DreaW

hi girls thanks for your help. I have decided to go to JCrew sometime this month to buy the dresses (yes, I know it's a year away but they can keep it in their closet) This is the dress......

Quote: Originally Posted by cfrancesp Andrea, Are you having your BM try them on in the store (if they have them in the store) or just online? I love the color choice and the dress! I was looking around, but I think I am going to go with J.Crew as well. Katie Hi Katie, One of of my BM already bought her's online....My sisters are going to try it on at the store if they have it....(one lives in Seattle) and the other lives in LA and we are going next weekend. My last BM is coming with me to mall on the 22 and trying it on at the store.....If they don't have it at the store I'm going to have them get measured at JCrew and then order it online (which I heard that you can do it at the store and if you do they don't charge shipping) JCrew is the best.

thanks See I know you girls would totally understandlol

Quote: Originally Posted by MLBURK I have heard a lot about Maye on this site..so she must be good..but prob also very busy from the sounds of it! Meghan I would say just to write her an email or Call her up...she always answers back quickly. She's very friendly and works with your schedule. I called her up 3 months ago to set up a time to meet this July...She immediately wrote me back and Claudia from Casa del Mar to save the date to meet and talk altogether. If you need her info pm me drea

natasha, I love your video....They did such a good job...I need to contact them now LOL Drea

Thanks Melissa, Lol, I know it took me forever to post the dang pic up....The dress is actually a rosebud color (red) from what it looks like on the web....My sister (renee) and friend (shelly) think I'm crazy for getting the dresses now since I still have a year and couples away from the wedding..But you know what? I DON'T CARE LOL....Like I said they can keep it in their closet.

geesh that took forever drea

ok sorry one more time

ok trying again

so i've decided to have my girls pick there dresses now...yup all but one think i'm crazy for doing this but hey...this is the only thing I'm really stressing about and I found a dress for them that I like at JCrew and I don't want them to be sold out. So far one of my girls already ordered it. I love her.LOL, I told them they can buy it now at the size they are now but in their closet and when the wedding gets closer we can try them again and if they are to big we can alter them...if to small we can return them. here is the dress in rosebud hope this works. drea

When I was in Cabo last may I had my mom and sister and I meet up with Maya Cortinas...She was very helpful and took us to all hotels and helped us discuss wedding stuff to hotel coordinators... She was very helpful...When I go again to Cabo this July and do another site visit for Erik I'm having her meet us and come with us again.

This is such a good idea and not that expensive. I think I would use them for aisle for ceremony and for table decorations with flowers...

Hi Angie...want to meet up in LA. and go to the JCrew store there and shop the sales....? drea

Horray for Glenda....you are the best person for the job drea

yeah, Pictures, finally LOL. Love them Melissa, you look beautiful Drea

hi Tasha, finally saw the slideshow...beautiful

Love the pics but I couldn't see the slideshow

Hi guys, I'm bored...Subbing today for a 8th grade math class and they're taking a test right now.... I was wondering which hotels everyone is having their weddings at? Decided to make a thread (unless there is one already...oh well), good to make a list so we don't all have to look for it. we ended up getting married in Cabo San Lucas!!!!!

I've been in Cabo in Feb, April, and in May...those months are hot but not humid. Never been in Aug. but I'm going this July 26th close to Aug...so I'll let you know if it is. I don't think it's humid like Cancun but I have heard that it is extremely hot. I'll let you know when I go this July Andrea P.S Sorry if this wasn't very helpful

