AD2012

I ran into something similar a couple days before we left. There was no mention of me requiring my birth certificate and two days before we left i was told that I needed to have my birth certificate translated for them. When we arrived at the resort Jazmin told me that because my last name was different than my fathers I needed to have it translated.

I would just reply to her and ask why this information is requried.

Hope this info helps!

Originally Posted by cheeky26 

Ok so...I heard from Eugenia about some of the details and now I'm confused!

We scanned our passports for both us and our witnesses, and sent her the paperwork for choosing restaurant, etc. She replied that we still need to send her our birth certificates, to "start the process of the single status certificate". Neither of us has been married/divorced before, so I'm not sure what this is for? None of the paperwork mentioned this previously, can anyone help me out? 

Thanks

Erin 

I brought in MVP to my hair & makeup which included a trial the day before my wedding. I was prepared to pay the $90.00USD fee for both days but ended up lucking out and we weren't charged the day pass, neither was the vendor.

Be prepared to pay the fee but you never know you might luck out like we did!

Originally Posted by christy12 

1 more question!

 

If you bring in someone to do your hair/makeup, do you have to pay for a day pass for them as well? I'm assuming yes, but would love to hear no!

 

Thanks!

Both dresses are gorgeous! Are you opposed to using both? One for the ceremony the other for the reception. Or even using one for a TTD or day after session?

We found individually wrapped pepto tablets at Walmart. I came across advil tablets online but ended up getting ours at Dollarama in bottles of 10 for $2.00. 

Originally Posted by Andrea28 

Do any of you know where we can find individually wraped pepto, advil,  tylenol or imodium here in Canada ???

Some of our guests booked in advance and I would recommend it. We didn't book in advance and were unable to make any reservations earlier than midnight. We ended up taking to Jazmin about it and she made a couple for us that were for 10:00pm.

Originally Posted by LCQ1401 

Did anyone have to book restaurants in advance?? Or was there availability when you arrived at the hotel? X

Great blog post! Thanks for sharing!

Gorgeous photos!!!

Originally Posted by AfricanVenus 

I searched as best as I could to make sure I wasn't repeating my post, but I didn't see anything. I just wanted to share my TTD pics with the community, esp. to my Chocolate Brides out there who might be afraid to get their hair wet, lol. The links are below:

 

http://www.ebony.com/photos/style/black-wedding-style-bride-goes-underwater

http://www.vimeo.com/26791034 (Wedding clip vid)

http://www.shariann-kofi.auroragphotography.com/ (photog's gallery)

 

Here are some teasers:

 

Enjoy ladies!

Here is a photo of my brooch bouquet! Definitely worth the hard work. In the end it weighed around 7.5lbs

Erinmc - Great bouquet, it looks fabulous!!

We used the following Etsy seller who is based out of canada and paid only $2.50 for shipping.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackCatCreates?ref=seller_info

The fans were cute and of a decent quality.

CdnBeatPrincess - Amazing photos!!! Love your short dress!!

I found some linen items at Le Chateau when we were looking. I'm from Edmonton and a few mens stores here had them like Colony Clothing in West Edmonton Mall.

Quote :

Originally Posted by PuntaBride 

Hi Canadian Brides,

 

I'm looking for some advice on where to buy men's linen pants and dress shirts.  I went to the obvious choice ... Tommy Bahama ... and of course I fell in love with an outfit, but it is waaaaay too much money for our budget.  I'm talkin' $300 for each groomsmen.  I can't ask them to spend that much.  So, I'm looking for other ideas?  I know we are also limited in terms of the time of year to buy this kind of thing due to our seasons, so I'm getting antzy.  We are getting married next May and I don't want to leave it to the last minute!

We had separate song for the signing. We did the symbolic ceremony and had 4 ppl including my hubby and I sign the certificate. It didn’t take very long but long enough that if we had one song for the signing and recessional, we probably would have ran out of music.  If you are doing a legal ceremony, it’s my impression that the signing takes quite a bit longer than the symbolic.

Originally Posted by Maria1301 

I have a question for other Bahia brides.

 

Jazmin said to pick 4 songs for the ceremony, Prelude, Processional, Interlude for the signing, and Recessional.

 

I emailed the pastor and the sample ceremony that he sent me has the signing of the ceremony as the last part of the ceremony.  Did you have one song for the signing and then start a new song as you walked back down the aisle?  Did anyone pick 3 songs and use the same song for the signing and walking back down the aisle?

 

Thank you!

Coba Bride 2012 - Beautiful photos. Congrats!!!

I was married in May of this year. I am also contemplating what I am going to do with all of our photos. I am wanting to make a couple of photo books online @ photobook canada. I've also been thinking of maybe putting our photo's on a canvas. Would love to see what other brides are doing with all their fav photo's

We used sand for a treasure box that our guests put their completed mad lib guest book sheets in. Jazmin suggested we use the sand from the beach vs. purchasing it.. We didn't take this sand home with us so I'm not sure if it would be different for favours.

