Emmers

Great dress and certainly something they can wear again!

Nice work! Thanks for posting. This should be VERY helpful when I finally get around to it...

Nice work! Thanks for posting. This should be VERY helpful when I finally get around to it...

I didn't order this but I JUST saw it on David Tutoro's (sp?) My Fair Wedding yesterday and loved it. Each BM could choose the best fit for their figure, which was certainly a plus. In hindsight, I wish I had considered this over the different styles I chose.

Yes, we're doing the whole legal thing before heading down and then having a very close friend of the family "marry us" in front of friends & family in Mexico. For starters, my fiance used to clerk for a judge and he really wanted to judge to marry us. But since the judge is 94 years old, we can't count on him making the trip And second of all, it is sooooo much easier doing the legal stuff in the States! Only our parents will be at the one in the States and we plan on treating the destination wedding as our true wedding date.

Yep, my fiance and I met on okcupid. Neither of us were looking for "the one" at the time, just interesting people in our area. Online dating seems to be a lot more common than in years past, since as far as I'm concerned, it is the most efficient way for young professionals in large cities to meet. I can honestly say I'm a lot less embarrassed saying I met him online than others that have to say "we met at a bar at 3am..."

Great decision! Congrats and welcome aboard! Best of luck in planning.

Congrats! Can't imagine a better Valentine's Day present That date is already creeping up... best of luck!

Congrats and welcome!!! You will be getting married one day before us!

Congrats! You will be very excited you made the same choice. We were trying to deal with all of those little at-home details as well and it was a no-brainer to make it a destination wedding. Have a great time planning and welcome aboard!

Congrats! Welcome to the wonderful world of planning a destination wedding You'll find plenty of helpful hints on this site ...I know I did!

Wow! Congrats! Best of luck planning!

Very cute. Nice work!

By the way, are you looking for a resort for the venue? If so, all-inclusives seem to ease a lot of the stress as well as the need for wedding planning since they take care of all of it. We're having ours at Iberostar, and we're really please with them so far. But I also hear the Palaces are amazing (but certainly not cheap). Anything around the Mayan ruins or cenotes would be beautiful as well.

I'm sure this would make things a lot easier. However, we ended up using the travel agent who is booking all the travel along with the on-site wedding coordinator at the resort, and it seems to be working. Of course they have a lot of other clients to tend to, but since we're not paying anything extra for their help, we've been quite pleased.

Wow, so sorry about your frustration.

Great work! It will be worth it as I'm sure your guests will adore them

Hi and welcome! Congrats! We just returned from Sandals in Jamaica (Ocho Rios, to be exact) for a little winter getaway before our wedding April and we hit the one week of January where it rained all day long. Hopefully you have much better luck with the weather. And for the record, it is supposed to be dry and sunny all through January, but we just had bad luck. Anyway, about the wedding, you would have a great time choosing Sandals. However, just a couple things to know about them that may impact your decision (as it impacted ours when choosing the resort) is that (1) they do multiple locations per day, (2) at least at Ocho Rios, it was packed with very little beach property to host a wedding, and (3) the nicer ones were those that rented a private room but obviously those are more expensive. Even though it rained, we had a great time, and it is nice knowing that it was all adults at Sandals. One more thing - I see you are set to get married in September? You may be able to strike up some good deals and it may be less crowded since hurricanes notoriously hit the Caribbean at that time of year. Best of luck and welcome to the forum!!

Wow! And congrats! Here I was just wondering how in the world I'm going to get all of this done in 8 weeks (and we've been planning since August). Best of luck.

Yes, I agree that it's inappropriate to expect guests to pay their way to a shower they were invited to. I think it depends on who is officially "hosting" the wedding. If your guests receive an invitation and it states who is throwing it, the assumption is that the host is indeed taking care of the details. My recommendation would be to look at what the budget is for the shower and then do a shower within those limits. Either that or as already suggested, perhaps some of the groom's side wants to get together with the MOH and support the shower Good luck!

Thanks, good to know. Now if only we knew how many people were attending so we could start buying these items...

I absolutely agree with Sheree that you should confirm your hotel first, since that impacts everything when it comes to your date. When we sent out our STDs, we included another sheet with the travel agent info along with sample rates from different locations for different periods of time so that people could either start booking then or get an idea of what it would cost.

I'm just going with a flower. The bridal consultant I worked with when trying on dresses told me about her destination wedding and that the wind is always an issue when you're down on the beach. If that is the case, the veil is all over the place in all of your pictures.

I'm not 100% sure on the legality of the issue, however, most (if not all) destination wedding locations allow you to do a symbolic ceremony. That way, it will be official wherever you choose to actually sign the paperwork (i.e., home), but it will appear as though you are tying the knot at the destination with all of your friends and family.

I like #1. Just realized how many other people do. If this helps you make your decision, it should be a no-brainer based on the current poll results Good luck!