Christine

I originally planned to get married at Beaches Boscabel so my responses are in pink Quote: Originally Posted by Lori I know a few ladies recently have been married at this resort. Is there anyone else out there getting married at this resort? I keep getting conflicting information from my travel agent and coordinator. 1) I was told that my guests would not be able to dine together at all. if you do not have a private reception it depends on if there is actually enough room at a rest...chances are no it won't happen 2) I have over 20 rooms booked not including mine and the resort has not offered one thing in return. Not even an upgrade. they used to have an 11th room free thing, but they seem to have taken that away, for a while it was on the website forever but the WC I was working with (Renee Phillips) said they did not offer it anymore. 3) I have to pay for flowers and pictures ahead of time before I see them. this is why many girls go outside of their resorts for photogs and flowers, I was told I could get outside flowers but I never got to the pictures part I am still going to Ocho Rios for my honeymoon and we decided to go to Couples instead, I liked their prices and packages better. Obviously not much you can do now, but you really should talk to the WC at the resort HELP

I would say just to be safe, carry them on board with you since that is pressurized

okay I am going to go against the grain here and say don't send them out quite yet...I had a ton of family say they didn't RSVP because they forgot about the invites because they got them too early same as a bunch of friends who we are now contacting one by one about their RSVP...I would wait to send them until late June early July. by the way the invites are so beautiful and you did a great job...

congrats that sounds great and a year will go by very quickly

50 people at rehearsal dinner, I did this project really fast, now if I could just finish my other freakin projects.

those are really cute, I wish I could have gotten wine glasses but I think the plastic cups will be used by all your guests

oh any where on the coast in CA is beautiful. my parents love Sedona and say its really romantic in its own quaint way.

did you ever figure out how to upload it, if you want to you can send it to me and I can minimize the file for you. I am thinking of doing this for my rehearsal dinner so I would like to see what you wound up doing.

I would do something you know you are going to want around later on.

oh how exciting for all of you! I am sure you are all ready for your big trips please sign on and give us some pics ASAP!!!

no I have never heard of that, I only had about 6 months to plan once we changed our location and so I kinda had to go with the first thing that was in my budget.

okay for those of you who might want details. Each page is a different background. then the top rectangle is for the picture of the person who will write the message. We used some pretty vellum paper for the background of the writing area. the actual writing area is a piece of ivory cardstock. I used two different stamps, one says "cheers to you" and the other Mr. & Mrs. I posted the quotes I used in the "help with quotes" thread. Each page has a different quote about love on it. We bought a book that looked weddingish but was also fun. Oh and its a 12x12 book. I hope this helps, feel free to ask any questions.

I have loved the guest book store guest book since Anny gave us a link a while ago and then Stephanie inspired me to think about it all over again. Will did not want to do it for the wedding because he really wants to do the thing where people sign the frame matting...so I thought since we are having a large rehearsal dinner I would make it for that. So I went to the store on Sunday afternoon and picked out all the paper, we are going to a mexican rest. so I thought I would do a whole fiesta sort of theme. Along with these pages I got some really cool pages to use as just picture pages since I know we will have a lot of snapshots from that night...my in laws are going all out for this part of the wedding. I am going to do some other projects for that night and I will get those pics out by the end of the week.

Thanks for all your help girls...I have a ton of great quotes now, here they all are and I will post pics later of the book I made That Love is all these, is all we know of Love. ~Emily Dickinson However rare true love is, true friendship is even rarer. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ~Victor Hugo Love, love, love— that is the soul of genius. ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ~Gottifried Willhelm Leibnitz We love because it’s the only true adventure. ~Nikki Giovanni Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~Fredrich Halm Love is all we have, the only way that we can help the other. ~Euripides Love will find a way. ~Anonymous The greatest pleasure of life is love. ~William Temple The greatest thing about love is that when it’s there, you know it. ~Bill Cosby Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ~Plato Love is friendship set on fire. ~Jeremy Taylor Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~Franklin P. Jones Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. ~Lope de Vega Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. ~Vincent van Gogh The only true gift is a portion of yourself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is you, you and me. ~John Lennon Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Deeper than speech our love, Stronger than life our tether. ~Rudyard Kipling To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~David Viscott There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~George Sand You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world. ~David Levesque To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~Bill Wilson Love is smiling on the inside and out. ~Jennifer Williams Love is a moment that lasts forever... ~Julie Wittey Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters. ~William Curry Love that is true never grows old. ~Elben Bano Love reminds you that nothing else matters. ~Amy Bushell Love is more than a feeling; it's a state of mind. ~Lisa Grude The thing about falling in love, is that if you do it right, you never have to hit the ground. ~Kendall Lepitzki Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. ~Walter Winchell Finding love is like finding one answer to all of your prayers. Jennifer Regimbald For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~Judy Garland To love someone is to witness a miracle no one else can see. ~ Francois Marquard Love is when someone knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. If you live to be 100, I hope to live 100 minus 1 day so that I never have to live without you. ~Winnie the Pooh To love someone deeply gives you strength. To be loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu Till I loved, I never lived `Emily Dickinson I have found the one my soul loves... ~Song of Solomon 3:4 Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies ~Aristotle Love is friendship set to music ~E. Joseph Cossman To Love is to Live Forever ~Author Unknown It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston Loving is never a waste of time. ~Astrid Alauda True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall – but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron

I really looked around a lot, but once I found the church to get married in we had to stick with the Napa area. Russian river might be more affordable, but Sonoma is just about as expensive as Napa

so amazing, you honestly look like you had a great time and you are so in love!

Quote: Originally Posted by AQHARIDER Great idea! Are you planning to hand-write or print the names? I will print them, I was just practicing with these ones.

I will post all the ones I use once I am done, that should help too...and of course I will post pics of the finished product, Will picked out all the paper at the store today it was so cute, he told me I have to do the actual work but he helped with the picking of the colors and theme...I am glad he is getting into this whole thing

that helps, no biggie, just wanted to give credit where credit is due...I can just put Glenda on the other one?

Glenda, thanks, do you know who those are by? being a teacher I am a big copy wright person...I am sure you are too being a lawyer...

I am working on a guestbook (like Stephanie's) for my rehearsal dinner (which is for about 50 people) and I want to put a different quote about love on each page...so I need all of you to give me your favorite quote about love!!! thanks you help is much appreciated.

oh there will be more, just got back from the art store...in another week you guys will be sick of all my projects! thanks for the advice Sarah, I tried to do the embossing but its way too much for so many, so I like the idea of somehow putting our logo on it...I might just do our traditional monogram on the front somehow...I will play with it and of course take pics!

Quote: Originally Posted by Nini_Bride Christine, they look great!! How long does it take to make them? Personally, I think I'd do the front and back the same colour, although in the zoomed in pictures it's easy to see how you've tied the colours in, so it's not like it'd look odd if you left it that way. well I have been printing since last night and now that the printing is done we will start the assembly line of cutting them out and then hole punching, then we'll put them together...I wish I could say it was a quick project, but wednesday is my last day of work until August 26th or something like that so I have plenty of time to lose weight, make programs, and all my other DIY projects.

what great pictures, it really looks like you had a lot of fun!

so instead of the traditional fan shape, we decided to go with ovals (we found a stencil & its the shape of a grape-I know that's reaching, but I thought it worked) What do you all think about the colors on the front and back, my FI, Will likes having both colors on each fan, I am not sure if I should just do some in all green and some in all burgandy. I just got a new camera so a few of the pics did not turn out well, sorry, I am trying to get used to it before the big day!