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To Trash the Dress or not to Trash the Dress????? I'm sooooo on the fence, I want to do it so bad, but my fiance is like, "another day of photos.... I hate taking pictures!!!!" They look so awesome though and I'm really starting to realize I only get to do this once and maybe I do want some of those things I never thought I wanted out of a wedding I dunno, last minute stuff is really freaking me out!!! I know what I "thought" I wanted and now all of sudden I'm not sure of anything I wanted anymore... please tell me I'm not the only one and this is normal???? Please???? LOL Just have to tell myself to keep it together for 8 more weeks.... 8 weeks ahhhhhhhh!!!!! LOL

Oh my LOVING the new dress!!!!! Almost makes me second guess mine... lol!!!! Very Very beautiful!!!

Yahoo!!! got my OOT bag stuff done!!! Only have to print one more page for the welcome books, but have to wait to hear about morning after brunch/welcome dinner. I think I'm almost set for DIY stuff, only have to do placecards!!! I just found out yesterday that one of my fiance's sisters is going to come with her 2 children, very excited about it, but I had to go on the flower girl dress hunt today. Our niece was going to be our flower girl, but they weren't going to make it so we just decided not to have one. SOOO now I get to have one again!!! YAY.... I was so lucky to find a very cute dress on ebay of all places today. I was getting frustrated when I first started looking because all the dresses I could find were too dressy and fancy for the beach and it's impossible to find a cute summer dress in November, but I did come out on top with the perfect dress!!! I'm really getting excited now for the wedding and the holidays!!!!

It is 2 bags with a combined weight of 20kg and if you have the upgrade it is the same 2 bags combined weight of 30kg. We are flying sunwing and have the upgrade for us as well as our son so I'm using the 6 bags and 90kg weight for sure to get everything down there. You can check out their website for all that info too. http://www.flysunwing.com/travelinfo/baggageinfo.asp#BaggageAllowance

We never actually spoke with Brad yet either, but another LC bride sent me the sample ceremony from him so I could see if I liked it and get an idea of what to expect. If you want to PM me your email addy I can definitely pass it along for you too!!! I just sent off my things to consider to Kelley last night so I'm very excited to hear back from her and get this ball rolling. That really sucks about the last minute cancelling, we are pretty sure of one couple that will do this, but oh well. I totally understand about giving people time to save and they still aren't coming. I think the most frustrating ones for us are my fiances sisters, neither one of them are coming and we have given them both 2 years notice to save, so I have a really hard time when they tell us they can't afford it, even when we offered to help them too and they said no no we have it don't worry. ARHHHH..... oh well, had to let it go and move on. My mom just picked up my dress from the city so I'm super excited to try it on again with all my jewellery and stuff now. AND 2 months today until we fly away for our wedding YAY!!!!!

OK, yesterday I had one of those panic days. I finally started the actul planning process with our planner and have been looking at lots of past wedding photos from LC and photos from friends weddings this summer and all of a sudden I started getting really emotional and wondering if I was making the right decisions.... (not about fiance, I know he's my other half), but about everything else, like... is that really suppose to be the dress I wear, should I have chose those colors, do I really like this or that. It was insane!!! I truly felt like I was going to lose my mind until friends of ours came over, who are in our wedding party, to try on suits and dresses for me to see them together. I did feel a lot better after talking to my girl friend about it. She just got married in July and totally reassured me of everything and she was also in a destination wedding last March also so she gave me the run down of that wedding and what they wore and all. I have to say I feel a lot better today I'm going to try and finish up some my DIY projects so I can focus on the holidays soon the our wedding social. I'm so glad for friends and this site just for having a place to talk about this so I don't drive me fiance totally nuts!!!! LOL Well enough with the heavy, we're all getting very close to our dates ladies.... is everyone else getting ready, ready or freaking out yet????

OOPS... forgot the site http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/customs/a/shopshipcanada.htm

Here is a good site to get info about us/canada shipping and what you really pay. You do pay taxes and sometimes brokerage fees and only duty on imported items made in other countries besides North America. And you have to remember just because you buy from the states doesn't mean that it was made there. Hopefully this is helpful!!! Oh and most ebay sellers do ship as a gift, even though they are not suppose to. Sometimes it really depends on the amount and size of the package and how it crosses the border, us post, ups, fedex, etc. Most good sites will send you to a borderfree site that tells you how much you will pay for all of it, like OT does.

You should only pay duty on items that are NOT made in Canada, US or Mexico. Anything that is made in North America (Canada, US and Mexico) should not cost you anything but shipping.

We haven't started planning yet I'm hoping this week or next!!!! I had to just give in to being worried about the new planner. No matter what we are going to make the best of it and when it really comes down to it... nothing else matters other than I'm marrying my best friend, soulmate, father of my son so everything else is just minor details But I am getting anxious to do the actual planning part!!! Good luck and hopefully we ALL have amazing best day of our life weddings

A wedding social is like a fundraiser for our wedding. Some people call them shags or a doe and stag, it's just a big party that you buy tickets to get in and then prize tickets and what not, It's a lot of fun!!!!

