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Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMsMoulton Watch out ladies-- after I got back from my wedding I have gotten seriously lazy (and I ripped a muscle in my left shoulder) so I haven't worked out and it starts to come back REALLY fast! UGH. Keep up the work and when I get my all good from my doctor with my shoulder I will be joining you again! I'm in the same boat, almost, I came back from 2 weeks in Mexico with about 10lbs and ZERO motivation to do anything but have fun, snuggle with DH with a pizza, beer and a movie. Arg! I just ordered something totally new from the Beachbody site that should be fun and I'll incorporate P90X and running with it. So I'm still gonna crash this thread with you girls Also, congrats, you're pregnant, how exciting!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb Can I ask who your original TA at DW.com was. I am worried that I have the same one. I can't wait to see a photo of your centerpieces. They sound lovely. Everytime I hear what you girls have done, I change my mind. Love the love-bird playing card ideas. I am also doing placards in small photo frames. We using antiquey ooking photo frames that will also hold the polaroids from our photo booth. So they double as favors. I haven't decided how we are doing the table numbers yet. I was thinking of doing vintage images of the cities we have lived in (Baltimore, Austin, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Amsterdam) but I think I might have 10 tables so that won't be enough. Hmm..what to do? I hope you don't have mine old TA... His name is David Victor out in NJ. Whatever you do, switch TA's immediately if I were you. He made so many giant mistakes that if had not been caught would have screwed up my and many of my guests trips. Misspelled everything, didn't actually take my deposit for my room so never booked it for me etc. Patti Ortiz fixed all of this for me. I like it! You've put a lot of thought into this, you'll figure out the perfect idea for your tables. You still have some time! Quote: Originally Posted by renee1811 I am back and a Mrs!!! I had the most AMAZING time ever! Our wedding was absolutely perfect. The ceremony site on the beach was gorgeous, the weather was wonderful, the reception site (Zavaz Plaza) was awesome, and all of our guests had a great time!!!! We did the wedding on the beach, and splurged and got the Premium Deluxe Package, because I love flowers Here is an image of the gazebo: Here is a picture of me and the hubby (that's so weird to say!!) during the ceremony: Here we are during the sand ceremony: And here is the set-up for the reception. Since we had the premium deluxe, it was supposed to come with four large baskets of flowers. Our on-site wedding coordinator (who was fabulous!) switched those out for the tall glass vases and then we were able to use the flowers on top as the centerpieces for the reception site, which was great because we were originally just going to use the bouquets. Ladies, do not stress! The wedding coordinators on-site are AMAZING, and do everything to make your day absolutely perfect. Amy, I am so glad you had an awesome wedding also! I was thinking about you on Saturday, and was really happy the weather was great for you also! Can't wait to see more pics!! Congrats MRS!!! Welcome back! I'm so glad to hear you had the most amazing time, you look gorgeous!! Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda Wow ! Welcome back Renee! I love your set up, its gorgeous! And you look AMAZING girl! That's so great that everything was perfect for you. Makes all that stress seem silly now doesn't it? All of my guests raved about how great everything was - the beauty of the setting, the great food, good music.... Such a relief! I hope to see more of your pictures soon! xx Amy It's amazing how ridiculous all the stress seems now isn't it? That was the first thing I thought when I got there, "I should have listened to past brides, Nicole was right!"

Quote: Originally Posted by Sita&Nate Wow, sounds divine! I like the idea of just serving one celebratory drink, that way no need to have some one bartend (you can't go wrong with champagne & raspberries can you? ). I so want to get some props like the mustaches too--etsy here I come! I wish I knew someone with a large backyard and a pool !! Thank you! I don't have any pictures of the set up, once I get them from others I'll share It was very fun, I LOVE champange so it was perfect, the next day was not Quote: Originally Posted by Lady_Di Hey ladies! I am back and we had an amazing wedding! My photog put up some teasers up. Destination Wedding Photography| Los Angeles | Ventura | Santa Barbara Wedding Photographer Wish we were still in Mexico! Boo!! Crazy how May flew by fast! I look forward seeing your pictures, ladies! Welcome back again You're pictures are amazing, I'm pretty sure yours rocked mine! You looked absolutely stunning on your wedding day girl!

