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Hi!

I just wanted to say that Yoselina and Magalis are both really great!

We got married at IBPC last year in August and while I've had major computer issues, now that they have been resolved, I really need to post a review.

I was so frustrated because I thought they were slow via e-mail, too! But they were so awesome during our entire trip!

First we started with a hurricane that didn't let us land in the DR until after sunset and meant we didn't get to our hotel until close to 11PM on the night before our wedding! BOTH Magalis AND Yoselina stayed until after midnight to sit with us and get everything set up for us. I honestly couldn't be happier with them!

We ended up moving our rehearsal from the day of arrival to the morning of the wedding and I changed my flower order the morning of the wedding (to include additional guests of honor) and no one batted an eye.

The property is gorgeous and we had a terrific time. Now that I think about it, I should totally post a review and photos! I will see if I can do something this week!

Congratulations to everyone on their upcoming weddings! They are going to be gorgeous!

Hello! Sorry for being MIA

The Resort is beautiful and my wedding was terrific!

I had to stay away from all things wedding for a while because I had some family issues, but I will try to post a review and photos shortly!

Sorry for the delay!

Father Jean LaCaille married us in August at the Iberostar Punta Cana!

He was terrrific and had responded to email very quickly, but PLEASE be sure of the following:

1) Have someone whose sole job is to read the marriage decree. We trusted that the information we supplied was correct and didn't read the document while we were signing it. We realized once we were back home that both of our birthplaces are incorrect. He sent us a new one and only my birthplace was corrected. It's been three months and we are anxiously awaiting our THIRD marriage decree. If I had asked our Best Man or Maid of Honor or any of the parents to read over the decree, they would have all known that Kansas is NOT in Texas and that I was not born in South America.

2) DO not lose your passport or let it expire anytime between providing the diocese copies and actually showing up. My passport expired the week before the wedding, and I received an expedited full passport the week I traveled. I made two color copies for the resort and the church and advised them as soon as I arrived in Punta Cana. Our official wedding license shows the previous passport number, which is no longer valid and doesn't match my current passport. We are waiting to hear from one more official, but it looks like DH and I will have to get married again in Texas and that is exactly what we were trying to avoid.

The Ceremony itself was very beautiful and he followed our program and even read the dedications. We loved having him.

I am getting married at the Iberostar Punta Cana this coming weekend!

I will be sure to take lots of photos and let you know any details!

Awesome! Thank you!

I am having a Catholic Ceremony at Iberostar Punta Cana...

This is sooo great! I have a letter and a map of the resort, but I think I am going to borrow the timeline for the wedding day and the table for all the guest's rooms!

So creative! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! That is NOT cool!

I am having a Catholic wedding so at least I know that the WC CAN'T marry us!

Sorry you are going through all that. Good Luck and I hope it all works out for you!

We are also not having a civil ceremony prior to the one in the DR. The DR has no residency requirement nor a blood test requirement.

The Catholic wedding in legally binding in the DR as well so we are all covered....

We are getting married in just over 2 weeks (eek!) at the Iberostar Punta Cana. We are having 42 guests plus the bride and groom. Here is our budget so far:

Dress/Alterations/Veil: $615

Groom's Suit/Shirt/Tie/Alterations: $350

Shoes: $1000

Travel for Us/FH's kids/Family:$14, 200

Engagement Photos/STDs/Invitations/Stationary: $1300

OOT Bags/Mugs: $250

BM Dresses (3): $165

GM Shirts and Pants (3): $175

Parasols/Fans/Decorations: $200

Wedding Package: $1600

Wedding Extras (extra guests=private restaurant;extra cake/champagne, etc.)=$1275

DJ= 570

Flowers (BMs, boutonieres, corsages)= 320

Spa for Bride and BMs and Moms=$1520

Photography (flying in our photographer and assistant)=$3500

Total: $27040

I am just a tad under budget, but I am sure that I can find something to blow that money on...

