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Hey JEM I'm getting married the weekend before you on the 25th!!!!! so excited!

Ok.. I have another contender idea for centerpieces. This is totally different. I just stumbled on this yesterday. They are these flower covered wine glasses, with led tea lights in them. Here's what they look like in light and lit up at night. The lit one is off a website.. a little different, not painted and made of vellum. If I were to do this I'd do better and less sloppy painting and do them on vellum. plus, I think I'd paint both sides... or maybe use a pattered paper instead of painting. They assembled in less than 5 mins... so they're really quick and easy to do. Here's the table mock ups I did with it. .. I would also add some votives or tea lights like in the sample picture. What do y'all think?... This one or one of the other two?

Airtran is running a sale on airfare to Mexico between next week and May 17th... figures since my wedding is the 25th. But... here's the link http://www.airtran.com/sale/CUN.aspx?saleID=658

not really a cost difference.. I already bought both the boxes and the chargers... the boxes I can still return, but the chargers I bought over a year ago when I thought I'd be doing an at home reception, so I have bunches of them.

ok... lets try this again... one set is a teal square charger with 3 pillar candles, votives, and petals. The second one is 3 silver painted boxes with a different candle on each, with votives, and petals...

Ok, so what do we think of these two options for center pieces. I pretty much have everything to either, minus the linens... I still need to find those.

Anybody who's looking to bring their own stuff... here's a bride selling things for pretty cheap. https://www.facebook.com/weddingitemsale thought I'd pass it on.

Another question... sorry for posting so many of these... what kind of footware are your men wearing? Does sand get inside the Men's dress shoes? Should he be wearing sandals? and if they're wearing sandals has anyone found any that look at least a little bit more formal?

Has anyone done a hand-fasting.. or thinking of doing a hand-fasting and knows some good links for ceremonies? My FI and I aren't religious at all and we're doing a symbolic ceremony. So far hand-fasting is the only real "ceremony" like thing that I've really found.. I like the sand ceremony too, but I'm a bit afraid that the sand will just get shook up on the way home. Any other good ceremony ideas out there?

Ok.. I bought bubble tube 8ct packs at the dollar tree... and then on clearance I scored two bubble machines.. I'm going to put the bubble machines at the front of the aisles and tell the people sitting by them to turn them on when the person says "Man and Wife".. these are the pictures that are my inspiration for using the bubbles... and a lot of them... ... another cute idea I saw that I like was this confetti arbor... you hang a fabric horizontally over your altar, cover it with confetti and when you kiss someone pulls a string allowing the confetti to fall over you. ... then later confetti or petals that the guests can toss.

Sorry.. you have to deal with that... just remember to breathe, and while it hurts that friends- who are important to you- don't value your wedding above their other concerns.. My FI's aunt and uncle said they couldn't go because they already planned a trip to Chile in 2013... utter crap because we've been engaged for two years-and she was at the engagement party when we said we'd be doing a destination wedding. Another friend said that she's decided that she'd rather take a trip to Ireland on her own this summer... then not even a half second later said she wasn't sure if she'd be able to afford going to Mexico in May... I feel like we all have friends with those kinds of "concerns".... But, the day isn't about them... and the day being about you is something to be very happy about. ... that being said... remind me of this in March when all of my room payments are due and I'm angry at the people who back out... or when I'm disappointed that I don't have the numbers I wanted. That being said... those of you who have been through this and had people you cared about back out of attending... When it came down to it.. on the day did you care if those people weren't there?... I've got to think that things will be so crazy and exciting that you won't be able to think of anything but the moment. Or at least... that's what I keep telling myself. Quote: Originally Posted by mstigger So, I feel a mini-melt down coming. I'm just really fed up with so called friends complaining about the cost of attending my wedding. REALLY?? It's my wedding, and while you are invited it in no way means you have to be there. How about someone who is supposedly one of my "best friends" saying her boyfriend wanted to know how we can "expect" them to pay that kind of money to go to our wedding. Have I mentioned this is my 3rd marriage? I know that's a lot, but first time was my baby daddy who was abusive.....took 10 years of that and had enough. Second time was a minor lapse in judgement....he stole some of my 401k and gave it to his ex-wife. As I told my family, my picker has been broke for years!!! So Chuck and I went to high school together and I feel like I finally got it right......it just took some trials and tribulations to get there. We both wanted to get married on the beach and we wanted it to be small. I still sent out numerous invitations knowing most would not attend. I just don't get this kind of friendship....it is unbelievable. My MOH is actually a girl we graduated with and her and I reconnected last year while I was debating rekindling things with Chuck. She was great then and has been great now. She is actually making my bouquet out of shells - took that project on all by herself!! So, my local friends have done nothing. Offered no help of any kind and the one friend who I really thought would help me out has been MIA. My mother is attending the wedding and we are close, but she's been no help either. No input, no suggestions, nothing. I'm a hot mess right now!! I think this is what I need!!! With my son leaving for basic in 20 days, I'm kind of stumped on the whole wedding thing. I have no motivation and just feel so frustrated and irritated!! Think all that's normal?? Sorry for the long dialogue, just needed to vent!!!

