JayKay

I used a printer and printed them onto the transfer paper from my computer.

Glad I could help!

As long as you have the total of 16 guests then it shouldn't matter who they booked through as long as the resort knows they are all for your wedding.

Originally Posted by 5yearEngagement 

Does anyone know details on the free wedding package? You need a minimum of 16 guests. We have 14 guests booked with our travel agent and 2 booked with their own agent. Will that be okay? As long as they are at the resort right?

I love that band! Looks great with the set.

Originally Posted by Abbie 

Well, our 5 year anni is this week so I got another band, I'm loving black diamonds and I wanted something completely different than my wedding band, but also something that didn't look too out of place. Love what I ended up with!

Your photos are stunning!! Congrats!!

Originally Posted by FutureKeese22 

 

I'm not to sure.  I guess to be safe you might want to bring some of your own paper.  It was printed on card stock.  However, they may have different colors.  I never thought to ask and ended up with gross yellow lol

Originally Posted by soontobeawalsh 

 

 

Do you have to provide your own paper if you want a different color for the menus? Or do you think they will just do it themselves if you ask??

Originally Posted by dutchess 

 

THank you. I wanted to have a head table with smaller tables in front. I have about 25 ppl so far. I wanted to change the table clothes. Is that an option do you know?

I think if you bring your own you could change the table clothes.  I wasn't to particular and just went with whatever they had, including the ugly yellow menus.  If I would have known they made them yellow I would have asked for a different color.

Originally Posted by dutchess 

 

Does anyone have pictures of there wedding at the grill? I was wondering if I could change the arrangment of tables if I didn't like how they do it.

This is a picture of the set up we had for our dinner at the grill.  We were all on one long table, which was fine because we had a small group.  They had asked if we wanted to have a few smaller tables, but we chose the one large one.  I'm sure they can accommodate what you are looking for in terms of tables ect.  There was a small table behind us for our cake, and there was no one even close to us.  All the other people were on the opposite side of the place so it felt pretty private.

Originally Posted by STemple 

 

 

My thinking is to start the dinner/reception at 6:30 then have the open bar reception from 8:30 to 10:30. The disco opens at 12 so I figure those who want to continue the party can do so there.

We had our dinner at 630 and it pretty much lasted 2 hours so I think your timing is perfect.  I do think the disco opens at 11.  It did when we were there, but it may have changed.

It wasn't included in the packages the year I was married, but they said it was always included at no cost.  They take you on a golf cart.

Originally Posted by dutchess 

Did anyone notice in the 2014 packages the transportation to wedding site is not in any I saw...any idea yet how much that is to add?

My mom and dad both walked me down the aisle.  You can do whatever you want.

Originally Posted by CdnBrideJoanne 

Question for everyone....  Who is walking you down the aisle?

 

My Dad passed away 10 years ago...  Do I have my Mother walk me down the aisle or do I walk it myself?  I have also considered having my fiance meet me at the start of the aisle and we walk the remainder together.  This is a second wedding for the both of us so we aren't too concerned about doing things 'traditionally'.  Thoughts??

I think I had 4 pre ceremony songs.  I made sure I labelled clearly which songs were for what so that they knew once they had the signal to change it to the bridesmaid song and they did a great job of this.

Originally Posted by tram13 

Just wondering...how many songs need to be on there for the pre-ceremony?  Do they want 15 minutes? 30 minutes? An hour?  Or did you just load a bunch of songs on there...and noted which song you wanted to walk down to and the changed the music when it was time?

During the week we were there they set up tables and chairs beside the one poolbar close to the smaler buffet so that is the one we went to after our dinner on our wedding night.  There was no one else there so it worked out perfectly.  We did also go to the lobby bar between our pictures and dinner (our dinner wasn't ready on time) and had a few drinks there.

