SChica927

Ladies, good luck with the rest of your planning. Due to a serious health issue that has arised, we are moving our wedding back home (to either my hometown or his hometown)... If there are other Indian brides that have questions, PM me. I'll try to reply... but now I'm down to 4 months till my wedding and need to find a venue and start all over again!! Good luck, and thanks for all of your help!

See my post above, unfortunately, they're the only ones I know of in the area... I'm bringing my own person to Cancun as a guest.

I'm actually getting super nervous about November... it's just around the corner and over half of our guests haven't booked yet!! AND... I still have SO much to do!!!! Ahhhh... so nervous! But still SO excited!!

I love the lime green + hot pink combo -- sooo pretty!! Too bad my FI isn't a huge pink fan, haha... I'll save it in my book of ideas for my best friends' weddings!!

I just PM'd you my email! Did they let you book your tours in advance? Are you setting up group tours for your guests?

Great question, I'm interested in this answer too. I heard that it costs $250 but what does that include?

Also, just an FYI. We're doing an all vegetarian menu... which isn't a "standard offering" from MP. So my WC just informed me that we can mix & match veggie options from the different menus MP offers. That's great news for us! I thought I'd have to fight for an exception here because they don't typically let you mix and match menu... but no fight necessary!

I would say ABSOLUTELY not. Especially because we're having an Indian wedding, there are so many vendors we need to have that most resorts don't even know about let alone provide! I'm getting married at the MP and we are bringing about 80% of our vendors with us as "guests" and they are staying to capture our entire 3 day event (incl photo, video, hair/makeup/mehndi, priest, live musicians, event coordinators, etc). The #1 reason we even chose MP is that they are allowing us to use an outside caterer because they themselves don't serve Indian food. Every other resort we talked to around Mexico and various Carribean islands said absolutely not to a caterer... so we moved on to the next resort and eventually found one that worked.

Yeah, that's the plan! The other thing we're doing is... we have a LOT of events, and each event has its own icon on our invitation... so we're going to put the icon in the circle for each event's stationary/signs/program, etc... So everything will have the same motif around it, but the actual central icon will change for each event... hope that works out and isn't too much!

Not sure why that didn't show up. Let me try that again:

Hi ladies, here's my logo! The floral/coral motif on the sides is our invitation motif... so it works out perfectly! I plan to use this on our OOT bags (maybe not our initials in the circle, we might put something else in it, like a starfish or something...). Then I have a few other ideas of where to put it... we'll see. Let me know what you think!

I heard the Avery Iron-on isn't great. AND, it's not super cheap either. How many bags are you ordering? Here are a couple of site's I'm looking into and will likely end up getting my bags from: http://www.totallytotebags.com/ (from this site, I think we're going to go with the Mini Economy Tote -- I'm ordering samples this week). http://www.cheaptotes.com/ (from this site, we'd get the Cotton Canvas Bag). Both sites offer screen printing too. But clearly, the price for that depends on the number of colors you have -- the more colors = more expensive. For us, we have 3 colors in our scheme (eggplant purple, turquoise blue, and lime green)... so because it's so much to print all 3 colors, I've decided to only print 2 colors (the purple and blue) and i'm going to buy a lime green ribbon and tie it onto one of the handles on the bag to add that color in... Our bags are coming out to about $3-$4 each (which is a bit more than I wanted too, but I can't find a better price)... Quote: Originally Posted by rae12vb I did and for 20 bags it was coming out to be about $120. I thought that was a lot compared to what everyone else has been saying. Has anyone tried the Avery iron on sheets?

We're actually keeping track of singles and pairing them up with other singles we think they'd get along with... but we don't have too many of these...

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Phew!! Glad everything worked out!! Congratulations! Can't wait to see pictures and hear all the details!!

Awesome! Thanks Kendall!! And congratulations on becoming a Mrs!!! Heart.bmp

Makes sense. My mom's going to India again late August-early October... so I'm going to tell her then what to buy (in terms of how many bangles and peacock feathers). So if you decide on either of the themes I'm doing, we can certainly work something out. Yeah, we're on a strict budget too. Luckily, I've been able to negotiate a lot of our prices down for things, so we haven't gone over on anything yet. But I know once we get closer, all of the last minute unexpected expenses will pop up... that's what I'm trying my hardest to avoid!

