Azul Sensatori Brides - POST HERE!

[amybermuda]

Paradise Catamarans are awesome. There was a girl Carrie on here who got married at AS and she used them twice during her wedding week and raved about them.

 

We are paying for transport to and from our hotel (50 mins) and then alcohol for the drinks and snacks for everyone. I believe we have 35 people going and the total is just over $2100. Fi's parents are paying for it like the "Rehearsal Dinner" we would have had if we'd had a traditional wedding. We literally booked this last night. You pay 20% down and then the rest you can mail a check a week before you leave to their address in Rhode Island.

 

Also, we are doing a trip to Selevatica for the zipline tours which is $90 pp including transport from our hotel.

 

Lastly, we are doing a night in Cancun clubbing. The RT vans are like $250 each and carry 12 people. I used Riveria Maya Excursions for this.

 

 

DJs:

 

What is this about 3500 for the bells and whistles DJ? I saw $1500 for a DJ on the price sheet and thats it, I didn't know there are options for DJs? I was really hoping that $1500 would include the balloons, glow bracelets, and the other props.

[~Nicole~]

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Originally Posted by suzannepdc I actually have gotten A LOT of information from you guys (like the infamous $500 outside vendor rule!) There was someone that got married there in October (which was odd b/c when we were there in late October, the onsite person was telling us about her wedding and decorations and then I got online and randomly "found" her and saw pictures of what he was talking about!) Just wanted to see what they did with food, etc. since I am at a loss. We are only having 16 guests, which includes 5 children, so I was curious what they did. But it's strange, the thread is just completely MIA! Oh well! And Amy - totally go the cheesy route!

Hi Suzanne! What sort of dinner are you looking to do? Private or non-private?

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Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz UGH!! I just got an email from my BROTHER"S GIRLFRIEND saying they didn't wanna stay at the resort!!!!

Honestly, the guests that don't go at all or choose to stay at a different resort will feel like complete douchebags after. Seriously. I wouldn't waste my time trying to convince them... they just won't get it until after the fact unfortunately. However, I promise you that you won't miss them. I swear

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Originally Posted by meghan Uggghh, I am so stressed today...I think the most stressed i've been in quite a while. We are making our own invites (supposed to have been sent out January 1st) and they still are not made. My FI was really excited about them in the beginning and had an idea of what he wanted, so I let him basically choose what we did for the invites. Over christmas I said we needed to get them done, and it never happened. Then he promised that he would work on them this weekend and get a good chunk done (I have been working on the already pretty much on my own)....that didn't happen. Last night he said he would do them....he cut 10 pieces of paper and glued them, and some of them he even glued on crooked! He is extremely artsy and probably more capable than I am of making them look nice. I'm so frustrated because I went with his idea for the invites, and he isn't even making much of an effort to do them! Sorry for ranting, but just needed to vent. Aside from that, I have such a stressful job this year and when I come home from school and see that the invites weren't done, I'm not in a good mood!

Awww Meghan
My advice for this scenario - don't allow men to do anything wedding related unless you absolutely don't care about it lol. DH had ONE responsibility throughout our whole wedding planning process and that was to make the appointment for our rings. I ended up cutting off any sort of physical contact, if you know what i mean, just to get him to take care of it. The end.
P.S I didn't ask him to do anything after that.... it wasn't worth my sanity.

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Originally Posted by gingerlover36 Hello all... I am totally new to forums/dwf/etc. and pretty much have no idea what I am doing. I am prob going to the Azul in March to check it out. Right now it is our top choice for our wedding next year. If anyone has pictures or advice I would greatly appreciate it! Or if you could let me know how accommodating the staff at Sensatori is? Prices? Etc... This is all so overwhelming at first!!!

I agree with Katie, reading through the thread is by far the most helpful route to go. To sum it up quickly..... The food is awesome, the service is amazing, the prices for extra's are ridiculous, the WC - I wasn't overly thrilled with but my wedding was great!

Here's a link to some of my pics: MEXICO Destination Wedding Photography, Wedding Photojournalism throughout the Mayan Riviera
Go to Galleries, Nicole & Curt

[amybermuda]

Hey Meghan, I can totally sympathize with you. Sounds like you need to schedule Saturday morning and afternoon to do them together. I feel if you can put aside time to do them maybe he'll get more serious. Tell him guests are asking when the invites were going out and Etiquette says 6 months for destination wedings (I made that up, but I'd say it to him anyways).

 

I had to send Mark an email telling him that I was upset that he had a few things to do and hasn't done them yet while I have been planning the wedding for the 2 of us and only asking for his input on decisions to be made. That made him relaize he needed to step up.

 

Good luck girl@!

[amybermuda]

Suzanne - Check out trip advisor too. You are talking about Bree who was on here. I forget what her screenname was - Beckerba - or something. Anyways on Trip Adisor there are so many wedding reviews and you can contact the people who left the rveiew.

