CondesaAzul

Hola!!

I want to thank you this thread for all the tips I had for my wedding, however, my wedding was a roller coaster of experience and emotions...DRC is absolutely a beautiful place....as soon as I have a break from work I will post my review.

Happy planning!

My last day at work!!!! Tomorrow I'm flying to Cancun!!!!....I'm getting super excited

Note: I did not get my answers from Lorena or Evangelina since 13th, I called yesterday, and Lorena had her day off, so I scheduled an appointment for tomorrow with her,  I'm putting  them to the test  to see if they can pull up my wedding with only 2 days, thanks to their lack of communication by email. I'm not worry, I'm actually overjoyed I'm going to see my family soon and they are going to meet my future husband...

Originally Posted by EmilyT 

 

even though i changed my wedding date to a week later & got confirmation from someone named Gaby I still havent heard from Lorena and she was included in all of the emails.. i know she is very busy and my wedding is months away but now i am practically beging her to just to reply with SOMETHING.... just for her to let me know she has seen the emails and knows the date has changed would be such a relief but its like pulling teeth. . . i find this soo irritating lol i just needed to vent.. im not asking her simple things like "hey my wedding is months away can we discuss the types of chairs we use ? ? " NOOO i am asking her to cofirm that she knows WHEN IT IS LOL sorry im losing it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emily,

Neither Eva or Lorena had replyed my emails since Last Monday, We are flying this Friday, I have to many question without answers, they have not say anything about the pool deck is under construction, and I have 4 guests of 40  that need info about the day pass. They are challenging my patience, a close Uncle passed away 2 weeks ago and it got me very emotional, I hope I heart from them to day or I may be force to make a long distance call...

At this point, Dreams's WC should know what are the most commun questions the brides ask, and it should have a questionary or a list send to the brides so they do not get as many repeated questios and keep calm the brides...I think is a good sugestions for their customer services.

Liz

Originally Posted by Sarah-Jane 

 

 

Hi Liz, 

 

Weather so far is fantastic!!!! Very hot!!! I am a little worried about the heat and my dress but the beach has a lovely breeze most of the time so fingers crossed! 

 

You may just see our ceremony it is on the North Beach at 17.30 on the 24th so if you arrive on time give me a little wave!!!

 

Just had my meeting with Lorena she is lovely!!! This time next week I will be so excited!!!

 

I will keep an eye on here so if you have any questions just let me know 

 

S-J x

Thank You Sara, I will!! I'm pretty sure you are having a blast!...The weather look phenomal next week, but I'm a little concert about a depression is developing just near Africa that may affect somewhere the end of the month...Please keep me up date it of any changes when you have a chance of course..lol

Salud!

-Liz

Originally Posted by Sarah-Jane 

 

WELL I AM HERE!!!!!

 

Arrived yesterday and up at 5am due to jetlag from the UK! We booked the honeymoon suite and its lovely we didn't receive an upgrade but it is very very nice and we are very pleased with it! 

Meeting Lorena at 10.30 this morning and having our blood tests done too (for legal ceremony)!

We have noticed the pool deck still under construction so will ask Lorena about this but we still have a week today until our wedding so will keep you updated!!!

 

S-J xxx

Awesome!!! We are arriving on the 24th with Wedding on the 26th...we may see your ceremony....=).....how is the weather? why they are fixing the pool deck?

-Liz

Originally Posted by LindseyM 

 

Here is our slideshow!!!

 

http://200712mcmahon.dreamsriveriacancun.adventurephotos.com.mx/

 

She also sent us one of ALL of our photos that she put together.  This is every photo she took:

 

http://mcmahonwed.dreamsriveriacancun.adventurephotos.com.mx/

 

Life is good!!  These pictures brightened my day so much!!

 

Awesome!! you guys had a super great time!!...I do not if is because my wedding is getting close, but I was crying watching your pictures, I think I'm getting very emotional to soon...

Where did you get your sand set?...I love that heart!

