Date Change...

Okay, so we have changed the date just slightly.... our wedding will now be on Friday October 17th. In the past I have never been a big fan of Friday weddings because they are just plain hard to get to, but in our case it seems to work out better:

1) The resort holds a Fiesta every Saturday night for the guests and first we didn't want to compete with that (it is usually really loud)

2) We really wanted to have the dinner/dancing part in the outside restaurant along the cliffs and we could not reserve it because of the Fiesta being held there. So by having it on Friday we can use the most beautiful parts of the resort.

I know it is hard for people to take the time off but we really want the guests who come to try to make a vacation out of it and stay for a few days. Rene and I will be there the whole week prior, and most guests will come in Wed or Thur and stay through Sunday or Monday. Rene and I will also not leave for our honeymoon until Sunday so we all can attend the Solmar fiesta together and still spend time with the people we love the MOST! Mark your calenders and look for the Save The Date soon!

Part Dos.... Solmar y Playa Grande

Rene and I really like Solmar. We are staying there the week of the wedding and would absolutely LOVE if everyone can stay there too. This is SOLMAR:

Though on our trip we had been getting the run around. Originally I had contacted Solmar and they put me in touch with their wedding coordinator, Claudia. She was the one is charge of events for Solmar AND La Playa Grande (sister hotel). It seemed like more people had weddings at La Playa because that was most of the info she sent me. Two weeks before we were set to go visit she said that she was no longer working there and to contact the general manager. He never responded to my emails.

So we decided to head on over to La Playa to see if we could get in contact with someone... When we were there NO ONE would help us and told us that the manager was busy and he would call us (yeah, on our phones that don't work in Mexico?). We wanted to get a tour of the place so they sent us over to some other ladies. This young woman showed us around the property and it is beautiful. Very BIG and elegant, lots of colors.... but also it was very busy and sort of loud.

So as this woman is showing us around she keeps on telling us that we should invest in a time-share to stay in during our wedding/honeymoon. Then she bring us to "the ROOM" (those of you who have gone on a time-share tour, you know what I'm talking about) where there are tons of couples sitting down with employees trying to seal the deal. THEY WHERE TRYING TO SELL US A TIME SHARE!!!! Rene finally interrupted the second person that had come over to talk to us and told him that we were not interested in it BUT were here to plan our wedding (after the 10th time) and he said that they had a woman named Claudia who was in charge of that.... UH YEAH and she NO LONGER works here! He didn't even know that. So after that we decided to leave because we were getting NO HELP! NO ME GUSTO LA PLAYA GRANDE!!!

So in the long run, WE LOVE SOLMAR and hopefully we can talk to someone there who can plan our wedding.

Again, its late and you will have to wait to read more about our Cabo adventure, part tres....

Pre - Cabo San Lucas

So I have my passport in hand... we have our flights, we just need to make our hotel reservations. There is a cute little hotel in town, Hotel Mar de Cortez, that we are going to stay in for the weekend.  Cannot WAIT! 

SO WHY CABO, YOU ASK?

Well, Rene and I really want to get married out in nature.  We love the outdoors.  I love the ocean and water (I am an aquarius) though I live in Arizona so I never see it.  I have been in many weddings (as you now know) yet none of them have been on a beach or destination. Lots have been outside and have been beautiful, but none yet have been on a Mexican beach (though Amber's wedding is coming up and IS on the beach, but in Hawaii). Rene spent 6 months in Mexico City during college and LOVED IT and can't think of a better destination.  We cannot wait to get married with all of our close friends and family on the beach in Cabo with our bare feet in the sand.  

So now we are going on a quick trip down there to do a little planning and get a better idea of places down there.  When we get back, we will have much more to do and plan!