I just stumbled across this fun picture as I was (finally) gathering pictures for my Welcome Bag post. The day we were leaving we were lucky enough to have a final lunch with Desireé and Chela. The were so fantastic thoughout the process! We met Chela when we went to Aruba for a site visit [...]

You may already know that we chose to have our reception on the pool deck, with dinner on the lawn. Its really hard to get a good picture of the pool deck. Its much larger than it looks. Here are a few:

Here I am walking from the La Vista Restaurant to the pool. This day [...]

Hello hello! I know this post is long overdue and hope it will be still be helpful to someone. I’ve finally found our personal photos from our wedding trip to Aruba. I have lots of photos to share and it will take a while to go through them, but here are a few. I’ve chatted [...]

I know its been a little bit since I posted, but now that the wedding is a couple of weeks behind us, I’m ready to put together a short review with my overall impressions. There are also other reviews I intend to get to like the sailing excursion, the welcome bag photos and contents, and [...]

For our wedding dinner we chose the Marriott’s “International Four Corners Buffet“, the corners being the “Asian Wok”, “Mexican Fiesta”, “Caribbean Warmth” and “Middle Eastern Oasis”. We liked the idea of offering different types of food and loved that they would be willing to swap out one of the corners for Indian food. We [...]

We chose to have our Welcome Party at Marriott’s La Vista restaurant. We had briefly considered Moomba Beach Bar, down the beach as well as renting out one of the Marriott’s “Governor’s Suites”, but La Vista won. Moomba is still a little bit of a walk and while the catering menu is less expensive, it [...]

I forgot to mention the best news from last week! The Marriott has finished their pool facelift, not in the anticipated 6 weeks but in 4 weeks! It is open ahead of schedule. I was concerned when I found out that the pool was being renovated the month before our wedding. While my experience with [...]

Planning is moving along! On Friday I spoke with the Marriott’s wedding planner regarding Welcome Party options. As of Friday morning I was down to three options: the Marriott’s “Atrium Terrace”, their “La Vista Restaurant” and the neighboring “Moomba Beach Bar”. The wedding is Saturday and most guests will be arriving Thursday afternoon so we [...]

Here is something I never thought to ask my resort: “Do you have any construction projects planned during the week of our event?”. Just last week our wedding travel agent forwarded me the following email. Imagine if you are a couple getting married at this Marriott in September.
“The pool area at our Resort will receive [...]

One function we are planning to have is a Welcome Party on the night we expect most of our guests to arrive. (Most guests will arrive around 2pm on Thursday – Wedding is Saturday.) What started as an informal, ‘Stop down to [designated space] at [time] and introduce yourself’ has turned into a real party. [...]