DWandMJ

Congratulations and welcome to the forum! This place is a plethora or info... good luck!

Welcome to the forum! You will find so much information throughout the forum that will help you decide which resort in the RM is the best fit for you and your guests. I definately recommend scoping out the Wedding Review section for pictures and experiences of real couples. There have also been incredibly generous folks that have gone on scouting trips and provided their reviews on a number of resorts/destinations. Good luck with your planning!

Welcome to the forum and congratulations! You're bound to find some amazing ideas here!!

I think it depends on if you're using a resort or a specific package through the resort. For us, we need to get legally married prior to going in order to qualify for the 'honeymoon' portion of our free wedding package. We too plan on doing a streamlined legal ceremony sans the ring exchange or vows. I, personally, will be approaching it for just what it is, the signing of a legal contract.

I love the contrast of the second one!

Ahh! I had to let out a squeal at that quote! I love it! I don't know that I have any pics of my step father and I. I may have to steal it to coincide with maybe a photo of the two of us walking down the aisle Sweet! Sorry for being a clepto, but thanks a million!

Alright ladies, where do you all stand on the to-do list? I know that are some pretty imparative items left undone, but oddly I'm not super stressed yet... and we depart on March 29th. Here's whats at the top of my outstanding (don't even get me started on whats been accomplished for the AHR): Grooms attire Outfit for Bridal shower 2/28 Outfit for Bachelorette Party 3/14 Dress for Legal Ceremony 3/19 Petti Coat Something Borrowed Bracelet Six Pence Finish OOT Bags Dress Fitting and Sash to be made Parents' gifts and my wedding ring was just ordered

Okay, so I'm flustered about this whole parents' gifts concept. Ive figured out that I want to get my mother a swarovski crystal figurine as a Thank You/Parent's Gift (she spent about four hours hand making my veil plus she's doing my dress alterations, attending the wedding and helping out financially), but I'm stuck on the other parents! My step-dad will be walking me down the aisle and I would like to give him a keepsake that won't just end up in a drawer. I don't have a close relationship with my bio-father, although as a wedding gift he paid for FI's airfare to Cancun and although he wont make the wedding, he'll probably make an appearance at the AHR. And FI's parents will not be attending the wedding, however have offered their help for the AHR. FI is all about saving money and doesn't see the point of giving parents a gift, so I want to find a sweet keepsake for them. Any suggestions? Would having a photobook printed for FI's parents be adequate? Or a photo in a nice picture frame? OR should we go the traditional route with hankerchiefs/cigars? Please help!

You girls are awesome! There are a few websites I didn't think to look at and I'll keep my eyes peeled on my subsequent trips to Reno. Thanks for the assurance!

Quote: Originally Posted by nibsmom My group rate is above 300 too - I think my single rate is around 330. My double rate is around 368...I think? This is without looking...I'll have to double check and get back to edit this if I'm wrong!! Also, for TTD - we hired Claudia Rodriguez and we are going off the resort to do ours - we actually are waiting until the next week to do ours when we'll be on our honeymoon at a different resort. Now I feel like we're getting the shaft. We booked directly through the resort and it was a little over $3,000 for 7 nights.... and that was with an early booking discount that shaved off $30 a night! We're paying $438/night for a double. I can accept that part of that is due to it falling within 'prime' season, but holy hell!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mrs D To Be! hey all, i know everyone keeps saying about moon palace's strict no outside vendor policy, but past brides have got around it by purchasing a guest pass for the photographer....meaning they can shoot the wedding! Thats what we plan on doing. If your photographer is licensed to do business in Mexico, they can't come on grounds via a day pass. Or at least thats what Claudia at the MP informed us of when we were considering it. The loop hole in the case of a Mexican photographer is to pay for a full nights stay and have them there as your "guest".

We've finally scheduled our legal ceremony on March 19th and I'm desperate to find a cute white sundress that can hopefully serve double-duty for our AHR. But where do you find such an item in February? Shouldn't the next season's fashions (aka Spring) be out in stores by now?

Wahoo! I FINALLY booked our legal ceremony... 4 weeks and six days from today! I've gotta find a white sundress....

We scheduled our legal ceremony today! March 19th, exactly two weeks prior to our actual wedding day! I'm so excited!!

