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Quote: Originally Posted by roxmysockz After Ana taking 3 months to tell me the pool terrace was taken i'm not taking any chances this time. I emailed her my next choice and asked her to confirm this is ok, its been a week and a half so sent her a chaser. I will be seriously pee'd off if she comes back in 3 months and says this is also taken!!! ARGH! So what was your "second" choice for the reception? How big is your party? I was given Portofino restaurant as a choice since we have about 60 people. She tried to soothe it over by stating that "at least you can have a sit-down dinner" Well I don't really care about that. To make matters worst, I've read 3 reviews on Tripadvisor about how hot/stuffy Portofino's can be. ARGH!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by jstock311 Thanks. I just got an email back from Ana last night about it. She did say we could mix and match between the three options they had but only one entree choice....that really sucks. I think the buffet is the way to go now. I just need to vent for a minute too. Ana said the pool deck isn't available for our reception. I don't want it on the beach. I'm just kind of bummed because I feel like maybe if she had gotten back to me over a month ago when I first emailed her we could have gotten the reception where we wanted it, maybe not though. I just can't see paying all this money and then not having the big things the way you want. I can see some small things maybe not going so smoothly but the reception location is a big deal to me. I emailed her to see what other options besides the beach were available. Now just waiting to hear. The same thing is going on with me. Where are you going to select for your reception. She gave me the El Patio and Portofino options.

It would've have been really nice to have hear from someone regarding selection of reception location when you book your wedding at DRC. Ughhhhh. My wedding is in less than 4 weeks. Now I find out that the pool deck is "unavailable" I am extremely disappointed. We were given El Patio or Portofino Restaurants (about 60 people tot.) as choices. I had really hoped that things would fall into place when we got there since there's been no communicate with WC, but apparently not. There's plenty of El Patio Pics. Does anyone have pics or know how Portofino looks? I am really bummed right now : (

Quote: Originally Posted by TA Jill I know there were a bunch of questions regarding group quotes and flights, so I thought I would try to answer them all in one post All quotes (whether group or individual) are going to vary depending on the time of year you are getting married and when you book. Sometimes there are promotions like "kids free" or "early bird pricing", etc.... And as someone else mentioned the kids still have a small fee associated with them for the cost of transfers and taxes. If you are getting married in January, your prices are going to be higher than someone in May. The same is true with quotes, the prices will vary depending on the promotions that are running at the time you get the quote. Travel agents can get you the same perks that the hotel offers, the nice thing about having a travel agent work with your group, is that they will organize everyone for you, answer your guests questions, and help you with contacting the wedding coordinator (well most will if they have ever worked with destination weddings) Someone mentioned getting a quote from the hotel, but then having to find someone else to book the flights through and the prices being higher. This is because the airlines do not pay travel agents to book flights. So if someone called me and wanted me to book flights for their group, but weren't booking the resort through me, I would have to charge them a fee per ticket, in order to make anything. Honestly, booking flights can be somewhat of a nightmare because of all of the fluctuation in price, so if someone contacted me to book airfare only, I would just say no. It's too much of a headache and most people will not pay the extra fee for the help. I think that was everything, there were too many posts related to this topic to multi-quote Hi. Thanks for the info. above. What happens when you book through a TA for a certain price. Then find out later that hotels.com is offering much cheaper rates for you hotel. Will travel agencies "match" the lower price? Thanks.

How do you change the font on starfish? I've been trying for hours. :-(

Quote: Originally Posted by ebernard4985 Here are some of the professional pics and the slide show they put together for you 19-06-10-drerc-hopp - hopp Thanks so much for that great and quite thorough review! Also your pics are beautiful. Just a question. You said originally you were going with Juan Navarro but didn't want to pay the additional $250.00/hour for him to stay at the reception. Is this additional from what they charge for his packages or this a fee from Dreams? I was planning on using him for the wedding and Adventure for the rehearsal dinner.

Quote: Originally Posted by wisconsinbride2010 I just wanted to let everyone know that Ana e-mailed me today with the ceremony script. I can't download it though cause it's too big. let me know if anyone would like it! This is just the outline. I actually have the complete cermony Hi. Would you mind emailing the script to me? Thanks! Leydi

Quote: Originally Posted by cathyandchin Surprises of surprises... Ana emailed ME last week! she said she needed a head count and sent me back an updated contract. I've decided to drop the dj we will only have about 18 people including us so it doesn't really justify the cost. I already had an extensive list of music that I wanted the dj to play but I'll just throw it on an iPod and the special songs on a cd. For those ladies that were married here... how did you pack your dress? I have a full size dress (not a "destination" dress) and I'm thinking of just putting it in a suitcase and sending it back with my parents. Did you just take is a a carry on or pack it up? I'm so excited! we leave in 42 days... Hi! I'm getting married the day after you! Fri. July 30th. 6 p.m. Haven't really planned much. haha. Will do it when I get there : )

Kelvin and Leydi Friday July 30, 2010 John and Lili Sunday August 1, 2010