Originally Posted by shellee 

question for any of you out there do any of you know if you are allowed to take sand off the beach to use as part our favors????

Hey Ladies,

Just a heads up, living social edmonton has a photo book deal for picaboo. $10.00 for a 20 page book.

http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/81/deals/355050-20-page-customized-hardcover-photo-book

Originally Posted by Maria1301 

 

Did anyone miss having a dance floor at their reception?  It is terribly expensive to rent through the resort so FI and I decided not to have one. 

Did any guests comment or did they just have fun dancing by the pool and jumping in at the end of the night?

 

Is the Tulum poolside reception close enough to the beach where people could dance in the sand if they wanted to?

 

Our poolside reception is scheduled from 9-11, did brides with the same time frame feel like that was enough time for dancing?

 

Thanks!

We had the same amount of time at our reception and it was over way tooo fast! We had asked Jazmin if we could extend it later and were told the latest was 11. It was fun but it was hard to get everything in. We didn't have time at dinner to do the cake cutting so we did it at the reception, first dances & bouquet and garter toss left little time for dancing.

If you can have it start earlier I would suggest you do that or see if you have any luck extending your reception past 11.

Originally Posted by sun surf sand 

 

 

I want to bring shells in for decor as well, I have been trying to do some research on the topic but I haven’t been able to find any definitive answers yet so I’m hope someone knows too. J

I bought a bag of seashells from Michaels and brought them with me. We didn't have any problems getting them there, but I was unable to find any definitive answers either.

Originally Posted by Maria1301 

 

A few questions for past brides

 

Did the restaurant staff cut your wedding cake for the guests after you and your husband cut the first piece?

 

My fiance and I would like to add an hour to our pool side reception.  Is this an option? If so, how much would it cost?

We asked our WC if we could have the poolside reception later and were told no, the latest they could do was 11. We did our cake cutting at the reception and had to do it ourselves.

Originally Posted by Dominican Ally 

 

How far out did this happen to you? Did they end up making changes only once?

I'm now paranoid that I'll get this straightened out, only to have them change it again....ugh!

We booked in August of 2011 and found out in October. We were fortunate because it only affected our Calgary flights. We surrended all of reserved Calgary flights and routed everyone through edmonton. It sucked because we had to give up Calgary seats and our Edmononton flights was completely booked, all we had were our reserved seats.  We had to move our wedding date from May 11 to May 10th, luckily our resort was accommodating with the date change. Air Transat didn't make any further changes to our schedule after this, so hopefully you're in the clear.

I hope everything works out for you, I know how stressfull it can be!

Originally Posted by Dominican Ally 

 

Hello Fellow Canadian Brides!

 

I just wanted to give everyone a head's up about something that has just given me a mini-meltdown. It appears Transat has now posted AND changed their 2013 flight schedules for some gateways. I would suggest if you have a 2013 wedding and are booked through Transat that you contact your TA to check to see if this impacts your schedules at all.

 

For me - we had booked with the impression that everyone was leaving Saturday April 6, to Saturday April 13. This included people going from Ottawa (36ppl), Calgary (7ppl) and Edmonton (4ppl). Well...the "new" schedule came out, and they moved Edmonton's flights to the 5-12, and Calgary's to the 3-10. The wedding is on the 11th, so this means the Calgary schedule misses it alltogether, and the Edmonton one means people have to travel the day after the wedding............so I'm waiting to talk to my TA today to figure out this mess and see what we can do. Changing the wedding date doesn't seem to be much of an option, since the hotel is pretty booked up and I've already ordered things with the date.

 

Don't want to alarm anyone, but want to make sure you find this out ASAP if it also impacts your wedding - since my TA and I only found out because we specifically asked for the flight schedules as I had come across some posted on expedia.

We ran into this with our air transat flights for our May wedding. Very frustrating!! Hopefully you are able to get everything figured out without changing your date!

Krysta lee ann - 

Great photos!!!  You look stunning!

Originally Posted by Maria1301 

 

AD2012, when did you put the cash down as a deposit for the DJ?  The pictures you posted are beautiful!

 

Does anyone know how much the minister's fee is?  When is he paid?

We put the cash down at our meeting with Jazmin. I think it was around 500-600 it was half of what we paid for our wedding in total.  This included flowers, any resort supplied decorations, resort DJ, cake, bar option for poolside reception, additional sparkling wine for after the ceremony, and any other charges from the resort relating to our wedding. We went with the Sunshine Package for $975 which at the time of our booking included minister fees.

Jazmin included the DJ fees in our grand total and we had to pay for half of that in cash as the deposit.