CourtandMatt

You look BEAUTIFUL!! Great choice!!

I am booked with Rashel Edwards' assistant

LOVE THE LONG VEIL!! I totally vote for the long veil. I think the bird cage is beautiful, but I don't think it goes as well with your dress as the long veil. Plus the long veil just looks so wedding-ish and romantic (and even beachish)! LOVE IT!

I told my ladies that I don't need a shower or bachelorette party since I am already getting the most amazing thing: a destination wedding. Plus, with regard to the shower, the bigger issue is my FI and I are not "things people." We don't like a lot of stuff in our apartment so we rarely ever shop for it (and we rarely cook so we def. didn't want more pots and pans). Thus, instead of registering for stuff, we registered for a honeymoon, which is not really shower thing since people will be giving the same thing for the wedding. My MOH still wants to do a bachelorette party. I asked that it just be something simple - like dinner or something with very few people (I am not huge about all the attention). If I were you, I would make the shower small (like what you have planned) since you are doing a AHR. OR you could call some of the invitees and ask if they would want to be invited so that you don't offend people by not inviting them.

When we booked in January 2012 for our May 2013 wedding, they made it clear that the documents they gave us were for 2012 and that they project 2013 prices to go up by 10%. Not sure if that is what is going to happen, but we planned for that.

With regard to purple: I LOVE it! Its classy and beautiful. Purple would have been my choice if every wedding we have been invited to wasn't also doing purple including my FI's best friend's wedding and my former best friend's wedding. I just decided I just couldn't do it because I wanted to be totally unique. So, instead, we are doing a neutral color theme. You can see examples on my pinterest page: http://pinterest.com/courtneymara/ HAPPY PLANNING!

Six months until our May 4, 2013, wedding!!! Yayy to the date getting closer!!

Hi, Jenna! Welcome and congrats!! Here is my reasoning for Jamaica: 1) We wanted a location that people could get nonstop flights from the U.S. and that was not too far (in other words, like 4-5 hours from DC). That got us to the Caribbean. 2) We want to get legally married at our destination wedding so we needed a place that was not too hard to get married. That took out Mexico. 3) We wanted to get married in English and have the paperwork in English. This took us to the Bahamas and Jamaica. 4) We wanted an all inclusive. I couldn't find any I liked in the Bahamas. Here is my reasoning for IRHS: 1) Close to main airport. IRHS is only 15 minutes. 2) Good food. IRHS supposably has great food. 3) Affordable. 4) Great reviews. 5) One wedding 6) Highly recommended by our TA. 7) IRHS seems to have the most active forums for Jamaica. I think that means happy brides and excited engaged folks. 8) The beach. I originally booked our wedding at Grand Palladium in Jamaica. After reading reviews and talking to my TA, she HIGHLY discouraged me from getting married there. The wedding reviews were really up and down and the same with traveler reviews. It is also like an hour from the airport and has a man made beach. Good luck choosing!! And happy planning!!

Up to 100 persons/guests!

BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks so much for sharing! Your wedding looked like such a blast! Could you possibly share the prices for Tai Flora's flowers? I loved yours and wanted to get a rough estimate of how much they will end up costing us.

GREAT IDEA! My fiance and I are very simple and believe more in experiences than stuff (you should see how simple our apartment is). So, instead, we have decided to give all of our guests the gift of an excursion: we rented a private catamaran. We are going to give welcome letters that advise that our gift is the excursion. The only addition I have been thinking about is also buying disposable underwater cameras and give one to each group because then ppl can use it on the catamaran, bring it home, get it developed, and have the experience to share with their family and friends. So, long story short, I like the idea of one bigger gift.

I LOVE this dress! I am an Alfred Angelo gal!

Btw, that liquor list is for IRHS!

Click here for a map of the resorts Catamaran: I booked a Friday morning "rehearsal snorkel" through Island Routes Tours (my TA helped facilitate the booking). For a private catamaran, appetizers, open bar, DJ, snorkeling, and three hours on board with end point of Margaritaville it will cost us $2925 + $10pp for transportation. Alcohol: I got the below list from the WC a few months ago NATIONAL OPEN BAR SODA LIQUORS Coke & Diet Coke, fanta, sprite Various liquors from the house House Amaretto BEER Wiskey Cream from the house Red Stripe Rum Cream from the house Red Stripe Light APPETIZERS TEQUILA Red, White and Dry Martini Rosita Campari Portoneva Oporto Dry Sack WISKEY COCKTAILS House Wiskey (Teacher's) Tropical Cocktails Cocktails without alcohol RUM Various Cocktails Appleton White Appleton Gold Coruba Dark VODKA House Vodka (Kirov) GIN House Gin (Hallmark) BRANDY House Brandy (Napoleon) SPARKING WINE Torres de la Vid PRICE PER PERSON PER HOUR $7.00 **Brands subject to change according to availabilty** INTERNATIONAL OPEN BAR SODA BRANDY Coke & Diet Coke, fanta, sprite Presidente Veterano Fundador BEER Red Stripe TEQUILA Red Stripe Light Cuervo Gold Heineken Sauza APPETIZERS LIQUORS Red, White and Dry Martini Sambuca Vaccari Campari Amaretto Oporto Rum Cream La Ina Pernod Dry Sack Kahlúa Baileys RUM Various liquors from the house Appleton Especial Malibu COCKTAILS Capitan Morgan Gold Tropical Cocktails: Appleton Reserved Planters Punch, Mai-tai, Zombi, Daiquiri, Mojito Pina Colada, Blue Hawai, Margaritas Appleton VX Internantional Cocktails: Cosmopolitan, Manhatan, Kir Royal, Bloody Mary VODKA Dry Martini, Apple Martini, Smirnoff Cocktails without alcohol: Vodka Stolichnaya Conga, Pina Colada, Strawbery Diquiri Vodka Absolut GIN SPARKING WINE Ginebra Gordons Freixenet Carta Nevada Ginebra Beefeater Corte Real Brut Ginebra Bombay Sappir Azul Ginebra Tanqueray WISKEY & BOURBON Johnie Walker E.R. Ballantines Bourbon Jim Bean Canadian Club Jack Daniels PRICE PER PERSON PER HOUR $10.00 **Brands subject to change according to availabilty**

WELCOME! I sure you will find some very useful information on this site!!

GREAT PHOTOS! Super cute! You two look great together!

Thank you all! I am very excited about the invites and getting things moving. And, Arch713, yay to another Minnesotan!!

I am so excited! We finally got our invitations in so now we can mail them and find out who is coming!! Yay! I posted pictures on my planning thread (see link below)! I finally feel like I am catching up to you all!

Our invitations are in! I am so excited to mail them once Hurricane Sandy has passed. We got them from http://emdotzee.com/. We based ours off of the one found here: http://emdotzee.com/blog/2012/01/palm-trees-coral-antique-boarding-pass-invitations/. In the end, we paid $808 for 100 invitations that included our address on both envelopes. I am so happy with them!

Our invitations! We LOVE them. We got them from http://emdotzee.com/. I believe in the end with everything we got we paid $808. This included our addresses on the envelopes (with the exception of recipient addresses). On top, I purchased a Mrs. Doolin hanger from the original maker of these hangers: Lila Frances.