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There's nothing stopping you from paying the postage and mailing them out!! I think she was simply saying that they will send them out with the pretravel documents if you wish since she already has to send everyone information/package. It could save you some money- and as long as they are personalized your guests will know it's from you! I would let her pay the postage and put that money toward other things!

Send her a heart felt email explaining what it would mean to have her there for your brother- and then let it go. sadly there are some who just don't care enough to make the effort.

That's just odd! I hired bicoastal images (tons of great reviews here) and because she is Canadian, we can pay to her Canadian bank account and not pay an exchange rate. Her work is amazing but this also helped make the decision for us- not for the savings persee, but more for her ethics.

Awesome! Thinking of doing this, and then duplicating the same logo as a transfer and putting them on our beach bags as well! (Michaels iron on transfers) in a larger size of course

Ok so what was the price per sticker again? All in? I am going to do this! Looks great!

Never heard of them. The most popular ones are dressily, babyonline and jasmines bridal (jasmines is more expensive but known for their bead and lace work).

Hahaha it doesn't matter if your "old"... I'm in my mid 40's as are my BMs and they can still be frustrating! Unfortunately age ain't always accompanied by wisdom! Hahah

Hang in there! It sucks that often times BMs dont step up and care as much as we do... And when we try and get our point across to them we look like Bridezilla bitches. Give them a deadline- tell them you don't have the energy to stress about that with everything else you have on your plate and tell them that if they don't have their dresses ordered by that date- then you understand how they are unable to stand up for you and will be happy to have them attend as a guest. I have one of my BMs who hasn't put her deposit down for the wedding yet- everyone else has... And admittedly we have lots of time, but it pisses me off that she can't take 5 minutes out of her day to do it- just so I don't have to worry. Ya know? And the kicker is- this girl recently got divorced and received over 3 million (yup read that right) in her settlement on top of alimony and child support- so she doesn't work and has a crap load of cash. Seriously... I guess everyone has different priorities but as a BM I totally feel you that they should be trying to do whatever they can to take away stress and "jobs" from our plates and not adding to it! Hoping giving your girls a deadline helps!!

Do they know the style number they are supposed to order? Is it within their budgets or are they possibly needing to save some $ before paying? Did they just have to put out other money recently for your wedding and are feeling overwhelmed? (Travel deposits, shower, bachelorette party planning)? The last wedding I was a BM for, the bride thought she was being nice and said we could choose whatever style we wanted so long as it was within her color scheme... It was soooo stressful that 4 of us were still without dress 2 months before the wedding because nothing seemed to look good and we wanted to know what the others were wearing so we could coordinate! Stressful! It all worked out and we looked great and the bride was ecstatic, but the delay wasn't cause we were lazy... It was just that we wanted to make sure we looked perfect for her wedding and didn't want to screw it up by picking a dress that wasn't perfect. Lots of reasons for their delays... But if you voice your concern and give them a deadline- they will handle it. If they don't? Then no dress means no BM.

We didn't have any type of extension... It's just the way contracts/package rates are set up. They present you with the rates and then they need to give you time to "accept their offer"... Which is typically 30 days. Once you accept and put down your deposit, then you have 90 days where they hold that pricing for all of your guests to book with your TA by placing their deposits. This is for Canadian Packages though.

I have heard stuffing makeup sponges in the open spaces during travel and placing it in carry-on (not checked luggage) makes it travel-worthy.

We sent our invites out at 19 months before wedding!!! (We didn't do STD and invites, just one invitation and a website) We have 50 people booked with our TA with 18 months to go- and 2 months remaining on our contracted room block. We were of the mindset that the sooner we could provide our guests with information, the sooner they could save (we are all 30-50, many with kids). It worked out great! We are expecting another 20-30 people to book before September (which would be 16 months before our actual wedding)

It's up to your hostess to do the inviting- and so it's easily explained if she doesn't invite them since your hostess(es) wouldn't know them. If you were having an AHR and they were invited to that, then maybe- but if they aren't invited to the wedding I don't think it's proper to invite to a shower. How would they even know? Are there other people at work who are invited??

Dress shirts and suspenders/ties. (White shirt and grey/blue sear sucker or light grey linen).... And FI will be wearing the same- with a vest instead of suspenders. I would prefer everyone in vests and my FI in a jacket- but trying to keep costs down, as well as keep them cooler... This was our solution. Ordering from studiosuits.com

I had our guest list ready and worked to complete my DIY boarding pass invites so that I was good to go as soon as my contract started. when your TA gets your quote, as a general rule of thumb you will have 30 days to agree to the terms and accept the pricing. Once you do- you and your FI place your deposits which starts the countdown clock for your room block. We had our website rolling and the night we put our deposits down, we mailed out the invites. it took a bit of organization, but it has paid off. We are just over 30 days in on our 90 days contract and have had 47 people book! Our block was for 50 people so I will need to start another block well before our 90 days are up- restarting the clock. We are 18 months (to the day) away from our wedding.

I'm going there next Tuesday! Question- did they let you take pictures in the dresses?

They post on wedding bee forum and yesterday that they are busy and replies may be delayed for 3-5 days.... Check out the thread... jasmines dresses part XVIII is the latest thread

It looks like she may not be on etsy anymore! Not sure... I'm using Jasmines.

I say you go to mexico, make the plans for the wedding you dreamed about and move forward. Send them an invitation and be done with it. She has no right to guilt you into doing something different. She can either research and realize it will be fine for her to come- or complain and send her regards. Personally? I would take a baby to mexico before vegas any day!! Don't let them change your mind! You deserve your wedding the way you want it!

I would still make a point of sending her a note saying, my TA just confirmed you booked "yay!"... She mentioned you also sent in travel requests for a b and c... Since they were not on our wedding booking group she was concerned about their being enough seats we reserved for our remaining guests. I let her know that we would extend the pricing to your family, and hopefully we can accommodate the rest of the wedding guests as the final cut off (as you know) is Sunday. Fingers crossed!! Glad you can make some of your holiday a family vacation while you and "Bob" also attend our wedding. Hahaha that way she knows you are aware of what she did, she can feel a bit of guilt for taking advantage of your wedding package pricing, and you get to point out that only her and her DH are invited to the wedding festivities. A bit passive aggressive but will get the point across that she crossed the line- all while making you look anything but a Bridezilla!

Never heard of them! I wouldn't have a company not highly reviewed by other brides, entrusted to make my dress! I would be way to nervous!

Now that I've been thinking about the whole "using your contract pricing" aspect- it doesn't sit well with me either! Is there a way for your TA to reach out to them and say, I got your booking form and can process jane and Joe, however for guest a b and c, I will need to research pricing as they are not a part of the wedding guest block and at this time there are not an excess of reservation spots for non wedding guests. If after the contract date is closed, if there is space available I can contact you- however at this time, travelling on those dates for non wedding guest packages is $x. Would that work?

Hmmmm another suggestion may be to post the pic over on weddingbee.com forum. The brides there are amazing at finding this type of info

Do a reverse google image search- it should tell you all the info you need.

Our hotel has a separate category for teens "12-17"... I would confirm again with your TA that they don't- since this discounts the price somewhat as they factor in the cost of alcohol not being consumed by this age category. It was more than our kids pricing (3-11) but less than adults and also didn't count toward adult capacity. I am staying at a Karisma property, but I have seen similar breakdown with other hotels