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@@vancouverpetunia Love it! Jeans sound perfect, and especially if that is what you're comfortable in! Let us know how it goes!

What a cute dress @ashtayy! You're legal ceremony date is coming up sooo fast! I can't speak from experience yet but I say the more time the better to get ready. Rushing even to go out for drinks and finish hair and makeup at home is the worst, you don't want that pressure on your wedding day! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Omg congrats on your weight loss! How did I miss that?! That's incredible - good for you!!! I agree with @@calgarybride2015 I would check with the host as well. Yes it's your shower but you don't want to look like the odd ball and be too casual or too dressy. I wore a dress and my guests were dressy casual, luckily my dress was not overly dressy so I think that I stood out but in a nice not "out of place" way. Let us know what you come up with! And have soooo much fun! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@amanda88 thank you! Everyone on this forum is so helpful and full of so many great ideas I could only hope that I was able to help someone as well! I will be sure to keep updating as I go Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@vancouverpetunia @@calgarybride2015 @@cruisebride2016 @@ashhtayy I know - what a super jerk, my heart breaks for her. @@calgarybride2015 Thank you exactly what I was thinking about the sandals, they are cute enough and will be hidden under my big dress anyway. You read it correctly, we aren't doing a guestbook, I can't imagine what I would do with a book after everyone signs it, I would never open it again. And I know there are so many cute ideas that don't have to be a book, some of the girls on here have done amazing things, we just both agreed we don't need one. Like I said though, if something comes along that blows my mind and I can't stop thinking about, I could go back on my decision. @@cruisebride2016 Thanks!!! I love the vases too! And am so happy they go so well with my table numbers! Great call on the sandals - great minds @@ashhtayy Thank you for saying that - I feel so guilty about being so excited and still doing all this planning while she is so devastated... I will just have to continue not speaking about it and supporting her, but planning at the same time. I will def share anything I think of for a Groom's gift, please do the same for me! I bought Col a watch for Christmas a couple years ago that he only wears when he dresses up. I did today think of if the guys are playing golf the morning of the wedding day that I could pay for him in secret and give his best man a golf ball from me and write a little message or something, I messaged his best man to see if they are planning that at all. Oh trust me, I was all over that Michael's sale - I took 2 of my coworkers on our lunch and we bought 3 of the vases at 50% off lol. I'm so happy the hearts go with the tables numbers, I didn't even think of it because I didn't think I would find vases like that! I am planning to only wear sandals for the reception, the ceremony is on the beach and I'm planning to go barefoot with the foot jewellery my Mom ordered for me. I'm pushing through! i want to get through my list and to a point where I have nothing to do and can relax but I highly doubt that will happen! LOL @ Thank you!!! You have been so supportive these past few weeks and thank you so much for lending your ear! Aren't those bunches just perfect? The coral flower is a bit more orange than I wanted but when it's all together I love how it looks, and we have all different shades of pink/coral so it all works out. Thank you for agreeing about the photography, I didn't want to sound like I was skimping out my wedding day photos, but I couldn't justify it. 46 DAYS! and 39 days until we're in Mexico!!!! Col JUST messaged me and said his Mom agrees to have a dance! I was hoping she would! She can be a bit shy so he wasn't sure if she would want to - looks like we need to find another song!

@@amanda88 we're having a legal ceremony so unfortunately I don't have a "certificate" for the symbolic ceremony, as I imagine we will all be signing a real one (I hope! Lol) I'm sure one of the ladies on here has one! This site has everything! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@emigrayson Thank you! The people I have told about the case so far have been really happy about it. I ordered them from Hong Kong on eBay and they are due to arrive anytime between now and April 1... I can't confirm the quality just yet but the price was incredible. I will post details on my thread once I receive them in case anyone else wants to get them for their group.

