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Ahhhh Sorry for posting the links haha I know how your wallet feels haha Yes white is sooooo hard to find .. I also love how LULU's will let you enter your email if they are out of your size and let you know when it's back in stock. also if you do order here is a coupon code Freeship10 or if you sign up for there email list they will send you a 10% off. Don't feel bad the second we booked our resort in September of last year I have been buying dresses left and right haha I'm like Mexico need it .. oh Mexico gotta have it hahaha. My friends are like omg your going to have a new outfit for each day your there haha. But I got tons on sale through the winter. I like to think I'm a pretty smart shopper. Also I messed up the revolve link haha it actually http://www.revolveclothing.comthey are expensive but they have killer sales I ordered 3 things this week that are final sale really hoping they fit or I may have to sell the on ebay haha. here is the coupon code for 10% off TULIP We are paying a ton for our photos we are flying our photographer out from Colorado but pictures were the number one MOST important thing to me so I think it will be worth it! It's one day and you spend all this time and money prepping for and it then bam it's gone so all I want is to have beautiful big blown up canvas prints on our walls to remember how amazing it was. Seal away girl that's what this site is for ... haha I have got so many great ideas on here! Pinterest if you type in Starbucks engagement there are tons of really cute ideas! I made a board for our photographer to look at! The wait is almost over and it is terrifying hahaha I have so much to do!

Okay so being so new to finding this site I thought I would start a thread to help keep me organized it's getting to be crunch time. It also really helped me to see other people's photos and get ideas and I wanted to be able to share my photo's and ideas to maybe help someone else! The Long story SHORT haha How we met: I used to be so embarrassed and not want to tell people but, working in the wedding industry and seeing that 7 out of 10 of my brides met online haha I'm finally over it! lol. So yes we met on eharmony ... it was a weird and totally a different experience but hey 3 years later and were getting married and I'm the happiest I have ever been in my whole life. The Engagment: We had just bought a house in April and did a ton of remolding and finally decided to have a house warming party! The morning of the house warming party he asked me if I wanted to walk down town and get coffee ... I was immediately like NO WAY! haha we have 40 people coming over in a few hours I need to get everything ready. He really kept trying to get me to go .... I finally against my will said fine I'll go! All annoyed haha I went out back and it was then I saw a really cute sign (i'll post a picture below) with a ring box hanging from it by our sunflower garden. So sweet he got down on one knee and proposed! It was really sweet we both were teary eyed. His uncle was on a ladder over the fence clicking photos. Then all our best friends and family showed up and brought Mimosa's and homemade cinnamon rolls and it was really fun! He had my Aunt who is like my second mom fly in and my best friend form California was there. It was so so so sweet. And then it was great to have them all help me whip everything for the party into shape haha! Then when everyone arrived for the party I got to tell them the news and show off my ring! It was so amazing and the best day ever! The RIng: We went and looked at rings about 6 months before he actually proposed. It took forever haha after we went ring shopping I was so excited and waiting for it haha. There were so many trips I thought this is going to it .. and nothing! He got the exact ring i wanted except the diamond center stone was twice the size I thought it would be I was very excited to say the least! I absolutely love my ring and feel so lucky I get to wear it everyday for the rest of my life! It's a very dainty diamond band with a cushion halo and a cushion cut 1.15 carat center stone. (picture below) Picking the Resort/ Travel Agent: I was so excited I had basically start planning our wedding like 3 months after we went ring shopping haha. We had talked about it a lot and he had always wanted a destination wedding and I knew I didn't want to get married were we live cause I work in the wedding industry and I didn't want to go there with picking vendors when 3 of my closest friends are florists ect. I though that would lead to lots of drama and hurt feelings so I was completely on board with a destination wedding. We had also heard that the cost was low and since we were going to be paying for our entire wedding ourselves this was appealing to us. I had also heard lot of my brides say how stressful planning a wedding was and how they wished they did destination. My hairdresser had recently got married in Mexico so we started looking into it and she used a site called http://everafter.com/ and recommended it. Worst decision we ever made! haha Learning curve .. we had no idea where to start so we took her advice and used http://everafter.com/ we ended up with a CRAZY travel agent who had no idea what she was doing. She totally fooled us she was so nice the first month helped us decide on a resort and pick a location and she seemed great! As soon as we sent Save The Dates she turned CRAZY and DISORGANIZED she messed up the first 18 peoples reservations, booked people at the wrong resort, messed up names, booked wrong airports ... it was crazy stressful for us and we were so embarrassed so we ended up calling the Everafter customer service and get re assigned a non- crazy, our new girls is super sweet and much more organized but dealing and straightening everything out after she created a mess was really not a fun two weeks! So I highly recommend not using a site like that I wished we would have used someone local. After finding this site I read lots about people getting really bad Travel Agents .. oh well it all worked out in the end! Save The Date/ Invite/ RSVP's/Wedding Website: We decided to use http://www.appycouple.com/ we really liked it! It was $35 one time fee and we bought a custom domain name for $10.00. We liked all the features it offered and it had lots of customization and seemed perfect to hold all the info we wanted to give people for the destination. My FI was great and totally took on this project. We decided to just send save the date magnets we used Wedding Paper Divas and they were great! Smaller than I thought they would be but they were fine. We also included one of there mini cards and gave our Wedding website on one side and the other said how to RSVP with our app. It is modern but it saved us a big chunk on sending out invites. I do LOVE all the passport invites that i saw on this site all the girls on here did a fantastic job! Had I seen them when we started planning I probably would have made them! Getting RSVP's was also very very stressful people were so rude my mom and I had to sit down one afternoon and call a million people and ask are you coming .. so annoying! We still have about 5 couples in limbo which is frustrating when your start to plan and you need numbers to do things like OOT bags and Table Numbers .. ugh (rant Over haha). Though the process so far we are about 2 months out and I feel like no one used our wedding website or RSVP feature .. Oh well it seemed like a great idea looking back I probably would not have paid for it but we did so whatever haha. I just though with the world so App, tablet and computer obsessed that it would be a huge hit! I was wrong! Wedding Colors: Bright tangerine, coral to a soft peach with pops of gold! So more like a monochromatic color scheme of Orange with pops of gold. Also if you are reading my thread you will see I have the worst spelling and grammar haha. I'm a makeup artist not and English teacher so I'm giving you a head's up haha. Thanks so reading. I have all day off tomorrow I plan on getting organized, making list and adding lots to this thread. Were also supposed to be getting about 8 more inches of snow tonight so I will be happily bundled on my couch!

