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Cait your bags sound fantastic! you put so much time and effort into them your guests are very lucky they look amazing!

Yes they were in the party section, as lindsayraz said they were near the cards, wrapping paper & stationary section...adorable! And very inexpensive

hi ladies, i was at walmart today and saw these adorable flip flop key chains, so cute for OOT bags. there are 5 in the bag for $1! only $0.20 each key chain.

AquaCait, I love it! thanks so much for the great idea and the pics! i have 75 people coming to my DW and i definitely need a way to individualize the mugs for everyone and i didnt want to permenentley mark them or anything. this is great!

this is an AMAZING idea! i looooove it! if you have a pic of yours could you please post it?! thanks!

we havent finished picking all of our music yet, but this is what we have so far: guests & groom entrance - not sure yet? my entrance - not sure either lol signing/sand ceremony - i think i like somewhere over the rainbow (seems popular lol) walking out - good life - one republic first dance - crazy love - michael buble i will have to read more posts on here to get ideas for the entrances!

i would highly and definitely recommend the travel agent we are using. her name is Jen Jackson and she works at Lakeview Travel in St Catharines, ON. I live in Toronto, but i didnt find the distance between us to be a problem at all! Jen is amazing and very accomodating, she can do everything for you over the phone or email (i use email A LOT to communicate with jen). she is very quick to get back to you and will bend over backwards to help! she got our group a greeeeeeat deal on a 5 star resort in punta cana. so great in fact we have 70 PEOPLE coming with us anyways here is her info: Jen Jackson [email protected] 905 938 1200 let me know if you have any questions! if you choose to contact her, tell her i recommended her!

this dress is beeeeeeautiful! congrats on finding THE ONE dress for you! it looks gorgeous and i think it will definitely give that WOW factor

thanks for the notice! i need to pick up 2 more for some group additions! ALSO ladies, please note, if your nearest canadian tire (and there arent many more you can go to) doesnt have enough bubba mugs in stock, ask for a rain check! it is good for 30 days. I got a rain check after my 1st purchase because I had a feeling I would get some late book ins. keep it in mind!

one more question lol do you know where Laura got the starfish in your bouquet? i looooove them! even to use for other things!

thanks for sharing your flowers! quick question, how long did it take to do your flowers? im running out of time and am just starting to consider getting flowers to take!

i love both of these ideas! where did you get the starfish? and how did you make the luminaries? pleeeease share

for canadian brides looking for the bath and body works small hand sanitizers, they have them on right for 75% off, they are normally $2 a piece, so right now they are $0.50! they only had about 5 different kinds at the 2 stores (Limeridge Mall in Hamilton and Mapleview Mall in Burlington) I was at this weekend. but those kinds are still nice! they had cool cucumber (i chose these ones), coconut lime verbena, white citrus, nectarine mint, and one kind i cannot remember the name of to save my life! they also had 2 kinds of the travel sized hand lotions on sale for $1 each! they were aruba coconut and rio rumberry. just wanted to let you girls know! $0.50 is a great deal for the bath and body works hand sanitizers!

CONGRATULATIONS! That is so exciting that you've found THE dress I'm so happy for you that you followed your heart and went back to try on more dresses, because clearly you were right! Now your wedding day will all that more special because you will feel like a gorgeous bride!

these are amazing! totally worth your time, they turned out fantastic!

wedding websites are a great idea! my advice is find a site you like that is free for you, because its only temporary. And then just add as must or as little as you want to share with everyone. I did my wedding website with www.weddingwire.com and they give page suggestions that you can add to your website to give you ideas of what you should write about! mine is still a work in progress because we are constantly updating it, but take a look if you want http://www.weddingwire.com/staceyandstephen

