Just over a week ago, one of our readers had her Aruba wedding! I got to know her back when I was planning my wedding. She posted a detailed review on the Aruba.com forum which she said she’s glad for me to share here as well. So here goes – the good and the bad:
We [...]

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 [...]

A couple of great real wedding reviews have just been posted to the Aruba.com forum!

Renaissance Island, October 2009 – Though this  couple brought their own photographer from North Carolina, the bride raves about working with Juney. They also decided to do the civil ceremony at home in NYC – like us they considered that ceremony [...]

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 [...]

Well we went in circles for the rest of the trip trying to figure out what option is the best for us and finally it comes down to the Westin Aruba or the Aruba Marriott. For us this decision is incredibly difficult. Really, we want the wedding and reception at the Westin and want to [...]

Expectation: We were expecting to really like but not fall in love with this property but it sounds like they will work really hard to make us happy.
In our initial research we had ruled out the Aruba Marriott. We had exchanged some emails with them, received their wedding packet and then wanted to schedule and [...]