Quote: Originally Posted by Sita&Nate Amy, I'd love to hear about the cocktail reception your sweet friends threw for you! Would super duper love any details! Mine was in a backyard next to a pool, lined with candles and tables decorated with white linens, green and black flower arrangements (the black flowers were incredible!) and there were candles everywhere. I gave them my guest books from my wedding and photos of all my relatives on their wedding day that I had at my reception as well. I brought along the mustaches too for obvious reasons. My best friend had little bubble tubes made with our names and wedding dates on them. They had food, just snack like food mostly with perrier. There was a bar with champagne and lambrusco and real champange flute glasses with a bowl of rapsberries. There were chairs everywhere and everyone just basically hung out and had a good time. Music was playing that a friend put together, some our wedding music, others songs that reminded us of Mexico. It wasn't like a wedding reception at all, it was a way for people to come celebrate with us that weren't able to go, sign my guest book and bring a present!

Quote: Originally Posted by daniepps We have about 50 people coming, well there will probably only be about 35 at the bar because everyone else is in the wedding party. If that lounge is too small do you have any other suggestions of where I can tell people to go mingle? Well if you want to keep them close they can go to the Zocollo patio bar, not too big though. Getting further away you could have them go to the Wave Swim up bar which has seating and lounging areas with cool lanterns at night, I suggest that probably, it's by the adult swim up bar so you'll have to send someone to round everyone up when the reception area is ready. You could always have them hang out at the Mojito Lounge as well which is large, air conditioned and pretty lively. That's very far away though, across the resort.

Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda Hi girls, here is my ceremony. It meant a lot to me and I would appreciate if you kept it for your eyes only and did not distribute outside of this group. I took information from this website (see http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...-script-21660/ ) as well as The Knot and ministers websites around the world. We wrote our own vows together for what was important to us. If you are doing the legal ceremony, you can change some of the set ceremony, however since the judges do not speak perfect English, you might want to have your guests do readings - such as the sand ceremony, hand ceremony, or poems. Good luck! I'm really glad you feel this way! I wrote my entire ceremony and personal vows as well and I have been very hesitant to share it because it feels so personal to me. I totally respect it and thank you for sharing!

