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NJBride - Love the party dress!  You're going to have so much fun in this! Wow!!!  It's beautiful!!  Who is the maker of your dress?

Pretty dress! Was this in Tigard? I got my dress from the Tigard Bridal Exclusives. They did a really good job altering the neckline on mine.

Went in for my first dress fitting this weekend, I just am in love with this dress...has to be taken in and have to find the right bra for it due to the back being so low, but I cannot wait to see it when its all said and done

Say yes to the straps! LOL my dress had straps and it was actually one of my non-negotiables. I went into the dress store and told them : It has to be blinged out to the max, it needs straps, and it needs to be able to travel. LOL. My straps were similar. I love the train and the back.This is a gorgeous dress. Congrats- and isn't funny how your MOH chose your dress and it wasn't what you thought you wanted? My mom chose mine and I looked at it on the hanger like "no mom I'm not trying that on" and it was my dress! goes to show you being open minded helps!

When wedding dress shopping I knew what I was looking for (sweatheart strapless lace trumpet style dress)...so I thought! My maid of honor forced me to try on this Allure 8856 even though I made it clear to everyone, NO STRAPS!! After trying the dress on, that was it I fell in love! This Allure gown fit me to the T and hugged me in the right places, even my hips which look fabulous in the dress. I cannot wait for the dress to arrive and will post pics with me in it           

Originally Posted by Corinne Doss 

 

How much did you roughly spend on flowers for your wedding? Mine is in january and am considering getting paper/fabric mix from etsy instead of flowers from cabo (depending on price)

Hi, I met with the flourist on our sight visit and I showed him pictures of what I wanted..he emailed me within a few days of a quote for around $2,000.  This includes my boquet, bridesmaid boquet, aisle peddals, Parmanders that I am using during my ceremony and then ursing them as my center peaces on the tables   Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Erin1221 

 

Hi Ladies, I have looked at all the recommended hair and make-up that have been mentioned. Thanks for all the great info! I think I have decided to go with Suzanne Moral. I just tried to email her but the message was returned to my inbox I am not 100% how get a hold of her. She has a number for calling from the US & Mexico but not Canada... I am gonna try the US number tomorrow but does anyone have a different email address for Suzanne?? I emailed [email protected] and it didnt work. Any help would be great!! feel like I am leaving this to the very last minute and I am getting nervous!!! xo

Hello, I also went with suzanne and just booked her this week.  She is spendy, but its a special day so why not splurge   Here is the email address I have been communicating through...let me know if it worked [email protected]

[ATTACHMENT=14084]IMG-20130627-WA003 (1).jpg (51k. jpg file)[/ATTACHMENT] I did the same exact thing! Went in with my mind set on a sweetheart dress and would not budge to try on anything else. Finally my maid of honor said to just try one on with straps to confirm that the sweetheart looked best, so I tried it on and fell in love. The dress looks stunning on you I said yes to the dress yesterday!!  I'm very happy with it and it is not the look i was going for AT ALL! I was not interested in lace and I wanted a sweat heart neckline.  However after trying on about a dozen different dresses (and different styles) I felt that I look like a line backer in a strapless dress.  The picture really does not do it justice. I ordered the size I had on.  Its a little snug in the mid section but I have 3 months to shed some more weight before the dress comes in.  I'll post another pic after the alterations are done.  

Finally found my gown by Allure and I am in love with it. Dress comes in in 3 months so I still have some time to lose a few more inches and tone. Cannot waitfor my fiance to see it on our wwedding day

Originally Posted by mrelvstny 

 

So glad to hear you loved it!!! I think we are going to put our deposit down this week to block our date for 6-7-2014 yay! I bet you are so excited, December will come up so fast! Do you know if you're going to have the ceremony on the beach or garden area? Would you recommend doing a site visit for all the planning? Also, what were the flower options like? I have so many questions for you haha, sorry!!! 

