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What's a fun, unique gift to give to FH's Best Man and his wife for hosting a couples shower for us?

Ok, I just emailed the two girls again and asked that it might be easier for them and for me if they could do the showers together. Hopefully they will take the bait!

I like pink and orange too. Very tropical. Here's my BM bouquets -- which incorporate pink and orange. I love the way it looks!

Beautiful dress! I agree, it's perfect for Mexico.

I think that pic is a beautiful place to start. Why not just use tan as more of an accent color for the tables? Our colors are aqua and coral -- but our BM dresses are champagne and GM outfits are more khaki -- so we've got a lot of "tan" kinds of colors mixed in.

Quote: Originally Posted by Christine why can't the two friends combine the lingerie and regular shower? I personally would be overwhelmed by all those showers/parties. I even combined my shower and bach party into one. It was just too much for most of my friends I think they could -- and even asked them too, but they said they each wanted to host one. aarrgghh....

Very cute! I really like them!

Yea! It's started!!!

I'll give you some points. My attachment should be what you need! I just added a regular 41-cent stamp on it and people send them back as postcards. Odd shape for a postcard, so you have to use a regular stamp, but it works just fine. We've gotten about 100 back and they are still coming in!

Do you mean the boarding pass design as an RSVP postcard? I'm attaching mine. Let me know if this is what you need! :-) Invite RSVP.doc

FH's best man and his wife are hosting a couples shower for us. She asked me to provide a list of people to invite. BM is hosting a shower for me, and asked for a list of people to invite. Friend is hosting a lingerie shower for me and asked for a list of people to invite. Friend is planning my bachelorette party. So, my question is -- how do I break up the invitation list? I don't want people to feel obligated to attend more than one and most certainly don't want them to feel like they would have to bring a gift to all these different events. I was thinking I would just give a couple of my friends names for the couples shower (my married friends) and tell them other than that and our bridal party, that they can invite Tom's friends, since they know who that would be. But especially for the two girls showers, and since the hostesses are in my same circle of friends ... do I give the same list of my girlfriends for both -- or try to break it up? I asked if they wanted to combine it into one shower, but they don't. We pretty much have the bachelorette party list firmed up (it's a weekend getaway) ... but I just feel bad that I don't want to leave people out of these things, but at the same time don't like having to provide a guest list for so many different things. Any suggestions?

I love the travel list of guests.Helps people now who will be there when and allows them to meet up and share transfers if they are arriving together. I know it's too late now, but there are a few typos...

wow -- awesome. I love the maraca tags and that poem! Too cute! I don't guess they would work too well in the DR, but I would love to steal that idea!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by KellyMN Yes... they were all printed with bienenido... but our resort we just found out (3 days before departure) that our resort is over sold and my whole party of 50 is being upgraded to the 5star resort next door.... so I guess I had to redo them all anyway. Just a little last minute stress. Thanks for your quality proofing ladies! I appreciate it Wow, I can't believe they are moving your entire guest list, but thank goodness it's to a higher caliber resort. How frustrating for anything printed resort-specific. Your day is almost here!!!!

Try it on. YOu can always sell the other one on eBay. I bought my TTD dress on eBay. Both of those dresses you like are beautiful.

Yup, advanced search works fine. It's the "shortcut search" that keeps screwing up. Frustrating, but Advanced Search is easier to narrow it down anyway. :-)

I do not like the quality of our resorts photography ... so that's actually one of the most expensive things in our wedding budget, b/c we are bringing a photog with us.

Does anyone have Ronan Keating's "This I Promise You" in a file you can email to me? AnnR -- I fell in love with this song when I heard it in your wedding/first dance video. I can't find it on iTunes and on LimeWire I can't get it to finish downloading -- it stops 1/4 of the way through.

Wow those menu options have me salivating!!!

Keep us posted! Can't wait to hear which one you decide! We are doing a symbolic ceremony and signing our legal paperwork before we leave. Our ceremony is at 3pm. Tried to move it to 4pm, but even for symbolics -- the Master of Ceremony performs it so it will appear legal to guests and he is already booked for 4pm. So, 3pm it is.

Quote: Originally Posted by JackieB Hey guys Just wanted to let you know that they have little books of "Spanish Phrases for Dummie" at Target for a $1.00 each. I got them for my OOT bags today. They also have Suduko for Dummies and Cocktails for Dummies Awesome. I keep forgetting that I want to get those Spanish phrase books for the OOT bags.

I totally relate, except to say (surprisingly) that FH has been pretty willing to help with anything I have asked. He helped assemble the invites and wants to help me mae the starfish soaps for our OOT bags. Not a lot but more tha I expected. That said -- my BM's SUCK as far as helping. My sister is stepping up and offering to help more than anyone else, which is amazing, but really I've been very disappointed in my MOH who is doing NOTHING at all (although she lives several states away, but she's not even making an effort to come to our bachelorette party). And my one local bridesmaid I wish I never even asked at this point -- reality has sunk in that we have been more party friends than actual friends. So, I can totally relate. I doubt you are being bridezilla -- but someone said when I first joined the forum that no one will ever think this wedding is as important as we as brides make it out to be, which I totally agree with. But even so, it's disheartening.

Quote: Originally Posted by starchild Isn't it frustrating? We even offered guests a payment plan option where, for $150 down, they could reserve air/hotel and pay the rest off as they wished. Very few takers. Just before the wedding we got a few "I should have booked sooner, it's so much now". Some of them couldn't go and some had to pay more than they should have. That says it all!!! Sssoo frustrating.

So the shirts have arrived and they are AWESOME! Even better in person than in the pics. Could not be happier. Love them so much I'm getting them for the Dad's as well -- and just switching the Dad's pants to an ivory chino instead of khaki colored. Very high quality shirts. Highly recommended!

Quote: Originally Posted by cheese_diva check out farecompare.com... they tell you highs and lows for the past year.. of course nothing is set in stone but they can see how low an airfare has gone to know if they're getting a good deal. Yeah, I love that site ... but it's not painting a pretty picture. Quote: Originally Posted by yari2566 That stinks, is there anyway you can contact your guests and suggest they book now? Oh how I wish. I have been emailing airfare rates to confirmed guests for MONTHS -- anytime a good rate comes out. People evidently LOVE to procrastinate.