Breaking the news about the DW

[Jen1407]

My FI and I have been together almost 14 years and we have always talked about having DW wedding. Once the engagement happened we actually tossed around the idea of having the wedding at home, this bummed a lot of people out as they were really looking forward to going away. In the end we decided to stick with what we have been dreaming about for a long time and will be having a DW wedding in Jamaica. So far we have 41 people booked.

[pinayflava]

we told our friends and family right after we got engaged to 'pack their bags' lol and then we also sent out STD's with our wedding website for more details

[CanadianLindsey]

I love your idea! I wish we would have done something fun like that. I LOVE games and theme parties! My brother already had his wedding planned for the following summer when we got engaged, so we talked about it with my parents and told them we wanted to do a DW and my mom said "I will pay you to have a DW!" She loves traveling and hates wedding planning! So we planned it for 6 months after my brothers(we talked to him and my SIL about it first too). It's great because we got to live the big at home wedding through them and then everyone close to us gets to jet off for a week in mexico while it's freezing here in Canada! And my brother and SIL will be celebrating their honeymoon too! We can't wait

[katman]

Did anyone feel the need to "run-it-by" people first before making the official DW decision?

We know it's what we want, but there are also some "key players" we want to be able to share our special day with...should we just get the feeler out on those special people before announcing to EVERYONE that it will be a DW?