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Originally Posted by Coolcalcium 
 

Please help! - I'm struggling to know which place to choose for the reception. I will have about 35 guests and maybe 4 tables. My main concern is privacy. I'd love to be on the beach, but am worried how the dj and dance will be set up as I don't want to go for the dance floor. Any thoughts from previous tulum brides would be much appreciated!

By night time, nobody is on the beach - dont' worry about this.

The poolside I would say is the least private.  I saw a poolside reception happening, and there was a movie showing just a little further down alongside the pool, and everyone wandering the resort can see you.  The beach I think would be most private unless you went with a conference room.

Helloooooooo!! 

Well the short version is I lost a little weight, not much but my seamstress fixed me up

 Been really busy with my family in town and getting ready for our AHR  but I will post photos and a review soon.

The wedding was wonderful, however VERY RAINY that day.. but what can  you do?

Talk to you soon!

Hello ladies! I got back on Saturday from our wedding and am busy getting ready for our at home reception.  I'll write a review very soon but feel free to email me any specific questions you might have, [email protected]

It rained like CRAZY on our wedding day, but it was still wonderful They treat you very very well at Dreams Tulum, you're in great hands.

I leave on SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOSH I am soooooooo excited!

I decided to get married when I get back so our wedding day is November 14 in Mexico, we'll be legally married on November 23 here in Edmonton.

Ladies! 10 days until I leave.. and thank god for you all - I thought I was crazy here... not sleeping, worrying about silly things.

I did some tanning prior, I'm very fair anyway so I wanted to take some time to build a base.  I might go once or twice again before I go but I burnt my face last time... so no more face tanning!  Thank goodness the burn is gone already.

Here are some reviews - http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/newsearch?search=Dreams+tulum&type=15

Hey Ladies,     This is the best site ever. I am so excited to have found it. My fiancé and I visited Dreams in September and we have just this week booked the date of July 18th for our wedding. We are very excited, however we are noticing that a lot of family members are starting to  be concerned about the wedding being far away ( we live in NY). My parents especially, are worried that many people won't attend ( which I am okay with).  I am just wondering how many people most of you invited, and then how many people ended up actually attending. If you would be willing to share this with me I would really love it!  Another completely random question I have that may be on here but I haven't read all the pages is whether or not Chinese Lanterns are allowed. We would like to release them the night of the wedding, and the ones I found are non plastic and biodegradable. I was just wondering if anyone knew. Thanks so much!

LOL make that 22 days... clearly I cannot count!  Even better!

I keep looking at the resort website.... I can't wait

Ladies... it's almost time!!!!!!!!!!!

I leave in 23 days.  OMG! The little details are coming together, tonight is my stagette.. the first "event" really.

We're all getting married VERY soon!

Has anyone arranged a shuttle or limo for a group of people in Edmonton? We are thinking it would be nice since all our guests in Edmonton live close together and on the south side! But I can't seem to find a radon able quote... Blue sky wants to charge over 300 each way! Another thing, if anyone is looking for a reasonably priced seamstress in town, I found this amazing lady on kijiji, I'd be happy to share her info, just IM ME amazing! And about a quarter of the price a tailor shop was going to charge for some major alterations.

Good morning brides

Sehausle - have an amazing wedding Can't wait to see your pictures and hear your review, I hope it all goes very smoothly and you have a great time!

For those that are already married - did they let you do a "signature drink"?

How long did it take for your makeup and hair to get done at the salon? I'm working on the "day of" schedule, I've alloted 2 hours, that should be good right? It's just me.

Escort cards are for the reception table seating, if you are assigning seats. Ii'm not aging isle decorations, however, the resort is creating an aisle pathway with palm leafs ......not sure if you can transport sparklers on a plane but I do love that idea! We're having bubbles I too was starting to have sleepless nights so I invested in zzzzzquil! Love it

Do you think confetti/sparklers/whatever are necessary for a beach wedding?? I can't decide. What about a cake knife? That seems a little unnecessary, one of those little details that just doesn't matter that much... 

I'm clearly mid-panic attack, 29 days until we leave lol... I didn't sleep more than a few hours.. been up since 3 thinking about what i still need to do.

What's an escort card?? I'm googling wedding checklists and it keeps coming up.

I seem to be reconsidering things I've dismissed before.. aisle decor, for example, I was happy with chairs with sashes and a nice canopy, maybe that would be plain? I don't know! AAH! Wedding is tooo close!

When I think how close the wedding is... I start to panic lol.  So much to do, so little time left.

WHERE is the time going??  a little over a month now.. EEP.  SO much to do still...

