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So many beautiful hair flowers. @27dress those are great! I love the flower headband one!

Congratulations!! I'm new to the site as well and have found it tremendously helpful. Happy planning

I'm new to it, but I'm learning Etsy is usually the answer to all wedding things haha! Doing just a quick search I found some vendors who make stamps at pretty reasonable prices. Great idea for something you can use even after the wedding!

Thanks for posting this review. I haven't picked my venue yet but the NOW properties are on the list. This was very helpful!! Looking forward to seeing more beautiful pictures!

Also looking to compare prices. Thanks for the suggestions!

Agreed with the above - love the inserts and designs she did!

No problem!

These TTD photo's are gorgeous! When else are you going to get to wear a wedding dress and play in the sand?! Definitely a go for me. Hopefully it fits into the budget!

This is old but number 6 is hilarious! I love these photographer contests! Keep them coming!

I've been pretty skeptical about the underwater TTD pics but your pics are absolutely beautiful!

Quote: Originally Posted by JustNoelle I gave my hubby a boudoir leather album (I did a boudoir photo shoot a few weeks before). I included poems and short love quotes on the pages of the album and a love letter on the back page. Here's the digital version of one of the pages: I love the idea of having the photographs and quotes in the book. Could very well mesh together the ideas of boudoir album + "Reasons I want to marry you" book

I'm early on in the process and things are adding up so quickly! threads like this are invaluable! I will definitely be taking some of this advice to heart

I'm loving these programs!

Love you TTD pics!

We wanted to get photobooks from our photographers but they seemed so expensive! Thanks for letting me know how you did yours!

Beautiful wedding. I love the vibrant colors!

Love your save the dates! Thanks for letting me know about the Michael's app!

That dress is stunning! Bridal and sexy

Quote: Originally Posted by allieplask We designed our invitations 100% ourselves. I have seen tons of boarding passes, passports, invitations in little folders (all are great ideas!) and was looking for something different. Since we are having a destination wedding, we figured we could do something a little less formal and have a little more fun with it. We chose a "z-fold." This means it's a tri-fold in heavy cardstock and it opens like the letter "z." When opening the invitation, you see the front back and the rest folds out accordion style behind it. Invitations were important for us - we already send STD's and a few emails about booking travel - but we wanted our older family members who are not email/tech-savvy to have an actual invitation with all the travel information. With that said, we also wanted to highlight some things that hadn't previously been mentioned (ex. events we were planning, other things to do and when to RSVP) so people who had gotten the emails would also get something out of receiving an invitation. The front page of the invitation basically re-told people what they already knew - the resort name, the wedding date, etc. Here is the whole thing: As designers, we knew we couldn't leave the back of the invitation plain white.. but we also didn't have any extra information for our guests. We found some information on the Visit Jamaica website about how Jamaican's speak and decided to use that. If someone takes the time to read the back, it makes sense and gives them some information about Jamaica, the people, etc. It also added a nice pop of color being the same teal color used on the front. Finally, we didn't want to hand write the front of the envelopes. We figured labels were SO much easier especially because we also plan to mail out luggage tags, packing lists, etc. We figured using the labels would also use to just continue to have them re-printed every time we needed them (we used uprinting.com for the invitations and a local printer for the labels). We took the inside design from the invitations and continued that on the label so everything is cohesive. Here is my FIL's invitation (it's a little wrinkly and creased from being passed around at his office hahah). Also, when mailing out invitations, make sure you ask the post office to hand stamp each one! It looks SO MUCH nicer. Wow. These are AMAZING!!

Great idea to have the boxes to guests can take cake back to their rooms! I never would have thought of that!

I love the stunning simplicity of your dress! Congratulations!

Your dress is stunning! How did the wedding go?

Love all your DIY!

Love all your DIY!

Wonderful planning thread! It's given me so many ideas!! Hope you are enjoying wedded bliss