DramaticAnnie

I agree, I'd stash the snacks inside the mug, or if your mug has a handle or clip or whatever you could somehow fasten it to the handle of your bag? I wanna see pictures too

Okay so I guess technically this isn't really a passport invitation.. it's more like a save the date.. but I don't think we'll be following it up with any sort of formal invitation.. so I'm going to just call them my passport information thingys.. we are even giving some to those who already have said they can't make it because I didn't want to leave them out since they're sooo nice! They were designed by Allurements by Rebecca along with the monogram and I went with the DIY option of cutting them and assembling them myself - now this is just my personal opinion, but NEVER AGAIN will I go the DIY route lol. I will leave the craftiness to the professionals! FI and I butchered the first couple of them when we tried to put them through the paper cutter together, and then I bought the wrong "corner cutting" gizmo to make the corners rounded and ended up butchering another.. lol.. but I must say I do like our ribbon and little starfish charm (bought 50 of those charms for $4.99 shipping included from ebay, God bless those bulk sellers in China). I can't wait to use allurements to create cards for the mom's and my wedding party, maybe some other crafty things.. and again... I will leave it all up to her lol. Anyway - without any further ado.. here they are:

I got my pashmina's from that wholesale place in NYC. I emailed them and they shipped me two dozen pashmina's express mail (I didn't even want express mail) for under $100. I think the price came out to roughly about 3 bucks or 3 something per pashmina. But the quality of them was super nice (sooo soft) and they are GIANT sized, and the color I picked was perfect. http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/thread/63599/pashminas-pioneer-group link to a thread about them http://www.pioneergroup27.com/ their website, sooo many colors of pashmina's to choose from, and if you are in the area I guess these guys are located in NYC's wholesale district, and sell pashmina's for like $30 bucks for a dozen. For the temporary tattoos, we used etsy seller buttonhead, http://www.etsy.com/shop/Buttonhead?section_id=7073733 she also does pocket mirrors (and buttons). We opted for the custom design and like I said got a little cartoon drawing of the two of us, it's cute and piratey, just what we wanted (cruise ship wedding and FI is big into skulls/piratey stuff lol). I was looking into wet bathing suit bags and found these bags on ebay that are used by parents to hold wet cloth diapers. They have them in packs and pretty cheap.. my guess is that they're like a well decorated ziploc.. i'm starting to think we should just throw a freezer sized ziploc into people's bags and label them "for your wet bathing suit" But then that wouldn't be in my spirit of spending now would it I'm planning a trip to the states at the end of the month with my mama! Woohoo Wedding dress shopping here we come!

They look so sweet! I just tried a poufy hair flower/feather thingy in my hair when we went to check out bridesmaid dresses the other day and I loved it. Are they hard to make? Because I pretty much would have bought that one in the bridal shop if I had the money right then. I didn't even ask how much it was because I didn't have any money with me lol. It was to be a strictly looking-only day.

