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Happy Birthday Jill. Hope you're not working too hard; you've earned your day off!

Quote: Originally Posted by JaimeLynne Thanks! To be honest, I was being lazy - I thought I had remembered a thread about this... I went and posted in the other thread. tsk tsk, consider yourself banned!!!! lol... totally kidding.... maybe!

I've heard of it before, and I think it's the best idea ever!! What the heck do you need another toaster for anyways?!

omg!!! Lisa, I totally thought about you while I was in Cabo! Congrats, girl Your pictures are awesome, and you look fantastic! Ahhh hurry up and download, we need more pictures!! P.S. I Love the one where you and your bridesmaids are jumping in the air - so cool!!

Quote: Originally Posted by TammyB Juan, wonderful as always.. D@MN I wish I would have done a TTD... There's always that trip back to Cabo! You need to pick up your supply of Dreams water anyways...

Have you booked your photographer?? Maybe you could work it into the package. I'm wondering if you could get a bit of a deal if the photographer has never done a TTD before? I'm honestly not sure

Wow Natalie!! First of all, how gorgeous are you?! I mean really, you're so naturally pretty. And you and Lance are such a beautiful couple. I just adore you! I looooooove picture #26 where you're kinda standing up and the waves are splashing around you two, such a stunning moment.

Quote: Originally Posted by Christine well Courtney, with your big raise I thought you were bringing all of us down for your wedding? Wait....what?! lol

Quote: Originally Posted by host we get pretty good rates already there...usually alot lower than elsewhere...i am gonna try to get super, duper low rates for our BDW get together though. Oh good idea!! Any idea as to when this'll be?

Yep! Check out this thread: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...champagne.html

I'm getting the bpics, and also engraving his ring with "A Deals a Deal" lol. P.S. I'm thinking that even if Aaron doesn't look at the bpics right after the wedding, after I have children and have stretch marks and am tired all the time etc, etc... he'll probably look at them more often! lol

That's an awesome thread that Tami posted; I got a lot of great ideas from it too. For me, I just listen to songs on the radio (old and new) and think how it would sound in the wedding. For my cocktail hour and dinner portion, I have a lot more slower, jazzy type songs. Nothing too distracting. I have Michael Buble, and Sunday Morning by Maroon5 (acoustic version), things like that. But if I hear a song and I like it, I add it to my playlists that I've started on iTunes. You and I still have tons of time to make a totally kick-butt playlist!

Quote: Originally Posted by akh i love it! i know there are people on here, like anny i believe, that did it and it looked amazing! who cares what they think anyway!? lol Ya, Anny's colours were gorgeous. They're vibrant and fun, and definately not an eyesore! I love your colour choices. I'm sure they'll change their minds when they see it on the wedding day!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mrs.B 2008 wow - what a great response to this thread! we are paying for everything ourselves (including my parents and his grandfather's transportation and accomodations). it is a blessing and a curse b/c you can make all your own decisions without hearing too much unsolicited advice but you have to pay for it! HA Quote: Originally Posted by Stephanie 525 Wow you are pretty lucky that no one is giving you advice. We are paying for ours and we are getting way too much "feed back'. way to go Quote: Originally Posted by Mrs.B 2008 when we first told them (our parents), they tried to chim in and we just let it be known that we weren't hearing it - this is what we are doing, we hope everyone can and wants to make it, we will give people enough notice and time to save and if not, no hard feelings and we're ok with it and understand! Wow, like I said; my parents are paying - but my mom is totally letting me take over the planning. I have to ask for more imput from her (she's also my MOH). I forgot to mention, Aaron and I also paying for Aaron's mom to come since his parents are separated and she can't afford it (she didn't ask for this, we insisted).

Quote: Originally Posted by JenandBrendanWedding Between Courtney's ES pics and Ann's wedding pics, I'm totally having "Leigh Miller Envy." I have booked Juan Carlos for my wedding and I'm very excited about that. But I'm seriously considering flying Leigh to NY (she has no plans to be here anytime between now and my wedding.) I never even considered doing an ES and a BD session before I saw her pics. But because she's so good, I HAVE to have her do SOMETHING related to my wedding. Leigh really is amazing... but I do know that she's really busy lately. I literally had to book my trip to Mexico around when she was there, it had nothing to do with my schedule (even though it was when we wanted to go anyways, but that's besides the point!). She's pretty awesome, but if she can't make it, maybe she has some recommendations for you??

Totally, Sarah!! Go for it! Personally, I'm not so sure I have an eye for stuff like that and would consider using a service like that, if my own attempt sucked! I'd probably pay around $75-100, depending on the amount of time, affects, and detail that went into the slideshow. Do you have an example to post?

