Thanks for the info Shauna (aka Marley9808) and the reply!!! Lucky you for your very soon trip back to Negril!! You must really like the place. That gives me a warm fuzzy that we did a good thing in choosing JAM as our destination wedding. We are doing this alone with no guests or family. Just us....and preacher. We didn't want a big deal. Just a nice vacation place and a simple ceremony.
Congrats on your 2010 wedding also!!! Where did you get married??
To say we have questions is an understement. I am really glad we found this forum.
We will just hope for the best as to AA. I really hate that there is a layover in MIA on what should really be a short flight from TPA to JAM but that's the way it is.
BTW, here is how we ended up with a Negril wedding....as luck would have it.
We got engaged after a year of basically living together this past Xmas (2011). We really didn't set a date and left it open ended. We told all our family and friends and left it at that.
Well, in Feb. on one Sat. evening, Margot said she was going to run down to the little store on the corner for something or other, Ok I said, and gave her 2 $1 bils and told her to get 2 $1 scratch off's. Allot of times we have dinner and scratch off tickets after while having an after dinner drink. I scratch one area then pass it to her to scratch and she passes it back..till it is done. We can spend 15 minutes on each ticket with this "entertainment". We do one ticket...nothing. Ok, next one. I tell her to do the whole ticket. She gets to scratching and is done. She looks at me and has this funny look on her face. She hands the ticket to me and asks what this means. One of the little areas had "4 THOU" onder it....and it matched the prize area...4 THOU!!!! What did it mean???.....I told her it means we just just won $4K!!!!! Whoa!!!!
Well, we go over to the lottery office in Tampa and cash it in. They give us a check for 4 grand we we go home. Well, Margot being the thrifty one, wants to use the money to pay bills....BS I say....we are using this money to buy memories!!!.....A wedding!!! But where???.....well, having been to Cayman many times I knew I wanted Carribean somewhere because I love the water down there. We have really nice beaches here but the water here is like a sewer compared to the clear blue of the Carribean. Jamaica immediately popped into my head as I had never been there. Cayman is nice, but it is just a very flat rock sticking out of the water. Great for diving but not much scenery. Jamaica has mountains and is "lush". Ok, where in JAM???? Well, we got on computer and started looking.....Sandals, Couples, etc. popped up....bunches of AI's..nice but too touristy if you know what I mean. I knew I wanted a sunset wedding. That means you gotta be on west side of the island.....OK, what's on west side?? Well, stated looking and Negril immediately is the destination to be. Where though??? Looked at all the beach places. Devoured TripAdvisor. We have plenty of great beaches 1 mile from here at home.......Cliffs!!!!!! We don't have cliffs here in FL......I want CLIFFS!!!!! Well, we looked at all the places on the cliffs....we got down to a short list of Catcha and Moon Dance Cliffs and another place I don't remember now. We sent emails. MDC was the only one that replied to us with any kind of information. They were great about talking with us and what we wanted and could easily handle our simple wedding. We had wanted a late Sept or early Oct wedding but MDC is closed all of Sept. They were also booked from Oct out to end of the year (we wanted the one bedroom villa Ponsianna). As it turns out, we could get in last week in August so we set the date....AUG 27!!! MDC is also unique in that you can book either AI or non-AI. Well, the price difference for us was a no-brainer as we eat very little (most times just one meal). So we are booked for 8 nights there with a wedding in the gazebo...it is really cool looking on their website.
So that's how luck put us in JAM