Savanah + John | Destination Wedding at Dreams Resort – Cancun

Photo by Adventure Photos

We’re joined today by guest blogger Savanah – check out her amazing blog.  All photos by Adventure Photos of Dreams Resort in Cancun.

Photo by Adventure Photos

Our journey with WeddingMix started back in September when I was discussing our videography options on my blog. Laura left a comment letting me know about WeddingMix and what they offered and I was definitely intrigued.  I found the website, asked a bunch of questions (thanks for the live chat feature!!) and finally put our deposit down to have 3 video cameras come with us to Cancun!  Yes, you read that right, we had a destination wedding in Cancun, Mexico! Through out the whole year of planning the wedding, choosing to use WeddingMix was the second best decision we made! I say second because having a destination wedding was our first best decision! J

Photo by Adventure Photos

 Cancun (at least our resort) wasn’t up to US standards with the videography service and quality from what we had seen and heard from other brides. We could have paid an outside vendor fee plus the steep $2500 for a professional videographer in Mexico, but that wasn’t in our budget, especially for only 6 hours of coverage. We worked with Ariane and got our video cameras, notified all of our guests to download the iPhone app before we left for Mexico and then it was time to get on a plane to get married! The video cameras and phones came out starting at the airport and never got put down by our guests or us the entire 10 days we were there. From tequila shots in the Mexican restaurant to me trying sushi for the first time in the Japanese restaurant and from our rehearsal in our swim suits to our big “uh oh” when we missed our flight trying to get home, it was all on camera. All those little moments that a traditional videographer wouldn’t have caught were on video and we couldn’t wait to see it all edited and put together once we got home.

Photo by Adventure Photos

Photo by Adventure Photos

When I got the email that our video was ready, I couldn’t wait until I got home to watch it. I watched it right there in the salon with foils in my hair. I teared up watching how much was caught on video and getting to relive the mariachi band, the rain storm, doing the wobble in the dance club, jumping in the pool during our trash the dress session and everything else was just magical, even sitting there in a salon chair! Yes, having the ceremony and reception on video was important to me, but having all the other days from our guests point of view was more than I could of ever asked for!

Now that I’ve convinced you to use WeddingMix for your wedding, take a look at some of our pictures and get convinced to have a destination wedding too! J

Photo by Adventure Photos

Photo by Adventure Photos

Our wedding was a dream come true. That trip was the best 10 days of our lives and it’s bittersweet that it’s all over. John said to me while we were there, “Think about it. Nothing like this is ever going to happen again.” Both of our Grandmothers were there on vacation with us. Most of his aunts and uncles from New York who we rarely see were having drinks with us on the beach. We had dinner with our friends and my family 4 nights in a row. We ran in to cousins walking to the pool. It was just surreal. Everyone says their wedding day was the best day, but we had 10 days of it! Nearly every single person has said that it was the best wedding they had been to. The most fun, the most beautiful, the best. I don’t think I could have asked for a better week.

Thank you so much to Ariane and everyone else at WeddingMix for helping all of my wedding dreams come true. The things that we have on video are priceless and we wouldn’t have any of it without WeddingMix!!