[renee1811]

I think all of our fiances are the same! My fiance said he really wanted to help with the save the dates; I had a few girlfriends who offered, but my fiance was dead-set that he wanted to help. I set an evening to do it, he made ONE and then decided he wanted to go play Halo instead---gah!! From now on, all of the DIY projects are going to be done with my girlfriends, lol.

 

AmyB, I think you should do the backdrop and make it as incredibly cheesy as possible

 

AmyKH, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your BD pics! You look absolutely stunning. After seeing yours, I was motivated to start going to the gym/eating better. My session is at the end of March, so I have some time to get in shape!

[KittenHeart]

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Originally Posted by gingerlover36 Hello all... I am totally new to forums/dwf/etc. and pretty much have no idea what I am doing. I am prob going to the Azul in March to check it out. Right now it is our top choice for our wedding next year. If anyone has pictures or advice I would greatly appreciate it! Or if you could let me know how accommodating the staff at Sensatori is? Prices? Etc... This is all so overwhelming at first!!!

We're happy to have you and answer any questions you may have

Here are some of my favorite things to do that get me MOST excited about my upcoming weddding:

Here's Elizabeth Medina's blog and I searched for AS, click on the different weddings to see the pictures:

Elizabeth Medina Photography

Here's one at Azul from Claudia Rodriguez

http://www.claudiaphoto.com/alberto/matt_andrea/

My second favorite thing to do is search planning threads on this forum. There are four AS planning threads I can think of off the top of my head...

Tracey
KatKen
Nicole
Milejo

These are so helpful with all the details and whatnot. There is a lot to do planning a wedding but these girls keep me sane and grounded and they are your best support system!

Katies suggestion was probably the best, reading through this entire forum will really get you up to speed quickly, it's what everyone does first thing when they get here.

We also have bi-weekly to-do's and check in with each other which really helps. Just remember to do one thing at a time, doin't do one million things at a time (like I keep trying to do) it just ends up getting very stressful.

Good luck, ask us any question you want!

Amy

[~Nicole~]

Hahaha Renee - Halo OMG lol! Ya ladies, the faster we learn that men just aren't into that the better off we'll be

Think about it... how long would you last if you were helping FI clean parts for a car, or shopping for fishing boats or somthing like that? Men and woman are different and its ok lol. It doesn't mean that he doesn't care about the wedding.

[KittenHeart]

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Originally Posted by Katie_2010 oh wow...where does his family live? maybe I know them!! haha I know, me too!! It's going to be soooo weird being in Mexico knowing you're there too and so close! and for once, we'll be in the same time zone too!! lol never know, could end up 'bumping' into you round Playa Del Carmen or Cancun!!

Ooo good question, I don't know where they live.

I know! I wish you'd come crash my wedding, that would be awesome

Absolutely, I'll be out there Monday, May 3rd with my laptop so let me know if you want to meet

[KittenHeart]

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Originally Posted by Afrommert taylorwd, THANKS, ill check into that for sure? Do you mind me asking how much you guys paid?? OH and girls, somthing really funny.... we decided to dance our way down the isle... OMG this is going to be so fun. My bridesmaid is a chorographer and shes putting our fun dance together right now, were alll dancing down to good night by black eyed p's!!! here is our inspiration: YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. then search jk wedding entrance LOL, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im so excited to have some fun!!!! And only 2 ppl in the wedding party know as of today, im having a wedding party meeting here at my house next week and im serving margaritas and then were going to play the youtube video of a regular traditional ceremony, then play them a dance one and say you pick one!! lol! im super geeked! hopefullly we get everyone into it. Thank god i have a fun group of ppl in my wedding right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AMY I LOVE IT!!!

Ever since that JK wedding video came out my bridesmaids and mom have been encouraging me to do it. I totally would I just didn't even know what to choose but Good Night by the BEP is PERFECT!!!

You better have someone recording this... and you better share it with us!!

I can't wait!

[KittenHeart]

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Originally Posted by amybermuda Paradise Catamarans are awesome. There was a girl Carrie on here who got married at AS and she used them twice during her wedding week and raved about them. We are paying for transport to and from our hotel (50 mins) and then alcohol for the drinks and snacks for everyone. I believe we have 35 people going and the total is just over $2100. Fi's parents are paying for it like the "Rehearsal Dinner" we would have had if we'd had a traditional wedding. We literally booked this last night. You pay 20% down and then the rest you can mail a check a week before you leave to their address in Rhode Island. Also, we are doing a trip to Selevatica for the zipline tours which is $90 pp including transport from our hotel. Lastly, we are doing a night in Cancun clubbing. The RT vans are like $250 each and carry 12 people. I used Riveria Maya Excursions for this. DJs: What is this about 3500 for the bells and whistles DJ? I saw $1500 for a DJ on the price sheet and thats it, I didn't know there are options for DJs? I was really hoping that $1500 would include the balloons, glow bracelets, and the other props.

Wow, this is all information that I needed! I want to do a zip line tour and also know that we planned on renting vans for transportation into Cancun for my bachelorette party

Thanks so much for this info!