Hi, sorry its taken so long to respond..been extremely busy with school, but almost done so I can put all my focus into this wedding this summer phew!!!  Our sigh visit was amazing, the ladies in the wedding department were phenomenol to work with and treated us so well when we were there.  I chose the grassy area before I even did the sight visit due to wanting more color in pictures and if you look at their melia cabo real wedding facebook page, the pictures look amazing and the water is in the background.  When we did our sight visit, it just confirmed to me that I made the right choice.  We walked down to the wedding spot on the meach and its so far from the water and the its a little distance for the bride to also walk to get the the "hoopa" as they call it.  If it was right by the water, I might of picked the beach.  So im going to give you the run down of what we did on the sight visit.  We were only there 3 nights, so the first nigh which was Fridayt we got there we met with our wedding planner and she gave us a tour and showed us the 3 different areas for the reception areas, also set us up to meet with the minister and with the flower vendor and decor vendor for the next day.  Saturday we met with the minister that came to our resort, which I thought was really nice..anyhow he gave us a quick rundown of the ceremony process, and gave us some ideas to think about, we ended up hiring him because he was really down to earth and told us we can pick whatever we wanted for the ceremony.  Next, the flower guys came (I forgot his name )  and I showed him the colors I was doing and what I wanted my "hoopa" to look like, as well as the flower arrangement for me, my bridesmaids and ceremony runway and reception flowers.  He was really great and not even a day after we return that he already emailed me and we have been working online on..very good at returning emails.  After that appointement we got picked up by a decor vendor and our wedding planner came with, so we went to this warehouse where they had everything you could think of.  We don't want to go all out on decor, I think the flowers and beach, palm trees will add a lot, so we just picket out the style of chairs (tiffany chairs), table runners, Chair ties, etc.  pretty much all of Saturday entailed meetings.  Sunday evening they took us to the El Terraz restaraunt on the resort and we had food tasting and each got a tier of a cake to try...it was Phenomenal, both food and desert.  After sunday we enjoyed all day monday in the water getting some sun.  As far  as the resort goes, it is AMAZING!!  The hilton is right next door and very fancy but we like more of a laid back atmosphere, and that is exactly what we got at the Melia.  The rooms are a little outdated, but really who vacations in their room?  We only were in our room to sleep.lol.  We did get a tour of the master suite which is facing the beach and 1000 sq feet.  Its amazing, and only 3 of them.  We made sure to book it for the night before the wedding and the night of.  It is 650/night, but its important to me to have  a phenomenal room to get ready in with all my girls.  If you talk to the wedding planners and you have a group booking at the melia, maybe they can workout a deal with the resort to give you a discount.  They did email me a discount contract for that room, but because I was so busy with school I didn't respond in time, so it expired :/  but thats ok.hmmm what else to think of, oh the food and drinks are amazing at all the restaraunts, lobby bar is open at night with nice lounge seats, pool activities throughout the day, the beach is sort of swimmable but not for children, service was phenomenal by every staff memeber.  Oh one more thing, they have this huge fire pit with lounge seating in the middle of the resort garden, its beautiful so we are doing a rehersal dinner by it and the fire pit is for us right after dinner.  Anyhow, let me know if there is anything else I can answer for you, I am happy I went because I get easily stressed out, but most of the things we did you can easily do over email.  I will try to post some pics soon as I can so you can see what the resort area looks like.  Hope your wedding planning is going smoothly

Just returned from our site visit at the Melia Cabo Real and boy was it amazing.  Yes, its not your 5 star resort... but I  travel often and I would chose Melia over any resort there is.  The staff, food, pool, beach, activities, nightlife was amazing.  The wedding staff if so amazing to work with, they set me up with a flower & decor vendors that we met with and it was such a great experience! They listened to my ideas and put together everything I invisioned for our day in December.  We also got to taste all the food and cakes so we could chose what we wanted for our wedding day and we were not dissapointed at all.  The drinks at the melia are amazing also   We got to tour the master suite and boy was it amazing..we are definitely going to rent it out the night before our wedding and the night of.  I spoke to many tourists at the melia and everyone only had good things to say.  A lot of people said they hae stayed at the RIU and hated it and that it was nothing compared to Melia. Hope this helps   do not hesitate to ask me questions  I would be happy to answer them!!  Cannot wait until our big day!!!!!!!!!!

