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hey are any of you doing your own centerpieces? any ideas?

I need advice. I am still being told that to extend our reception an hour - it is going to be $15 per person. Can anyone help me get around this? I am trying b/c I think it is crap Let me know what if anything you have done has helped- thanks

I so rather prefer the white wooden chairs, too.. Can we choose between those OR the covered chairs?

I would like to know this too as we are trying to use our free upgrades to get the Honeymoon Suite and am not sure if it is worth it... (bc we would still have to pay more)... thanks!

What did you put in your OOT bags? Also- for those of you doing Sand Ceremony- what about transporting that?

We are Oct 24, too!! We are getting married at Dreams Riviera Cancun!

For things like the sand ceremony, welcome bag & welcome bag contents, and etc... are you guys packing and taking all of them or shipping them there? (what about the people that have already gotten married- what did you go) We just have about 50 people coming and that I like a whole extra suitcase?!?! thanks for your help

I was wondering the same thing-- Boo- are you having your reception on the Pool Deck?

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo We just got the 3 hour of the dinner portion, you can tell her that you dont want wait staff around after 3 hours, cause otherwise its USD 15 per person per hour. We are doing Dinner at 6, DJ 6-11 pm now. DJ Doremixx already comes with 4 hours so we just asked him for a quote to add 1 more hour, but I cant see us not having music as we enter or no announcement (we did consider 7-11 pm for DJ but just dont see it happening so scrapped that pretty quick) In short we are just paying the USD 46 plus taxes per adult for the buffet and thats it. Whew, these posts tend to get longer all the time! Gotcha- but will the wait staff still be around to serve alcohol??

Quote: Originally Posted by beachykeen I'm so glad we can add an extra hour. The dinner will probably be and hour so that would only be 2 hours of dancing and our crowd will def want to dance. Does anyone know the cost for an extra hour at the reception or maybe we could trade the cocktail hour for an extra reception hour. No- I am waiting on a response from Ana to see how much this will be. I want to have our reception from 6-10 (dinner from 6-7) But I want the DJ there the whole time b/c we want the GRAND ENTRANCE at 6- then dinner- then party starting at 7. I dont know how much more this will be. Anyone??

We are getting married at 4ish.. and our reception was to start around 6. So- my question is for those of you who are having a 4 hour reception... you are saying that you will have dinner from 6-7... then DJ will play from 7-10. What will you do for music from 6-7? And what about your GRAND ENTRANCE?? Without a DJ then, who will announce you? Others have said... they will have the regular reception and then just music for the last hour-- does this mean no alcohol? I am just a little confused Thanks!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo an extra ceremony hour, ie, still having wait staff on hand is USD 15 per guest. For us dinner reception starts at 6, DJ is 6 to 10, so technically our 3 hour reception is 6 to 9, Ana literarly wanted to say that they will start tare down at 9 pm, and wheel tables around our 'dance floor' jeez gotta love when logic goes completely out of the window! Anyhow, she agreed to not tare down till 10, but 10 pm sharp she will. 10 pm is their quite hour anyway. Whew okie - night! So you are being charged $15 per guest? to have it until 10?

3 months tomorrow- and I am all of a sudden starting to freak out-- I feel like I have so many things to do!! Do you girls know if our reception HAS to be 3 hours? What if we want to add an hour? Anyone doing that? Anyone getting married in Oct- what time is your ceremony/reception? Thanks Robyn

Hey- I know this was answered before but I cannot find it What size overlays do we need for the sweetheart table, regular tables and buffet tables? Thanks so much!!

I am trying to plan excursion for both my wedding group and then me and my fiance during our honeymoon... any suggestions? Also- what about ideas for going out after the reception- ours will be over at 9pm. Thanks.

Quote: Originally Posted by rdsjcr What did you ladies OR are you ladies doing for your centerpieces? The 20 options that Ana sent me - she says are $90 a piece.. and some are okay...but I am not in love with them. Wanted to see what you guys are doing ----------------------------------- ALSO-- how soon are you sending out your AT HOME RECEPTION invites?

