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Quote: Originally Posted by BlissfulMsMiranda Everything looks great - for someone who says she's not crafty, you did a hell of a job!!! Now, not that I want to be the one to point out mistakes, I blame it on my line of work (I'm an editor) ... there's a mistake in the first line of your welcome note for Amy!!! Instead of "is" you wrote "if" ... and I only mention it because you asked if we noticed anything!!!! God I feel bitchy ... damn me and my constant editing ... *sigh* Sorry!! But really, a small typo like that is nothing because everything else is just incredible!! Ahhh dangit! I am the worst at catching typos, so thank you. I will make the corrections.

Thanks ladies for all of the well wishes and kudos. It really means a lot.

You've arrived just in time. Lots of BDW girls just had EDR weddings in the last month or so!

Quote: Originally Posted by lovely*bride I love all of your ideas! They are too cleaver! How much were the oot bags? We figured it out that the OOT bags cost $16/piece which includes the cost of the bags and contents. The actual beach bags were $5 each at Walmart. Another girl on the BDW also is using them. We had a Walmart gift card and ended up purchasing the bags with that, which made it seemed like we got them for free!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by arhoyaltres You did a great job even though you don't see yourself as a Martha Stewart. Everything looks really good! Hahaha, thanks! I don't think Martha would have used puffy stickers on her welcome notes. Unless she made her own puffy stickers!

Quote: Originally Posted by Abbie well, people named abbie/abby/abbey tend to be amazing, awsome types of people raych! it all looks so good! arent you excited?!?! Wait, what about you? Yours is only 10 days away. YOU must be the excited one!

Quote: Originally Posted by Abbie well, people named abbie/abby/abbey tend to be amazing, awsome types of people raych! it all looks so good! arent you excited?!?! I'm sure my Abby would agree with you, as do I! Words cannot even tell you how excited I am. June lasted FOREEEEEEEVER!!!!

Now, why couldn't I have thought have that?!

Attachment 2178 Here is the ppt template if anyone wants it. I'll email it to you too if you don't want to burn points! GETTING_READY_FOR_MEXICO[1][1].ppt

Quote: Originally Posted by DanielleNDerek the luggage tags came out great and the personalized welcome letter is a nice touch. Thank you. My friend Abby did a good job with those. I stole the welcome letter for many girls on the forum. My FI thinks it reads like a PR statment from the resort though

Quote: Originally Posted by MelanieS Nice job on everything! Looks like you've got everything finished up and now only 3 weeks to go till the big day! Thanks, both you and Mandy really helped me feel good about choosing the Presidential gazebo. Now that I have posted this, I can stop planning and just enjoy my FI for a few weeks!!

Quote: Originally Posted by DanielleNDerek Great stuff. The pic of you guys after he proposed is so cute, ya make such a cute couple. Thanks! It's our big cheesy smiles - lol!

Okay here is the last of it! Luggage Tags (will send with newsletter) OOT Bags (Single guys will get the same bags but in black) Coozies (My friend did the design and Micah’s cousin who has a screen printing company printed them.) Guestbook (Again, not crafty so thrilled when I found this instant scrapbook at Hallmark.) Bridesmaid gifts (Coach wristlets – one gets yellow and one gets blue. Also, I bought my MOH dress and both their flip flops for the ceremony. I will also treat them to manis and pedis at the spa the morning of the wedding.) Let me know if you see anything wrong with the newsletter. I haven't sent it out yet and have time to make corrections. Thanks again ladies for all of the great ideas and inspiration!!!

Bouquet Inspiration (bridesmaids will have similar ones) Bouquet Starfish Jewel Micah’s Boutonniere (groomsmen will not wear one) Ceremony Location (Presidential Gazebo – will just have hanging flower corsages on the gazebo, rose petals down the aisle on the sand, and the chairs will be uncovered.) Invitations (sorry this one is big!) I sent out a simple save the date letter and magnet in January, so I only sent these invitations to our booked guests two weeks ago. Newsletter Again, I am not really creative and good at things like this, so I sort of just stole ideas from everyone on the forum and pieced it together in PowerPoint. I just printed it front and back on regular paper. These will be mailed with the luggage tags next week. Still more to post!

Hair Flower (From Hibiscus Floras Lifelike Silk Wedding Flowers: Artificial Bridal Floral Arrangements Of Top Quality. Not cheap but very real and beautiful.) Garter (From ebay – I am going to surprise Micah. He is a die-hard fan.) Hair inspiration (taken from another BDW girl’s hair inspiration on the hair and makeup thread) Makeup inspiration (I scanned this pic from a magazine page so it is not the best quality. I will do something different with my lip color) [ Micah’s suit. From Banana Republic. He will just wear it with a white shirt, tucked in with a belt, and brown leather sandals. Bridesmaid dresses (Sour Lemon embossed beach dress and ribbon flower belt from J Crew) Groomsmen attire (White linen Tommy Bahamas shirt and tan linen pants from Old Navy) MOB attire (from Talbots) Still more to come!