Woohoo! Just what I was looking for Now that I know it exists, I'll look for it local. Yayyyy thank you I just read through the last couple of pages here and laughed. I was all depressed at first because my credit card is like bleeding right now but I loaded up drugstore.com anyway everyone on here is like yaahh loving it and then you guys are all like noooooo beware of drugstore.com and i'm like eek, click the X button.. lmao! If there's one thing I'm going to put my foot down on about is the frigging delivery of the bags I want it done by the cruise line, they said they would deliver each bag to the guests stateroom for $1 per bag, but that it may not be delivered until after the ship sets sail which is fine with me. I want my guests to go back to their room and be all like wow what's this? And discover the little treasure trove bag of goodies, especially the embroidered or engraved stuff I am putting in our Groomsmen/BM's bags. My other plan is to mail stuff to the hotel in Florida (I haven't talked this over with the hotel yet but in my dream world they will be very nice and hold a couple of boxes of my stuff for me for a couple of months) where we will be staying the night before getting on the cruise. Then when we get to Florida that day I will assemble a little team of people to help me put stuff together, but my FI and I will personally stuff the Groomsmen/BM bags cause I'll put lil gifts for them in there. Stuff I am planning to mail: Bubba keg mini mugs - I only have these for a few of the guys, not for everyone. The cruise ship isn't all inclusive so we don't shop for mugs but on the stops you need a nice thermal drink holder. Also my avon aloe's are a great size but also kinda heavy. I am counting on those flat rate boxes the USPS has? I have seen them! My only wonder is will I be able to mail stuff from Maine to Florida without having a maine address? I do have a friend with family in maine if I need an address but could I put my Canadian return address ya think? I suppose I should be asking our yankee bride friends. Also my pashmina's take up a ton of space, will probably mail those. I don't even TELL my FI most of the stuff I find on here that I immediately "HAVE TO HAVE" for my OOTS! I totally know what you guys mean when you say you need oot interventions! If he only knew he'd be banning me from this site. I do talk about you guys all the time and all the great ideas I get from here, I usually start off a sentence to FI about "The destination wedding brides online said..." and he's like - example - I had no plans for sewing kits til I saw Tori's, then scoured three Michaels' in two different provinces til I found them! FI is happy I am hunting down like, $2 advil and not like a $10 item which I need to buy like 30 of. It adds up though. I put all of my oot expenses in an excel sheet and so far, with NO bags yet.. lol.. it's scary. So far I have: - a few of the advils - the lil sewing kits for ladies bags - flip flop manicure sets for the ladies' bags - pashmina's from the NY wholesale person (love the quality and color of these - now I wish I had gotten two colors ) - bubba mugs for the guys - a newsletter/'facebook' thing that I am in the process of making in publisher - lil first aid kits from the dollar store - temporary tattoos of a little cartoon drawing of ourselves and our wedding date we got done from a seller on etsy (so cute and my FI is big into tattoos I think ppl will have a lot of fun with them) - Avon Aloe - Spf lip balm - Lanyards with zip card holder - also planning on getting wrist coils in case people have a preference when I do my oriental trading order which I haven't done yet.. - lil dollarstore hand sanitizers There is a couple of more things I want to get like little sunblocks, tums or rolaids, and some gatorade packs, but not much more.. oh oops I almost forgot my TONS OF VISTAPRINT STUFF... like I literally will have a pen, notebook, note PAD, keychain and tshirt for each person. OMG. Now i'm feeling a little ridiculous I do have a question about Emergen-C - what the heck is it? I have never heard of anyone using this?

I will definetely try that packing tape idea - why didn't I think of that? Now only if I can do it without making them look like super homemade jobbies.. And yeah I saw the dollar store passport covers but I liked the Michaels colors

I see where it says 'Expired camera - guaranteed to work' I don't get it? lol.. Great price though. Let us know what they're like when you get them! And if they're expired.. what does that mean.. will they work forever..?? Orr.. like my wedding is April 2012.. ya know what i mean?

Really awesome! Love that size

Yeah that surprises me too, but I like Rexall! I've been able to get some great deals there at random times. I will check out the tide at shoppers and rexall next time I have $.

Booo i just called the local michaels and they dont have any left and the next closest michaels is like 5 hours away, lol. My budget does not allow for spontaneous road trips for passport covers. Are you guys looking to get one for each guest? I don't think any of those colors were very manly.. so maybe only the women would want them.. hum.. oh well. No passport covers for me this time around. Too bad you can't order from their website. I saw someone post the cheapest place they found the Tide sink packets was at Shoppers drug mart - how much were they there?

Everything looks awesome! I want those passport covers, I went to three different Michael's' looking for those lil sewing kits and did not see the passport covers at all. Eek! I have all my aloe from Avon and all my chapstick, and I have been working on putting labels on stuff like the dollarama first aid kits - what sort of label have you guys been using for your chapstick? When I print on a regular label its like.. I dunno.. too matte for my liking? I want something shiny but I don't want a clear label - does this exist? lol

EEEK! Poly to go for 2 bucks?! I really need to set this thread in my bookmarks on my phone, whenever I get back from shopping I always come on here and notice someone else found something great somewhere. I think Poly to go is awesome and it IS usually $5+ even at Walmart or whereever. I think I would rather go with the little tide travel packs instead of putting laundry detergent in the little cuppie things, less chance of breaking open and messing stuff up too. But I like the dish liquid idea for the mugs and plus you'll probably transport them in the actual mug so even if it does break open inside its just soap in the mug.

Michael's is running their "Dollar Days" promotion or something all summer (according to the Michael's clerk I talked to) and I had to go to three different Michaels' in three different cities (I was travelling for different reasons (concert and then a funeral) and my fiancee is like why are you so intent on finding a michaels?) but anyway - yea - finally found them in Moncton, NB. Got them all blue too, I was gonna get mixed color ones but FI said might as well go with our color since it matches nicely. I tried looking for them in the sewing section they don't have any there - they will be in the bins with all the other dollar days stuff.. they are $1.50 though, not $1. Torilynn you got those dollar tree bags from the states, did you iron on transfer them or are you adding a tag?

