sherrie23

Red Locks catamaran trip to the waterfall- everyone coming back looked like they were having a great time.

Maria- I'm going to try to answer some questions now & some later. There are lots of places to pick from for your venue- we choose the Hillside Gazebo. The Reef Terrace was our second choice. Here is a link to all our photos- some were done by our off-site photographer who lives in OR & some by the resort. If I'm wearing a veil it was the resort photo. https://ryansherriemiller.shutterfly.com/ We need not have a butler & I did my own hair. We decided not to do any pay excursions but the party boat was a hit & our local wedding photos were in Dunns River Falls. We did dinner on the beach two days after our wedding ( see photos). It was great! Our candlelight wedding dinner was at Valentino's & I would recommend it! We went to Soy for sushi 4 times!

Hey ladies. We just for back in last night from our time at SOR and it was awesome! We stayed on the seaside but got married on the hillside on Monday the 22nd. I will try to update more later, but wanted to knock out something quick while I was thinking about it. Wedding Coordinator & Driver LaToya was our wedding coordinator & she was very laid back and easy to work with, but very professional at the same time. Ishmael was our driver since we had to go to the other side. He picked up my groom half an hour before and then when LaToya came to get me, he was there for me also for a private escort over which was nice. He turned on some music and it was the song I was walking in to (a different version so a lucky coincidence). Photos I mentioned in a previous post that we were planning to use a local photographer for our trash the dress/ wedding portraits later on and had decided not to use Sandals photographers, mostly because of the bad feedback I'd read on message boards. I had been under the impression that they'd have a photographer there to capture at least some of the ceremony since I read that we'd get one free 5x7, plus we were planning to get a video done. I'm glad I said something to my fiancé when we were in LaToya's office because she clearly explained the policy. We opted for the 18 photo SnapShots package, the smallest one I believe, so we'd have some to pick from. When we went to take a look at them they were fabulous! Let me say its not my first wedding & I've seen tons of shots of weddings & these were just as good. Some people had been disparaging about them not being as arty or whatever, but we had some really great ones that were. We bought a much larger package- 48 photos & would have gotten more had we budgeted for it in advance (dang). I absolutely recommend them. I will try to post to a public folder on FB or something & send the link. They are working with what they have & in our case it was seriously hot & we picked a full-sun venue (that will have to be for another post), so we were the limitations, but they know their venue the best. Oran was our photographer & I would recommend him. We're already planning to go back for our 1 yr anniversary & get him to do some photos with us when we're there. I'm not sure if you can call ahead & request him, but I'd suggest you look into it. I'll have to write more about the video (wow!), the venue, and my off-site photographer, etc.... gotta get back to work now. Sherrie

Hey ladies, just making sure you all are aware that Sandals changed their photographer policy & now offer you a few choices of *real professionals* that are not Sandals employees. They didn't notify me about this, it just came up in the last month. None are local to OR & they don't have pricing online, but at least now there are professional options. My local photographer is a wedding photographer & they aren't willing to work with him still. I didn't want to lose my deposit & his photos are amazing so I'm hoping for one or two good ones from the ceremony and then we're meeting him for offsite pictures. We will be there from 4/20 thru 5/1, wedding on 4/22. Would be cool to connect with other brides while there.

Thanks, MaryMac. We moved our ceremony to earlier in the day and contracted with a local photographer who will meet us and then go off campus for photos. I'm hoping to get some good ones!

Whoops- new & didn't realize there was a thread protocol. User Name: sherrie23 Name: Sherrie & Ryan Location: Sandals Grande Riviera in Ocho Rios. Wedding: April 22nd, 2013 in JA: 04/20/2013 -Â 04/27/2013

Getting married at Sandals Grande Riviera in Ocho Rios on 4/22/13!

I think my first reply gor eaten. We are getting married 4/22/13 at the twilight ceremony. It will be just fiancé & I so we are interested in getting some great photos. I am not all that impressed with the wedding photos I have seen so far. I read a thread where a bride said she and another girl spilt the cost of the photographer's stay and each got their ceremony & TTD photos. That sounds like a great idea to me. Are you gals brining in photographers or using the Sandals photographers?

We are getting married on April 22, 2013 in the twilight ceremony. I have yet to see any twilight photos yet though. It seems like there is a lot of talk about photo options. Did anyone/ does anyone plan to do to a trash the dress shoot with a local photographer? It's just my fiancé & I attending so photos are going to be pretty important to capture the moments for everyone back home.