Quote: Originally Posted by bigboponthebeach If you don't mind me asking, who is your DW.com TA? We are considering cancelling because I'm more frustrated with the communication or lack thereof, than a bride to be should be in month one. :-( I had the MOST TERRIBLE DW.com TA and complained to his manager multiple times before demanding to be switched to a female in my time zone who could handle more than one thing at once. If I hadn't done that I would have had a COMPLETE breakdown, so I say switch and switch now. Talk to their manager and be adament you want to be reassigned. I have heard Grace is fantastic, my new TA is Patti and she was unbelievable and basically fixed a ton of mistakes my previous TA had made and was overly communicative which is much better than MIA for 3 weeks which my previous TA pulled on me twice. Quote: Originally Posted by dstinationdrmr The suite @ MGM still sounds amazing. I love that hotel. You're gonn ahave sooo much fun! I just rold FI your plans and he's trying to make it work. He loves Vegas more than I do. He's sitting here suggesting that we make it legal for New Year's. Lol! Too bad I gotta work. I can't wait! Haha, that's so cute! You guys should come out at the end of this month and get married the same weekend Quote: Originally Posted by mzgillis316 HI I have a question...what did everyone do about the centerpeices? I am really struggling between bringing down things or just picking the ones from the resort. My dilemma is even though i may only pay 25 buxs for silk flowers and a vase, I may still end up spending almost 50 to 60 buxs in checking luggage. I'm just not sure if its worth the hassle I will post a picture of my flowers. I ordered real touch stems and rented vases from Lomas. Kiara negotiated my vase price down for my by 50%! So I had the submerged orchid stems in 3 different colors, 3 different size vases with a floating candle on top, I thought it looked gorgeous. Quote: Originally Posted by chong What?!? I think I just got ripped off. My WC told me $150 per fabric. I am only having 2 blue fabrics to decorate my gazebo and it will cost me $300. I need to follow up on this. I am struggling with the same question. However, I decided not to have much flowers but many candles as a center piece since we are having a beach reception at night. The candles and its holders are too expensive to rent from LOMAS. I think you need to look at the price they are offering for each piece and decide what is the most economical choice. Chong Are you sure they didn't mean $150 for the two of them? Yeah, don't rent candle holders from them. I brought all my candles in glass holders and just packed them well in my suitcase, worked out great! Quote: Originally Posted by daniepps For all past AS brides, does anyone remember what the Zavaz lounge is like? It's supposed to be a bar inside the Zavaz restaurant. I'm trying to find a place to tell my guests to gather for an "informal cocktail hour" in between the ceremony and reception while we take pictures. I'm paying for a cocktail party the day we arrive as a welcome reception and I don't want to pay for another one after the wedding. My reception is at the Zavaz plaza so I was thinking the Zavaz lounge would be convenient. So can someone give me some information on this location and if it's not a good place can you recommend some place I can tell people to gather at? The Zavaz lounge from what I can remember is outside of the restaurant but you may have to go through the restaurant to get there. It's nothing fantastic. It's just a wooden bar outside with people eating at tables to the left and right of it. So it's definitely informal... how many people are you having? It's not a big area so just make sure it can fit everyone. Quote: Originally Posted by taylorwd We were adamant about not seeing each other before the wedding, so all our pictures were taken after the ceremony. For timing the light, we purposely planned a 4pm ceremony and 6:30 reception. The sun in April sets at 7pm, so we knew we'd have plenty of light still left and wouldn't have long shadows in our pictures. LOL not that it mattered with the rain! Our thought was that we were paying all this money to bring down our photographer so we wanted the best possible lighting for our pictures. DH was adamant about this as well so my pictures are all taken after the ceremony. Wendy was smart, doing the wedding at 4pm would have been better (hotter but more light) we ran late too so we quickly ran out of light but still managed to get in all the shots before our reception which I belive we were nearly an hour late too... oops! Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb I am actually moving my ceremony flowers to the recpetion and placing them in blume boxes. (I am getting full-on bouquets and handging them from the chairs closest to the aisle. Because they are bouquets they can be easily picked up and plopped into the blume boxes.) I am also going to Jo-An fabric and having different pieces/styles of beautiful vintage inspired fabircs cut and will places those large fabric squares underneath the blume boxes. That way I don't have to pay beyond the whte table clothes which are included but each table will have some personal flare. I had gone back and forth with a lot of other, and much more creative ideas, but the hassle of bringing things with me and having to assemble things there really put me off. I think it is easier this way and am sure it will still look lovely. I think that sounds great! Gorgeous and unique Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda I did pictures after the ceremony too. With everything we did being so nontraditional, I wanted there to be something traditional in the wedding. But the pictures ate up most of the cocktail party, so there are pluses and minuses to everything! Another idea is to have framed pictures on each table. I used pictures of love birds to denote table seating - so instead of #s - there were really nice 5x5 or 5x7 picture frames. You could go fancy or casual with the picture frames you use and you can use them again. Eveeryone's name card had a small picture of the love bird on it, and they found their table by matching it to the frame. Check out my bouquet! AMAZING!!!!! I didn't experience a second of my own cocktail hour, it was there to keep everyone else entertained while we took pictures. The funny thing is, a lot of people followed us around while we took our pictures taking their own! I really can't believe I didn't get a picture with the donkey... all that donkey business and he was gone before we knew it! I did something so similar! I had vintage lovebird playing cards I found, all different and put them in holders on the seating cards table and had my MOH's mom artistically write the instructions on the chalkboard. It worked out, everyone figured out how to match their bird card to their table, I loved it You're right, you're bouquet is GORGEOUS!!

Quote: Originally Posted by *Linds* My AHR is this weekend...I hope it goes okay! Its going to be a super traditional reception, like we just walked in from our ceremony... So fun Linds!!! It will be almost like wedding day all over again... ahhhh lucky girl Totally off topic... I hope you're coming to Cassies wedding out in Cali, I'd love to have a drink with you, you seem super fun to party with

Thanks ladies! nicdeb928 - I posted something to that effect in this thread already, it's pretty massive too, hope it helps! http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...do-again-6691/

Quote: Originally Posted by beaz2be Hi All, I'm a newbie around here. I've actually been lurking on this and a couple other threads for a few weeks now since we got engaged as we try and select a resort for our wedding in the Mayan in May/June 2011. I have read this thread I believe from start to finish (it took a looong time). :-) I think we've narrowed it down to the Azul Sensatori with a back up option in case the prices are out of our range of possibilities. We're just waiting for the pricing confirmation and confirmation of a wedding date. I'm so excited I can't stand it. One question for you AS brides. Does anyone know if their is any kind of separate pricing for the Private Reception for children? I know that lots of resorts offer a 2 for 1 or children under 12 are free but I haven't been able to find any details about that for the AS yet. Thanks in advance, and here's hoping I officially become an AS bride soon! Congrats on becoming engaged and to the forum/thread regardless of what you choose!! I don't have an answer to your question, I'm sure one of us does!

