ChipmunkRN

you don't need to do OOT bags no one expected them, but I have to say they were fun to put together and I loved how much everyone else loved them and were surprised by them. Plus it was exciting to see everyone using their beach bags at the pool or their key holders around their wrist. I didn't do mugs but saw plenty of people from other wedding parties using thier bubba drink cups. It was worth it for me to do.

Originally Posted by CafeDelMar21 

Hey Ladies, I have a question: Do I NEED to have OOT bags?

 

I'm asking because it's not like any of my guests haven't travelled before and, well, they should know what to bring. I find it more of a pain than anything. I've never been to a destination wedding so I don't know if I am expected to make them. HELP!

So my wedding went off wonderfully on Sat. I am not Mrs. Richardson. Christina the wedding coordinator on site is amazing. She is totally organized and knows what she is doing. Will write a full review when we get back but wanted to update any brides who are coming soon that the Disco is closed for repairs with an unknown date to reopen. We had planned for the wedding group to party there but they closed it the night before. So we ended up partying with Janel's wedding party in the Sunrise lobby where they had music and dancing so it all worked out. Its been a wonderful experiance, We upgraded our room to the concierge level this trip and I would definatly recommend it. They did so many extra touches, 3 times a day I would come into my room with a new surprise! It was great!! Ok back to my vacation.

Just putting the final touches on the wedding playlist! I cant believe we fly out tomorrow!!! My FI is being so good about the weight of the bags we have 3 suitcases and his golf clubs between us and the kids and each one is right at 50lbs! We are cutting it close. LOL

I just can't wait to be checked in and get a drink in my hand!

Tips from other Palace members on shots to try (I'm planning to try them all)

Bumble Bee

Mango Tango

Miami Vice

Scooby Do

Spiderman

Correlejo w/ oranges & sugar

Flaming cockroaches

Chocolate Cake

If you cant open the templates just send me your email address and I'll be happy to send them to you. If I attach them in an email here you still wont be able to open them.

Yep just "borrowed" the logo from the web site. I was surprised not one place questioned me on having the rights to use the logo, I thought that would have been an issue. Nope no one cared. LOL

The bag logo they had to remake since the pics on the web site are very low resolution

Originally Posted by Speckles121 

i LOVE the golfball idea. I am not sure how many of our guests are going to be golfing but I should at least include it for the guys in the oot bags!! Also with the moon palace graphic, did you just "borrow" the one from the website??

 

Everything looks amazing.. GREAT JOB!!

 

Moon Bag logo.pdf

Yes, the golf balls at the course are $50 for a box of Noodles, which are $15 at home! I about died paying that last year.

Originally Posted by MsHarryWinston 


AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Omg I actually yelled out loud when I saw these. They're so amazing. I love that you added golf balls, especially since I read that getting them at the course was stupid expensive. I'm completely addicted to OOT Bag ideas now.

OOT Bags

I got the totes at Outletshirts.com for $4.46, which was perfect then had them printed at home.

Golf balls were a great deal from Ziplinegolf.com, I love them

Got the activity books, color books, Spanish word guide and most all the template from other brides, I'm just reposting them.

The activity book has a page for a crossword I made one online and copied it in

American_Spanish_Phrases-USL[1].pdf

Final Coloring Book.doc

Final Room key holder.ppt

Final Room key holder back.ppt

first aid kit label.pptx

Final Wedding servival kit label.pptx

In Sickness and health.docx

activity book.docx

So Wed. Joannis got all my original locations and flower orders reserved. Thank goodness! I'm all done with my OOT bags will post picks later today, It totalled 35lbs! My fiance is handling the packing of all this crap very well. Just glad I don't have to lug it all back after the wedding.  Have one more foot jewelry to make then I'm done with that too.

The kids came up yesterday, the ex sent my new step son up with none of the Summer clothes we bought him last year and no underware. I swear if I wasn't so happy I'd be screaming. So off we go to shop again for summer clothes

We leave Monday, I am so ready to be on the plan and done with all the planning. The weather says showers Sat I hope it changes or clears up for the 3 afternoon weddings that are going on.

Cant thank everyone enough for their support and ideas. This blog has been a god send!

How was it getting your dress through security? Do you have to put it through the scanner? How was the airline about hanging it in the closet? I'm so worried because its so big and heavy. Much heavier than I thought it would be

Originally Posted by ladydi1844 

 Good that is what I thought. So you really don't need more than that.

 

Nope it was 90 days in advance that I could book hair/spa and golf
 

Originally Posted by shan0487 

Ok thank you!

