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before you make the decision to sell, just know that you won't get back a large percentage of what you paid. I don't know about everyone, but when I've known someone who sold theirs they got about 1/2 of what they paid. Would you consider no band? I don't have a band. I love my ring on it's own. Your ring has the same simplicity that I love about mine. I think that is why a band is taking away from it, not adding to it. My ring is also 4 prong & round. 3 of my married friends were visiting me recently & they all said they prefered their ring without the band.

Quote: Originally Posted by PDXlove Yay Morgan! Amazing review/wedding. Your pictures are phenomenal. I took your advice and upgraded photographers. I am going to warn my guests about Lomas, YUCK! yay! Who did you get? Are you traveling funjet? I think only funjet uses lomas. my advice would be to meet with the lomas guy on your first day & insist on booking your group on the same return shuttle & get a written confirmation then. Also, warn your guests not to trust them.

Quote: Originally Posted by Just Martha I am glad it was perfect! I saw the pictures of you all writing your own vows. I asked Jay if he wanted to do that and he says he isn't good with words...so, it's okay. And, I think he will be too nervous, so it's just better if he repeats after the JP. mike did a much better job than me. I had so much on my mind with the wedding that I didn't want to even try to memorize them. I wish I would have. I can usually memorize things so easily I should have just done it. So I had the notecard out, but I wanted to look at mike not the card. so i lost my place. i'll see how it actually sounds when I watch the video, but I feel like I did a bad job reading them. Then mike went next & he was so awesome. I alos kissed him after i read mine & then realized we weren't supposed to kiss yet. it just felt like the natural thing to do after reading vows to him. oh well, it wasn't an audition for anything. If I was overwhelmed with emotion & got flustered that is fine.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy Where/how do you file? Maybe we should do the same. OK you call 1-888-558-6654 and ask for "after travel." They are there 8-6 central.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy Where/how do you file? Maybe we should do the same. i haven't figured it out yet, but I was going to start at the funjet website. I'll let you know what I find out. they were so bad that I'd avoid booking a trip through funjet again just to avoid lomas.

Quote: Originally Posted by Just Martha Morgan, How did this end up working out? Heck, you may not have even noticed it! it was perfect. I loved the music. i enjoyed it the most after the ceremony. our guests had left & we were dancing to one of our songs on some rock steps in the water. it was a bit of a blur, but I heard the music. I just realized that I didn't cry at all. we wrote our vows 2 days before on beach chairs at the ceremony site & read them to each other. I cried so hard. so maybe I got it all out for the ceremony.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy Thanks for the review! You're always so nice and snappy! And I totally agree about Lomas. Probably our worst experience of our whole trip was getting from the hotel to the airport with Lomas. And my MIL had a horrid time getting to the hotel. She did not get what she paid for at all, and everyone there was incredible rude! The guy at the hotel (right before we left) actually yelled at us! As in raised his voice and accused us of lying! All we wanted to do was ride together (there were 6 of us) since we made the transfer together and we were on the same flight. So, yeah, I agree. our guy did the same thing! did your guy look like danny devito? he accused my mom of lying. and they were just trying to get on the same shuttle. everyone was leaving around the same time, but they ended up split between 4 shuttles. he tried to split up my mom & aunt who were on the same flight. my aunt paid extra to take the connecting flight instead of the non stop just to avoid riding the shuttle alone. the meeting we had with him the first day should have been to get everyone on the same shuttle. instead he spent the whole time trying to sell us a trip to xelha. grrr....I wanted to tell him off so bad but I didn't because I figured he'd cancel our airport shuttle. I need to get around to filing a complaint.