@pddcmc I'm waiting on the rest of my girls to send me there measurements so I wasn't able to order them yesterday hopefully I will be able to by the weekend. So people reviewed they take FOREVER so we shall see! I really am having the hardest time deciding if I should order them lined or not. Seems like most girls don't but a few reviews said they felt really cheap and I thought it might help if they were lined! So stressful all the decisions haha.

I'm dying to see peoples ideas and outfits haha. I'm going to start working on our outfits this week! After shopping for my shower dress for ALL of last week and finding NOTHING I finally just ordered 3 online they will all be here with in days I hope one fits and I like it haha White dresses are really hard to find especially this time of year! My Shower is next Saturday ehhhh! www.revoleclothing.com and https://www.lulus.com/ These site are both great and you can search by size and color. Bonus they both do free shipping and free returns a HUGE plus! @Wafflesmom good luck with the negotiating hope it works out for you! Haha We are hoping to get some snow in our photos that's why we waited so long to do them. Since our wedding photos will be on the beach I wanted to hang photos in our house that are different. We met for the first time at Starbucks so we wanted to take some photos there and our third location will be our new house we just bought. I thought it would be sweet to have some professional photos in our new house together. So exciting!

Welcome! This forum is amazing the women on here have helped me so much! I only wished I have found it sooner haha. This site is loaded with amazing info it will really help you I'm sure!

I would love to take on of the table clothes do you know about how much the shipping would be?

I'm available for travel and I would be willing to trade haha. If you need any advice or tips on what to ask the makeup artist I'm happy to help! I have been a makeup artist for 11 years and I specialize in Bridal makeup. I wish I could travel with all you ladies and make you look amazing on your Big Day! Makeup is so much fun and a HUGE part of my life!

Were doing our the last week of March and were paying $500 for ours. 3 hours 3 outfit changes and 3 locations. Then we get a disk with all the photos. Now to plan what we are going to wear hahaha

Did you like the robes from Silkandmore? I'm thinking about getting them and it's so stressful to think about sizing quality and if they will shrink lol I have heard they feel cheap from a few reviewers I was thinking about paying more for lining them did you get yours lined? I would love to hear how your turned out.

I'm ordering robes today and I was going to go with Silkandmore! Did you get yours lined some of the reviews said they felt very cheap I thought maybe if I got them lined they would be a little nicer. What was your experience did you like them? How was the sizing? I would love any details you have! Thanks!

I got my cards on Amazon 5.99 for a dozen. I'm making a sticker to put on the back! They are not the best cards in the world but they will do the trick. We did one deck per room.

Okay so this may be the dumbest question ever but how do you start a planning thread is it under your own account or you just start a post and call it a thread? I'm really enjoying reading everyones posts planning threads and want to start one but not sure how haha. I'm new to this site and just learning how it works.

Just found your thread and it's amazing I might need to do one to help keep myself organized! Loved reading about all your ideas! Congrats your so close!

You did a killer job in your invites! They are stunnning!

My resort only has one florist option it really frustrating cause she only speaks Spanish I have got 5 quotes and they are all wrong. It's $600 to use a different florist this is really crazy!

Great ideas

Than you sooooooooo much this is exactly what I was needing so nice to find free things once in awhile thanks a million for sharing this!

Awesome job ... I'll be on vista print tonight haha

Hey ladies so I want the badges to seal so they are waterproof. I can only find them at staples and it's almost $50 for a box anyone else found a cheaper place that has ones that seal? Also still on the hunt for orange wrist coils .. Everyone has rainbow packs or every color available except orange ....

Yes Our resort has a HUGE list of stuff that cannot be brought ... it's a super bummer!

I noticed that after haha .. I also found out today our resort wont allow us to bring them.

I love the chair sashes how much? I need 30

Excited to to read my DW pick is high on the list ... I'm getting so excited picking was stressful.

Hey Everyone ... I just joined and this is the most amazing site I wish I had discovered it before we even booked our resort ... The ladies on here are absolutely amazing. I'm getting married 5/5/15 at the Hard Rock Vallarta. This site is helping the stress to pass and the excitement to build haha I can't wait till after my wedding so I can post helpful tips for other brides once I have fully gone through the process.

I would love yours .. You have great posts! Keegan.steele@@gmail.com