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Quote: Originally Posted by jackobelle Amy, I love the foam letters too! So cute & fun! Did they fall off a lot though? So many great ideas - Thanks!!!! the foam letters did not fall off.... even after a wash in the dishwasher when we returned! you'll find them at dollarama in the scrapbooking section!

Ash, I feel like you may have a better selection in the summer, the thing is that in JANUARY (when I got married) it is their winter there too, so most plants are dormant -- thus i went the fake route. Your WC at the Melia should be better able to give you an idea! Good Luck!

Welcome back MRS!!!!!!!! Congrats!!

Yeppers!!! I brought mine from home - I had one suitcase dedicated to the transportation of all my flowers. They were made by Bridal Blooms by Laura - she is out of Oakville. The entire transaction was done through email and telephone. She was FANTASTIC! http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t41542 http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t33806 Ciao Ladies!

Great information. I am sure this will be useful to many! I had no clue about the risks of real flowers!

Gorgeous pictures!!!! Can't wait to see more!

BM all done: MOH In progress: hanging in the salon: SIL checking out my very detailed guide to wedding day hair: As you can see in my review and pics, my hair was awesome... and it held all day! I had my nails done at home before leaving (mani and pedi).... Happy planning.

Ok... so if you scope out my planning thread you can read all about how crazy worried I was about my hair... I asked a girlfriend of mine (not a wedding party member) to be my "HAIR MANAGER" we did a trial here at home, and she photographed all the stages. I printed the photos all out and brought them with me to Cuba.... 60 pictures in total were printed and placed in a photo album I then went to the local professional beauty supply store and purchased a box of pro bobby pins, joico brand mousse, gel, and ultimate high humidity hairspray. I was ready. On the morning of the wedding we ventured to the salon - I was still nervous. My Hair Manager toted along all of the products we would need. The Barcelo Marina Palace only has one hairstylist -- Maria -- and she was absolutely amazing. An absolutely beautiful woman, so kind and gentle. She really loved a white hair flower I was wearing (from one of those accessory stores) and asked if at the end of my vacation if I would sell it to her for her daughter. I immeadiately gave her the flower, and at the end of our stay -- dropped off other hair accessories, and left all the professional products with her. She was very appreciative. at the salon hair manager In process: nearly done: BM in progress:

I think that the song request is honestly not a great idea.... if you are going to request any song.... make them spanish ones. Bring an Ipod with the docking station and you'll be good to go.

We did ours at 11:00 the day after the wedding. It was great -- and we weren't over tired or exhausted....

Quote: Originally Posted by DarcyJAde Is it typical for the bride to give favors at the bridal shower or the host? It should be 'from the host' -- but a bride could purchase them, and not take the 'credit' -- i mean, as the bride, we get a ton of great gifts to take home. I think the soaps are a great idea!

The shining.... (my dog's name is Jack, and I like to say that quote often) New Quote: Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These f amateurs

Yippee!!! That is a great ending to a very stressful story... SO... the ? of the day!?!?!? WHEN IS DH GOING TO GET THE BOOK.... ??

Quote: Originally Posted by Andi awww man that sucks about the ring....i am sure it will come back though just the way you really want it! you know what you could do...just for fun (since tomorrow is not your "real" wedding anyway) is go find the the most tacky cheap ring you can and wear that! that would be fun...can you imagine wearing like a cheap, awful, huge, gaudy thing?! Just a thought it would be a good story later! as far as outfits...maybe like a cute pants suit type outfit...business casual something or other? or a cute summer dress? that would be fun too! Make sure you post some pics tomorrow! GOOD LUCK! A ring pop comes to mind..... A cute summer dress is what i'd be rockin at this time of year! Good luck tomorrow!

Elisha!!! your pics are amazing!!! I knew the good luck clover would be on your side!!! Your day looked amazing! Congratulations on becoming a MOMMY too!!! Mrs. Mommy Elisha!

