Morgan685

Tina - I had to unlock the website so people can view the photos. here are my photos by David Pena morganandnoahwedding.shutterfly.com

Quote: Originally Posted by Eureaka Morgan - I'm not able to link to your website. Any suggestions? I would really love to see your pictures! OK - try this! I had to add a no password site..duh! morganandnoahwedding.shutterfly.com Sorry about that!

Quote: Originally Posted by TinaM2b Morgan, Thanks for the information! You have me very inspired. I will make sure I tell David, I had to ask over and over for him. We are having our friday night dinner at Arrifices on the terrace. I am very excited about that! What is the largest size you or your party have blown up from the jpegs? It sounds like they are more than sufficient to work with. If I could get the raw format, I was also going to do some creative things with them but I am sure I wouldn't do it to many. I think I probably should go for numbers so I make sure I get what I want. How did you let him know what kind of photos you wanted? I am putting a bunch of samples in a document and bring him a printed example (HA!, some of them are his! HAHAHA!!) Eureaka, I started asking for him several months ago. They told me back then they put in a request to the photography department. I didn't find out for sure that I had been assigned David till a couple weeks ago. Nina, I wasn't expecting it to be that miserable but I have heard from my boss that just went and several other people that have been there this time of year to move it inside. I think we will probably do that but I am not going to make the final decision until we are there. Tracy even stated that her cake started melting and her wedding was over a month ago. If we get inside and decide after the dancing begins it isn't very exciting, we may just take our ipod outside and find a spot by a pool to party down! HA!! We are taking our laptop and Bose Ipod docking station with us. Wow, the days are flying by now. I hope that once we get there, time slows down a little bit so we can really enjoy ourselves and feel like we had a little bit of a vacation. Tina, I made a list of pictures that I wanted and had a family member give it to him. The largest size we have blown something up is 8x10. From what I understand about jpeg. you can pretty much do anything to them. Photographers are artists...whether they speak English or not - so I let him do his thing after I got the shots I wanted...and they turned out great. Here is the link to my pictures - its on shutterfly....when you view them as a slide show they get a little blurry and distorted...so just to get some ideas I would click on the thumbnails. My favorites are of me standing on the wall looking at the ocean...and Noah standing below me. They are very artsy - but cool looking!! Make a note of that Everyone loves them!!! A few notes - ignore the cheezy ones of my husband up my dress with his hands and resting his face on my back....haha, he would be horrified if he knew I posted these. Those are the ones that are not really me...and I had to kind of cut him off - and tell him I don't really like ones like that and he went back to more classic ones. Most of all - just communicate with him and he will do what you want. I know I will probably get comments about my hair...I actually did not get it done in the salon..my sister is a hair dresser so I lucked out. I did my own make-up because I am super picky...I just went and bought new stuff at MAC and didn't use any of it until the day of the wedding. We had a very small wedding - just family....hope you enjoy! http://www.shutterfly.com/lightbox/v...bbd47cbb382743 If you have problems viewing...let me know - Ill send you another link.

