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Oh okay (that was me by the way) lol I just have REALLY horrible hair to work with so I didn't know how the hairdressers would be down there, I was hoping to have someone take one down with them b/c I'd be more then willing to pay them to do mine too (if they were looking to make more money while they were there that is). I have my appointment booked at the salon for a trail updo and also for the day of our wedding too (fingers crossed it all goes well!) Has anyone heard any reviews on Mayte's hair stylest? I saw on the sheet that she sent me a while back that you can book hair dressers and make up artests though her to go directly to your hotel and do it privetly in your own room.

November brides, is anyone taking down a hair dresser or make up artest that they would be willing to share with other brides? And if so what are the dates that they would be down there for?

I'm getting so excited! November will soon be around the corner (yippie!) I was just wondering if any other bride out there has or is considering doing a butterfly release at the end of their ceramony? I haven't heard back from Mayte in a long time, as she was going to be looking into the price to do this for me. Also I have just seen another bride blog about this, and I thought I'd share it with all of you (because I think it's such a neat idea) there are things called Sky Lanterns that you can purchise for a very reasonable price and they look amazing at night! www.theskylantern.com November brides, what's everyones status on planning? Can anyone share any neat/different ideas to incorperate into our ceramonies/receptions? Guest count is now up to 80!! GULP

My finance and I went to chose our wedding bands a few months ago, and my finance has since decided to chose another style of ring. It has never been worn before, as we are getting married this November 2011 in Punta Cana. It is a Men's size 9 Titanium and Carbon Fiber Wedding band.

I've been having troubles with changing the colour too! I've saved it as a jpg. file and tried to fiddle around with the 'colour options', but all I'm getting is different options for shading effects. I would love to be able to turn the heart a nice sage green colour. If there is anyone that could give us a tip that would be super!

Which etsy seller did you get your tatoo's from?? that sounds like such a fun idea!!

Thank you for the info Stacey, I really appreceate it! Your photos look great!! You all looked like you truly had the times of your lives! For some reason I had the impression that you were selling your original wedding dress, which would have been perfect b/c I'm looking for a TTD dress that looks simaler to mine, but unfortunatly the TTD that you have up for sale won't match Thank you anyway for responding to me so quickly. Good luck with the rest of your sales

Hi Stacey, This is a bit of an off topic question, but where did you buy your earrings from? They just pollished off your dress very nicely!! Do you still have your bridal gown for sale as well?

Mrs. Roses are Red I don't think the issue here is not giving The Wedding Holiday respect in anyway. I believe what the common denominator here in all of our posts is a lack of communication on the Wedding Holiday's behalf; we all understand that the wedding holiday is simply a travel agency and they must get in contact with the tour operators, but when brides are continually not 'kept in the loop' with vital information needed to continue with their planning process then that is when frustrations begin to arise. When phone calls and e-mails are not being answered week after week that to me is very poor service and red flags start to go off in my head. With regards to the staff changeover, of course we all understand that people come and go from their jobs, and I didn't mind giving the new staff at the wedding holiday over a month to get properly settled into their role in the company (I always put myself in other peoples shoes to be fair), but again a few red flags went off when I heard that they had lost all of their staff except for one. That to me tells me that something is/was going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, and it does raise some concerns. I personally don't think that blog pages are mostly negative like you had pointed out; when I have received good service I have no problems blogging about it to let other brides know of that service or company so that they are able to utilize it as well. I see that this was your first post to the website, so I think that in order to make such a bold statement as you did, you should really take the time to check out a few other threads to see that were not all bad/angry brides complaining about companies. I respect your opinion and am very glad that you did not fall victim of the wedding holiday, and I think that it's great that you let other brides know that you personally received good service from this company, so that they are able to make their own judgments for themselves. But all I ask is that you do not undermind all of us other brides who have unfortunately have fallen victim to extremely poor service and have spoken up about it to warn others out there to think twice and really look into the company you are about to plan the most important day of your life with.