Quote: Originally Posted by ErinB If you go right after Mexico, I would look at some place in South or Central America. Costa Rica is very relaxing but they also have a focus on eco-tourism so there are active things to do like hiking, etc. I haven't been but a friend went for her honeymoon and loved it. Belize is also beautiful and the dollar goes pretty far. Next year, DH and I are going to Greece, so I think you should just wait and you can tag along with us! LOL I have a client with a second home there who has offered it up. I need to check and see how serious he was about letting us use the house. My understanding is that Bora Bora is very expensive and I know I would want to stay there for two weeks or more since it takes a while to get there. That might be better saved for a later vacation. I completely agree. If we took a seperate honeymoon it would have been to Belize or Costa Rica. Before I go somewhere I want to have time to research it extensively. It took so much time to plan out our trip last year to london, paris, & normandy. I wouldn't have been able to plan both the wedding & that trip. But, then not everyone likes to be as prepared as me. I just felt like it helped us get the most out of our time there & not run in to any unexpected expenses. So I personally would not want to have the honeymoon be the dream trip. I'd rather save that for another year when I have time to really plan it right.

Quote: Originally Posted by ashrose I just read my posts and I think I sound like a crazy bridezilla... eep. I didn't want to come off like that... I think she does amazing work so I am assuming she is way wicked cool. I like spending time with people who are passionate about what they do.... Don't think I'm crazy BTW can you tell us who this wicked cool photographer is? I'd like to stalk her blog My coworkers think I'm obsessed with weddings because I often spend my lunch break looking at photographer's blogs.

Quote: Originally Posted by ashrose I just read my posts and I think I sound like a crazy bridezilla... eep. I didn't want to come off like that... I think she does amazing work so I am assuming she is way wicked cool. I like spending time with people who are passionate about what they do.... Don't think I'm crazy I don't think you are crazy. I spent a lot of time talking to my photographer, Kristie, about locations to trash the dress & ideas for pictures. It would have been awesome to go to Riviera Maya ahead of time & scout out places to trash the dress. It was a little overwhelming to show up at the cenote for the first time for each of us & figure out where to shoot. But, you can make it work. There was also something cool about taking in the beauty of a place for the first time and finding cool spots for photos. It was like an adventure. She also scouted out places the day before the wedding near the hotel. So on the day of the wedding she told us about a cool little lagoon down the beach. We took some wedding day pictures & day after pics there. I also swam in it the following day. If it's something you can afford to do, I think it will be fun. I couldn't budget for it, but I would have really enjoyed a scouting trip. Actually, I find myself wanting to go back to riviera maya & scout out all the cool spots for pictures. oh, to be a photographer living in such a beautiful area...

Quote: Originally Posted by mummergirl well that sucks. if i wanted a different date on my wedding certificate i'd get legally wed at home and save myself all the crap, ya know? thanks for the info tho! yeah, we had a saturday wedding booked & I learned that. So it was just another thing tipping me over to doing it legal in the US first. So now our certificate says june 13th, but we will celebrate june 21st. Really though it doesn't matter to me. I'm so happy we did it legal in the states.

Quote: Originally Posted by melglnh2o I am actually just doing the legwork of getting the video bits, pictures, and songs together. A guy at my work said he could throw it together for me no problem. Hmmmm. I will have to ask him what program he will be using. I'll let you know. Thats really nice that he is doing that for you. Don't worry about asking him what program. I've learned movie maker & it works for me. I was just wondering if you were using it too & needed help. Don't forget to share it with us!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan that sounds a lot like my grand concept. But, I still don't know if my video file is editable. YouTube - Levi and Christinas Wedding this was my inspiration but I also want to fade out the song so you can hear parts of the ceremony. I hope my video comes in in time for this to be a weekend project what program are you using? it's funny. about a year ago that video was my inspiration but I didn't know if I'd be able to do it. i just rewatched it & realized it's totally doable. it looked so difficult before, but now that I have some experience with movie maker it doesn't look hard.

Quote: Originally Posted by melglnh2o I am also going to incorporate pics and then have the songs fade out as we actually say our vows, etc. I have this grand concept but we will see how well it works out!! that sounds a lot like my grand concept. But, I still don't know if my video file is editable. YouTube - Levi and Christinas Wedding this was my inspiration but I also want to fade out the song so you can hear parts of the ceremony. I hope my video comes in in time for this to be a weekend project what program are you using?

