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Hi! Did anyone ship/bring alcohol to Mexico for their wedding. We would like to serve our favorite wine at the wedding (we've already bought 30 cases of it). We, originally, thought we were going to have to pay a ton to ship it, via UPS/DHL, however, our wedding planner's fiance is going to drive it from California to Cabo for us (he's moving to Cabo at the end of September and our wedding planner has offered to have him take over a bunch of stuff we would have shipped!!!). Anyways, she said there are some taxes involved with taking alcohol (wine) from the US to Mexico and am wondering if any of you all have any experience with this. Thanks!!!

Welcome to the forum!!!!

Welcome to the forum. WOW! You're wedding day is fast approaching...how exciting.

Welcome to the forum! Tons of Dreams Cancun brides, here, so you're in good hands!!

Welcome to the forum! Let us know how we can help!!

Hi! We were thinking about doing either a sunset cruise or a restaurant and decided to with a restaurant for our welcome dinner due to timing (we'll probably do a sunset or brunch cruise the day after the wedding). We're having our welcome dinner at Baja Cantina. They're located on Medano Beach and are reasonable. A few brides, on the forum, have had their welcome dinners there and love it. Drea and Erik got married there! Check out their menus: Baja Cantina website: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...ina-menus.html

Quote: Originally Posted by gracefulsteph we are using the candle holders from crate & barrel that i got a great deal on...they have dark wood bases and then we are putting aqua color rocks in the bottom of the glass with a white (or ivory....haven't decided that part yet) candle in the middle of the rocks. it worked out so good because our colors are aqua/turquoise and chocolate...and the wood in the candle holder has a chocolatey color. i would post a pic of the candle holder but i can't seem to find it anymore online.... let us know what you come up with! Those are my colors as well and I love this idea! Did you find the candle holders online or in a store? Thanks for sharing!

Welcome to the forum! You'll find a ton of planning help here! Don't give up on the vendors. It took a while for some vendors to get back to me as well. Hopefully, you'll start getting some responses.

Welcome to the forum! Lots of happy Las Caletas brides here! You're in good hands!

Welcome to the forum!! !!!!!

Welcome to the forum! Playa del Carmen is beautiful!!

Welcome to the forum! Cabo is a perfect locattion for Bay area DW brides. It's a short, cheap flight, which would make travel easy on your guests! Happy Planning!

Congratulations on the engagement and welcome to the forum! You've come to the right spot to help you make a decision on venue. Let us know how we can help.

Welcome and early congrats on your upcoming wedding day! I'd love to hear about your experience with shipping. I'll have some items to ship from the Bay Area & Sacramento.

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on picking an beautiful location for your wedding. You've come to the right place--lot of Las Caletas brides here!!

Welcome to the forum and Happy Planning!!!

Welcome to the forum! I LOVE your user name....too cute!

Welcome to th forum! The 1st DW I attended was in Playa (around the same size as your wedding). Everyone had a blast! Happy Planning!

Oooh Turks sounds beautiful! Welcome to the forum! You will have a lot of planning help from the brides/grooms on this forum!

Welcome to the forum, Kate! Tons of help and advice here--you're going to have fun planning your wedding!

Quote: Originally Posted by Wisco4 A good way to figure it out is to go to Home Depot or some other home improvement store. Go to the paint sample section. Grab a bunch of different color cards in hues of blue, green, pink, orange...whatever, then go home and hold them up next to eachother. You'll get a really good gage by looking at them that way. Plus you can get your FI's opinion! This is a great idea....we're going with espresso brown, tiffany blue and cream for our colors but I'm thinking about adding sage to the color scheme. I want to get out of work and head to Home Depot!!!

Ooooh, how exciting! Love, Love LOVE Italy! I visited Italy for the 1st time, last June (Armando proposed in Rome so I'm partial to the city!). We were going to do 3 - 4 cities but because it was my 1st time, we decided hit as many cities as possible--we did it in 2 weeks. I'm glad we did it this way, since it was my 1st time but next time, we'll only hit 3cities. We were exhausted--waking up at 5am/6am to catch early am trains so that we could make the most of our time in each city. We did Venice, Rimini, Florence, Rome, Sorrento (my favorite), Sicily (Taormina and Palermo--Armando's family lives there). I'd probably change the amount of time we stayed in some of the cities. Great site for hotels in Italy is Hotels, hotel reservations, from luxury to cheap hotels - venere.com. We didn't book everything through them but it had the best info for location, prices, pics, etc. BTW, we booked most our hotels a few days before we left and we visited during high season--there were hotels that we wanted that were sold out but we were still happy with the hotels we booked. Feel free to PM me, I'd be more than happy to share more info. I, too, was super stressed out when planning the trip and I had a native helping me!You're going to have a BLAST!!!!!!! I'm so excited for you!! Quote: Originally Posted by Jessalyn We leave for Italy on the redeye on Sept 18th and come home on Oct. 5th. We are flying into Rome and that is all that we know. We've made a list of the cities/sites we'd like to see, but have no idea how long we should plan to visit each place, nor do we have any idea about where we should stay or if we should book hotels before we leave or play it by ear when we get there. So, if anyone has any insight, please share. ...planning this trip is feeling more stressful than planning our wedding. We want to visit the following places and probably in this order (we'll be traveling by train...if you have any tips regarding traveling by rail, please share). Rome Florence Bologna Venice Modena (Tony wants to see the Ferrari exhibit) Parma Milan (maybe) Geoa Portifino Cinque Terre Pisa If you have any other location suggestions that are on or near our route, please share those too. Thanks for your help. We're feeling overwhelmed.

Quote: Originally Posted by Julesr My bachelorette is going to be on October 13th. Its a pj sleep over party. I do not know all the details, but I know that we are all going to my sisters house, and having 3 ladies over to do spa services, facials and mani's and pedi's. Then the ladies who teach pole dancing in this city are bringing poles to my sisters house and teaching us each how to pole dance. All the while we will be in our pj's and drinking cool drinks we all make (my sister is telling everyone that comes what 1 ingredient they need to bring to make a bunch of fun drinks). We are going to all sleep over at my sister's. That is it. I did not want to go to the bars either, but I wanted something fun. I can't wait. I LOVE your party....I want that! We're planning a 2 day party....wine tasting/spa day in Healdsburg (near Napa) and then a club night in San Francisco. I really like the pole dancing and drinking at home idea much more than a club night!!

Hi Everyone, Attached are the 2007 catering menus for Baja Cantina. Email for Mona Cobo is [email protected] (quick response)! Website for Baja Cantina: Baja Cantina (great virtual tours on their site--gives you a pretty realistic view of the facility). Baja Cantina - Menus.doc

Wow!!!! The pictures are beautiful!! Thanks so much for posting (I've been anxiously waiting)!