YAY!!! Another New Years eve social!!! I totally know the creeping up on ya feeling. I felt like I had all the time in the world to figure stuff out and then it was BAM!!!! get your butt in gear girl time... LOL!!!

I'm actually in the city this week for wedding stuff!!!! Tomorrow we are going to get our rings, paper for my DIY fan programs, folded business cards for DIY placecards, groom and groomsmen attire and whatever else fun stuff I think of or find I am getting super excited the closer and closer we get to the day!!! Oh yeah and I'm picking up my OOT Bag stuff that I had my cousin pick up in th states!!! Let the wedding madness begin. I cannot wait to start putting OOT stuff together. We just finalized our DJ, Liquor/Beer Order and some prizes for our wedding social which is on New Years Eve. Everything is finally starting to come together and happen!!! YAY!!!

Here are the pics of my barefoot sandals... forgive my un-pedicured feet... LOL

We are staying at the Canto Del Sol, it's in the hotel zone close to downtown, you're at Dreams right??? Maybe we'll run into each other down there!!!!!

Yeah, I have finally just decided to go with the numbers I have. I am going to add a few as I do know a few last minuters that are probably coming, but as far as anyone else who hadn't RSVPed they may not be getting anything. I had to let it go and just order my stuff because I have to get it from the states and my cousin that is picking it up said I have to have it there by the end of November and it it takes 3-4 weeks to come in, so I just did it and finished my ordering. Oh well not feeling bad for anyone who doesn't get anything if they couldn't take the time to even tell me they were coming! I just got my barefoot sandals in yesterday... LOVE them, will take pics this afternoon and post!!! Only 84 days until the wedding and 80 until we leave now... don't know where time is going!!!!

http://stores.ebay.ca/starlitecreations is the link to her ebay store and her name is sandi_starlite on ebay.

I ordered my pre-travel brochures through vistaprint and mine turned out fine. If you saved your old emails from like August and prior you can still go in and get that stuff for free. I tons of the old emails with the free offers if anyone needs, just pm me your email addy and I will forward them!!! I think I'm going to ordered the postcards today for my wedding week survival kit labels. Another bride in the Canadian OOT thread posted a pic of how she used vistaprint postcards for labels... it looks awesome!!! Happy Halloween Ladies... lets pray I have to will power to not eat all the candies I see tonight!!!! LOL

Sorry it took me a few days to put up the pics, but I do finally have them to share. I did buy them local at a craft show of all places!!!! I'm just waiting for my barefoot sandals to come in, I ordered them on ebay from a seller in Australia, if anyone is interested in the name of the seller let me know, she has tons of swarvoski crystal jewellery also!!!

I finally got some jewellery to wear for our wedding!!!! Yay... I'll have to post pics tomorrow. I got ear rings and a matching necklace that are swarovski crystal starfish and I also ordered some swarovski crystal barefoot sandals. I am so excited I had to share!!!! I will share pics tomorrow of it all!!!! I also figured out what we are going to do for programs and placecards. I was stressing a little over this because I had no idea whay I wanted. I am going to DIY some fan programs on yellow card stock and used folded business cards to print each guests name on for the placecards. I was having a hard time with placecards because I need everyone to have their own name on it as they will be at each place setting. We're having one large table for everyone to sit at instead of dividing guest up to seperate tables. We're pretty sure our numbers are final at 37 of us total, so we're hoping it will be ok that way. I was getting frustrated with wedding stuff a few days ago, but now I feel like I'm back in wedding mode!!!! The weeks are really counting down fast now!!!

Welcome Kim, This site is full of useful, awesome information. Without this this thread I would have lost my mind a long time ago!!! Happy planning and I look forward to being able to share pics and my review in 98 days ; )

Hooray!!!!! 100 for me today... tomorrow I finally hit the double digits too!!!!

JayKay, I just noticed what resort you're having your wedding at and it's one of the resorts on my list for our honeymoon!!!! Have you ever been there before??? I'm having such a hard time chosing where we want to go and where to stay for our honeymoon. We plan on going February 18 or 19 for a week somewhere. Any suggestions anyone????

LOL.... I totally feel ya on that one! I've been saying yeah we got lots of time, don't worry about that yet and yada yada, now I'm starting to think holy crap I gotta start getting my stuff together and get on the ball here before christmas is here and we're out of time!!!! LOL... I actually started making some lists of my own yesterday and apparently they just keep growing!!!! I think it would be a litttle easier for me if people would have RSVPed on time not waited until now to THINK about coming!!!! I knew to expect a few to do this, but I was informed yesterday that we may have a possible 21 more guests coming!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!! Good luck to you and remember it's almost your big day!!!!

Wow Ivetti you look amazing in your pics!!! I wish I could do a trial, do you know the name of the salon??? and possibly if they do nails?? I really want to get my nails done down there means my wedding is in the middle of the week, I don't think my nails would survive until the wedding day if I have to do it before we leave.