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Quote: Originally Posted by da.shmoopies This is a great bathing suit for hanging out in... without hanging out if you know what I mean. Shape fx Bandeau swimdress at Newport-News.com i absolutely agree, this is a great suit! i bought it last year, wore it to a pool party (that i really didn't want to attend because i was so embarrassed to wear a swimsuit in front of these friends), and i got a TON of compliments on it. i am much smaller on top than bottom, so i found the top of it to be too big. i thought i would just get it taken in now but i lost some weight and it is overall huge now. i just ordered a size smaller to take on my DW trip ... hoping it comes in time and fits!!! need something bandeau to not have tan lines in my strapless dress for the wedding! btw, great thread. when i first started planning a DW and looking at dresses, my thought was, "i guess fat chicks aren't supposed to get married on the beach?" LOL ... seems like dresses meant for DWs are almost all plunging neckline, backless, slinky, sexy numbers. i ended up going with a totally traditional wedding dress.

dc22173 (diana)'s starfish is a beautiful silver-toned metal with very sparkly clear stones! looks just like the pic megashay posted in this thread. his current itinerary is as follows: 1) dc22173 - april 25 - dreams cancun, mexico 2) mummergirl - may 28 - dreams cancun, mexico 3) phillybride09 - june 24 - dreams cancun, mexico 4) kathleenanddan - july 17 - beaches boscobel, jamaica 5) jacilynda - august 8 - akumal, mexico 6) marryinghimagain - october 15 - dreams puerto aventuras, mexico 7) meli122 - november 7 - royal, playa del carmen, mexico cdnvb9 - december 29 - dreams huatulco, mexico

Quote: Originally Posted by mc5363 Do you know if you have to bring your own sand and vases to do the sand ceremony? Also, are you writing it yourself or did they supply you with a traditional sand ceremony? yes, you have to bring your own containers and sand. they have a standard sand ceremony reading (attached here), or you can provide your own. in the legal ceremony, the judge will not read the sand ceremony for you, so you have to provide your own reader. since that was the case for me, i chose to write my own. i actually prefer having our own guest do the reading ... makes it more personal, i think. (and i finally JUST asked tom's Godmother to do it, like 5 minutes ago, lol! thank God she said she'd be honored!) now i just have to buy the stuff! Sand Ceremony Vows.doc

Quote: Originally Posted by PhillyBride09 Awwww That's awesome!! Ooh it's like a "Flat Stanley" Journal LOL That's really nice. I can't wait..I'm next YAY! When do you leave for Dreams Lisa? Next week? saturday, the 23rd!!! freaking out!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by nickicolb123 As for the vegetarian options, one of my good friends is one and i asked Daniela a long time ago what the options were. She said just let her know who is and she would have something made for them. haha i love that. i'm paying $50 per head and they'll just make "something" ... i don't get a choice of what that something may be? just because someone is vegetarian doesn't mean they like anything without meat.

Quote: Originally Posted by nickicolb123 You'll have to let us know how the double wedding scenario works out. I am curious how they execute that. It seems as though they would be rushing the first bride out. i don't think it would matter too much if one wedding was at the gazebo and the other one on the beach. but then i guess your choices for cocktail hour and reception locations would be whomever signed the contract first. but yeah, if both weddings are at the gazebo and only an hour apart, i'd be pissed off because i want some pics in front of the gazebo with my family and guests and would be majorly annoyed if they were breaking down the chairs and everything to set up for the next couple!

Quote: Originally Posted by Kristy! What happened to MayBride2009? not sure, but she's banned right now ... the mods are on top of things here and keep things safe and running smoothly, in accordance with all the forum rules. hopefully our maybride just made a silly mistake and will be back soon.

Quote: Originally Posted by SIMBASIM My guest list went from 60 to 50 then 40 to 30 now I am at like 26. So I am so totally screwed on the food thing. I was planning a buffett. Oh well. I will just tell the guest what I am having and if they do not like it then eat before they come..hello...it is an all inclusive resort! Just pick something you like since it is your wedding. There is always one complainer in the group! yeah the problem is most of tom's family doesn't eat seafood (btw, we both LOVE seafood, lol) and we have at least two people with seafood allergies. the ONLY entree that doesn't have seafood in it (that isn't additional $$, i.e. platinum menu) is the chicken from the silver menu. and i'm sure people won't like that because his family are all picky and probably won't eat it because it has spinach in it. pains in my ass. also, his godmother is allergic to citrus, and pretty much everything has lime too, lol. i can't win. did i mention my MOH is vegetarian? claudia never answered as to what the vegetarian options are.

yay! diana's starfish arrived for me today! i'm so excited ... he's so pretty and sparkly, and i love the idea of the little journal!

for ladies doing the legal ceremony, i FINALLY got some answers to my questions i sent on april 17th (after re-sending them yesterday)! 1) Could you please tell me the order of the legal ceremony? I need it in order to design our program. Reading of marriage license Speech Rings- vows Signing of license Declaration of wedding couple 2) We are doing a sand ceremony and having a family member read it for us as you suggested. When will the sand ceremony take place in the ceremony (before or after vows)? After signing the license 3) Please send me a copy of the vows we will say. Each justice of peace has different ones, we don’t know who will come claudia also confirmed that we will get the dreams eternity honeymoon package complimentary because we qualify, which is nice. however, she won't let us do the buffet with only 33 people. there is nothing i can pick that will be good for everyone. i don't know what to do. every single entree has seafood except the chicken from the silver menu.

