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[jlwedding]

Camie, thanks so much for the advice - I think this is where we are going to go! Can you send me the private function pdf you have? I don't have enough points yet... my em: jen.logan.wedding@gmail.com

 

many thanks!

[KLO]

Does anyone have Nancy as their WC? I was contacted by her about 1 month ago. We were in contact via email quite a bit until just recently... My fiance and I decided to upgrade our package and I have not heard from her since. Does anyone know if she's only assigned to certain package weddings I've been trying to request that she scedule my MOH's hair/makeup appt at the same time as mine. She had also emailed me all of the information and had asked that I inform her of my choices. I guess I'm just starting to worry being that we're only 1 1/2 months away from the date =(

[annouska]

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Originally Posted by Camie78 Hi SunnyBride, I have a document I received from Moon Palace regarding the private function pricing and pictures of the private function sites. I also received a map of the property to help me figure out where the gazebos are in relation to the private function sites, etc. Not sure if you have received anything from Marilyn yet but I wanted to pass these along to you just in case... Let me know if you are unable to open the attachments and I can email them to you. Camie

My e-mail address is annouskabryan@hotmail.co.uk I do not have enough points to open the files.

Many thanks

Annouska

[pixydustkr]

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Originally Posted by KLO Does anyone have Nancy as their WC? I was contacted by her about 1 month ago. We were in contact via email quite a bit until just recently... My fiance and I decided to upgrade our package and I have not heard from her since. Does anyone know if she's only assigned to certain package weddings I've been trying to request that she scedule my MOH's hair/makeup appt at the same time as mine. She had also emailed me all of the information and had asked that I inform her of my choices. I guess I'm just starting to worry being that we're only 1 1/2 months away from the date =(

Salon services are one of the things they do at the last minute. I just finished booking mine last week, and my wedding is in less than 2 weeks (my mom decided at the last minute to get her hair done.) The salon contact is Xochitl Esquivel Solis- xesquivel@palaceresorts.com. Good luck!!

[HaleGrifa]

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Originally Posted by Camie78 Hi HaleGrifa, In response to your questions above... 1. We wanted Chapel Garden for our private function site as it is right next to the Chapel Gazebo where we are getting married and didn't want our guests to have to haul themselves to a different part of the resort. I submitted my request for Chapel Garden and it was already taken, so we opted for our second choice which is Terrace Venado. It was available so we booked it. I too was concerned about the grass but then I remembered my sister's wedding and how everyone was spilling drinks on the dance floor and everyone was slipping around and falling (my sister-in-law actually fell so hard that she went to the ER that night) and realized that maybe grass is a safer option! LOL. 2. Yes. This was a personal requirement from me as I did not want guests running around the resort, etc. Below is a summary of our day. 6pm: ceremony at Chapel Gazebo 7pm: cocktail hour at Terrace Venado 8pm-10pm: dinner and dancing at Terrace Venado 10pm+: disco/nightclub or another bar on the resort 3. I found out that lighting does come with the DJ packages (1 and 2) but I was not able to get verification if lights come with the iPod packages (3 and 4). If I have the opportunity to ask my WC, I will. As for the iPod hook-ups, I am assuming that the "mixer" my WC speaks of is something similar to a regular stereo receiver. I had to buy a cord in order to hook my iPod up to the stereo receiver up at home and it was about $5 at Best Buy. The cord plugs into the headphones jack on the iPod and then hooks into the receiver. I would recommend a trip to Best Buy to pick one of those up, you can always return it. They may also have these cords at the resort. Sorry I can't provide much more information on this. One last thing I learned was in regard to the private function automatic backup sites in the case of bad weather. I had asked my WC if it was true that they automatically book a backup site for private functions in the case of bad weather and her response wasn't clear. I asked her to clarify this and she said that the backup sites for outdoor private functions are in the ballrooms (not in the restaurants).

Thank you so much for your detailed response! It is such a big help chatting with other Brides.

I sent an email with my Wedding Event Form to my onsite WC today. I hope that she can get started on it, as we really have our hearts set on our plans!

I have requested the Chapel Gazebo for the ceremony. The Chapel Garden or Terrace Venado for both the Cocktail Reception & Dinner. Where is the Terrace Venado - I can't seem to find it on any maps?

Should you hear anymore on the DJ lighting, please keep me posted - as I have seen many photos of the self-DJ system and there has been lighting in these pictures.

