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I searched all over this site for garter and bouquet toss songs...I finally chose our songs! Lady Marmelade for the bouquet...fun and sassy for all the girls. You can leave your hat on - Joe Cocker for the Garter...another fun sassy song..and will have a fedora for my FI, he loves Fedoras! lol And we are having all people on the floor to catch and the winner of each gets to dance to a song with us...thinking margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet, but might go to 3 little birds by Bob Marley, since we are in Jamaica!

I'm going to go try to find that song too! I looove the song Blair picked for our first dance...Stay with you by John Legend...it's so lovely and played loud is the best! heheh Love is gone!! woohoo!! i think CDs is a great idea...hopefully you got them done! I think this thread will be pretty quiet for a while now i leave in 2 more sleeps...1 1/2 days left of work! yay!

Me too! I didn't love it at all after my alterations...i had her even undo some because my Chest Fat was bludging...and i don't have chest fat! it was so bad. i left unhappy even though she fixed it. but a few days later when i got my make up done at Mac and i had my new earrings i tried the dress on and fell in love again! not to worry, just a moment of no-love! it'll come back

JESS thank you soooo much! i've been struggling with tieing parts of our script together and you just helped me out!! I'll post mine when FI gives the ok tonight!

I'm having such a hard time picking! Might go with Daddy's little angel by T Carter...so far it is the most suiting. we leave in 4 days i need to hurry up! lol

Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 It is a little long, but I remember how much detailed stuff helped me when we were looking so I wanted to make it as helpful as possible! I hope it does. Long story short though.. you will love it! that is all that matters! I read your post! it was awesome!! I seriously cannot WAIT!!!!!! 4 more sleeps!! Thanks everyone again!!

OOOMMMMMGGGGG!! BAJ IS GONE!!! YAYA!!! it's coming soooo fast now! 4 sleesp for me!! thank you girls for being here to share this with me!!! love this website so much! Love i gotta go see if you posted your thread, can't wait to see it! My garter still hasn't come...eeek! Loveis, why was yesterday the best day of your..mife? Did you guys watch the mens hockey game??!!! OMG i cried!!! what an amazign game...sorry to you us girls! FI and i were at the olympics...watch USA kick Finlands but in the mens hockey and then watched the men Fins get bronze! soooo great! so now that they olympics are over i'm in FULL WEDDING MODE! my stomach has been in knots and flipping with excitment!! YAY US!!! hehehe So i actually am NOT happy with my alterations, but it will be fine! my new motto now is OH WELL! and it really seems to work!! OH WELL!! hehhehe I'm working on our vows right now...i hated the ones our ministser says so we are writing the whole script. i pulled some stuff together from this website, printed it and let FI read it on the plane to Van and he said, why do i have to do this right now, i'm gonna cry! hahah dork! he didn't cry but he LOVED it, so now i just need to put it together and send it to the WC. yay! BAJ I'm sooooo excited for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have so much fun!!! will be thinking about your on your big day...which is the day I leave!! and Love, you are the day after I arrive!! moody...you need to post your wedding date cause i forget yours! Ooohh what a great time in our lives girls!!!!

It's so exciting to have other girls in the same boat as me, with just a few days left to go!! Baj a filling! oh no! I pick up my dress tonight...I'm worried about back fat though! when she pinned it for it to be altered around the top, back fat was squishing out. so we'll see how it looks tonight...eeeek!! I just got the script for the ceremony today...and I don't like it, but i don't think i have time to write our own...I'll have to search this site to get some inspiration...thank goodness for my slooooow office job and the internet! You girls all make sure you come back to this thread after you're back and fill me in, ok!! We are gone for 2 weeks so we aren't back until March 19th so I'll be delayed in reading it all, but fill me in!! YAY!!!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! YAY! Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 OMG! I stalked Tripadvisor so much before our trip! In fact I will link you to my review... let me find it.... If you don't have fun here, you are doing it wrong! - Review of Couples Swept Away Negril, Negril, Jamaica - TripAdvisor Thank you!! I love LOOOONG posts on TA! I have it open, I'll read it shortly!! can't wait Quote: Originally Posted by Loveisintheair Don't worry...I am working on it now. I need to go home and take pics of everything. You have inspired me! Get on it missy! hehe Quote: Originally Posted by msmoodyr KerriJ ..go right ahead put us March brides to shame .. lol .. Everything looks great! Hope you have a great time You too Ms Moody, get on it! Quote: Originally Posted by miznunu2010 Everything looks great! Where did you get the cigar boxes from? They are from Americanbridal.com $45...I think there was one site for $40 but i couldn't find it again when it came time to order.

