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Wow, that's a great point about the cocktail hour. I know just the right friend to wrangle everyone. I'll have to talk to my fiance about it though. We are flyig across the country to Boston tonight so I plan on forcing him to review wedding stuff with me while we are on the plane. Hopefully that works. I need to make some decisions!

I did pictures after the ceremony too. With everything we did being so nontraditional, I wanted there to be something traditional in the wedding. But the pictures ate up most of the cocktail party, so there are pluses and minuses to everything!

I wonder if your WC thinks you mean a flower arch when you are comparing the 2? There is a gazebo and a canopy (the 4 wooden pillars) but I think you could also buy a flowered arch. I used 4 sheets of fabric on the canopy so it would come down on all 4 sides (see pix recently posted). All were white and cost $300. Yes, that's a lot of money for fabric, but the alternative of buying and bringing it and maybe it being the wrong size greatly outweighed the cost to me.

I had 5 centerpeices which were $50 each. Square vases and total diameter was probably 12-14 inches. They were gorgeous.

I think you need to consider what your theme is, how many tables you have, and how formal your wedding is going to be. The bigger and more formal, you probably need to have big/nice centerpieces. If your wedding is less formal, you could get away with almost anything!

Another idea is to have framed pictures on each table. I used pictures of love birds to denote table seating - so instead of #s - there were really nice 5x5 or 5x7 picture frames. You could go fancy or casual with the picture frames you use and you can use them again. Eveeryone's name card had a small picture of the love bird on it, and they found their table by matching it to the frame.


Check out my bouquet! AMAZING!!!!!

I also want to point out to the brides upcoming - if you have pictures how you want things - make sure you show the WC in Miami and bring the pictures (2 copies in case both Lomas and hotel WC want them) to Mexico. They are amazing at recreating things.

 

What I wanted the set up to look like:

 

What it did look like:

 

Google images, look on flickr, and check out other brides on this site!

Wow your bouquet is FANTASTIC!

I haven't been down for a site visit yet. Schedules are tough

Was it easy to get to all of the places you went to around town? Did you walk or drive? I think we'll have to do what you did and do the day after, although I would rather just sit around and be a giddy new bride, hehe. Who did you hair for the day after shots?

Oh, how perfect! I think their recreation looks even better than the picture you sent them!

Hi girls, here is my ceremony. It meant a lot to me and I would appreciate if you kept it for your eyes only and did not distribute outside of this group. I took information from this website (see http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...-script-21660/ ) as well as The Knot and ministers websites around the world. We wrote our own vows together for what was important to us.

 

If you are doing the legal ceremony, you can change some of the set ceremony, however since the judges do not speak perfect English, you might want to have your guests do readings - such as the sand ceremony, hand ceremony, or poems.

 

Good luck!

 

 

Our Ceremony - for posting on BDW.doc

No worries, most people can't afford a site visit. We didn't do one either and it all turned out perfectly!

Andrew (photog) rented a car and drove us around town. We too were quite bummed about having to leave the resort the day after to take pics. Until we saw the pictures! I wouldn't trade those for anything, including for more time at the resort!!

LOL, I slept in my wedding day hair and when I woke up it was still pretty much perfect! She had so many pins in it that it was pretty much stuck in place. Thankfully! B/c I wouldn't have wanted to take the time to do my hair that day.

I had the MOST TERRIBLE DW.com TA and complained to his manager multiple times before demanding to be switched to a female in my time zone who could handle more than one thing at once. If I hadn't done that I would have had a COMPLETE breakdown, so I say switch and switch now. Talk to their manager and be adament you want to be reassigned. I have heard Grace is fantastic, my new TA is Patti and she was unbelievable and basically fixed a ton of mistakes my previous TA had made and was overly communicative which is much better than MIA for 3 weeks which my previous TA pulled on me twice.

I can't wait! Haha, that's so cute! You guys should come out at the end of this month and get married the same weekend

I will post a picture of my flowers. I ordered real touch stems and rented vases from Lomas. Kiara negotiated my vase price down for my by 50%! So I had the submerged orchid stems in 3 different colors, 3 different size vases with a floating candle on top, I thought it looked gorgeous.

Are you sure they didn't mean $150 for the two of them?

Yeah, don't rent candle holders from them. I brought all my candles in glass holders and just packed them well in my suitcase, worked out great!

The Zavaz lounge from what I can remember is outside of the restaurant but you may have to go through the restaurant to get there. It's nothing fantastic. It's just a wooden bar outside with people eating at tables to the left and right of it. So it's definitely informal... how many people are you having? It's not a big area so just make sure it can fit everyone.

DH was adamant about this as well so my pictures are all taken after the ceremony.

Wendy was smart, doing the wedding at 4pm would have been better (hotter but more light) we ran late too so we quickly ran out of light but still managed to get in all the shots before our reception which I belive we were nearly an hour late too... oops!

I think that sounds great! Gorgeous and unique

I didn't experience a second of my own cocktail hour, it was there to keep everyone else entertained while we took pictures. The funny thing is, a lot of people followed us around while we took our pictures taking their own! I really can't believe I didn't get a picture with the donkey... all that donkey business and he was gone before we knew it!

I did something so similar! I had vintage lovebird playing cards I found, all different and put them in holders on the seating cards table and had my MOH's mom artistically write the instructions on the chalkboard. It worked out, everyone figured out how to match their bird card to their table, I loved it

You're right, you're bouquet is GORGEOUS!!

I'm really glad you feel this way! I wrote my entire ceremony and personal vows as well and I have been very hesitant to share it because it feels so personal to me.

I totally respect it and thank you for sharing!