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@@racht33 hmm, I cant seem to (quickly) figure out how to add media/attachments to this! If you know feel free to tell me. If not, send me your email address. You should've gotten a budget planner! 

@@racht33 I am booked for Ultimate Package but after playing with the budget sheet I think I am going to downgrade to the comp. one! I am bringing in outside photographer and makeup. The difference is nearly $2K more for the Ultimate package right now! 

What packages did you choose? I am trying to get a quote for the complimentary with ad-ons for up to 60 people. Thank you in advance!! 

@@Kayla88

We set up our meeting before we got to the resort but only about a week in advance. We got there on a Wednesday, our meeting was on Thursday and we got married the following Tuesday. I felt it was definitely enough time to set everything up.

 

@@meganlocke7

My reception was also 3 hours and I wish we had extended it. It definitely flew by and it seemed like it was over too soon. We started at 6 and ended at 9. The party by the pool doesn't start until 10:30 and in retrospect the ideal plan would have been to extend reception by 1 hour leaving 30 minutes for guests to roam/freshen up and then join the hotel party. I didn't use the hotel photographer because their pictures weren't overly impressive. I've also observed them working other weddings and have noticed that they talked to other hotel employees for long periods of time while holding the camera instead of taking pictures of the wedding. 

 

Good luck to you both!

Hi ReeBik! 

I know it has been some time but do you mind sharing an estimated cost of what you paid for this extravaganza? We may end up inviting 100 people but only expect about 60. A ballpark number would be appreciated! Thank you SO much for your commentary!! 

Ladies, I haven't been on here in awhile, but wanted to report back after our FABULOUS wedding at OCT on May 23, 2014.  Our wedding coordinator, Daniel, was absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!  I will never be able to say enough good things about him or the entrie wedding staff.  I will admit, we got off to a bit of a rocky start only because it seemed like I had a new coordinator every month (apparently, they have high turnover), but once Daniel was assigned to us, it was easy breezy!!!

 

We arrived the morning of Wednesday, 21 May.  Check in was a breeze, and we were immediately introduced to Daniel and informed of our appointment that afternoon for our walk-thru.  We choose to do our ceremony and reception on the Lobby Terrace because my 84-year-old grandmother would not have been able to get up the stairs to the rooftop terrace.  I was a little worried about other resort guests hovering, but if they were, we did not even notice!!  Daniel sat with us for 2.5 hours going through every single detail of the wedding and walking through the space to discuss set-up options.  It was definitely a team effort between the 3 of us!!!

 

My fiance and I decided on orange and pink as our colors so they would pop off the gorgeous blue ocean.  We had a very large wedding (105 guests - to date, the largest wedding OCT has ever done).  We decided to take all our own linens with us because the resort did not have enough and would have had to rent them.  We were quoted about $1800 for the linens (napkins, orange runners, and chair sashes), but I ended up finding linens for around $200 and chair sashes for like $96 and some change.  We decided it was well worth packing them down there to save that kind of cash and had NO problem donating them to the resort when we left (what were we going to do with them??).  I printed all of our programs, escort cards, and table numbers which we hauled down there as well along with our wedding favors (beverage koozies... easy for us and our guests to travel with).  Daniel and the team took great care in setting everything out just as we'd discussed.

 

For anyone having doubts about OCT... don't.  Every single one of our guests has said on multiple occasions that it was THE best wedding they have ever been to, and I fully believe part of that is due to Daniel and his ability to flawlessly execute each brides vision!!!!!

 

****** We brought in our own DJ, photographer, and makeup/hair, all of whom are friends that would have been invited anyway.  We did not have to pay an outside vendor fee because of this.

If anybody has a current price quote list that would be helpful as well! What made you choose this resort over others in the area? I've looked through about 100 pages of this thread, and it's amazing!