Hi Ladies, I've just came across this great thread and I was wondering if anyone knew where to get individual packs of gaterade from? (I am sorry if this was discussed in the thread already, but my eyes were started to get a bit buggy reading through the whole thing from start to finish, so I thought I'd just through it out there to see if anyone could help me please). Thank you

Hi Sheri Yes that's absolutley what we did, I just did some research on the internet and took photos of the other things that we would like to have for our wedding, or flower arrangements we would like to have etc, and e-mailed them down to her. She has assured me that she will do her best to match all of our photos, and from reading the other girls posts on here Mayte does an excellent job. I have full confedence in her. I am also going to print out all of the photos I have sent her via e-mail and make up a timed itenery to take down with me just to be on the safe side for when we meet to do our pre-wedding run through a few days before our wedding. We are definatly going to have Mayte's D.J, (the way I look at it is in 2 ways: #1 Mayte has been doing this for many many years and she is a perfectionist from what I hear, so she wouldn't just pick anyone to D.J a wedding unless she knew they have the skills and ability to do so. and #2 her D.J is far more reasonably priced then the others that are running their own busness on the side) I am going to make up a play list for -dance music -dinner music -1st father/daughter dance etc., and put them onto an ipod just incase something goes wrong. But Mayte has just asked that I e-mail her the list of songs we would like to have on our wedding day and she'll take care of the rest. When are you getting married Sheri?

We are 3 months away, and I feel as though I don't have enough time to get everything I would like to get done. *gulp* I'm in the midst of getting our OOT bags together and sourcing out the cheapest things to take down with us. Mayte has been great in the sense that she is arranging all decorations etc, however we have opted to do a 'photo booth' with our photographer (since we are taking two down with us) and we have found these really cute mustach's on sticks through etsy to take down with us. I'm excited about them! As time goes on my now 'wedding planning room' continues to fill up with things we are taking down with us (I just hope we are able to take down an extra sute case). lol

Did you already end up selling these? I am very interested if you happen to still have them on your hands

P.S Brooke, I have just seen your beautiful wedding video on the Jellyfish facebook page. You looked gorgeous, and your whole day looked perfect!

Thank you SO much for sharing with us Brooke! Is it possible for you to post a few of your photos so we can all see how beautiful your wedding and ceremony looked? (and so that we are able to pull a few ideas from your wedding to use for ours too)

No worries, I had thought the same thing too. What I ended up doing was printing off all the information that Mayte had sent to me via e-mail and took that right to my bank. The bank teller knew exactly what to do and we have just received a confermation e-mail from Mayte to let us know they offically received our deposit.

Does anyone have a quirky/funny saying that we could use for our hot sauce label? I've been trying to rack my brain, but I must admit I'm not very creative when it comes to coming up with fun/clever sayings for things, so I thought all of us could put our heads together (since two heads are better then one) to come up with something creative that we could all use for our custom labels.

I'm sure that most of the brides to be on here have already heard the news, but I thought I'd post it anyway. As of May 1st, 2011 the NH Real Arena has been sold, and it's new name is the 'Now Larimar' Punta Cana. Apparently this new company has a great reputation and they have big visitions for this resort. (I honistly didn't think the resort could get any better at the price you pay to stay there).

Mayte quoted me $250 for the hour. Now mind you I only asked how much it would be to get them to pay for an hour. I didn't ask how much it would be if they played for over an hour, maybe that cost is just a set price no matter how long they play for. I'm not too sure, you could always look into that if you'd like them to play for longer then the hour.

We were quoted $250 for the hour. Mind you we only wanted them for an hour, so I'm not too sure if the cost would be the same if they stayed for over an hour.

I had contacted Mayte to ask if she knew of any steel drum bands in the area, and she wrote back saying that she could arrange to have one for us. (I'm very excited!! A steel drum band to me just screams tropical getaway) Megsosborn: Thank you SO much for all of your helpful tips/photos and information!

We have our legal judge booked for 3pm, followed by some h'orderves, cocktails, and a steel drum band to set the mood. Our supper is booked to start at 6:30pm. We wanted to allow an hour for our ceremony (just incase the judge is running late or something happens etc). Then allowing ourselves 2 1/2 hours for photos, as we want to get family/wedding party photos done 1st and our photographer said to allow an hour for all of those. Then we have allowed an hour and a half for us to get our photos taken, as the sun starts to set over the water shortly after 5pm.

We are getting married: November 19th, 2011 Question: Are there any brides out there who are planning a legal wedding? And have you received conformation from Mayte yet regarding the time? Or are there any brides out there that were legally married at the JF, and did you have troubles booking the time you would like? The only reason I ask is because I have been waiting about 4 months to hear from Mayte to confirm our wedding time with the legal judge. Is this normal if you'd like a legal ceremony? Mayte has been great at working with us so far to arrange all other details, but the legal ceremony seems to be taking quite some time to arrange.

I must agree with your post, I also went with 'Hitched' invites. and Gwen was excellent to work with. She was pleasent, and wouldn't print anything until everything was 100% with the design and wording on the invitation. I would recommend anyone to get their invitations from Hitched, she runs a great business.