Let me look into the horse decor. There was another Indian MP bride who got married in April that bought the horse decor and then decided not to do a baraat... so she told me she'd sell me the decor. I'll ask her how much it is. For the Garba, I'm doing a bangles theme... so I'm bringing a lot of pink/orange/blue bangles & of course, we'll be bringing dandiyas. For the reception, we're doing a peacock theme and are bringing a ton of peacock feathers (I may also bring table runners for this, still TBD). If you're thinking about similar themes, we can totally split on cost for any of it! We'll probably also bring a lot of stuff for our pooja, but I'm not sure what exactly... and I'm also not sure if you guys use the same stuff in your ceremony... but we can work that out later. Not sure if we'll be bringing anything else... I also have this document that has some venues and capacities (I also e-mailed it to you)... this should give you a good start. Moon_Palace_Private_Function_Information[1].pdf

I'm not sure exactly... but there's this website I use all the time called dafont.com where you can DL all kinds of free fonts. They have a forum there where you can upload an image and their team of graphic designers will tell you what font it is... sometimes no one knows, but most of the time I've gotten my fonts! Hope this helps!

I'm really curious if someone has the answer about the resort daily shows/entertainment. I tried finding it on MP's website, but couldn't find it. I want to put this into our OOT bags so people know the schedule... Also, we're doing a beach party with fire show on Thursday night... but I've also heard that MP does a beach party with fire show on Thursday nights... so I'm curious where and when MP's is to see if we should change our event to something different... which sucks. Ugh!

Yes, the Kristen & Ali is written in Scriptina.

I put a bunch of my answers in red in your quote below:

No, I was wondering that too... I really hope everything worked out for her.

We've been using one that's kind of basic/boring... I just e-mailed Rebecca at Allurements to see how much it would cost her to make ours more beachy/exciting! I'll let you ladies know what I hear. Thanks!

Yep, we're both Indian too and are having a traditional Hindu ceremony. We're flying our priest down with us. We're getting married in the Tucan Gazebo... having chairs set up. I'm hoping to have Zuniga build me a stage (for our mandap) on top of the marble table that pre-exists in the gazebos... it's about 3 ft high, so we'd have to build the stage on top of it, or around it... that's the last part of the decor I'm doing with Zuniga because it's going to be a headache to figure out We're having a few events: Thursday night: Welcome Beach Party/Mehndi party (I'm flying down a hair/makeup/mehndi person) Friday night: Garba Saturday: Baraat, Ceremony, Indian Lunch, Cocktail Hour, Reception We're also doing a traditional baraat... so right now MP has said only Horse & Carriage... the carriage is kinda weak for this, so I'm really hoping I can get my fiance on horseback for this. We're working on it. Otherwise, I found another company in Cancun that has a horse they've used for baraat's in the past... so I might just suck up the outside vendor fee and bring in that horse. We'll see. For the music, we might have to have a CD/iPod, and we're still debating about bringing 1-2 dhol players with us... TBD. Oh, the company that has a horse, has Sikh musicians too that they know of... in case you're interested. We're flying in our shehnai players. The #1 reason we picked MP is because they are allowing us to bring in an Indian caterer (without having to pay the outside vendor fee). I worked this into my wedding contract so there was no debate later. If you decide you want Indian food, I can PM you the details/menu. Let me know. Quote: Originally Posted by kjanda8 Yes we are both Indian and we will be doing a Sikh ceremony. I haven't figured out exactly how we are going to do it, but I am almost positive I will be flying in an Indian preist to perform the ceremony. This is probably one of my biggest worries as I have not got this organized yet. My plan is to have the ceremony in the Tucan Gazebo and the resort already said they should be able to cover the floor in that Gazebo so we can sit on the floor during the ceremony. Are you having the traditional ceremony? How are you pulling it off? I think my next biggest concern after reading this thread, is that I should get my locations booked asap. I have only been talking to my TA and shes at MP right now to scope out the place for me, but I should probably find out who my on-site WC is, so I can start planning the deatils with her.