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Quote: Originally Posted by dbellie1414 OOOhhh, I still have a ton of info. from a bunch of wc at different resorts if you aren't sure on the Iberostar chain and a ton of informaiton on the iberostar chain too. I can send you what I got if you are interested - shoot me your email? What helped us decide is making a list of wedding 'must haves' and resort 'must haves' than we went from there... We choose the Iberostar chian because our group can stay at any of the 5 hotels and still come to the wedding (our family doesn't all get along - so just one hotel containing all our family might make for a pretty big catastrophe!) Thanks so much for your advice. I do agree with you that if the TA is making a killing, they should definitely work for it. I wouldn't mind talking to the WC's myself but since I'm having a hard time, I'd rather get a TA like yours who would talk to the WC on you behalf. I like the sounds of that...I do think that WC's response better and quicker to TA's. I would really appreciate it if you could send me info on Iberostar resorts. My email add is [email protected]. BTW, do you know if any of the Iberostar resort offers a garden wedding? HUGS JO

Quote: Originally Posted by paraisobeachbride2009 Hey there! My TA told me to do the same thing, which agency are you using? I have been corresponding with the wc (Gabriela at Iberostar Paraiso Del Mar/Beach) and she always responds within 48 hrs. Let me know if I can help you out with anything! My TA is Alisha from Flight Centre, North Hill Centre, Calgary. I'm contemplating finding a TA that would do the communication with the WC on my behalf. How did it work for you: communicating with the WC an TA yourself? Would you be able to give me Gabriela's email add? I'm having a hard time finding WC's email add. Thanks so much!

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbride08 Now that we have our pictures I wanted to write a quick review about our photographer Citlalli Rico. We hired her through Claudia Photo. I would highly recommend her as Mike and I are so happy with our pictures, and we had a great time working with her. She photographed our Friday wedding at the Iberostar Lindo with an assistant, and we scheduled our 2 hour TTD session for the Monday after at the Iberostar Grand (we switched hotels after the wedding for honeymoon). We had to pay a $50 guest pass for her and her assistant for the wedding day and $150 guest pass for them to come to the Grand. I'm not sure why there was such a difference in the guest pass prices, and we didn't find out until the day of the TTD so we just went with it. We had to pay the resort photoshop $300 for hiring an outside photographer for the wedding, but we only had to pay that once. The guest passes were charged to our room, and we paid the photoshop with travelers checks. I had sent Claudia a list of some of our must have pictures and some other shots that I liked from other weddings. I also gave her a list of all our guest names with pictures ahead of time to help know who everyone was. Citlalli was calling people by their names on the wedding day so it must have helped! She has the patience of a saint because Mike's nephew doesn't listen and apparently doesn't cooperate very well for pictures. She still managed to get some cute pictures with him even though I know it had to be really frustrating. Mike was aggravated with him and had to hold his arms down at one point so I can only imagine what she was thinking. Ha ha! Citlalli had some great ideas and went along with other pictures that we wanted. The colors of the pictures are amazing! We got a photo album filled with color and black and white 4x6 prints, a bunch of 8x10 and 5x7 prints of color and black and white, and all our digital negatives on 4 CDs. Here is the link to our pics if you want to check them out: Shutterfly | View share Your photos are incredible!! Thanks for sharing!

Quote: Originally Posted by luckyj711 I just emailed off the pictures of the bouquets. I also have pictures of the resort (my destinationweddings.com coordinator was just down there and sent me a ton of pictures). I also have pictures of the restaurants at del mar as well. Hi, I'm quite new to this forum and I'm still at the stage of researching for a resort. I am getting a little overwhelmed now with all the info. Anyway, from reading this thread, it seems to me that a few of the brides' TA communicated with the WC and get pictures for their client. I'm from Calgary, Canada and my TA had requested that I contacted the WC for all the resorts that I'm looking into and get info directly from the WC myself. So, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong..Any comments? JO

Thanks for sharing the awesome planning detail.

Hi all, My fiance and I have finally decided on getting married in Mayan Rivera after some time researching other countries. We're now in the midst of choosing a resort out of the many resorts in the area. We would like to get married in a garden setting as appose to the beach. Nice to meet you all. JO

Hi Meaghan, I'm also reasearching resort in Mayan Rivera for Nov 2009. Good Luck to you! Jo