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I hate to say it, but these days, people are comfortable booking travel right up until the last minute! My wedding is 11/17 and I used Oct. 1 as my RSVP and I have several guests who either just booked flights or haven't even yet. Those who book early will do so well in advance, but the others...they'll book when they want regardless of your rsvp date (we still have about 20 outstanding invites). One thing I did do with all my procrastinator friends is ask them to at least book their hotel so I could get the room block sorted out. I don't care when they book their flights - it's their $.

Quote: Originally Posted by CourtneyV I never would have thought of putting everything into one room either... except if it were me, I'd unpack the bare minimum and then just close the door to that room and hope the mess takes care of itself... hee hee...that's exactly what i did. until, almost a year later, i got tired of explaining to friends who came to see the house why there were still boxes in there. it's great in the beginning, though, bc you're so excited to show the place off and you can have most of it totally in order and just 1 room that's complete chaos. also, if you happen to need 1 thing but have to open about 6 boxes to find it whose contents are then strewn all over the place it's pretty easy to just close the door and walk away happy with your 1 thing

Definitely pack a little bit each night - the more the day goes on, the more unorganized you will be... I actually had a different take than what everyone else seems to agree on above. We definitely labeled all the boxes, but put them all into one room (Extra bedroom) and took them out of that room as we unpacked. This way, you don't live your life surrounded by extra boxes everywhere you go. When you're ready to rest, you close the door to that room and can forget about it a little bit. Then again, it took me about 9 months to get all the boxes out of that room...so it could delay things a bit...

The same thing happened to me with the reply email. Basically, unless you have 16+ people arriving all at the same time, there is no economic benefit to reserving as a group. For anything less, if you are not paying for your guests, the easiest thing is to have them book directly online. Personally, I'm not paying, but I have asked guests for their arrival info and will help coordinate for those who arrive at the same times to share private transit so they don't have to do a shuttle. But I will ask 1 person from the group to be the "leader" and do the online reservation and they can sort it out from there. So far, people are happy about this bc they can have more direct transit without having to pay the private price (assuming I can put together groups of 5 or more).

ok, i know it sounds hard, but in situations like this, i always like to take the highest road possible. the lower she gets, the higher you should go. you want to look back at this and know that you held your head high, acted respectfully and with dignity, and served yourself and your family the best way possible. use up the rest of your paid sick and vacation time to get another job, give and serve your 2 weeks graciously, wash your hands of it, celebrate your new opportunity, and don't ever look back! she will have to live with how she treated you. you have an MBA, you have experience, you are wiser and stronger because of all you've gone through. you can do this.

welcome! and enjoy the planning! Casa Natalia is also supposed to be great if you wanted to do a hotel - it's a bit on the smaller side and i heard the food is really good. you could also look into the Cabo del Sol country Club. oh, and for hair/makeup, Suzanne Morel. i'll review once i'm done, but that's who i booked. good luck!

So nice of you to go and make a list of everything! This is great - especially the part about the flowers. I'll at least get some for the flower girls from Costco I think... So smart of you to do a site visit - it was probably worth the cost just to put your mind at ease. Thanks for sharing with the rest of us!!

you and your husband and your bridal party are all hotties! way to go - great pics - and looks like everyone was having fun!!! congrats!

Wow! You have done such an amazing job with everything! Congrats! Your guests will be so impressed!

Neiman Marcus has some really pretty things (I love the Cosabella stuff). Anthropologie also has some cute things at lower prices in the slip section.

Congrats - here's to an easy pregnancy for you! The ladies on this forum sure get busy right away! People must be planning great honeymoons

Well, we have most of our rsvp's back now and our guest list is turning out a bit smaller than we thought. I'm happy about this because I wanted small, but it brings up a dilemma with the Sheraton. By my projections, we are 1000's of $ short of the minimum to have the de Cortez restaurant private for our event. Has anyone done a wedding here and not had the restaurant private? Are you just mixed in with all the other guests? Where do you do the dancing and cocktail hour? Our group is about 75 people. Or, has anyone done a site visit, and can you visualize how this would work? Would love to hear your thoughts...

Welcome! Placencia is one of my favorite places - we had the best time staying there at Maya Beach hotel. I think Belize would be a great place for a DW!

I got the same pressure from my family to not do our wedding in Cabo. I decided to go ahead with it anyway knowing that those who really cared would be there. And guess what...after all that complaining, they're now coming and looking forward to it. If you stay strong and continue planning, people will start to realize that if they want to participate they have to go along with your plan and as long as they have to go along, they may as well get happy about it

Do you have a PaperSource store near you? They have tons of great ideas for inspiration and their line of plain envelopes and cards has tons of shapes and is reasonably priced. I used the gold for mine and they were really fun! I think the sometimes have classes too for designing invites and I know they have kits (though I wouldn't recommend this as it's almost as much as just having them made). I used them for all my supplies and got tons of compliments on the invites.

I have joaquin booked for my wedding Nov. 17th so can give a review after that! So far, both have been very easy to communicate with via email and respond quickly. I found him based on the positive recommendation from a friend who was married at the Hilton in last June.

Great news! I heard from the Sheraton today that they will honor the menu prices they sent over. This makes a huge difference to me and how I am feeling about them and I am so happy they took my dissatisfaction seriously. I'm not sure exactly how it happened bc I never called them and I didn't ask my WC to (as I was still mulling it over) but she just sent the email out of the blue today. I've found them difficult in some areas so far, but this says to me they actually care and were concerned about me being mad and so I'm hopeful that it will get better! happy friday to me!

Thank you! That's exactly how I feel about it!

They sent their menu, with prices, to my WC and we made selections from that menu. So yes, I consider that in writing. We will have about 80 people. In order to have the restaurant private, we need to spend at certain amount. It bothers me that the reason they give for raising the prices is that the restaurant is closed. We're already guaranteeing their revenue so that should be a non-issue, right?

That is awesome! I love it. And I love how much it motivates you - hey, whatever it takes! Definitely a different perspective than counting calories! Sometimes when I'm at the gym lifting 5 lb. weights I think about how liberating it would be to remove that amount of weight from my body. After 3 knee surgeries already, I think about how much extra stress it is running or walking around with that all day...

We are having our reception at the d'Cortez restaurant at the Sheraton. They said that we could choose from the d'Cortez menu or the regular banquet menu. We thought the food on the d'Cortez menu was much more interesting and reasonably priced so made choices from that. Well, they are now saying those are not the prices - they have to charge more because the restaurant will be closed for our group. Which is why they are requiring a minimum spend (a quite large one too by the way) of our group! Now we have to go re-visit the entire menu and drink choices...argh! So annoying!

Thanks! I'm more and more starting to think I'll do this. And if it doesn't work out just hit up CostCo for candles or something simple...

Thanks everyone for your opinions! I think I'll go with what most are saying - just give/send one to the photographer and not the others.

I haven't done this myself, but just took a quick look... On the Accomodations page if you click on edit, and scroll down, you are given the option to upload a photo, pdf, or word doc. If you can create a picture or diagram of your map and then paste it into word then upload it, that should work. You could also try creating a Google map of the locations and then using something like SnagIt to get a screenshot, paste that into word and then upload. Hope that helps!

I searched on this and didn't see anything but I feel like it's been discussed before: Do you send invites to your vendors? Which ones? Photographer? WC? Musicians, etc? Or just confirm with them over email or phone?