The scoop:
Married Nov 2, 2008 at Las Caletas, Puerto Vallarta
What I would do again:
- Follow our dreams and have a DW no matter what people said
- Las Caletas - amazing every step of the way, and by far one of the best wedding decisions we made!
- Hiring Stephany of EyeSpy Photography - she was super cool and our pictures are awesome. And just 2 weeks after the wedding we have all of our pictures in a gallery already.
- OOT bags. They were a huge hit and people loved the thought.
- Hypercolored cups. They meant a lot to us as a couple, plus our guests loved them and they prompted a big game of flip cup during dinner. So fun playing and knowing that our guests were having a good time
- Keeping the decor minimal. LC is beautiful, it doesn't need anything extravagent. We did clear stones and votive candles and I loved the simple, clean look of the table decor.
- seeing Joe before the ceremony. We had a private moment alone before the ceremony and it was great. He bawled like a baby, it was so sweet. It was nice to have that minute with just us too. It was really the only alone minute we got during the wedding day, and we both were very glad we did it.
- no programs, announcement, garter, guest book, or bouquet toss. This things were not important to us, so skipping them was a great decision.
- hire the firedancers. AMAZING. would hire them again a hundred times over
- hire the hair person. spendy but worth it. another thing i'd do a hundred times over again
- blue flip flops. even though I didn't wear them the entire night, they were fun for our TTD pics
- using sand from LC for our sand ceremony. We love that we have sand from the place that we got married.
- buying a light and airy dress
- Joe's suit from Banana was perfect
- give a toast thanking everyone for coming
What I'd do differently
- Get nicer OOT bags. We bought cheap ones expecting that people wouldn't use them. We were wrong, people used them all week all the time. We wished we would have splurged on the nicer bags.
- Mail the wedding day timeline out to guests prior to their arrival. We put the timelines in the OOT bags and I really don't think people looked at it.
- write out the cards to my parents and MOH prior to leaving for PV
- plan an excursion instead of a WD
What I wouldn't do again:
- spend the time making a huge playlist for the DJ. he was amazing and i didn't need to waste my time on the playlist
- stress about walking down the isle! surprisingly the day of i was ZERO stressed! thank god. but the week prior i was a ball of nerves.
- suggest that people bring pasminas to the wedding! i didn't know how warm PV was in November!
- spend the money on a wedding website. We bought a domain name and paid 100 for our site. It wasn't used as much as I would have thought, and a free one would have done the trick.
Trash The Dress
What I would do again
- Trash the dress for sure!
- wonder the streets and do whatever the photographer asks you to do
- simple hair
- trash it the afternoon after.
- hire a photographer that had never TTD before. we hired Stephany of EyeSpy Photography. Even though she'd never TTD before she had great ideas and directed us very well
What I'd do differently:
- wear more make up! I just wore a little eye make up. And I really wish I would have put some foundation and blush on.
what I wouldn't do again:
- consider skippig the TTD because I was being lazy. I love our TTD pictures and if I would have been lazy and skipped them I would have been royally pissed off at myself.