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Just an update: Gold votives/led lights - SOLD Wally bag - SOLD Bouts - SOLD 1 Ring bearer outfit - SOLD Bridesmaid bouquets - SOLD Stamps - SOLD Heart shaped chalkboard - SOLD Anthropologie LOVE mugs - SOLD

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@@kcole123 - I changed into my other dress once the dancing started. Way too hot to wear (and we were inside w/ AC haha)

Beautiful pics, Kim!! Can't believe you posted them so quickly. You look stunning and it looks like it was an amazing night I love your ceremony spot! What a gorgeous location, and those flowers on either side of the stand are beautiful. I wish we had ordered something like that as well

@@kcole123 - Love this dress! It'll be gorgeous for a TTD Glad Nathan got on board. And very good idea to do it 2 days after haha

There are a bunch of sites that manage honeymoon registries or registries from multiple stores (my registry) instead of just the traditional ones. Also some of the honeymoon sites will actually send you a check, but the people gifting don't know that. In our circles, money is a fairly standard wedding gift and while we told the people coming to our wedding not to get us gifts, about 90% of them still did - cash/check in a card. Unexpected but really nice b/c we were able to pay off a lot of our wedding Also, I think many people will want to get you a present and in a way it's more gracious to just let them. For us, I knew a lot of people that weren't coming to our wedding too would want to give us something, and I did have a shower. So we registered to the Bay and also did a honeymoon registry at Disney. We've been living together already so we didn't need anything either. We registered for upgraded items or just nice luxe items we normally wouldn't buy. We just had this on the registry section of our website In the end, we actually returned a lot of our gifts from the Bay and all of the amounts spent got put on a gift card that we've been spending on other things that we need but would be weird to register for. I got new winter boots for example

@@nadiakat17 - Haha it's not a wedding without some drinking! I don't think I could have stopped myself from drinking to be honest. It's just making sure you stay on the good side b/t buzzed and messy I did make sure to not let myself get drunk until all the official "wedding" things were over - so we did the cake cutting, speeches, first dance, etc. before I really let myself drink. Haha my DH and I - once our party music came on, we just let loose. He immediately took off his bow tie, suspenders and unbuttoned his shirt and there was round after round of shots

@@calgarybride2015 - I was like 6 hours (!) but then I remembered you're in Calgary I didn't notice anything at all the day of the wedding. Happy drunked wedded bliss . I agree the day of you don't notice any of the vases or frames but I think they do add to the overall atmosphere and when you see how nicely they look in your pics, you'll be glad you spent the time on them . Hindsight I wish I had touched up my makeup a bit before the reception and just little decor things that literally no one but me notices

@@calgarybride2015 - Haha I was type A until the actual wedding - then I just let go and enjoyed myself! Of course me being me, I'm now looking at my pics 1 month later and wish I had rearranged a couple of things the day of Glad you made the change and it all worked out! Andd OT but how are you on the internet on the plane?? That's amazing

@@LMichelleB - Is it Marco? He is fabulous! You are super close now

@@calgarybride2015 - Amazing!! I am so excited to read your review haha. My dress is gross too - the hem is literally black at points bleh

Yeah the wedding coordinator meeting doesn't take long because you'll prob. have it mostly planned out by that point. We arrived Sunday and had the wedding on Friday - Pros were that everyone knew each other really well and our whole week kind of led up to the wedding. Con is that I spent more time stressing about it and had less time to relax after

@@calgarybride2015 - Haha I think jumping in the pool was my fave part of our wedding! Seems like the perfect way to end a DW

They are very oblivious! Mine had maybe 5% involvement in all of our planning haha. But you know what he said after it was all said and done? That I did a great job and that he was glad for all the "extras" that he had previously complained about, because they really made a difference! OOT bags for example - he thought I was wasting a lot of money when I was getting stuff for them, but he saw how much everyone appreciated and used everything and he was glad we did them! For planning things, I just stopped asking him at a certain point and told him instead - but I wasn't really extravagant on anything and stayed within our budget. If there was something I *had* to have (haha gold Tiffany chairs and chargers), I made it work and just pushed things around G'luck ladies! I gave up on trying to force Tony into helping me plan things pretty early on b/c personally I knew it'd just lead to arguments. Easier to plan myself - made both of us happier that way

If it's TTD vs. videography, honestly the TTD was fun but it was also a lot of WORK. My husband was hungover the whole shoot and really cranky - he was very tempted to just call it quits after a while but I told him it'd be a waste of money! We were so exhausted at the end of that day. It was really tiring to keep doing the same under water shots again and again - and cold! Just a FYI The videographer just kind of follows you around all day of your wedding so you're not really doing much extra

@@Meandhim - I was worried my dress was a bit plain as well. I do love it, but I also loved more elaborate ones. Ultimately chose mine because it was simple and beautiful and felt "appropriate" for a DW. I know you can choose whatever dress you want for a DW but the huge poufy gowns seem a bit out of place to me. I think if I were having a big Toronto wedding I'd have chosen a different dress though - something w/ a bit more oomph. I *almost* bought Martina Liana's 444 below but the fabric seemed all wrong for Mexico though I still have a bit of dress regret/envy. I also love the Monique L'huillier Bliss I tried on at Kleinfield's but way over budget - ahh. Def. too much say yes to the dress And as the other ladies have stated, when you are all done up with hair, makeup, flowers and jewellry, it makes a world of difference . @@kcole123 - Men have NO idea the costs of weddings. Does he have friends that got married? That helped me because my husband would hear about how much things cost our Toronto friends. So really, what we were paying was cheap in comparison . I think some people just think about it in terms of how they perceive it's value. My husband isn't into pics or videos either - he's only looked at our pics maybe once and not all of them. I've prob. looked at our pics at least 20 times already . I'm sure the same will be said about our video