Quote: Originally Posted by finleys7 Diane - When is the AHR? Are you almost done with those plans? Amy - Happy AHR this past weekend...hope your were happy with the party. Thanks Shannon!!! I am happy, we all had a blast and it was decorated BEAUTIFULLY, I was blown away really I received all my pictures 1 week ago but there are 1,125 of them. They won't be touched up or anything until I chose them for my album and then I'll get them all on a cd and be able to put specific ones online. I just figured no one is going to get through that many photos except me! lol

Quote: Originally Posted by bigboponthebeach To the thefuturemrslutz: You ladies on this forum RAWK!!! I was over here starting to go insane and obsess about the most minor details, which is normally not even in my character. :-/ Last night I almost had a minor meltdown because I was reading the earlier threads and just felt dumb for booking. I talked to my FH and he told me to chill out and focus on the reason for it all. While I know he was totally right, I just want it all to be perfect for us, just as I'm sure every other lady on her does. I just appreciate the support because no one in my "non-forum" life seems to get it. The option of picking a wedding site, sit-unseen can just be plain nerve racking. Grrr..... Thank you for your support!!! That's what we're here for!!! To keep you as sane as possible. I can't tell you I am a natural worrier and drove myself nuts quite often planning my wedding. None of it was worth it, my wedding day was the best day of my life and I regret nothing Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda Hi girls! I'm baaaacccckkkkkkkk!!! Its late and I should unpack and get to sleep but wanted to say hi and let you know I had the most beautiful, fun, amazing wedding! I am sure you had a beautiful perfect day Renee too! Friday was gorgeous weather as well. We snuck down to AS on Monday but I could not hear any Texas accents - was looking for you :-) I will tell you all more later, but my guests who were going to get bumped to AS Fri-Sun b/c Beach was booked were able to stay at Azul Beach all weekend after all - I was so excited! I found out during my wedding why.... There was a onlooker in a bikini sobbing during my entire ceremony and family pictures, and bridal prty pictures on the beach with a friend consoling her. Seriously for an entire hour. Turns out she was supposed to get married that weekend - called off the wedding - and her family still went as vacation. And she sobbed in a bikini and towel 50 feet from my ceremony and pictures!!! Even with the crazy crying girl, I was still so thankful no one has to move to another hotel. Will start working on some photos to post soon. I have to do my planning thread and review as well. The flowers though - were AMAZING. Prettiest wedding flowers I have ever seen. wow wow wow YAY!!! back MRS!!!!!! Happy to have you in the club Can't believe this girl crying... COME ON! I am the fiesty one that would have told her to lock it up. Riiiiddddiculous. It was so perfect that no one got bumped, everything worked out in the end! I told you it would Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda I thought she was just an onlooker during the ceremony until picture time I realized someone was consoling her and one of my guests said, yeah, shes that bride whose wedding was supposed to be today and was canceled. Well it was definitely not supposed to be on May 29th since I had that date booked for over a year. It didn't matter to us though, we were soooooo happy! Everything was awesome. We had the minister wedding - it was the woman with long dark hair. Her voice was so soothing and her english was excellent. I wish I had taken that honeymoon right after though. Its not very relaxing organizing all those excursions, welcoming each person, saying goodbyes, and talking to everyone ll day. It was awesome - but I really wish I had another week in Mexico I was married by the same woman! She was amazing, I was very happy with her. Wrote our entire ceremony and she learned it like 2 days prior. Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda hehe I am so giddy! last one GORGEOUS! You look amazing and I love the chic white setup, similar to mine. Your bridesmaids look so amazing all different colored dresses.

Wendy - My AHR was lovely! It was beautifully decorated and we all had a blast Meghan - 1 month from today!!! Wooo hoo! I didn't end up paying until like 2 weeks out, due to their own issues.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B Amy, LOL! I thought the light was the best for putting on makeup in the tub. I am glad you liked the photos. I start looking at them and then I get overwhelmed and quit. We are actually being featured in local magazine called KC Weddings as their destination wedding feature. We are very excited!! I just wrote a review on wedding wire for Sharon and I am going to write one on here too. The more good things to say the better. Andrea that's amazing!!! How very exciting to have your wedding featured in a local magazine, congrats!

