jjackson1977

Congrats to all the lucky ladies getting married....we had our wedding at Dreams Puerto Vallarta in April 2013. First of all the resort was above and beyond my expectations...beautiful, lush, and the service was over the top. We had people stay in both the old and new tower and everybody was super stoked on their rooms.....amazing views! I dealt with Fatima through the whole planning process and she was great....so quick to get back to me and she really did pull it all together. I had sent her photos of the ideas I had for flowers and they were unbelievable....so beautiful. The only caution I would say is to pay attention to prices...I was quoted things and later on would find the price was more than originally stated.....thankfully all correspondence was done by e-mail so they always went back to the original price and it never seemed to be an issue. We paid extra to do the beach bonfire and I would highly recommend this....they set out beach chairs, marshmallows, a fondu, bar service and a fire....a nice laid back way to thank the guests. My husband was not all for it as he thought it was over priced but I'm glad i stuck to my guns....and he did think it was great when we were there. We did our ceremony at the Oceana beach which seemed a little more private than the Seaside. Our ceremony was at 530 and was beyond hot.......most of the guys had completely soaked through their shirts. It was the end of April and a beautiful day so I'm not complaining but I can't even imagine how the other wedding going on at the other end of the beach handled those sunny hours doing a beach reception. One of the random add ons I did was the pedals down the aisle....I can honestly say I never saw them on the day of but they look super beautiful in the photos so two thumbs up to that. The other thing with the ceremony was I had asked for the ceremony script a couple weeks before we went down and when I read it I knew it was not our style....we only did a symbolic ceremony so I was able to just make our own. I really loved the reception area....just a beautiful spot at the las palmas terrace. We had added on pool and hanging lanterns and floral center pieces that matched our bouquets....this all looked perfect. We also added on the Tiffany chairs which looked really nice with the decor. As far as music for the reception we brought down a portable speaker called the blocker rocker....it was perfect for the ceremony and background reception....maybe not quite loud enough for the dancing but I found the poolside part went by super fast by the time you eat and do speeches, have the first dance and cut the cake it's time to wrap it up and move to the sports bar where they have a loud sound system. I just don't know if the price they charge for the sound system is really worth it for the amount of time you can be on the pool deck. We got the photographer (Lilli) supplied by the resort and she was amazing. We had a lot of fun with her and I got a tonne of great photos....I was super surprised the pix were so good cause I didn't really feel like we had put a lot of time into them. I had picked the package that included like 30 photos in a book but when I previewed them I ended up paying 800ish to take all the photos....so glad I did.....I love them! I hope some of this info is helpful to a Dreams PV bride out there....sorry it's a bit disjointed but I was writing as things were coming to me. Feel free to message me any questions.......and I'll try to post some photos soon!