Hope everyone's planning is going well

Here's my DIY Centrepiece

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Originally Posted by Looly 



Thanks for the info re: guitarist. I cant wait to hear how it goes (I am sure it will all be beautfful!). Please do let me know how it goes with the guitarist,as well as his contact info.
Thanks!

Looly - it wasn't me who hired a guitarist It was Sehausle!  See the previous page.

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Originally Posted by Murr1026 
 

Hi everyone,

Just got back from our wedding on September 3rd. Now don't get me wrong, we had a wonderful time, we visited this resort to book our wedding and were treated like gold!!! Do not expect this same service when you are the resort. We were given an expectation when we booked it a year prior to the wedding. I understand everyone has a different expectation, do not let the little things ruin your trip. Just wanted to share a few things that we noticed or had happen to us:

- There is loud construction happening in the deluxe garden view room area (Hacienda) if you are being placed here, ask to be moved before you even go to the room. They are jack hammering starting at about 8 or 9 am and hammering and making other noise prior to that, as early as 7 am. They are offering "upgrades" to the main garden/fountain area but a LOT of these rooms are double beds, not kings, so if a couple gets a room with 2 doubles, do not be surprised.

- Due to the low season, not all the restaurants are open on a regular basis. The world cafe is always open for breakfast and mostly lunch but barely dinner. They don't have the poolside grill (Barefoot - burgers and hotdogs) open all the time either. Between 3:30 and 6 pm (when the a la carte open) there is no where to get food other than the Coco Cafe which is just sandwiches and small desserts, room service and if you are on the beach and it's not raining, your beach server. If there is a special event happening in the Seaside Grill, they don't post that El Patio sometimes takes over the Seaside Grill menu, something to watch for! The Seaside Grill was only open 2 nights of our 12 day trip there, one of those nights it was the menu at El Patio but there was no signage. 

- Annabel is an awesome wedding coordinator. We spoke with Nayeli the entire time of the pre-planning but never once met her! We did all our work with Annabel at the resort. She kept us organized and calm and went over and above to make our day special! Ask for Noberto for your server at your reception! He is a super fun guy to have at your party!

- The photographers at the resort are great to take the pictures within your package. If you have specific groups or photos you want, be sure to stop in and speak to your photographer in advance! They do basic photos like family, wedding party, group and then just the bride and groom, so if you want something specific, take examples or give them a list! They took over 450 photos for us and we only got 50 printed for our book. They do offer a DVD with ALL the photos on them for $500. We started to pic our 50 and got it to 261 for the first round of downsizing, they were able to give us those 261 on DVD as they were our favorite for $250 US. It was a great price for the best of the photos! They do not do Trash the Dress off the resort in cenotes, just on the resort, so for $750 (give or take) you can do it in the pool and in the ocean. 

- The dive shop is full of great people! If you are Scuba Divers or Snorkelers, go visit them. Will is a great Dive Master! Go snorkelling off the beach by the dive shop, lots to see and if you go out 40-50 ft the water is deeper so you can see more. Watch for the 2 large queen angel fish by the water trampoline (which acts more as a water hammock than a bouncy fun thing!) 

- This resort is beautiful and located in a great area with a lot to do! We ove this area of Mexico and intend to return for our anniversary! 

- We did Xel-ha as a group and had a blast! Booked through the Best Day Travel operator on the resort at $89 a person all in.

- The travel time to and form the airport is at least 1 hour and 15 minutes. We had an entire bus to ourselves with no stops at any other resorts and it still took over an hour.

- The spa is great, use it if you can and get all your guests in there too! The cabin is beautiful and perfect for a romantic massage. The salon for your hair and make up day of is excellent. There was 4 of us total and it only took 1 hour and 25 minutes. We banked on at least 2 hours but it was nice to relax and grab a bite before everything went down. Our ceremony was at 3:30 and we started at 11 in the salon. We were back to our room by 12:45. 

- If you book a romantic dinner on the beach, make sure to ask if any special events are taking place at Seaside. A couple of our guests walked away from dinner and got a refund due to a large convention party at the Seaside, the music was so loud and the lights were so intrusive, they had to yell over to the table to hear each other.

- We were able to switch our cocktail hour and reception from the beach into the conference centre due to chance of rain. Do not have a cake fight in the convention centre if you are moved due to weather or planned it there anyways. It is super fun, but the cleaning bill is a heavy price!! Best cake fight ever!

- OH, and if you plan to have a large group dinner, they make you pay for it in any of the a la carte restaurants. Only the world cafe can accommodate you and if you give them a half our advance notice, they can make you a big table or have a whole section of tables for you otherwise if you just show up they get flustered.   

