Sunandsand

I did a collage for our thank you cards as well and then sent a nicer photo to the family members that I thought would appreciate it. The last thing I want is people throwing away photos of me left right and center.

Love the "thank you" in the sand. Meant to do that with our photographer and completely forgot.

Thanks for sharing!

These look great!

Hey ladies, Just got back from my honeymoon. Went to the Riu Palace in Negril. I'm sooooo glad I got married at Dreams. I saw a ceremony at the Riu and it was so tacky and cheap looking. I just thought I'd give you more reassurance that you've made the right decision with Dreams.

Hey ladies, I've had a few people ask about the measurements: Here they are: Chest: 34 inches Waist: 29 inches Hips: 37 inches Length in the front: 50 inches

Thank you

Hi ladies, I bought the starfish at http://www.qualityshells.com/. My lot has been sold but if you live in the US you can buy them at the site above. Good luck.

Hi ladies, I'm selling my wedding dress: Here are the photos. We're Married - a set on Flickr (Please note, the dress was never worn in the water ... Vera doesn't swim ... I put on a second dress for that). Price is $1500 Canadian If you're near Toronto, you can come by and have a look for yourself, if not, feel free to email me with questions. Here's the info: Vera Wang 11248 Originally bought for $8500. It's selling online at other sites for $3000. Beautiful straight from the runway Vera Wang mermaid gown, empire seam, bows on back, and ruffle tiered picot edge godet skirt. Gown is an ivory metallic Duchesse and was bought in November 2009 at Saks in New York. Size 10, street size 8. Has been altered so will fit between a 6 - 8. More photos of the dress worn by another bride: http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/dresses/17489/Vera-Wang-11248-Size-4.html You will not find a better dress for this price anywhere! Professionally dry-cleaned and ready to wear on your big day!

Hey ladies, If anyone's interested, I'm putting the dress up for sale. As much as I love it, there's no room in the house. $1500 Canadian. I'm in Toronto so if you live near by, you can see it for yourself. If not, I'll offer free shipping. Here's the info: Vera Wang 11248 Originally bought for $8500. It's selling online at other sites for $3000. Beautiful straight from the runway Vera Wang mermaid gown, empire seam, bows on back, and ruffle tiered picot edge godet skirt. Gown is an ivory metallic Duchesse and was bought in November 2009 at Saks in New York. Size 10, street size 8. Has been altered so will fit between a 6 - 8. More photos of the dress worn by another bride: http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/dresses/17489/Vera-Wang-11248-Size-4.html You will not find a better dress for this price anywhere! Professionally dry-cleaned and ready to wear on your big day!

Thanks ladies, You're all so kind. Â FYI, I'm just in the process of cleaning the dress and will be putting it for sale. Hate to do it but it will just sit in my closet.

Hi Sera, The beach area at the hotel is quite small. I would suggest that you ask your guests to speak to people hanging out by the beach before the wedding starts. Most people are considerate once they've been told they're in the shot. It's the one or two idiots that don't clue in. You can move a little further from the hotel so there will be less people but then there are more trees and I actually like the clean lines of the sand. Still, you will have options when you get there. Â Â AND GREAT NEWS - Sunquest has come through with an offer for us to make up for everything they put us through. Yay! At least it looks like we'll get a honeymoon out of this whole thing. Â

Hey ladies, I'll look up where I got them from. It was an online place in Florida but doesn't ship to Canada. My brother actually brought them back from me when he was visiting Miami. I had them shipped to his hotel. Â LSadias, I'm emailing you back now about pick up. Â Ladies, if Lsadias changes her mind, I will let you know. Â Thanks

I should actually put a back photo of the second one because the back is STUNNING:

Sugar starfish. 24 large ones for $50.

HI LADIES, I'VE DECIDED TO DROP THE PRICE OF THE DRESSES. THEY ARE $1,000 EACH!!! LET ME KNOW IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.

Quote: Originally Posted by KRama Fantastic review Sunandsand! I loved how you were so postive and excited throughout the whole thing until the travel section...than your "voice" morphed into "don't mess with me" mode. Awesome. I hope you get everything worked out with the TA...let us know what happens! Oh, and LOVE your dress! OMG! KRama you made me laugh. Sooo true. Funny that you can read into my mood. Believe me, they have not heard the last of me. And I LOVED the dress too. It was worth the 8-hour drive to NYC to buy. Could never afford Vera Wang in Canada, but NYC sales are amazing!

