Emmers

Hey Ladies, Sorry I haven't had time to post lately but...well, I've been swamped. And it's 11:31pm and my flight to Mexico leaves tomorrow at 9 am....ahhhhh. But it's happening. Finleys, see you in a week or so! Talk to the rest of you when I get back! - Emmers

Quote: Originally Posted by finleys7 Leah - I had asked Karla and she wrote it would probably take 15-20 minutes for the walk through at the Chapel. I had assumed that she would be there, did she say to you she wouldn't. I will follow up with an email...I don't want to direct everyone either =) Thanks for the info! We'll be following up to see if they can do the same. I agree that it would be a tad awkward trying to orchestrate it all on your own, especially when we don't exactly know what's going on.

Wow, congrats and welcome! You'll have to tell us all about it - we are planning on honeymooning in Thailand, so we will take all the recommendations you have! Happy planning!

Love it all! Great job. Since I never got around to using luggage tags with the StDs, I think I'll go ahead and include them in the OOT bags. Again, great job!

Oh, one more thing - are any of you having a rehearsal dinner? We were originally going back and forth about it b/c as far as we were concerned, the Italian Restaurant was the only one you could rent out and we were already doing that for the reception. Well, turns out that they can organize a large group for dinner at another restaurant. It was in the document they sent us last week. Basically we'll tell them all the folks that will be present and if we do it at an a la cart restaurant, they would just reduce that meal from the guests' allotted a la cart options. Oh, and it looks like the service is included in the package, so it's not as though you're paying per head again. We are thinking of going ahead with this and just listing it as "optional" on the wedding events sheet we include with the oot bags. We figure the guests can decide for themselves if they want to join (we assume most, if not all, will).

Hi Ladies! Just popping in here after being MIA for a little while. Seems as though we're all in that mode. I thought we were pretty good at staying on top of things throughout the past couple months, but there are just a lot of loose ends that can't be tied up until the date approaches. We just received an email from Karla (wc) about a lot of last minute decisions. Until the email, we were always told that we'd make these decisions when we arrived down there, but now they want an immediate turnaround with all sorts of details - like flavor of cake, type of flowers, decorations, rehearsal dinner, etc. It's not that big of deal, just more of a surprise than anything that we suddenly have to turn this information around. C'est la vie. Less than two months! Can't believe it!

We are getting married at the Iberostar Paraiso Beach and were thinking of buying local crafts at Playa del Carmen to use as centerpieces. Does anyone know what the costs of these range? According to the internet, the two local specialties are handblown glass and red clay (earthenware) pottery. Any knowledge of the markets is appreciated!

We just want to play our ipod! Does anyone know the cheapest way to do this? I've read that Iberostar requires you to get a DJ in order to have a sound system, but we do not need a good DJ (or really, any DJ at all), since we just want to let the playlist do the work.

Thanks for the heads up! We'll be up in NYC in a few weeks for my FI's side's shower, so this is definitely something worth checking out if we don't do it over the phone.

Quote: Originally Posted by EDRBride2009 Hi there, I checked the bags, they are the 3 1/2 x 5 inch bags Thanks! I went back and checked out your photos and it looked like that size, but thanks for confirming. It definitely helps me plan what I can fit in them! Thanks again for posting. Your OOT bags are definitely the model I'm using for mine. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?

Quote: Originally Posted by finleys7 Emmers - I am still laughing over here. I think we are all done...maybe 1 or 2 more couples...but total 69 people at 37 rooms. Last day for RSVP is Feb. 28th Leah - BD stands for Boudoir Shoot, it's a lingerie-esque type of photo shoot. Check out my photographers site at Beautiful and Affordable Photography I loved the shoot, it was so much fun and I can't wait to give this to FI on our wedding day as my gift =) Ha! Thanks! I think we're at 62 booked right now, and invitations just went out. We think 62 will be our number, but we may get a few surprises in there. Your BD photo is beautiful by the way.

Quote: Originally Posted by EDRBride2009 If you send me your email address, I will send you the tags as a pdf. I made them in Corel Draw if you'd prefer them like that. I have a friend who works in a doctors office, she got them for me I used a small hole punch and little brad's I bought from Michael's The small jute bags? I ordered them from papermart.com . The actual OOT bags I bought at Ten Thousand Villages Do you remember what size of jute bags you bought? They have so many options and I don't know how large to buy. Thanks! Again, they look AMAZING!

Thanks so much for posting the formats! They look amazing!

Thank you soooo much for sharing. Compared to everyone else I've seen listed on this forum, she is at least half the price!

Hi! We chose Iberostar but they are both nice resorts. What took RIU out of the running for us was that they only allow you to stay 3 nights or more. For a lot of our guests, we knew that they would not be able to take alot of vacation and we wanted to give them as many options as possible. Hope that helps!