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Annaru we are getting married on April 14th. I am excited to see you there, are you having a lot of guests attend? We have invited like 60 so far, 12 have booked and are confirmed. I am just now thinking of colors, the wedding coordinating at the Palace and I have been emailing back and forth because I had a thousand questions and she asked me for the color scheme so they can make sure they have it, any thoughts ladies??

Yea we are not going to book our airfare until after Christmas, my pastor did a wedding in Punta Cana last year at the Dreams Resort and they waited until like 2-3 months before wedding to book flight and got really cheap flights. We are paying for our Pastors hotel for 3 nights. She is paying for her airfare. We are also still going to give her money for doing the ceremony. I haven't gotten confirmation on the private reception yet. We are going to use the DJ they have there but my husband kinda of wants the live band, so we may switch. My best friends husband is a photographer and he has offered to do our pictures so that is great we just need to get a videographer. I friend requested the FB RIU Punta Cana brides yesterday! I am glad you found me too. OH and our ceremony is at 2pm, reception at 5:00pm. most of our guests are coming in Friday night, so we will have a welcome dinner/ rehearsal. after the reception we will probably have light cocktails. Sunday brunch with everyone and an excursion/ sight seeing with guest that want to come, everyone else is free to enjoy their time. Most people are leaving Monday, my husband and i are leaving Tuesday.

Swojdyla- Thanks for checking out our wedsite, it was a labor of love for sure. To answer your questions, yes we did get married in June of this year. We had a very small ceremony legalizing our marriage, so when we go to Punta Cana in April it is considered a renewal of vows. Our pastor at our small wedding did a very simple ceremony, we did not exchange our own vows that we wrote, we just recited the vows back to her. We also did not do communion or a sand pouring ceremony. Our pastor is coming with us to Punta Cana and will perform the ceremony as if it was the first time- and we will get to do our own vows that we will write, along with communion and our sand pouring ceremony. This makes life a little easier for us because we don't have to worry about the legal requirements in the DR. We have invited like 85-90 people but are looking for about 40 to be in attendance. So far we have 12 booked including us two. I am super excited you will be there to see our wedding. We requested a private reception with a DJ, but my husband now wants the live band- so I have to email the coordinators and see if that is possible. I haven't yet joined the FB page but will do so today. i am super excited about this wedding. cant wait to chat with you more.

Hi Jen, I am on FB. try and find me [email protected]. the Planning is coming along, we actually got married on June 5, 2011. we had a small ceremony with about 7-10 people so that we could have it done legally. But our Pastor is coming with us to the DR. It makes it a lot easier because it is considered a renewal of vows in the DR and we don't have to go through all the paper work there. Our pastor will do a full ceremony as if it is the first time. We will have communion, and the pouring of the sand ceremony. we have a great TA that is local in MD. We have 12 people booked so far. We are having a private reception we have about 40 people who will be joining us. We finally finished our wedding website, check it out and let me know what you think- www.haenerandkellyelie.wedsite.com I want to do boarding passes for save the dates. I was thinking of doing the OOT bags and putting passports in them with the itinerary for the weekend, and a map of the resort, some sun screen little things like that. i also want to send out invitations with luggage tags that the guest can actually use?!? I want to do this myself, not sure how feasible it is. How is the planning going for you?? We haven't settled on colors yet.... i want to do like a tiffany blue/ and maybe a green with a tan color maybe not sure..any thoughts??

hi jen we are getting married RIU Palace Punta Cana April 14 2012. Wedding confirmed and our room booked. we are getting our wedding website together for our friends and family so they have all the details. when is your date?