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Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B Tiffany got back to me and the icing is fondant. I am going to just live with it. I will probebly be too full to eat most of it anyway. They do fondant merely for looks I'm pretty sure, most people peel it off anyways

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Crista-Lee~ How much is it to rent the vases through Lomas? Quote: Originally Posted by meghan Amy, how much is lomas charging you to rent those vases? I may go that route Crista & Meghan - Too much to be honest... but it was worth the expensive over lugging down tons of glass that I obviously would not be taking back with me anyways. I think it's $20 per vase and after MUCH nagging through my poor WC and numerous emails about the dimensions to know what size floating candles to buy, I found that they were planning on giving me tiny vases. So glad I prodded I had a feeling something would go wrong there so they are getting me bigger vases. The dimensions of the vases they gave me were 20cm, 15cm & 10 cm with 2.5cm across the top. What kind of tiny a** vases are that!? Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda Yeah I am the same. I do not want to travel with more than 2 huge suitcases so I think I have to taper my bringing things down. I am already assigning things to people: Mom: favors, Brother: poker chips, etc! OMG... You don't even want to know how many suitcases I am bringing. I'm bringing all the lighting and lanterns and OOT bags so at this point I have 6 suitcases and to be honest, I think I may need more

Quote: Originally Posted by daniepps I love candles floating in water too. The website Dollar Tree, Inc.: Buy Bulk Floral Supplies, Toys, Party, Cleaning has different sized vases and they're all $1 each! This is a good idea and I almost went this route. Doing the math though at 3 vases a table and 7 tables, I can't bring in over 20 vases to Mexico in my luggage, the mere thought of attempting that gives me a headache I opted to just rent glasses through Lomas and suck it up, I am bringing my own real touch flowers though which saved me $300 a table

Quote: Originally Posted by daniepps I love candles floating in water too. The website Dollar Tree, Inc.: Buy Bulk Floral Supplies, Toys, Party, Cleaning has different sized vases and they're all $1 each! This is a good idea and I almost went this route. Doing the math though at 3 vases a table and 7 tables, I can't bring in over 20 vases to Mexico in my luggage, the mere thought of attempting that gives me a headache I opted to just rent glasses through Lomas and suck it up, I am bringing my own real touch flowers though which saved me $300 a table

Quote: Originally Posted by meghan I really like those floating candles too. What kind of flowers can go in the water? do you put fake ones in? I'm also wondering if the candles will blow out being that high in the holder. They might need to be lower because of how windy it is. I'm gonna look into doing something like that for centerpieces I think. Thanks for all who helped with posting pictures! Most flowers work, ones on a stem best I assume. I'm putting my fake ones in the vases and the WC said they would cut them to the vase size for me. Also, I was told the floating candles would be no problem as long as the flame was a below the top of the vase. I'm having my reception on Zocollo terrace as well so it's not going to be windy there. Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda Lindz - Love the Banana dresses. I am having ppl wear longer dresses only b/c I am concerned about the wind on the beach blowing up the dresses. Girls - thank you all for your advice. I wanted to make sure I wasn't being rude - but come on - you are right AmyF - this guy would not have been invited to the wedding without being the BM's boyfriend. It just puts extra stress on me which is not cool. Its hard not to look rude saying no he cant come - but it was super rude to ask! AmyB - It's your wedding girl, don't feel bad for people not being invited to stuff, just explain it to her and that should be that. P.S - I love your centerpieces! SOOOO pretty! Lindz - forgot to mention that I love the dresses too! I wouldn't worry about sweating, they are thin so they shouldn't be hot. My only concern was that they look really short. That just may be the 6ft model but I'd check the length and make sure it's suitable for your tastes.

