msglave

Nice. I really love the cake topper!

Everything look great! Your ring is beautiful. I love the tension setting. I had never seen anyone else do it besides Movato.

Really creative to dye the shirts! I love the color scheme of the guests too!

Nice planning. Thanks for sharing. I love your centerpieces did you use the submersible floralytes to light them at the bottom? That's what I'm considering now. If so, were you pleased with how they worked? Thanks.

Quote: Originally Posted by PaperBagPrincess Thank you!!!! I never even notice those icons at the bottom before. NP! You did it AND IT WORKED!!!!! YAY!!!!!

A lot of ladies buy their things. It's often cheaper than renting. Check with your resort to make sure they will set your things up (most of them will for no extra charge). If you go here, you will link to a widely used and inexpensive site. Good luck!

Aaaawwwwww...Such a beautiful engagement. Congrats! I love LOVE!

I like them both. I agree with debb-you need to see which one actually looks best on you. I think the first one is more sexy-I favor that one based on pics alone.

Quote: Originally Posted by duprk452 I'm not sure if it would match the david's bridal mermaid.. but they were aqua/tiffany blue This is where I ordered them from-- 8x108 Satin Sash - TiffanyBlue/Aqua50618(10pcs/pk) I didn't end up getting them all back, which i was a little disappointed about because I wanted to be able to give them to someone on here, but we were so busy the last few days I guess I forgot. I do have about 5-6 that were not used that I brought home. They come in packs of ten and are VERY easy to transport. Thanks. I had ordered the sample from them before placing our large order, but they were out. I had actually ordered the organza and the satin, but got neither. Guess I'll look into it now.

Congrats on your wedding and thanks for sticking around! What a great thread!

Great idea and super cute!

Duprk, Is your sash color David's bridal mermaid?

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Vista! I've been ordering from them for years and continue to do so!

Thanks for posting this.

Hi grace. Welcome to the forum! You will meet so many wonderful people and get so many wonderful tips!

What a cute proposal. Glad they were able to save your ring! I can't wait to see a picture either.

Quote: Originally Posted by lmuze Ladies, my wedding is in less than three weeks in Jamaica and I don't know exactly what to do with my hair. I have worn my hair short for years but decided to grow my hair unfortunately when I workout my hair doesn't grow and now it's just a about 2.5 - 3 inches (natural). I don't know what to do, I have only wore a weave once and I had it done in Rome, Italy. I wouldn't know where to go get a good weave sewn in here in MD. Boy, do I miss my maintanance free short hair. I am afraid even if I perm my hair, the humidity will end up making my hair look like Don King. I have been wearing braids for the past few months. Any suggestions? You could also wear it I had the same problem when I first started growing my hair out. Maybe you can do the little twist coils, two strand twists or a twist out? Those styles would work great with 3 inch hair. I'm not sure what look you are envisioning. A few posts back I suggested Kinky curly if you are into wearing your hair naturally curly. I have a friend in Philadelphia that gets sew ins all the time. I'm not sure how far you are, but if you need the info, I can get it for her stylist.

Glad you got a replacement! A few months after I got my ring, I attemped to clean it by putting it in a pot of boiling water with a little detergent. Anyway, I went to get in the shower and forgot. All of a sudden I smelled something...You guessed it! My beautiful ring was stuck to the pot and it was BLACK! The diamonds looked dingy burned yellow and the band was black. I scrubbed, cleaned, scrubbed and cleaned until finally it got back to almost normal. You talking about TERRIFIED!!! SMH!!!

OK so here's my confession. I wouldn't admit this to anyone else, esp. my FI, FMIL and Mother (who all said I would regret it) but for the first time, I seriously regret getting a tattoo. The tattoo is located on my right shoulder blade and my dress is a halter. I tried to cover it with my MAC, but it didn't work. I really don't want to look tacky on my wedding day but I'm afraid it will.

I love this idea and I love the idea of the letter from the bride and groom.

I paid for my dress. My mom didn't offer. I was a little salty that she or my FI mom didn't offer to give us anything but then remembered although it's traditional, it's not mandatory. It's their money so they should spend it the way they like. My FI and I both agreed we wouldn't ask them to contribute but if they decided to, it would be welcomed. Then, one day out of the blue, my mom offered to pay for our AHR. She said that she had been planning to give us the money as a down payment on our new house, but if we wanted it for our AHR, she would do so. My FI mom talked to my mom and told her she would go half. So, my mom told me she would still give us the other half for our house. I guess it's how you look at it. Ultimately though, I feel that times have changed and it is your wedding so don't count on anyone else paying for anything. It took me a while to get to that point :-). i would only work from the budget that you set with the FI and welcome anything else additional that may come. I know a couple who didn't get the gift from the parents until they came back from their HM because she (the mom) said she knew if she gave it to them earlier they would spend it, and she didn't want them spending all of their money and be broke after the wedding, LOL! Hope this helps!

