Lua

wishing you a great trip and hope your wedding day is everything you wished for and more!!!! can't wait to hear how it went when you get back!

good tip about the strapless bathing suits!!! i'm going to start checking out the summer sales in the next couple of months to stock up on clothes and bathing suits for the wedding. being that my wedding is April 2011, i figure i'm going to have to buy all my cloths at the end of this summer to get the best deals!

we're going with 2pm - was the only time available on our date, but we're ok with it. it will give us ample time to take many pictures and mingle before the reception.

what a great thread! we're trying to do our DW on a VERY tight budget so these tips and ideas will be very helpful!

wow! that doesn't sound crazy at all! it actually sounds like an amazing idea!!! ..one that i might borrow when i get back next year!!! you should totally go for it! .. and like others said, post pics here because we'd love to see it!

that's a really cool site Tris! thanks! i'm thinking turquoise so far. nothing's confirmed yet though!

Hi mel!!! congrats and welcome!! i'm Jamaica-bound as well!!! will be putting down my deposit this week!

great job!

those are both great! something nice and easy i can get done in these early planning stages just to get it out of the way

awww it's so cute!!! very talented!

2 years and a few days!! we celebrated 2 years May 1, 2010 -- he proposed May 8, 2010

what an amazing planning journal!! i can't believe all the free stuff you got from Vista Print! wow. i'm definitely going to be keeping my eye on their emails from now on wish you and your FI all the best! can't wait to hear how the big day went!

looking forward to reading her review beachymombride!

oh! thank you so much for this info! i want to book a catamaran cruise to Rick's Cafe for the group either the day before, or the day after the wedding

we just got engaged in May, started throwing around ideas right away.. set the date for April of next year. it would have been hard to plan if we had set the date much later because we are only now starting to see the prices come in for the resort and airlines for april 2011. we still haven't done our save-the-dates or anything just yet as we are waiting until we 100% have our date and room confirmed.

Congrats and welcome!!!!! not a TO bride but a GTA bride here!!! happy planning!

Congrats Lisa! and welcome to the forum!! you'll find a ton of useful information on here.

welcome and congrats!!

Congratulations and welcome to the site!!!!

carolina - i agreee .. it was really nice to see my FI's reaction first hand when he saw the pictures.

they look fantastic!

you did such an amazing job!!! given me many ideas for mine

I did things a little backwards! .. I had a BD shoot done this past April for his anniversary gift. Little did I know, he was going to propose a month later! He's already seen the pics and we have them on a cd. I however am still contemplating having them printed into a book to surprise him with on the wedding day. I'm undecided right now

any other april 2011 brides actually book yet? FI and i have reserved our wedding date/time at the Riu Negril but it is not confirmed until we have a booking number (have until Aug to get this). We basically have to work on booking right away but I suppose guests don't have to right away? Our imemdiate family and friends know about the DW and the date, but we still really wanted to send out STDs to everybody which will include a link to our website filled with travel info. I was thinking of sending the actual invite November-ish? giving those who haven't booked by then lots of time still. My only question to you guys - have you had luck with group rates? ie. I just got an amazing group rate quote, however it's only good for 60 days... would like to be able to have a group quote good for like 6 months or so. thoughts?

Quote: Originally Posted by Diva Hmm it seems I too am in the minority with the budget, ours is $8K (FI insists its $5K) and we are well under it including reception, attire and all! We have 11 months to go, so I will keep you all posted as time goes on, but hoping to stay close... wow, i'm feeling in the minority here too with budget. we have set ours at $5K! going to do our best to stay as close to that as we can!