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Thank you ladies!! I'm about half-way done with my thread... I will hopefully finish it tomorrow night! :smile159:

 

 

 

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Omg!!! Lucky I subscribed!!! Congrats on your wedding it looked beautiful love the jewleryb

 

 

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Beautiful wedding!

 

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Omg!!! Lucky I subscribed!!! Congrats on your wedding it looked beautiful love the jewleryb

 

 

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How lovely
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Rings   My fiancé picked out my wedding band and engagement ring with no help from me! I had told him that I wanted a band with diamonds on it- he searched for 3 months until he found the perfect r

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Nice job. I love your colors

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Thank you very much!

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Flowers-

 

the resort wanted to charge WAY too much for flowers- I had heard many great things about Marvin at Maya Floral so I decided to go with him. I told him I wanted tropical bouquets with orange and yellow flowers with pops of blue- he didn’t disappoint. I ordered 6 bridesmaid bouquets and my bridal bouquet from him. We went with the complimentary bout for my husband- an orange rose.

 

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Here is the complimentary bouquet given with the wedding- it was really pretty as well and I would have been fine just using that!!

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Cake We choose to just have the complimentary cake that went along with our package.  We chose tres leche...yum!! We didn't really get to eat any other than this first bite but it tasted good.. and no one else really ate any- remember to have someone box up the cake for you so you can try some later! I'm sad I didn't really get to enjoy mine! 

 

 

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Make-up my MOH did my makeup and we had the resort spa do our hair with resort credit. My MOH did an amazing job on my make-up- we went to Sephora a month before the wedding and did a trial run and bought the necessary makeup from there. The resort did a great job on my hair after a few tears, miscommunications and 3 styles later…. Hey that was my only issue the whole wedding- so I can’t really complain :)

 

 

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Thank you!! really?? Sounds like we both have good taste! :)  Your pics wil turn out great! :)

 

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Everything looked beautiful. I tried on the same dress at David's Bridal and I really liked it too!! It looked great on you! My BMs are also wearing royal blue! Wow, thank you for sharing!! I feel much better seeing the photos on the beach, I know they will look beautiful.
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Thanks for the planning thread its really informative and I'm getting really good ideas.  I'm getting married at LeBlanc (palace resort) next year and hope to take full advantage of their resort credits and free night promotion hopefully i'm lucky enough to book enough room nights.  Can't wait to read the rest.

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Glad I can help! :) If you need any templates for anything let me know! Oh I've heard amazing things about LeBlac- I'm jealous!!

 

 

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Thanks for the planning thread its really informative and I'm getting really good ideas.  I'm getting married at LeBlanc (palace resort) next year and hope to take full advantage of their resort credits and free night promotion hopefully i'm lucky enough to book enough room nights.  Can't wait to read the rest.

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Thanks Shan0487 I'll definately reach out to you if I need any templates.  I'm super excited about LeBlanc i'm actually going on my site visit and meeting with my wedding planner next week.  Can't wait to really start planning all the little details.

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Centerpieces- I used the bridesmaid’s bouquets as centerpieces for the reception tables along with plain yellow boxes I bought from blumeboxes.com and decorated them myself. They worked great! And way easier than lugging down glass vases to Mexico as these things are made out of cardboard and fold right up!

 

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Sand ceremony- Another last minute thing… I wanted some sort of sand ceremony that I could display after the wedding so I originally planned on purchasing a customized etched frame on Etsy..but then I talked myself out of it as I didn’t want to spend $60+ for our sand ceremony. So then I looked into etched mason jars…then I decided 2 weeks before we left that hey- we have mason jars and I can buy an etching kit and make them myself (our first name initials on the small jar and our last name initial on the big jar)..so with help from a friend- viola I made them myself and they are displayed on top of our TV for a great reminder.