 

I was told I couldn't make our hair appts until a month before the wedding by my wedding planner, is that what she told you?

 

 

Congrats! Your wedding looked wonderful! I was just wondering if I could wear my dress all night or not, wasn't sure if that would go over or not. I figure I paid enough for it I should be able to wear it at least one full night. LOL

Originally Posted by ladydi1844 

 lol feel free to ask away and you can email me [email protected]. I really relied on the girection of brides before me and i really want to try to pay it forward lol

 

Alberto at the Sunrise salon did my hair and he was FABULOUS. Amazing. I can't say enough great things about him. He is as good as everyone says. Book him early. Sofia did my daughter and she sucked. I was very disappointed. It is very windy but the saide thing seems to hold up pretty well. I was deflated by the end of the night but it was still cute but it lasted throughout the ceremony. I have a live feed of the ceremony so I can send you the link. You see my hair blowing a little but it looks cute not stupid lol. no mosquitos at Tucan but I did get eaten up at Traitorria the night before at the Golf course although the food was great. I was not hot at all- the breeze was great for that. Although I couldn't sit too much lol. I loved my dress and wore it all night to the swing bar and everything. I would have slept in it if my husband would have let me lmao. I don't know about the welcome dinner.. I did it at Arrecifies and while I wasn't crazy about the dinner there the ambience is great and it is really nice place. La Traitorria was good food but the bugs were tough to take. I love the Mohanana )whatever) chinese food in sunrise but it might not be fancy enough. sorry I am not good with that lol.

 

Thanks girls. it was a dream come true!

 

I think she is just for Moon Palace but I'm not completly sure. I'm sure if you asked her she could put you in contact with someone from another resort.

Originally Posted by shan0487 

Is Karla just the contact person for Moon Palace Salon or is she the the contact person for all resorts?

 

 

Does anyone have the wording for the civil ceremony? I thought I found it before but not I can't seem to locate it.

Thanks

Summer

Just sent you the file I had on the cakes at Moon.

Originally Posted by jackie44 

has anybody got any photos of the wedding cakes you can get from the moon palace please x

I asked Joannis who I could contact in charge to talk about my concers but she didn't give me anyone, she just said she would talk to them and make them aware.

Who knows, someone needs to be doing some customer service repair here. I have a feeling when we get to Mexico they will just pass the buck saying its the Florida office nothing to do with them.

Wishing us all good luch. *sigh*

Originally Posted by NaMaPe 

So Sorry to hear about your coordinator. Our wedding is the day after yours, Sunday the 25th and we have had the same experience. This is the worst service I have ever received, by a long shot!

I most certainly would think someone would have things under control, but apparently not. The only reason we finally got a response, after multiple e-mails and phone calls was because Palace wanted the remainder of the deposit, etc!!

 

When I finally got someone on the phone and explained we will be arriving in Mexico in less than 2 weeks....long pause, then ooohhhhh.  Yeah really oooohhhhh, maybe someone should pull their head out of their a** and realize people are spending a lot of time and energy, not to mention having large groups of people travel with them.

 

If you know of who we can complain to, please send along some contact info.

 

Last part of my vent, I have never seen so many brothers and sisters so jealous and selfish in my entire life. Going through something like this really shows you who your true Friends are!

 

 

So far Joannis has been very proactive but I still don't have things set. Hopefully I will talk to her on the phone monday to see what the status is. Good luck, all this is added stress we do not need. I just want a simple wedding and to enjoy my day. Palace is making it a little too difficult for this to happen.

Here is Karla's email address [email protected], she has been wonderful with booking spa treatments and hair appointments.

Advice for future brides let you wedding party make their own appointments, I feel like I am continually trying to coordinate appointments and treatments for everyone and their continual changes. It has been an added stress, wish i had everyone book their own appointments so I didn't have to stress over it.

You can book golf tee times in advance as well. Dai Alfredo Jimenez Herrera; [email protected]

My FI is going golfing the morning of the wedding while us girls are at the spa. LOL. whatever makes our day special.

Originally Posted by Zoehug 

hi my wedding is 2 days before yours and i dont have anything confirmed either. I originally had Beatriz but when she rang me realised she wasnt actually my WC after weeks of emails and she said that Ivis was, I have never actually heard anything from Ivis?? so email after email to Beatriz who was forwarding them to Ivis I got an email from Joannis saying she is now my WC. She rang me last week to let me know nothing is confirmed and she will see what she can do? As im from the UK she said she cant do any salon bookings for me I have to do them direct which im still awaiting replies from??? Onestly booking a DW has been a nightmare! MP will most defo be hearing my thoughts on all this when we arrive!!

