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Quote: Originally Posted by jarauz Omg! Welcome Back Tami, I've Literally Have Been Stalking You And Waiting For Your Return. I Can't Wait For Your Review. I'll Be Getting Married There In May 09. You Look Beautiful. Congratulation.........can't Wait To See More.... OMG girl -- you are going to have such an AMAZING wedding!!! I have some tips on things that worked perfectly for us and will have all that in my review hopefully next week! We have ZERO complaints -- everything made for a PERFECT dream wedding in paradise!

Here's to hoping he's got something up his sleeve!!! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by LadyCheese OMG Tami your back, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Love the pics, you look great but of course I cant wait to see more! How was your DR experience overall? OMG everything was utterly amazing. We have NO complaints! I am itching to write my review and will work on it during my place ride to CA this Thursday -- so hopefully I can post it next week! Quote: Originally Posted by happygilmore Congrats! You look beautiful! I love your bridesmaids dresses, they look like they could flatter any body type and the one with the groomsmen is hilarious!!! I can't wait to see more! Yes, all the girls LOVED their BM dresses and as they were ALL very different heights/sizes. I'm really glad we stuck with neutral colors for the bridal party too. Quote: Originally Posted by starchild Check you out, hot tamale! How beautiful everything was...more more more More, more, more!!! :-) I'm trying but geez these take forever to upload! We are going to grab a bite and I should be able to post more after we get back. Oh, BTW -- Tom wore his military dress blues for the ceremony and looked absolutely stunning -- but was sweating so bad that we had him change the second the ceremony was over. Hopefully someone will send me some of the ceremony pics soon so I can show you how handsome he is! :-)

Okay, here are a few non-pro teaser pics from our Paradisus Punta Cana wedding and our DR honeymoon. And here is a link to my BIL's pics. A few of the rehearsal, then some wedding and the rest just famil/friends pics of people who were with us. Kodakgallery.com*Join now and receive beautiful photographic prints from your camera The wedding gazebo: Tom & I w/ his parents and twin brother/sister: Bridal Party Pics: My favorite!!! So much fun! Cutting the cake (it tasted amazing but they used the leftover starfish and shells I brought for centerpieces so we could only eat from one side of the cake, lol): First Dance: Relaxing w/ a coconut drink during our Saona Island excursion: The starfish we found on our Saona Island excursion:

awesome pics! your friend is definitely going to be a rockin' photog (already is!).

We were VERY pleased with the food at both our wedding and honeymoon resort. The wedding resort rehearsal dinner was phenomenal as was the reception food. The buffets are good (in our opinions) but it's a lot of the same day after day .. which is why it is important to make reservations at the a la carte restaurants to order nicer meals off the menus. The a la cartes we ate at at both resorts were exceptionally good. No one got sick and everyone enjoyed all their meals, regardless of whether it was the buffett or a la cartes.

Wow those are some gorgeous pics! You look ssoo beautiful!

Beautiful pics! Palma Real is ssoo beautiful! I hope you had as amazing a time for your wedding as we did on our honeymoon!!! Your pics are gorgeous!!

Quote: Originally Posted by jhasson I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to how to get these boarding passes cut so that all the curves are correct. I was told by a printer that I need to get a die-press made up so that they can all be cut. I am trying to cut down on the costs of having these printed. I need to have 250 made, the boarding pass is 3 pages. Any help? All you need to do is go to a craft store and get a corner punch and an Xacto knife. The corner punch will round the corners and the Xacto is for the inset edges. It takes time but saves you so much money and is totally worth it to be able to say you did it yourself. Especially when they look so good no one will believe they are DIY!

Well, we are back and everything was absolutely 100% PERFECT!!!! I am downloading pics from our camera and uploading to Photobucket as we speak ... so I will post pics within the hour in a new thread! I am ssoo excited to get started on my review of the wedding (Paradisus Punta Cana), honeymoon (Paradisus Palma Real), and our time spent exploring (Bavaro & Saona Island). I have ssoo much to tell and can't wait to get our pro pics back b/c or photogs TOTALLY ROCK!!! Thanks so much for all the well-wishes!!!!

oh so beautiful! I love the different dresses. of course your wedding dress is my favorite! it's amazing! and they all look fab on you, girl! woo-hoo!!!!

