MrsSmith2BMex

Hi fellow 2014 DRC brides

I think I could be the first 2014 Bride.  My wedding is just 29 days away :0)

We are getting married on 6 January 2014 which is a festival day in Mexico and the day they exchange Christmas Gifts, I am getting the best gift of all my lovely husband to be Mike. Our wedding is very small and intimate.  My son who is 13 is giving me away, my MOH is my 20 year old daughter and my step sons aged 16 and 22 are best men, the other bridesmaid is the girlfriend of my step son. That is all of us just 7.

We booked our wedding after a site visit to DRC last June 2013 when we went to Mexico to get engaged at Excellence Playa Mujeres. We have 2 children who are under 18 so we needed a family resort and it was just perfect.

We fly out on the 28th of December for 14 nights,

Our wedding is on North Beach at 3.30pm it is a legal wedding.

We are having a family sand ceremony and our children are pouring sand with us as they are becoming a new family, we decided to do this to Sister Sledge song "We are Family"

We are having cocktails in the beach bar and then we have booked the wine cellar for a private dinner at 6pm

I have got a beautiful Sassi Holford gown which is a soft fishtail shape in ivory silk with floaty lace that has lots of tiny pearl and diamond details, a simple pearl and diamond side tiara and Jimmy Choo glitter fabric shoes.(barefoot for the ceremony)

My girls are wearing pale champagne pink Talbot Runhoff cocktail dresses and glitter fabric sandals

My Groom has a navy blue Boss suit with white shirt with navy detail on the collar, brown leather belt and brown leather flipflops

Our boys have the same as the groom minus the jacket

We are having all white and green flowers on the gazebo and Mexican Alcatraz Lillies for our wedding flowers

We are using Adventure for our photographs

I cant wait now its so close, communication has been a bit hit and miss with my WC Ayahamint but I have to say that this last few weeks she has really come through and we have our meeting with her on the 2nd of January.

So I wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year for 2014 which is a very special year for us all.  Good luck with your weddings girls xxx

Lou

OMG! We just got back from our wedding and everything was absolutely amazing! I will post my review sometime this week.  You have absolutely nothing to worry about. The resort and staff are amazing. We were so surprised by how great the food was.  Our wedding day was perfect, my expectations were blown out of the water.  Emmy 

This is really beautiful makes me even more excited that we are getting married here in 6 weeks x

5 weeks today we fly to Dreams and 6 weeks on Monday 6 Jan it's our wedding x am I the first 2014 DRC bride ?

If you have her e-mail send her a message.  I have had a lot of contact with mine and although she takes a while to reply she has been ok. However since I sent my wedding planner in a month ago she hasnt given me any feedback from it.  My wedding is only 7 weeks away now.  My TA has been pushing for a response.  I still havent filled in my legal form and I am finding it really hard because I want to confirm an estimated cost.  The flowers I want are different to the standard bouquets and we are having the Weddings in Paradise with add ons as our wedding is only for 7 us included.

I have read over and over that communication is an issue prior to the wedding but when you get to your resort its fine.  I hope this is the case for us too.

Good luck

Lou

I just discovered "turning pages" so so beautiful but Adele make you feellove has so much meaning to us. I was going to walk down the sand to this x marry me when we sign the register but is turning pages right for our sand ceremony ?

I have just been speaking to our photographer and found out that our wedding day is a very special one for the people of Mexico. Its the celebration of Dia de Reyes or Epiphany which is the day they exchange gifts. Makes it even more special.

Lou

My wedding is just over 2 months away and its all coming together now.  My sand ceremony kit has arrived, I have my bridesmaid dresses and shoes.  My H2B has just had his suit tailored and my wedding dress fitting is in a weeks time.  We pick our wedding rings up next week.  I just need to choose ribbon and gems to use on my bouquets and we are all ready.  Any other late December early January brides out there? We arrive on 28th of December and our wedding is January 6th.