@@yycbride2016 Don't apologize! I loved your review! So detailed and informative

@@amanda88 I posted a photo in my planning thread, the link is in my signature They are really simple, just a vase with flowers, table numbers and an led candle in a mercury glass candle holder. I didn't want to bring too much with me and keep it really simple.

@@emigrayson so happy to hear you say all that! We are doing centrepieces but they are small (photos in my thread if you wanted to see) and are thinking about not doing favours. I don't want to lug too much with us and can't think of anything practical enough that would travel well to Mexico. Instead we are giving everyone a custom beach bag with a waterproof phone case (bag). Do you think that's enough? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you @@vancouverpetunia! I'm so excited for youuu!! So close! Opps, forgot to remove my best friend's jerk ex-fiancé. We are at 50 people (including Col, I and the two kiddies attending). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@ashhtayy Your centrepieces look beautiful! I agree with @ and @@vancouverpetunia that having everything not so symmetrical will look great too, with the whole 'naked cake" and rustic trends happening right now, imperfections make it look so perfect somehow.

@@yycbride2016 I had to come back 3 times to read through and make sure I didn't miss anything. I'm so happy your day was as perfect as it looked. Although I'm not getting married at your resort, you definitely gave me some good tips! (Especially the makeup, I'm getting @ to take me! lol) I was going to the do the same for nails as @@vancouverpetunia but now I may rethink because of your review. Thanks so much for sharing and giving a such a detailed review. Congrats on becoming Mr & Mrs!!!

