MrsHK

Thanks ladies! sswed13, do you already have your table numbers set? Since we live down here in the Riviera Maya and purchased pretty much everything for our wedding, I've decided to rent out a bunch of our decor, including these table number/name displays. I can customize them for you if you'd like! Let me know if you'd be interested in renting these or any other rustic vintage style wedding decor for your upcoming wedding.

Hey ladies! First of all, congrats to all of you! By now pretty much all of us have tied the knot, aside from a few brides who will be getting married over the next couple of days. I hope all of you had an amazing week with family and friends and your wedding day was everything you ever dreamed of! Here are some photos from our wedding in Tulum a week ago. We did an engagement shoot the day before around town with our photographers, Luckygirl Photography from Winnipeg. They were able to give us some sneak peeks of the engagement shoot! Their website is www.luckygirl.ca and I have Ali from this forum to thank for posting about them. Flying them in was one of the best decisions we made. They shot us for 4 hours the day before the wedding and stuck around shooting for 14 hours on our wedding day. Talk about dedication to your work! The wedding day photos we have right now were taken by our friends and family. The day was perfect and we couldn't have been happier with how it all turned out. Here's to happily ever after for all of us!

Hey ladies! Our wedding was last week and I wanted to share a couple of photos of our Welcome Kits and our Oh Shit! Kits. 16 oz Tumbler Mug with wedding logo - $3.75ea from DiscountMugs.com Tote bag with wedding logo - Discount Mugs - $3.60ea from DiscountMugs.com Notebook - handmade on brother-in-law's letterpress, took a very long time to make 80 of these but totally worth it! Beer coozies with wedding logo and "Drink Up Me Hearties" - $1.10 ea from DiscountMugs.com Cooler bag with ziploc liner for leaks (our energy conscience hotel in Tulum didn't have fridges) - $3.70ea Snack pack with bag of chips, Japones nuts and Winis candies (similar to Starburst) all purchased at Sam's Club in Mexico - $1.50ea We did one bag per couple and one bag per single guest. For everything from Discount Mugs, I had it all sent to my Dad's place in the States to save on shipping. For all you Canadian girls, you can have everything sent to a shipping place near the border and pick it up for much cheaper than the shipping costs to Canada. I used round circle stickers and alphabet stickers from Dollar Tree to label all the mugs with everyone's initials, and used hang tags from Staples to label everyone's bags. I tea stained the hang tags and used alphabet stamps from Michael's to personalize the bags for everyone. For the couples I did their first names on the hang tags, like "J & C" or "M & K". For the single guests I did their full initials like "DL" or "NC". We included a little Welcome Booklet with information about the area, things to do, restaurant recommendations, helpful Spanish phrases, etc. Let me know if you'd like to see the booklet we made for Tulum in detail. A note about the hang tags: The little circle at the top comes off when you tea stain it. I had to glue all mine back on. You can either put some glue ahead of time so they don't fall off, or be ok without having the circle be on the tag once it comes off. We used paper lunch bags to put our Oh Shit! Kits together. I again used hangtags from Staples and tea stained all of them. I used the alphabet stamps for the "Oh Shit! Kit" part and a potato stamp to make the red cross. I then used a sticker on the back (vintage travel themed) to close the bag and tied them closed with twine, and hung the tag on the twine. We decided to buy our meds in bulk and divy them up ourselves. It saved a TON of money and didn't take that long to do. No one seemed to mind that the ibuprofens weren't in a sealed package. We made a little piece of paper with instructions for the diarrhea relief and ibuprofen. Here's the list of contents: 1L Gatorade packs - purchased in Mexico at local grocery store - $0.65ea (1 per person) Diarrhea relief - Costco in Canada - 168 tablets for $23, gave 2 per person for a cost of $0.30 per person Ibuprofen - purchased from Costco in Canada - pack of 500 for $10, gave 6 per person for a cost of $0.12 per person Tums - purchased from Walmart - packs of 3 for $2 which is $0.70 per roll (1 roll per bag) Aloe Vera purchased from Avon.ca - $1.89ea (1 per bag) Band Aids - on sale at Shopper's, 320 bandaids for $12, gave 6 per person at a cost of $0.25 per person Gum - purchased at Sam's Club in Mexico - $0.40ea (1 pack per person) Oh Shit! Kit cost: per single person - $4.31 per couple - $6.03 Welcome Kit cost: per single person - $13.65 per couple - $20.00 Total Cost of Entire Bag: per single person - $17.96 per couple - $26.03 We had 70 guests total, half couples and half single people. In the end we spent just over $1000 on our Welcome Bags, but I think it was totally worth it. Everyone came from so far and it was the least we could do to show our appreciation for spending their time and money to come celebrate with us. We received a ton of thank you's from everyone and I think mostly everything was used, especially the Oh Shit! Kits. People kept commenting on how useful and thoughtful everything was, which was nice! We saw lots of people using the tote bags, beer coozies and tumbler mugs. The best thing is that I'm sure people will use some of these things at home, such as the tote bag and the drink tumbler (coffee mug). We chose to not put our name and date on most items so that people would keep them for their everyday lives. I hope this helps some of you for inspiration!

If there are any Riviera Maya brides looking to rent a real touch bouquet and matching bout, please send me a PM. I live in Playa Del Carmen and the bouquet is already down here in Mexico. It is made up of roses, peonies, lisianthus, dusty millers, succulents and forget-me-nots. Renting your bouquet would save you the design, shipping and packing of your bouquet to your resort. If you need matching bouquets for your bridesmaids I can send you the seller's name. Here's the bouquet for rent: