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@Gyqueiroz Love love love your photos! Sunset da Monalise is beeeaaautiful! That was one of my top venue choices, but we decided on Casa dorada instead for the ease factor of getting married where we are staying. And that pic where your skirt being taken off is awesome! Congrats! Did you make your bouquet and not use a florist at all?

Quote: Originally Posted by J0hanna Hi everyone, I am getting second thoughts on my wedding location. I am still considering Cabo of course but a different location. I initially had my eyes set (yes I put down a deposit already) for Dreams but looked elsewhere and found Sunset Da Mona Lisa and Hacienda Cocina & Cantina. Both are gorgeous locations however, both are also restaurants. My fiancé is stuck for the all inclusive resort stay and wedding location to keep things simple and at minimal costs. AGHHHHH!!! Now I am worried because I want to send out my STD in October and need to finalize everything soon. Opinions anyone? Thanks! Just curious @J0hanna - did you end up changing your venue?

Quote: Originally Posted by lastminbride Flo - I never thought about how much more I'll be able to look at. This is a job without a paycheck! Ha ha ha Sorry I meant Mexico FLOWER availability list... Let's just say I had a very unproductive last few days....

Quote: Originally Posted by shugapop1 Quote: Originally Posted by flo628 Has anyone found or know where to get cheap crossword puzzle/sudoku books? I was going to put mini ones in the OOT bags. PS- my 150th post!!!!!! I'm expecting confetti to fall from above and bells to ring as soon as I hit "submit". I got mine from dollar tree Awesome! Thank you!

Quote: Originally Posted by lastminbride Lol!!! I totally messed that up, didn't I? But it helped you with your 150 Flo! xox You sure did! You can still play! IMDB can be your friend here...

Quote: Originally Posted by lastminbride Lol Flo! I want to see those t-shirts! Maybe a message on the website under a 'concerns' tab. You click on it, and the message comes out! Ha ha ha Ooooooh, good one! But I bet my FI won't let me. I'm still thinking about the tshirts tho... I can wear them around during the holidays to spread the joy. Quote: Originally Posted by lastminbride Congrats on the 150. I'm close. You'll have to tell us which was the first template you opened. Thank you! I opened the Mexico Cabo Availability list first! I wish there was a price guide with it, but the list was still useful. I looked at some OOT templates, but then I decided I don't want to think about it until I know how many people are coming (or a rough estimate...don't get me started on ppl not RSVP-ing, another annoying thing!) :)

So Lola from Florenta emailed me back and said I needed a minimum of $2500 budget for her to work with me. My WC said it's very strange. Sergio emailed me back but forgot to attache the quote...took several more days for him to get back to me...kinda spacy but has been very nice so far. No one else has emailed me back...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tammy Host it is attached. FINALLY I can open this. cabofloweravailibilty.doc

Has anyone found or know where to get cheap crossword puzzle/sudoku books? I was going to put mini ones in the OOT bags. PS- my 150th post!!!!!! I'm expecting confetti to fall from above and bells to ring as soon as I hit "submit".

Not to brag, ladies, but one more to go. ONE. MORE.

Quote: Originally Posted by flo628 Quote: Originally Posted by MissJali Sorry, I went with Jasmines Bridal and am very happy with my Vera replica. It was just a reassurance that the dress after being corrected looks a lot better. Do you have a pic of your knockoff? I'd love to see it- I'm too lazy to search through the 578 pages Nevermind, found it! Looks great!

Quote: Originally Posted by SweetheartAggie IT'S HERE!!!! My replica dress... I need to get a petticoat but wanted to post... Ordered from babyonline... Here's the original... And here is what I just got... Actually EXTREMELY happy... I didn't want any bling bc I'm going to have a blingy sash... Wow they did an excellent job!