Lou

Contact Gabriela Salinas her email is [email protected] she is the Weddings Manager. I sent my planner in a few weeks ago, I dont think there are any other documents unless your wedding is legal.  I am getting married a few weeks before you on January 6th :0)

Lou

I have made a few changes 😊 Walking down the beach to Make you feel my love (Adele) Signing the register to Marry me (train) Family sand pouring to we are family (sister sledge ) To finish chasing the sun (the wanted )

Hi everyone,  We are getting married in one month whoo whoo! We are having our reception on the pool deck but have not requested to have more lighting (hanging paper lanterns, lights under the table, bamboo poles with hanging lanterns etc). Do you think they are necessary? will there be enough light without adding the extra lighting options? Thanks,  Emmy 

ehhh shed ok I mean our wedding isn't until 13 months! But I sent her a photo of a centerpiece I liked with a glass hurricane pillar candle and sand and shells and first email she said she would send it to the people to get a price quote than I emailed her a few weeks later and she said to send it to her again LOL so don't know if she ever got a price quote.. A little frustrating but I know I have time!!

Hi how are you finding Ayahamint? I have had to chase quite a bit . I sent my wedding planner in a week ago and she responded to say thank you and she will be back to me soon. It's our wedding 11 weeks on Monday 😄x.

I have the same wedding coordinator!

That's good to know thanks Emma. I have just sent my wedding planner in so am waiting for an update from Ayahamint my co-ord. I will order my sand vase now. 😀

Thank you for this so helpful your wedding was lovely x can't wait for ours 😃

Hello! We had a legal wedding and it included the sand ceremony!  Our minister's was named Pedro, and he did all of the legal ceremonies we saw that week.  I'm not sure if maybe they sometimes use different ministers that don't include the sand ceremony?  We didn't request it, or ask for it to be included, it seemed to just be included by default.  So I would assume you would be able to have it if you wanted.  We went over the legal ceremony script with the wedding planner, and didn't make any changes, but I think you probably could if you wanted to personalize it in some way.  They seemed quite flexible, even though it was a legal ceremony and not symbolic.  We were given a copy of the marriage license to take home with us, but it was completely in Spanish.  The translated & certified version arrived probably 3 months after our wedding date (we were married April 18th, and it arrived here sometime early in July).    You can see most of what was included in the legal ceremony in our wedding video, if you're interested...  this is the video that was taken by the resort videographer (included in the ultimate package).  I hope this helps!

Hi Lori We are having a legal wedding on Jan 6. Mu wedding planner says only symbolic ceremony has sand ceremony but it is something that we really want to do and include our childen ( we have both been married before and so it's a blended family sand ceremony), where you able to personalise your legal ceremony ? And how long did your wedding certificate take to arrive ? Thank you x

I ended up putting together a word file with all of the important details for our wedding - approximate timeline, music choices, bouquet choices, menu, centrepieces etc., and sent that to Lorena in advance. She said it was a huge help - it basically just compiled all of the important details (and expected prices) in one place. The wedding planning form is so long, and a lot of things end up not applying to your wedding, so I thought this approach was a lot more useful. If anyone wants a copy of mine to use as a template, just send me an email at [email protected] as I haven't been checking here as often lately. I also have all of the legal ceremony info for the person who was looking for it, but don't have it here with me, so I will try to report back when I get home tomorrow. Happy planning!

Hi

Past January brides who had your reception on the beach or pool deck - did it get windy or cold that close to the water at night?

We got engaged on June at Excellence Playa mujeres and would of had our wedding there but we each have children under 18. Dreams was suggested as the nearest thing to EPM where you could take kids. We did a site visit to Dreams and loved it but EPM was amazing x

I just read your story and I know just how special it is to find love again. I was married for 27 years. My husband collapsed and died in front of me at bootcamp aged 51. 3 weeks before our bootcamp instructor told me about the sudden death Mikes partner. I met Mike and his partner 6 years ago when we worked together but I had moved jobs and lost touch. We were both in total shock and finding life so hard. We got back in touch to say hello and how sorry we were etc. We met for coffee and then dinner and we fell in love. Mike asked me to marry him and we got engaged in Mexico on the beach on 7 June this year. We are going back to Mexico in December and on 6 Jan 14 my son will give me away my daughter is my moh and Mike boys are his best men. We are going to do a family sand ceremony. I am so lucky to find love again and that our children are happy and want to be part of our special day xx

My H2b is wearing a navy Hugo Boss suit with a white open neck shirt and dark brown leather flip flops. Our boys 13, 16 and 21 are wearing the same but no jacket x

Hi we have decided to have our reception in the wine cellar as we are only a tiny wedding 7 in total, just us and our respective children. We are planning to go to the nightclub to do our first dance. Has anyone had there wedding reception in the wine cellar? And do you think the dj in the nightclub would play a request for us to do the first dance together ? Thanks guys

Your welcome 😀the first time I listened to it I loved it and the words are so true for me and Mike x