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Hi guys!!! Please go to http://cancunphotosblog.com/ and check out my teaser wedding pics by Sascha Gluck!!! He's amazing!!!! if anyone has any questions please let me know!!! Also, I wanted to tell you ladies that I have joinned A Ticket To Paradise as a wedding consultant!!!! If anybody needs help planning the little details of your wedding I would love to help you!!!!! www.atickettoparadise.com xoxo D

here are some of my professional pics - by Sascha Gluck - who is AWESOME!!!!

Hello ladies!!!! So, I just wanted to send a quick update!!! I'm happily married since saturday and Dreams was perfect!!! My 30 guests were very happy! Lindsay was absolutely awesome...I will post a review as soon as I get home. We are having our honeymoon at the royal playa del carmen and it's absolutely amazing, gorgeous resort, I def recommend. Unfortunatelly my biggest fear has happened which was rainning on my wedding day, as soon as i arrived at the lobby to walk down the isle it started, and it never stopped!!!! They were quick to move everything to El Patio and we had the ceremony and reception there! I was sad that I planned this wedding for so long and put so much effort into and I didn't get one pic on the gazebo or the bridge....neither the beach!!! But other than that it was perfect!!!!

He was awesome!!!!! It rainned on our wedding day and he def made up for it! our guests danced all night and it was so much fun

Hi ladies!!!! We leave for DPA on tuesday early in the am, and the wedding is saturday the 18th. We actually did officially get married today at our new home with 10 of our closest friends. It was great! I am counting the days for the big day and everything is packed and ready to go. I am not going to have time to do my planning thread before i leave so I promise to do it when i get back. I'm bringing my wedding dress, a second dress for the TTD session, flower girl dress (our daughter), silk orchids - bride bouquet, 6 bridesmaids bouquets, 5 boutonieres, 2 pomanders, hair flower, 10 orchid stems for centerpieces, cylindrical vases for centerpieces, paper luminaries for table names, sand dollars and tray for place cards, paper chinese lanterns to decorate gazebo, all welcome bags and its contents - canvas bag monogramed, beach towel monogramed, bath and body workds mini creams, candles and hand sanitizers, hand over kit, sunblock, tooth brush, pashimina for each guest....our regular luggage plus a 2 year old... What do you think??? Do I have enough ??? Here is a quick list of my vendors: - Photographer: Sascha Gluck - DJ: DJ Doremixx - Hair/Make Up: Adrian Guerra - Churros: Churro Charro Also, I can't wait to share my bourdoir album with you ladies, it's awesome!!!! I'm still working on a couple of final things...so much to do and so little time Our reception will be at el patio!

Hi, I'm on the same boat with what to do on the wedding day. my ceremony is at 6pm, i'm thinking about sending the guys on a boat trip..where are you getting info...

Hi Tracy, we decided to rent El Patio, so Jacy said we don't have to bring too many decorations because the restaurant is beautifully decorated. For tables I'm doing orchids, all my flowers are orchids, i'm getting silk ones. I'm doing welcome bags for each guest. i posted pics of all my things. I just also got pashminas in NYC for $2.50 each and they are beautiful. I wanted to give my guests welcome bags as a totem of appreciation for the fact that they are going all the way to the wedding. I hope this helped

Yes please!!! i was going to buy them but would love to save the money and make it

I haven't ordered the towel yet. Just negotiated with the seller. I'm waiting on my final number. I also saw the stripped beach towels at Costco for $8.99 each, but no personalization - so for $9.99 personalized and think it's worth it

I was going to buy the aloe Vera in bulk and make individual packages for each bag but it came out to the same cost as if I buy the mini from cheaptravelsizes.com

I bought a lot of my things at target. If you get the up & up ibuprofen (target brand) it costs $1 for the package and it comes with 24 tablets. it's worth it

I don't have that yet, as soon as I do them I will post it here

I was giong to wait to make them too but I couldn't resist. I have 30 guests confirmed and I'm doing one bag per couple and the single people will get one as well. So, I have 17 bags for right now. So, i bought enough things to make 20 bags, and keeping recepts just in case I have to return something I can wait to meet Sascha, he was so awesome to work with! Where are you getting married? I can't wait to see your pics

Hi ladies! Thanks for the compliments. Here is the info on my items: Welcome Tote: http://www.etsy.com/shop/nnichols - she is awesome to work with and is giving a discount for purchasing 20 + bags with monogram - $12 each Beach Towel: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SunnyStitches1 - same here, awesome to work with - $9.99 each Fleur de Sel Caramels: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheCaramelJar - I just ordered a sample, will tell you how good they really are Mini Bags 'Spa' items: body & bath works - $1 each (come with tissue paper + ribbon) Mini Candles: body & bath works - 3 for $5 Mini Hand Sanitizer: body & bath works - 5 for $5 Mini Nail files: body & bath works - 3 for $1.50 Ibuprofen, band aids, shout, halls, tooth brush, gatorade - Target, from the dollar area for travel size stuff I'm still ordering aloe vera, pepto, alka seltzer from cheaptravelsizes.com I also just found pashminas for $27 per dozen from a place in NYC that another bride posted. The site is www.pioneergroup27.com and email is [email protected], his name is Daniel and he is quick to respond I think this is it ladies, let me know if you need help with anything

thanks for the great tip and info ladies! I emailed them and hopefully will get some info