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted my to-do list. My attention has been off of myself lately and more on my best friend. She was supposed to get married April 2nd, I was her maid of honour... a week ago she got a knock on the door from a girl that her fiancé has been having a relationship with for a year... needless to day she is broken and devastated, the wedding is off of course, and I don't want to even mention anything about my wedding to her right now while she's dealing with this. She may/may not come to Mexico, which I will of course understand and support either way, I just hope she lets me know soon as she is on my marriage application and I would need to ask someone else to step in and make sure her dress fits them, but she can't face making a decision right now... While a couple of things have been added to my to-do list, we have definitely crossed some items off too: Complete: · Dress alterations (corset added) · Chose processional, father-daughter dance, first dance (will post when the rest are chosen) · Picked up beach bags from Total Advantage · Cake Topper · Passport renewed (I was a couple weeks shy of the 6 month validity period) · Bridal Party gifts · Groomsmens suits sent back with Colin's Mom to England for the guys to have altered · Wedding wishes and marriage application sent to WC · Downloaded Wedding DJ App and WedPics App · Confirmed reception details with WC - dinner from 6-9pm at the Hibiscus Pool, extend until 11pm · Made nail, pedi, & waxing appointments for the Thursday and Friday before we leave - we leave on a Saturday morning To Do: · Receive the remaining 40 beach bags and waterproof phone cases · Colin's suit alterations picking up his altered suit this weekend along with a dress shirt · Card Box/Cage – I found the box I want to use, need to turn it into a “card box” · Find cheap paper fans for chairs at ceremony · Engrave Col's wedding band, and see if they could do mine (might be too thin?) – going to the engravers on Sunday · Choose recessional song & document signing songs (2) and the rest of the dinner/reception playlist and download to app – We have chosen all our music, may just need to change the father/daughter dance to a joint bride/father-groom/mother dance, Col needs to ask his mom if she wants to have a dance. Other than that, everything is chosen and needs to be downloaded and loaded onto the app Bridal Party Entrance: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Bride Entrance: “A Thousand Years” – Christina Perri Document Signing: “Marry You” – Bruno Mars & “I Do” – Colbie Caillat Recessional (this was all Col and I love it!): “Higher & Higher” – Jackie Wilson First Dance: “Thinking Out Loud” – Ed Sheeran Father/Daughter Dance (If isn’t changed to a joint Mother/Son Dance): “I’ll Always be your Baby” – Natalie Grant · Exchange currency, the dollar has been creeping up slowly so we might start now · Finish welcome letter, I spy and signage for beach, I want to have a sign that says "Choose a Seat Not a Side" or something along those lines, but worry about where to put it... this is TBD. I worked the "weekly itinerary" text into the welcome letter, I'll post a photo once these are finished · Buy a selfie stick for the go-pro, an external iPhone charger, and batteries for the walkie talkies Col has from his Lake Louise snowboarding days, I think the wi-fi situation there is primarily in the lobby and only for an hour so these will really come in handy, especially on the wedding day so we don't bump into each other · Confirm photo package with the photography company one month before. – Col won. We agreed on the package with less photos… we still get 4 hours coverage with 110 photos but even I couldn’t justify an extra $350USD for 1 extra hour and 20 more photos, I need to email the photographers and confirm this weekend · We might scrap the guestbook idea altogether, I picked up a feather pen from Michael's a couple months ago during one of their sales but haven't decided what to do, so we may not do anything at all... again TBD – We decided to scrap this. If something that blows our minds comes along we may reconsider but for now it’s a no-go. · Paint our table numbers – Col painted these while I was away at my best friend’s bachelorette (the weekend before she got the bad news ) We bought both a champagne silver paint and silver glitter, once he did the silver only he left it for me to see and we both loved how it looked and thought the glitter would be too much · Make a binder of correspondence with the resort · Ring box/bag –working on it, we have an idea, stay tuned lol · Timeline – Col was actually super cute about this, I couldn’t stop laughing. I guess they do things in a slightly different order in the UK than we do in Canada and he was actually freaking out (in a hilarious way) and “couldn’t have it” because it didn’t “feel like a real wedding that way”. I’ve never seen or heard of a Groom-to-be so involved in this and it just cracked me right up, so with some minor tweaks, and a very slight compromise from his end, our timeline for our wedding day will be: 12pm-3pm Lunch & Getting Ready (earlier for me), we will have walkie talkies to ensure we don’t bump into each other at lunch, or I may just order room service 4pm Ceremony @ Tulum Beachfront, followed by Toast and Group Photo Guests can head to their rooms to freshen up or to the bar at the Coba resort (closer to the reception) Bridal Party & Parents Photos Dee & Col Photos – 2 locations 6pm Dinner & Reception to start at the Coba Hibiscus pool Once everyone is seated, MC announce parents & wedding party MC announce new Mr & Mrs Bride’s father to make a toast before dinner Dinner Bride & Groom thank-yous Best Man speech & Maid of Honour Speech Cake Cutting First Dance – Bride & Groom Father/Daughter & Mother/Son Dance (TBC – Mother/Son Dance) PARTY 11pm Reception ends, anyone else who wants to continue the party will head to the disco · MC Script - Finalizing · Thank you speeches · Seating Chart – this was a tough one, my parents are divorced and will not sit at the same table… I only have 5 tables so I didn’t have many options. I figured it out in the end and it all works out really well. We have 5 (possibly 7 … yay for slackers…) more people still booking so we worked them into the seating plan just incase. We are working on a way to display this, but it will have to be a last minute thing to accomodate any changes · Shopping with my sister in a couple of weeks and planning to get Buy a second white dress to change into during the reception if I get uncomfortable Outfit for the bachelorette A blue garter - we're not doing a bouquet toss or the garter thing but I wanted to wear one anyway, and some lingerie Buy chicken cutlet/sticky boob things (I'm sure I nailed the terminology) for my dress Clothes for dinners etc · Figure out vase situation for the centrepeices - I've asked the WC to send a picture of what they were going to rent us, we may just buy 3 more from the dollar store and bring those · Send out email to guests regarding wedding day attire Sent this out and included: Wedding Day Attire info Important Dates: bachelor & bachelorette parties and wedding day timing “Don’t forget to pack…” Info about Riviera Maya (Average temp in April and TimeZone) Other important things to remember (travel insurance, vaccines/shots, credit card, drinking the water in Mexico etc) Reminder of our hashtag and our ID for the WedPics app · Hair Trial – my girlfriend (also my hairdresser and is coming to the wedding) is coming over in a couple weeks when Col isn’t home to try out my hair styles, we also dying my hair the Tuesday before we leave for Mexico · Book eyelash extension appt · Continue tanning, started the week before my shower and starting again this week – started tanning again, only once a week, I tend to get dark really fast · Ties Added to Checklist: · Groom’s Gift - I want to do something special for Colin on our day and have something delivered to him, like a message with a gift or something but I haven’t figured out what yet · Centrepieces – while we were going to just figure out vases and use the aisle flowers, we decided to take it into our own hands and I am so glad we did! We will now use my bouquet included in the package, split into 6 smaller bunches and used only in the aisles. I wish I could take credit but these premade bunches were at Michael’s and I fell in love, and took advantage of the 40% of floral sale plus 20% off the entire purchase coupon. I found these adorable heart shaped vases at Michael’s as well. I completely forgot to post my shoes for the reception months and months ago. They are nothing fancy, but comfy, cute and were $15 at payless. I love that they have a strap at the back so I don't have to risk them falling off, and they will be hidden under my dress anyway. I also completely forgot that I bought these in September (was possibly going to use them for my shower). They are the cutest little bottles of bubbles from Party City. I bought 2 boxes (12 in each) and am thinking about either putting them on a random chairs for the ceremony or a few bottles on each table at the reception. They are about the size of my finger: As I was typing another one of Colin's friend's and girlfriend booked. That brings us to 51 people - 49 adults (including Colin and I) and 2 children. I’m sure I’m forgetting something but that’s all I can think of for now My bullets are all off the and OCD in me hates that I can't get them lined up lol

