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You just seem to light up in the 2nd one. You look great in all of them but amazing in the 2nd one!

Hey ladies, I just purchased some of Old Navy's linen pants that are $29.50 for our groomsmen this afternoon. They did have some long sleeved linen shirts that I wasn't crazy over, so we did not purchase those and will look elsewhere. However I did get my FI two pairs of the linen pants and two of the short sleeved linen shirts - great for dinner at the resort. I like the white and light blue color the best. Short sleeved linen shirts - $19.50: Women's & Men's Clothes: Plus Size, Maternity, Baby & Kid's Clothing | Old Navy Linen pants (they also have cargo style but the other style looked more weddingish) Women's & Men's Clothes: Plus Size, Maternity, Baby & Kid's Clothing | Old Navy

Everything looks great Shannon. I love your colors. Everything came together so nicely.

I never heard of Fat Smash - sounds interesting. My sister and I have found that the best diet (that is not like being on a diet) is Summersizing - yes it's Suzanne Summer's diet she came out with a few years ago. It's amazing. It is just food combining and separation which Europeans have done for years. It's fantastic because you can have carbs, fats, fruits, and protiens but you just eat them in the right combinations. We try to eat like this regularly but when we need to lose a few pounds, we'll follow it strictly. My sister can drop about 5 pounds in a week on it. It takes me a little longer. A friend of mine who introduced me to it lost 20 pounds on it. PM me if you want some more information on it.

I was reading some trip advisor reviews (obsessed) and the burger/pizza place just burnt down at EDR. There is now no place to get a quick lunch at the resort. This isn't a big deal to me because I'm not going to Mexico to have burgers, but it's going to be tough on some of my pickier guests who were counting on this place to be their primary food source!

These are good finds. Has anyone found other instrumental collections to use for their weddings? I'm specifically looking for accoustic guitar or something with a beachy or tropical feel to it? I found a cd called the Calypso Collection on Itunes but don't know if that is what I want. I just want something to play when my guests arrive.

Like many of you, we always knew we wanted a DW. Here are the reasons: 1. My family is in Colorado and his in Louisiana - make everyone travel! 2. We are paying for it ourselves - get a vacation, wedding, in honeymoon for what we would pay for flowers and a Dj at most traditional weddings! 3. Have an excuse to not invite the family and friends that are really just there for the beer 4. We went to a DW in Mexico of some friends and knew without a doubt we wanted the same thing. It was intimate, a blast, and so amazing. We are such good friends with that couple because of that trip. 5. We have been to upwards of 15-20 weddings in the six years years (its slowed since those couples are now having babies), and like a lot of you could not fathom doing another cookie cutter wedding.

Quote: Originally Posted by Millie & George Hello I have just had an email from my w/c at EDR to say that the chairs for the ceremony with the blue sash cost $13usd per chair, previously I was quoted $7usd, which is far more reasonable! Can anyone help with prices that you have been quoted, I just am practically crying thinking of spending over $416 for 30 mins use that I then have to pay all over again for my dinner at Tucanes, surely the w/c has made a mistake? Im sorry to ramble on, I was just taken aback!! Annaxx I thought the chairs without covers were $7 but the chairs with covers and bows were $13. With that said, if you have in writing (email) that they quoted you $7 for chairs with bows, then maybe you would have some leverage. Speaking of ceremony's, can everyone please tell me what you are doing for your ceremony as far as decorations if you are having a beach ceremony? 1. Are you doing the hanging corsages? 2. Are you doing chair covers and bows (what color bows)? 3. Are you having a runner? 4. What color runner? 5. Are you doing rose petals? 6. Any other decorations (ie fans?) 7. What bouquet choices are you doing if doing it from the lomas site? 8. Any unique elements (ie sand ceremony, songs, readings, etc.) I know some of you have mentioned this throughout this thread, but I am making some of these decisions right now and would like to see what others are doing. Any recent EDR brides have any suggestions as to what they would and wouldn't do again for the ceremony locations and decorations?

