Allaballa

Don't worry about them not getting back to you. My average response time was one week. And they only do one wedding per day so all the attention is on your special day.

Congrats ladies. You will LOVE the del mar!!! They do a great wedding there. I had no regrets at all. Happy planning and let me know if I can answer any questions for you.

I think you are being completely unreasonable. I understand this woman rubs you the wrong way and all, but she is you DH's mother. If she wants to visit, let her visit. She will have to visit at some point so one of those weekends is as good a chance as any. Unless you have some other pressing plans you will not come off in the best light to your DH and his mother if you prevent her from coming. This will only fuel her resentment of you and what's worse, give her ammunition against you. I know it tough, but you have to suck it up at least a few times a year and deal with her.

sschano, go to the forum iberostar-board.com under the wedding section tons of ladies will share their Lindo pics with you. Its a very lovely resort and they do great weddings!

Great movie overall. Seemed like one big commercial for Louis Vitton. Could not believe she took Big back!!!! I don't think I could have after the humiliation of being left at your own wedding!! The Miranda and Steve thing is strange. I'm not sure what my feelings are on that one. I was never a fan of that relationship though.....The assistant character rocked. I want one!!!

I got married at the del mar in Dec 07 and it was great!!! Highly recommend the resort. If you have any specific questions feel free to PM me.

I'm a financial analyst for a pharmaceutical company. I make very decent money, ($70K+) however I think that the cost of living in Toronto is pretty high so that's why my salary is higher than it would be if I was to work in a more remote city. As to the "glass ceiling" I would say that I am on par with my friends in terms of pay but I know that some of them will get capped pretty soon whereas my earning potential will continue to grow. In my opinion, the glass ceiling has a lot to do with your chosen career path as some jobs unfortunately get capped (I'm think of teachers and health care professionals).

Hysterical!!! Are you sure you want to have this unfold at your WEDDING? Something like this can really be a mood breaker.....maybe have a chat with her and ask her to adress this prior to departure?

During my wedding we made very clear that there was to be no mention of God. My DH is Christian (non practicing) and I'm Jewish (not practicing but my mom is pretty anal about the God thing). So apparently right before I walked down the isle, the judge asked my DH what religion he was. So Dh says I'm not religious. So the judge goes to him "That's good I'll just read from the old testament" before he could say anything, the music got started and the BM were walking down the isle. So the whole ceremony was God this and God that. The fist time he said it, you could tell my eyes just widened and I did a double take and you can tell that DH just squeezed my hand really tight (he said he did that because he was afraid I would hit the guy). My mom was so overwhelmed by me getting married that she didn't notice it.

I would give it back. Everytime she puts something on she'll think of him. Who needs the bad memories?

I dated a man that was cheated on for about 6 years of his marriage and I'm pretty sure he knew about it on some level for most of the time. What I'm going to tell you you will not like. He developed a deep down hatred for women. Don't get me wrong, he was very romantic and gentelmanly, flowers dinners and the whole bit. But deep down inside he thought all women were garbage and would lie after a certain time. These were issues that he never dealt with and they really ruined our relationship. Knowing the kind of person he is he never would have gone to counselling or sought help, but his anger and results of that anger ended up ruining our relationship

I looked into shipping items to the resort ahead of time and was advised against it. There is no guarantee you are going to get the items and its quite expensive. I left all my stuff there (except the wedding dress) I really have no need for 100+ tea lights and bags and bags of rosepettals :-)

I think that your FI is missing a critical point here. This is a DW. So its not a few hours you have to spend with Buddy but days. Farting in someone's face? Really??

Enabella, if price is really such a huge issue, why doesn't your FI's family wait to book because the prices will go down. When we were quoted $1650+230tax to go to Mayan for our wedding we booked only the 10 required people to secure our group. Everyone else ended up paying $1100+277 tax when they booked in Sept.

I've stayed there. Its a nice resort. The food is pretty good. If some of your guests want something more luxurious there is the palace one there and they were building another one when I was there 2 years ago. I saw them setting up for a wedding on the beach when I was there it looked very nice. If you have some specific questions let me know I'll see if I can remember or dig some pics out for you.

