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I got mine about 3 weeks after we got home. It came via DHL.

Hello ladies, I can't believe that we have been married 50 days now! It is surreal doing up the thank you vards and going through pictures. Since I have the wedding planning void, I am just in the planning stages of starting an Etsy business (for wedding stuff, I DIY'd just about everything) when we return from our Honeymoon. One of the things I am going to sell is little "emergency kits" for the welcome bags, with tide sink packs, some tylenol, pepto etc if you are interested at all let me know! I can send pictures. Some of the things went over really well and I am glad we did them!

I wanted to wear a heel for the ceremony and ended up with a nice sparkely pair. I could not wait to get out of them because it was so hot. I ended up pitting on my "wedding flops" right after (see attached) blue was our secondary color. I am also in the process of starting an Etsy business for these so let me know if interested.

Our wedding called for "torrential down pour" everyday. It end up sprinkling for about 10 minutes at 4:00pm daily. The only time for us there was "down pour" was 15 minutes before the wedding. I also have naturally curly hair. I was worried as well. I took a picture of what i wanted and they made it look EXACTLY like that. I was shocked. They used many a tricks and potions I have never seen before. I got more than 1 "your hair looks so healthy and shiny" out of my wedding party there was only 1 of 5 that did not have curly hair and we all had it turn out well. Just make sure the picture you take is exactly what you want. It was not possible to communicate having something from this and something from that. Also for my make up i showed her the picture (from pinterest) for 10 seconds and it was exact! The eyeliner was a little heavier than expected but it worked very well for pictures.

I promise you will not be disappointed! And based on the amount of hairspray in my hair, I am still surprised my hair didn't "go up"

First of all, DJ Disco Movil MADE the night. For our wedding we sent him over our list of song for Entrance, First Dance, Father-Daughter/Mother Son, Wedding Party, Cake Cutting, & Final Dance. These are what he will send you a little form to fill out the week(ish) before. We also included about 10 songs we wanted to hear over the course of the evening. He got all of these things in plus was super good about requests. He chose the most perfect songs for our group! The whole room was up dancing all night. Did you go with uplighting? For me, I found it created a whole lot of atmosphere for not a lot of cost.

The chairs that are used at your ceremony get moved to the reception venue. So one set of bows for one set of chairs!

'One lesson I learned was: It rained 15 minutes before our wedding and because of this our ceremony was pushed back to 5:40pm as a result we ran out of light for pictures. If I could redo things I wished I would have been cautious and had the ceremony at 4:00pm to build in time for nature. In regards to having people eat on their own. The food at this resort was unbelieveable at the wedding. Several guests said: "this was the best wedding meal I've ever had." Put yourself in these peoples shoes... You have spent thousands of dollars to bear witness to your day. how would tou feel to go all this way for a ceremony and cake? It is not a big deal to have the 2.5 hrs between things. There are bars 8 feet away from everything! Plus it is so so hot, getting out of the heat is a treat! Good luck on what you decide! In hi dsite I wish I would habe had the ceremony earlier! Did you only have the one centerpiece? What did you do for the other tables? Did you request certain colors for the flowers?

The 3 gentleman were our 3 waiters for the evening. I have travelled to Mexico aLOT and have never felt unsafe. I feel telling someone that 3 of them will go with the single lady to her room so they can open their safe is way out of line. Also, one of our wedding guests at the end of the night went to shake the waiters hand and the waiter put his hand out and expressed the gratuity wasn't covered. I am so angry about all of this. The wait staff saying drinks weren't included and to get them yourself. I did not expect anthing like this because I have never seen it in any review. Alex (the F&B manager) and Pilar said they would like to meet with our lady and gentleman who witness it after they spoke to their staff. They never got back to us. Disappointing.

Hello All, I just posted my review for some reason I can't link it. search "now jade wedding review" we had a less than stellar end to our night. Something to be aware of. As an aside the planners are amazing and I promise you have nothing to worry about in our 10 days there were 19 weddings! they have got you covered.!

We just got back 2 days ago. I love the idea of the candy bar. The heat and humidity was off the charts. I would suspect that despite the beaury of the candy bar it would stick together. We ended up giving luggage tags that I sourced and all put together and they went over fairly well. Isela is on medical leave currently. She was my coordinator up until about 3 weeks ago (we got married 1 week ago) I was turned over to Camen and she is a dream!

I think this sounds like a solid plan. I also got charged the 15% service charge on everything not just food and drink. I wonder if that all gets thrown into the mix as well?

This one has been the big topic in my house because we have no idea what to do. We ended up adding on quite a few things (flower centerpieces, tiffany chairs, bridal bouquet, outside vendors, and extending the reception) so brcause of those things the 15% auto gratutity that gets added on to our bill is in the neighbourhood of $1100. I would assume that gets split between the coordinator, kitchen, wait staff and bartenders? I thought it would be appropriate to tip Carmen but I don't know what is a good amount? I have heard that if you get Darius as the bartender he really gets the party started, so him? But how much? The guitarist for cocktail hour? The wait staff? Again how much? Our external DJ? But we had to pay big money as an outside fee? I am really torn on this because things can get out of hand quickly. If I was getting married in our city the auto gratuity covers most of these things and I worked as a banquet waitress/bartender years ago and very rarely was I tipped additionally? What are other peoples thoughts? I don't know what is customary? In regard to the kissing game it use to be at a wedding reception you would clink your wine/drink glass with cutlery to get the bride and groom to kiss. Now a days people have gotten much more creative or glasses will be clinking all night. I was thinking that if you want the b and g to kiss you have to answer a trivia question?

