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Quote: Originally Posted by gkashmira Welcome Dinner - Everyone had such a great time at Baja Cantina for our welcome dinner that I wasn't sure we were going to be able to top it for the wedding. I hear you on this, and in fact, the food at our WD was far superior to my wedding...but everyone still had fun at the wedding. I agree that you look gorgeous in your dress and don't be too sad that you can't keep it, most likely it would hang in storage for decades anyway.

We did OOT bags and CD favors. I made them myself fairly inexpensively. I bought a stack of blank CD's on sale for $9 and burned songs from the wedding soundtrack. I ordered custom labels and had a photo of the beach at Las Caletas printed with our names and the songs. That only cost $1.25 each label. I ordered white cardboard cases for something like 50cents each and ordered stickers of our mongram to decorate them. I hand wrote thank you notes and glued them in. Then, I found an ebay seller that had thick brown ribbon for like 20cents a yard, wrapped them, and sealed them with a sticker. It was much easier than it sounds and cost less than $100 total!

Wow, I didn't know you could still do that. Cool )

I used Creative Montage and they are very affordable and flexible - I had them make 6 monograms and changed each one several times. I also ordered monogram sitckers there for my favors. They make some pretty invitations too. Here is the site: Creative Montage... For Today's Sophisticated Bride

Happy planning )

Wow that's unfortunate/ridiculous! Here's hoping things turn around soon.

Welcome and you'll find great info here!

I'm not a Dreams PV bride but I'm pretty sure you can set it up however you want. I would email your WC and tell her/him who you want to play when, then remind them if you meet when you get there, and remind them again the day of...just to make sure they get it right )

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbride I know~ I'm torn, I found these great invitations that my friend and I were going to make! I just eally want to make them, they are adorable! Well I say make them then! I sent out std's, a second std reminder, and formal invitations. I also loved designing and sending out formal invitations though because there are few occasions where you can do that so I had fun with it. The cool thing about a DW is you can break tradition, but it sounds like you want to make those invites so why not?

Thanks for sharing, that's useful stuff )

Welcome! What a great location. Happy planning!!

I voted #3, simply beautiful.

Hi Sharon Like Ann I married at Las Caletas, PV, MX and stand strongly behind it. Since you're not decided check it out for the heck of it, it's lovely. I also honeymooned at the RIU Ocho Rios and it is quite beautiful there too. You'll find a lot of info here no matter where you end up...best wishes )

Wow everything looked awesome! LOVE your dress..congratulations!

We ordered 75 STD magnets for $65 plus s&h at Save the Date Magnets for Weddings and special occasions!* We have photo wedding magnets too! They looked similar to this: Between STD's & invites we sent reminder postcards with pics of PV on the front and our info on the back. They were easy to design and we got 100 for $30 at: Business Cards & More at PrintsMadeEasy.com Our invitations were made by White Aisle and came to $4-5 each. This is similar but the floral design was all orange, text was chocolate, and we changed the size to 6x8. The White Aisle : Unique Wedding Favors and Invitations

Very pretty ladies!!

Drea that's perfect and he looks totally comfortable which is important...nice choice!

I've been waiting for this one!!! Best wishes on your huge wedding Anny!! I know all of your hard work will be so worth it )

Wow Ann that is very pretty, great idea! I assume that's not still hanging up in your house . . . . or is Paul that cool? LOL

ANN!! They must have sent ours off together. Since I'm a nerd I've been using the tracking number Nicole gave me all week and watching it go from PV to Guadalajara to Ohio and now it's here, well according to the DHL tracker it arrived today. I've been gone so my building signed for it and it is locked up in the office. It's killing me . . . I'm taking a road trip so I don't know when I'll see mine either. Arrrrgh!!

Quote: Originally Posted by dragonfly NO!! Sorry I am a little ticked with Everton tonight, so ask me tomorrow, and maybe I will have a different answer. LOL Uh-oh.....never ask someone in the midst of an argument...lol Sorry, some days are like that but you know it will blow over. We've lived together for years so after the engagement nothing changed except we were both super excited. No new fights, just an ever evolving understanding of the nature of men vs. women - i.e. he was content to pick the first invitation he saw whereas I needed options. Compromise is key, even if that means you get the short end of the stick sometimes. Unfortunately that comes with the territory in serious relationships. It takes time but you'll get the right balance eventually. In Psyc. of Marriage class I took years ago, it was said that the #2 predictor of a successful marriage is the willingness of both parties to attend counseling if need be. (#1 was decision to commit to each other exclusively) Maybe it's outdated but I think it holds true. In the mean time, hang in there

Have fun Amy and Kevin!!! Enjoy the honeymoon )

No worries at all, you have more than enough time. A year before my wedding date we weren't even engaged yet and it came together quite nicely....yours will too )

Yeah Christine I forgot about that....we wanna know!!