Good thread....where are all the responses? We have never been so I can't add...doh!

Quote: Originally Posted by Jenamie But I just turned 27 and the clock is ticking in my head and making it to the two year mark as I wanted is getting harder and harder So new plan is to start trying on my best friends wedding... they are going for a babymoon so I would love having a kid with my best friend! March 2011 ... I hope I can do it hahaha ! Your clock isn't ticking at 27! heheh I'm 32, I'm the one who should be saying that...but i'm not worried yet. My cousin is a Nurse and she said the norm these days is to be in your early 30s...girls with babies in their early-mid 20s is so much less common! We have lots of time!! But I must say....beach vacation "lovin" is the best kind there is! I know the sun won't get us down... when we get home, that's a different story, less "lovin" when we have to get up early for work everyday! hehehe

Kris that is brilliant!! I love my Olympic mitts too! We are off to Vancouver tomorrow for a couple hockey games! I'd love to copy your idea, but it's to original to steal...Love it though!! And your dress is to die for!

Just wanted to mention, that i heard from a girl who just got married at GBP, and she used the hotel photographer and she said they weren't that good. she said she wished people had taken more photos on their personal cameras cause the ones she got from the hotel photog weren't good. Just a heads up incase anyone is planning on using them. we get 10 free photos with our Free Package, we'll take them cause they are free. lol

Quote: Originally Posted by momichele Everything looks great. What is the challenge? Hey, I wrote about it in a Guest Meet and Great Alternatives thread...but basically, it's like amazing race...7 teams of 6 people, 8 Pit Stops and between each pit stop they have to do a challenge and get a photo taken doing the challenge for proof they completed it. Also to get to each pit stop i don't tell them exactly where to go they get a riddle or a poem that will help them figure out where to go! at each pit stop is someone from the wedding party...this way everyone gets to know who the people of our wedding party are. they also play a game at the pit stop, eg, trivia about FI and I, Learning the Patois Expression (Jamaican Slang), underwater team photo (which I'm going to print for everyone and in the thank you letters send their team photo...will be hilarious)! final pit stop is me and FI at the mail pool bar and we'll have a huge pool party! It also takes everyone around the hotel so they learn it fast! they'll go to the Medi Office, ATM, gazebo where the wedding will be, rest where the wedding will be, main stage, all the bars, etc. Should be a blast! It has been a LOT of planning!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Loveisintheair Everything looks wonderful!! I am so happy for you. You did a great job on everything and I love your welcome booklets. The dress is beautiful and now that I see your ring all of the ring drama is worth it. Can't wait to see everything when you get back as a MRS!!!!! Thanks LoveIs!! Now it's your turn to post...your wedding is before mine!! Quote: Originally Posted by butterfly4kathy2 Kerri! I just wanted to let you know that CSA is AWESOME!!! That is where my FI and I got engaged in November! LOVED IT!!! The food was AWESOME and the drinks are STRONG! The beach is amazing. Hardly any waves.. so relaxing! We had a beachfront room also! I am jealous! I loved it there! You are going to have a great time! I can't wait!! I've been reading trip advisor updates and not one single negative!! (not that you can really believe most negatives anyway) So exciting you got engaged there! Yay! such a happy time! THANKS ALL!!!!!!!!!

I would like for us to have more money. I'd like to help some very important people make it to our wedding that can't because our out of work because of this economy. What came first, the chicken or the egg?

