megthomson

Have an amazing day start to finish!!!

Cool! Thank you. I called AT&T today to get info on international plans and she recommended hooking into wifi and then using Viber which is for free (international too) texts and calls. I'll have to check it out. I have Voxer now with us like a walkie talkie but gets a bit annoying.

Congrats @@BethandBill and @Tyrebride2013! Question: did you do a welcome letter or how did you "find" your guests initially? We are staying in France, my parents in Key West and 8 others in Caribbean. We were thinking of meeting for a group dinner (maybe at hibachi place?) the night before which is when many are coming in. We could get everyone on same page (pun intended!) on when/where to meet with a newsletter or welcome letter....just don't know how to do that! Or can you just text? (Or need an international cell plan?)

Keep talking about your time there! I'll listen! LOL!!! Love the pictures too.

It's gorgeous and I would in a heartbeat but too small!

Congrats!!!

tyrebride2b2013 - May 5 SV2014 - May 14 Blakdeevah - May 14 Megan920 - May 24 Is this correct for May?!?

May Ladies....are you ready?

Plus it's not safe to post on social media while you're still away! "Hi! I'm out of the country! Please rob my house!!!"

Anyone with a Fitbit want to connect to hold each other accountable?

TJ Maxx online now sells designer wedding dresses at discount prices so why buy a replica when you can have the real thing!!!

Beautiful, Jana!!! Congrats and great review!!!

Because I'm OBSESSED with finding any wedding about this resort, I thought I'd pass this along for other's to read. This was on TripAdvisor in February: My wife and I were married this past Saturday at the Turks and Caicos Beaches resort. We had about 30 people in addition to ourselves that flew out for the ceremony and reception ( and an additional 3 or 4 days each ). I have to start by saying that the service pretty much everywhere was exceptional. From our wedding planners, who helped us heavily with all the necessary organization, and helped us with anything stressful around the wedding, to the wonderful staff that wouldn't stop congratulating us on our big day every time they saw us until we left (especially Winston in the Carribean village lobby the great servers from reflections restaurant: Tamara and Yiery). Our ceremony was on the deck behind Schooner's, with a background of the beach and water that was gorgeous. For the reception, they actually closed down the Iguana's pool to give us our own private area. We had a delicious buffet with a few additions ( lobster tail and 'world of chocolate' buffet ). This, in addition to the free cocktail hour, gave us an extended reception that was great. Also, we had a firedancer ( Aide, who was amazing ) give a performance at the reception. For all the wonderful service, we want to give special thanks to the wedding coordinators. In particular we want to thank Carmaneci, who helped us with EVERYTHING and also threw in some special additions (i.e. private transportation home with Walter, a fridge stocked full of Guinness and champagne, decorated honeymoon room, etc) and set up special dinner reservations for us with decorated tables/flowers to add to the great experience. After the wedding, we were able to settle down and get a couples massage at the 'Red Lane Spa'. I opted for the sports massage, and my wife had a tropical bliss massage. Both were fantastic, and really helped alleviate any leftover stress from the wedding. Thank you to the masseuses Narissa and Claudette, as well as the other staff who helped my wife's bridesmaids and mother with hair/makeup/etc: Janicilia, Nicole, Josefina. I'd have given this review 5 stars, with the exception of the following two issues: 1) The foul odor in the Carribean lobby elevators.....We're not sure what it was, but everyone was complaining about it. 2) My father in laws room had a large number of mosquitoes in it. We had to call the lobby to get somebody to spray the room to get rid of them. 3) Our airconditioning unit was very loud, my wife had trouble sleeping at times 4) The only real setback for our vacation was dealing with Snapshot photography. For as expensive as the photo packages are, we were not at all happy with many of the wedding photos. There's no alteration to the photos at all, so for many of them we're redfaced or sweating. This brings me to another complaint whereby there wasn't much feedback during the photo process. For example, if I'm sweating, the photographer could have mentioned it to me so I could quickly wipe it off to take a picture. A worse example is the fact that many of our photos are of groups.....and many of these have either people blinking or making a strange face ( mid-talking ), or in some cases not even looking at the camera. It's sad to say that our friends with camera took MUCH better photos of the event. As for cost, since we had a large party and needed photos of family/friends/etc, we had to upgrade our package ( 42 photos ) to the next package that included 110 photos (out of almost 700) to make sure we got pictures of everybody there. There wasn't a cheaper option ( all we wanted was the photos on the cd....nothing else ), we ended up having to include photobooks and brag books in our purchase. This was fine, expect it then required us to spend 3 - 4 hours on our last day at the island looking at pictures and identifying the order to place them in for the photo book ( which we didn't even want ). Dealing with Snapshot, sadly, was the most stressful part of the entire wedding process, but I must note that they knocked $100 off of our photography bill because we were upset. Don't let my review of Snapshot scare you away. This place and all its staff are amazing.....just, maybe, avoid paying for photography. My wife and I fully intend to go back, as do all the other guests that we had for the wedding.

Check out the forum on OOT gift bags. Hundreds of great ideas! http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/44-wedding-registry-wedding-gift-bags-and-oot-bags/

We aren't having a ring bearer either but we are doing a "ring warming ceremony" so everyone will hold the dish that contains our rings. Just another idea!

@@JanaLP.....happy wedding day! I hope you have an amazing time!

How long is everyone waiting before honeymoon? I was thinking it would be good to go after AHR which won't be for a few months. Is four months later weird?

@@AyeWatSoon I am taking an amazing photographer with us who will do underwater shots with us. Her rate was competitive wth the Beaches photographers who don't even edit your pics. Amanda will be with us 6 days and take pics throughout the week! http://www.shoreshotz1.com/

Wow! Those are GORGEOUS!!!!

So excited for you!!! Good luck with everything, stay calm and have FUN!!! And I'd love to hear more about the speakers!

Anyone know about the theme nights? I've heard there are "beach parties" on Friday (which will be my after party, I guess!) but there are things other night too like a "White Party". I'm already stressed about packing right months from now!!! Sorry! Just catching up. We are adding a few extras to the BB and I'm bringing a friend down who is a wedding photographer by trade. We are thinking about doing one of the video places that uses guest's cell photo videos and pieces together to a song. $99! @@JanaLP YOU'RE NEXT! Are you so excited!?!?

We are doing wedding party app too because everyone has a phone or digital camera to take pics and we can see before spending the money to print them out. A word of caution: The last wedding I went to with those ended up being a waste because drunk guys (adults, mind you!) we're taking dumb pictures of thinks like forks and just blurry pics of who-knows-what. Bride and groom weren't pleased!

@@vanessav53...these are a great idea and great price! Did you get a good random selection of designs?

Very nice! Did you follow a tutorial?

@@jackshayne0123....I'm appalled at Pookie20's post above! In the months since finding this site I've never encountered anyone that's rude or unsupportive let alone as obnoxious as that. Unfortunately maybe a troll if that's their first and only post on this site. If not then hopefully will quickly learn the culture on this board! I think that's very generous!