What a great review! I'm glad everything went the way you hoped. The pics are nice too!

Quote: Originally Posted by Jenny310 Thanks for explaining bc I never knew how to quote either! LOL LOL! No problem! Quote: Originally Posted by ~Stephanie~ Ok so I am not going to get to my review for a while but I wanted to share the 2 major problems I had with my wedding with you girls so you can be prepared and not have the same problems I did....I am still trying to get over it, I have been so upset ever since my wedding but there is nothing I can do and I just hope when I get my video back that I don't feel upset all over again...since its all on video! I took so long writing my own ceremony script, I finally had it perfect. At the wedding the Minister (who I understand does most of the weddings and I see her pictured above) messed up our ceremony by skipping an entire portion of our script. She didn't ready any of our sand ceremony script except for one small paragraph at the end. I didn't know what to do at the time, if I stopped the wedding it would have been worse, everyone would have know. It would have looked terrible on video- stopping the wedding. But I was so angry that for a "wedding factory" everything should be smooth and no major errors as they do this everyday, several times a day! The other problem was with the music. The was a short or something in the cord they used to connect my IPOD to the sound system.. the music kept cutting out. The control of the music for the ceremony was just terrible, songs cut off, the music cutting out. It was very upsetting. We decided to give it a few days, try to "get over it" but by the end of out stay I was still crying over it. We went to talk to Zulma before we left, she was unaware of the problems with the ceremony script. After talking to her about it (which she was great and very sorry) she took action and by the end of the day had provided us some compensation for the minister's error. It was great of her to do this, it obviously didn't make up for what we can't get back but she did everything she could to help make it up to us. The sour taste in my mouth comes though with the phone call we recieved from the minister to our room shortly after my conversation with Zulma. The minister didn't apologize, she didn't understand why I would be upset and she was upset with me because the resort was apparently going to take part of the compensation from her. She was basically asking me to reconsider but without any apology. It made me so angry, what was I supposed to do? She skipped a huge portion of our script. I feel like my perfect wedding was ruined. It made me more angry that she confronted us about the money instead of her employer. (yes she works for the resort). I want to say thought that Zulma was very professional in all of this and she was just so wonderful with everything. She is amazing and she does take complete care of you when you get there! She is aware of everything that is going on with the MI office moving and she does know what is going on with all of us brides. I just felt that everyone should know what we encountered. I don't want to worry anyone but at the same time if I can prevent any problems I want to do what I can. Every bride plans and hope for everything to be perfect and when its not and its errors by someone else and its out of your control, well, its heartbreaking, at least to me. We do miss The Royal so much already though, we have already been trying to figure out when we can go back... aside from a few problems with the ceremony, everything else was wonderful. Stephanie, That is horrible! I'm sorry your perfect day didn't go the way you'd hoped. Maybe it'll help to focus on the positive and how perfectly everything else went. You may be pleasantly surprised when you see the video. You knew a piece was missing, but it may not be as noticeable to everyone else. Here's a hug for you. Quote: Originally Posted by allison&kevin Congrats to all the ladies out there who just got married and are getting married...it has been so long since I have checked in! In response to the question above, looks like they are charging more now for vendor fees. We just had our photographers as guests. You can take pictures in the city, outside the resort or on the beach. You will probably want to feed you photographers anyways. Then it is like they are a non-resort guest. Anyways, not sure if anyone is looking for a photographer, but the couple that shot our wedding at the Royal was awesome!! Just thought I would pass along some information to check them out for those brides who are still looking http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...graphie-59816/ CONGRATS AGAIN!! Hi Allison, Do you have any pics you can post? I think the photographer/guest thing will work if they stay or are from out of town, but probably not on the well known area photographers. Duprk, your pics are gorgeous! You look beautiful!

Hi Daisy! Welcome to the forum! You will find many friends and TONS of information here!

Hi ladies, I found this map of Playa and thought some of you might like to have it. playa_del_carmen_map.pdf