Quote: Originally Posted by meghan What are you ladies all doing for centerpieces? I haven't quite decided what to do yet. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_08kHzN1800...400/CM_012.jpg Something similar to this, basically 3 different sized vases with submerged orchids. Green, white & fuschia - small tiny orchid, dendrobium Quote: Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz Wow, I did pretty well..except for those freakin STD's! Those are going out ASAP! Yall let me know what you think about the website and the bridesmaid dresses. With the bridesmaid dresses, I am thinking hot pink shoes (to match mine) and hot pink flowers! They may be too hot for summer. They are VERY thin but 100% silk kinda scares me with sweating! On the website, I have not done the bridal party and some other random sections. I need to focus on finishing "what to wear" and "wedding weekend (as soon as we get it planned out)." Thanks ladies! New To-Do's: 1) MAIL STD'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2) Order wedding dress 3) Locate sizes for bridesmaids dresses (I may need your help here ladies!) 4) Start picking out our rings!!!!! 5) What else should I be doing at 6 months out You did AMAZINGLY well!!! I'd say figure out flowers, real or real touch, start working on invite (seriously this has been the hardest so far) If you are doing OOT bags start researching that. Start buying stuff for them too. I have a LOT of printing to do, menu's etc. and that's time consuming, you could always knock that out early. I need to figure out place card stuff too. Have your peeps decide when you're bridal shower will be and bachelorette. Quote: Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz I have not decided yet either...Amy (KH)'s centerpieces are gorgeous! I have a bunch of ideas saved on my computer...but I am not sure. My FI did get me these BEAUTIFUL rhinestone vase thingy's from Z Gallerie...I may put my bridesmaids' bouquets in those for some of the cocktail tables....here is a picture...I was VERY impressed he purchased these...Bling Hurricane | Candleholders | Accessories | Z Gallerie These are a lot prettier in person! I will post some examples of centerpieces I have liked... Thanks Lindz!! I love those bling hurricanes, go FI! So pretty, very you Quote: Originally Posted by ~Crista-Lee~ Those are nice! They will look great with the bouquets. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get all of this stuff down there. Is anyone sending stuff down ahead of time? Last I heard, nothing can be shipped to the hotel ahead of time and my WC said shipping down to Mexico is very iffy and didn't recommend it at all.

I'm jealous of you girls! Mine are ready to be printed but I am having a TA snaffu and may switch so I had to hold off on printing... so close!!

Quote: Originally Posted by thefuturemrslutz I honestly don't know...I would contact Wendy (or whoever else you are looking at) and ask her those questions. I seriously talked to Wendy for about 3 days nonstop before I switched. A good TA will be honest with you about switching. It may be too late, it may not be. Those few people may simply stay booked with your original one. I would just make sure you still get credit for those nights booked if you guys get free parties or free nights or discounts according to how many people have booked. All I know is mine has bent over backwards to answer my questions and submit anything I request to her tour operator. Now they I have been using her, I am even more appalled at the other TA's I was looking at. I am in medical sales, and if I didn't get back to one of my physicians as soon as he requested something, I would lose that account in a heartbeat!!!!!! Sorry for the rant, but I just don't understand these people that are making money off us but not providing decent service. I'm so sorry you are having to deal with this...let us know if we can help! This is good advice… I have a group contract already with DW and I’m nervous to switch this late in the game. I do still have half my guests that need to book so I’m wondering if I should have them go through a better TA. EXACTLY!! I tell my FI this all the time as we’re both in Corporate Software Sales and if I didn’t respond or get a customer a quote in weeks or continued to send erroneous quotes I wouldn’t have a job!!! I would lose customers left and right, it is appalling being in a field where I sell and create and send quotes.

Quote: Originally Posted by Katie_2010 Amy what veil did you pick in the end?? PICTURES!!! Oh, well it's more like a fascinator that I'm going to put with a cage veil:

Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda sweet, I cant wait to go to Bobbi Brown. Going to make an appt soon. Makes me not want to chew out my TA too badly since everyone is having difficult times with their own TAs. I am still mad at her for being so flaky and calling my friend a different name, etc and when I told her I was booking 15-20 rooms - why she didn't do her research on the hotel to be better equipped for my guests. Crazy. Mine is a small business owner and I wanted to support small business. Stupid me!! You should be mad! How hard is their job seriously that so many of them get it wrong or don't know what they are doing? You're not stupid, companies big and small alike are screwing up so it doesn't really matter who you go with because dw.com is a big company. Stick to your guns! You deserve a competent TA We all do! Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda OMG girls I totally forgot, I need your opinions. Friday night, my BM told me that she wants me to have FI invite her boyfriend to his stag. She said it was only fair that her boyfriend "was spending all this money to go the wedding" and she is in the bridal party. My best friend and sister are both married and BMs and neither of their husbands are invited. Is this what I tell the BM? Her BF is 8 years older than FI and a cop and just not on the same wave length as FI. I know she wants her BF to be more included in our group of friends, but I just think its totally awkward to ask me to have input on his stag and thats not appropriate. I dont expect FI to telll me who to invite to my bachelorette. I almost want to say all that to her but I know she will be mad/upset. She was upset that BF was not invited to another little mini-stag on island that someone threw for FI. I can either explain these things to her or leave it alone and not say anything.... She can't force her BF upon your FI... It's rude of her to assume she can make you have your FI invite him to HIS stag when he's not a close friend. He's only invited to the wedding by her association anyways right? If they weren't BF & GF would he be coming? You don't need to explain yourself unless you feel you need to you but you can always tell her it's close friends only.

