Our Destination Wedding was Awesome

After enjoying our fun and romance with many trips to Savannah Beach Inn on a littel island 20 minutes away from downtown Savannah, GA, we took it a step further and asked them to plan a unique and memorable wedding for us with their wedding planners at Romantic Weddings Of Savannah / Weddings by Savannah Beach Inn.

We were surprised beyond belief when they arranged the wedding of our dreams.

Our wedding on an uninhabited island beach near Savannah, GA in which we traveled to on a pontoon pirate party boat captained by Craig Markowski of “Pirate Charters Of the Caribbean”. And what a wedding it turned out be with the secluded romantic setting. Not only did we enjoy all the normal formalities like the toasts, cake cutting and great reception, everybody changed into their swimming attire for an afternoon swim as well. Although there were neither swashbuckling swords nor blunderbuss muskets, there was the romantic moments as we started our new journey as one and begin to conquer the world with the passion and challenges that lay ahead!

Pirate Captain Craig was the perfect host, and ultimate entertainer when sharing his experiences from not only the Virgin Islands, but the island coasts of the US and his adventures in Alaska. His own tropical punch recipe and delicacies of the traditional “Low Country Shrimp Boil” and Southern fried chicken were also a real treat.

Originally from Key Largo and fed up with the deceit he encountered as a successful investment banker on Wall St, he rebuilt his career on his terms. Self made and without deep pockets, he enjoys his career as he travels and works in destinations in which most only dream.

Working his way through some unique careers in Alaska for years of challenging climate and conditions, he accumulated the experience and savings to become a sailboat captain and a well respected author. With a uniquely positive and determined attitude, he seems almost a legend as he shares stories of his experiences
and travels of which many include his pet timber wolf, Buddy.

No adventurous dreams or goals would be complete without generating ideas from successes in his favorite works which include “Key West to Alaska” and “Trading Wall St For St John USVI”.

Enough about the awesome wedding and reception as we’ll leave it to your imagination for our honeymoon!

We only can wish that everyone else enjoys their wedding as much as we did ours!!!!

With All Our Love from the Big Apple!!!

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Attention April/May Dreams Cancun Brides!!!!!

You may be in for a surprise if you have an upcoming wedding at this resort. We have just returned from our wedding on Apr 10. Let us start by saying our friends and family would all consider us very laid back people and very low maintenance.
We picked this wedding site a year ago, and even traveled to Dreams 6 months ago to check the locale out. We specifically asked at that time if there would be and construction/changes planned. Answer was no. When we arrived at the resort, we were upgraded to a towers room. However, the room overlooked the disastrous construction site where our special day was to take place. Our gazebo had been torn down!! Yes, the beautiful gazebo that is still up on the website is now gone. There was a huge blue tarp covering the now construction zone known as our wedding site. In addition, the beautiful surrounding area had changed. There were several hundred yards of huge concrete blocks with rebar sticking out, forming a new jetty that was quite unnatural appearing. The private adjacent beach where our reception was to be held was completely redone and built up so that it was not quite so private and communicated with the other resorts. Again, no planned changes as they told us. We immediately had a meeting with several managers (bride in tears of course). When I asked why they had withheld all of this information, they claimed it had all been done only 5 days prior. This was later found to be a complete lie as the local photographer who is at the resort 3-4 days weekly told me positively that it had been 25-26 days for the gazebo, much longer for the new jetty. We demanded that other arrangements be made as the bride would be wearing high heels and a beach wedding was not what we had been planning for a year. We ultimately decided to have our wedding at a sister resort (Now Resort) which was about a 45 min drive south. They provided a charter bus to transport our 50 guests. The wedding was nice there, although not what we had planned for so long and not what we were planning to bring our family/friends from another country to see. We proceeded to have meetings every other day or so with the wedding planner (Cecilia who was pretty good) and her boss (Rafael who was not so honest about timing of gazebo construction). As one can imagine, this made for a pretty stressful week prior to our wedding. One of the meetings was the day of the wedding, and finally another several days after. At each meeting was what we considered an insulting small discount on our botched wedding. In the meantime as our guests arrived, almost every guest was told at the desk that there were no rooms available for them. Some of them were upgraded after putting up a fuss in order to get a room. Many of them were not so fortunate and had to be put up in other hotels. The grooms own mother was not even staying at Dreams on our wedding day!
We finally had our room relocated away from the construction site reminder and were placed back near the dolphins. In the end, we paid a portion of our initial wedding bill. We were not offered a return voucher stay in the future even though we inquired about it several times. Overall the experience was quite traumatic. We felt they were intentionally deceitful before we arrived, then lied to our faces directly, and ultimately gave very little to zero effort to attempt to make up for it or try to make us feel happy or special in any way. We do not plan a trip back at this point, nor do we recommend to others for vacation or especially for a wedding. We are happy we are married but quite happy that our experience at Dreams Cancun is over. On a positive note, the food was overall pretty good across the resort. Also, the photographer and videographer were awesome and provided a great video and over 600 great pictures. But if you are expecting more than pictures and food for that special day of your life, you may rethink your options as it’s not too late.

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