Quote: Originally Posted by MissJali Sorry, I went with Jasmines Bridal and am very happy with my Vera replica. It was just a reassurance that the dress after being corrected looks a lot better. Do you have a pic of your knockoff? I'd love to see it- I'm too lazy to search through the 578 pages

Ok, what happened, Jake Gyllenhal wasn't in Devil Wears Prada- was he? I'm going back to Jake (sorry lastminbride): Sourcecode: Vera Farmiga

Quote: Originally Posted by DanielleNDerek that means we are left with Ryan Reynolds Noooo Ryan Reynolds?! His eyes are too close together

Quote: Originally Posted by amanditaxo310 Quote: Originally Posted by Liann03 I'm trying to think up some sort of hotel scavenger hunt, any ideas? LIann03, there is a forum on here, search scavenger hunt. I got a ton of ideas from it and then looked up an APP for smart phones and created a scavenger hunt game for our wedding weekend festivities with a start & end date and time. Every thing is points based, you post a pic, you can see the other teams leader boards, etc. I'm sending out all this info to our guests in a Newsletter with pics of the app to download and then I'm also including a list of the things to hunt/find and their point value in our Welcome Bags so people without smart phones can play if they would like, use their digital camera and email me the photos. We said the winner will be announced when we return home and a prize will be mailed out. Thinking about picking up some sort of cool souvenir there for the winner(s) Happy Planning! Such a good idea!

Quote: Originally Posted by jreist For your interest, I made these T-Shirts on Vista Print, and Since I had bought a Groupon, they came to only $2 each: Hahaha these are really hilarious!

Iceland! If you could move to any country in the world to live, where would you move to?

Quote: Originally Posted by misbosox Once you get to 150 can you view any templates? yep!

Quote: Originally Posted by lastminbride Don't you wish it was all just about the wedding - pretty flowers, ceremony details, what music/dance for the reception. Best wishes flo Quote: Originally Posted by smithandsweet Quote: Originally Posted by lastminbride Don't you wish it was all just about the wedding - pretty flowers, ceremony details, what music/dance for the reception. Best wishes flo I have gotten to the point that "IT IS MY DAY" I don't care what anyone says I am doing it my way. Don't like it, don't come. Thanks "Don't like it, don't come." They should sell t-shirts that say that. Or put it on the 1st page of my wedding site. Too much?

Quote: Originally Posted by tricia-m A wonderful article. Just thought I'd share http://sethadamsmith.com/2013/11/02/marriage-isnt-for-you/ My FI was just telling me about this article this morning. Sweet article.

Quote: Originally Posted by sharmer Quote: Originally Posted by jrebecky I actually got all the stuff - Advil, Pepto, etc. - individually wrapped on Amazon. Yeah, I noticed Amazon.com has great prices and selection.. sadly none of them will ship to us Canadians and amazon.ca doesn't have the same selection. I really like a suggestion posted on another thread - just make your own little envelopes! there is another thread where brides say they got all their OOT stuff for cheap: http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/t/80079/frugal-brides-found-a-new-website/270#post_1948313 I think I remember seeing Canadian sites as well. Good luck!

Quote: Originally Posted by Jennkn87 I'm very glad that I was told about this thread. To realize that I'm not the only one that is starting to get SUPER stressed about this whole situation. The only difference from all the posts I've read on here is....the guests that are giving me crap about the wedding are my FI parents and sisters. His mom has done nothing but make up excuses as to why they can't afford it or can't make it. I still don't know for sure if they are coming or not. She has now even gone to the point of telling me it is causing a fight in their family. This all started when we told her (before we even got engaged) that we would not be taking his 2 year old down to Jamaica with us. She knew ahead of time that we we planning a destination wedding, and seemed to be on board with it. When he informed her of our reasonings not to take his daughter, her response was always, "Thats your choice, not mine". We decided not to take his daughter for a few different reasons. First off, her mother lives to make his life a living hell. There is NO WAY IN HELL she would let that work out for us to take her. She would have to be there to sign the passport, she would have to allow us to have her longer than his normal weekends or for one of his "summer weeks" at a later date. Point blank, she would never let it happen. His family is WELL AWARE of how she is about everything, and knows just as well as we do that she would not allow this to happen. Second of all, financially it is just not feasible. I know we are already spending a lot of money on this wedding and everything that is tying into it...but to take a 3 year old to Jamaica..we would be paying for passports, plane tickets, lowered accommodations, among other things. She would be the ONLY child there, so she would have nothing to do, someone would have to be watching her at all times, AND we would have to switch resorts to a family-friendly one. When I go on vacation, I really don't want to pay all that money to be around kids all week, especially when it involves our honeymoon as well....Do we want to share OUR honeymoon with his 3 year old? I'm sure some people, and I've already gotten grief from a few others I work with about our decision, will think I'm horrible for this decision and saying these things, but in reality....does a 3 year old really need to be around that atmosphere? Everyone will no doubt be intoxicated most of the trip, (our family and friends are all pretty big drinkers) so someone would have to be watching her at ALL times. Anyways--- From the time we told his mother about our decision, (which was by the way not just MY decision, he was right on board and agreed with me about it.) she has treated this whole destination wedding thing totally different. When his sister found out about not taking his daughter, she threw an absolute fit, blaming me and bad mouthing me saying how selfish of a person I was being and this and that, which really got my FI blood boiling, which it was already starting to with his mother causing issues. She has went from we can't afford it, to his sister and brother will fail their classes if they miss one class, to they don't have passports, to his father will NOT leave the country, to anything else you can think of. His family has NEVER been out of the country, and has NEVER been to a beach. So they have NO IDEA what the ALL-INCLUSIVE part means. She recently told me, there was no way they could afford it unless all 4-7 of them could stay in one room. I'm like...oh boy...you don't understand. Even IF they allowed you to do that, the pricing wouldn't drop. I even went so far as to switching my resort at one point to accommodate them to stay at a family friendly one so it would be cheaper...once she started causing more and more drama my FI nixed that idea and said..."if they come they come, if they want to cause all of this drama, don't come. It's our wedding, they aren't planning this for us." So I made my final decision on resorts, which ended up being cheaper than the first. And have decided, if we end up having enough people for the free rooms (which I was originally going to give to them to help them out), WE are taking them. They have caused so much drama ALREADY and we've only been engaged just over a month. She is trying to even go behind his back now, and contact me about stuff, telling me he said this and that and I have a text to prove it, as if I don't know what he says to her and when. She's being borderline crazy and at this point, I think it's TOTALLY disrespectful of his OWN PARENTS to act like this about our choice, but if they are going to do nothing but cause us drama in this, when they are not paying for ANY OF IT, including a rehearsal dinner, dresses, tuxes, then DON'T COME! We don't need your drama anyways. I really think if they would just go and experience it, I know they would love it. But they are not willing to open up the possibility that they might! Grrrrrr! Hopefully everything settles down...but for now...it's stressing me out beyond belief. Sorry for such the LONG RANT! Oh boy...isn't unbelievable that somehow you're being the selfish one when, um, it's your wedding day?! Wanting to bring your child should be your own opinion- not anyone else's. No one else knows the child's situation more than the parent- like you said, the mother would never allow it, so this shouldn't even be discussed. Have you considered doing a legal marriage in the states for just his kid and immediate family? That way, they don't need to go to the DW, and there will be no drama (unless he really wants them there, but really, to cause this much drama over one weekend, they should really be left at home with the 3yr old). I think your FI is going about it the right way. Just say "if they want to miss their son getting married over something as dumb as this, then that's fine". I mean, it will be her regret, and I truly believe that any amount of explaining on your part will not help. It needs to come from him, and it needs to be their decision. Or the whole time you are at the DW, they will be complaining about everything. Hang in there, and try to focus on the fun stuff!

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsHK Quote: Originally Posted by flo628 Love love love your place settings and message in a bottle! Thank you! Took a while to print, cut, tea stain, and tie the little messages/quotes, but I was happy with how they turned out. Our blog's slogan is "Because you can't send a message in a bottle, until it's empty", so the messages in a bottle with drinking quotes was a great expression of us in the reception. I guess since this is a seating chart thread, I could attach our table assignment frame as well! Each table was named after a place we've been together, and I made the table frames out of vintage travel style wrapping paper, gold frames and hang tags. This is awesome! We love to travel, so I was trying to figure out ways to incorporate that into our wedding. We've also been to Vieques and Bowen Island, those are a couple of our fondest trips together. Really love the vintage look too, great job.

Quote: Originally Posted by Nov2013cabowed @flo628 Would you mind sharing what he is charging you? I feel like my DJ quote was a bit high. Yep I will PM you