I did my boarding pass invites awhile ago, but never found the time to post them on here! But I thought I should share what I did because I found SO many helpful ideas on this site. Hopefully someone else can use some of my ideas I would like to especially thank torilynnsmith and sunkisseddreams (Lisa) for their save the date boarding pass threads that I found insanely helpful and got LOTS of ideas from! here are the links to their fantastic STD's: http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/t/73661/my-boarding-pass-invites-lots-of-pictures http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/t/63007/sunkisseddreams-diy-boarding-pass-save-the-dates I am from Canada, so all my materials were bought at Canadian stores and the prices are in the Canadian dollars, just so everyone knows lol these invites were done from start (designing) to finish (mailed out) in about 5 days! These were very time consuming but totally worth it! We were originally going to do boarding pass save the dates and then passport invites. but because of time constraints and getting a GREAT price offer we had to skip save the dates and go straight for invites lol anyways here they are! Products and Price Breakdown (my prices include taxes because in my spreadsheets I always put the total costs lol) Card Stock for the invites- Antique Colour from Staples - $13.55 for 250 pages Envelopes - Antique Colour by Wausau from Walmart - $20.75 for 2 packages of 50 (Walmart also sold the Antique colour card stock by the same company, but it was more expensive than the one at Staples and they looked exactly the same, but Staples didn't have matching envelopes) Blue Envelope Paper for the pockets the invites go in - from Staples Copy & Print Centre - $8.14 for 100 sheets ($0.06 a sheet) Paper Cutter - Cuterpede from Walmart - $22.57 (BEST purchase and worth every penny lol) Corner Rounder - from Walmart - can't remember the exact price but I believe it was less than $5 (Michael's has a MUCH more expensive one, but I found the one from Walmart just as good) Brads - from Michaels - $6.76 for 100 mixed colours (these are the little flowers in the corners that hold the pages together, I had NO idea what these were before looking on this website lol) Double Sided Tape - from Walmart $6 (4 rolls at $1.50 each) I ran out at one point and used Scoth Brand double sided but it was too wide and didn't work for my blue envelopes. Rafia - Michaels - $4.50 (usually $9 but I got it 50% off with a coupon) Canada Post Stamps - $63.28 for 100 stamps from Costco (they work out to be $0.03 cheaper per stamp when bought at Costco vs. buying them individually) Ice Pick - to punch the holes in the corners of the invites to get the Brads through - this is just something my Dad had at home Making the Invites So I used the free aylee bits template (ayleebits.com) because at this point I did not have enough posts to download off this website lol so I had to start from blank! I didn't find Word too hard to work with for the template. I looked at A LOT of other girls boarding pass examples on here and used some great ideas! Like I said before, we were on a time crunch so I basically created these in 1 day because we HAD to get them printed and assembled lol I was in a good place because I had already been looking at so many on here. I made my template, my FI and mom helped me tweak it to look perfect! We were super lucky because my FI has free access to a great colour printer at his work, so we were able to print all 150 colour pages at his work for nothing! Because the free aylee bits template is already laid out perfect it was super easy to print double sided. After printing them all we had to use the paper cutter I bought to separate them. We then used the corner rounder to soften all the corners and finally used the ice pick to make a hole for the brads (fasteners) to go through! I also made the blue envelope jackets for the invites to go in, inside the mailing envelopes. For the blue jackets I just folded the paper in 3 and then folded the one corner down to make the opening. I used double sided tape to put them together. I sort of just made them up because I didn't know exactly how to do them, I just wanted them to look similar to sunkisseddreams STD's. I also printed small squares with our names and wedding date on them to put on the outside of the blue jackets. We tied the rafia around and then used more double sided tape to put the squares over the rafia bows. Lol enough talking, here are my pics! These are my materials: The paper and envelopes: All 4 pages of the invite: The front and back of the first page of the invite: All 4 pages of the invite with the brad flower holding them together: All 100 invites! (whew lol): The square pieces that go on the front of the blue jackets: The invites in their blue jackets with the envelopes at the end: Thats it! Sorry my post was so long lol if anyone has any questions please let me know

Ohhhh my goodness that would be the answer to my prayers! Haha if you ever find one pleeeease let me know!

we chose the Gran Bahia because we got price quotes for our group to go to both the Majestic and the Gran Bahia. The price was significantly different between the Majestic and The Gran Bahia (Majestic being $250 more per person). And we wanted the biggest group we could get, so we knew an extra $500 per couple would make a big difference to some people. So we decided to go with the less expensive resort for our guests. we are super HAPPY to say our decision paid off we have 70 people coming with us!! we are thrilled by this!

these look great! i loooove the starfish cut out

it is 150. you need to make 150 posts to be able to download attachments

dont worry DominicanLeila, the beginning stage is the hardest. it becomes a little scary, overwhelming and nerve racking lol but it all gets easier and A LOT more fun any questions please feel free to ask!

Haha thanks trivera5521 I am definitely particular, if not neurotic lol I sent the spreadsheet to all three of you girls that asked for it! Let me know if you get, or have any problems with it! Good luck with your photographer decision, it is certainly a tough one! For anyone else out there wondering about Punta Cana area photographers feel free to PM me and I will gladly email you my spreadsheet. for those that can download here is my spreadsheet: punta cana photographers.xlsx

so exciting to see someone who has a lot in common! we are both getting married in Punta Cana in April and we're Canadian! Congrats

congrats on the wedding and all you did! quick question, i would loooove to know where you got your room key holders!