Hello ladies! I am very close to booking my wedding (June 2014) at Melia Real! I have gotten a ton of information and communication has been amazing so far! If anyone needs any pricing info, please let me know and I can send it to you! For you ladies that are a little further along in the process than me, have you chosen all your florals/centerpieces/linens yet? Who are you working with for your flowers? Any and all information is appreciated! Thanks! 

Hello ladies! I am very close to booking my wedding (June 2014) at Melia Real! I have gotten a ton of information and communication has been amazing so far! If anyone needs any pricing info, please let me know and I can send it to you! For you ladies that are a little further along in the process than me, have you chosen all your florals/centerpieces/linens yet? Who are you working with for your flowers? Any and all information is appreciated! Thanks! 

Originally Posted by Bella Rios 

 

Thank you so much! Let me know how your meeting goes and how the beach is by the resort. I'm pretty sure Melia is going to be our spot. We had originally looked at Villa de Estancia but the communication was so slow. I'm so excited

Your very welcome, I will definitely let you know how the sight visit goes Have you looked at the Melia Cabo Real facebook page yet?  So many amazing ideas!!

Originally Posted by Gyqueiroz 

 

Hi Girls! Iam getting married at Melia in October. My coordinator is Shantal. They are very helpful and Im looking forward to it!

Are you picking the grassy ceremony spot or beach?  I am going to go with the grassy spot bc it adds so much color, but we will see once we do our sight visit there in July. lol

Originally Posted by Bella Rios 

 

I'm just wondering if any brides that had there wedding at Melia Cabo Real, used an outside vendor for flowers and photography. I've emailed back in forth with Paula and now i've spoken with Shantal, has anyone worked with them yeH

Hello, I am currently working with Shantal.  I just spoke to her yesterday because we are flying out for 4 night to meet with her in May and she is going to email me the vendors they work with so I can meet with them as well while there.  Also, I am doing a bit of research of my own vendors.  .  Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions

Originally Posted by Gyqueiroz 

 

Beach Bride,

 one of the reasons I chose Melia is because there is onl 1 wedding a day, so a little more privacy. Hope it i private too! I can't stand at the idea of brindes waiting around for their turn!! 

I completely agree with you about the 1 wedding per day, plus you can't beat the wedding package pricing compared to other places. Have you looked on their facebook page yet? Such amazing photos of the weddings. When is your wedding day?

I completely agree with you about the 1 wedding per day, plus you can't beat the wedding package pricing compared to other places.  Have you looked on their facebook page yet?  Such amazing photos of the weddings.  When is your wedding day?

I'm also working with Shantal and I'm not sure what flourist they work with but we are going in July to meet with her to plan and meet with all the vendors

I fell in love with the resort when I googles Melia Cabo Real Weddings facebook..look at all there photos, AMAZING!! I looked into about 10 different resorts and for the price package at Melia compared to other resorts is phenomenal.  Of course my fiance and I would love to stay at the best resort, but unfortunatley we have to accomidate for guests, and if we want guests to stay at the same resort as us we had to find something reasonable.  I have never been to the Melia Cabo, but have stayed at the Melia Ixtapa and LOVED IT!! My parents traveled to Cabo this January and stopped at the Melia to check it out and said it was gorgous for the price.  I don't know the exact dollar amount I am paying yet bc I haven't gotten the exact head count for our party, but their biggest package starts at 2500  which and it feeds up to 24 guests (incuding drinks) and then its like 60 extra per person after that...I figured if I have 60 guests go it will be around 7500 (food, drinks, flowers, dj,etc)...I know this is their busiest time of year for wedding, so just keep emailing or call them.  Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

Wow your looks gorgeous...ill consider getting bands, going to go into a jeweler and see what options we can do

Hello, google melia cabo real weddings facebook...tons of pictures there. Hope it helps

Not sure if I want a band bc I don't want it to look too gotti., plus my band has diamonds on the side of it and if I got a band it would cover it.. How about You?

This is the ring of my dreams,my honey didso amazing!! It's a 1.6ct center stone with a halo and split shank band..total all together = 3.0ct..

Hello to all the brides, getting married in Dec 2013 at the Melia Cabo Real and would love some input from you ladies that have had or are having a wedding there