Archive for the ‘Real Weddings’ Category

Greetings from a soon-to-be Aruba bride!

Hello everyone!
I am so excited to be a guest blogger on this website….especially since this site has helped me tremendously during my planning process.  It only makes sense to share what I have learned and my own experience with other brides-to-be who are thinking destination wedding.  Just a warning that this post will be ridiculously [...]

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Aruba Trash the Dress Photo Inspiration Courtesy of Jing, Jeff and Scott Hayne Photography!

If you’ve been reading for a while, you know how much I LOVE Trash the Dress photo shoots. I’ve been eagerly awaiting Jeff & Jing’s shoot and boy is it worth the wait! The photos are stunning! Scott spent hours with them going to several locations that included the Alto Vista Chapel, the Bushiribana Gold [...]

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Our overall review of our Westin wedding:

Wedding coordinator: The hubby and I are so glad we chose the Westin to host our wedding extravaganza. They truly went above and beyond for us and we can’t thank them enough! Our wedding coordinator, Patrick, did an amazing job. He was always on point with communication through email, answering all our questions in [...]

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Real Aruba Wedding: May 22, 2010, Aruba Westin

“Vicki” from New York City shares with us her review of her spring Westin Wedding. In a separate email exchange she told me her officiant was Rev. Ruben Traxx whom she really liked and she chose a local photographer recommended by the Westin, Robert Arenz. Thank you Vicki, for your review and for sharing some [...]

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Palm Beach Aruba Radisson Wedding Photographed by Destination Wedding Photographer Kenny Kim

I was so excited this week when I read a review where a couple shared a link to their photographer, Kenny Kim’s blog post that features some of their wedding photos! They are gorgeous! (The photos AND the couple – wow!) Looks like they had a perfect day and the lavender and silver scheme is [...]

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Real Wedding: Aruba Radisson, April 2010

Another couple I’ve chatted with has just posted their Aruba Radisson Wedding Review and has given me permission to share it here as well:
Our Wedding Review at the Radisson – April 10, 2010
I just wanted to write about our wedding experience in Aruba. We got married at the Radisson Aruba on April 10, 2010. The [...]

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Aruba Wedding Review – April 2010: Aruba Marriott, DJ Randolph, Moomba Beach Bar & Grill

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:
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A few more Wedding Photos!

I mentioned in our previous post that one of the things we LOVED about our wedding photos and our photographers (StoryByPhoto.com), was that they captured how young and adventurous we FEEL. The pics are fresh and funky. Here are a couple of our favorites from the wedding day itself. We have plenty of photos that [...]

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Trash the Dress Photos!

Hello, hello! I know I haven’t posted in a while. Things have been crazy busy now the wedding is done and it’s time to get back to everything at home that we neglected during the planning. We are still on a high after our wedding and were SO EXCITED last week when we were notified [...]

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Reviews: Aruba Marriott and Renaissance Island

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 [...]

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