ladies, i just wanted to share that lincoln and lori sent me a really sweet email trying to put my mind at ease about our pictures. they had seen the comments i made here about being a not-so-ideal-looking couple and wanted to assure me that beautiful photos come from the way you express your joy, happiness, and love, and have very little to do with how you look. i just thought that was very sweet of them.

jax and rhonda, so happy to have you back and especially happy that your weddings turned out amazing. we all knew they would! i'm sad to see maybride2009 got banned ... with her wedding in shambles from the whole swine flu issue, i'm sure she really needed this forum for the support. hopefully it was just a minor faux pas and we'll see her back again soon. my "something borrowed" arrived today! the traveling starfish bouquet jewel! yay!!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by dc22173 If I was unhappy with my assigned coordinator I would have switched in a minute. There is no excuse for crappy service. I really lucked out with Cecilia!!! today i re-sent questions to claudia that i had never gotten responses to. the original emails were sent almost a full month ago (april 17). she NEVER answers questions, and when she does the answers are vague or incomplete, or not what i want to hear, lol (like, no you can't trade the photography for the ceremony sound system ... why not? gaby made that trade all the time and to a ton of girls on this forum. she will only offer me gazebo decor. wtf?)

Quote: Originally Posted by MarieSam Well hell! I think I might be the first to ever say i kinda wanna get the swine flu while visiting one of those resort!!! haha that's what i was saying ... that i wanted to cancel and rebook my trip so that i'd qualify, and then go around licking mexicans, lol.

if i only had a few people going, we definitely would have done the free wedding package, and probably would have either treated them to a dinner out at paloma bonita (restaurant right outside dreams cancun) or taken them on one of the cancun dinner cruises. thanks for saying my wedding seems fun ... my fiance called our wedding "beer & taco fest '09" in the initial email sent to everyone when we started planning a DW. it kinda stuck!

Quote: Originally Posted by katken You guys are probably right, since they didn't really want to come to begin with, they probably would have complained the whole time. Eff 'em. i love that. sorry about the drama, but sounds like you have the right attitude and your FI is lucky to have your love and support. your wedding will be amazing and those people will feel SO stupid to have missed it when the other 61 come home raving about what a great time they had! have fun at dance lessons tonight!

GREAT review diana, and you already know i adore your pics! glad to hear the new WC was so great to you ... i have claudia and she doesn't budge on anything, regarding trades and such, and i've heard girls say she was nowhere to be found most of the time. *sigh* think it's too late to switch? lol congrats again, fellow dreams bride!

that is the WORST! i would just about die ... i do EVERYTHING with that card! it's awful that your bank is being jerked off about it. like you need any more stress!!! well, going through these trials in life *together* will make your relationship all the more strong.

seems like anywhere you go, the free package only works if you have less than 10 people (that's including the two of you!) and if you don't expect to have any sort of private dinner for yourself and your guests. also, the free ceremonies are only the symbolic ones. while they might include the services of a judge for a civil ceremony, there are translation fees and blood test costs to add on. basically there's nothing free in the world. there will always be added costs, even to the more expensive packages. make sure you budget a little extra for the unexpected add-ons.

Quote: Originally Posted by SIMBASIM Everyone please be sure to call your bank and be sure that your debit cards can be used out of the country. My FI bank does not allow out of country transactions. I am with Capital One and it was OK. I had to add my FI to my account so we could both use my account while in Mexico. The good thing is he is transferring all the money into my account!! LOL! omg ... that would be awful since neither of us have any *actual* credit cards. we do EVERYTHING with our bank debit card VISAs. i told my FI to make sure they know we are traveling to mexico so they don't flag the account for "suspicious" activity, and try to get any daily limit lifted since we want to pay for the wedding with it. never even thought that we may not be able to use it at all! yikes!

Quote: Originally Posted by Kristy! OMG, I just looked on our honeymoon registry. Someone purchased the three nights we're staying at a cottage after our wedding. That's almost $600. WHAT?! that's amazing! yay! do you wish you hadn't peeked now?

they have been changing up their website ... there are now pics from dreams cancun (where i'm getting married). i don't think it's a BDW bride, but it could be? nice to know that lincoln & lori have been to my resort so they are familiar with it. i'm so nervous about my pics ... all their pics are of skinny b*tches! (hehe just jealous, girls). we are a big fat couple. can't wait to see what they do with that, LOL!

of course, three free trips are meaningless if you drop dead, lol. and how many people, after getting really sick somewhere, would even *want* to go back there?!?!

it made me laugh too ... it's a really good idea for them because honestly no one can prove they contracted it there, but having the offer might make people more apt to book.

this is from the dreams site! it only applies to new bookings, but might help convince a guest who panicked and canceled to rebook? and will definitely be great to tell any guests of weddings later this year who are still on the fence: Flu Free Guarantee If a guest contracts Influenza A - H1N1 while staying with us, their next three vacations will be free of charge. In order to qualify, the guest must have reserved their stay between May 8, 2009 and June 30, 2009 for travel taking place between May 8, 2009 and December 20, 2009. New reservations only. There are many strands of H1N1, therefore it must be qualified as Influenza A - H1N1. The guest must provide positive blood results in addition to the certification of the doctor who performed the test in order to redeem the three free return stays. The three return stays are valid for the original traveler plus one companion. One complimentary stay per year over the same travel period as the original stay. Blackout dates and restrictions apply. Based on availability. Redeemed stays will be awarded for the same number of nights and in the same room category as the original stay. In order to redeem, guests should contact [email protected].