Quote: Originally Posted by mexicomelissa Okay girls...get your coffee...popcorn ...whatever makes you happy...this is a long one First let's start with our airport adventure....our luggage was something like 50kg over weight (did you know they charge $10/kg you're over weight??) so instead of paying $500 we paid $160 and got upgraded to first class where they allow you more weight, feed you like a king, and get you drunk The flight was awesome...so smooth and we really were treated soooo well being in first class! Our flight landed at the Cancun airport at around 7pm, our luggage was first off (bonus!!) and we were on the bus heading to the resort by about 8pm. We arrived at the resort around 9:30pm and by the time we checked in (they upgraded us to a junior suite!! woo!!) and got to our room all the buffet restaurants were closed. They've changed things at the resort since the last time we were there - there used to be snack bars open late, but they all close around the same time as the buffets. We decided to order room service because we were starving (despite having a huge meal on the plane!) and holy cow it was one of the best meals we've ever had - it actually made me glad we missed the buffet haha. After dinner we unpacked our bags, watched a little TV and crashed - we were exhausted after a day of travel! The next morning we had an appointment with the doctor (they have an onsite medical office) to get our blood tests done.... I don't even want to get started on this, but I'm going to tell you all about it anyway just as a warning for any of the girls who decide to get married at the Barcelo - ASK FOR THE DOCTOR TO TAKE YOUR BLOOD, DO NOT LET THE NURSES NEAR YOU WITH ANYTHING SHARP AND POINTY!&*#@)%*#% I went first because needles don't bother me (John needed some time to work up to his hehe). She couldn't get any blood out of my right forearm, fine, whatever....so she tried my left forearm....nothing there either....so then she tried MY WRIST...like right where that knobby bone is on the inside of your wrist....HOLY FRIG I've never felt pain like that before. Anywho, no blood there either...and when she was pulling the needle out she slipped and scraped it across my hand so now I have a nice big cut across my left hand (I'm sure it looks great in my pictures!). I was so upset/in pain that I started to cry...first time I've ever cried because of a needle. Because I was so upset she decided that she was going to try to get blood from John to give me a break. She said she couldn't find any veins in John's arm...he has BEAUTIFUL veins in his arms...nice big blue ones...everywhere....I'm not a nurse and I'm pretty sure I could take blood from him hehe...so she decided she was going to take blood from his wrist too! It hurt him so much he passed out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He came to after a couple of seconds but it was so scary! But right after he came around she tried to go after him with a needle again...like are you friggin kidding me? After that there was no way he was having them take any more blood! He was absolutely livid...they had gotten about 1mL of blood from him and he made them call the doctor (who was about an hour and a half late coming to work that day) to see if 1mL was enough to do the tests. Thank God it was or they would have had some issues Once I calmed down I had to go through all the poking and prodding again, and they finally managed to get some blood out of my right wrist this time. So that was the end of that...we were outta there so fast you wouldn't believe it! I swear they had no idea what they were doing!! We asked one of our guests (who's a nurse) what she thought and she was shocked...she looked at us both and said we both have beautiful veins and she'd have no problem getting blood from us... Anywho, on to bigger and better things! After the butcher's...I mean doctor's....we met up with our WC from the resort, Gabriela. This girl is so awesome! We were in and out of her office in half an hour and had absolutely everything planned (and didn't even feel rushed)!! She had big binders full of pictures of everything...different set ups for the ceremony and reception, flowers, cakes, food, everything! And we had 3 awesome menus to choose from for our reception (we chose ceasar salad, a "mixed grill" appetizer plate which was a chimichanga, a quesadilla, a big spare rib, a big chicken wing, and a stuffed jalapeno pepper...it was all sooooo yummy!, then for the main course we chose a ribeye steak with grilled veggies and baked potato, then a vodka infused sorbet to cleanse the pallette hehe and then a chocolate truffle with vanilla ice cream for dessert). All we had to do now was wait a few days until the wedding to start!! (Oh and make a trip into PDC to find some favours for our OOT bags because of that place I ordered from earlier not shipping my stuff! We ended up finding the cutest shot glasses and filled them with Jose Cuervo, Baileys & Kahlua filled chocolates - everyone loved them!) We spent most of our days before the wedding lounging by the pools and greeting all our guests as they came in a few at a time each day (we were lucky enough to figure out about what time they'd all be arriving at the resort and managed to meet all of them in the lobbies as they came in!!). It was so relaxing! I only had one little stress attack and I don't even remember what it was about now so it really couldn't have been that important hehe On the Sunday we met all of our guests (except the few who weren't arriving until Monday) at one of the buffets for a welcome breakfast - we hit a little glitch there but the buffet staff worked it all out for us (one of the managers told us she'd have a section reserved for us, but when we got there that manager was nowhere to be found, there was no section for us and they told us they wouldn't set aside a section for us, but i batted my pretty eyelashes.....and yelled a little bit...and they sorted it all out). Tuesday (the big day!) came up super fast...John and I didn't stay in separate rooms the night before, but in the morning we exchanged our gifts to each other (he bought me the prettiest gold anklet), gave a quick kiss and he left to go to his brother's room. I caught up with my parents for breakfast and then went back to the room to finish up a couple of last minute things. At around 11:30am my WC called to say that my flowers were there and asked if she could bring them up to the room. She dropped them all off and holy cow they were gorgeous! After that my sister and I headed to the spa to get our hair done. My sister's hairdresser was about half an hour late so it put us a little behind, but no biggie. Both of our hairstyles turned out beautiful! Mine wasn't exactly how I'd wanted it, but it was pretty close, and still super pretty anyway! We didn't get out of there until about 2:10pm and we still had to get back to the room, do our makeup, get dressed and all ready to go for 2:55pm. It was a bit of a rush but we did it and we looked hot hehe At 2:55, Gabriela came up to the room to make sure we were ready, and took us down to the