Hey everyone. Well my wedding is not for three weeks, but I have such bridal brain that I cannot concentrate at work and only want to think about last minute wedding planning; therefore, I have decided to post my planning pics now! I still don’t have pictures of our wedding bands, which I will pick up on Saturday, and of my veil, which my friend is making for me. Also, let me tell you that I do not have one ounce of Martha Stewart in me, so I tried to keep everything really simple. My friend Abby is an artist and photographer and designed and printed the invitations, luggage tags, coozies, and hang tags. I am so happy she will be in Mexico to do our wedding pictures and our TTD session. I’m not really that active on the forum but am on all of the time. I cannot even begin to tell you how much the forum meant to me while I was planning. Most of my friends are already married and starting to have kids now. They don’t get very excited about this kind of stuff anymore, so it has been great to share this time with so many amazing people who are in the same place. Thank you! Okay, so here it goes…. Picture of Micah and me the night we got engaged. He proposed to me on the River Walk in the New Orleans French Quarter on 11/16/07. Engagement Ring Wedding Dress (I had the cathedral train removed. The veil is very simple -one tier, cut edge, waist length.) Forgive my face - I was sucking in LOL! Ceremony Shoes (Victoria Secret – I’m not crazy over them because they actually have pink glitter on them but I do not want to do anymore shopping, so I am sticking with them.) Reception Shoes (Steve Madden from Shoes.com – love them!) Jewelry (from Amy’s Bridal Accessories Bridal Jewelry at Amys Bridal Accessories: Couture Bridal Jewelry, Bridesmaid Jewelry & Bridal Tiaras that are completely customizable and unique. The earrings have posts not hook and both earrings and bracelet are very dainty) Okay will post more in a just a sec.!

Wow, everything looks fantastic. I love the orange. My MOH looks horrid in orange and begged me not to use those colors, which I would have loved to do. Oh, and love your veil!

I love 3 and 1 the best too. I'm dying to know which one was your favorite and which one your mom liked best!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by shannon First of all- I'm totally in love with Fred!! your dog is the cutest! my bouquet was kinda expensive... It was $250 -I originally picked the DB3- the 20 calla lillies.. (on lomas website it's now listed at $300- I guess they upped the price?!?!) But Valeria wrote me about a month before our wedding and said a previous bride had ordered that bouquet and they had come in -and the bride wasn't pleased at all- that the lillies were much darker than the pictures showed and looked more like something for a winter wedding and she recommend I change my order. I definitely appreciated her emailing me ahead of time and letting me know!-- so they took my colors of "red and pink" and made a mixed bouquet of tulips and roses-- and just charged me the same - $250-- I think the tulips were the expensive part- evidently they are hard to get in Mexico.... Here is another pictures of the flowers- by the time I got to ordering the bouquets- i was kinda "in the zone" LOL- not thinking about money- just adding stuff-- so they were expensive- but I really did love them- they were super pretty.. And we put them in a vase in our room the rest of the time there and enjoyed them--- our bellhop (marten) was super nice so when he came to pick up our bags when we checked out, I gave him the flowers (still looked good) to take home to his wife- he was more excited about that than Vince's $20 tip! I only had my sister stand up with me-- I ordered her the PB9- Mexican calla lillies and they were "only" $130- and they were really pretty too.... Sooo, I really need to upgrade then! Good to know, thanks. I want more oranges and yellows, so I will probably stick with tropical flowers but may add some roses. This may help to keep the cost down. Thanks for the complement about Fred. He truly is the best little dog. He is not yelpy or skittish. He tears it up at the dog park with the biggest and roughest of dogs! He is the great white cat hunter, or at least that is how he thinks of himself when he tears after the neighbor's cats each morning!!

Welcome! I'm not from Georgia, but I just looked it up on Wikipedia and peanuts and pecans are also from there. Maybe you could get little bags of sugar pecans and some salted peanuts for the OOT bags? Maybe you can find little bottle of peach flavored whiskey down there too! When I think of Atlanta, I think of Coca Cola. Maybe those little baby cans of coke?

Quote: Originally Posted by SheaS I recommend EPT Certainty.... if you read online, they have less errors with their results. Congrats Shea!

Shannon, what bouquet option did you pick? I really like the way yours looks. I picked one that was only $50 (just mixed tropical flowers) and am afraid it will be skimpy. I figured I can always upgrade.

Quote: Originally Posted by SheaS I know I had the cream cheese and shrimp stuffed omelet, and cream cheese and blueberry stuffed french toast, with a fruit cocktail.... it was one of my favorite meals!!! Oh goody, this is what we will be eating in only 25 days! We're not crazy of fondue, what other items were on the candle light dinner menu?

You look very beautiful in your dress! Congrats!!!!

My mom flew out to see me a couple of weeks ago to go shopping for her dress. We ended up going to Talbots (against her will since she is convinced it is an "old lady" store), and of course we found her outfit there. We had some bra cups sewn into the top (the top is actually not a shiny silk but a more matted material than shown). She looks pretty in it.