Thanks Andrea! It was exactly what I wanted and more

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B Hello ladies, I have been MIA for a few months. I apologize for that. Welcome new girls and your weddings are going to be amazing. Wendy, Amy, and Lindsey all your pics are so awesome loved them!! Thanks Andrea!! We missed you I've looked at your photos a few times now, absolutely gorgeous, I love that you did your makeup in the jacuzzi tub! Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B Amy, Thank you for sending along Sharon's email along. I had misplaced it and I still need to write her review. I am major slacker. :-) You're welcome Where are you writing her review? Here?

Quote: Originally Posted by dstinationdrmr Uhhh, jealous of us?! I'm jealous of your 3 weddings! Especially, the Vegas wedding and the Hangover Suite...I'm definitely envious. I love Vegas as wish I could do something there too. Maybe for our anniversary since everyone is crying broke already. If you don't mind me asking, how much is the suite costing you? Does anyone know if you can make reservations at Le Chique before you check in? I know it's a long shot but I really want the experience. HAHA, I know... wait until you have nothing to do planning wise after your wedding and it's nice for a few weeks and then it's sad because you don't want it to be over! I actually did a little research and the Hangover Suite doesn't look anything like it did in the movie... it's kinda meh looking in real like and so for $5,000 I decided that wasn't worth it... (I'm thinking the price went up since it was in the movie) I am now in a MGM Skyloft, 3,000 square feet, pool table, flat screens, butler, all that stuff. Also you have to have a private guest list for anyone coming to your suite because it's escort only to those suites which is pretty cool. I paid $2,000 for the suite and I'm having everyone bring a bottle of alcohol and a mixer, get some hor'derves and done! You cannot make pre-reservations for Le Chique, I tried and they told me that your personal concierge is the only person who can make them and that depends on your building number. Quote: Originally Posted by dstinationdrmr So, is anyone or has anyone purchased wedding insurance. I kinda feel like most travel insurances won't help me in terms of hurricanes/natural disaster so I looked up wedding insurance which isn't that expensive but is it necessary? What are your thoughts? I didn't... I thought it may jinx it... haha not totally seriously but I just didn't want even have a thought of needing it. Not the most foolproof plan but you know what, it all worked out.

Happy Wedding Day girl!!! I am thinking about you and so excited for you right now, you're going to be such an incredibly gorgeous bride with an amazing wedding!

Quote: Originally Posted by gingerlover36 your pictures came out great! Just had to mention that the last shot of what I think is your photographer -- he looks like Tom Cruise lol Yes that's him, LOL I was telling my guests they'd know the photographer because he looks like Tom Cruise, he really does

Great review Diane!! You looked gorgeous and everything sounds like it went well

Wendy, haha! Yeah but now I'm truly missing planning, I feel bored and confused, LOL I can't believe my reception is tomorrow... I literally have NO idea what it will look like and who's coming, how crazy is that? Vegas - I just applied for our marriage license online yesterday. I already booked the rooms, the Elvis chapel and package and our flights. I will add this to the to do list: Book party bus for transport to and from the hotel to the chapel Get final list of who's coming to Vegas Book hair and makeup appointment with MGM Find shoes for dress Make invites for Vegas wedding Figure out if anything else should be done for this... YAY!

Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb Take a deep breath and look at Lomas options. I had originally sent a ton of pictures of lfowers that I wanted and they quoted me outrageous numbers. I decided to go with some flowers that are on Lomas list. (And I have seen flowers that some of the other girls have gotten there and they have been stunning, really beyond my expectations.) They are charging me $60 for each bridesmaids bouquet and $30 for each of the guys. I am splurgin on my flowers and getting the ones I want. That will be about $300. So all in all around $600. I thought about silk but I couldnt find anything other thanlily's and orchids. I want more traditional ivory roses and green hydranges so silk is out for me. Really? Even sharon nagassar designs, Silk bridal bouquets, silk weddings, Custom orders, Latex, Real Touch, Natural Touch & Floramatique Silk Wedding Flowers ? She has any flower you could possible think of! I still can't believe how real they look and feel.