Ok, so I don't want to be conceited in anyway... but --- I'm gonna throw it out there. My solution is by far the best! We faced similar comments/ideas (not as harsh though) when we discussed the Save the Dates and Wedding Invites. DH and I decided that it was not our place to decide who would want be able to afford physically be able to go To our DW. We also agreed that it was not fair to expect people that had not been invited to Cuba to participate in showers stag and doe other wedding related parties Because.... it was not our place to decide who had the want to go to Cuba. In my opinion, if you are not invited to the ACTUAL WEDDING (DW or not), you should not be invited/expected to attend showers stag and doe other wedding related parties (with the exception of office parties) So, in closing - send STD's and Invites to EVERYONE you will be inviting to your AHR... it is common courtesy.

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Great advice, we solved our issues with a change in food. My only word of caution - brush your babies teeth! Hard food helps clean a dog's (or cat's) teeth, by soaking the food, you'll have to be more diligent with teeth cleaning. furbabies..

Umm.... you will also need to send copies of your witnesses passports, along with your own. Faxing the info to the resort was challenging, so I scanned it and sent it as a PDF file - this worked perfectly. You will need to copy your birth certificates as well and send with the paper work that is sent to you by the resort. When you arrive you will need to provide your birth cert, passport, and tourist cards (as given on the plane), to the wedding coordinator. She will also need the passport and tourist cards of your witnesses. So be ready - we had to chase our best man all over the resort to get ahold of his passport!

Quote: Originally Posted by mariej WOW!! its great that you were able to have all of that done! You had a much bigger wedding than we will be having though. We will only be having about 8-10 people with us so I don't think we will be having a private reception the way you did? (right??) Umm... probably not, I'd suggest dinner in one of the a la cartes - My suggestion is the Spanish... it was really quite good. the room is small, so it would be intimate. If I were you I'd make a request to Sandra to have the 'special dances' at the restaurant. Quote: Originally Posted by mariej I'm sure that our dances will have to take place at the disco and i'm not sure that the dj's will be happy about that. Meh.... I wouldn't worry about making anyone happy - Tip them... they'll be happy!

I requested sample pics from my wedding coordinator Sandra at the Barcelo Marina Palace, here is what she sent: (I don't know these people so i blinked their faces) Now.... these were flowers that sat on the signing table at our wedding, they were then put in our room, they were quite beautiful and lasted through our second week there. These were the table arrangements as done by the resort, the pink roses were very nice as well.

Hey Jax! Awesome to see you are back... can't wait to see some pics!!! Sorry - hijacked thread. As for music, DH put together several CD's (not MP3) - for the dinner - for the dance - and special songs (our song, father/daughter, mother/son, etc). We had a Cuban musical trio sing me down the aisle to Besame Muchos, at our cake, champagne and cigar party, there was a four piece musical group that played live traditional Cuban tunes. At our dinner reception, we were delighted to have a 5 piece Cuban musical group - they played fantastic dinner music, and were intermittently relieved by a sax player (equally fantastic), thus we didn't need the dinner music. The resort provided a Audio technician to do the 'special songs' and then play the Dance CD's in the numeric order we gave them to him So, one CD - had only 4 songs on it: our song - Come Fly with Me - Michael Bublé father/daughter & mother/son song - What a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong wedding party song - My Wish - Rascal Flatts first song for everyone - Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers Then the CD's numbered 1-4 labelled DANCE were played in that order when we told the technician that it was time for the bouquet and garter, he went back to the special songs CD and played track 5 and 6 Bouquet toss - Diamonds are a girls best friend - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack Garter toss - Another one bites the dust - Queen He then went back to the numerically ordered Dance CD's and we danced till nearly 1am! It was an amazing time!

Quote: Originally Posted by carly I hadn't even considered it actually. So nope, I didn't tip! Carly and I are on the same page! I never really considered it. However, I am glad to see that many do not... I would have felt really bad!

CATTIE..... that is such a tease... your link doesn't work!!!

Awesome!!!! Only three days to go! SENDING GOOD VIBES!!!! I love the OOT bags, they are awesome... and even better that they are from the tourist board!