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Quote: Originally Posted by starchild Interesting! I had them for my June wedding and they were flawless, I guess 2007 was a good year for calla lillies LOL I know!!! I saw that! And that AMAZED me too ... the only thing I can think of is that maybe my vendors won't import them - they have to be imported (when they are out of season) because, if they can sell them, they will - callas are worth A LOT more than roses.

Congrats and welcome to the forum! I vote for PV! (probably obvious! ).

Quote: Originally Posted by amyh Hi ladies, I am having a hard time choosing my bouquet. I had my heart set on a white calla lily bouquet, however my WC says these are very expensive. The thing is, I don't know what type of bouquet to look for if I don't know what is available. PV brides, please share your bouquets with me TIA To be honest with you, I'm surprised that you can even get calla lillies in July. I order from 3 different vendors in GDL, when I'm doing an event, and calla lillies went "out of season" the beginning of May (because of the climate change, this was a bad year for callas) - my May bride wanted calla's too, but, as I couldn't get any, she asked for Stargazers and lillies instead. IF they can get your callas, I'm willing to bet they are being IMPORTED which would make them SUPER expensive (like with orchids and tulips which are always imported). What SHOULD be available now: Roses (ALWAYS available - and not uber expensive) Alstromeria Bethlehem Star Calla Lillies Cartemom Casablanca Cymbidium and dendrobium orchids (they are $$, eh!) Delphenium Gerber Daisies Ginger Gladiola Heliconia Iris Irish Bells Lily Lisianthus Mums Tuberose Stargazer Tulips (these are $$ too) Now knowing what sort of wedding you're having, my recommendations are: Roses with Bethlehem Star and/or Dendrobium orchids Roses with Lisianthius Dendrobium orchids with Lisianthius Roses and lillies Bethlehem Star, Tuberoses and Lisianthius Or you could try an all Casablanca bouquet. Huge flowers, smell great - but don't work so well with other flowers. Or maybe Casablancas with Bethlehem Star. Hope that helped!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Welcome to the forum!!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum! I think you should also consider PV, but, of course, I'm biased .

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome to the forum! I vote for PV, but i'm slightly biased!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum! I hope things get a lot less stressful for you so you can enjoy the experience!

You're all very welcome!

Quote: Originally Posted by evtalbot Thanks for the info!! What time of day does it usually rain? My wedding is in June '09 and I picked 5pm for my ceremony time... it sounds like the showers come in the late afternoon.... yikes! Should I make my time earlier?? You know, it really depends. Saturday I did a ceremony and it was really overcast and cloudy, we had a 6 p.m. ceremony and everything was fine but it did start raining around 7:30. Today it's rained ALL DAY long. I think my best advice would be to have a back-up plan in the chance that it does rain, rather than trying to adjust your ceremony time to miss it - June is still the "iffy" month - it's really July/Aug/Sept when the rain starts to hit at a regular time every day.

Not sure on price or how many they sleep, but good, bigger villas (especially for an event) would be: Quinta del Mar Villa Mia Villa Celeste None of those are on the beach exactly - although Villa Mia does have stairs leading right to the ocean and rock outcroppings and Villa Celeste is just down the road from the beautiful Playa Conchas Chinas.

Quote: Originally Posted by eskinner That's it! June's off! After consulting the almanac for the last few years of weather in PV, I've given up on my favorite month of June. And I'm back to a May wedding date. I figure if it's going to rain in June, then I might as well stay and have my wedding in Seattle. So my date are May 16 or May 23rd/24th. The weekend of the 23rd is Memorial Day, so I could have a Sunday wedding and have everyone fly home on Monday. If it makes you feel better re: your decision it's raining right now as I type and has been raining all day long . One note about May (just fyi), it's THE BUSIEST wedding month here in PV, so if you're uber picky about where you're getting married and who's coordinating you, you're going to want to hop to it and get that all settled. Any other month (except maybe October - another busy one for some reason) I wouldn't say anything. And, of course, the weekend that gets booked the fastest is Memorial Day weekend. :)

Quote: Originally Posted by JaimeLynne Excellent inside tip! It's amazing how clueless we are up here (lol). Thanks for providing all the insights that you do You're not clueless! Just things work differently down here and it's easy to not know that if you don't live through it . And how are you going to know if someone doesn't say, "hey guys...".