layceelee

Hi how are you! We leave in 17 days cannot wait . We have 31 people going including myself and my fiancee. We got the Wedding in Paradise Package (for free)(you get this for free when staying 7nights, or having so many rooms booked). We opted to take the free package and just add on from that. We felt the other packages were too expensive for what we were actually getting. Neither of us are huge cake people so we just have the free wedding cake for picture purposes, as well as the champagne toast. We are getting married right on the beach so I emailed the resort of how I wanted everything set up. We aren't doing a reception that is private because we also thought that defeated the purpose of the amount of money everyone paid to even join us. We paid to eat and drink with the all inclusive, so after our ceremony we will have our photo-shoot and then have dinner at one of the restaurants at the resort and then party at the bars after dinner. This was our own personal preference, we wanted something not over the top and crazy expensive. If we wanted that we would have gotten married back home ! My personal opinion is the paradise package is great then just add on from there everything else you may want. Everything we added on is still cheaper than doing one of the more expensive packages. We are spending alot of money on pictures/video since that is the only thing we will have as a keepsake of this adventure. Let me know if you have any other questions I can answer. Happy planning , when is your wedding?

oh ok. if you have a bouquet in mind you can email them a picture of what you want and they will send you back the quote from the florist for real flowers. Yeah that is a really good idea. I tried to do as much as I could myself to save on money !

Sorry I should have specified. All of our flowers are fake. So we are all carrying them on the plane when we leave!

Hi how are you! I am getting married at Secrets Wild Orchid November 20, 2013, we leave in about 3 weeks.. YAYY! There packages are pretty firm. You can't taken anything away you can add to them however. They will send you an extras list and you pick and choose from there. We have 31 people going including my fiancee and myself. We got the free wedding package and we adding on from there. It saved us a ton of money. There other packages are a little pricey. We decided not to do a private reception just for the mere fact that we as well as all our guests paid to eat and drink there in the price we paid to go. So we will be eating at one of the restaurants at the resort and then going to the bars to celebrate as our reception. I had all our bridesmaids flowers, my bouquet, and the bouts all made by a florist I know where we live. That way you can bring your flowers home and it saves you a ton of money if you have a large wedding party. If you have any other questions feel free to ask away! Congrats and good luck on your planning !

Hi, I am also having a November wedding at Secrets Wild Orchid. Yes you can bring your own items but I believe they charge you a few. I emailed the resort pictures of what I wanted to just get a price quote and they are outrageous. So I sent them an email back about just setting something up for me and I would bring all the materials for way less than what they are charging.