Originally Posted by Katie Beth 

 

Just tell him that after the meet and greet and wedding his vacation can start! Mike and I stayed for a week after our wedding and up until all wedding stuff was over it was a "working vacation" lol. Once you get there you will see how relaxing it is and everyone will hang out together! Everyone has to make their own fun and not rely on the bride and groom It's your moment! You can set up group tours once you are there. We used olympus and for example you can get a private cataraman if you can get at least 20 ppl to sign up and usually you and your husband will be free!

Thank you Katie! its a excellent choice for our group... I don't want to give his brother  an impression of he won't see his brother at all, but I want him to understand that he is their for a wedding not a 3rd bachelor party...

Originally Posted by MCree 

 

Hey ladies!  Im looking at scheduling a deep sea fishing trip for the guys while we are down there, and although i have heard some people discuss it before, i cant seem to find where information was posted about this.  Does anyone know any good companies to go through for this or catamaran tours?  Thank in advance for your help!

My brother in-law wants to take my fiance for deep fishing the day before the wedding, honestly I'm getting nervous about that, since my family is arriving that day and meeting him for the first time...I had a conversation with my fiance about that and he feels bad about his brother, because he is not bringing a date and he feels he needs to entretaint him...I told him we need to be available for our 40 guest and not only for his brother + we counting this trip as a our honeymoon too...however I would love to go out as a group to do things arround the area instead living my family behind.

Originally Posted by LindseyM 

 

Our Dreams Riviera Cancun Wedding

 

I am not exactly sure how to organize this review.  I guess I will start by saying that we always knew we wanted a destination wedding.  Multiple friends of ours had one and we loved them.  We didn’t know we were going to go to DRC, though.

 

My husband plans huge events for a living yet he left the research and planning up to me.  We were going away to Riviera Maya last year and planned to look at various resorts.  DRC was one.  The resort we were staying at, Ocean Coral & Turquesa [horrible!!] was another.  We also planned to see The Royal Cancun and Azul Sensatori.  Once we got to Mexico last year we knew immediately that OCT was awful but we made the best of it.  A few days in we decided to go check out DRC.

 

We had set up an appointment with the then-manager, Ana.  When we arrived Ana greeted us with Jorge and introduced herself.  Jorge took us on a guided tour which we video taped.  If you missed it, here are the videos:

 

www.youtube.com/belcantoragazza

 

Immediately we knew that DRC was the right choice.  It was head and shoulders above the resort we were at and everyone looked like they were having a blast.  We reserved our date in person immediately.

 

Fast-forward a year to the day we arrived at Dreams.  I will say I was panicky a few days before leaving because my coordinator had changed from Yamina to Lorena and I hadn’t had any communication with Lorena.  When we arrived we were with 10 other people.  They whisked us away from them to the preferred club area to check in.  We had been booked in the honeymoon suite because we reserved 20 rooms for our guests.  When we arrived though, Dennys in the preferred club upgraded us to a Master Suite!!  Our bags were brought to our room immediately and we were given our first drinks and a cool towel.  It was heavenly after traveling from 3 AM.

 

We went up to our room, unpacked, changed and went down to the pool for some drinks.  Overall, it was a very easy and relaxing travel day.

 

Wednesday morning we had plans to meet with Lorena.  As soon as I met her I knew she would make our wedding a DREAM!    We brought all of our welcome bags to her and they were distributed later that afternoon.  One thing I wish the resort did better was delivering the bags in the morning instead of waiting until people checked in.  We had important information for that night in the bags and some of our guests didn’t get it right when they should have.  That would be one thing I would stress.  They say they don’t deliver before check in because sometimes people change rooms, etc.  Anyway, we went through all of the details with my parents and paid for the wedding right then.  Lorena said we could bring back all of the supplies Thursday morning for them to set up on Friday.  Afterward we just went and hung out by the pool until our guests arrived.