We will keep each other posted - you have been a huge help

Chat soon - Laura

[HaleGrifa]

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Originally Posted by SunnyBride Hi Laura! It is fun to meet someone getting married the same day! We fly in on Friday, January 23rd, and we'll be staying at Moon Palace for 8 nights. We're moving to the Aventura Spa Resort the next Saturday, and will be there for 6 nights. We wanted to make sure we stayed at Moon Palace until Saturday because most of our guests will be flying out that day. We had a family friend who is a member of the palace resorts, and has let us use their membership to book all of our guests. So far, I think we have about 40 guests that are confirmed to come. It's so exciting! What about you? When do you fly in? And how many guests? So you do have a wedding coordinator assigned already? I've been asking Marlyn for one, and should be getting one pretty quick - in three days, it will be exactly three months until our wedding days! I can't decide what to do with the music. We're bringing a CD for the ceremony, but for the private reception, I haven't decided. I had thought that we'd just go with our Ipod, but I do want some control over the lighting - has anyone had experience with this? I saw someone quote earlier that you can buy the lighting separately from the DJ, but I don't want it to be a lot of work if we do it ourselves. Have most of your guests paid for their trip already? We are in Calgary, in Canada, and I'm PANICKING over the Canadian dollar and the exchange rate! We are booked to pay in US funds, and our trip is getting more expensive every day! I just feel bad about our guests because it was already a lot of money to be asking them to spend, and most of them have only put down their initial deposits. Yikes. What are you doing for decorations in the chapel/gazebo (whichever you go with)? I was actually wondering if we could purchased flowers for the gazebo, if those same flowers could be used for the centerpieces on our tables later that night, for our private reception? Has anyone tried that?

Hello - Can't believe that it is 3 months this week!!!

We arrive on the 24th of January with most of our guests. Some of our other guests are flying in later that day or on Monday. We have 28 in total - they are paying their last installment this week! Our trip is in Cdn dollars.

My WC is Kalena - I was given her name a few weeks ago. I contacted her via phone and we chatted for a bit - she is very nice. I just sent my email and Wedding Event Info form in this morning. I am keeping my fingers crossed that she will begin to work with me.

We just put our request in for the self-dj option for four hours. I have asked about lighting . . . We are also completing the CD for the ceremony.

Decor - I will determine once we arrive - I just want to reserve our locations and take it one request at a time.

Chat soon
Laura

[Dez921714]

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Originally Posted by KBMD12309 Has anyone seen Dez lately. She was suppose to go to MP for a site visit last month and she never came back!

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Originally Posted by cutierosie That is right!!! Dez where are you? I hope you are ok

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Originally Posted by ErikDaGenErik i can't wait to read Dez's site visit report. let's all hope she comes back soon!

Hi Ladies!! Thanks for the concern I've been good just super super busy. I actually signed into my email today for the first time in a WHILE and had a few messages from people on here, so I decided to come on and say hi and fill everyone in on what's been going on with me.
http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t31237

As far as our site visit, it was great! We went down Sept 25-29th and stayed at the MP. It rained the WHOLE time, but we still had a great time. It was off season, so the resort was no where close to capacity!

Before we went we had the Bumgabalia Gazabo reserved for our ceremoney and the terrace for our coctail hour (2 hour) and Star Ballroom for our reception. I actually just emailed them today to ask if they can switch it to the other Gazebo (not the Chapel) as that's the one with the LONG walk way and we are changing our coctail hour from 2 hours to 1. The Gazebo's and terrace are on teh Nizuc side and the Star ballroom is on the Sunrise...so we figured we'll give guests some time to make their way accross.

The resort is HUGE! Even the guy we met on our way home at the duty free shop (hehe) was like "that's not a resort, it's a city!" And OMG it is! We got a little lost getting to our room the first day and a half, then you figure it out. We were staying on the Sunrise side. All the balconies on the sunrise side have hammocs, that was pretty cool

We did the timeshare presentation. It was really hard to turn it down, really really hard...the more you turn it down, the better the deal gets. (we would have taken the last one if we had the money!). But for doing it, we got a tee shirt, beach bag, $50 towards an excursion and $100 towards the spa Turns out, our room also came with a $200 credit to the spa.. Make sure you look into this! When settling your bill, you will have been charged for teh Spa, but just tell them you have the creit and they'll take it off. OMG the spa was awesome!!!!!!! best part of the whole trip!

We did paradise snorkling, first time either of us have snorkled adn it was GREAT! We used the credit towards adding on ATV's and Speedboats! So much fun!!!!

There really are golf carts everywhere adn if you ask them how to get back to yoru room, they'll take you closer lol and the shuttle that goes from one lobby to the other comes every 10 minutes, it was awesome! After our massages we had lunch at the Italian place on the golf course. We'd heard from a lot of other guests that it was one of the best restuants. And it definately was!!!

If you have any questions about anything specific, feel free to ask and I'll answer...it's just hard to cover EVERYTHING!

Oh, the wedding office was great! I belive we met with Kalina and she was so sweet. She sat with us and went over EVEYTHING! I picked out our flowers, centerpieces, table linens, etc etc

For those of you not going down before your wedding. I can see how you can do everything we did three days before, so don't worry! Everything will be great!!!!!

[HaleGrifa]

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Originally Posted by ErikDaGenErik Hi Laura, we are also planning on hiring another photographer for the wedding. i am wondering if you could have more than 1 photographer on the same day. i am planning on using the photographer that's included in our package for the welcome dinner or extra camera for candid shots during the ceremony and reception. i really want an outside photographer for our portraits or posed photo sessions with my soon to be husband and family.

Have you made any decisions on which photographer you are considering? We went with Tamms - they are amazing and such a great deal!