Quote: Originally Posted by taylorwd Good luck! Do you use destinationweddings also? Unfortunately I've filed a complaint with management about 4 months back and they begged me to give him a second chance. After mistake, after mistake after mistake and my guests now wanting to book through Expedia I'm done with him and requesting another. My guests are waiting until the last second to book so I need someone who can keep up with the madness in these last few months!

Quote: Originally Posted by taylorwd That is interesting, I use her too! But I would not recommend her. She's timely in her responses, yes, but really doesn't seem to know much about the in's and out's of DW. She's also been wrong on some things and caused us a lot of unneeded stress. Yikes... I don't know what you girls ask your TA's but I figured from the getgo that they were ONLY good for creating and sending quotes... turns out mine's not even good enough for that. =/ Bree from the Azul thread said she used Grace and LOVED her. That's who I'm requesting at this point. I'm speaking to a manager at the Corporate Headquarters tomorrow.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B I was pleased with the Bobbi Brown make up artist that I've been working with. She's not from KC so that makes me happy. Not that people have bad taste here but she is used to dealing with people that are more demanding (Las Vegas) and people who are more trendy. I sound like s snob. haha I wanted smoky eyes but not something too dark that it looked like I got punched and I wanted my face to seem glowing and not greasy or sweaty. She used a lot of browns on the eyes and it really made my brown eyes pop. The lipstick and cheeks are pink toned. It all came out looking really pretty. Now if I can replicate it. The eye make up is awesome. It is waterproof for sure and if comes off easy without making your skin feel dried out like a lot of long wear make up does. I would say its defiantly worth checking out. Ok, I have gone on and on now, sorry about that. This is great to hear! Thank you, I am nervous doing my own makeup but I don't do too bad with my makeup (at least I think so) and I take instruction really well so I'm hoping I shock myself with how well I'm able to duplicate it. Bobbi Brown is pricey too isn't it? Did you have to buy a lot?

Quote: Originally Posted by lolo That is great advise!!! I am bringing a friend to tell me if something is hanging out!LOL I'm sure a few drinks will be had. Thanks for the tips! Oh good! Glad I could help! LOL, I told my BFF the same thing, if anything pops out, flag me down If your friend has some drinks with you, EVEN better, she'll get more into it

Quote: Originally Posted by lolo I am really starting to feel like a bride now.....it took awhile. I ordered my shoes!! Can't wait to see them. I am also doing my own make-up. I am a hairstylist and one of my BM's is one too so I am lucky not to have to do my own hair. I am 34 days away now so I am staring the final round of getting beautiful. Facials,waxing,working out,hair trials,make-up trials........being a woman is alot of work LOL Kittenheart: any advise on doing the BD shoot? I can't back out now that I've got the perfect shoes... Aside from all the stuff I mentioned before... one thing I really wished I had done more and paid more attention to is sucking in my stomach. Certain poses push it out more or when you are bending over it folds naturally skinny or not but I wish I had been more conscious because there are certain pictures that are AMAZING and I can't use because my stomach looks terrible. Music, props, a friend, BOOZE & good hair and makeup were the most important. Feeling confident and just not caring if you feel cheesy, just be really flirtatous and it will be hot guaranteed! Can't WAIT to see you photos!!

Everything looks great!! Good luck, you're wedding looks like it will be a great time!