cute little golf cart they have for weddings, they have it covered in little flowers...it's too adorable! She let us (I had my sister, mom and dad with me) take a few pictures and then she drove us over to the wedding site. The set up was absolutely beautiful! The mariachi band was there playing some nice soft music, John and our best man looked soooo good standing up at the front of the aisle, I just wanted to run down there and hug them hehe I was able to hide behind a shower (don't worry girls, it doesn't look like a shower from the side the guests were looking at it from...just looks like a stone wall!) so no one could see me before I walked down the aisle, it worked out perfectly. My sister walked down the aisle first...it was too funny because she decided she couldn't walk in the sand in the shoes she was wearing and kicked them off halfway down the aisle (the guests couldn't see them though, thank God LOL) and when I started to walk down the aisle with my parents we had to try and find a way to manouver around them without it looking too obvious We had a good laugh though, it helped to kind of relax us all a little bit. Oh and then I realized just about where we hit the shoes that I'd left my copy of my vows in a bag that I'd handed off to my uncle/videographer just before we were about to walk down the aisle...so that was kind of funny too because I think all my guests heard for half of my walk down the aisle was; me: "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god" dad: "dont you remember them?" me: "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god" mom: "can't you improvise?" me: "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god" We managed to grab them quick before everyone got seated and it didn't end up being too much of a deal! The rest of the ceremony was kind a blur...I was just so excited to be up there!!!!!!!!! Everyone else said it was beautiful though LOL After the ceremony we were all served champagne and then we started our family photos with the resort photographers. They were OK but I felt really rushed and like they really didn't care about the pictures, they just wanted to get out of there. We spent just about an hour with them and then met up with Erick Rodriguez (from Claudia's team) who took us to Akumal for the rest of our photos. I can't say enough about Erick...he was so awesome! We had originally planned to go to Puerto Aventuras to do our photos on the beach there, but he told us that he had checked out Puerto beforehand and their beach hadn't really recovered from last year's hurricane and that he knew of somewhere that would be much nicer. We ended up at Akumal (the dive center & resort). The beach was busy, but he found us a nice quiet spot and spent about 45 minutes with us. He made us feel so comfortable and relaxed, he kept us both laughing and took some awesome shots! His assistant Mike was awesome too - these guys were so much fun to work with!! I'd highly recommend them to anyone! Erick & Mike dropped us back off at the Barcelo shortly before 6pm...we both headed to the washrooms to freshen up a bit, and then waited for our guests to arrive at the banquet hall. We didn't have a receiving line or have anyone welcome the new couple as we entered the hall...I couldn't be bothered with all that stuff...we just kind of chilled out in the lobby and mingled with our guests until we were told that the banquet hall was ready (in the meantime they were serving these super yummy lime slushy drinks...i couldn't get enough hehe) we let everyone go in first and we followed and went right into our first dance and then father/daughter dance. John dances like my dad. My dad is a terrible lead. But it was fun! After we got that out of the way we had one of our close family friends say grace (it was so beautiful!) and then dinner was served....everyone ranted about how good the food was!! I was so happy we picked what we did....even the presentation of it all was fantastic! And the waitstaff were phenomenal...they were so fast and friendly and everything was timed just right! During dinner we had planned to play our own music, but our WC had put in a CD with some beautiful soft music and we decided just to keep that on - it was so pretty! In between courses we had a couple speeches...(me, then John, then my dad and John's dad)...we didn't want everyone doing toasts so we told them that if they wanted to wish us well that they could grab my dad or my uncle and they'd take a video of their well wishes. It ended up working out really well! Especially for those who wanted to say a few words but aren't really comfortable getting up in front of a crowd. After dinner we did the cake cutting (I couldn't resist, I had to smush) and the bouquet and garter tosses...it was so hilarious...the bouquet toss was pretty normal, but when the garter toss came it got interesting. John had a headlamp that he uses when we go caving up north in the summer...he put it on and climbed under my dress to "Hot in Herre" by Nelly...he had put a bag full of things under the chair without anyone knowing and started pulling them out and tossing them over his shoulder one by one so it looked like he was grabbing them from out of my dress. I almost peed my pants laughing. I really hope someone got pictures because it was too friggin funny. Then we had a wee bit of dancing (we only had the reception hall for 3 hours which kind of sucked...but we could have paid extra to have it longer) and we all headed off to the theater for the show. After the show we were going to head to the disco for more dancing but it had been such a long day that John and I just wanted to crash! We left all our guests to do their own thing, but most of them were in the same boat as us and just went to bed hehe That was it for the night (well...that's all I'm telling you at least hehe) We did hit those few minor glitches, but everything worked out just fine and the wedding was absolutely beautiful. I really couldn't have asked for anything more!! The rest of our trip was spent relaxing, spending time with our family and friends, and drinking as much as possible The weather was great, the resort is absolutely beautiful and we had so much fun! I'd highly highly recommend the Barcelo to anyone!!! Sorry for the novel LOL I'm sure I could have written more, but I'm sure I've already bored you enough by now hehe I've got to go pick up my spoiled brat of a bird and then clean up the house a bit but tonight I'll be back upload my pics, I promise!! Melissa, Loved the review.... I was trying to so hard not to laugh out loud in class today (subbing 8th grade math) with regards to your Doctor incident....I'm soooo sorry that happened...I can't believe they did that. Everything else sounded beautiful and fun...loved the garter toss idea, maybe I can get erik to do that. Can't wait to see pics. Congratulations. Andrea

beautiful picture Melissa, can't wait to see the rest. Drea

hmmmm I like the joining of the hands

great post...love it

thanks for the info

christa...beautiful pictures...love your dress, flowers, everything...you look so happy. Andrea