So it's a done deal. I don't have a pic of the signing, but we took a video on my camera phone of our "toast" afterwards, so I will post that when I get home from work tonight and get it uploaded. We wnt out for drinks after and I have a headache this morning. lol. It was fun to be out w/ all our friends and be able to give each other secret glances and no one know why. :-)

Mini tambourines at each place setting with little tags that say " if you wanna see us kiss, shake this!". That's what we wanted to do, but ran out of time to get the tambourines. I found some on eBay that would have been perfect -- like 48 for $30. I have some last minute shopping to do while on the road for work today, so if I come across any tambourines, I'm still going to get them. I adore the idea and we cam e up with it ourselves while at a friends house. he is like 65 and breaks out his tambo every time we come over b/c we start drinking and listening to music and it's ssoo much fun.

Quote: Originally Posted by lscilley Everything looks great I love your dress you look amazing in it. Where did you get your BM's dresses? Hope you have an awesome time! The dresses are Bari Jay, Style 249 and 251 (I think that's the 2nd style #). We ordered them from 2008 Prom Dresses - Wedding Dresses - Bridemaids - Mother of the Bride Gowns and they were abolut $20 cheaper than elsewhere, with free shipping to each BM and they arrived ahead of schedule.

Thanks ladies!!!! Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl you know what tami, i actually like this idea! it really makes this part just the legal part and completely different from the memory filled meaningful event that you've got coming soon! but, BIG CONGRATS anyways! so fun! That's exactly why we're doing it this way. We don'ty want it to take away from our DW in any way ... so really this won't even "feel" real to me ... b/c we both know it's not when we will exchange vows in front of family and friends. And I think this way it makes it easier to justify to people down the road should anyone find out.

We are simply going to meet with a friend of mine who is a Notary and she will sign the paperwork with us. We aren't doing a ceremony, vows, or ring exchange ... and aren't even getting dressed up .... but I guess as of this afternoon we will be single no more! I'm trying to get as much pacvked and completed today as possible beforehand b/c I am sure we'll be throwing back some cold ones afterwards. lol.

Either one looks like it matches to me! You can do whatever you want though. Our BM dresses are champagne but our accent colors and DIY stuff is aqua and coral.

Beautiful dress! I see what you mean about having the bust area be able to show more cleavage .... but that is a gorgeous dress and it looks phenomenal on you!

Our resort is an AI, and while the cost for guests to attend is reasonable .... the extra fees that are added in to our cost of the ceremony asnd reception are pretty high. So much for an "affordable" DW. I stopped keeping count of our budget b/c it blew out the window ... but I'd say we are looking at about $25k instead of the $18K we had hoped for.

Quote: Originally Posted by JaimeLynne lol, I totally don't get that concept! It's almost one of those things where I'll probably just stay up since it's light out and pass out super early tonight.... Thank goodness for BDW or I'd really be screwed! Yep, if it weren't for BDW, a lot of us would have much less to do on those sleepless nights! I just woke up ... and I usually LOVE to sleep in on weekends ... but ssoo much to finish doing today ... and this afternoon we are meeting with a friend of mine who is anotary to sign our "legal" wedding papers! Maybe I'll have a Red Bull and Jager beforehand, lol. :-)

lol, I hope you are almost asleep! I can drink Red Bull all night and still sleep like a baby. You poor thing!

I've never had fondant (my Mom makes cakes as a PT job) but she always makes her own icing, which is amazing. Fondant does look pretty -- but I've never itched to try it b/c it also looks like it wouldn't be very good, to me anyway. lol

I like the canvas ones best -- simply for practicality purposes, b/c I think they will get more use out of them in the long run.

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl Tami, it all looks great! I can't wait to see it all come together! Where did you get the plates for your centerpieces, and how the heck did you do them so cheap?!?! The plates and candleholders are both from Dollar Tree (so, $1 each). The candles are also from DT (4 for $1). We already had shells ... so that brought it to only $2.25 per centerpiece. The plates are plastic too so we don't have to worry as much about them breaking during transit. My Mom found them actually -- and then I found the candleholders. They also have starfish shaped bowls in the same color scheme as the plates, so I picked up a few of those to use for snacks at the AHR. I LOVE the Dollar Tree!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lizzy Tami, I am so happy that your day is finally near. I remember when you were waiting for Tom to let you know when he was coming home from the war! Now look, you are about to marry the man of your dreams in only a few days. Everything you made and planned for the wedding looks lovely. Your guests are going to love the special attention you gave to details. Have a wonderful time and know I send my very best wishes to you and Tom! Lizzy Thanks so much Lizzy! And thank you for all of your help! Without you and cheese-diva donating those fans to me ... I would be one step behind on things right now! I can't wait to be able to donate the fans to another bride-to-be once we return from DW! Thanks so much for all the well wishes and I'm sending 'em right back atcha! :-)