Andi

Oh my gosh autumn you really thought of everything and it all turned out great! I love that he proposed in from of the Eiffel tower, that is so romantic! love the bride swimsuits and groom trunks! and seriously I can't believe you guys are all packed for the wedding AND have your tree and house lights up for Christmas too! Girl you are prepared! can't wait to see the pics! enjoy it all!

Quote: Originally Posted by Crystle_chavarria I am just very overwhelmed with it all. We chose end of July because we are both going back to school for our masters at the end of August. I don’t think I would be able to do a wedding, work and school. I would go crazy lol. But thanks for the advice. I am going to have to look at the weather in the different locations. :-) oh just realized you are looking at the end of july....the rainy season in PV goes from june/july until september-ish. from what I hear it is not too bad then but it def. rains a lot.

another Denver bride! PV is amazing but I am biased! there are lots of great locations and this forum will help you find the perfect place!

Quote: Originally Posted by carolina24 yes there are things worse than weight gain, but we can't spend our lives 'worrying' about situations that we aren't experiencing. On the other hand, while its perfectly normal for you to not feel as attracted to him, there is no reason why you should feel embarrassed by him. Think of how hurt you would be if he felt embarrassed of you. maybe it was a poor choice of words, but if you truly feel embarrassed about the way he'll look at the wedding, then there are insecurities in your life that have nothing to do with your FI. for better or worse, right? I think this is well said

how about a sports garter? TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS Inspired Wedding Garter Set by GartersByKristi

Quote: Originally Posted by JuneWeddingDreams Hi Andy - the link you provided for the badge holders - is that a clear badge holder like the one you have in your picture or do they have a white backing? on that link i posted it looks like on the example there is just a white insert in there....so no my were clear no white backing Quote: Originally Posted by TheFutureMrs.Sears WOW!!! You did an amazing job!!! Where did you get the chapstick from? Did you make your own labels are did you order them? thanks! I bought the chapstick in bulk from sams club and made the labels myself

Hope that you and Paul have an amazing wedding day! Can't wait to hear all about it Mrs.!

hope you have an awesome day! can't wait to see pics!

so happy that it all turned out great! I love that you put your fav foods at each restaurant on there! and i LOVE the pics too!

great review! so glad that hurricane Rick went the other way and that everything worked out perfectly for you on your day!

sooooooo COOOL! I love it!

Quote: Originally Posted by RedCasillas03 We have booked our wedding at Las Caletas for May 25th 2010. We are extremely excited but we do not if we should keep the location a surprise or inform our guest of the location. We are having troubles picking a hotel for the entire group but we are open to suggestions. There will be approximately 60 people attending. The resort features that we are interested in are: quality food, nice pools, and an affordable all-inclusive resort. In addition, we are looking for a photographer. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Quote: Originally Posted by verh0016 also -RedCasillas03: I would HIGHLY recommend that you tell your guests about Las Caletas. We had more booking because people knew it wasn't a 'typical' destination wedding where the loaction is on the public beach on the hotel property. We set-up a website and put it on our save-the-date cards. Take a peek if you'd like more info: Luke Selden & Trisha Verhasselt - Our Wedding Website I agree with Trisha, I think you should tell you guests about exactly what will take place in order to get to the wedding site. Depending on your group some people might be turned off by the boat or the terrain at LC. I realize you probably want some element of surprise as we did too. So we gave our guests VERY limited info on LC itself, also kept the fire dancers a secret as well. stuff like that. I think we only told them about the boat ride and that the wedding would take place at a private beach. also told them that once they leave the hotel for the wedding they would not be returning back to the hotel until around 11:30 at night. From what I can remember Nicole also recommends you tell your guests at least about the boat ride because in her past experience she had some weddings where the guests didn't know and she felt that they weren't really prepared for their 40 min boat ride.

Quote: Originally Posted by BrideMichele Has anyone trashed their real wedding dress and found it too heavy once wet? What about the TTD dress...did it get really heavy when wet as well? I really don't want to drag 2 dresses to the DR and will NEVER wear the real wedding dress again so I am leaning towards trashing my real ($1500) dress. I used my real dress and I highly recommend it! I figured I had ZERO use for my real dress after the wedding anyway and believe it or not it came out pretty clean from the pool, it really doesn't looked trashed at all! Yes it was VERY heavy when wet what I did though was I wore swimsuit bottoms under my dress for the TTD. then when we were done with the shoot we went into the hotel bathroom that is down by the pool and my mom helped me get out of my soaking dress and then i put on a tank top. we got a trashbag from the pool bar and threw the dress in the bag to carry it back up to the room. once back to the room I hung the dress up in the shower and rinsed it off there throughly. a couple of days later it was dried in the shower and then I just brought it back home in the garment bag I carried it out in!

those are so cute! I can't even tell you how much I love them! wow good job on the painting!

wow everything looks great! I love that you are surprising your FI with the photographer that you both love! so sorry for the loss of your grandma, I am sure she will totally be watching over you two while in Punta Cana and on your wedding day! have a great trip!

Oh Jess I am so so so EXCITED for you! Everything looks great! I love the grey/yellow color combo! I am bookmarking your photog's blog so I can stalk it! I hope that you and Paul love Casa Velas as much as we did!!!!!!!!!!! you are going to have a BLAST!

beautiful! you look stunning and so happy! congrats!

Our wedding group stayed at the Vallarta Palace in April. We were not married there though but did see a couple of other weddings take place while we were there. Overall the Palace was nice. We had stayed at the Cancun Palace previously and thought because they are sister hotels the Vallarta Palace would be similar. they were to a degree however in my opinion the Cancun palace was a lot nicer. Not that the Vallarta Palace was a bad hotel by any means! it truly was great for our guests. I think it is important to make a list of things you and your FI want in a hotel/wedding location. AI, beach ceremony, adults only, etc. and go from there in picking a place also as Mel said, Nuevo is a lot different than the actual town of PV. both beautiful though in their own ways! if you need help there are a lot of ideas on here!

no problem Trisha! I want to see more pics!!!!!!!!!

OMG! LOVE IT! I am such a sapp I totally tear up at every LC review I read! SOOOOO glad everything went well for you! Can't wait to see more pics! I love the feeling and excitement you got when you saw your flowers on the boat! for me that was so cool to see them there too! I was so excited when I saw the box of flowers on the boat!!!! I love that your guests loved it all too! awww I know what you mean about leaving Kelly at the end of the night! I felt the same way when I had to say goodbye to Nicole too I just felt so close to her after all the planning and I sure hope I can see her again too! CONGRATS MRS!!!!!!!! be sure to share your pics!

what a good deal! I just might have to get holiday cards from them!

AMAZING! congrats! well worth the wait!

Quote: Originally Posted by sunnywedding I LOVE this thread..(cuz i love etsy!!) -lots of really neat ideas! I have another seller of wedding bands who does great work. My fiancee has finallly chosen one from their designs. Its by ZoeandDOyle Titanium Offset Stripe and Carbon Fiber Wedding by ZoeAndDoyle oh i really like the ZoeandDoyle stuff! thanks I will check it out!

check the US passport website. depending on what city you are in they do have several offices around the US that issue them same day. you have to make an appointment and have to be travelling within 2weeks or something like that. here is the link with the regional offices http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_4312.html

awesome! I love the paint idea....did you use your actual wedding dress?