Originally Posted by BARB2014 

@JAYKAY Could you tell me which poolside bar you went too? I am thinking of doing something other than the Gazebo too and this sounds like a great idea. That or the Lobby bar where they have evening entertainment anyhow.....which is ok for us Older brides!!!! lol Barb

I initally had trouble with dates as well.  We wanted to get married on Jan.12 but was told it was unavailable, so we booked for the 11th.  But then our flights changed days so we couldn't get married on the 11th and instead had to get married on the 13th (which was Friday the 13!).  In the end it all worked out fine, but I did end up calling them when I needed to urgently change our date due to flight changes. 

Originally Posted by STemple 

The stress is building for me with this planning! I was booked for may 19, 2014 for a 4pm but due to flights it ended up not working and I guess the whole week is booked for weddings so I couldn't change the date. I decided on October 23, 2014 and donalee emailed me back confirming October 24, 2014.. Lol I think it's best at this point to just call them at this point? Has anyone called and spoken to them before?

I was married at this resort in January of 2012 (feels like forever ago!).

We honestly didn't spend much on our wedding at all.  We went with the free package and only had to pay $320 for our wedding.  That included the minister fees, extra people at dinner, and a boutineer and bouquet for our wedding party.  We went with the semi private dinner as it was included free.  We also chose not to do the steel drum band rather we used music from this man-http://www.steeldrummusic.net/buycds.html

I just couldnt bring myself to spend hundreds of dollars on it when I could purchase his music for under $10. 

I did get my hair and makeup done at the spa at the resort and in total it came to just under $160 and I felt they did a really good job.

I used an outside photographer, Merrick Cousley, but at that time they didn't have the outragous $800 vendor fee.  I'm sure though if your photographer is a paying guest at the resort they can't really make you pay a vendor fee.  I know some previous brides have gotten around this.

We didnt pay to have a dance after our dinner.  We had a fairly small group (18 in total) and didn't feel it was worth it to spend money on that for a small group, and I'm really glad we didn't.  After our dinner we went to the pool side bar where they set up chairs and tables beside the pool bar and they had great music.  We were the only ones there so we had our own little dance party.  After that we went to the disco.  We had so much fun and drinks right at our fingertips, I'm glad we didn't pay the extra money to have a private dance.

Originally Posted by CMason 

Hey!!!
I am so excited to be getting married at the GBP next apr 2014!!!!!!!
I've got the gazebo for my wedding and I have seen amazing photos and heard great things about it!!

I am just trying to piece all the costs together!! I am thinking we will probably have about 30 ish people at our wedding!!

Is anyone on here an already married at GBP bride?? I am just curious how much in total you spent on your wedding ( actual costs at the resort - and did you get any of the private receptions etc and pay for hair/ photography )

I REALLY want to bring my photographer from back home - but she charges travel/stay for her and her assistant, and then a $560 charge, and then the resort charges that $800 fee!!! So it would be over $5000 for my own photographer!!

I've seen posts about Chris Lee??? Is he at the resort still?? If i HAVE to go with someone from the resort, I'd at least like to know who to ask for

I am rying to keep costs down, but want a semi private reception, and a dance And maybe steel drums for the ceremony!!

Thanks!!!!!!!!

We all cut our bracelets off that morning and went the next day to the front desk and they gave us new ones.  They never asked to see our old ones but we took them with us just in case.  We also confirmed that there would be no charge to do this because at some resorts they do charge you a fee for new bracelets.

Originally Posted by soontobeawalsh 

I was wondering what past Brides did about the ID bracelet that you wear in the resort??  Can we cut it off for the wedding day?  and if so will they give you a new one after??

thanks

I had no problem carrying my dress on.  The only part that scared me was having to put my dress through the security scanner as it wripped off a few of the little beads and put a large tear in the garmet bag.  Other then that I had no problem carrying it on to airplane.  I had to put my dress in the overhead bin, and the flight attendant helped with that and immediately closed it so that no one else could put anything on top of it.

Originally Posted by FutureKeese22 

When bringing your dress to the airport did past brides just bring it on the plane and check in with it in the garment bag no problem? I will have my purse and then my dress as my carry on...will that be ok? American Airlines said it has to be able to fit in the carry on measurement guidelines, but I don't want to put my dress in anything...just carry it on and hope to be able to hang it in the captains closet.

I'm so glad it was helpful!

