Maura

Quote: Originally Posted by bounciekat originally, i bought the paper i wanted and brought it to them.. but the lady actually messed them up! it ended up being fine because i liked the natural paper they had better than mine. they don't have anything incredibly high end.. nothing with a sheen to it and not a huge color selection but the weight on the cardstock was good and the natural had a nice clean look to it. but what is interesting is whether you decide to bring your own or use theirs, you still pay the same price for printing. it's $1.49 a page regardless. so i recommend going to kinkos and asking to see their cardstock selection before buying it from somewhere else. save a few bucks where you can! Katrina, so did you just have Kinko's print them on the cardstock and then you cut them out and did the eyelets on your own? What was the weight of the cardstock you used? I have a laser printer so I'm thinking about just doing mine at home if my printer can handle it

Quote: Originally Posted by bounciekat originally, i bought the paper i wanted and brought it to them.. but the lady actually messed them up! it ended up being fine because i liked the natural paper they had better than mine. they don't have anything incredibly high end.. nothing with a sheen to it and not a huge color selection but the weight on the cardstock was good and the natural had a nice clean look to it. but what is interesting is whether you decide to bring your own or use theirs, you still pay the same price for printing. it's $1.49 a page regardless. so i recommend going to kinkos and asking to see their cardstock selection before buying it from somewhere else. save a few bucks where you can! Katrina, so did you just have Kinko's print them on the cardstock and then you cut them out and did the eyelets on your own? What was the weight of the cardstock you used? I have a laser printer so I'm thinking about just doing mine at home if my printer can handle it

What a great idea! I'd love a copy of your spreadsheet too if that's okay! I'll most likely be unable to do a site visit thanks to my job schedule so I think this will definitely help.

how adorable!!! i love this idea. would you mind putting your template up so we can get a closer look at it?

We need to have the ceremony in a Catholic church because we're both Catholic, so no beach wedding for me. Any church suggestions would be great!

Are there any Westin brides here who can help get me started? I am open to all kinds of ideas -- I'm curious what other people did, which vendors they used, where you had your ceremony and what part of the Westin you had your reception, food, cake, flowers, etc etc, what you did/didn't like or would do over... I basically am just very overwhelmed and don't know where to start! Any ideas on how you did things would be great! Thanks!

Quote: Originally Posted by TammyB Welcome to the forum, we have many cabo brides from several different locations, what are you ideas, how big of a wedding and such. Maybe we can help you narrow down your choices.. Well... we really like San Jose del Cabo because of the Westin and the Catholic church (the one KarlaV got married in). We have about a $13-15K budget to work with and I would prefer no more than 60 guests. I haven't been able to find much info on prices or options for the Westin yet so if anybody can provide a list that would be great! And how do I go about booking that church once we set a definite date? How far in advance do I need to book everything? I'm kind of overwhelmed right now and I'm not even sure where to begin. As for a photographer, I'm in love with Juan Carlos Tapia's work but I'm curious what all his fees include because his website is somewhat vague. Do you get rights to all the digital images (is that the extra $500 for the images on DVD)? As for places we plan to cut money, we definitely don't care about flowers (other than my bouquet obviously) or centerpieces. We're paying for most of it ourselves with some help from the parents so we want the most for our money. Actually, what I had in mind is eerily similar to what KarlaV did so maybe I should just PM her for more details. But anything anyone can provide about this location and using Juan would be great! Thanks!

Hi ladies, My name is Maura and I'm planning on getting married in Cabo sometime around August 2008. Haven't set any details yet, just researching still. So far, everything I've read has been helpful and I look forward to posting and more reading!