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@smileitseb How amazing!! I'm so glad I started this sparkler thread!!! How amazing! looks sooo pretty Question: Where did you end up finding your sparklers in Mexico?

Hello lovely brides!! I thought I'd share that The Hudson Bay is having a huge "One day" sale on luggages. I just bought my wedding luggage and I'm so excited now to complete my packing!! woo hoo!! I bought a Heys upright 30" for $130 Kate Spade is having a big mother's day sale at the Premium Outlets. Yesterday they had 50% off all handbags and 40% off accessories. Perfect gifts for yourself or your bridesmaids! I think they have the same sale this weekend with an additional 20% off. Happy weekend!

Oh my goodness @perianjay ! Is it normal that I totally cried after reading your post. You are so kind. I think that as one gets close to the 1 month mark things get so much more heightened. Keep up your amazing planning because if I was as prepared as you are right now, I would probably feel a bit more relaxed. I'm gonna tackle my to do list this weekend and post pictures of all the things we've accomplished to hold myself accountable !

@beckys98 Get it together people is right!!! That's crazy that our weddings are so close. OUr wedding is the 20th of june but we leave the 14th...so I literally have a month and a few days. it's insane. I can't even wrap my head around it. I think I'm just going to move forward and stop asking. At this point if they really want to come they will find us and if not, then I'm sure they just don't know how to break it to us and honestly, at this point, I don't even care. It's crazy that the groom's mom hasn't booked. Had she let you know that there were some payment issues you could have put money aside slowly...but noooooo. lol all last minute. I need a drink but I'm trying to stay away from the calories ....

@perianjay Thanks for your kinds words! I'm like literally, totally, entirely, stressed. I think I need to sit down and write a good to do list because I am probably more overwhelmed than I Need to be. Because we have guests coming from Europe and other parts of the word, the guest list isn't finalized because they are still planning or deciding. It's really annoying. I keep messaging one of my cousins just to get an answer if she is coming and like, she just keeps delaying her answer. It's so annoying. She was like 100% coming and now I just want to know either way but she's not responding. It's really annoying. I realize I probably won't be able to do the seating chart until the week before we leave and I didn't want to have to do those things then.

oh no!!! That's so sad. How did your dad do that?? I'm so terrified that I'm going to hurt myself. I was doing Pump class and I almost hit myself with the barbell. I mean, it was the stupidest thing but that's the stuff I do..lol

@snswedding2016 @ We booked our legal ceremony for June 13th, literally the day before we leave... The officiant wants to do the wedding in Spanish to practise his Spanish. hahhaha and Spanish is my second language and to me it doesn't really speak to me much sooo..it's perfect because It wont' really mean much. lol No wedding band exchange and a very simplified vow exchange. I think it will be such a rush because we are leaving the next day that we won't have time to mentally process what we just did. Funny story, I called the clerk's office to ask where in writing I could see about the rules for symbolic weddings before legal weddings and I think she thinks that I have either a) done it that way and trying to fix it without telling them, or I am still considering doing that. lol so hopefully people read our thread about that and just call their local clerk's office and have it confirmed before they find themselves in a similar situation like your friend's friend. Back to the veil: I bought my birdcage at a random bridal accessory store on Queen West. between Spadina and Agusta. I ended up making myself a cute little feather flower fascinator to add to the birdcage to dress it up. I'll have to take a pic so you can see what it looks like and maybe it inspires you too