 

Wednesday afternoon I did a hair and make up trial in the salon.  I 100% recommend this and if you need an appointment I would make it ASAP.  I think I saw the email address for the spa floating around somewhere.  I had Rosa do my hair and make up.  I showed her a picture and while it looked nice, my hair looked nothing like the picture.  By the end of the night I decided I didn’t want this for my wedding hair because it was way too teased on top and did not feel beachy at all.  My make up on the other hand was PERFECT!  She did exactly what I asked and I felt like I was glowing!

 

Wednesday night we planned a welcome cocktail.  Really, it was very informal.  We put in our welcome packets for people to meet in the lobby at 7:00 PM to mix and mingle.  We all had some drinks, my husband made a toast, and then we dispersed for dinner.  A bunch of us ate at the Seaside Grill and others went to Portofino.  Having it informally was no problem.  The lobby wasn’t crowded at that time and when people did start to come we had already taken up a lot of the space around the bar so it worked for us.  We had Kevin’s sister whistle loudly when we wanted to make the toast.

 

Thursday was awesome!  We hung out by the pool all day, played volleyball, and relaxed.  We arranged a 4:00 rehearsal with Lorena, Jorge, and Linda the minister.  We were very nervous at the rehearsal because Linda hadn’t looked at our script yet.  We also had Kevin’s dad play guitar for our ceremony and we couldn’t hear it so it was hard to get our cues.  I will say Jorge was amazing at this!  He cued all of my girls and signaled us out when it was needed.  I do feel pretty confident that even without the rehearsal, the wedding would’ve gone perfectly! 

 

We planned the semi-private rehearsal dinner for El Patio right when they opened at 6:00.  The servers were not quite ready for us at 6:00 so we were all congregated in the lobby when Lorena and Evangelina came to find us.  Instantly, I was worried but for no reason!  They came to tell us that they were upgrading us from the Master Suite to the Presidential Suite!!  That meant I could walk down the aisle from our room!!!  It was an awesome surprise.  They asked us not to say anything because there were A LOT of other brides at the resort [including another one on our day] who were not upgraded.  There is more than one presidential suite though, and I found out one of the FOUR [yes, four] brides from Saturday’s wedding ended up in the one next to us.  Ours was the one where the stairs go straight down though.  The others have side stairs.  We were told we’d be moved the morning of the wedding.

 

Friday was like a dream.  I was a little upset in the morning because the people communicating with us about the moving of rooms were not the wedding people so there was some mixed communication.  They did not want to move our room until 1:00 PM, which was completely unacceptable.  My husband called and they moved us at 11:00 AM but not before I had a heart attack.  Haha.  So they moved us down there and all of the girls hung out at the plunge pool until the spa.  We had spa appointments for 1:00 and 3:00.  I went first along with my maid of honor, mom, and mother in law.  The other three girls went when we finished.  The same girl does your hair and make up and they have a book to choose styles from.  I told Rosa I changed my mind about my hair and pointed out a bridesmaid’s hair from the other wedding and told her I wanted that.  She did just that and I ended up loving my hair!  All of my girls were thrilled with how they looked at the wedding!

 

The actual wedding itself was incredible.  We got ready in the room, ordered room services and champagne.  I am not sure what my husband did because he was with the guys but we did not walk down the aisle until 6:00.  At 4:30 Mike Cantarell from Cancun Wedding Video came to see us!  He began by first filming things around the suite, then me opening my wedding gift from Kevin, then my mom opening a gift from me.  Anel arrived around 5:00 and took photos of me getting ready, my dress, my lingerie, etc.  They worked so well together!  Mike is not a resort vendor and he worked so well with Anel and vice versa!!

 

I was super nervous because up until 20 minutes before the ceremony they decorations they had our for our set up were pink!!!  I was panicking because our colors were green and blue.  My maid of honor called and nothing got fixed so my mom called and the fixed it last minute.  It was a miscommunication for the other wedding.  It made me nervous but then again, I had a ton of nerves anyway just because of the fact that it was our wedding day!  Once they fixed it everything was perfect.