Congrats on getting them done, I'm almost done with mine. Where did you find the Aloe I can't seem to find them?

Originally Posted by Jamie5280 

Hi ladies!

 

So, I finally have all the contents of my OOT bags.  I still need to make the tags, print off the welcome letter and get small bags for the contents, but I just wanted to show everyone what I am putting in there.

 

 

OK so I finally tracked down someone in the wedding department. I guess Joannis is now my wedding coordinator and she knew nothing of my wedding. How in the world does Palace not have any ideas as to what the hell they are doing!! I'm 18 days out and no one wonders with Ivis just walking out maybe they should look through the upcoming wedding and make sure things are set!!

Joannis is very nice and said she would call in all my requests since I'm so close to my wedding date but Ivis had nothing set! My flower order wasn't put in, my dinner reservation was on the wrong day, my sites are still not confirmed. I swear to goodness, if I could I would go with another resort. I am so unhappy and I plan to let Palace know.

I'm not happy Joannis said well with it being so late in the process she hopes my locations can be approved. Let me tell if they can't I'm going to raise holy hell!! Its not my fault they have incompetent workers.

Then I ask about my on-site coordinator and why she hasn't contacted me?!! Joannis said she would call her as well to get her in touch with me but really she should know I'm having my wedding in 18 days and she needs to at least email me to let me know who she is!

I don't know why I thought a DW would be less trouble, so far its a friggin nightmare!

Congrats! How exciting!!!

Originally Posted by alaharri 

Well ladies, we decided to get legally married at the last minute this afternoon because my man got off work early today.  He thought the idea of having our legal/fake wedding was fun to do on Leap Year, so we scrambled to go get our marriage license, and Ta-Da!  We're married.

did anyone get their on-site wedding coordinator a gift? If so what did you get? I'm drawing a blank on what to give her

Thank you for the info Coco, I am going crazy, the wedding is in 24 days and Ivis still hasn't responded and I still don't have any of my venues confirmed. It is so fustrating. I will call Miami on Monday and see if I can talk to someone else.

Wow!! Everything looks amazing!! The suit with the pink shirt I thik will look great together but I'm with you it needs to be untucked, maybe look on the Moon reviews for photos of other grooms to see how they wore their shirts, I've done this many times to show my FI the look I was thinking about. Sometimes I think its hard for them to imagine it.

I love the parasols, I've been going back and forth on these, yours look great.

I

Originally Posted by ladydi1844 

some DIY stuff. i was hoping to do a planning thread but that isn't going to happen for awhile lol.

Welcome back Mrs. Smith!! Look forward to reading your review!!

Originally Posted by krsmith 

Hi all my BEAUTIFUL ladies!

 

 I'm BACK and now a MRS!

 

I'm sorry it has been EONS since I have been on here! The last 5 months or so have been a crazy complete whirlwind of wedding planning, holidays, business trips, family drama, and my surgeries of course. I feel so awful that I abandoned you all! 

 

I hope you are all doing well and are enjoying your planning. I can say I am more than relieved for all the planning to be OVER! Whew! For someone who is not all that creative and who likes things very organized and done well ahead of time, and who has a hard time making decisions and sticking to them, this was quite a challenge for me. I really got so much help from all you ladies. I can't tell you how your support and love got me through a lot of hard times. I love you ALL! 

 

I am putting together my planning thread and my MP review, so stay tuned!!!

 

If any of you have any questions or need some help, feel free to email me on my personal email: [email protected] 

I check my email more often than I check my messages here, so I will be able to get back to you more quickly! 

 

Love and best wishes from a very appreciative Mrs. Smith! 

I've read that some brides bring a gift for the on-site wedding coordinator. Which I'm thinking is a good idea since she will be the one there making things happen so I'd like to make sure she is happy as well. But I have no idea what kind of gift to give her, if anyone else is doing this some ideas would be greatly appriciated.

FYI- status update nothing still from Ivis, I tried to contact Moon and they said they can't help because everything is through the miami office now and I thought I'd just contact my on-site wedding coordinator since I'm 30 days out but that person is no longer a wedding coordinator and I cant seem to find out who is. I'm so tired of the run around. Its crunch time at school so I'm just emailing Ivis everyday now and hoping things work out. UGH (who knew I'd use this icon so much.lol)