 

If you have any questions, feel free to message me personally! We had a great week before the bad weather set in and things started to close down. Overall, epic wedding at a beautiful resort! 

 

 

Wow thanks for the review!! I'm really feeling good with all these recent reviews.. no serious issues, everything went as planned... so I'm going to try real hard not to stress until November

Are these photos the ones the resort photographer took?? I like them, everyone's all "you gotta get your own photographer" and I'm like.. nah... I'll just roll the dice, I am spending ENOUGH on this wedding as it is, I'm sure the resort photographer is good. And judging by your photos, I'm right

What menu did you pick for your reception? Was the food good??  Your group looks about the same size as mine will be, did you find you had enough time to see everyone but have some alone time too?  Did you have a dance after your reception? We aren't going to, we feel it's too small and his family is too shy/chill/reserved to really have fun with that anyway so we're going to play our own music on the beach and then I hear there is a lounge with live music we could check out later - true?

I think the hotel will be more full when we go, apparently a lot of the rooms were already sold out a while ago.  I know our flight is for sure, so things must pick up in November.. hopefully the restaurants will be open more then.

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Originally Posted by Sehausle 
 

 

I am hiring an outside guitarist for the ceremony...he is a little slow responding to emails so I am VERY nervous but he is less money even with the +120 resort vendor fee and he has a good reference from the manager where he works. I will let you know how it goes (my wedding is October) and will give you his contact info if you like.

I can't wait to hear how your wedding goes in October... it's so close to mine it'll feel like the most relevant info lol.

HA! I'm so confused... I thought I was emailing Nayeli the whole time, but as far back as I can tell I've been emailing Anabel.... I don't know how that happened.

I got an answer about the canopy, she said, "If you bring the fabric you can just pay the set ups (150dlls+tax+services = 191.47dlls), unfortunately for set up canopy or paper lanterns the guest are not allowed to set up because the areas are high and can be dangerous."

In case ya'll were curious

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Originally Posted by BeaBride 
 

Hezmshaw:

 

FIrst of all, I did not have a beach wedding. However, I know that past brides have brought their own fabric.  Somewhere in these over 5000 posts, brides have talked about how much tulle they were bringing, etc.  You are allowed to set up your own decorations but depending on where they are being set up will depend on the time in the day they will allow you to set it up.  Some days there are 3 weddings so that will affect things as well.  The wedding locations also play into when things can be set up.   

 

Also, I'm pretty sure that the wedding planners will not allow you to set things up that require electricity or things that require a ladder to set up (probably for liability?), so I'm thinking that they probably don't allow you to set up the canopy.  I would check this with your wedding planner. 

 

From experience with dealing with my wedding coordinator in email, I would just tell her what I was planning on doing.  If she had a problem with anything, she would write back and tell me it was not possible.  Also, when I had questions, I would number them and then she would just respond to my questions directly below them.  Their English is pretty good but sometimes things get lost in translation over email so I tried to be as clear and concise as possible in order to get my questions answered promptly.  She always got back to me within 24-48 hours.

I have mixed feelings on the correspondence with Nayeli, I feel like when I ask her, "can I do this?" she's just referring me back to the options they sent... I know, I read those, I'm asking about something else lol.  And sometimes it takes days and days to hear from her (over a week last time), but other times she's really quick - I know they're busy with many weddings... so I'm trying to be chill about it.

I think I'd feel better about it if I wasn't simultaneously having issue after issue with our travel agent.  I completely understand how bridezillas happen now... lol.

Thank you for the information.. I'll put together an email asking her about the canopy, I'm hoping to avoid paying over 600 to add some color lol... I'll also search this thread.

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Originally Posted by MariaMiyuki 
 

Mine is coming up, too! November 11th! 

We'll be there at the same time   I tried for the 12th for our wedding but it was booked up, so we're getting married pretty far into the week.  We're there from Saturday the 9th until Saturday the 16th, wedding is on the 14th.

Ok ladies.. Help me out here if you are already married at dreams tulum. Can you bring your own fabric for the canopy? Can you set up your own decorations? I love this... (See picture) but $630 for 30 min or so seems pretty darn steep.

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Originally Posted by Coolcalcium 
 

I'm very confused how much to bring...when I think about it I get completely overwhelmed. I think definitely organza chair ties for the ceremony, and then table decos as I'm not sure how much more I can possibly cram into other people's bags?

I'm bringing chair ties too.. the resort charges $6 per tie.. I was able to rent them for $2.80 per tie in town and they're only charging me for one day even though I have them for over a week.  Worth it.  I think even if you pay for an extra suitcase you can end up saving money by having what you want and not doing it through the hotel.  I'm bringing my own centrepieces too.. but in pieces and we'll assemble there.