BTW love the dress

For what my 2cents are worth: I like the earings and bracelet. I've never been a huge fan of danly earings and necklace together. As well if you have a nice decolete I think the necklace takes away from that sometimes. JMO

I LOVE THESE 1. How's your heart lately? Pretty good, but needs some exercise 2. Do you find these surveys silly but take them anyway? Yes 3. What was the last movie you saw? Love in the time of Cholera (don't ask) 4. The last place you went? A pub 5. Miss someone? No 6. What made you laugh today? The silly radio morning show 7. Are you scared to fall in love? no 8. You get in the car and drive 2 hours in any direction you want - where did you go? Up north to the wilderness 9. Have you ever peed in a pool? yes, 10. Ever have someone bring you breakfast in bed? no 11. Did you dream last night? sure, but i don't remember them 12. What were you doing yesterday at 7 am? Breakfast 13. What were you doing yesterday at 10 am? Browsing BDW 14. What were you doing yesterday at 12 p.m.? Lunching 15. Name a country you want to visit: Spain 16. How many piercings do you have? 2 17. Are all of your piercings visible? yes 18. Do you have a tatoo? no 19. What was the last thing you drank? Coffee (should have been spiked with something interesting though) 20. Favorite author? Jackie Collins (cheesy I know but I love her) 21. Do you have a nick name? Al 22. Which do you prefer - a sunny day and popcorn at the zoo or a rainy day and movies on the couch? Rainy day and movies 23. Are you a type of person who easily gets hurt? yes 24. The last person who called you? BFF 25. What beauty product could you not live without? Moose 26. Anything exciting happen yesterday? sadly no...oh wait got a great deal at Costco (again very sad) 27. What color is your underwear right now? polka dot 28. Do you ever lie about your age? always 29. How many things in your past do you regret? no regrets 30. Do you have a best friend? Yep 3 31. What do you want to be when you grow up? Absolutely fabulous 32. Who was the last person you hugged? DH (technically my cat but I don't know if he counts) 33. Have you ever had your heart broken? yes 34. Whos the last person you called? BFF 35. Do you like your life? most of the time 36. White or wheat? white 37. Has one of your friends ever stabbed you in the back? no 38. Did you forgive them? 39. Would you ever join the military? no 40. Do you regret the last person you kissed? Never 41. Have you ever slapped a girl in the face? No, but several could have really used a good slapping....still can 42. Has anyone ever thrown you a surprise party? no 43. You just won a cruise for 4....who do you bring? DH, mommy and her hubby 44. Are you supposed to be doing something else right now? hmmm working

I would escalate this to their head office. I'm sure that EDR is part of a larger conglomerate chain and I doubt that they would condone inconsistency in billing and bad customer service. It sounds to me there is something shady going on and I would bet quite a bit of money is being pocketed in the process. I would not let this go if I were you. But I do think that switching resorts is a good idea. If they are giving you this much trouble now who knows what kind of trouble they will give you closer to the date.

I snoop through everything too. Its not a trust issue, I'm just nosy. My work shower was supposed to be a surprise and one of my coworkers gave it away. i'm very glad she did because I was planning to taking a really long lunch that day to go to this outlet sale.....I can just imagine having to explain THAT long of a lunch break to my boss......So you see sometimes knowing is not so bad

Wow, I just don't get it. How can a man have any types of sexual feelings towards a CHILD and her parents letting this happen? Completely creepy

Stina168 the disco is ridiculously cheesy. Its a starwars theme with life sized Yodas and everything. We rented out the Tropical but they shut you down at about 10:30-11 pm so we headed to the disco for some after partying and had an AWESOME time, but I'm not sure I would want my entire wedding reception there.....My hubby who is a major starwars fan was even amazed at the cheesiness. The tropical restaurant is quite nice, if you want to see pics go to adamandalla.com and there are a TON under the guest's photo section. Lynnmichelle, I must be confused, but I thought the Aqua bar was in front of the Tropical Restaurant and it was outdoors. We had our coctail hour at what I thought was the Aqua bar and it was great.

Absolutely Fabulous Pics! Cogratulations, they are just stunning.

Its so sad to say but the joy of us getting married is not shared by everyone. To some its a "have to" attend and an inconvinience. If my sister said "why didn't you just get married in_____" I would be very disapointed. My FIL made a few comments about our DW and I just said that attendance is welcome but by no means manditory and the wedding will go on with or without you. It just sucks that people are vocally inconvinienced by our decisions. My take is that if I didn't ask for your opinion I frankly don't give two craps about what you think so please don't share with me. A DW is a very unique experience in that you trully get to see who will do what for you. As one of my friends put it, if someone really wanted to come they could have put away $50 a month to do it. Most people can afford that.