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!?! hahahahah oooh dear!! My cousin and I crashed a wedding (her bro's friends wedding, we weren't invited but we came for the dance as we were from a diff province) in Nova Scotia this summer...and at midnight they brought out pizza for the midnight lunch...it was cold...so we asked why it was cold...they said, it is left overs from dinner! heheheh I don't think it's a terrible thing, but it's so funny, never been to a wedding where the meal served was delivery pizza and the midnight snack was cold left over pizza from dinner! hehe

hHAHAHA Chris' rainbow and unicorn rant was soooo funny! he held it together soooo well!! and did i catch the part right where HoeBag said and what about you hitting on his wife in NZ? WIFE??! so the guy is married and that is why she's lieing through her teeth! ...or did i not actually hear the word wife? i'm sad Aly is gone...def the way he looked at her last night and how he told Chris he didn't know how it would be when he saw her, was evidence he still loved her. Vienna is so annoying and a major princess, she'll be trouble...Tenly, def a Disney Charater, that was perfect!

We are going to start trying right after the wedding! we have the whole week after as well too! went off the pill 3 months ago so hopefully by body will say.....GO!!

It's been a couple rough weeks for our Calgary girls Christina, I'm sooo sorry, I wish I had the words to make it all better...But i think Jenny put it so well, and coming from a someone with the 10 years history she's been through it. I'm sitting here in my office reading and having to take breaks so i don't cry. I feel so awful because it's almost like a little family of girls on here and then one one is hurt (even Cara's situation) it hurts me too. I hope you are ok, i know you will come out of this a better stronger woman, we all do once we come out of a relationship...you'll find bigger and better, and you'll get that Romantic Proposal like you missed out on this time. Keep smiling Christina!

Hair Beautiful Eva is my hair inspiration. I’ll take this picture to the resort to see what they can do. My veil I want to come from underneath some how. Also my good friend’s hair…she got hers done at the Grand Palladium Mayan..love her hair! Highly recommend GP spa for wedding hair...it didn't budge an inch an was sooo beautiful! Flowers I chose not to spend extra money on the flowers. I get my bouqet included in our wedding package. And for the girls they will use parasols and fans. I also got our moms fans too. and the boys don’t really need a boutonniere ..although my FI has one. This is what my bouquet will look like I'm told.. Parasols and Fans and gifts were all ordered off of American Bridal! Even though I'm Canadian and you cant have a Canadian CC, my friend in TX loaned me her card for the order! yay! (She's actually the one who told me about this site after her DW in Mexico!) These parasols I got in white and were like $5 and sooo prefect! Made my MOH cry when she saw them! I wish I got myself one in yellow, might have to go look in China Town for one for me.hehehe Fans in white which were about $1 each and so great! Photog We chose to hire our photographer from home, as she’s a friend of our sis in law. We are getting a TTD, BD, full wedding day start to finish, and a shoot of one of our events, all for the cost of her trip. Good deal! My only concern is, she doesn’t know the area at all, where a local photog would know all the great places to take us for photos and TTD. But I’m sure we won’t have much time anyway to take off to a private beach, so I’m sure it’ll be just fine! And she’s also going to do a BD session for a few of my friends for free! Honeymoon We decided to go all out and splurge on our honeymoon since it will only happen once. We are marrying in Runaway Bay and staying there for our first week. For our 2nd week we are going to Negril with 2 of our friends. Our friends are staying at a non-AI hotel just down the beach from us. And we are staying at a 5 star Couples Swept Away resort, beachfront and all! I can’t wait! I'm looking forward to laying on the beach, wanting a drink, putting a flag in the sand and waiting for the waitress to come over with fruit kabobs to take our drink order!! HEAVEN with my HUSBAND! Thank you all for reading my thread...Pretty much every single idea came from this website (I was faithful to BDW and never looked at another site, except for one, but i didn't like it) You all helped me plan my dream wedding and I cant' thank you all enough! I'm soooo happy! 10 sleeps til we leave and 2 weeks today until I'm a MRS!!! Love Love Love!!