Quote: Originally Posted by Saraha I just found the cutest song I think were going to dance to Jason Mraz-Im yours I just discovered that song too, and I am dying to add it somewhere in my playlist. I also like his version of I Melt with You from the 50 First Dates soundtrack - both very beachy!

Quote: Originally Posted by mexicobrideIndiana thank you for letting me know about not meeting Valeria. do you plan on tipping or getting gifts for the onsite WC then? or do we send something to Valeria? Since we don't see our off-site wedding coordinators (Monica in my case), I was just going to mail a nice hand written thank you note.

One of the reasons I picked EDR is the travel agent assured me it was not a wedding factory. I'm getting married on a Thursday, so there is a good chance I'll be the only bride as opposed to a Saturday.

I just got my starfish in the mail the other day. I can't wait!

I'm in Louisiana and haven't heard of a place like this but will ask around. In fact, I heard there was a place like this in Mississippi. Maybe this is like the urban legend of wedding dress shops!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy What's the deal with the bouquet holders? We don't have to get one of those to keep the flowers together, right? I talked to Monica today about flowers and said I wanted mine hand tied. She said that the holders make the bouquets look bigger and sugested I consider that but can of course still have mine hand tied. I'm curious about them as well. Are they plastic?

Quote: Originally Posted by ctpetch I wasn't aware of that either. I have a cd I'm playing anyways. Just with piano music I found we really like for the ceremony. I got alot of decisions to make only 2 1/2 months left and not sure what to go with for some things yet. With a burned cd you never know if it will play in their cd player. Maybe someone can find that out for you since there are several of us on here getting married in May. That would be great if someone would let me know how the cd player turns out. Maybe include this in your reviews!!!! 2 1/2 months, how exciting!!

Oh, can you please tell me what bouquets you girls are planning on ordering? Are you choosing something from the lomas site?

So annoyed. Monica said that we can only use a cd with their cd player for the ceremony. I thought we could use an ipod? I'm so worried about a burned CD not playing in the player, the timing, etc.

5.5 years together, 5 living together, and over 6 years by the time of the ceremony. Our guys sure don't jump into things too hastily, do they?!

Great dress! I'm looking into getting something on this site (A friend of friend owns this company) Turq Jewelry Or something on Esty Etsy :: weddings :: jewelry The prices are great. David's Bridal actually has some cute pieces as well

36 looks more turqoise. You should get some swatches because you will be surprised at the color difference.

Quote: Originally Posted by brigopens We used our iPod hooked into their sound system and things went very well. I thought the sound quaity was great. If you put the songs on in order, there shouldn't be any problems with playign them. They had someone in charge of the sound system, but we had one of our friends, the AV guy... :-) , watching over to make sure it was going like we wanted it to. Used the same set-up at the ceremony, and they let our DJ friend just take complete control fo the set list. I can't imagine spending all the extra money for live music at the ceremony. maybe at the reception if you really have your heart set on it! Whew, that makes me feel a lot better. The music is really important to me.

I know we have discussed the ceremony music before and some of you are using live music and some of you used or will use the cd player. Honestly, for those who have used the cd player, how did it sound? There is an episode of My Name is Earl when Joy marries Crabman and she is making her wedding tape by recording songs off of the radio to play on a little boombox in the park. I keeping thinking of this when I think about using EDR's CD player for the ceremony! I'm afraid of bad sound quality, not playing the right song at the right time, I guess the usual concerns most have with this topic. We absolutely do not have it in our budget to pay for a musician.

I just checked the wedding reviews too looking for Brea and Shea's myself! I thought I missed them, but the ladies are obviously enjoying being newlyweds and haven't found the time to sit down and right the reviews!!!!

http://store.turqbridal.com/ One of my coworker's friends owns this company. I don't know if she has anything that you were looking for, but I like her stuff and though I'd share!

There is a thread somewhere with pictures of the EDR gazebos and descriptions. You can change it. Some girls even changed it the day of the wedding when they got there and liked a different one.