Andi

welcome! congrats! your date is so close! there is a plethora of info here on LC...check out this thread... http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...st-here-51931/

Quote: Originally Posted by kate.com Sorry to crash your party but I have a question: Has anyone visited LC for a day/night trip other than for the wedding? Going to PV in a few weeks and I was thinking about visiting LC... it looks so beautiful from all the pics. Thanks! Oh and $0.02 for you Jamie: no wedding party equals a lot less stress! We had our sibblings but there were times when I wish we would have skipped that:) You'll save more $ than you think. My GF's that came to the wedding all wore blue so I had some pics taken with all of them and they were so cute! So I guess what I am saying is that you can still have the cute pics with your GF's without having an actual wedding party! Hi Kate! I have been over for both the day tour and the Rhythms of the Night show at night. If you are only doing one, I would suggest doing the night Rhythms show. The show is actually pretty good! so you take the boat over, eat dinner there and then watch the show. I would do that tour again when we go back to PV next time!

Quote: Originally Posted by Jaime+Brandon Hey Ann and Andi! I see you both didn't have a wedding party... any regrets? I kinda really don't want a wedding party. I hate having to choose between all my friends and I really just want it to be about me and Brandon. BUT sometimes I think about pictures though and kinda want a cute picture with me and all my matching girlfriends. I can't decide! Did you ask your guests or friends to wear a certain color? I have zero regrets but I will say before the wedding there were a few times I thought the same thing as you about pics and such. Really though not having a wedding party made it much easier to take pics. we only had 35 guests so with the wedding being so small I too really wanted the day just to be about us. When I went over to LC during the day my mom, 2 aunts and flower girl went with me and they all got ready over there. I think it was a good decision for us not to have a wedding party, much less stress. Go with your gut feeling. If you think you might regret it later maybe just have one friend/relative stand up with you guys on each side?

Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 Did your BMs get their hair and make up done too? Were they shocked at the price. My girls were. That is why I started checking into the prices at the resort.. I didn't have any BMs but I did have a flowergirl and Fernando did her hair too. I paid for her hair to get done by him.

Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 The only thing that is keeping me from booking hair and make up at Las Caletas is because it is really spendy. I mean, I am sure it is worth it.. but sheesh! Quote: Originally Posted by ldeavila Oh , yeah, that's another thing too! I think i can get hair and makeup done at my hotel for half of what they charge to do it at LC. Yes it is a bit spendy, but if you use Fernando it is worth it! I took pictures of my hair and makeup with me of how I wanted it to look and he did an AMAZING job. He uses MAC makeup too. Also he goes to LC from Nuevo Vallarta so that is a pretty long haul just to get there. Yes it is spendy but in the end it was totally worth it, and the way I looked at it too was that it was my wedding day and I would only be doing it once! ldeavila- I am sure you could get it done cheaper at the hotels but then you have to remember the boat ride over...could get pretty windy!

Kristy! you can come visit Erika and I and check it out! I do love ft. collins as anna mentioned above (that is where I went to college) but I grew up in a suburb of Denver and now live in a different suburb of Denver. we LOVE IT (although I do hate the snow!). DH and I are about 15 minutes to red rocks and about 20 mins (in the other direction) to downtown denver. what else do you want to know? i can fill you in !

whoa so many new LC brides all of a sudden, or maybe you all are just in the midst of planning your weddings looks like Ann answered the firedancer time question, which was a wayyyy better answer than I would have had because I zero knowledge of the time on my wedding day! as far as getting ready at the hotel or LC....depends on what you want to do honestly. I spent the entire day at LC and left at 9am to go over there. there is no way i would have wanted hair and makeup done then. if you are maybe not planning on going over for the day then getting hair/makeup at the hotel is possible but on the boat you will get pretty wind-blown i would imagine. when are you planning on heading over? with your guests or early in the morning?

on the fire dancers with drummers, we had them at our wedding. they do perform together. it really is pretty cool. we did not tell our guests about it so as a song ended the drummers just start pounding on their drums but they are hidden, people were so confused at first but it really was great! if you have ever seen the rhythms of the night show, the drummers/dancers are performers from there. it is worth the money in my opinion...how many weddings have fire dancers?! Ann - thanks for the link, I do love looking at LC wedding pics!

here is a thread with all of the details on it http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...ame-box-25527/

Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 Here is mine oooh pretty, what kind of stone is that?

