MrsWilletteToBe

hi ladies!! my WC is Katia as well and she has been pretty great so far--every once in a while she only half answers my questions but after a follow up email, she always clarifies lol anyway, my major concern at this point is how expensive the flowers are down there--even a couple of the outside florists I contacted are pretty pricey in terms of the tall arrangements I would like what are you ladies doing in regards to flowers/centerpieces?

Also, for all the former brides, how much time should we give ourselves on our wedding day to get the mani/pedi, hair and makeup done at the resort??

YES!! Please post suggestions for food!! We might be able to go down for a food tasting in the fall, but just in case we can't, I'd love to know everyone's favorites and also the ones to avoid!!

I never thought about silk flowers!! great idea!

Yes I am thinking about fake flowers too but also not sure how good that will look. Ultimately I might just do a simple arrangement of fresh flowers at each table, nothing too crazy, and figure out some cute small things to put around them that I can travel with. I'm the least creative person on earth so who knows what i'll end up with haha

We might end up having fewer people too because of the kid thing so we'll see lol at this point we have the chapel booked, cocktails at Villas Terrace and reception at one of the Royal's ballroom. I'm struggling with trying to figure out whether to use the resort's pricey floral services or just do an outside vendor and pay the fee. For photographer though we are definitely getting an outside one because the reviews are so bad. What about u? Also, I am stumped on how I'm going to decorate the tables at the reception without having to bring breakable/hard to pack things--have u decided any of that yet?

Great info!! Which room level at the GCR is the one that gives you Royal access??

Same here! We are expecting about 80 and the luxury package definitely had all of the extras I would've wanted to have anyway. oh and it looks like your big day is the day before mine--yayyy! are you getting married at the chapel or gazebo?

Hi girls! Has anyone done the Luxury Package at GCR?? What were the pros and cons of it??

WOW! You looked perfect!!! Congrats!! Can you post your florist's website or email address?? I'm guessing you brought the lantern centerpieces with you to Cancun? Very cute! For the violinist at your ceremony, did you feel that he played your entrance song so well that you didn't need any other musician?? I want a violinist but I want to make sure that my entrance song sounds awesome and wasn't sure if I needed more musicians to do that. Was the violinist one that you got with your wedding package? Can you post your photographer's website/email address too?? I'm glad to hear that you liked GCR's video services because although want an outside vendor to do our pictures, we wanted too just use GCR for the video to avoid another outside vendor fee. Thanks for the review!!

WOW! You looked perfect!!! Congrats!! Can you post your florist's website or email address?? I'm guessing you brought the lantern centerpieces with you to Cancun? Very cute! For the violinist at your ceremony, did you feel that he played your entrance song so well that you didn't need any other musician?? I want a violinist but I want to make sure that my entrance song sounds awesome and wasn't sure if I needed more musicians to do that. Was the violinist one that you got with your wedding package? Can you post your photographer's website/email address too?? I'm glad to hear that you liked GCR's video services because although want an outside vendor to do our pictures, we wanted too just use GCR for the video to avoid another outside vendor fee. Thanks for the review!!

Hi ladies! I am getting married 2/8/14 and have gone through almost all of the posts on this forum like a crazy person lol My fiance and I actually just came from a quick trip to Cancun and we took a tour of the GCR and Royal properties. We loved the chapel at GCR and the terraces for the cocktail hours, but were way more impressed by the ballrooms at the Royal (they were grand and newer looking, especially the gathering space at the entrances, and inside they didn't smell like mold like the GCR ballrooms) so those are the 3 locations we are looking at for our events. However, if my fiance's conversion classes aren't completed in time, we'll do an oceanfront gazebo. Here are my questions/comments after doing the site inspection (we didn't do food tasting as we are going back in the fall to do this): 1) for the brides that have gotten married in the chapel, did you find that entering through the little door to the right of the chapel with the stairs felt awkward or ruined your big entrance at all? When we were there, it looked like you could enter the area by a door behind the chapel, past the little playground area and that seemed better to me. Thoughts? 2) did any brides have trouble managing cathedral length veils at the chapel or during pictures on the beach given the wind and all? 3) Flora, the WC who gave us the tour was very explicit about us not being able to pick up flowers from outside vendors at the lobby or even outside the hotel. She said we will absolutely get charged the outside vendor fee if any of our flowers are real (vs. fake/plastic) and we didn't purchase them from the resort. I cannot believe that my mother wouldn't be able to just go out and buy flowers and bring them in to arrange them herself without us getting charged--I know lots of brides avoided this according to the posts, but Flora seemed pretty adamant. 4) I read that many brides were able to get a signature drink for the cocktail hour--is this in place of champagne and open bar so that all they will be serving are the signature drinks or is it in addition to the champagne or the open bar you can upgrade to? 5) It seems like brides have been pretty happy with the resort videographer but have gone for outside photographers--this is what I am looking to do but wanted to make sure that this has been the consensus. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!