YaelM

CONGRATS!! Welcome to the forum and happy planning!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!! I love your ring You will find so much helpful information here - happy planning!

Hmmm I think one of my girl crushes is Julia Roberts - she seems like she would be SO much fun to hang out with and she is gorgeous!

I know i CANT wait! I heart Jim and Pam together!

wow what a fun and unique dress! I love it on u

Hmm i have to think about this one...but loving this thread!

Congrats and welcome to the forum! PS we are neighbors - i live in Palo Alto

Hi and welcome to teh forum! I actually did a site visit at El Cid 1.5 years ago. Its a nice resort but in the lobby it felt kinda like a casino and seemed to have an older vibe...thats just my opinion though! I remember it was reasonably priced and not to huge

Thanks Viki and Meghan

Congrats and welcome to the forum! There is a specific thread on your resort so Im sure you will get tons of useful information. Happy Planning!

Yay cant wait to see all the new siggys! Thanks Tammy

Love it Autumn!!

I think we booked our flight like 4 months out

Hi Amber! Welcome to the forum and happy planning!

Kelly - I just wanted to send you positive vibes! Lisa - *hugs*

They look great!!

Your pics turned out GREAT!! You look amazing and your FI will love these!

Thank you everyone! I really appreciate all the sweet comments You guys are the best!

Awww such a great engagement! Congrats

haha I havent heard those before - thanks for the good laughs

Thanks everyone! Im so happy that everything worked out in the end and came out as nice as it did. I loved the petal aisle runner too! Autumn - we bought cheap wine from whole foods and soaked them in water to get the original labels off. We made the pig labels with Avery mailing labels from office max - i just used word and clip art and then we stuck them on the wine - super easy! Also all the hotel rooms had wine openers so our guests could enjoy it during their stay

Thanks Ladies! It was actually pretty fun doing this b/c i got to re-live my wedding again

Cake This was actually the cake we were suppose to have in Mexico. We just sent The Four Seasons the picture from the resort and they did a great job replicating it. Programs We made a basic program in word and printed ourselves on resume paper. This looked like our welcome letter. We used the same theme for the programs, welcome letter, and menus. All were pretty simple and easy. Menu Since our guests had a choice of 2 different entrees – menus were required. We did a simple one on word and also printed on resume paper. Kind of hard to see the menu but its there. We had our logo on top Thank Yous We made a picture collage from Nate’s pics and we ordered them from Vistaprint If you made it this far YAY and thanks for indulging me and letting me relive my wedding!

*** I had originally done a welcome brochure (Morgan’s template) and who’s who booklet for Mexico. For the Who’s Who se had a different picture background for each page (6) that we had taken at the resort during the site visit. I didn’t re do them for Santa Barbara because 1) I didn’t want to and 2) the who’s who took so long the first time and we had a different mix of guests I just couldn’t do it Favors Personalized mints. Again these we already purchased for Mexico so they have the wrong date but what were we going to do with 40 personalized mints...i dont think i could have sold them on BDW ;-). We ordered them from Oriental Trading Company Gifts DH gave the 3 groomsmen aviator sunglasses we got a Macys. For my MOH and Bridesmaid I bought them each a clutch from beegeebags Welcome to Beegeebags.com The loved them and I got one for myself too *my pic – they each got a different design I also included coconut lip gloss from philosophy Pear earring studs to wear if they choose to the ceremony (they did!) Teal Old Navy flop flops * all images from websites We also paid for 2nights stay at the hotel all teh guests were staying at (Fes Parker Double Tree) for my MOH and her husband, my Bridesmaid and a few other friends since they all lost $ at the hotel in Mexico when we had to cancel For my parents we bought them 4 Riedel wine glasses. They love good wine but never had any good glasses. They loved them! For DH’s mom we paid for her whole trip so we didn’t get her a specific gift I gave DH a boudoir book. I used Terra Tabbytosavit Photography. She is based in San Francisco and was SO great to work with! This is the cover page when you first open it * Taken by Terra Tabbytosavit Music We made our own play list and had an ipod docking station. As you can see people had a LOT of fun and the dance floor was never empty. We asked my MOH’s husband to be our MC – he did a great job introducing us and working the ipod

“Guest Book†We had our friend write messages on a white board and take pictures. I 100% stole this idea from BDW. It was funny getting the pictures back because most of them were funny inside jokes. *Pic taken by friend Name Cards/Tables We wanted a way to incorporate our dog, Chesdin so each table had an 8x10 pic of him and the each name card had the corresponding picture. We just used card stock and printed these our ourselves and bought cheap frames at target. Flowers and Centerpieces We used Modern Day Design for our flowers per recommendation from our planner. For the centerpieces and bouquets she had sent us a word document with description of the options (no pics) so we just went with the one that sounded cool even though I didn’t know what half the words meant LOL. When I saw them my jaw dropped – they were so beautiful! You can see them on the picture above too on the tables My Bouquet This was the only thing I was sure of – I wanted white calla lilies Bridesmaid Bouquet Again we just went with the more “unique†option and they turned out awesome! DH wore a single calla lilly for his boutonnière and same with my dad OOT bags We already had the OOT bags for Mexico and decided to still give them out even though they had our logo that said Maya Riviera May 8th. We ordered these from the Executive Advertising. We made our logo on PowerPoint and sent them the image. We gave each couple a bag. Contents included: Granola bars, Purell hand sanitizer, Aleve, Gum, Shout wipes, Famous Amos cookies, Color Changing Cups, a welcome letter thanking everyone for their support and how excited we are to have them celebrate with us. Bottle of wine with our own custom label –we had to somehow joke about the swine flu. We just made these on word and printed them on mailing label . It says Swine Flu Reserve at the bottom