December 2009 Brides!

[Adlergray]

We started with our STD in February and still only have 27. so don't be so discouraged. And to get the held rate people had to book by may 1 which is why we have 27. We still have people who have rsvp'd and not booked and have people who have not rsvp'd despite the May 15 return by date. And we invited almost 160 too. keep your chin up.

[Jennifer Davis]

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Originally Posted by J&MWedding yeah, and Dec 09 thread! Glad I found this! We are getting married Dec 4th at Dreams PV. I have completed the following: 1) booked our flights/hotel for wedding & honeymoon in Belize 2) sent out save the dates 3) bought dress 4) finished wedding website 5) started collecting things for OOT 6) decided on color pallete But I am concerned that I see tons of brides who have 25 ppl booked or more by now, and I only have about 6-8 ppl booked. I sent out STD to about 160 ppl. I'm a little worried, but is there anything I can really do? I can't make people pay their deposits. Any recommendations Dec Brides!?

I only have a handful booked at this point too. I am not going to be concerned until 2 months out....

[Sparkles8300]

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Originally Posted by J&MWedding yeah, and Dec 09 thread! Glad I found this! We are getting married Dec 4th at Dreams PV. I have completed the following: 1) booked our flights/hotel for wedding & honeymoon in Belize 2) sent out save the dates 3) bought dress 4) finished wedding website 5) started collecting things for OOT 6) decided on color pallete But I am concerned that I see tons of brides who have 25 ppl booked or more by now, and I only have about 6-8 ppl booked. I sent out STD to about 160 ppl. I'm a little worried, but is there anything I can really do? I can't make people pay their deposits. Any recommendations Dec Brides!?

Jillian- We have the same wedding date!! It's actually also my FI's parents wedding anniversary and they have been together for 27 years so I guess it's good luck!

As for people booking, I only have about 10 out of 63 people booked. We put down $50 deposits for all 63 people and as long as they pay the balance by August 4th they can book with our low rate. I am not worried because our TA will be sending out an email this week letting them all know that if their hotel rooms are not booked by Aug 4th then they will not get the discounted rate. If you don't have a TA, you could just send out a mass email giving everyone a deadline for your rate. Since we booked through Apple Vacations, if people do not book, their $50 deposit is not lost, it is just rolled into my FI and I's room cost so we don't lose anything!

[*Nadine*]

Where are you girls all going for your honeymoon? Are you staying at the same resort for two weeks or switching it up?

Right now we are booked to stay two weeks at the same resort b/c most of our guests come fri-fri (including us) but some will be there until sunday so we want to stay there with them. Then another part of us wants to go somewhere else but it adds on another$2000 or so to do that cause the second week when staying at the same resort is always cheaper.

[angruck]

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Originally Posted by cdnvb9 Where are you girls all going for your honeymoon? Are you staying at the same resort for two weeks or switching it up? Right now we are booked to stay two weeks at the same resort b/c most of our guests come fri-fri (including us) but some will be there until sunday so we want to stay there with them. Then another part of us wants to go somewhere else but it adds on another$2000 or so to do that cause the second week when staying at the same resort is always cheaper.

My FI and I are staying at the same resort---there are great friends that I really want to spend time with and we want to take a seperate Honeymoon sometime later, probably March 2010 to somewhere else like Paris.

[Adlergray]

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Originally Posted by angruck My FI and I are staying at the same resort---there are great friends that I really want to spend time with and we want to take a seperate Honeymoon sometime later, probably March 2010 to somewhere else like Paris.

Wow so are we..in may but we will be taking our honeymoon in Paris. My BF from highschool is getting married in the lorie valley im may so we are just going to make a trip out of it. Should be fun I haven't been since I was little.

[angruck]

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Originally Posted by Adlergray Wow so are we..in may but we will be taking our honeymoon in Paris. My BF from highschool is getting married in the lorie valley im may so we are just going to make a trip out of it. Should be fun I haven't been since I was little.

I have always wanted to go to Pars (only been to other parts of Europe) and I am not counting the stay in Mexico as the Honeymoon I wouldn't mind Turkey but my FI doesn't really love that idea. Still up in the air. You are so lucky you have all the destination weddings for you and your friend!

[Adlergray]

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Originally Posted by angruck I have always wanted to go to Pars (only been to other parts of Europe) and I am not counting the stay in Mexico as the Honeymoon I wouldn't mind Turkey but my FI doesn't really love that idea. Still up in the air. You are so lucky you have all the destination weddings for you and your friend!

I Know we wouldn't be going is she wasn't getting married my FI HATES Paris. Bit now all the DW's are adding up I have 3 including mine in 5 months ours in dec my FI's good friend in March in Florida we are supposed to be taking my 6year old to disney in april and then Paris is May...Its ridiculous!

[*Nadine*]

holy crap! We have a destination wedding next year in halifax but so far thats it!

I LOOOVED Paris and would love to go back, great choice!! Im glad to hear you guys are doing the two weeks at the same resort too. I really want to 'jump across' the ocean to greece after the wedding in halifax (cheaper to fly from there than from calgary) for our honeymoon. Just trying to convince FI

[Adlergray]

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Originally Posted by cdnvb9 holy crap! We have a destination wedding next year in halifax but so far thats it! I LOOOVED Paris and would love to go back, great choice!! Im glad to hear you guys are doing the two weeks at the same resort too. I really want to 'jump across' the ocean to greece after the wedding in halifax (cheaper to fly from there than from calgary) for our honeymoon. Just trying to convince FI

OOOOhhh I love Greece thats where I always wanted my honeymoon