Quote: Originally Posted by steveandveronica2005 I just found out I could have fireworks as a part of my wedding at Las Caletas. I guess they will set off fireworks for you from a seperate location as you depart the island which sounds cool. Have any of you past Las Caletas brides had the fireworks at their wedding?? Im just wondering if it is worth getting. you can get them but I did not....from what I have heard from past brides (on here but I can't remember who) was that for the price they are not worth it and some of them didn't even pop, they were duds. we opted not to get them for that reason alone.

Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 I read about your story on your review! *cringe* haha, yeah funny thing was though that I was so calm on my wedding day, I didn't even freak about any of it! normally I stress a lot about little things like that however I just didn't get worried, I figured it would all work out and it was FINE!

Quote: Originally Posted by barefootbeachbride Hi everyone! just checking in to see how everyone is doing..2 months out..yikes! but so excited and still no photographer booked..Ugh! I cant make up my mind! Im starting to freak out and have those pre-wedding nightmares..the most recent was i got on the boat and there was some random infection that broke out and everyones nose started bleeding but i was more concerned at the fact I forgot my Ipod and I had no music for the reception! soooo your nightmare dream was sort of my reality....News of the swine flu last year broke pretty much on our wedding day (good thing all of our guests were there already!) AND on our wedding day, I forgot my make-up, money to pay fernando (hair guy) AND my ipod song lists didnt save and/or work correctly! It all was fine though in the end don't worry everything will end up just perfect!

Quote: Originally Posted by milejilo i can't believe all the planning is over, all the anticipating, all the nervous, sleepless nights! girls enjoy every minute of it, it goes soooo fast! just wanted to share our pictures with everyone, we're beyond thrilled with them, can't stop looking at them...let me just say Elizabeth and her daughter Lindsey are the sweetest, warmest people you'd ever want to meet and to put the icing on the cake they are extremely talented and nothing but professional. gracias elizabeth! because of you we will have the most gorgeous memories to share with all our family and friends. so here it goes! our amazing wedding captured by the even more amazing Elizabeth Medina. http://www.elizabethmedinaphotography.com/MG09/ couldn't agree more! we all spend so much time pouring over every detail and counting down the MONTHS until our weddings. It really is sad when it is all over! enjoy it all B2B's! I clicked on your link and it says a passcode is needed

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Karla~ Hols, great ring & very unique on the side Di, very classy! Nat, love the black diamonds. Awesome rings ladies! Andi, I would love to see a pic of your ring. Is it posted here somewhere? I posted it somewhere in this thread way back when...but here it is again

Quote: Originally Posted by NaM Took me forever to do this but here is mine: The ering is the Tiffany Novo; cushion cut diamond. My wedding bands were custom made with black diamonds. It usually snugs the ering pretty good but it looks off in the picture, oh well you get the idea!! Nat...I didn't know you had black diamonds on your ring!!!!!!! SO COOL! my center stone is a black diamond I heart them...I love your ring!

wow everything turned out great! thanks for the shout out! Glad I was able to help with some inspiration!

Just bumping this thread! I was at Target yesterday and the dummies books are back in the $1 section again...now is the time to stock up for your OOT bags!