Hi @@racht33 yes, I'm getting married at the Princess! when is your wedding? So the Grand Sunset Princess and the Grand Riviera Princess are essentially mirrors of each other. They each have their own lobby to check into and have restaurants on both grounds but you essentially have access to the same pool, amenities, each has their own buffet but you can go to either one. The Princess also just opened their new Adults only hotel right beside these two complexes. It's called the Platinum Yucatan Princess Adults Only hotel. As of September 1st, 2014 the Princess opened up their adults only hotel, allowing guests of the adults only to cross over to the GSP or GRP. Guests of the GSP & GRP cannot cross over to the Adults only though. The GSP and GRP now specialize as a family hotel and have focused more of their branding towards catering to children and families. I have heard nothing but great things about the new hotel. I think that the Princess hotels have an amazing price point and are a bit of a hidden gem. We have stayed at the Grand Riviera Princess twice and loved it. The Grand Riviera had the Adults only platinum block of rooms prior to sepof 2014, where as at the time the Grand Sunset Princess didn't, so I think one was trying to cater to adults and the sunset more to families. It's a little confusing but essentially they are all connected...except the new adults only which is next door and is only accessible if you are staying there. Our guests are staying at the ADults only with the exception of two families that are bring their kids. They are staying at the Sunset. Our ceremony takes place at the Grand Riviera and the reception at the GRand sunset chill out...it sounds spread out but it's all together. I would suggest you fight for the perks before you give up on Azul Fives. Stand your ground and tell them that the bottom line is that you either get what you were promised or you are taking ALL YOUR guests with you to the hotel next door. Don't back down. The princess hotel is in between the Grand Velas hotel and the Azul Fives. Azul Fives is just south of the Princess.

@snswedding2016 Hey!! That's a great point , when else will you wear a veil. I wasn't too into the whole veil situation but I tried a bird cage and I loved it!! Have you tried a birdcage? Still very elegant. I am going to switch out into a flower crown for pictures as well. A bride can switch up the look as much as she wants, right?? haha

I am seriously legit torn...like I can't decide. I can see why you are having a difficult time deciding. I do really love the second dress just slightly more. It makes your waist area look sooo tiny. The other one is stunning as well...it's actually very similar to my dress. I mean, there is no wrong decision here. You look stunning in both. I don't know if I helped. lol but I'm slightly leaning towards dress #2.

hmmmm. maybe you uploaded the smallest version of the picture. Try to upload the photos and save them to biggest size. Can't wait to see them!

Our First Aid Kits I just designed our sticker for the First Aid kits and I thought the label was so cute. We decided to keep it super simple. I'm such a klutz that I really wanted to make sure our guests had bandaids and alcohol just in case anyone falls.

@snswedding2016 Oh no, how sad to hear. Yes, that's exactly what would happen if you proceed to do the legal wedding after doing symbolic. It's seen as not in good faith. They would have to apply for a 'validity order' from the provincial court which from what I was told at the Clerk's office, it can be quite expense and take some time. I have searched through the Marriage Act and I can't find it written in black and white. I should call the Clerk's office and ask where one would find it in writing.

OUU that might be cutting it too close @Wafflesmom We are having our bachelorette and bachelor party the second night so we just don't' have the option of doing it. A lot of our guests are people we don't see regularly so a lot of them have already asked us to go to dinner with them so I think it's just easier for us to do the big dinner the first night given that they will have time to settle in and the dinner is going to be for 8:00

@@Wafflesmom I guess it just depends. I don't want to wait too long to do the welcome dinner as I want people to break the ice early on to start enjoying the week. We know our flights time and so far everyone will be arriving by 1pm so the evenings is clear for us. It's all the little details that count! They all add up...and they keep me up a night! hahaha

@perianjay That's such a great idea..maybe we will book the welcome dinner and have a separate table for the bags. I was thinking it might be a hassle for everyone to walk around with their bags afterwards especially if they want to catch a drink or a show. Oh well. lol I like your idea of having a small table set up. So smart. We would do it the next night but we are doing our bachelor and bachelorette night at the Blue Parrot. I keep having thoughts about what if my luggage gets lost and all the OOT are lost...like I'm legit nervous. @@emmapalmer I am not sure yet. I am making myself a pearl cluster bracelet that will match my dress. I have a birdcage veil with a flower and I'm not sure if a necklace might be too much. I might dress up my neck for the reception and wear a fun statement necklace. The nice things is that I can probably change up my look all I want throughout the evening.