Monogram I discovered the monogram on this site! And I think it adds such a great little touch. I had fun playing with it and made a zillion before I decided on this one. Great way to kill time at work! I can't figure out how to post it yet Welcome bags In the welcome bags we will be giving everyone a tie dyed shirt that FI and I made (wow make 50+ shirts is a loooot of work!). I also iron on the “Yah Mon!!” and our wedding date on everyone’s shirts. The wedding party and our parents have special ones that say Mother of the Bride or Best Man, etc. The shirts are for the day after we arrive. I’ve planned a challenge for the entire group which will get them to know the hotel and where everything is and meet new people! Each team has a different team color of shirts. (The blue one in the pic doesn’t show it well though) Also included the beer mug beads for our first night there we are inviting everyone to meet us at the disco, the beads are so everyone knows who is in our group. The letter will also be in the bag. It has the invite to the disco night and the challenge, as well as a cheat sheet of everyone who is in our group and how FI and I know them. as well as a map of the hotel grounds. Can’t have a DIY project without wine! One of my favorite gifts is a homemade CD of the persons fav songs...so we are putting one we've made in everyones bag...it's not finished yet...i looooove the pic on the CD makes me laugh! and then on the inside we'll put the list of songs, which will include our wedding song!! Our Attire FI’s shirt and tie was the hardest one to find. We found him a nice linen suit on sale at Le Chateau and wanted a pale yellow shirt with a tie of some sort…but do you think you can find yellow ties in the winter in Calgary? Heck no! we ended up going white on white and love it! and guess what I found the week after we bought his white shirt…a yellow shirt! Hehehehe Sorry no pics. My dress! It’s Ivory and slightly shimmery. I'm hoping the sunshine doesn't make it toooo shimmery! I don't have my veil here but it's a double tier that I won't wear over my face, but hangs to my bum. I was going to wear my great grandma’s necklace that is about 100 years old but changed my mind. No necklace and long dangly earrings. My MOH is loaning me a bracelet (her grandma’s/my grandma’s sister) for my something old instead. This shot was at my alterations appointment last week. I pick it up tomorrow! Wedding Party Attire I had a hard time finding the girls dresses as they all have different body types and I wanted them in the same or similar dresses that didn’t cost much… I ended up buying them this dress from LeChateau for $130 each. I wish that I would have just bought fabric and let them choose their design. Oh well! The dress is so pretty and they all look beautiful in them! Here is a pic of me in the change room when I found the dresses and text them pics of it The guys we put in yellow matching ties from Le Chateau, a white linen shirt from RW&Company, and khaki pants from Winners. We wanted it super casual with a bit of formal. Didn’t get a pic before giving it to the boys. Wedding party gifts Since we bought the wedding party’s clothes, we chose to do a smaller gift for them. For the fellas we bought them personalized mini humidors which were awesome!! The girls we got them leather covered flasks, they are so awesome I can’t wait to give them! I got them in their favorite colors, pink, hot pink, green, and unfortunately they were out of the blue for one of the girls. boo. got them for about $10 too! My dad, for walking me down the aisle I got him an engraved pocket watch that is sooo beautiful! Still not done!!!

