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Yeah, that takes a while...but it gives you so many useful ideas in the process!

Wow, 780chick, yours turned out perfect!

That's great, I love the ribbon used on the outside. Are those strings under the starfish tied together to keep it closed?

Wow, I love the formatting of that and they're so bold! Seems like the perfect move for a destination wedding.

That sounds like a great idea!

wow, that sounds like a perfect idea! Nice and cheap too!

I take it you're not getting married on a beach are you? Beach weddings + high heels = disaster!

Wow, $99 that sounds nice!

Hi I'm new. We just set the date, September 3 in Koh Samui, Thailand. I'm so excited! Anyone else pick SouthEast Asia for their destination? We have to fly people in from all over the world, so we figured it would be a good vacation spot for everyone. The vendors, hotels and everything in that region is super cheap too! Yay to third world weddings!

Some places you can do all of the paperwork in one day. I'm glad to hear others aren't going through the hassle of trying to get it through the embassy in a foreign country as well. It just seems like a lot of money (in our case $600 +) for something that is $25 in the states. But I do have one question: does making a big deal of the civil ceremony in the states take away from the destination wedding? We both kinda think of the civil ceremony as just the paperwork, so we're not really sure if we want to use it as a celebration point, or ignore it so everyone can focus on our real wedding (happening in Thailand).

My parents are the same way! But his family has to fly in from England, Cambodia, and Dubai. And to be frank, I'm not going to let his family fly all the way around the world for a few days in freezing cold Minnesota. So we decided on Thailand (a place both he and I have been a few times).