I used Blurb.com for our engagement photos and I got three copies (one for us and one for each of the mom's) I gave them to our mom's at the bridal shower and EVERYONE loved them!

I received soooo many compliments on them. They aren't flush mounted, so you can't really have one photo across two pages (well you can, but there is binding) but I didn't miss it at all. We paid $147 for 3 8x11 hardcover image wrap 52 page books and that included shipping!

I just found this thread!!!!! I am just over two weeks out from my wedding in the DR and I started having trouble sleeping this week.

I still have to work on programs, menus and placecards, but most of everything else is done. I am still looking for fans, but will probably end up buying the sandalwood ones at Michaels.

I pick up my dress next week and FH is picking his suit up this Friday.

Good Luck to everyone as August starts this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We wanted a Saturday wedding because our group is traveling Thurs-Monday...but then decided I would drive myself nuts and since there is no residency requiremen in the DR moved it to Friday. I get half a day Thursday to fret and worry and cry about whatever...and then I marry my love on Friday and then I have two whole days of relaxing with family and friends and fly back home Monday!

What an amazing idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FI has children that live with us and I never wanted them to find the book and look through it, so from the beginning my photographer offered something called a presentation box for my photos.

I will receive 30 photos in a wooden box with a photo of my wedding shoes on the cover. This way if anyone finds it, they will think it's a jewelry box or whatever...

Plus, FI bought me the blue Manolo Blahnik shoes from the SATC movie and I wanted to make them special for him, too.

I think I am going to wait and give them to him on our first married morning. I have a fantastic digital SLR camera and it takes pretty professional photos. I think it will be much more intimate for me to give my husband the photos when we are alone. But I still want to capture his reaction.

I LOVE THIS BOARD!

We went with WedSafe and we were able to customize it for the amount of money we have paid. For example, FI and I paid for 12 people total to come to the wedding and that was about $15K and we covered vendor services separately against receipts. We choose a policy specifically for Caribbean weddings in August!

In all we are covered for up to $35k and we paid just under $300.

I agree with asking her and letting her know she was your first choice.

We asked our siblings to be in our bridal party and they are all coming with financial help from us and parents.

But I asked a couple of other close friends to be "sponsors" (of our lazo, arras, etc.) and two couples were able to scrape the money together for the trip, and the one that can't make it, knows that if we were to win the lottery, they would be on a private plane in a heart beat. In fact, both my friend and her husband processed their passports "just in case" anything changes (unexpected bonus, birthday money, ANYTHING!) and they are touched that we wanted them to be a part of our special day.

Awesome ideas! We just ordered our OOT canvas bags and put our palm tree logo and "Punta Cana" but no names or dates.

We did the same for the travel mugs we ordered. Hopefully people will like them!

Everything looks gorgeous!

I am nervous because our wedding is in 24 days and so far all the weather reports are rain, rain and more rain!

Congratulations! DLR seems so pretty! I wanted my TTD at Altos de Chavon, but it is a couple of hours drive from PC...so I think I am on the brink of forgoing it.

Your wedding will be beautiful!

We are arriving the day before the wedding and we were told that it would not be a problem.

We are getting married at the Iberostar Punta Cana and we are also getting married in a gazebo close to the beach, but not actually on the beach.

Oh! I want these!

I am PMing you now

I am wearing the cobalt blue Manolos as my something blue.

I love those shoes and I went ahead and got my bridesmaids in Cobalt blue as well!

We are six weeks away from our wedding and so far we have spent over $18,000.00

We expect to spend an additional $10,000.00USD or so before it's all over, but for the same reason, we have 41 guests at this point and we have to pay extra per person for cake, buy an additional bottle of Champagne for every 6 additional guests over 20...

Now that we've hit the magic number 40, we have to pay for a private restaurant. Since we are paying for the restaurant, Future Hubby said, let's go ahead and get a DJ and have the dances and toasts and tosses, etc.