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Quote: Originally Posted by Jentwo I too have gotten the blank screen error with searching. I think the website has problems sometimes. One remedy that often works is if you do an advanced search vs. basic search. Thanks! I plugged in my basic search terms into the Advanced Search window and it worked! So that will be a temporary fix until the bugs are worked out - thanks so much!!

Quote: Originally Posted by soon2wed08 Hi Jennifer! Congrats to you as well! I'm working with Valeria. How about you? We just started planning in Nov so things are going moving slow thus far. Aside from our date and time I honestly don't have anything solid picked out. How about you? I'm working w/ Monica, but all of the other girls that I know of have been working with Valeria and all have said positive things about her. Are you going to have guests? I got engaged last January, so I've had plenty of time to plan, but it's time now to kick things into high gear. If you're planning on having a photographer that's not the one offered by EDR, you should probably try to get that arranged as quickly as possible. We're using Claudia Rodriguez (and her husband for the videography) - her pictures seem awesome and she fits more into our budget. Otherwise, we've selected the location for our Mexican Welcome Reception, ceremony (chapel), and private reception after the "free dinner." I've also ordered extra chairs and chair covers and bows for the chapel, but otherwise, most things don't need to be selected until 60 days out from your wedding date. Oh, if you're having guests, you'll probably want to get the save the dates and invitations out pretty soon, too. :-)

These are great! Thanks so much!

Quote: Originally Posted by Saraha WOW super healthy, that actually sounds kinda yummy! So had a little set back Im pissed. Ive been running a lot lately, and ran 10 miles on Saturday and couldnt move my knee for two days after, now its better but not 100%. I work in a Dr's office and so I talked to one of the our NP's and said I have to go to physical therapy.... serious Im hoping this wont slow everything down too much... but this sucks!!! You ran 10 miles?!? You don't need to diet! If I ran that much, I'd be eating my normal 2500 calories/day! But sorry to hear about your knee...hopefully it was just a little overworked and will be back to normal after some rest.

Hi Suzy! Welcome and Congrats! I might be seeing you there! I'll be getting married there on the 23rd! How's your planning coming along and which coordinator are you working with?

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Is anyone having any problems using the "Search Forums" feature? Every time I try to use it, I just get a blank screen......I'm lost w/out my searching feature!

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful pictures!!

I booked Claudia b/c she also was available and she was my first point of contact. If she wasn't available, I probably would have been just as happy w/ Citialli or Erick. All of them seem to do phenomenal work and I haven't heard any negative comments about any of them!

I'm starting w/ trying to drink more water. I usually just drink about 16 ozs a day!! But today I just packed plain tuna, celery, cucumbers, a cheese stick and a mini fruit salad for lunch - I hope I'm not starving by the end of today!

I'm so glad you highlighted this post! Today has been the first day of trying to lose some weight -- i've been engaged for a year now and haven't had ANY success in losing weight - in fact, I've gained! Now that my wedding is just 4 months away, I've got to kick things in high gear! I think that having my first dress fitting in the middle of February kind of slapped reality in my face......yikes!! I also want to do a BD shoot, so I really need to get this weight off! As of now, I"m just trying to eat less, start to work out about three days a week, and quit coffee and sodas, and drink lots more water!

Has anyone received any more magnet street discount coupons? I didn't see this post until today and we'll probably be ordering about 120 magnets from them this week! Thanks!

Aaahhh....that makes sense......well hopefully whichever location you choose will turn out to be perfect - it should be! All brides that I've heard from that have gotten married at EDR are always very happy w/ the final results! I can't believe both you and Bre will be getting married there in a few weeks! Good Luck - I just know it will be great!!

The coordinator that I've been working with, Monica, highly recommended Gaviotas for me for our private reception. We're also doing the free dinner reception at El Cocotal and then just having drinks and dancing (and probably the cake) at Gaviotas (for 2 hours) after our dinner. I haven't heard of the Health Bar as an option, but from what I heard about Gaviotas, that sounded nice.

Hi - I'm pretty much doing the full blown reception as though it were my one and only. I'll be wearing my DW dress again and we'll be doing most of the traditional stuff. We're actually not going to be doing too much of the traditional stuff at the DW, though. A friend of mine will be taking the pictures at the AHR (she's working on becoming a professional photographer) and we hired a DJ, are doing the flowers, etc......We also didn't really want to do anything too fancy, but my parents (who are paying - that's the only reason they get this much say) insisted.....

I think that seeing this thread has actually calmed me down b/c I think I have a lot under control! Here's what I've done and have yet to do for my April 2008 wedding and May 2008 AHR: Wedding Create Schedule of Events Review and Confirm all Resort Details OOT Bags Reception Music Centerpieces / Flowers Informational Letters about Resort Book Mariachi Trio Discuss Photographer Issue w/ TA Book Hair, Make-Up, Spa Appointments Hang Tags for OOT Bags Buy Clothing for Trip Microderm Abrasion Facial Save the Date - DONE Garter - DONE Book Photographer and Videographer (Claudia Rodriguez) - DONE Confirm Ceremony, Welcome Reception and Private Reception Locations - DONE Confirm Reservation for Resort and Flights - DONE Shoes Engrave FI's Ring Lose 30 Pounds Prepare text for Invitations and Stationery Purchase Guest Books Dress Fitting FI's Wedding Band - DONE Wedding Dress - DONE FI's Tux - DONE Guest List Wedding Website AHR Order Cake DJ Playlist STD Magnets / Envelopes Finalize Menu Block Additional Rooms Register Seating Chart Prepare text for Invitations and Stationery Send STDs and Inviations Order Inviations - DONE DJ - DONE Flowers - DONE Book Photographer - DONE Location - DONE

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! You two make a wonderful looking couple!! And to have Elizabeth Medina AND another great photographer photograph your wedding is just wonderful. The pictures are absolutely gorgeous! If I haven't said this before, congrats on your marriage, too! Did you also happen to write a review about your whole EDR wedding experience that I may have missed somehow?

I love the white ones! But I'm more of a traditional type girl....I think!

I LOVE your ceremony shoes! I also voted for the Dr. Scholl's for the reception - they're great looking and I always now go for comfort!! I'm going to see if they have a pair of those in ivory!

These are all excellent ideas! Thank you!! I was stuck as to what to do since the STDs are for the AHR and we had already sent an STD w/ a letter for the DW. But I really like the cardstock ideas and thanks for the links for the other ideas!

If I am just planning on sending save the date magnets w/out a letter or anything else to accompany it, is that appropriate? I can't remember if the save the date magnets I've received to other people's weddings included anything but the magnet. If anyone has done this, where did you get the envelope for the magnet? Thanks!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Do you know if the hotel will let us hand deliver the bags? I like your idea of giving the bags out during the HH, but my fiance wants to put them in their rooms, instead. I could go either way, but I do NOT want the hotel to deliver them and charge us $3.00/bag!

Haha.....I just showed your letter to my FI and I guess he proofed it too b/c he pointed out the "wold" misspelling! :-) How cute is that? I told him that the "girls" already got that one, but you'd appreciate his help, too. Since we're getting married at EDR, too, we might use a letter like that. Do you have a template that I could use to create one of our own?

Bre - this letter is GREAT! It looks like you've got all of the details nailed down to the very last one. I really like the idea of handing out your welcome gifts at the happy hour! That takes away the headache of going to the rooms and handing them out!

Sure - here's a spreadsheet of what I did for the items I ordered (note - I included the calligraphy for the envelopes and even the stamp prices!) Invitations.xls