I like the idea of a watch for him and getting something engraved on the back, but I dont want to get just any old watch. He has a couple that he wears to work everyday but nothing like a dressy/fancy type for special occasions. I also want it to be expensive but I don't want to pay a lot for it, lol. I love me a good deal

Alright Canadian Brides hijacking this thread to discuss upgrades on ACV.. I only found four 10 ct travel packs of Advil's out of the two dollarama's I searched at Hopefully they'll be getting more in though! The dollarama that had no little first aid kits before has a ton of them now, and I bought my full sheet label papers today, hopefully I can get some DIY'ing done since I have a few days off coming to me (Thursday to Tuesday)! And now back to the hijacking.. as far as the ACV thing.. how far in advance did you guys book anyway? My TA is an independant TA as far as I know, she works out of her house and she advised us not to look for airfare for April 2012 this far in advance. I told her I heard of other brides using Air Canada Vacations and getting an upgrade and she doesn't know anything about it. She was dilly dallying about phoning the hotel we're going to be staying at the night before the cruise so I called today and asked for a group rate myself and got it. I read in a bridal book somewhere to never mention that you're booking a "wedding" group until you have to, if you just call and book a block of rooms for a family, they'll probably be cheaper then a 'wedding' booking or whatever. So yeah, I booked it. I think she was a little put off but the hotels in the area are booking up fast, she was even surprised at the number of hotels with no availability. Anyway. She says ACV will likely be my most expensive option. It's a flight from Halifax to Orlando, FL so it shouldn't be too bad. Idk. She says to wait and see anyway...

That travel size soap is a cool idea. For those of you booking with Air Canada Vacations - did you find that their prices were about the same as other airlines or did you shop around at all? My travel agent is going to be trying to get us the cheapest option of course but I have heard about the Air Canada Vacations and how they do the upgrades, we have about 35 people going and would love to be able to upgrade my future mother in law and my father, both of whom are elderly, my mother in law has a thing with cramped spaces and my dad has never flown before.. lol.. I am thinking this will help ease things with the flight. But I heard on another site for every 8 people booked you get an upgrade - now its every 20 people booked??

Tried my dollarama with no success.. asked the cashier and she said "there's none now - but I haven't checked any of them out and they said there was some, so I don't know what happened to them" hopefully they restock them soon, or I'll have to hit up more dollaramas.. this was the same dollarama that was out of lil first aid kits when I went too, so it's a pretty popular location. Either that or theres more BDW brides in Cape Breton that I don't know about cleaning out the dollaramas before I can get to them, lol!

Cool! I want to check this out as well! I bought pashmina's in my wedding color (turquoise) from that wholesale place in NY through emails and stuff.. had to pay a chunk for shipping but it was a good deal still in the end. But now I feel like I should have also picked a more neutral shade like black or white/ivory so they can wear them all the time.. if I can score this deal and they are of similar quality to the ones I got already, I'll double up the ladies' pashmina's

Very cute idea! I also love the idea of a spa party. I live in a more rural area so I don't know if we'll be able to do that. I am from Cape Breton, NS by the way, not too far from Halifax, I've done some oot bag shopping in Halifax actually lol. I am oot-bag obsessed too! But these are turning into something really important to me, I want personal touches on everything so the guests feel like they're really appreciated for travelling all that way and spending all that money - which they are! I have to ask - what is the take on the lingerie/panty game? lmao

Thanks for the tip about Dollarama! I bought them for I think it was $2.27 at Lawton Drugs, only bought four of them, figured I'd hunt around for better prices. I was going to do the minimus/ebay route and get the little packets with two pills inside but brides have posted on here about people needing more then two advil in their travel kit/first aid.. advil is good for headaches from hangovers and regular headachey stuff, plus its a whatchacallit.. um.. anti-inflammatory so it will work for sunburn pain too.. and sinus congestion.. stuff like that. Now hopefully my dollarama has them! And that they don't expire for a while!