Quote: Originally Posted by ReeRee You two look wonderful in those beautiful pics!! Question, where did your husband get his white shirts and slacks from?? I want my FI to have similar all white attire as well. Hey ReeRee, The shirt was Banana Republic and the pants were from Tristan (Canadian company). We saw similar ones at Armani Exchange. It's funny because his mom was so upset he was not going to be wearing a suit. She called us every day leading up to the wedding to get him to change his mind. After a while, he started shopping for blazers to appease her and I had to remind him that this original outfit is what he wanted. He looked great PLUS he would have been miserable with more clothes on in that heat.

Quote: Originally Posted by dcairns Congrats!!! Everything looked lovely and wonderful. i'm so happy for you, and your right the cake turned out great with the sugar flowers... the pics you emailed me were awful (from before you left) Quick question though, at the SSG, did they put linens on the table? I just rented it out but am going with their menu and the 'free" wedding. Hope your still on a high, and congrats on becoming a MRS Hey Dana, I know, I was so happy with the cake --- although it was gigantic. But the flowers made all the difference. I strongly suggest to everyone to bring embelishments for your cake. My bakery gave me 45 sugar flowers for $15 and I gave the Yanna the photo of what I wanted and it worked out. I was so afraid because I absolutely hated all the photos she sent me of the other cakes. I rented out the SSG too and asked for white linens. I believe they also have pink and orange? And it was free.

Good luck Nancy. Can't wait to hear all about it!!!

Hi Nancy, I have no problem with your boys reading the same reading. I will suggest that you go through the book and take out a few of the paragraphs because it's really long. Also, after we read our vows to each other, we also read these vows to my children: We promise To continue to build a family That is strong and nurturing. To care for you And to help you find the paths That will lead you through life. To be proud always of you And to love you unconditionally. They were really touched by this and it was a great way to involve them.

Hi ladies, Here's the review - http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...w-dream-61783/ I don't know if the photos will show up, but there's a link to our Flickr page so you'll be able to see the photos there. These are some of the 600 photos Arnaud sent us! Amazing!

