New Film by Baldemar Rodriguez, "In Search of the American Dream" Premiers Today September 20th

                                                                      

Leslie's thoughts:

Hubby gets to meet everyone in town due to his line of work. He is a fancy banker, I find his job a little boring but he loves it and that is all that matters. Either way he gets to go to all these events, play golf and most important meet interesting people. One of these fabulous persons was actor and director Baldemar Rodriguez.

He invited my Hubby to a special screening of his new movie, In Search of the American Dream. So my honey took me and his parents along for this captivating film. The special screening was at the newly renovated Viva Cinema.

Almost not, Lovely Wedding Dress

NICO Photograhers

I almost forgot to do this, but my husband reminded me that I had posted earlier about my beautiful dress, but yet never showed my actual wedding dress.

I was never the typical girl that is obsessed with marriage since they hit puberty. I didn't have a binder full of pictures of wedding gowns and wedding stuff. (I do now, lol).. I did know I wanted a different style and I thought I knew how I was going to get it custom made. Unfortunately part of that style was strapless, and like I said before EVERYONE does the strapless look, and I hate being like everyone.

Grand Palladium Punta Cana Resort & Spa : Honeymoon Review

We were so excited when we booked our honeymoon through Funjet with a great price on 12 days at the Grand Palladium Palace. I did all the research, I saw all the beautiful pictures, read all the GREAT reviews everywhere especially Trip Advisor (they are usually right on) and thought I picked the perfect place for us. We still made the best of it and had a good time, after all it was our honeymoon but then again my husband and I can have fun anywhere, but no thanks to this place at all. Even though I booked at the Grand Palladium Palace they gave us a room at the Grand Palace Punta Cana. We didn't complain trying to make the best of our stay, but I think this was the one with the worst service.

***So that everyone understands, The Grand Palladium is a HUGE resort with 4 hotels on it, The Bavarro, Punta Cana, Palace, and Royal Turquesa. Although you may see a picture on the website of your room, it may turn out to be one of the other properties, you are allowed to go to the other properties***

©2012 L.Guzmán

Grand Palladium Punta Cana Resort & Spa

The great reviews on this place are so deceiving, but I do know now majority of them are from people that are not Americans. While we were there I noticed that we got treated differently right upfront, even though I am Latina and I speak fluent Spanish and did so with the staff it didn’t seem to matter. There are a lot of Europeans and Canadians that stay there and they seemed to get better service for some reason, even though we would see that some of them didn’t tip. We always tipped since we are used to that here in United States, but that didn’t seem to matter. We met a few other Americans and seemed to get the same response from them on the service & treatment. A few that didn’t and said they had good service but after talking with them we found out they didn’t travel much. We travel all the time and to different countries and were shocked at how bad the service was in this place.

Wedding Invitations = US

Front of our Invitation

I was originally going to tackle the job of doing my own wedding invitation, but decided not to after big headaches. I wanted them to be me, and unique. I didn't want the over the top fancy invitations that no one ever remembers or keeps. I wanted our invitations to include pictures, that way guests had a memory from the beginning of our wedding process. After pricing paper and realizing it was not at all cheap, we found our place, Basic Invite.