jaychristensen

They haven't been officially spoken for but I'm checking on shipping charges for someone. Would you like me to do the same for you? If so please send me your address in a private message. Thanks!

I have a couple things left to sell from our wedding including 12 round bamboo chargers - $6 each (paid $10) +buyer would be responsible for shipping costs. I also have a size medium "Just Married" flip flops that leave the imprints in the sand.

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The beach reception was AMAZING!!! It was quite windy all day including during the ceremony. I don't know what happened but when Cory and I walked down the stairs to the reception it was so calm and beautiful!!!! It didn't get cold really at all. I had pashmina's for all the female guests and I think I only saw my niece with hers on. We loved it and all of our guests thought it was the best thing ever to have a great dinner and dance on the beach!!!!!

We just got our slideshow from Robin DePaula.....and think it's terrific!!!

Jocelyn & Cory

We just got back from our wedding and honeymoon. We spent 4 nights at CSA and we thought it was really great and would go back!! The beach is large and beautiful white sand. There are two pools, both are quite small, one with a swim up bar. The food is great....the buffets to the gourmet restaurant Feathers. The sports complex across the road is really fantastic. They have a really nice spa, gym, a few tennis courts, squash courts, raquet ball courts, a bar that makes really good smoothies, which of course we didn't discover until our last day there! There is a night club there which had a piano and I think they have duelling piano's every night. We didn't actually go, but it looked cool. We had just spent a week with 47 people so we were only there to relax and quiet time, but we really enjoyed it and would go back. We had a beachfront verandah suite which was really awesome, however the bathroom was quite outdated. All in all I'd recommend it!!!!

Thanks for all your help and well wishes! Can't believe it's actually here! I guess I'll see how it does on the plane and take it from there.

TwelvePiece: Hope you have a very wonderful wedding! We transfer to Negril on the 12th but maybe I'll be able to see your wedding before we leave (3:00)

I'll be sure to write a review with pictures in a couple weeks when we return!

That is great!!!! Thank you! I wanted some reassurance...I've had thoughts that if I get it steamed and they take it offsite I might not get it back, or there would be a big burn mark in it or something...a little bit paranoid. ha ha ha

Did any ROR brides get their wedding dresses steamed or pressed at the ROR? We leave tomorrow morning and I'm just wondering if anyone has good or bad stories about this? Thanks!

YAYYYY! I got mine today and they are so pretty!!!!!! More to pack!!! ha ah ha Thanks again for all of your help!!!!!!!

Interesting...I guess they don't have set rules. I did receive a response back from Chandlyn and she said we have to pay the dj cash.

I thought I read somewhere that if you hire the dj at the ROR he only accepts cash? does anyone know if this is true? or can we just add it in to our payment to Chandlyn? Please help! I really should have worked out these details earlier! hee hee

Great!!! Thank you so much!!! Our poor visa...ha ha ha!

I probably should have thought about this before, but doesn anyone know how we can pay for wedding costs at RIU Ocho Rios? VISA, traveller's cheques, cash? We'd rather not incur a 5% surcharge, but also don't want to travel with thousands of dollars cash? Please help...we leave next Saturday...yikes!

I just thought I would share the email I just got from the wedding sales coordiator at RIU, which was cc'd to Chandlyn. I felt a huge relief that we should not run into complications on the wedding day.

Dear Jocelyn,

Thank you for contacting RIU Weddings Sales Department.

I would like to confirm that if your friend will be part of your wedding guests, there will be no problem if he takes your wedding pictures. There will be no problems with Michael or fee if you don't use the photographer of our Hotel.

I am "cc" to Ms. Chandlyn Edwards, our On Site Wedding Coordinator in Ocho Rios, so she can be informed about this matter. If you shall require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Warm Regards,

Valeria Munguia

Weddings Sales Coordinator

Ocho Rios & Negril, Jamaica

Weddings By Riu

America's Division

Email: [email protected]

**In order to have a wedding at our RIU Hotels & Resorts, the couple and the 80 percent of the total amount of the wedding guests must stay at the hotel where the wedding will be performed. This is a strict Riu policy we must follow.

It is $50 per person and that includes the open bar. Yes, you can eat and dance on the beach or by the pool. I can let you know how it goes after April 19th:-)

Yes, the beach and pool options are the exact same. I will take lots of pictures, but I am not so good at posting them:-) We are counting down the days now!!!! Yayy!

We are having a beach reception from 6:30 - 10:30 (hopefully more like 11ish). It is $50 per person and includes open bar, set up and 3 different menus and tiki torches. The dinner is buffet and would cost extra to be served. We went back and forth between the pool and beach but figured the beach because when is the next chance we'll be able to dance in the sand? :-) Everyone is excited about it. We are using tiki torches provided by Chandlyn and also have 100 luminaries to set out.

Hi Trisha and Carly...thank you girls for all the effort you are putting into this issue! I know it must be a huge headache!

I have 10 fushia, 10 ivory and 5 light green on order. I assume that only the 10 ivory are in so if I could get those shipped that would be great! Please let me know how much I will owe for shipping.

Thanks again for all of your efforts!!

I know...our photographer is paid in full as well and it would be very upsetting if she wasn't allowed to work. I don't know what to do. I'm thinking that I won't be able to do anything from here but will be talking to Michael as soon as we get there. We are also thinking that it's not right we have to pay him off, but if we do for peace of mind on the wedding day, then that's what we do. Just have to hope for the best I guess!

I have heard back from Chandlyn regarding using an outside photographer...it doesn't really help much at all. I am really concerned now because I am using Robin DePaula who will be photographing Heidi's wedding the week before....so it may be obvious that she is not just a "guest". Yikes!

Hi Jocelyn & Cory

This will need to be clarified directly with Michael at the Photoshop to hear his views on this situation.

Regards

Chandlyn

Jocelyn Christensen wrote:

Hello Chandlyn,

We have a friend staying with us while we are the RIU Ocho Rios for our wedding and she will be taking the pictures at the wedding. We are going with the free wedding package where there are no photographs included therefore we should not be obligated to use or pay your onsite photographer, Michael. Can you please confirm that we will have no issues with our friend being there and taking our wedding pictures? He has threatened to have people removed if a photographer is “spotted†and if our photographer is a paying guest I don’t think he should be saying that.

We also don’t feel it’s right for Michael to be charging a breech of contract fee if we have someone else photographing our wedding as we don’t have a contract with him. Maybe the hotel does, but we don’t.

I would greatly appreciate your attention to this matter as I’d like to get this sorted before we get down to Jamaica and especially before the wedding so we have no problems that day.

Please confirm the following:

1. our photographer friend will have no issues photographing our wedding or at any point during our trip

2. we will not have to pay any fees for not using Michael

If these two things are fine we will hire Michael to do the wedding video.

Thank you so much for looking into this! I really appreciate your help!

Jocelyn Christensen and Cory Thornton

Thanks so much for the information Christene!

My FI is an avid golfer and would like to get out with some of our guests for a round in Jamaica. Does anyone know what courses are close to the RIU Ocho Rios and any costs? Thanks!!!

Congratulations on your wedding! Thanks for the very great review! I just wanted to let you know that I couldn't see the pictures under your other post.

We are having our dinner on the beach and Chandlyn has said that she can arrange tiki torches. However, she did not say there was an extra cost and I assumed it would be included in the price we are paying. I don't think there will be an extra cost for them...but I am going to double check now.