Hi there, We're baaaack!!! Hubby and I married on the beach at Dreams La Romana on July 14, 2010. It was magical. Here's my long-winded review. (In case you can't see the photos, go to We're Married - a set on Flickr First Impressions From the minute our bus got on to the resort I was impressed. Everything was clean, bright and beautiful. You are welcomed with champagne and we didn’t even have to wait at reception. Everything was quick and smooth. The rooms were lovely and clean and I was very impressed with the free mini-bar and free-room service. After taking advice from this forum, we stayed in building 7 (5 was booked) and everything was clean and new. My whole group LOVED the hotel and my in-laws are already planning to go back. Only negative --- mosquitoes. TONS of mosquitoes. I don’t think I’ve had so many bites in my life. Ad unfortunately most of the bugs are near the beach so that meant we spent most of our time at the pool. Boo, because I love salt-water. I would just run in and stay in the water and as soon as I came out, I’d go to the pool and spray bug spray. I think our group used bottles and bottles of bug spray and after-bite. We never went anywhere without it. Not even dinner. Yanna Great! We met with her on Monday morning and within half an hour, we were done. She took care of everything we wanted and was willing to work with us on some issues (she only charged us $65 for the photographer and videographer to come to the wedding and didn’t charge us a second time for the TTD session.) She set up all my decorations and was on top of everything. I think this may have a lot to do with the fact that I sent her photos of everything ahead of time. She had all my files and knew exactly what I wanted so it was great. She also arranged for breakfast in bed the next day and when we came back to our room on our wedding night everything was beautiful. I won’t give details because I want future brides to see for themselves. The Spa Alex did my hair. She was great with me and we did a trial – perfect. She also did my brother’s girlfriend’s hair though and that didn’t turn out so well. I suggest you come with your own photos and speak up. Still my hair looked great and then she just went out to the garden and got some flowers and added them to my hair for free. Yanna also arranged for champagne to come to the spa while the girls and I were getting our hair done. That was fun (and no cost). Décor / flowers / cake I was so impressed with my cake. I have seen photos of so many ugly cakes and I was adamant that I wanted mine to be taller. Funny enough, they made it tall … and HUGE. We could have fed an army but it looked great. I brought my own sugar flowers and the pastry chef did a great job of decorating the cake. The flower arch looked WAY better than I imagined. I was so happy with it. The bouquets were great too although the boutonnières could have used extra pins because my husband’s kept falling. img-351 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! The Ceremony We did the wedding on the beach and there were a lot of people but I didn’t care. The only thing I would suggest is finding someone to keep people out of the ocean in front of your wedding. One a$$hole actually lay on his sunbed in the water right in front of us until another hotel guest kindly went into the water and asked him to move. We didn’t even know the man who did it but we were so grateful. Arnaud, our photographer, was able to photoshop out any wayward sunbathers in our final photos. Elke from the spa (who is AMAZING) officiated our wedding. Our niece read from the bible. My brother’s girlfriend read from the prophet and our kids read “Oh the Places You’ll Go†from Dr. Seuss. I gave Elke a rundown of how the ceremony should go and she was great. We had a symbolic ceremony (we got married in Toronto the week before) and they were very good about making it look “realâ€. They even created a document for us to sign with our witnesses that looked really legitimate. Having Elke officiate was free-of-charge. So that was a great savings as well. It rained until about 3:00 and the ceremony was at 5 so I was starting to have a small heart attack at about 2:00 p.m. but it all turned out. Thank God. I think it was God’s way of reminding me to let go of all the small details. As long as I got married on the beach, who cares if a couple of things didn’t go as planned. Reception We had the Seaside Grill. Originally we had the Deck but because of the rain, they moved us indoors. In hindsight, it was way better because it was air-conditioned and everyone was comfortable. We rented a speaker from Long and McQuade in Toronto ($14 including insurance) and plugged in our iPod. Way better and cheaper than hiring a DJ. The food was amazing! Steak was great and so were the appetizers and dessert. The wait staff was also really great. I brought all the décor and Yanna arranged it. Everyone was impressed and it looked stunning! Because we rented the whole grill, after 11:00 we went to the Seaside Grill Bar, outside and just took our speaker with us and continued the party there. Yanna told us we’d have to take the music off because people would complain, but we made a deal with her that if anyone complained, we would turn it down and no one complained. They’re mainly worried about people sleeping in the hotel but the rooms are pretty far from the seaside grill so we were fine. It was really hot outside so at about 12:30, hubby and I went back to the room and changed. I really didn’t want to take off my dress but I was dying. HDC Photography Arnaud came and did videography and Milian was our photographer. They were great and the photos were stunning, although the video was a bit “standard†for me. Mind you, I’m in television production so it takes a lot to impress me and they did it in a couple of days. I’ve asked him for the raw footage so I can also edit some stuff so my fingers are crossed. I also wish we had more time to have family portraits done for each of my guests. By the time they got around to taking photos of each of the families it was dark and the background was not great. I wanted everyone to have their own family photos on the beach or at least with a great background but we focused so much time on our photos that we didn’t get around to the families until late. Boo. img-600 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Travel Woes So the wedding and hotel were magical. The airline / travel company, however, were a nightmare. They actually decided to change have my group to an earlier flight without telling me so when we got to the airport, they told half of us we missed our flight. It was a disaster. Hubby, myself, my brothers and a couple of extra people didn’t get to the resort until Sunday. They extended some of our stays for an extra day but it took them all week to sort things out so I was always on the phone or in the lobby with the rep. Then when they were finally ready to sort things, they told us they wouldn’t buy us the new flights unless we signed a release stating we would not take the matter further. That’s when I blew up. I mean BLEW UP. We didn’t sign anything and they changed our flights, but needless to say, we will be taking legal action. There were so many changes that came with changing our flight -- extra taxes, different baggage allowance, etc. that the whole travel part of the trip was a disaster. All of it! The travel agent – I will name her --- Beula Jackson from Sunquest --- has not even contacted me to apologize. Coward. I want her head on a platter, believe me. Anyway, I’ll try to forget about that and concentrate on the wedding day and hotel, which were lovely. I wish all the future brides the best of luck!

Hi ladies, I'm back. The wedding was a dream! Although our travel agents screwed up our group itinerary and it rained until 2 hours before my wedding, all that was forgotten once I put on my dress. Photos and review to come!

Quote: Originally Posted by dolfinluck I looked last night were i thought I put it but couldnt find it, going to try couple other places it might be tonight, fingers crossed. Do you think that they got confused by your email as the cocktail hour is $8 pp. I really wouldnt think they would up the price so much in just 2 months, plus mid-year at that. Thanks Heather, I'll also show them this website and hopefully they'll realize they made a mistake. I leave in 2 days! Yikes! Ladies who've already been down, did you just give Tiara all your decorations and she put them up?