 

I could see the guests getting seated from all of the windows in our room.  I could see Kevin standing with the guys, checking his watch, etc.  It was great.  I kept peeking out and then at 5:55, Lorena lined came in and lined up our mothers, brothers, bridesmaids, and finally me and my dad.  Kevin’s dad played guitar and it was SO GOOD that we got the sound system!!  We needed it.  Jorge cued Lorena by radio and she told the moms and girls when to start walking.  When it was our turn she said, “Take a deep breath, smile, this is your moment, walk slowly!† My dad and I walked down the steps from the presidential suite.  When we got to the bottom step we looked at each other, smiled, and jumped off of the last step.  I hope someone recorded that because it was one of my favorite moments.

 

From then on, things were a blur.  The ceremony was light hearted.  Linda was great!  She is an amazing speaker.  The crowd laughed, we laughed, everything was perfect.  It was windy though and my maid of honor had to hold my veil a lot of the time.  After the ceremony, everyone got champagne and took a big photo on the beach.  We took portraits while our guests were lead to the cocktail hour.  We missed almost the entire cocktail hour but everyone loved the mariachi trio and food.  We had welcome cocktails passed which were blue mojitos to match our colors! 

 

I will say for as windy as it was on the beach, we chose the hottest night of the year!  Perfectly sunny and beautiful but we were SWEATING in the Seaside Grill.  So much that we made an announcement for people to go change if they wanted.  No one did though.  The three hour reception flew by but it was a blast!!  A huge dance party.  I cannot say enough about the staff and vendors.  They took great care of us!  DJ Mauricio played all of our songs and kept the party going.  He was wonderful. 

 

Saturday night a family member rented the wine room at Bordeaux for us.  It was AWESOME!!!  Awesome food and service and we were thrilled with that too.

 

Everything was amazing!!!  We loved every minute of our trip and wish we could go back to Dreams this instant!  The resort has so much to offer and being there with your closest friends and family is a dream come true.   2013 brides, if you are worried about lack of response from coordinators try to relax.  This place is a wedding factory and they run it like a well-oiled machine.  Once you arrive, everything gets taken care of.  They treat you like gold and you truly feel like a VIP guest.  My husband and I joke that we will never have it that good on vacation again and that is probably true.  Dreams was truly a DREAM and we don’t regret any bit of our decision to have our wedding there.  Our guests cannot stop raving about it.  We can’t stop missing it!!  It was everything we imagined and so much more.  The little hiccups along the way were totally forgotten when we saw each other on that day at the foot of the sea. 

 

 

Anyway, I apologize if this is jumbled or confusing!  I wanted to tell it like a story.  It was the best trip of our lives!  If you have any questions I’d be happy to answer them and I should have my slideshow this week from Anel in time for our at-home wedding so I will be sure to share that too!

 

Thanks for all of the love and support for the past year!!

Lindsey....You made me cry girl!!! I just felt you, like I was there....I'm so happy that everything went well and all your family had a great time @ dreams. Congratulation again!!!

I have a few weeks to go...I have not seen my family since 2010 (all live in Mexico) and they are going to be there to meet my fiance and his family for the first time...I'm so excited! =)

What bar did you meet your family?

I have a question for the brides...Did Dreams charge you to deliver your OTT bags to your guests?

Because I found this in their policy,

"Dreams Riviera Cancun will deliver gifts to the guest’s rooms. There will be
a $3.00 USD and 15% service fee per room. A complete list of all guests
along with room numbers are required."

Originally Posted by LindseyM 

 

My dad did a lot of tipping... I believe...

 

- 4 serves for rehearsal dinner $20 each

- Jorge [banquet manager who took over for Lorena] $50

- DJ $50

- Photographer $100

- Videographer $100

- Lorena $100

The 15% Service Charge isn't for that? I guess is good to tip Photographer and DJ...but the rest is already included.

Hi girls!!!

I just had my bachelorette party in Atlantic City, I know this is about wedding in DRC, but I'm taking one step at the time and enjoying my journey. I was at HQ at Revel hotel...amazing!!! Now DRC Wedding plan has my all attention...

Cheer Ladies!

Hi Everybody!!

