Avegail Javier

Hello Everyone! Congrats to all the Brides to Be!! I am so glad that I found this forum! My fiance and I decided to move our wedding up 6 months so instead of having ayear to plan I only have 6 months... We've already booked our stay at Dreams Palm Beach thru our travel agent. She told me to fax them the dates to reserve our date for January 12, 2012 at 2:30 pm. I sent it about a week ago and no one has yet to email me back. I was really torn between the gazebo wedding or a beach wedding but after looking at some of the photos, I'm definitely sold on the beach wedding. I know some of you ladies were looking at booking HDC as the photographer... have any of you confirmed as if so how much do they charge? and do they do a "Trash the Dress" session? Is anyone from Canada also getting married there or does anyone know of anyone who has gotten married in DR from Canada? Someone from the resort told us that we have to send our documents to Texas to get translated in Spanish. I called Vital Statistics as I wanted to know if Canada and specifically Manitoba would consider a Marriage Certificate in Spanish vaild. They told me that I have to go and spending more money on translating the documents back to English...Total Cash GRAB if you ask me. Anyways does anyone know of any place in Canada that can translate it into Spanish? Can anyone comment on the Resort itself? I unfortunately went onto trip advisor after I booked thru my travel agent and I saw some disturbing pictures of mold in the bathrooms and stuff. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all those pictures were before the renos. Anyone else concerned about it as well?