Originally Posted by LaLa1116 

Thank you!  And thank you for posting such useful information--it definitely helped!!

I think this new $800 fee is insane! I'm so glad I didn't have to pay that.  One of the reasons I specifically chose this resort when I was deciding where to get married was because they didn't charge an outragous vendor fee.  I really hope all you soon to be brides lodge complaints as this is rediculous.  I can understand some sort of vendor fee to encourage the use of their on site photographers, however, that is the highest fee I have seen, and I looked at tons of resorts with vendor fees all over the carribean and Mexico.

Originally Posted by dutchess 

I was also going to get my cousin who is a professional photographer to shoot my wedding. He is coming either way. He is a paying guest there for the week. The hotel said it doesn't matter! It's 800!! Wow. I said he isn't charging me and he's a family member and a guest! They said nope no exeptions! Wow wow wow

They look great!!

Originally Posted by LaLa1116 

Hi everyone!

 

I had the painstaking task of ironing the transfers onto my OOT bags today.  It took forever, but I didn't sacrifice any bags.  I ordered my totes and transfers from cheaptotes.com and the transfers didn't come with instructions...In case this happens to any of you, I wanted to share the link of the great instructions I found online.  They worked like a charm and my transfer picture was large and bright. 

Here is the link : http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/mcgpaper/IOTWF.pdf

 

In case anyone is wondering, I'm from Philadelphia and we are huge Phillies fans, so the Phillie Phanatic drinking a Corona was an obvious choice.   If you have any questions, I'm happy to help!  Good luck!

 

 

 

 

Yes, that is the meal we chose.  We had the chicken ceaser salad, beef vegetable soup, mixed grill, and cheesecake for our meal and it was all very delicious food!!  We chose it because it seems like it was the most versatile for people and no one complained at all about it.

Originally Posted by LinzWarr 

Thanks Jaykay!
IS this the meal you chose?  I hate having to choose one meal for everyone but it seems like it woud be the only one that might please everyone.  Did you have your meal at The Garden grill?

No, he isn't part of the resort photographers.

Here is his website.http://www.merrickcousley.com/

Originally Posted by HopeToBe 


Hi

Is Merrick Cousley part of the resorts photographers?

Pls clarify - thanks so much!

We were given a room in the same category (club Golden) but it was two floors higher up then the rest of our group.  They considered that our room upgrade.

Originally Posted by Lola1974 

Do you get a room upgrade when your the bride....and does anyone have the wedding pacakges that you can pick from.

Thanks for any info.... We have our date April 3 2014.   :)

We just scanned and emailed them and I know others have faxed them.

Originally Posted by FutureKeese22 

Does anyone know the address to send the notarized copies of passports and birth certificates? Thank you!

We just scanned and emailed them and I know others have faxed them.

Originally Posted by FutureKeese22 

Does anyone know the address to send the notarized copies of passports and birth certificates? Thank you!

There was only 2 wedding planners when we had our wedding, but I beleive there may be more now.  I would only take tips/gifts for the planners that helped you with your wedding planning.

Originally Posted by SarahJ 


Thanks Jaykay. Is it just 2 wedding planners? I'll have a look at the airport for some bath sets if that's what they like.

There was only 2 wedding planners when we had our wedding, but I beleive there may be more now.  I would only take tips/gifts for the planners that helped you with your wedding planning.

Originally Posted by SarahJ 


Thanks Jaykay. Is it just 2 wedding planners? I'll have a look at the airport for some bath sets if that's what they like.

The mixed grill includes a peice of steak, chicken and pork along with roasted potatoes and vegetables.

Originally Posted by LinzWarr 

Hey does anyone know what is in the MIXED GRILL on the menu for the Garden grill?

We tipped the wedding planners the next day after the wedding when we picked up all our things (chair sashes ect).  We didn't give them monetary tips but rather gave them some nice lotions and bath stuff.  They seemed to be really excited about it.

Originally Posted by SarahJ 

Hi Brides...does anyone know at what point you tip the wedding planners? Is it the day after the ceremony so you know what to tip dependent on how impressed we are with the wedding etc!