STARTING Monday, January 11th 2010 – ENDING Friday, January 22nd 2010 Alright ladies! Tell me what you got done and give me your new list of to-do's starting today, January 25th - February 5th KittenHeart (Amy) to do’s: 1. Make changes to invites and revisions and get sent back to complete changes – DONE 2. Get veil ordered – IT’S PICKED, I FINALLY DECIDED! 3. Finish making bridesmaid fascinators - ugh, I keep putting this off because they look dumb 4. Decide on groomsmen outfits and tie colors – Decided!!! Need to find a place to rent at 5. Send out emails; make calls to people who need to book – emailed regarding flight only 6. Book honeymoon hotel – DONE!! Le Blanc baby! 7. Find MP3 player - stolen I think… 8. FI to get strapping tape and monofilament for paper lanterns – Does he do anything? Not done... 9. Look into dance lessons, find place and costs – MOH found, need to call 10. Get updates from Kiara on final payments – Payment due April 1st, all decisions needed by then 11. Get vintage photos of family members for tables – Drove up to grandparents house this weekend and got TONS of old amazing photos and jewelry. Also FMIL & Aunt all bringing to me AmyBermuda to do’s: - Start song playlist - Start on ceremony design - Get info about babies at the hotel and nearby medical facilities MrsVaughn2B (Andrea) to do’s: 1. AH invites in the mail by Monday 2. Finalize my jewelry, hair and makeup 3. Finish OOT bag shopping (down to the little things) 4. Begin list for OOT bags and print 5. Begin program for the ceremony 6. Get my wedding ring sized Thefuturemrslutz (Lindz) to do’s: 1) Mail STD's 2) Tweak website 3) Try on more wedding dresses January 15th 4) Start looking harder for Bridesmaid dresses 5) WORK OUT!!!! 6) Pick out invitations 7) Order sample Real Touch flowers Meghan to do’s: 1. 3rd dress fitting on the 17th 2. Finish invites already!!!! 3. Write thank you cards for wedding shower 4. Make a decision for center pieces Katie’s to do’s: 1. Finish wedding 'brochure' 2. Write and finalize AHR inserts with details/info for guests 3. Do our gift list 4. Write out AHR invites & envelopes 5. Send out invites once all of above are complete (!!!) 6. Pay for wedding dress & organize fitting date 7. On fitting date, also get shoes, veil & tiara 8. Finalize date with photog for boudoir photo shoot 9. Try & work out what the hell I'm going to do/take for photo shoot! 10. Wedding cake Katies’s FI’s (Chris) to do:’s 1. Sort out music for ceremony 2. Decide on and put songs on iPod for Mexico reception 3. Put list of songs together for UK DJ that we want played (or not!) 4. Organize transport for all guests coming to Mexico - research costs 5. Book hotel for night of AHR Affromert – Amy’s to do’s: 1. GET SHOES ALREADY 2. Figure out jewelry prob just a necklace 3. Pick something blue? Maybe garter or panties? 4. 1st dress fitting tmw, yay!!! getting the tulle dyed hot pink! 5. Go shopping for Mexico clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6. Finish oot bag goodies Lolo’s to do’s: 1) Final fitting of my TTD dress on Tues 12 -we'll see.... 2) Get wedding dress alterations started - On Jan 12 3) Take pics to use on mugs-this will take awhile 4) Get marriage license 5) Book JP for legal ceremony before we go- meeting one tonight Crista’s To Do's: 1) Finish sending out STD's - in the mail by Monday 2) Plan engagement party dinner for February in Calgary (Invites/ Menu) 3) Start working on our official invitations - idea's/ colours - get everything sent to MD. 4) Start getting our wedding party to put their deposits down 5) Shopping with MOH to try on a few dresses I like

Quote: Originally Posted by renee1811 Okay, this is my first attempt of posting a picture, so wish me luck! The brand is City Triangles; it is a coral color, with spaghetti straps, empire bust with beading underneath, and a chiffon bottom that hits right at the knees. It has been retailing at all of our Ross stores for $19.99, and I need it in a Large. Thank you SOOOO much!! Pretty!!! I have a few Ross' by me so I'll check for you as well Hopefully one of us can track it down, that would be so amazing!! Wish us luck!

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B I didn't take any pics and I should have. I have seen the makeup artist a few time and she went over everything and wrote down the order everything should be put on. I am going to partice at home so when I do it for the big day I don't have a melt down. I never thought I would be doing my own make up for my wedding. I know this way I will like it. I hope its sweat adn cry proof, that's why I bought it. I just hate crying but least I can prepare for it. I decided to do the same thing... one of my bridesmaids is a hair and makeup artist and owns a salon but I wasn't super happy with my makeup for my engagement shoot and tweaked it when I got home. Did the Bobbi Brown makeup artist do a good job? Just like what you wanted?

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B Hey ladies! I have been MIA so I am so happy to get to catch up. I finally feel like I am making some major progress. We got our travel vouchers from our TA yesterday which was a releif. She was being a flake and didn't charge any of our guest till last week but asked for final payment at the beginning of Dec. I was pretty PO'ed, people budget for this big chunk of $$ to come out of their account and then she sat on it for 6 weeks. I was not pleased and thought it was a bit rude but we got over it now have our travel vouchers. Stressed out to the max about that for a few weeks. I got my make up for the ceremony yesterday. I decided to go with the Bobbi Brown waterproof eye make up line. Its really cool and last for 8 plus hours. I have a few things I need to work on but I think it will work out great. FI and I also picked out and ordered our cake topper for the AHR. So we are almost done with the cake planning as well. Today we are working on center pieces for the AHR with his parents. Well he is workiing on them, I am going to cook and watch football. He is the creative one and I wouldn't know the first thing on how to make a center piece stunning and romantic. Only 20 days left till the big day. The time is going to fly by. I am ready for the beach and a little sun! That's awesome! You sound like you are totally ready now, what a relief that must be, I can't wait until I feel like that Everything will be smooth from here on out! Quote: Originally Posted by Afrommert Andrea, we will be in mexico in NO time can't wait! Lucky you for haing a creative hubby. Mine has not a one creative bone in his body lol. So exciting!!! You two are lucky you get to have a drink and meet one another, we need pictures