Oh man this thread makes me want to go into town more then ever. I want to see the little sewing kits at Michaels! And I want to get more bubbas at Cdn tire.. but my car is being crappy at the moment.. I have an appt Wednesday morning so I'll have to wait until then I guess. Boo urns. I got mine from ebay seller gcishoponline - cheapest option out there - I got lanyards there too for super cheap, I am planning to get wrist coils as well if I do an order from Oriental Trading, and give people the option. Personally I don't like wrist coils just because I don't wear much on my wrist (I can't even wear a watch) but I could see where others would want that option. Oh, here is one of gcishoponline's auctions http://cgi.ebay.ca/100-Business-ID-Card-Badge-Holder-w-Zipper-Vertical-ZH-/130489909314?pt=UK_WSJL_Wholesale_GL&hash=item1e61ce0042 But they come in different lot sizes, you don't have to get 100, you can get like ten of them if you only need ten, or you can get 500 of them if you need 500, God Bless you if you if any of you are doing 500 OOT bags, lol...

I got my card holders from ebay seller gcishoponline, and my lanyards too, cheapest option I found, WITH the little zip lock thingy. http://cgi.ebay.ca/100-Business-ID-Card-Badge-Holder-w-Zipper-Vertical-ZH-/130489909314?pt=UK_WSJL_Wholesale_GL&hash=item1e61ce0042 There's one of the auctions.. but he can do card holders in any size 'lot', doesn't have to be 100, can be 10, or 500, etc. Canadiangirl, $7.50 for 6 bags is a great price. Do you have time to order one pack and see how you like them before ordering a whole bunch? I wouldn't comprimise for something I didn't love unless I could be sure it would work. Just my opinion I like them myself but we're not doing anything red.. much to the disappointment of my FI

Hey according to the website the Bubba Keg and the Bubba Keg Mug are on sale for 50% off - I never got my notification! Did they change the item numbers on them on us or something? I'm going to have to grab some on Wednesday.. hope there's some left if not I'll get a raincheck

I didn't get my bubba keg mug notfiication either.. I wonder if these are just the 'keg' ones? I will still check it out! And celticgirl, when I went I wanted 10 and they only had 2 in stock so I got a raincheck for the other 8 easily. I even got a little notice when they had them back in stock so I could go get some. And as for BLACK FRIDAY.. seriously, it is a must-do shopping trip for me and my mom (and my fiancee lol he started out as our driver now he's just as stoked about it as we are) every year. Hotels book up fast so if you're planning it I suggest you book as soon as you are sure.. and then there are fab websites out there for Black Friday but I'll make a thread maybe of OOT-related stuff that might interest some girls once some of the ads start getting "leaked" online (usually starts in about October). With all of the wedding stuff coming up I am going to have to do my Christmas shopping at Black Friday ($2 bath towels - 2 of them make a great present.. toasters and coffee makers for $3 each.. also great presents.. stuff like that they have every year). We also do our winter coat shopping at Black Friday, always great sales. This is the first year I'll be looking for weddingy stuff so I'm going to make the most of it, it's a 9 hour drive to the border from where I live, lol.

Thanks Tammy, that's true, with the way their behaviour has been lately my fiancee said today even if we had a local wedding he doesn't know if they would be able to show up. It does suck though and I feel bad for him, but you're also right with the it could be worse thing.. we just lost a friend of ours to cancer on June 28th, does put things in perspective for you. I just feel bad, I don't want anyone thinking this is mainly "my" wedding.. he already doesn't have a large family.. and now the men standing for him will be all relatives of mine (and he is good friends with my cousin but still). I went to a wedding on July 2nd and all of the attendants, even the maid of honor, were all from the groom's family. It was kind of odd that the brides family or friends werent in the actual wedding party so it was sort of viewed as more of "his family's" celebration rather then both of their families celebration..? If that makes sense. So an UPDATE.. I got an email today from my travel agent saying that the best man's fiancee called her and cancelled their trip. I don't even know if they'll be able to get their deposit money back but apparently they're willing to 'take the hit'. My fiancee is super upset.. more pissed off then anything because we can both see on her facebook updates about all the things she's buying, etc and then they turn around and say they don't have the money for this. They are also booked into the cheapest option available and don't have that big of a price tag to pay, and they have 9 months to pay but they're bailing on us now? I'm sorry for sounding a little selfish but it really feels like to us that the best man's fiancee does not give a hoot about our wedding or the fact this is one of his only friends.. the best man had told my FI that he would crunch the numbers again and call us if they made a decision either way.. but he did not call us, we had to hear that their trip was cancelled from the travel agent. And I thought my brother and his family booking on the same cruise ship, except for a month before my wedding therefore totally adding insult to injury was bad enough.