Congrats on your wedding @@emigrayson! I'm so happy to hear everything went well and you still loved every moment despite the rain. Thank you for the review! Really appreciate it and very reassuring! I'm sure I will have a bunch more questions for you! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks @@emigrayson Is there no option to pay cash? The exchange rate and international fees on the credit cards were probably high no? And welcome back! How did everything go?!?! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi ladies, might be a silly question but I'm a bit confused on how to pay... Is it all cash? Or credit? And is there a certain amount daily? Is it not better to bring the whole lump sum in cash? Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@ashhtayy okay great! I'll let you know if I come across any anyway! It's sooo close! I have a few updates to make, a horrible thing happened to my best friend so I've been focusing a lot on her... I will update my thread this weekend! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Your flowers are just like the pics - so pretty! Love the necklace too! I'll let you know if I see any of those tumblers in dollaramas around me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Aww those are cute! We got "Bride" and "Groom" tags given to us is for my shower or I would def look into that! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@cruisebride2016 your flowers are sooo pretty! Your day is coming so soon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@ashhtayy your map looks so good! You must be so excited to pick up your flowers! Ugh custom fees suck. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congrats on your legal ceremony!!! Your to-do list is getting shorter and shorter and your day is coming so soon! So exciting! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@@cruisebride2016 Your Bridal Shower and Bachelorette looked like they were so much fun! Just over a month to go!!!

@@vancouverpetunia I've actually ticked a couple things off since I last posted but will do one big update soon. I'm at a bachelorette this weekend (not my own). Thanks for posting a few things! You girls are the best! Here's where I am with those items: - summer clothes: I'm going to be buying a lot lol but thank you for the reminder to wash any I'm bringing - playlist we are about 75% done with picking songs, need to load on the app when we've picked everything, think I mentioned this one. The next two weekends we are hoping to get a ton done. - vows, we aren't doing personal vows. We both just sort of decided from the get-go that we wouldn't do them. - I'm printing pictures and making a list for the photographer that we'll go over in our meeting before the wedding, think I mentioned this one too Thank you again, and anything else you remember please feel free to send my way! You are soooo close now!!! Just over a month! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk