KittenHeart

Quote: Originally Posted by finleys7 Oh Cara - That's a bad one =( KittenHeart - I h ope they don't charge you an arm and a leg for the alterations. Which designer did you go with for the dress and the TD? Cara, my dreams are similar! Everyone is too busy to help me, everyone is partying too much! I'm sure they will... my designer is Matthew Christopher.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B Hey girls i am starting catch up on the thread. Sorry I have been so MIA. Wanted to share some really amazing photos with you from our photogs's. Jason & Andrea: The Polaroids Hawes Photography Blog LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these so, so much!! OMG, I'm feeling dreamy about them seriously <3 My MOH's dad has an old vintage poloroid I'm borrowing for my wedding. I'm thinking of doing a old wood framed chalk board guest book/photo dealio

Quote: Originally Posted by meghan I always feel so much better having things done early...I'm not a last minute type person with anything. I am still stuck on centerpieces though! I wanted to do something like what are you doing...floating candles in a tall clear cylinder vase with flowers or something underneath the candle, but I can not find vases like the ones I want anywhere! Any suggestions? Me too! I'm a major planner and I don't procrastinate, I like having things done early as well. I've been engaged for over 2 years... I just decided to do a TON of DIY stuff and I have a hard time deciding on something. I took me like 8 months to find a freaking veil!! Ugh... I need to be more decisive... I think

Wendy! Can't wait to see a teaser from your BD shoot... hint hint Do it girl, you have a whole week just power through it, one at a time!

Quote: Originally Posted by finleys7 This is too funny, reading all of these dreams aka nightmares. My dreams haven't been too vivid, but one I didn't have shoes and in another dream I forgot my dress. =) I had my first fitting last Thursday and it was great. No alerations needed, just a hem =) But it's still $225 to do the hem. I need to talk to her for the second fitting, because I was capped at $275...and there is no way IF I did need alterations, that it would only cost me $50 more dollars...I'm in the wrong business...this is where the money is LOL! For me they feel more like nightmares... the commonality is forgetting key things or being lost... LOL, I feel like that awake too at this point! I'm so jealou your dress fit... My dress was suppsed to fit and it was big on me, I had no intentions of needing alterations and I don't feel like my size is any different but now I have 3 additional appointments and a whole other bill.. yarg.

Happy to do so Amy! I wish I could delegate... since I'm such a control freak I do everything. I have all my girls and random friends begging me to let them help me and they are all so excited to do stuff for me and craft things. I have major issues, I want everything to be a surprise to everyone so I don't let anyone help me. Seriously, FI will be surprised by stuff on our wedding day. I really irritate myself... Meghan... I love how your wedding is still 4 months out and you're further along that most of us I'm envious, I wish everything was done!

Gorgeous dress!

Alright ladies, it's that time again! Please let me know what you got done this week (except for Katie who already told us) and also let us know your new to do list for the next 2 weeks! STARTING Monday, February 22nd 2010 ENDING Friday, March 5th 2010 We will check in with what is done either as it’s done or every other Friday and start a new list KittenHeart (Amy) to do’s: 1. Finish bridesmaid hair pieces - DONE 2. Call dance place and make first appt – Called, making appt today 3. Finish writing ceremony & start writing vows - DONE 4. Final BD book, add few more pix and text - DONE 5. Ensure group booking is finalized - DONE 6. Receive veil - DONE 7. Italian family side wants to throw me AHR… figure that out! – Where to start? 8. Book hair trial appt - DONE 9. Visit tux places in person, pick out boys outfits and let them know – NOT DONE 10. Receive wedding dress & shoes – Received shoes, left dress there for fitting 11. Send measurements for shoe clips - DONE 12. Cut menus, tree sign, door hanger, & fold ceremony programs – DONE 13. Purchase custom bridal party tanks - DONE 14. Complete list of must plays/do not plays and songs for DJ – Partially done 15. Create and print out reserved seating signs for ceremony & drink for ceremony – Partially done 16. Put ribbon through bird cards – NOT DONE 17. Print at home, common Spanish phrases, reception drink & cigar signs, numbers and other sign – NOT DONE, printer issues 18. Order photo holders for guestbook table – Haven’t decided if I want to do this yet Lolo’s to do’s: GET MARRIED! – DONE!! YAY CONGRATS! Crista’s To Do's: 1. Invitations - Find the right paper for inside the invitations. Found cover paper & ribbon. Do a mock up of what I want & hopefully send everything to be printed. 2. Wait for excursion info & hopefully book 3. Work Out 4. Work on web site!!! I want to have everything ready by the time our invites go out. Meghan’s to do’s: 1. Get those thank you cards out from the wedding shower!!!! 2. Start looking for shirt and tie for Matt 3. Pick wedding shoes up from the shoe doctor 4. Begin second round of dance lessons AmyBermuda to do’s: 1) Book Cupcakes for AHR 2) Organize meeting with caterer and baker for AHR 3) Find 1980s wedding dress at salvation army for bachelorette party 4) Cardio 4x week and weights 2x week Renee’s to do’s: 1. Mail off brochures and luggage tags 2. Decide if we want a cake topper, and if so, order one 3. Keep shopping for OOT bags 4. Remind all of my booked guests that final payment is coming up soon 5. Order raffia fans 6. Order personalized mugs 7. KEEP WORKING OUT! 8. Start working on music selection Momichele’s to do’s: 1.) Workout-I need to lose 10 more pounds before July 2.) Find FI outfit 3.) Work on center piece

Thanks AmyB My theme is vintage inspired birds and trees. Classic black and white wedding with sage green and fuschia is in the flowers only for a little extra color. Lots of candles, white lights and lanterns. Very clean and simple. My theme was building this whole time and it wasn't until about 3 months ago I finally realized it We wrote our ceremony this weekend too! Ugh, so glad to be mostly done with that.

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Katie~ hey lovely ladies I am on cloud 9 at the moment so thought I'd share and hopefully pick anyone up who's feeling a little down! I've had a super productive weekend and had some good news too....So, here's what we got done this weekend: 1. ordered wedding cake for AHR 2. FINALLY booked hotel for night of AHR (and yes, I ended up doing that, not FI!) 3. bought white flower baskets for the 2 flowergirls (for Mexico) 4. ordered rose petals for the flowergirls 5. bought fake flowers to go on our AHR wedding cake 5. ordered my bouquet, BM bouquet, 4 buttonholes and 2 corsages for AHR (we're doing a whole sit down meal thing again and photos etc) 6. ordered flower spray thing (whatever it's called! lol) for our top table at our AHR 7. bought our suntan cream today (1/2 price some, and the rest was buy 1 get one free!) 8. bought ring cushion for page boy 9. FI has ordered his clothes for TTD 10. called and made another appt for FI suit fitting as he's been working out since his first fitting and has put on 2 stone in muscle! (he didn't believe me that he could just wait to his final fitting to tell them!) 11. decided what to have as our favours at AHR (we're not doing any in Mexico) so now I just have to do them! phew! and the good news...on my hotels thread one of the girls on there who's getting married a couple of weeks before hand has very very kindly offered to leave some of her stuff behind and has said she'll leave it for me so now we will actually have some things to use for decorations and maybe centre pieces!!!!!!! how brilliant is that?! happy happy happy!! hope you girls are all happy too! woop woop!! Amazing girlie!! You're really getting stuff done! Well done you

Quote: Originally Posted by jo&delo2010 I Have about 40 days until we get married at moon palace cancun! Nobody RSVP and his own parents didnt book their trip when they were supposed 2. People are still dropping like flys and finally getting the balls to say they cant come when the RSVP date was feb 1. Like I told my hubby to be - everyone has known about this wedding for over a year and if they really wanted to go they would have saved. So it must not have been that important to them. Similar stuff happened to me and has happened to many of us on this forum. Just know that people tend not to be planners and on top of things. This whole planning process for me has taught me a lot about people, good and bad since we've been engaged for 2 years and people haven known about this for about a year and a half or more. People procrastinate and can't think with planning for something in advance... I wouldn't take it too personally, just know your wedding will be amazing and you won't even notice anyones gone the day of.

What an amazing unique engagement! I love it

Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb Ok so I am on a posting roll here today. Are you flying your DJ out or using someone local? Haven't decided on music yet. We'd love to have someone that can announce the first dance, father daughter dance, etc but would hate to spend $1300 on the hotel's DJ to have him be awful. Would love to hear what you're doing! Using a local, DJ Mannia that has gotten amazing reviews from all the BDW brides on this forum. I haven't heard a negative review on him at all and they are very easy to work with and quick to respond to my emails. They are English speaking and will do all the announcing. Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb OMG. That's the most ridic thing I've ever heard. I guess it's safe to assume that EVERYTHING will cost extra. How many guests are you having? I know right, do expect it because it's unfortunately the case for a lot but definitely try and get as much included as you can but bet on some unexpected expenses. I'm having 40ish guests.

Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb Is there an extra cost for those chairs? Those are the ones that I want to use too. Thanks! Yep, they are $16 each to rent AND they won't move them from ceremony to reception, so if you want them at your reception you have to re-rent them all over again.

Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb Is anyone doing the SKY wedding? And if so, do you know how many chairs are included? The Silver and Gold package only allot for so many chairs but I would hope up to 80 would be included in the Sky package since you have to pay more for it. (80 is the deck's capacity.) One of the many reasons I decided to do a DW was to keep the $$$ down. So now that I've plugged in everything I want (and that's without official quotes from Lamas or AS) I'm way over budget. Trying to get my costs down. So hoping I can subtract the $9 per chair over 12 chairs that I've worked into my budget. Thanks! I'm doing the Sky Deck and I just checked my spreadsheet and it says "Chairs included for 50 people" and they are white chairs that come with chair covers and white chair bows. Watch out for hidden charges, they are everywhere as we can all tell you we've each encountered something that surprised us so I'd leave a little monetary cushion for just in case

Haha, it's so funny we're all having crazy dreams! This wedding stuff must be really getting ingrained in us

I too am doing it very simple. No chair covers, no chair bows. Just the dark brown chairs with off white pads. White flowers and white fabric on the chuppah, wood aisle runner. We're all wearing black, white & dark grey with the green, light yellow and fuschia orchids in the bouts & bouquets. Centerpieces smaller stem orchids submerged in water, green, white and fuschia on each table in different sized glasses with a floating candle on the top. I'm not a super colorful person, so picking colors was hard for me!

Quote: Originally Posted by japonick Hi! What are the Azul brides doing for a DJ? Are you using Lomas travel and getting the DJ of their choice or are you bringing a DJ in? Do the Azul resorts charge you to bring in a DJ like they do a photographer? I'm bringing in a DJ and taking the $500 hit

I had a dream that my wedding was all of a sudden in this giant house in LA. There were over 200 people there but all my accommodations were set up for 40 since that's the number coming to my Mexico wedding. I couldn't find my real dress so I ended up wearing my TTD dress which didn't fit and was falling off. I forgot my veil and my garter and my shoes. About to walk down the aisle I start crying because I didn't finish the ceremony or write my vows so the officiant had nothing to read. I ran down the aisle in this extremely crowed room in tears holding up my dress falling off of me telling FI we can't get married without vows... I found my mom watching tv upstairs with a friend while this whole thing went down and woke this this morning to LOUD thunder. Ugh!

MrsMoulton - Love your pix!!! You're dress looks amazing, such a steal!

Quote: Originally Posted by finleys7 Okay girls, as promised here are some teasers.... Katie, I did the veil also for the white outfit and it was too cute. I don't know how I missed this but hello HOTNESS!!!! LOVE IT! I wish I were skinny like you... love these so much!

Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb You're kidding me! I work in Burbank & live in Glendale, a few miles away from Los Feliz!! Small world! small world indeed. maybe after your wedding we could do coffee and you can give me the low-down? or i guess icould just come here and read it. he.he. Yeah absolutely!

I am VERY against pleats! They are so unflattering... to each his own though, LOL!

We are all thinking the same thing! Love your pix, totally cute! The heels in the snow is amazing... girl you are brave!!

Karen!!!! Hooooooooooooooootttttttttttttt!!!! LOVE THEM! I really wanted to do pin-up photo shoot and I may even do another one just because I had so much fun on my first one. Thanks so much for sharing, you look amazing!!