don't have as many rooms available and may only have one specific type of room. I'll send you a pm with some prices

Hi Ladies! Just wanted to let you know that I started an overview thread for secrets maroma and another one for secrets silversands. I will continue to update both of them with pictures, reviews, and information as I get them, but please feel free to add any information that you think may be helpful for others to the thread as well. here they are: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t34406 http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t34402 I think it will nice for all of you to have just information in one thread, so that you don't have to scroll through thousands of pages to find what you're looking for. I hope it helps!

Hey Ladies! Just wanted to let you know that I started a new thread with sort of an overview of Dreams PA. you can find it here: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t34386 If anyone has other information that they think will be helpful for brides I'd love for you to post it over there. And I will continue to update it as well with pictures, information, reviews, etc... I hope it's helpful for some of you!

The honeymoon package included in the wedding package is this one: DREAMS HONEYMOON & ANNIVERSARY PACKAGE This complimentary package includes: Welcome letter Plate of tropical fruit One bottle of champagne Champagne breakfast in bed (Reservations must be made in advance with guest service) Special turn down service Also, I wanted to let you ladies know that I've been working hard to put together an overview of the resorts I'm working with along with pictures and all of the files (bouquets, cakes, etc...) that go along with each resort. I've saved dreams cancun for last because we already have so much information here, but once I have a chance to finish it up and post it, I'll let you all know. Hopefully it will be helpful for all of you and future brides to have everything all together in one thread, without 2000 posts to go through to find what you're looking for.

Congratulations & welcome to the forum! Good luck with your planning!

Sometimes it helps to make a list of what you're looking for: adults only or allows children? Small to midsize or mega resort? Is the beach important? How much you want to spend and want your family to spend? etc.... Sometimes that will help you to narrow it down and people can make suggestions. Or tell us why you chose the ones you did so far.

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your planning!