I have never been to a destination wedding (go figure!) so I am pleased to hear you had a great time at Dreams. We have 40 guests coming so I never could have fit all the stuff and things into suitcases. I am bring mostly everything down to candles. We leave on the afternoon of the 20th (nuts) Our colors are blue, (Aqua, Turquoise, and teal). I did that so everthing wasn't to matchy matchy because I ordered mostly everthing online and thats how it worked! I also am so super indecisive that I just started throwing in a little green so if I went white/ green for the flowers is would "go" Are you having a kissing game? Are you all ready to go? I got up super early today to still cut the menus, name tags, and finish the rafia fans. What was I thinking?

Congrats! Will you be able to carry all of that on or os it checked. We leave in 6 days and I went and got 2 rubbermaid roughtotes (within airline sizes) I am finding ot hard to "jam" everything in so I forsure envy you! What date do you arrive? I have been finding Carmen to be very lovely and attentive! Lastly, what are your wedding colors?

Is anyone been dealing with Isela as a wedding coordinator? We are getting married in 16 days and I emailed her and did not hear back and she has always been a dream. Today I got an email that said Isela is out of office and I have a new coordinator (Carmen) Has anyone heard if she is coming back?

Hello, congrats! I am nearing the end of the planning! I have been very impressed with the Now Jade planning. I ran into the exact same problems you are having.when I first started planning I got quotes from every single carrier in Canada and the prices were coming in at $1800 + per person to travel Saturday to Saturday. We wanted to keep ot under $1500 per person because closing in on $2000 is a lot to ask. From my experience we started talking to our guests and found out that there was a really big varience on people travel preferences, stop overs, night flights, time off, days of travel etc. what we ended up doing is making everyone responsible for their own travel arrangements but I helped most people book. This way it gave folks the freedom to choose their room catergory, if they wanted to use points and travel time. Our wedding is on the Thursday and we have people showing up at the resort the Friday before to the Tuesday before. We have some people coming for 4 days upto 2 weeks. I think we had a bigger turn out that expected because then people could customize it themselves. If you want to see how I did it visit our wedding website. Www,karlandstacey.com. I checked prices all the time and it was not a bad process at all. I should also say we had oeople coming in from Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, NFLD and the Yukon so that was another factor.

I think it is normal to rethink everything. I am 30 days today ( the heaviness of that just hit me) wow! I have been second guessing every decision I have made. This morning I was even rethinking the colors Seriously! I think it is just nerves and for me I have never been to the resort!

OMG! I just sent in the final documents today! We are 50 days away today and I agonized the most over the menu. I was only going to have 1 menu choice for everyone and then it dawned on me.....geez, people may have a seafood allergy or hate it. Since we are paying a premium for the menus I want to make sure everyone has a great meal they will like. When all was said and done I have a Seafood and Non Seafood menu. Seafood: 1st course- Mixed Salad from the Vegetarian menu 2nd Course- Lobster Bisque From Devine Main- Beef Filet with Shrimp in a red wine sauce and mashed potatos - Devine Dessert- Chocolate Souflette in a baileys sauce Non Seafood Course 1 the same as above 2nd- Spinach Ravioli in a Basil Cream Sauce 3rd- Beef Filet same as above without Shrimp Dessert- Same as above. I tried to keep them as streamlined as possible because the more complicated the longer dinner service will be cutting into the party party! I really hope everyone enjoys dinner, I love wine and food and the whole reason we chose this resort was for the private dinner option with great menus.

Hi Anne Marie, I am super looking forward to the cocktail party. For me on this one I wanted to have little details like (from my packing list) Signature Drink Menus Paper Straws Stir Sticks with Silver Washi Tape Flags Personalized Cocktail Napkins Tall Skinny Candle Holders for the tables (wind won't blow out) our Cocktail Party is 6:00pm and it will be dark by then so I wanted a little lighting. "cheers" signage Guitarist for Cocktail Hour Lastly I saw on Etsy these little cut out 2" glittery confetti for lack of a better term to go on the tables the sunset/candle reflection would give a little glow.

There are some great packing lists for Destination Weddings on Pintrest. I started from there and tailor made it for different catergories 1- Airplane 2- Welcome Bags 3- Cocktail Party 4 Group Dinner 5- Excursion to Chichen Itza 6- Rehearsal Dinner 7- girls Day at Spa 8- Wedding day - getting ready - spa - ceremony - cocktail hour - reception 9- Honeymoon I did the same listing for each day for an itinerary and "what to accomplish" each day we are there. I feel good that I will not forget anything and worst case scenario you can rent anything from the resort so all you need is the dress!

We are getting married in less than 2 months and we hired DJ Disco Movil. His rates with the vendor fee is cheaper than the resort DJ. We got cold fireworks and the uplighting is only $20.00 per light, he said 4 should do the trick.

Thanks for the details! We also booked Ricardo I think the fireworks will be fun! The fee to have him onsite is $350 What did you do for centerpieces?

Did you get some insight to the above I am getting married the week before and have no clue? We have about 40 of us going to the wedding. We wanted to organize different activites because we have alot of single travellers. I contacted Gray Line directly and they were able to give us a private group trip to Chichen Itza for the day for $69.00/person.