“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 [...]

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 [...]

Edwina Werleman is the owner of E2 Events and Celebrations where she not only offers planning services but also owns wedding and party rentals. We adored Edwina from the moment we met Edwina during our site visit in May. She helped us explore our options, in particular, high-rise vs low-rise – Palm Beach vs Eagle [...]

Well I think this is the week things are really going to start coming together. As expected, I am now getting LOTS of emails from our independent wedding planner — she rocks! One thing she has is a stylist who will come to your room and do your hair and make-up. Her up-dos cost much [...]

I am happy, happy to announce that our favorite lanterns will soon be available in Aruba. By mid-August our independent wedding planner will have these in her possession! One of my ‘must-haves’ is candlelight for dinner, however the wind in Aruba makes that a challenge! We got excited about the prospect of lanterns but were [...]

Suddenly in the last week I’ve been having trouble sleeping. It seems that as I crawl into bed I suddenly start thinking about all of the wedding stuff I haven’t done yet! The day before yesterday I realized there is less than 4 months to go and I hadn’t even started looking at invitations, didn’t [...]

Well unfortunately there hasn’t been much progress in the last couple of weeks. I’m still waiting on proposals for decorating (using outside vendors) and still have a lot of unanswered questions. The latest issue is trying to sort out the Welcome Party. The Marriott says they don’t really start planning the wedding details until about [...]

Well its the end of the night on the 30th. Still no wedding decorating proposals have come in and the hotel’s planner has been out of the office. (You’d think by now they would at least be kind enough to let me know if they were uninterested or unable to help with our event. It’s [...]

Well its near the end of business on Friday and I am still waiting for three proposals from independent wedding planners…
Wedding Planner 1 is the one we met with when we visited Aruba. She’s pretty busy right now and told me she would get me a formal proposal by the 30th of June, so she’s [...]

So just before our trip, I find myself thinking I could end up with THREE ‘wedding planners’ for one wedding of 35 people. Makes me sound like quite the diva, don’t you think? Luckily I’m not an obnoxious bridezilla.
We learned there are different types of ‘planners’ for different parts of the process or different types [...]