Quote: Originally Posted by Afrommert Oh goodness, thats horrible about your TA! What company are you girls going through?? I use destination weddings and there have been mixed reviews, although im happy with the service I have recieved and so are my guest. VERY VERY quick responses. Who is your TA?!!?! MINE SUCKS!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda Oh I am soooo jealous Nicole. Have fun!!!! I think we get dessert with our meal but I am also having a wedding cake - vanilla/vanilla. I want to have the cake cutting and since I downgraded for the free wedding package I decided I could pay for the cake. Its a total waste and I am still doing it. Girls, I could F&%$#% kill my travel agent! I asked her Monday for an update on who has booked and NOTHING. My friend booked Tuesday and still does not have a confirmation. She is coming Mon-Mon and other girl is Tues-Mon and my TA said the first girl might have to pay for a double rate the first night even though it'll be one person that day. WTF. I am sooooo annoyed. I sent her an email last night to contact me ASAP. I think I have to lay into her to give her one more chance. If she cannot come through I am going to engage in a major smear campaign. This woman is going to bridal shows saying she is a TA for destination weddings and is so inept! OK thanks, needed to rant. Oh man... you and me both on the TA drama! I wrote a long email to my TA's manager on Thursday requesting a new one. 3 out of 4 quotes he sent last week were wrong. THOUSANDS of dollar MORE than they should have been and for the wrong dates. ARRRRG! You aren't working with DestinationWeddings.com are you? Good luck... I don't know what to do either...

Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda I always thought I would wait too but my sister didn't and her reasons were that they were sooooo nervous as it was, and seeing each other and talking and having a quiet moment together before the ceremony made them less nervous. Her photog prepared a staged meeting and she hid and took pictures of BIL's first seeing my sister come to meet him - away from all the guests. He got tears, it was awesome. I think I'd be too scared to cry and I know Mark would not want to cry in front of the guests either, so that's why we have chosen to do pictures together first. This was my exact thought, I thought it would be great to see each other privately, have a word and a tear and be relaxed and pumped for the ceremony... FI is not havin' it and already told me he's going to cry like a baby when he sees me walkin' down the aisle. Waterproof makeup anyone? YEP, ME! Quote: Originally Posted by Katie_2010 My FI is the same - he just turned round and said 'i'm not seeing you the night before - I'm sleeping in with dal and you can sleep in with laurel'!! Lol nice to be told haha but was still nice to hear him so traditional he's also excited about everyone trying to keep us apart the whole day of the wedding!! And I don't think I can cope multi quoting on my iPhone!! I'm having a bunch of my girlfriends over to my room night before the wedding for like a pj party and some will probably crash with me, I'm really excited for this but I'm afaid I won't get an ounce of sleep! Quote: Originally Posted by meghan Im trying to figure out if I should have a cake or not. Nicole, did the cake taste good that you had? And what kind of icing was it? What is everyone else doing for cakes/dessert? I'm having a 3-tier cake. I probably won't even have a bite besides what FI plans to smash into my face. This is dumb but ever since I was a little girl I remember wanting a 9-tier cake like Eddie Murphy did in his first marriage. I thought the cake was so grand and I loved it. So yeah, waste of money but it makes me happy so whatevs

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Nicole~ I think this is an amazing plan lol I totally was not trying to make a big deal about it Honeymoon, sort of but not really lol. I told DH I won't have babies until I get to travel a bit, considering my wedding was my FIRST time anywhere!! So we want to enjoy our childless time as much as possible. A couple from my work was booking a last minute trip the same time as us so we figured what the hell! The more the merrier! I checked out the DR section of the forum to see if I could help any BDW brides out while I was there, but the hotel I'm staying at must suck cause no one's getting married there! lol. Oh well, its the thought that counts right? Thank you!! How fun! You better show us pictures of fabulous DR I've always wanted to go there!

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Nicole~ I was only mentioning it because I know the mods do a lot of work to try and clean up the site to keep it running smoothly and out of respect for Tammy and all the hard work she does to give us a free community I leave for Punta Cana tomorrow! I'm already in vacation mode and have a feeling that today is going to be the longest day of my life Good point Nicole, I'm good now I promise How exciting!! Is this for a honeymoon