Oh...I'm also adding aloe vera, puzzles, welcome letter, 'who's who chart, itinerary of events, alka seltzer and pepto bismo

Hello ladies! So, I've been working on my oot bags. We have about 35 guests coming to our wedding and I want the bags to be extremelly special to each of them. Please share your thoughts and comments Here we go with the pics: Welcome Bags Fleur de Sel Caramels Beach Towels Mini Bags (for 'spa' items) Different nail files Different hand sanitizers Different candles Guests Mini Bags Bridesmaids Mini Bags All items + toothbrush for each guest Additional Items for guests with kids (I have 2 friends with 2 year olds). Also will have an activity/coloring book and crayons Feeling Blue Bag - I still need to make the tags for these. Contents: Ibuprofen, Bandaids, Shout Wipes, Halls, 2 gatorade mixes

So, I went to Bath & Body Works today...and of course found more cute stuff to put on my welcome bags...I'm still under budget@ around $10 per bag for the miniature stuff. Here are some new pics: Complete Bridesmaids Bags: Each had: 2 hand sanitizers, one candle, one nail file, one body cream Complete Guest Bags: Each had: 2 hand sanitizers, one candle, one nail file Bags: $1 each (they come with tissue paper and fabric) Nail Files: each pack of 3 was $1.50 Hand Sanitizers:5 for $5 Candles: 3 for $5

Hi AsiaJane, the El Patio is 750 rental fee on top of the package cost. They would close the restaurant for you if you pay the fee. I wanted to post the preliminary pics for some of my OOT bag contents...what do you ladies think? Extra items will be: mini aloe vera, alka seltzer + personalized beach towel + personalized tote + welcome letter + itinerary of events + coloring books for kids + maybe koozie + chocolate I'm also adding these + kids sunblock to the bags of guests with children I put 2 on each ziplock

I'm having the tote bags (canvas) each personalized with the guest's name or last name if a couple. And I will also have a personalized beach towel for each guest. I found both at Etzy

love this idea

this is a great thread! Thanks ladies

Hi Tracy, I'm getting married on June 18 and my dress is long and big and beautiful (lol, i think it is)...check it out its jenna by maggie sottero. I'm not changing for the reception. However, my photographer will be doing a trash the dress section with me the morning after, and we will be going to a cenote so i got a $99 dress from davids & bridal. I did hire dj doremixx for the wedding because music and dancing are super important to me. Also, i thought the mariachi band was way too expensive so we don't think we will have that for the cocktail hour. When I first started to plan my wedding, I spoke with Del Soll photography (because i wanted them so badly), at the end i couldnt afford them however, one thing they advised me was to have my ceremony around 6, because the sun will be perfect, plus less hot in june. So, my ceremony is at 6. Cocktail hour will be around 6:30. this will be around one hour at the barracuda bar (i think), then reception after that. I'm still debating for reception either at pool area or renting el patio. i also have the minister info if anybody needs. Here is the info: Make Up/Hair: Adrian Guerra - Styling Trio Riviera Maya - [email protected] Dreams Minister: Alex Monroy - [email protected] (he is super nice and great to work with) that's it for now ladies!!!!

Hi AsiaJane, I havent' chosen a package yet, I'm waiting to see how many people will actually come to the wedding. Jacy said it's ok to choose later. I'm getting the free package anyways because of the amount of rooms I already have booked. Here are some info on my vendors: 1 - Photographer: Sascha Gluck, I'm super excited to work with him. I love his work. He will do 5 hours on wedding day and the next day we will do a TTD at cenote 2 - DJ: Doremixx, they will be bringing sound system for ceremony as well as recepion 3 - Make Up/Hair: Adrian Guerra - Styling Trio Riviera Maya. i def wanted to get a perfect professional, and all I can say is that i loved the whole negotiation with Adrian, he is awesome, he is also doing all my bridesmaids and moms 4 - Welcome dinner on friday - I'm still deciding this one, I may rent one of the restaurants or do a catamaran sunset cruise. I originally wanted to take all guests to playa, but it became expensive to charter a bus. 5 - Flowers: this is a big one, I'm working on quotes right now, I'm either going to get silk orchids for or i will get this florist i found here on this website, marvin j ku kinil from maya diseno floral. or once jacy sends me a quote, just with the resort the problem with getting this many outside vendors is that i have to pay $55 for each to come in. i'm trying to negotiate that with Jacy right now...we will see what happens let me know if you have any questions. I've been emailing jacy for a while now, so i have lots of answers from her i'm a control freak if you havent notice yet

I figure I would share some of my things with you ladies..so, here it is: (Sorry about the big pics...I don't know how else to post them...) 1 - Will you be my bridesmaid/maid of honor cards - DIY by me 2 - My Magnet Save the Dates - I enclosed these with my save the date passport - by Allurements by Rebecca & me 3 - My monogram - by Allurements by Rebecca 4 - My Save the Date Passport - All pages - by Allurements by Rebecca