@@kcole123 - We do, but we haven't received it yet. Haha I didn't give Tony a choice. Told him the photography packaged included a TTD . My parents actually really wanted the video so they paid for the videography! Not sure if we would have gotten it otherwise but I am happy now that we did because the day goes by so fast and I would love to relive everything. Personally I'd prob. rather go videographer but it depends on what you think you would rather have

Beautiful Kim!! Looks like it was a beautiful day. Love all the bright colours and the fun sunglasses!

Yay I can add to this now. This is how they look altogether and some wedding glamour shots @@MrsCtoB - beautiful ring!! I love Tacori

@@kcole123 - There was a fee but not sure how much - our photographer paid the fee (so included in what we paid him)

Hi ladies, Gold votives/led lights - SOLD Wally bag - Pending sold Bouts - Pending sold 1 Ring bearer outfit - Pending sold Bridesmaid bouquets - Pending Stamps - Pending Everything else is still available . Adding a few new items and copying the still available items below. Preference again goes first to local Toronto ladies who can meet/pick up New Items 1. Heart shaped chalkboard on scalloped metal tin - Rustic style - $8 Erasable and I will include some chalk 2. Custom "Better Together" cake topper - $35 Wooden script - Gold - Comes in a beautiful box 3. Gently used pinned corsage and bouteniere from Bloom Bridal. $5 each or $8 for both Corsage is 9/10 and bouteniere is 8/10 (my parents wore these) 4. BHLDN Dalloway Earrings - $80 These are really pretty and light weight. Didn't end up wearing these to my wedding but wore them once at our White party. BHLDN link for more details: http://www.bhldn.com/product/dalloway-earrings Still Available (Pics in first post) 5. Anthropologie LOVE mugs - Selling as a set for $15 - LOCAL SALE ONLY We used these on our cake table, filled w/ flowers. 6. Lot of 4 picture frames in gold and white. Selling the lot for $15 - LOCAL SALE ONLY 1 is baroque white style, 1 is white w/ a subtle print. 1 is gold rimmed and mirrored chrome and 1 is plain gold. We used these to decorate our guestbook/welcome table. Bought from Homesense. 7. 1 ring bearer suspender and bowtie sets worn once - $10 each These are SO cute. They fit size: 9 MONTHS - 4 YEARS and are adjustable. They are navy suspenders, grey and white gingham check bowtie 8. 4 132" round blush pink crinkle taffeta tablecloths. Prefer to sell as a group for $60 total These fit tables up to 72" but would look best on standard 66" or 72" round tables. Pictured here with 72" round tables. Used once and have been washed. Great because the crinkle look means they don't have to be ironed or steamed. 9. 2 90"x156" matching blush pink crinkle taffeta table drapes. $20 each or both for $30 We used 1 for our head table and 1 for our welcome/guestbook table. They will fit standard 8' rectangular tables 10. Black and white striped runner - Selling for $15 This will fit an 8 foot table perfectly. Dimensions are 16" wide and 156" long (will hit the floor). Had this custom made to use at our head table. 11. Gold sequin 120" round table cloth. Selling for $55 I LOVE this tablecloth and I want to keep it but my husband said we have no use for it haha. We used this on our cake table (square table) and it was great. Sequins are square shaped and gold 12. 5 plastic table number frames from Michaels. All for $5 I spray painted them gold and tore out the plastic sheet so it looked less cheap. They measure about 3-4 inches long each. I can leave in my table number cards - printed on a gold shimmer cardstock.

@@kcole123 - Thanks Kristy! I can't remember the name of the eco park but it was a really cool one near Tulum that had 3-4 cenotes in it. Very quiet - almost empty. Our photographer told us not a lot of people know of that one so it's not overrun by tourists and it was super private when we did our shoot It was included in the cost of our photography package. We paid Lancelotti $2800 for 8-10 hours of coverage on our wedding day and the TTD cenote package. We were gone for about 6-7 hours or so and our photographer picked us up. It was about an hour and a half each way, then 3-4 hours of shooting. 40 minutes isn't bad at all. It was almost like a day trip for us and prob. would have been more enjoyable if we weren't hungover when we did it

@@Meandhim - I was just replying to you. See you soon It's called Lust for Lashes on Queen West! I got it done from Michelle, the owner. She's really good - pricey, but good!

@@kcole123 - Sounds like you're good to go then! When you get them, you're going to keep staring at yourself in the mirror haha - they really do add a lot of oomph to the eyes .

@@kcole123 - I think they're great but they do require upkeep. I didn't bother getting them refilled when I got back and now it's been almost 6 weeks and they're just about all gone. I do feel like my natural lashes are a bit sparser but not too much damage over all - though I'd only done it twice (not months/years like some other ladies). I'm glad I got them for the wedding week b/c they looked great, but I don't think I'd get them on a regular basis - I'm too cheap If you get them, make sure you go to someone that gets good reviews. Styling Trio actually complimented me on mine because they look really natural and were well applied. Adrian said he's seen a lot of bad extensions but mine were one of the best he's seen. I paid a lot though and went to someone that gets really good reviews