Chelymo

Def #1 - more of a sexy sleek look.

Congrats and welcome! Happy planning.

I think that the necklace would look good but stay clear from the bracelet - an make sure that you wear some very understated earrings.

I'm bringing my dress with me on the plane. Not leaving it to chance...I'm planning on asking the flight crew to store in the closet as well.

Congrats - happy planning.

I finally completed and mailed out all of my invites. I'm going with a black and white damask theme accented with teal. I bought the invites from the Bride's wedding collection from Michael's but wanted to add my personal touches. Here is what the invite looks like before. Here is the final product not much different just a few slight additions to make it more me. What I did was change the ribbon and used one that had a little white trim to it. I added a flower to the ribbon, which consisted of 3 flowers, the teal one was purchased in a bottle with a bunch of different sized flowers, the black and damask print flowers were punched out using a flower puncher, I used black and a damask print scrapbooking paper for these. I then put all three together with the mini silver brads and used a hot glue gun to adhere to the ribbon. And the final touch instead of using the damask label seals that came with the invites I made my own using sticker paper and one of the logos that I had created. Here are the items that I used which were all purchased at Michael's, with the exception of the sticker paper that I purchased at Office Depot. What do you think?

Great job - thanks for sharing.

Wow these are really nice. Good job!

Ladies - there is a thread posted by NOMAAM - Heading to Punta Cana that has lots of pics of DPB from his recent trip. Check them out they are great.

NOMAAM - Thank you so much for taking the time to take the pics and mostly for posting these. There have been very few pics of DPB so this helps visualize a lot. You are the man!

very cute - thanks for sharing.

Quote: Originally Posted by cararyan01 Hi Chelymo, Congrats on your upcoming Wedding!! That is a good size group that is going with you to share in your special day!! Do you know if you can choose what is serve for the buffet style? I talked to Melani and she did tell me that I can book an A La Carte if I have 25 or less people...I am thinking if it is slightly over this number I might negotiate because 2 of the 25 I have right now are children under 5 years old so I don't think add up to an Adult price!! When you are already at an All-Inclusive... Cheers, Cara Congrats to you too Cara! Since it's a buffet I didn't even ask but I'm assuming that it will be whatever is being served that evening for dinner. I've heard that Melani is very accomodating on trying to get a reservation for you at one of the other restaurants so I don't think that the kids should be a problem.

Congrats and welcome. Aren't you glad you found this site it is the best.

Love the colors very tropical and chic.

These are really nice! Great job - thanks for sharing.

Congrats and welcome. Another May Dreams bride here - Dreams Palm Beach in Punta Cana.

Just wearing a white pant suit not going all out, since we are just doing the courthouse thing. A nice dinner out just the two of us.

She's calling you inconsiderate - HELLO!!!! This is your wedding not her's why would you need to schedule around her schedule if anyone is inconsiderate, it's her! Sounds more like a little jelousy to me.

I'm getting married in DPB in May and have not really seen much pictures of weddings on the beach. If you catch any while there please take pics. As far as negotiations - I would ask to know if the rate for the rooms goes down based on the number of rooms that you will book and if you can get upgraded to a nicer room if there are more than a certain number of rooms booked as well. Have fun - we look fwd to the pics.

Quote: Originally Posted by cararyan01 Hi, I am new to this site and noticed some valuable wedding info for the DPB. My Fiance and I have booked our trip and have confirmed our wedding date and time for Feb 26, 2010 @ 12:00pm. I was just wondering if you have received any more info back from Melani about opting out of the "Private" Dinner? Thanks and Congrats to you! I'm not doing a private dinner, after speaking with Melani she advised that she would help us in getting dinner reservations for our group of 60 at the World Cafe which is the buffet style restaurant. Since my group is so large we could not reserve in another restaurant. But if you have a smaller group she could probably get you into one of the other restaurants. Good Luck!

Welcome to the forum. You are going to find so many good ideas here.

Everything looked so wonderful - can't believe you did all of this in such a short timeframe.

Love the bride timeline.

Your dress is amazing - congrats on the wedding.

Everything looks great but my fav is the welcome letter. Very nicely put.