I have a beautiful Oleg Cassini (Jackie Kennedy's designer)l wedding dress that I would like to sell, my mother in law bought it for me, but is not my style. My Wedding is on 08.26.2012 and already got the the wedding dress that I felt in love with. The dress is new, Ivory color,  size 10 and with not alterations, it comes with its cover bag, probably you have seen some brides here that had that dress, its beautiful, but again, is not my style. My mother in law bought at David's Bridal for $359 + $10 for the bag, but now at Davis's is for Sale $250.00 online, however, there are not sizes available. I will sale it for $250.00 plus S&H. or if you near Philly you just can take it for $250.00. Any questions let me know, and I will give my email for more info. Thanks and happy planning!!!

This Hotel is Dreams Cancun...in Cancun, no Dreams Riviera Cancun.

This Hotel is Dreams Cancun...in Cancun. No Dreams Riviera Cancun...in Puerto Morelos.
 

Hola a Todos!

Before to start, I want to congratulate all the Brides and I want to Thank you all of you for choosing my country for your wedding destination, I moved to USA from Cancun 13 years ago, and let me tell you, Cancun has grow so much since then, no more Innocent little town...Now, I have been following this tread since I got engage last year, my wedding date is 08.26.2012 at DRC, I'm so happy!!!....I'm taking the risk of doing my wedding on hurricane season, however, since the heat has reach the north of USA (I'm in Philly) and we would not have break until mid Sept, I believe any storm or hurricane will be in the Pacific or North Atlantic, I just want to be optimistic..lol...I started to have emails from WC, I speak Spanish very well, however all my emails with my WC got back in English.

Any how, I stopped to worry about the wedding, I want to enjoy the process and I want to see my family so bad in Mexico....So on July 20 is my love Bday and he is going to Atlantic City for his Bachelor party, and I have the apartment for my bachelorette party after going to see Magic Mike, I have no clue what to do, my BF/MOH is in Philippines, any tips?

Lets have fun!

Hola a Todos!

Before to start, I want to congratulate all the Brides and I want to Thank you all of you for choosing my country for your wedding destination, I moved to USA from Cancun 13 years ago, and let me tell you, Cancun has grow so much since then, no more Innocent little town...Now, I have been following this tread since I got engage last year, my wedding date is 08.26.2012 at DRC, I'm so happy!!!....I'm taking the risk of doing my wedding on hurricane season, however, since the heat has reach the north of USA (I'm in Philly) and we would not have break until mid Sept, I believe any storm or hurricane will be in the Pacific or North Atlantic, I just want to be optimistic..lol...I started to have emails from WC, I speak Spanish very well, however all my emails with my WC got back in English.

Any how, I stopped to worry about the wedding, I want to enjoy the process and I want to see my family so bad in Mexico....So on July 20 is my love Bday and he is going to Atlantic City for his Bachelor party, and I have the apartment for my bachelorette party after going to see Magic Mike, I have no clue what to do, my BF/MOH is in Philippines, any tips?

Lets have fun!

Hola a Todos!

Before to start, I want to congratulate all the Brides and I want to Thank you all of you for choosing my country for your wedding destination, I moved to USA from Cancun 13 years ago, and let me tell you, Cancun has grow so much since then, no more Innocent little town...Now, I have been following this tread since I got engage last year, my wedding date is 08.26.2012 at DRC, I'm so happy!!!....I'm taking the risk of doing my wedding on hurricane season, however, since the heat has reached the north of USA (I'm in Philly) and we won't have a break until mid Sept, I believe any storm or hurricane will be in the Pacific or North Atlantic, I just want to be optimistic..lol...I started to have emails from WC, I speak Spanish very well, however all my emails with my WC got back in English.

Any how, I stopped to worry about the wedding, I want to enjoy the process and I want to see my family so bad in Mexico....So on July 20 is my love Bday and he is going to Atlantic City for his Bachelor party, and I have the apartment for my bachelorette party after going to see Magic Mike, I have no clue what to do, my BF/MOH is in Philippines, any tips?

Lets have fun!