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welcome and congrats! tough decision

Check out this. She's a BDW member and does great work that is very affordable Sproullie Designs

Congratulations and welcome to the forum. You'll find loads of information on this forum

Welcome and Congrats!

Congrats and Welcom to the forum. I was a newbie to the whole forum thing too but you'll find these girls are a wealth of information. I'm a DT bride so feel free to ask me any questions and definatley check out the Dreams Tulum Sticky Thread

Welcome to the Forum Maggie! Congrats on your engagement! Good luck with all of your planning

welcome to the forum my BFF/future bride. These girls ROCK THE CASBAH!!! I'm so glad you're a BDW member now!!!!! Love you and I'll help you anyway I can girlie:smile03 :

Oh wow! It looks absolutelyl beautiful

Thanks for sharing these. It's nice to finally see some pictures other than what is on the Dreams website

Julie- Most of the big resorts offer some type of wedding package but it really all depends on what you are looking for when it comes to the details. I'm being biased here but Dreams Tulum was over the top fantastic! I would really recommend any of the Dreams Resorts. They have 3 standard packages that you can choose from and then add on pretty much what ever you want. Their service is impecable and I would almost go as far to say that "No" is not in their vocabulary. There is a Dreams in Cancun, Puerto Aventuras & Tulum right now. I have also heard great things about the Paridisus resorts as well. Good luck and let us know what you decide when you get back

Quote: Originally Posted by ERnurse Ame congrats on becoming a mrs.! Your pics were really beautiful, who did you use as the photographer? It was just the resort photog! He really was amazing and I'm soo pleased with the pics. I'm sorry that I can remember his name but he always wears a headband so he's pretty rememberable

Quote: Originally Posted by deefalvey Amy Great Review! You look GORGEOUS! Everything looks great! I love that BM dress? Where is it from? If you get this, can you post or PM me? I am going to go look in other posts you may have to see if I can track it down. Thanks and Congrats! Thank you so much I absolutely loved that dress when I found it. It's Jcrew and it's still on clearance there so check it out

Quote: Originally Posted by Blkatz Hey Ame I have a question...what did you decide on for dinner? We are looking at the menu now and trying to figure it out we did surf and turf and it was awesome. really. usually the beef in Mexico isn't that great but we met a couple the first night we were there that owned a cattle ranch in Nebraska and they told us that the beef was better than they had at home. We made sure to have dinner the next evening at the Sea Side Grill and ordered the filet and the ribeye and it was AMAZING!! We did the salad with shrimp and mango dressing, the proscuitto bruschetta for an appetizer (scrumptious)!!!

I love the color combo of sky blue and espresso! Great choice.

Beautiful dresses. I love the back of your dress. Very very very sexy! Congrats on finding "The One" on both. the dress and the man hee hee

Everything looks absolutely beautiful. Have a wonderful time! Good luck! Can't wait to hear all about it when you get pack

congrats and welcome to the forum. You will find loads of useful information here

mother in law: nerve racking

Quote: Originally Posted by rachelannmartin Ok this may be a really silly question but Ame during your reception you didnt have to worry about alcoholic beverages, right? The wait staff were there for you and your guests i.e. you didnt have to worry about running to the nearest bar No we didn't have to wait but I did think about that when deciding where to have the reception. I originally liked the idea of having the reception on the beach or over at the north end of the adult pool. When I got down to the resort I started thinking more about logistics. Things like where the closest bathroom was or how far the bar was from our reception site. I figured people would be barefoot if the reception was on the beach and thought it was gross to be barefoot in a bathroom!!!! Then I thought about the chairs sinking in the sand so I scrapped the beach idea. The north end of the adult pool was beautiful but it was quite a ways from the closest bar (sugar reef). I was worried my guests would spend more time in the bar than at my reception if the service wasn't fast enough. It was also really really windy over there and a little chilly at night so I opted for the area inbetween the activity pool, the beach and the manatee bar. I think we had 5 or 6 servers. They were of course really attentive to my table but I didn't have any complaints from my guests (they all looked like they definately had enough to drink ). They repeatedly asked me if they could get me something else to drink. I think I mentioned this but they even set up a place to do tequila boom boom shots in the middle of my reception site. I will mention though that my Dad did tip all of the servers when they were finishing the final set up of the reception site. Maybe that had something to do with it? He said he gave them each a 50 and to make sure everyone was happy and having a good time. I don't know that it's necessary to tip that much but who knows

Karla!!!!!! I don't know how I missed this. It's so great to finally see pics of you. You looked absolutely beautiful and I just loved your set up in the sea side grill. I want to see more pics girlie. congrats

Quote: Originally Posted by MarieSam CONGRATS you beautiful bride!! Everything looked wonderful, your colors really popped and I LOVE the turtle table numbers ~ so cute Thanks_ I bought them last minute (by last minute I mean 3 days before we left) at Michael's for 1.99 and painted them.

landy pinning the boutineer on the bestman the set up

me twirling with the bestman the mariachi band

okay ladies so I finally finished my wedding review. feel free to check it out and ask me any questions.

Quote: Originally Posted by neen so under ten hours until we leave and we're still not done packing...actually FI hasn't even STARTED packing hahahah! my fun purchase today was walkie talkies so FI and check in with each other if we're off at different parts of the resort...i'll let you know how it worked when we get back! have fun planning in the next three weeks - see y'all on the flip side Oh Neen- we did that too and it was probably the best thing we had because our phones didn't work down there