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura we're using a song called "first day of my life" by bright eyes -- check out the video below to hear it (video is weird, but its a great song) - this is also the song we are using for our first dance. YouTube - Bright Eyes "First Day Of My Life" i really like that song. I like the concept for the video too.

I just read over your first post. I hope to do the same thing. I want one edit that is the length of a song. Then I want to make a slightly longer edit for family.

I didn't know how many songs our videographer needed so i gave him a bunch on a cd in order of preference. this isn't the order (i don't have that saved) but they are DMB & santana- love of my life david grey - this year's love maroon 5 - she will be loved weezer - island in the sun RHCP - soul to squeeze DMB - crush incubus - stellar we had all of these songs playing with our post ceremony mix. Who was your videographer? Mine was mike cantarell. I don't know how long my video will be. I'm hoping it's a file I can trim down into a short thing for the AHR. I want to combine the video with pictures. I have found when I'm trying to set pictures to the beat of a song, something with hard notes like a piano works really well.

i watched it this morning. i kept saying "im the bride" too during the trip. but, it was always for silly reasons. like we wanted to take food to go from the buffet to eat on a terrace. my friends asked if it was allowed & I said, "yeah, I'm the bride." It just continued throught the trip. it was fun. too bad I didn't know to say it as BRIIIIDDDDE.

Quote: Originally Posted by kevsgirl Welcome back and congratulations! I was just in NYC and haven't been around, so I missed you coming back, but got to see some of the preview pics before you came back Glad you had such a fabulous time. And thanks for the review! I may look into that hairdresser, because apparently mine is charging $160 or something outrageous... there is also annalisa who works in PDC. she was going to charge $100. maybe she would be less for you because she is in PDC. I don't know her contact info though. I've been told she is very good too. http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t12143 $160 sounds way too high to me.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rache1124 Morgan - I cannot believe you are married!!!! I've watched your planning for so long! Now that you are married, means its almost time for me Congratulations on a beautiful wedding trip and I do admire your attitude about everything - I hope I am able to keep a great attitude, too (I sometimes let myself get caught up on little things)...one of our big reasons for a destination wedding was to avoid a lot of the fuss a big at home wedding can create. So fun to see/hear about your wedding - thanks for all of the things you've shared! just keep in perspective that no one will notice if things aren't the way you planned. people won't remember the details. they will remember the great time they had. my favorite wedding ever was so simple, but we had a blast. my best memories are the great times I had with my husband, family & friends. also, don't feel like you have to be in charge & on top of everything. that was the hardest part for us. it was hard not to feel like the group tour guide & just relax.

Quote: Originally Posted by Abbie i know! i was just thinking how beautiful and muted the colors are, and how crazy cool that hole/tree/root thingy is to stand in. those pics must have totally made the bat poop/moquito catastrophe worth it! definitly! the bat poop even photographed well. it's the "water" you see around us. There are several cenotes that have a cool root/ light hole. There is one near chichen itza that is beautiful. It's such a beautiful landscape. I definitly want to go back to a cenote. To get my cenote fix, I'm going swimming in a rock quarry this weekend.

I have too many favorites, but this is my favorite of the day warning- these are very low resolution versions of my pictures. see the bat!! warning- these are very lo resolution versions!

my mom used to home school. she'd take me along with her when I was in elementary school. it was mostly high school girls who were pregnant. she went to their homes though. they didn't come to ours. so I'm not sure how that would work with a baby. she was a high school teacher at the time & they were always looking for someone to take this position. I do think using your degrees is your best bet for getting a good job from home. The town we lived in was right by corpus. there is bound to be something like this in the corpus school district. did you already work in corpus? are you in their system? if not, i'd still make calls anyway. i'll ask my mom, but i think these positions are usually in demand.

Quote: Originally Posted by mummergirl Anyone know whether legal civil ceremonies can be held on SATURDAYs? you can, but your certificate will be dated the friday before.

Quote: Originally Posted by Abbie oh cool! going to look at the pics now you HAVE to find a way for us to watch the video! yay they're gorgeous! you really made the right choice with kristie! i'm going to upload it to vimeo asap to share.