Wow, Jill - those are so pretty. They're really elegant. Great work!

My parents are paying. We're paying for certain things like OOT Bags, invitations, I'm paying to have my make-up done instead of having the resort do it, etc. We're paying for our honeymoon to DisneyWorld. Aaron's dad is helping out a bit, maybe for the welcome dinner - we're not sure though; and we certainly don't expect anything. We'll just assume we're paying for everything until someone helps out. I don't want to ever "expect" money from someone.

haha, omg I bet you're watching the clock just waiting for it!... I know I am! lol.

Lee, I completely missed your ceremony, but we did catch your reception (off to the side); and our room was right above the oceana terrace. I got some pictures, but none as good as what you already have. Your playlist was great. You seriously had everyone up out of their seats and dancing their butts off! Your photographer got right in there too! It's funny to see the pictures now of everyone dancing because I totally remember seeing him take those pictures and he literally got RIGHT in the middle of your little dancing circle and right in the person's face! lol. Great results, though! We heard one of the speeches when we were on our way back to the room; the one guy who was passing around the pictures. He was cracking me up, and I had no idea what he was talking about! lol. You looked gorgeous! Congratulations Lee.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ryjaxs19 GREAT review I love the pics! You guys look like you had so much fun, your making me so excited to GO!!!! OK so I asked this of someone else but how did you get the room upgrade did you have to ask? No, they upgraded us on check-in. You can ask for an upgrade, but then I'm sure they'd charge you - we didn't get charged extra for the upgrade.

Quote: Originally Posted by Susan101207 I love Aaron's shirt. Did you buy that for him? Where? I think I may have to get Matt one of those! You two are too cute together! Glad everything went perfect with Leigh. Haha, I bought it at Walmart for like $8! I did buy it for him, and when Aaron wore it around my dad one day (when I wasn't around) my dad was all concerned that I'd get mad at Aaron for wearing it!! rofl! Quote: Originally Posted by NurseSarah Great review Court! I'm jealous of the towel elephant. Come to think of it, I never got a towel animal the whole time! I guess I got shafted in the room service area! lol I LOVE the Portofino Bruschetta...one of my faves at Dreams. Also, I didn't think the buffet tres leches was nearly as good as the wedding cake tres leches...just an fyi. Thanks for all the detail- I can't wait to see your Leigh b-pics! Oh- how did you get away from Aaron? What did you tell him you were doing? What?! No towel animal at all? You should demand your money back! lol. Towel art is so fun to come "home" to. Oh, thanks for the fyi on the tres leches. I thought it was good in the buffet, they had it in a few different ways, but overall I thought it was good. I guess I'm in a for a pleasant surprise on my wedding day! I told Aaron that I had a hair trial at Las Ventanas! We had our engagement pictures the evening before and poor Aaron wore his jeans and a long-sleeve dress shirt and he was so tired by the end of it... so when I left the next morning for my "hair trial" he was still sleeping anyways!!

Quote: Originally Posted by leigh miller this is so funny! where the heck is courtney today? normally she would have been the first to see this. thanks for all the kind words. im not kidding when i say courtneys a natural. its almost like she has a split personality. when that camera is on her she just works it. she has a wonderful, warm personality and we had a blast hanging out in SJdC. i wonder if we bored aaron to death? sometimes she looks like claire danes. i wonder if she hears that alot? im sitting here in the cabo airport taking my life in my hands by drinking some coffee. im not sick....yet! AHHH! Holy crap! Stupid going out. Stupid stupid stupid! thanks everyone for your kind words, and thanks Leigh - these are so fantastic. I totally can't stop smiling!! I love them all!! I hate the way I look when I laugh, but I think that one where we're both laughing is my favourite!! Haha, I've never heard that I look like Claire Danes, but she's so pretty, so no complaints there! I use to hear Julia Roberts a lot because I have an oversized smile! lol Thanks Leigh! You're the best!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by host i didnt get a towel elephant only a swan the elephant is sooo much cuter... i liked portofino also...it was kind of romantic and fun Haha, we got the swans too... but their necks wouldn't hold their heads up... maybe they felt bad and made the elephant to make us feel better??!

Quote: Originally Posted by Jessalyn aww...great review and I love the pictures!! so cute!!! I think we ate at the same italian restaurant. Was there a large painting on one of the walls? I can't remember the name of the restaurant we went to, but the pesto was to die for! yummy!! Ummm... maybe there as a painting?? lol I don't really remember. We sat on the super skinny balcony outside. It was SO good though! Leigh took a picture of us outside of it, maybe she'll post when she gets back.