I originally was going to use both my package photographer for the wedding day along with my hired photographer - but when researching the forum another Bride was able to use her package photography for another event i.e Welcome Dinner.

I just sent in my request this morning - so I will have to see how it goes!

Laura

[HaleGrifa]

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Originally Posted by Dez921714 Hi Ladies!! Thanks for the concern I've been good just super super busy. I actually signed into my email today for the first time in a WHILE and had a few messages from people on here, so I decided to come on and say hi and fill everyone in on what's been going on with me. http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t31237 As far as our site visit, it was great! We went down Sept 25-29th and stayed at the MP. It rained the WHOLE time, but we still had a great time. It was off season, so the resort was no where close to capacity! Before we went we had the Bumgabalia Gazabo reserved for our ceremoney and the terrace for our coctail hour (2 hour) and Star Ballroom for our reception. I actually just emailed them today to ask if they can switch it to the other Gazebo (not the Chapel) as that's the one with the LONG walk way and we are changing our coctail hour from 2 hours to 1. The Gazebo's and terrace are on teh Nizuc side and the Star ballroom is on the Sunrise...so we figured we'll give guests some time to make their way accross. The resort is HUGE! Even the guy we met on our way home at the duty free shop (hehe) was like "that's not a resort, it's a city!" And OMG it is! We got a little lost getting to our room the first day and a half, then you figure it out. We were staying on the Sunrise side. All the balconies on the sunrise side have hammocs, that was pretty cool We did the timeshare presentation. It was really hard to turn it down, really really hard...the more you turn it down, the better the deal gets. (we would have taken the last one if we had the money!). But for doing it, we got a tee shirt, beach bag, $50 towards an excursion and $100 towards the spa Turns out, our room also came with a $200 credit to the spa.. Make sure you look into this! When settling your bill, you will have been charged for teh Spa, but just tell them you have the creit and they'll take it off. OMG the spa was awesome!!!!!!! best part of the whole trip! We did paradise snorkling, first time either of us have snorkled adn it was GREAT! We used the credit towards adding on ATV's and Speedboats! So much fun!!!! There really are golf carts everywhere adn if you ask them how to get back to yoru room, they'll take you closer lol and the shuttle that goes from one lobby to the other comes every 10 minutes, it was awesome! After our massages we had lunch at the Italian place on the golf course. We'd heard from a lot of other guests that it was one of the best restuants. And it definately was!!! If you have any questions about anything specific, feel free to ask and I'll answer...it's just hard to cover EVERYTHING! Oh, the wedding office was great! I belive we met with Kalina and she was so sweet. She sat with us and went over EVEYTHING! I picked out our flowers, centerpieces, table linens, etc etc For those of you not going down before your wedding. I can see how you can do everything we did three days before, so don't worry! Everything will be great!!!!!

Awesome thanks for your post!

Do you have any info on the Terrace's?
Where is Terrace Venado? Other terrace's?

We want to stay close to the Grand Side - did you see the new Grand Moon?

We are hoping to have the Chapel Gazebo - What was it like in comparison to the Tucan Gazebo?

Chapel Garden - what did it look like - good place for a reception?

We are un-decided between the Chapel Garden and Terrace Venado.

We have Kalena as well - great to hear that all went well with her and we will be in good hands!!

Thank you
Laura

[Dez921714]

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Originally Posted by HaleGrifa Awesome thanks for your post! Do you have any info on the Terrace's? Where is Terrace Venado? Other terrace's? We want to stay close to the Grand Side - did you see the new Grand Moon? We are hoping to have the Chapel Gazebo - What was it like in comparison to the Tucan Gazebo? Chapel Garden - what did it look like - good place for a reception? We are un-decided between the Chapel Garden and Terrace Venado. We have Kalena as well - great to hear that all went well with her and we will be in good hands!! Thank you Laura

Kalena is sooo sweet! We've actually been assigned Lilly as an WC but Kalina was going to see if she could switch another wedding with Lilly so that she could be ours, being as we've already met and all

We didn't look at every location, as we already had a lot of things decided before we even got there...and it was raining off and on. Kalina was actually surprised by a lot of the info I already have (menue's, dj stuff). I smiled and said "if you keep asking, eventually they give it to you" she laughed.

The Chapel Gazebo is beautiful (FI really liked it too) and so is the Tucan Gazebo. We want the tucan gazebo over the Bumgabilias because of the walk way. Tucan has the long red walk. The Chapel Gazebo has some clear glass wind barriers, so that'd be really good if it's a windy day. It also has little bridges and is beautiful. It's a hard choice, even in person!

If you want a garden reception on the grass then the chapel garden is the perfect place!

I have to look at the pics I took and figure out which terraces I took pics of. Honestly, there wasn't a place we looked at that wouldn't be perfect! We thought that once we got there, it'd be easier, seeing the places in person and all, but it wasn't. LOL On the flip side, I have no doubt that ANY choice you make, will be a wonderful one.

I'm actually cringing because I'm giving you the same answers I was given when asking about locations. Only now that I've been there do I understand