1532i Wireless Bridge Confusion (CAPWAP)

I'm working on setting up a wireless bridge between two buildings that currently are connected via fiber. The fiber needs to be pulled back and re-run so we want to use the bridge as the L2 trunk while that work is being done. Right now I'm labing up the two 1532i's we will be using for the project and am running into some snags. These APs are CAPWAP, connect to the controller fine, and (finally) are able to see each other, but not pass traffic. I've got one of them connected to a test switch that I can remove from the rest of the network to validate the mesh bridge comes up, the other is in my main switch stack.
The issue I'm having trouble with is the VLAN tagging. I've set the native vlan on the AP (under the AP's mesh tab) to that of the primary data VLAN (700) and have allowed a few other VLANs to pass (705 and 706). I've configured the switch uplinks to the APs as trunks - this is where I'm having a hard time. The documentation says that I need to have the trunk's native VLAN be 1 (i.e. no native vlan) - the issue is when I do this, my RAP loses connection to the wireless controller because it's BVI is not tagging the packets (I believe) for VLAN 700 and we don't use VLAN 1. If I set "switchport trunk native vlan 700" on the switch trunk interface, all is well but I get a ton of spanning-tree errors on my switch.
I know the solution is going to be a simple oversight, but MAN am I stumped. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I found that the issue is that I had the APs on the same VLAN that my user / device data was using. I found out this needs to be a "management" type VLAN as it won't pass traffic, only connects the devices. Once I changed the native VLAN off my user network and allowed that network though, all was working as expected.

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