Wow it's my turn!! so exciting! Thank you soooo much too every bride on this forum, the creators, the MODS, the Vendors, everyone has been so amazing and inspirational! I took so many ideas and molded them into our own special DW. All the convos I was involved in or read were so helpful I can’t even explain. If it wasn’t for this forum, I’m not sure how the wedding would have turned out! So I truly thank everyone who is part of this forum!! Maybe I should also thank my boss, for not swamping me with work so I had plenty of time to do work on fun little wedding details and pretty much plan my entire wedding while in my office!! (I wonder if he’s ever caught on. Heheh) I have never been that little girl who always dreamed of my wedding and had everything planned out. So when I got engaged to my dream man, I had no idea at all what I wanted for a wedding…the only thing I knew was, I wanted 4 bridesmaids and did NOT want a destination wedding…and of those 2 things, neither happened!! Since my brother had a DW and I knew most of my relatives who I’m very close with would not be able to attend, I refused a DW. But when we started planning our dream wedding…camping on a beach with a bonfire and midnight swimming…family wasn’t happy with that either. No one seemed to be happy with what we wanted, so we figured we’d go the easy and less expensive (not by a whole lot though!) way and get married on a Caribbean beach instead of a B.C. lake beach! So here is my planning thread… The Engagement The short version! My FI and I had been dating just over 2 ½ years when we went to Mayan Riviera for our good friends wedding (you’ll see her hair in my hair inspiration pic!). On our last full day there and he took me to Cozumel for the day. We rented a scooter, with the funniest helmets! And went from beach to beach to beach! It was soo dead on the island as it was 2 days before the last evacuation day of Mexico during the swine flue outbreak, so at all the beaches were were pretty much the only people there, so it was even more perfect and private! On our 3rd beach we went snorkeling and were diving for conch shells for our bride/groom friend, and when we finished he said, what about this one? And I turned and he was on one knee in the surf holding up my ring! It was truly the most amazing and special moment/day of my life! I've never cried so whole heartedly in my life! Just after a beautiful peacock randomly walked up to us, squaked and opened it's feathers and did a little dance for us! it was sooo cool! here is a pic of it. The Rings He picked out the perfect ring for me all on his own! Maple Leaf Diamond centre stone perched up above 16 channel set diamonds and 4 diamonds on each side of the band…love it! Having a custom w band made for it…if you’ve read some of my other posts you’ll know that I’m having issues with it and it was ordered 2 months before the wedding and won’t be done in time in fact they only started it a week ago. So I’m getting a plain gold band…for free! And will get my eternity band after we are back from Jamaica. FIs ring was also custom made but we won’t get it until a few days before we leave, so no pic of it either. here is my ring. i looove it! [/img] Invitations & Save the Dates My BIL’s girlfriend made them both. It was a LOT of work as she lives in a different city so communication was difficult. I recommend if you get them made, be sure you can visit the person in person! They turned out lovely but not worth the headache. Magnetic STD...it's the photo we use for our engagement photo, we took a self portrait right after we got engaged, i still have messy hair and cry eyes but I love it anyway! [/img] Wedding Party This was one of the most difficult decisions of the wedding. How did I ask some friends and not others without hurting feelings or making anyone feel lesser of a friend than the other. It was very tough and took me 2 months to decide. And even when I was decided and had asked them, I still wasn’t happy. Even though I wanted 4 bridesmaids growing up, I didn’t want a small wedding group with a huge wedding party. We went from 1 bridesmaid to 5 and back and forth with numbers. Finally we stuck to 3. I had one great friend that I didn’t ask and it broke my heart. I wanted her to be in my wedding but just didn’t know how. Eventually I was given the idea of a Flower Girl!! So there I had it, my 33 year old Flower Girl! And now I've grown soooo close with other girl (my hair inspiration, below) that I really would love her in the party to, but just can't have them all I guess! heheh I guess I'm one heck of a lucky girl to have such amazing friends! My FI knew right away who he’d ask and left it up to me how many girl I wanted to ask. So his part was so easy! Travel Agent If I were to have a do-over, I would absolutely omit the TA. (unless I was able to use one of the TAs on this site who are actually helpful) I used SellOffVacations. It was so difficult to find a TA who would take our group on, and the one we finally found was so awful! Even my FIL to be has had people complain to him about her. I swear it was like pulling teeth for her to do anything. I book so much travel and groups in my day to day job, that I wish I did it on my own as I know what I'm doing anyway. Resort We chose the Gran Bahia Principe Runaway Bay Jamaica, firstly Jamaica, because no one has really been there that we know tha would be coming and we liked everything about them. The wedding package was good and the gazebo is so private and beautiful! and i know 4 other couples now who have stayed there and LOVED it! and it's a 24 hr resort which was really important to me for our guests. This is where our wedding will be and the Dance after dinner will be held here too with a private bar on the beach to the right of the gazebo in the sand! Yay! And we aren't having any color or flowers. just plain pretty white tulle, i want it simple and have the beauty of Jamaica to be our decor. [/img] [/img] Not done yet.......

WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! love the painting that makes you smile!

I didn't read all the other advice but she is going to be your FAMILY so you can't uninvite her from your wedding just because she's a total b!tch, as much as I'm sure I wouldn't want her there anyway. you cant' exclude her. keep her out of the wedding party for sure though. but extend the invitation for everything else, even the shower. it's not like you have to sit by her the entire time. say hello, say good bye and just avoid her nicely the rest of the time! good luck.