Quote: Originally Posted by cristinimartini Hi everyone!! We just got home from our wedding at DPC and it was sooooooo incredible. I cried leaving...I'm such a baby!!! Once we're back to some sort of "normalcy" this weekend, I'll try and post pictures :-) Maybe Melissa and Summer will have some up too...I'll keep everyone posted!!! Karen and Di, enjoy your time there...it goes WAY too fast. I wish you all the best!!!!!!!!! Welcome back and Congrats Mrs!!!! I cried at our second to last song, slow dance, because everyone was on the dance floor slow dancing and singing loudly and I'm getting teary-eyed just typing this, LOL! I'm a total sap

Quote: Originally Posted by chong Am I over reacting about the flower cost? Looks like for me & FI, 3 bridesmaids & 3 groomsmen will cost me about $1000 or more. I know flowers are expensive but REALLY? Is this typical? I am wondering if I need to get silk flowers... though I am not sure if it's that much cheaper. Any thoughts? Am I over reacting about the price? Chong No you're not... I got quoted for ALL flowers including centerpiece stems $5,000... granted, I wanted orchids for pretty much everything and didn't pick from the Loma's list of what's offered so I turned to real touch and paid $700 for the lot... all bouquets, bouts, corsages, cake flowers, 3 centerpiece stems per table and shipping. BEST decision ever! Everyone was so impressed with the flowers, the girls all have them in vases in their homes now. Quote: Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz ok GOOD!!!! I was getting really worried!!! Hope I look as hottt as you did!!!!!!!! SMOKIN!! Yeah don't be worried, you're unbelievably hot girl! Total side note... looking through my million wedding photos I was anxious to see DH's reaction to my book! I get to the part and the photos start with him excited, then smiling, then welling up with tears and CRYING! I talked him and was like... "honey that's not the reaction I was expecting... who crys for nudity!?" LOL... " He said it was what it meant and the french on the side of the book cover, he speaks and writes French and it's the biggest turn on ever... and the quotes and whatnot. I just thought it was hilarious I was expecting maybe a blush or a look on his face that said "hey she's hot!" but instead it was totally touching to him, very cute Quote: Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz Ok Ladies!! I am going to take over the To Do's!!! Everyone send me your to do's, and I will add them to the list! SO proud! I'm so happy this job will be carried on by you my dear, it's an honor to pass you the to do list Quote: Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz Ok my photographer...I need advice!! So, here is the deal. My photographer is AMAZING!! SO SO SO talented...AND we just clicked!! Well, I feel like she has really flaked on me...I can't get her to respond to emails or texts or phone calls or anything, and I don't know what to do. I will get a random text every few weeks that says she is soooo sorry she hasn't posted the pics...blah blah blah...and will send me the pics and other things "first thing monday morning." Then I never hear from her. Also, this is so stupid, but it just confirms her flakiness to me. She borrowed my garmin to get back to the airport for our enagement pics 1 MONTH ago. Well, I have given her my fed ex acct number and address and everything like 5 times. She keeps saying she forgets to send it, and now just won't respond to me. Like, I said, I know this is dumb to worry about, but it just seems really shady on top of everything else. Get what I am saying? And in my job (I drive about 300-400 miles everyday all over the state of Alabama), a Garmin to me is equivalent to a hair dresser not having a blow dryer! haha It is almost impossible to get around these tiny towns everyday without one. I had to go buy a new one. So, to make a long story even longer, here is the bottom line: I am spending more money on my pictures than I can even stomach. Paying her fee, her travel, her travel to NOLA for engagement pics, etc etc etc etc has gotten WAAAAY out of control. BUT it is worth it to me. However, this shadiness is scaring me to death!!!!!! What would you guys do? And she blocked me on facebook from seeing her status updates. Ok, that sounds so stalker-like, but it is true... Wait she blocked you from seeing her status updates?! WTF This IS shady, I'd be straight up with her and send her a little reality check email. Have you already paid her for everything? Is there any leverage you have? Photographers make me nervous, I emailed back and forth with mine for months before deciding. He's lets me know when he'll be out of town and always gives me timelines of when I'll get pictures and is always on time with it. You should be able to rely and trust your photographer. I wouldn't be mean with her but I'd let her know what you expect from her and if she can't deliver that you'll have to look elsewhere. Good luck girlie!

Thanks Rachel!