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Wow, if that is just the highlights I can only imagine what the full video looks like. They did a fantastic job, and now I hate my video even more.
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A few years ago I gave $75-100, but now that I have had close friends get married and have gone through with my own wedding I realized how much weddings actually cost. I was always told you pay at least enough to cover your plate and back in the day that was about $30 (depending on the location). Now it is easily $80-100 pp so I usually give $200. If I am invited to the wedding, but don't attend I usually send $100 since they aren't paying for me to be there.
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I think we'll be flying in on Jan. 18th, but we'll probably get there late since Mike will have to work on Sunday, and then we'll probably leave on the 21st. he should know for sure this week if his days off got approved so we can book our trip.
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I wax my own upper lip using the Sally Hansen kit and I find my skin gets less irritated than when I get it done at the salon and it usually lasts 2 weeks. I do get my eyebrows waxed professionally with no issues, but I have been doing that a lot longer. It does hurt, but only while the strips are being pulled so for a few seconds. I would receommend getting it done if you think you need it, but I'm guessing since you never had it done you probably don't have dark hair above your lip. My is mostly blonde, but there a few hairs that have gotten darker as I have gotten older so I get it waxed. Had that not happened I would have left it alone!
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Citlalli was our photographer and she was awesome. We are so happy with how our pictures turned out and I would highly recommend her!
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That is terrible, I'm so sorry. Hopefully, they catch whoever stole your stuff.
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I love all the decorations! My favorite is the present wreath, did you buy that or make it. Either way it is super cute!
All we put up this year is our two stockings and those are just hanging on the doorknobs of a closet since we don't have anywhere else to hang them. Our apartment is lame! We did buy a tree on clearance last year and I bought a bunch of beachy ornaments, but I don't have lights or a topper yet. Maybe next year I will actually be able to decorate.
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Welcome back Amy! You were a beautiful bride. Congrats!
I forgot who asked, but I am almost ready for Christmas. I sent out our Christmas cards along with our wedding thank you cards on Saturday. We also got our photobooks, but the prints that we ordered should be arriving today. I got prints made for our family and my two BMs along with the photobooks for Christmas. I must say I am a little disappointed with the photobooks. I ordered the 5x7 size and assumed they were a hard cover book, but they're not. I ordered ours a size larger 8.5x11 and that was hard cover, but online it looked exactly the same as the 5x7. I just need to wrap them, but I want to wrap the prints with the books. All I have left to do after that is bake which I will do next week. That is probably my favorite things about Christmas is baking cookies since a lot of them I only make at Christmas time.
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Originally Posted by pdcbride09 Yes, our dinner is going to be at Playasia on 5th here's the link:
Playasia Restaurant, Playa del Carmen
It looks awesome!! As you can see from the pics, it is very exotic looking and definitely no room for dancing or anything like that. I think we will all be sitting at one big table. We are getting married via Blue Parrot Weddings. On the beach in front of Blue Parrot Beach Club. We are a little worried that the beach will be too crowded and that their may be boats..but who cares. That area is too cute.
That's what I heard, that the ceremony is only around 20 mins. so I think 3 hours will be enough for us then. I just don't know when we would be able to take pics on 5th ave. after the ceremony or before or what? grrr. I'm hoping we'll get enough of pics in there. I would LOVE to do the trash the dress photo session but that's too $$$. It looks like so much fun and I honestly think those pics always turn out better than the actual wedding day.
How you liking this 17 degree weather we are having today? It's pretty brutal out there! Thank God there isn't a strong wind today! Especially for me since I work downtown!
This weather is ridiculous! I was downtown yesterday for a meeting and I thought my face was going to fall off after walking from the el. This is precisely the reason we are moving to AZ soon! I love Chicago, but I hate the weather here. I'm not looking forward to going out to the post office soon, but I need to get stamps and mail our thank yous and Christmas cards. -
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I think I am the oddball here, I love to pick paint colors and paint! That is the one thing I am looking forward to once we get in our new place. We were able to paint our current place, but we kept it pretty neutral so we wouldn't have to change it. I can't wait to be able to be a little more creative with colors. -
The assistant on the wedding day was just holding the flash, she didn't take any photos. Her sister is her other assistant and she was taking pictures the day of the TTD session.