 

 

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Maracas- I ordered yellow and blue maracas from Amols (large size) and they turned out great. They were the favors for our reception. I bought the tags from Michaels (again with a 40% off coupon). Printed the “instead of tapping your glass, let’s toast with Mexican class… Stand and shake with all your might, to see the groom kiss his bride tonight†with my printer and then bought orange ink and a starfish and seashell stamp for the tags (found in the dollar bins at Michaels). It makes me smile when I see my maracas in people’s houses! :)

 

 

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Bridesmaid shirt- I wanted to get my girls shirts to wear while we were getting ready at the resort. I wanted orange tank tops..let me tell you what- it is dang near impossible to find orange tank tops. I finally found razor back tank tops on Amazon. I had to order one in each size and had half of my bridesmaids try on the sizes to decide what size everyone needed. In the end I found the etsy shop kustomdesignzbyk and she was a godsend! She ended up ordering the remaining shirts I needed herself and applied the iron on decals for me! So I only had to do 4 or 5 of them myself, thank goodness! Well I should say my fiancé did them for me as he is way better with an iron than I will ever be! So if you want to make your own shirts contact her she is amazing and can custom any order! :)

 

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Photographer- I hired a local photographer and flew her and her assistant down for 3 days and it was cheaper for me with my comp’ed rooms to do this and have her for 3 days than to hire locally as I essentially only had to pay for their plane tickets and she gave me a great discounted rate to do the destination wedding. Just ask photographers- the worst they can say is no..but who doesn’t want to add a gorgeous destination wedding to their portfolio?! I also liked the fact that one of my friend’s had her photograph her wedding the year before and she did our engagement pictures so I was very comfortable with her. And she ended up being 20 weeks pregnant at my wedding but she still worked her butt off for me! I do not regret this decision one bit she did an amazing job! Photographybykellymarie.com

 

 

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DJ- we decided not to pay $1000+ for a DJ for 4 hours and wanted to save ourselves $800 and opted to rent the ipod hookup. We had a friend MC the night and thankfully we have a friend who has EVERY song imaginable on his hard-drive so I complied lists- dinner music, first dance, cake cutting, reception music etc with song lists from this website along with requests from our guests..I ended up having TOO much music but that was fine- better to have too much and not get to everything than not have enough…Again this was the perfect decision for us.. our guests were dancing ALL NIGHT LONG and had the time of their lives- def worth saving the $800 or more dollars in my opinion! They had a tech who was there the entire time in case something went wrong. We actually used a laptop instead of an ipod to play the music.

 


I used the complimentary ceremony and reception package Palace Resorts provides and it was perfect. I was able to make it my own with my starfish aisle decorations and then chair sashes, centerpieces and table runners and maracas at my reception. Saved me tons of money!! And don’t forget you are getting married in paradise- no one is going to remember what color napkins you had! :) My wedding coordinator Suzette was amazing!! She actually added orange napkins to our tables and added a few extras to make everything extra special! She was soo sweet!

 

 

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We did the symbolic ceremony (with the resort provided person performing the ceremony and he did a great job and spoke English very well- the best part was he stood away from the ceremony decorations so he is not in ANY of our ceremony pics haha) We did our “legal†ceremony backwards- with moving into our new house a month before our wedding in Mexico- we kind of ran out of time and didn’t get married until a month after we returned from Mexico on December 27th in our living room with my husband’s family pastor and our parents, grandparents and siblings present. I cooked a Mexican dinner which we ate afterwards and it was very casual and exactly what I wanted.

 

Guestbook- I received a free shutterfly guestbook offer so I used engagement photos and photos over the past 7 ½ years to complete our book and it makes for a nice keepsake.

 

 

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I also made other things via vistaprint- I made a thank you note using a card template and one of our engagement photos that we handed out to everyone the night of our rehearsal/welcome dinner thanking everyone for coming to share out special days with us. One of my bridesmaids created a timeline for me- we had one for the bridesmaids, one for the groomsmen and one for the wedding guests. I needed one for our guests as our wedding was at Sun Palace and I had arranged for private transportation to and from the resorts for my guests and they needed to known when and where they were being picked up at. If you would like me to send you pics or templates of anything just let me know!

 


I think that is it…. if not I will add more later. Sorry this is so long overdue but I hope I can still help future brides and feel free to ask any questions!! Again this website is AMAZING and I couldn’t have had the amazing wedding that I did without it!!! :woot:

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