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i think it depends on how large your group is. the options lupita gave me were all outside b/c our group is 40+.

I am at VIM right now for my site visit/vaca. Having a great time and will post a full review when i get back. Am meeting with WC at 11:00. Let me know if you have any questions!!

Hi! I'm getting married at VIM on December 12. I am expecting that we will have a larger group, since we haven't even sent out the invites and we already have 40 people booked. I'm heading to VIM next week to meet with the WC and iron out some details. I am happy to share any info that i find out. Let me know if there is anything specific you would like me to ask!

Ladies, I'm heading to VIM for a combo vacation/site visit July 28-Aug 2. Will be meeting with Lupita and asking a ton of questions. Let me know if there is anything specific you want to know!

Thanks Mrs. Powers! I found the review! Much appreciated. I hope my wedding is 1/2 as beautiful as yours looked!!!!

Mrs. Powers, I think i must be missing something. I didn't see the review you mentioned or the pictures. Could you send me the link? Thank you! Jenn

OlsonTCO There is apparently a child friendly resort next door, but I don't know the name. your guests would be able to meet you on the beach. Good luck

Jennie and CNC, As I promised, here are my thoughts on EDR vs. VIM, but i can speak more of why I chose VIM as opposed to why I didn't chose EDR. For me and my fiance, we wanted to get married on a beach. And EDR, as pretty as it is and as good as the food is reported to be (I've never stayed there), it has these HUGE ugly sand bags in the water. I didn't want to see that when I was getting married (or have it in my pictures.) I have stayed at VIM and am going back there next month for our site visit. It is HUGE and secluded, which i really liked. There are many places to meet your guests and hang out. The beach is where we want to get married but if it is raining, the chapel is beautiful too. I wrote a fuller report earlier in this strand with more reasons. Feel free to check that out. If you have any more questions, let me know!

Hi All! I'm so mad at this system! I had signed up to receive notification every time there is an update to this thread (b/c i can't access this from work) and I didn't get on until this morning and I have missed all this great news! CONGRATS to Mrs. Powers and Colby! Thanks for the info! And CNC, I will respond to you this week about EDR vs. VIM. Have a good day everyone!

I am thinking of doing the same. If you get any info, please post and I will do the same! Thanks!

Quote: Originally Posted by pribrzl Hello everyone, I have been searching for bands and was referred to La Mata, which is the band that plays at Senor Frog in Playa del Carmen. I am about to sign up with them, but would feel more confortable if someone here had used them....anyone? Thank you! Good evening, I see it has been 23 days since your wedding! Congrats! I was wondering did you end up using this band? what did you think? Any help would be most appreciated! JLRJEN

Hi Jennie, I'm getting married on December 12 at the Valentin. We looked at EDR and VIM. We chose VIM. My fiance and I paid $2200 total for seven nights including airfare, taxes, and transfers. If you take out the airfare and transfers, it works out to about $215/room/night including taxes. Gotta love low season!

Graciela, CONGRATS!!! So excited for you and such a relief to hear that everything went well. I'm starting to stress a bit too and am thinking about hiring a private/outside WC b/c I'm not hearing from the resort at all. Can you tell us a bit about how the WCs handled the wedding? I, too, would like to know where you had your reception and how that was handled (private? in a restaurant? extra charge?) And of course pictures (did you use the resort photographer or hire another)? I know youwon't have the professional pix for a while but anything you can share about the set up of ceremony reception cocktail hour etc would be most appreciated!!! Thank you for starting this forum and being willing to share and help us all out!! AND CONGRATS AGAIN!!

This is great!! This is exactly what I'm looking to do too! Soon2bpowers! I know you from the VIM thread! I just called robert too at cancun catamarans and I'm getting sooooooooooo excited about it. He said I might have to use the bigger boat - I'm guessing that we will have about 50-75 people since we are already at 31 people booked and the invites aren't out yet. But this sounds like so much fun. I'll post what he tells me are the prices for the bigger boat. When are you doing this? The day before the wedding? We were thinking of doing it for our rehearsal dinner but now i think the more casual snorkeling/sailing might be more fun? SOOOOOO exciting!

hi ladies, i can certainly understand your concerns. i'm getting questions all the time from my family and friends now about whether we are still having the wedding in mexico, even though our wedding isn't until december. here is what i have been sharing with them to try to put their minds at ease. -put it in perspective: the u.s. is a country of 300 million people and mexico has a population of 109 million. 141 U.S. cases of H1N1 flu and ~1000 mexican cases (although bad) in my mind do not make for a "pandemic" -36,000 people a year in the U.S. die from the REGULAR FLU. so far no americans have died from h1n1 and only one mexican national who crossed over the border to get u.s. med treatment died here -the flu "outbreak" is centered in mexico city, not the yucatan peninsula now all that said, you have to do what makes you feel comfortable. if you chose to move your wedding to jamaica, i lived there for 2 years and would be happy to share/answer whatever questions i can. good luck jlrjen