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Congrats on your wedding day yay! I had Mariana back in the fall of 2010 and hands down she is the best. She is a serious pro so nothing to worry about.

Wore this dress for my wedding in the fall of 2010 (for 4 hours) and loved it, but am ready to part with it. It is Platinum by Priscilla of Boston Size 8, only alteration was to sew cups in. Paid $3000. Would make a great reception dress, or perfect for an outside destination wedding! I have actual photos of me wearing it, so you can judge the sizing better if interested.

Posting this for my best friend...she purchased this dress and after it was ordered and not returnable, she changed her mind based on her wedding theme. It is the Pronovias Fauna Spring 2012 Wedding Dress, Ivory, roman organza size 2, hasn't been altered or worn. Retailed for $1300 plus tax. Asking $1100 but willing to negotiate.

I had custom pocketfolds invites made and they cost an effing fortune. Seriously it was like $1600 for 60 invites or something like that. They were really nice though, letterpress and multi colored. I don't recommend spending a ton on invites though that's my biggest regret. Because like 25% of the people actually used the RSVP card and pretty sure people don't pay too much attention to them.

I brought them. And then I brought them home. And I am going to sell them because I don't need 50 of them obviously in my life now.

Tiffany not Tifanny. Eeeks no edit button.

I got my bm's tifanny bead bracelets. The silver ones. they seemed to LOVE them. They wore them for the rehearsal dinner but not for the wedding. I've seen them wear them a ton since then so I feel I chose wisely.

I don't think there is a specific rule as to how much you should spend, that would be weird. But it's just about what you are comfortable with.

Here is what I could find for the chairs we had. I used the same ones for the ceremony and they just moved them over. The lighting is weird there it was a weird time of day so they look like a funny color but they are goldish. I saw silver when I was there too and that looked really nice as well.

Same thing from me. You don't really need to do a site visit. We did one but it was not a planned thing we just ended up making a last minute trip to Cabo last March. I can post a few photos from my setup I had gold chivari chairs. Let me see if I have any photos right now...

I paid for my BM's dresses and ordered them and shipped them to them. They needed slight alterations so they paid for them. Originally I told them to just pick any dress in a certain color but they were struggling with it so I just went ahead and sent them!

We just had the basic package. It was free. (we made a deposit though which got applied to our total wedding bill at the end). The services of the minister were included in that package which was good.

I was just married at Dreams Cabo on October 10th... but I arranged the vendors I was using myself/with help from mariana so didn't use the package really. I think they have some preferred vendors that they use. The cake I believe they do in house, we had an external vendor but then after the wedding I wanted the leftover cake to be sent to our room but they way it was cut it sort of didn't work so they felt bad and sent us a whole new cake which is one of the flavours Dreams offers I believe. It was ok but to be honest I much much preferred the one we had for our wedding. You can just ask them what vendors they use and then do some research on the forum to see what people have to say. I think, but I'm not 100% that the flower vendor I used, is who Dreams uses and if that's the case, 100% recommend. I haven't heard great things about the salon services and I went elsewhere and I was really really happy. They would have a photographer that they always use but I'm not 100% sure who it is, we flew someone in so I never inquired. Definitely someone on here has probably used them though. My advice would be to send a quick follow up email to your WC, ask her to confirm receipt of your payment, and then just ask for a list of the vendors that they use for your package so you can start researching! When you are over a year out it seems to take about a week or so to hear back but trust me, even if you planned all of this like 3 weeks before, they do one seriously AMAZING job there and you are in good hands!! Not one single thing went wrong with my wedding, everything was exactly how I had hoped and they have weddings almost daily so they know what they are doing. I worried about stuff throughout the process and it was all for nothing. Hope this helps a bit! Feel free to PM me with any questions!

I was in PV about 4 years ago so not super super recent but from what I remember Dreams PV is nowhere near the marina. We stayed at the Westin which was walking distance to the marina and I recall walking to restaurants at the marina. I can't recall what other resorts were nearby but I think they were building some when we were there so perhaps try googling resorts near the marina and that might be a good place to start!

I got married this month and here is what I used. (Non traditional stuff) We used a guitar/accoustic type theme to keep it consistent: Bridesmaid processional - Joshua Radin, A Friend Like You Song for the bride - Luluc, I Found You Signing the fake certificate thing - Jose Gonzalez, Heartbeats (only played for 30 seconds) Recessional - Hall n Oats, You Make My Dreams Come True For our cocktail reception we used spanish guitar type stuff First dance - Finley Quaye, Your Love Gets Sweeter Everyday (we slowed it down using some software so it was a lot slower and easier to dance to) I honestly cannot remember what song my father and I danced to, he chose it and it was a surprise for me. I was just overwhelmed and slightly drunk at the time so I wasn't 100% focused but for some reason I think someone said it was from a cinderella movie. Not 100% I'm not sure if we had a song for cake cutting. I'm going to go with no but it was quick it took like 20 seconds. I can post our dancing playlist this weekend. Music is such a personal thing though but anyway that's what we used!

We just got back from Cabo a week ago and paid for everything in USD. All the prices for things were still in USD, the only place they recommended you use pesos is at the airport. We paid for taxi's in USD, tips, all of our wedding stuff, anything off the resort we were always given the USD price. We were prepared to get pesos from the ATM but it wasn't necessary.

I went with the Dreams basic package so a photographer was not included. We flew one from Houston and I am extremely happy we did. But that's because photography was fairly important to us and we spent a long time researching them. Yes we might only need a few good photos but we want to have a photobook to keep forever and to remember the day and wanted to have a certain style. I'm not sure which photographer Dreams uses. We used an Ipod and I am also happy we did this. We had control over what was played when, we made the playlists and could just let it play, or sometimes guests would request a song so we could set it up to play next. I felt like we had control over what was played and all of our guests said they loved the music and requested we send them the playlists. So it's a personal choice and it depends on what you are comfortable with, but that's what we went with and why. (Our wedding was 2 weeks ago)

I am not changing my name and never really planned to. I considered it for a tiny second, but professionally it would not make sense and I don't want to go by one name at work and one name for everything else so just easier not to change it.

I like where your head's at. Pink Kitty and Mandela are def fun...if you want to start during the day, as you should you can hit Nikki Beach. We went there during spring break and it was one serious partay. Squid Roe is def a younger crowd, maybe it was because it was spring break when we were there but everyone was like 16.

Deena and her cakes are amazing. We used her for our wedding 2 weeks ago and everyone loved the cake and it looked pretty too!

Cindy, anything you want to know about Dreams Cabo let me know!! I'm so excited for you!