Quote: Originally Posted by Brenna I like the pocketfold color. Is it Bronze from Cards and Pockets? After ordering my samples I decided I want to incorporate brown but don't really want to waste time ordering more samples. I'm on a time crunch! Thanks! actually the brown i went with is coffee bean, it really is a deep brown

Quote: Originally Posted by barefootbeachbride ok, I am so confused! I had my heart on Paulina Ulloa for my photographer..The problem is I was only going to book her for 2-3 hours. From what Kelley told me she would have to come over all day-we are doing the barefoot so we are coming over with the morning day trippers at 9 am and staying until the rhythms of the night crowd leaves at 11 pm. with the ceremony at 5 30.Paulina knew we were going to be at LC and I was only interested in booking her for 3 hours or so..Those of you who used outside photographers did they stay with you all day or is there a water taxi that will bring them when we need them and take them back? I would ask Kelly specifically...our photogs did come over via water taxi around 11:30 in the morning, I had gone over with the morning tour around 9. so i know that the water taxi route might be a possibility...I just dont know if they can get a taxi back after just 3 hours? our photogs stayed then all day...from 11:30 in the morning until our entire group went back at 11pm, we counted them as guests so that they could have a meal. also IMO I am not sure if having the photog be there for only 3 hours would be enough time? ours took a lot of pics around LC and just our ceremony/formals alone probably totaled close to 2 hours of time.

great review, so detailed! I am sure that will help a lot of moon palace brides I wanted to look at your pics but your siggy links are not working!

we had no wedding party and I do not regret it one bit! I feel like it saved us a lot of stress, money, etc. we did have a flowergirl and ringbearer though.... when we were discussing the possibility of having a wedding party or not I think my hubby put it best...he asked "what is the difference between our friends standing up or sitting down at the ceremony?" and because our wedding was so small, there was no difference!

Quote: Originally Posted by Karen Aucoin Erica, I LOVE your book!!! I’m so glad that someone steered me in the direction of this thread. I was debating which program to use and have decided to go with Blurb. I'm just about finished making my engagement party book and I'm wondering if you've had a chance to see a book with just the regular paper? We're looking at giving some as thank you gifts and wondering if it's worth it where we are ordering a few. We'll definitely do the higher quality for our wedding book. Thanks for sharing your day and your beautiful book. Karen Oh i can answer this one! I saw Erika's book the last time I was at her house (she has the higher quality paper) you can def. tell that it is a better quality paper, it is thicker and heavier than mine. My books are the regular paper because I had too many pages to get the better quality. we gave out 6 books over the holidays to aunts/grandmas/parents....they all got the regular paper, nobody noticed and I certainly wasn't going to tell them the difference Long story short, yes the higher quality is nicer paper BUT the average person will most likely never know the difference between the high quality and the standard. Now if I had my book next to Erika's you could probably tell the difference...it would just be your preference i guess, if you want to pay the extra money for it or not...

Quote: Originally Posted by sfrench0621 Hi Andi, Love your invites. I am in the process of designing mine and am having trouble picking out the fonts I want to use. Would you mind telling me what font you used for the text that is in all caps (date, time, etc). Thanks so much! Steph sure the all caps is Copperplate Gothic Light

Quote: Originally Posted by RedCasillas03 I have a couple of question about the boat ride. How long of a boat ride is it to Las Caletas and how rough is the water? I just found out that a couple of people get motion sickness and we are worried about the boat ride. Does anyone know of any remedies that can calm them down during the ride over. Thanks. depends on how fast the boat ride is, when I went to LC the morning of the wedding we took the sort of sceanic route and it was probably closer to an hour. the waters were nice and calm. when our guests went to over to LC from what I have heard the ride was shorter, about 40-45 mins and they were hauling it! (some of our guests were late to the dock) the boat ride was VERY bumpy i am so glad that nobody got sick but they were all very wind blown and couldn't even enjoy a drink on the boat because it would just spill. i would give all your guests dramimine and suggest that if they are worried/are know to have motion sickness that they take it. i provided all my guests with some but honestly i am not sure how many actually used it. one week after our wedding we went over to the Rhythms of the night show and then the ride was very smooth. I guess it just depends on the tide and how fast the boat is actually going.