OOT Bags!! We are almost done with our OOT/welcome bags. A lot of things still have to arrive in the mail and yes I waited until the last minute so that's what I get. lol We have already started packing our cups and I was sure to pick up tips from past brides on how to carefully bubble wrap them. We are probably going to keep everything or at least try, to keep everything in one luggage for the contents of the welcome bags. I have all the receipts which I will keep with me in my wedding book. @calgarybride2015 you've been soooo helpful and I wanted to give you a big thank you... I also wanted to ask you how many luggages did you bring with you. I need to ask Sunwing how many we are allowed.... I know we get an extra 10kg allowance but between the two of us we will probably need to bring 3 at least. I'm going to ask my bridal party to bring things for us as well and my sister is flying out with us earlier so she can as well. Also, once you arrived at the resort with all your guests, how did you distribute the welcome bags? We are arriving 3 days before so we are going to put them together the night we arrive and have them ready to go. I don't know if I'm just sleep deprived, anxious, cranky or what...but I've spent so much time on these bags that I feel like I should have a special ceremony for them just to hand them to our guests...they.don't.know.how.much.work.went.into.those..hahahah We are trying to book a welcome dinner for all our guests so we might just present them to our guests at that point or maybe when they arrive and we meet them in the lobby. I feel like there will be so much going on when they first arrive that they won't really appreciate the welcome bag..I don't know? thoughts? @ @@Meandhim @@Wafflesmom @@TinkerSofi @snswedding2016

How super exciting!!! Your big day!! Hope it goes amazingly!

Hey! I'm just catching up on your thread. I like what you are going to do with the little "messages in a bottle" we are doing the table number idea with them. they are so cute and inexpensive. I was reading your post where you asked if it was normal that your names aren't on your favours etc etc...and I'm sort of on the same boat. So we've been trying to avoid the cheesy "name and date and blah blah" because it's mostly Important to us but not necessarily to everyone else to have every item stamped with our info. Our welcome bags have a design we made with our hashtag and that's it, we have a label for our chapsticks that has just the hashtag, our door hangers only have the hashtag, the maracas have a tag attached that say our names but that's removable. Essentially we really tried to be cool and just have the hashtag....but then my dad, who is close to 75 now, decided to "help out" with the wedding. he he. One day out of the blue he asked for a picture of me and my fi...so I sent him one...before I knew it, a few days later he send me a picture of a mug with that same picture, and it says "a Souvenir from the wedding of Rebecca & Alonso, June 20th, 2015" in spanish lol So my dad had like 40 mugs made with our pictures on them. I feel like it's soooo cheesy but I can't hurt his feelings and it's actually just kinda cute. I've told my close friends and now it's just a giggle... so ya, I totally get where you are coming from...I really tried to keep it chill with the whole wedding branding but now I have 40 mugs with my face on them. hhahahah

I'm totally happy it's too big. I figured it would be eventually. I will definitely post a pic for my final fitting. I've been going to these appointments alone so I felt weird just snapping pics of myself while the alterations lady is working away. lol @TinkerSofi Time definitely flies by in about 1.5 weeks your ticker is going to say 2 months....so time is definitely flying by. I will be taking pics of all the little projects we've been working on.... I actually have a big sale June 6th that I'm preparing for so I'm juggling wedding planning, a job, and my side job... no sleep, lots of coffee.

I just sent out an email to my bridesmaids asking them if they would like to speak but I wanted to send out a big email to all our guests that way nobody feels left out...but still respecting our timeframe.

How fabulous is that ornament! I just favourited the vendor on Etsy! What a thoughtful ornament!

Your pictures are so amazing! I love, love, love the lace on your dress. My favourite pics are..well all of them , but I really like that angle with the rosary. Is that one of your family members off to the side?

Hello lovely brides and brides-to-be, We have decided to open up the floor to our guests if they would like to give a speech. We are asking them to decide this ahead of time though so that they can prepare for it a little, also so that it gives us a change to let them know that we want them to keep it at 3mins max-ish. In my earlier days following this forum, I saw or read someone post their example of a blurb that explained their speech etiquette for lack of better words. Does anyone have a sample of the wording they used? I'm short for words today but really want to get started on this asap. thank you!

@Meandhim Thank you!! I have 3 weeks to make another dent!! woo hoo gotta "step it up"