Anyone know what size tablecloths I should buy? Round tables for 6-8 people.

Shannon, is there anything in particular that made your night so much fun? Anything other than the typical I should be thinking to include?

Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Thanks!! I can't wait either! I've got 4 months to go and after 2 years of planning,I'm starting to get really excited. I went to do a make-up trial at ulta today. It was so much fun. But, it's a good thing I've had so much time. I have some seriously obsessive personality issues that require unreal planning. The photoshopping was only after drawing it several times.... In different color combos. Currently working on my table set ups.. Once I have that put together I'll post that too. The good side of this is that it will leave less room for error on the WC's side of things.

Do you think buildings 1-5 are nicer than building 55? Another bride suggested building 55 since it had great water views. ... thoughts?

Shannon, if you have a moment can you recommend some room numbers? I know I want to stay in bldg 55 for the first half of my stay... but which room number has the best water view?.. and which Casitas bldg do you think seems the nicest? I've been wondering this as we've been putting in our reservations. Suggestions on room numbers from other people would be appreciated too. Thanks!!!

I've decided not to do the side flowers on the gazebo... instead I'm just leaving the draping. I did some photoshopping of a bunch of pictures to make one photo of what it will look like... now, the gazebo in the picture isn't actually the gazebo 55 one (notice it's actually a white gazebo frame) but I did add in an aisle runner with flower petals, the ribbon stakes I made and the chair hangers that I made... I'm pretty proud of the collage actually... it's about as close as I'm gonna get to seeing the "real" thing. but when I see this I think I won't miss there being flowers. Plus, I know that I want satin for my sheers, so I need to find some bolts of purple and teal.

In case people are interested... I asked my WC about fabric types for the gazebo and these are the pictures he gave me: The Organza sheers are the most popular type of fabric, these are the ones that we offer for $150.00 USD in any other color. Organza is also use in the bows Similar to the pictures below: The other type of fabrics is the French Tergal, this is the one that we usually use for the white sheers: Tulle is not usual for the Gazebos, as is placed on the tiki torches. Similar to the Organza in color but different in texture, we do not recommend it for the gazebos as we get it here in the inappropriate size for the gazebos. As we need 2 meters width/ 12 meters long at least to cover the gazebo. It is used to decorate tiki torches or wrap around poles: Sometimes we use Satin for the very bright colors, such as silver, gold, purple, blue or even black; satin is under request and the price is $200.00 USD per sheer: -Personally the Satin is my favorite... but there is no way I'm paying 200 per sheer.... I will now be shopping for satin.

I just read something in a DW book that said make sure you put bug spray on your legs before putting on your dress. Does anyone remember bugs being a problem at EDR? Never even thought of mosquitoes and the like being there, which I should have since we have those crazy black spotted African mosquitoes from hell here for half the year now. Still should I be preparing for something like insects? Should I put those OFF wipes in my OOT bags?

true true... the facetime thing is a good idea too for talking around the resort too... and with skype you can send text messages... but I'm still going to use walkie talkies and pick a channel for the people who don't have smart phones yet, like my FIL. I'll pick a channel for the group and then you can always tell whoever pages you on it to switch to a different channel for your conversation. Plus, I'm not sure what I'd think about leaving my IPhone on the beach or at the pool when I went into the water, I suppose that's a plus of having a swim up. I guess another plus of the swim up would be having your room phone so close by too.

I have to say Ditto to this too... my FI is unbelievably picky eater, and can be impossible when they don't get his personalized order right... he gets anxiety sometimes over trying new foods and the last thing I want is a groomzilla on a hypoglycemic rampage from not eating the whole week we're there . Plus there was one time on the cruise we took last summer that we were turned away from breakfast because of dresscode, so I'm a little paranoid about that too... so it's refreshing to see that it's not so strictly enforced.