What did you ladies OR are you ladies doing for your centerpieces? The 20 options that Ana sent me - she says are $90 a piece.. and some are okay...but I am not in love with them. Wanted to see what you guys are doing

Quote: Originally Posted by ebernard4985 Here is the pool deck setup in the day. At night they add spot lights for lighting and the infinity pool light was also on! Here is our sweetheart table. The overlay was much too large for the table though. Here is a table setup. We went really simple in the end. I had more vases for each table but the wind prevented any candles from being lit, so it was pointless to use the other vases. It provided the simple touch we wanted. My husband loves Family Guy so I made these table numbers and bought seashell photo holders from Kohls to hold them up. Luckily, they were able to survive the wind. Instead of chair sashes I made these decorations for the aisle chairs at the ceremony. They were perfect! It was the simple touch we wanted!!! I loved them!!! And here are our escort cards! Oh- I LOVE your ESCORT CARDS.. where did you get them? I want to do that...so cute!! Also where did you get the starfish that you used in place of the chair sashes.... great idea!!

Quote: Originally Posted by SDbeachgirl I wanted to post the photo album that I created on Shutterfly from the photos that my guests took. These are not the professional photos. I am still waiting on those. Please keep in mind that there are a few photos that were taken with a disposable camera (probably a bad idea) but those look really dark. The cocktail hour and reception were not as dark as they look in these photos. I think the professional photos will come out lighter. Shutterfly | View share great pics!! Did you order and bring your own overlays for the tables? Also for your chairs-did you bring ties for those? (do the use diff. chairs for the ceremony and the reception?) Thanks!!

Do we have to buy the overlays? I am guessing they do not come with the package??

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo Hi, for those ladies who have gotten married already, I just sent a deposit for the hair/make up guy, only to find after the fact that when he said that he has no other weddings that day that I misunderstood and infact, he has already booked another one some time ago. Now my ceremony is at 2 pm, the other lady is on this forum and her ceremony is at 3:30. Mine is at Secrets Maroma and hers is at The Royal, PDC. We are both freaking out, I called him and he had indicated that this Saturday he has 3 and that this is typical. I just don’t know what to do, I thought I would splurge as hair is super important to me and now I am worried its going to be a rush job for multiple of what I would have paid else where. Yikes this is just too stressful. WAIT a minute?? we are supposed to send a deposit for that? Ana made me feel like she would set it all up.. I am so confused... someone help

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo Have you gone dress shopping? The reason I ask is that I knew I wanted a murmeid dress, but I thought no train and no veil. I ended up getting both, for me personally once I went dress shopping I felt allot more 'bridal' with the veil, but thats me. Good luck. Yes- I have my dress- it just came in yesterday It is very informal and flowy... so I think it could go either way... I just feel like it is more BRIDE to have a veil.. I just cant decide... I don't know if it is just me or not... but I have never felt so indecisive in my life, as I have since I have started planning my wedding

Are all you ladies having veils? This is something that I have gone back and forth with and I still can't make up my mind.. haha

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo You have to go thru Ana / Resort, there are no individual quotes from DJ's. Its USD 300 + tax? for an hour for a DJ, DRC uses Doremixx and Mannia as their preferred vendors. Gotcha... I went through Ana and we locked him in for my date... but I never got a quote that showed all of that??

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo Contract with DJ Doremixx comes with the following: 02 Speakers JBL 15†02 Robotic Lights 04 Par 64 Led’s (lights) DJ Booth (With Mixer Rane and Double CD player Denon 4500, or turntables) Wireless Microphone (Speeches and announcements) Professional DJ (He can do the announcements) 02 Cold fireworks (See enclosed photo, ask to your wedding coordinator if they permit these cold fireworks) Smoke machine, Bubble machine (Available only Indoors) Souvenirs (Balloons, light sticks, masks) Music from the 70’s, 80’s to the best music playing today with different genres. I cant log onto his site, and I think I have the pictures on my comp. at home... but I am sure if you check out http://doremixx.com/ he has pictures of what cold fireworks look like, but think very large sparklers coming from the ground and about 4 - 5 feet high. You get two of them. Happy planning! When do you get the actual quote from him??