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That is great that you still get to work in the industry that you love even though it is not as a police officer. Best of luck to you!!
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Here is the post with a link to all our pro pics from Citlalli if any of you are interested.
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We didn't bring any connections for the ipod to work. We had brought CDs as a back up and during the ceremony they used our CDs and not the ipod. We used the ipod in the Los Vitrales room, but the DJ left before we were done with our ipod still playing so I don't think you even need him if you are using the ipod only. We had created a continuous mix on one playlist and that played the whole time. Araceli gave us the microphone so I think that is part of their speaker equipment. They just have one speaker, but it was loud enough. You do get more speakers if you book the outside DJ with the lounge set ups and lighting packages.
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There is a story behind the banana! I didn't have time to eat anything since I was trying to pick up our room so there wouldn't be suitcases and clothes all over when the photographer came to take the getting ready shots, and then I had to be at the spa for my 9:30 appointment. Since the flowers were late getting to the spa I didn't have any time to grab lunch. After I had gotten my dress on, my BMs asked me if I ate and I said no. Both of them and Citlalli were like you need to eat something or you are going to pass out especially because it was so hot that day and I was already sweating from taking bridal party pictures. Well, all we had in the room was the fruit basket they gave us when we arrived, which had strawberries, bananas and grapes - all fruits I hate! They forced me to eat a couple grapes and soem of the banana. I was literally gagging while I was eating the banana and they all thought it was hysterical, and in the meantime Citlalli is snapping away hence the infamous banana shot. Everyone that has seen it thinks I'm doing something perverted, but honestly it was G-rated I just really hate bananas!
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Happy Birthday!!!
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Now that we have our pictures I wanted to write a quick review about our photographer Citlalli Rico. We hired her through Claudia Photo. I would highly recommend her as Mike and I are so happy with our pictures, and we had a great time working with her. She photographed our Friday wedding at the Iberostar Lindo with an assistant, and we scheduled our 2 hour TTD session for the Monday after at the Iberostar Grand (we switched hotels after the wedding for honeymoon). We had to pay a $50 guest pass for her and her assistant for the wedding day and $150 guest pass for them to come to the Grand. I'm not sure why there was such a difference in the guest pass prices, and we didn't find out until the day of the TTD so we just went with it. We had to pay the resort photoshop $300 for hiring an outside photographer for the wedding, but we only had to pay that once. The guest passes were charged to our room, and we paid the photoshop with travelers checks.
I had sent Claudia a list of some of our must have pictures and some other shots that I liked from other weddings. I also gave her a list of all our guest names with pictures ahead of time to help know who everyone was. Citlalli was calling people by their names on the wedding day so it must have helped! She has the patience of a saint because Mike's nephew doesn't listen and apparently doesn't cooperate very well for pictures. She still managed to get some cute pictures with him even though I know it had to be really frustrating. Mike was aggravated with him and had to hold his arms down at one point so I can only imagine what she was thinking. Ha ha!
Citlalli had some great ideas and went along with other pictures that we wanted. The colors of the pictures are amazing! We got a photo album filled with color and black and white 4x6 prints, a bunch of 8x10 and 5x7 prints of color and black and white, and all our digital negatives on 4 CDs.
Here is the link to our pics if you want to check them out:
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We got our pro pics from Citlalli Rico on Thursday so I have been creating photobooks on shutterfly for family and friends and lastly one for us. I thought I would share the link since I haven't been able to post any of our pro pics on here yet. Let me know what you think!
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Steph, how did I not know we had the same photographer? We just got our pics from her on Thursday and I love them. Yours look great too. My favs are the first one and the other one with the lighthouse and the shot of your feet where your pink shoes are showing. Love them!
Itunes Help~ I'm leaving tomorrow
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Play the song first and write down the exact second you want the song to start or end. Then go to File>Get info and type in the correct start time or end time that you want to use.