Quote: Originally Posted by drtracy Question for those of you that did a TTD session. Do you have to use a MP vendor for something like this or can you bring an outside vendor in (without making them a guest, just getting a daypass) since it won't happen as a part of the actual wedding. If you did use resort photographers how did it go? I'm still on the fence about doing a TTD but the more pictures I see the more I love it! Thanks Due to the MP's policies and our limited budget, we will be using the resort photog (David Pena) for the wedding day festivities and our TTD session with Cecilia Dumas at a beach closer to downtown early in the morning. I don't think/know if the resort's photographers have ever shot any TTDs and I would rather have someone that has the experience with it. Cecilia's prices are reasonable. From my contact with her, she is very sweet and does beautiful work.

Do we have the same relatives? I, personally, would keep the wedding on the DL and really only provide details to people that are invited. For the pondering minds that assume they're on the guest list, I would tactfully let them know that you plan to have a private/intimate ceremony because it is so personal to you and that you would love to celebrate with everyone upon your return home. I would avoid disclosing who is and who is not invited because it could hurt uncle bob's feelings that your best friend from childhood is invited to the nuptuals and he's not.

Anyone that asked what I wanted for Christmas I actually referred to the registries (too bad you just can't have a permanent one for year round events . Haha... Shower invitations just went out and I randomly just checked my Macys registry and a purchase has been made... yea!

Welcome back Laura and congratulations!!!! You just know that we're all salivating for the photos! Give 'em up!

We've decided to do an arras ceremony in lieu of a unity candle or sand ceremony, however I'm having trouble finding an actual script for it. As our minister is non-denominational and we are not catholic, we must provide the script for the minister. All I can seem to find is the background and what the ceremony means... including on the forum. And no luck with google . If anyone did this during their own wedding, would you have a copy of the wording used? Please help!

I too have a confession.... Absolutely no one from FI's family will be attending our wedding... the reason given is money. Which is perfectly reasonable, but from his parents its a complete lie! In the first place, they make more than we do and from what I've been told, FIs step dad has over a million frequent flyer miles. We showed them alternative hotels to stay at running $90/night and suggested only staying three days as opposed to seven. FI so desperately wanted to accomodate them, and heavily considered taking up their suggestion that we just get married at one of the cheap chapels in Reno. Luckily he dropped the idea and now he's just irritated because he's come to the conclusion that they're actually just boycotting the event. Not the marriage, the event. God forbid they can shell out thousands of dollars to help his other two siblings because they can't be responsible adults and take care of themselves/maintain a consistant job/ entirely get any kind of priorities in order / stay off welfare. But they can't "afford" to attend their oldest son's wedding for less than $500? Give me a f*cking break! Ok, that was more of a rant... but I had to get it off my chest. So thank you!

Quote: Originally Posted by Andi My shower invites are going out tomorrow! I am a bit behind on them...we just decided last week that my shower will be Feb. 21st! I have a friend coming into town that weekend and it will be the last time she is able to come to town before the wedding...so we decided to have it then...also because she will be in town we will probably end up having my bachelorette party the same night! I am with you there! We actually have done NOTHING for the AHR...don't even have a tentative date yet! oops! I am thinking though that it probably won't be until June or July and it will be a simple BBQ in the park or something like that. I honestly don't even really care to have an AHR but my parents and relatives who are not going to Mexico are nagging us! I third that. We've got a couple of miscellaneous things to take care of before the wedding, and almost nothing is done for the AHR. I've still gotta find a venue, which means we haven't set a date either. We were going to do it at FI's parents house, however once the guest list was made, we realized their house couldn't accomodate that many people. So we've gotta find some place cheap, preferrably with mature trees and a lawn. My sister is planning the bridal shower for February 28th and the Bach party for March 14th. She picked up the invitations this last weekend which will go out in the next week or so.

Today is our RSVP deadline and currently 50% of our guest list hasn't so much as responded. Those that we knew were going to attend booked in October when we did (a whole 9 people including 3 children)... Sadly its only my side. With the exception of one or two people, its pretty safe to say that they aren't going to attend. It boggles my mind how some of the girls on here have 30+ guests attending.

Congratulations and welcome to the forum! You will find out quickly what a tremendous resource you've come across! There are so many threads devoted to each resort, experiences, reasons why people chose where they did, etc... Good luck with your planning!

Welcome aboard and happy planning!

Welcome aboard fellow bride-to-be! Happy planning!