Quote: Originally Posted by TinaM2b Hi Morgan, Would love to see your reveiw. I have David Pena has our photographer and am looking forward to his photos. Did you buy a specific package for the 400 photos or was that the basic package that includes the wedding and family/bride/groom for the hour aferwards. Did you get them all in the JPEG format or did you ask for RAW? Have you blown any of them up yet? To what size? I was told they would shoot raw if I wanted but it would be less photos. The only thing is you can do so much more with them and blow them up pretty large. We were going to have David come back for our wedding party several hours later and shoot the first couple hours. They were going to charge between $800 - $900. We debated this and decide to buy a new camera and lease setup instead. My brother and several friends are pretty good photographers. My brother is going to use the new camera. I hope I don't regret tha decision but already bought the set-up off of Ebay. I am getting nervous now.....wondering if everything is done and if I have all the information I will need in my portable file. I still need to make a planning list for the WC. 11 days from today, we will be scoping out our wedding site to make the decision on outside/inside?!?!?!?! Heat index yesterday in Cancun was 120 degrees. DOH!! It is looking like inside. Several of us are leaving very SOON!! Tina - I did the package that did the ceremony and afterward. I got the 68photo package (or something like that) and it was around $500.00. David will shoot a few before you come down, then the whole ceremony, then after. He assured my mom that he would not stop until we got all the shots we wanted. I know if I asked him to do longer - he would have...our session was probably 1 hour and 20 total. When we did our alone photos he got shots that he wanted, I wanted - then asked if there were any more I wanted, etc. We were pretty hot and over taking pictures - so 30 minutes alone was PLENTY! He is so cute...he does not speak very good english - but enough to understand him. He made us do a couple of REALLY cheezy things that I didn't like - but If you are specific he will do whatever you want. My pictures came in jpeg format on a CD. I have blown many up - and my mother in law, mom and sister made copies of the CD at the resort before they left. They have the kodak centers in the gift shops and its cheaper to make copies there than in the states. The resort also blows your pictures up for your album...I did not like all the ones that they chose, so when I got home I blew up my own to replace in my album. They will turn out fine in jpeg. format - don't worry!!! Buying your own camera to take your own pictures was a fine idea - they will turn out great. Its impossible to not get good pictures because it is so beautiful there....and the lighting is perfect. We had everyone taking pictures at the dinner, etc. They all turned out beautiful! David wants to break out on his own - because he said he does not get enough business at the resort. I'm sure if you tipped him he would stay as long as you want him to, etc. I told him I requested him - and he was surprised...I don't think the resort tells him how heavily requested he is. If you send me your E-mail I can send you a few pictures that he took - I don't really know how to work this forum haha! Let me know if you have any more questions! Also, I wanted to highlight for everyone that we had our dinner on the terrace at the arrifices restaurant! It was very yummy...and we had our own area and staff - it was GREAT! They block off the area and don't let anyone else out there. They set up our cake pretty...put out our place cards, etc. So I would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone...also - since they do the fogo de chao style food - its fun for everyone!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by liz1717 Angelica is my WC. There were a few times when her responses were slow. I did notice that when I sent her a bunch of questions and confirmations to make, it took longer for her to get back to me, so I tried to be patient. I would say send her one more reminder email. She was very good about getting all the information I requested, so I imagine it just takes time to hear back from people on the MP end. Anyone with Angelica as their planner....let me just tell you - she is amazing! At first it took her awhile to respond because it was a busy time for her (with the swine flu and stuff) but as your wedding gets closer she gets good about responding right away. She was amazing when I was there and for the wedding too. She is really young - probably 25 and on top of it. She gives good advice and is SO SO sweet. Let me know if you have any questions!!!

Tina, I was married at 5pm in the Tucan...I will post a full review and photos soon! I have been super busy since I have been back - go figure David Pena was my photographer and he did an AMAZING job - he took about 400 pictures and I loved at least 330 of them!!!! I will post a full review soon - let me know if you have any specific Questions! Morg

Quote: Originally Posted by Leanna35 Morgan685- I see that you did have the symbolic ceremony. Do I have to let my wedding planner know that I want that ceremony instead? I really want to cut out all the extra things as well, such as the blood work and the license translated. Your right TinaM2B we aren't excited about them knowing everything. Leanna, We did have to tell my wedding planner - we did the complimentary symbolic ceremony. The minister was a doll too....they hire a minister instead of a JOP for a symbolic ceremony. It was super easy...you just have to bring a copy of your marriage certificate - not even the license. You get a certificate in the states for a keepsake...thats what I made a copy of and brought! Let me know if you have any more Q's!

My husband and I did the symbolic package only about 3 weeks ago! Everything was the same...and perfect at that! It felt like the actual wedding - since our "legal" ceremony was at the courthouse! It will all feel real - and nobody will ever know!!!! We were not treated any different..and the minister still had us sign a certificate and everything! Any more questions about the symbolic - let me know!!! I just joined to provide support! I got married there on 6/2/2009 - and I am SO JEALOUS you are going so soon...I want to go back! Good Luck!

The airport is really only about 10 minutes away. The TA might have been thinking the Adventura Spa Palace which is in Rivera Maya....but the ride in the van was only about 10 minutes....the longest part was the driveway up to the beautiful Moon Palace!

Hi Everyone! I was married at the Moon Palace on June 2, 2009 - It was the most amazing Day ever...I joined to provide support to the ladies getting married this year. I honestly did not have time to join before that...with getting ready for the wedding - so I figured now would be a good time to join and just provide support! AND BE JEALOUS - because I want to go do it all over again!