Mandy

Also, regarding the food: Our dinner was at Las Fuentes. Everyone loved the pasta with shrimp, but the turkey dish didn't go over so well. Isaac and I ate dinner at El Cocotal the last night. We were not impressed. Not even a little. In fact, Isaac could not cut through his pork chop, let alone eat it.

We're back! Everything was beautiful. I'll write my review later. A few quick things though: Both of my parents were pretty sick for 4-5 days. All we can figure out was they were the only ones to eat at Rincon Mexicana. A few other people had problems, but no one else longer than a day. I didn't wear a veil, and I don't know how any of your girls did! It was sooo windy, esp at Gazebo 55. Everything went very smoothly with the wedding and the coordinators (well, they were late picking me up, but they said it was because they were waiting on my guests. I think they were just running on "Mexican time"). Quote: Originally Posted by shannon We are back!!! I swear I thought maybe I saw Anna and Mandy around -but I didn't want to sound creepy going around asking people if they were on a forum- hehe.... Shannon, DH and I (and my parents) peeked in on your wedding. You were absolutely beautiful!! And did we see you having a dinner on the beach the next night? DH and I peeked in on Anna at her reception. I wish we all could have gotten together! Funny story, the entire time my dad could only remember Anna's name, so anytime he came across anyone with an English accent, he would ask if they knew Anna! Finally he met one of her friends. Very nice people!

After a long day in clinic, we'll be heading for the airport tomorrow evening. Can't believe our big day is almost here. Yay!

Be careful with browsing etsy! If it were me, my next major trauma would be all the $$ I spent shopping! One more bonus: he's so little he won't remember this surgery or hospitalization at all. That's even better than if he has to have his tonsils out later and all he remembers is the ice cream and sore throat.

Quote: Originally Posted by BeckyN #3: I am absolutely terrified to start rotations. Despite my overwhelming excitement to be out of the classroom... I'm not sure if I'm quite ready. I sometimes feel like I have learned nothing and worry I am going to fail in this profession. Becky, I'm a Physician Assistant, and our entire 2nd year of school was rotations, after a year of classroom stuff. I was terrified to start my rotations as well, but it was tons easier than I thought. If all else fails, just fall back on the "I'm just a student" excuse. No one expects you to know everything, and sometimes they expect you to know nothing and are surprised with anything you might have retained. Your rotations are designed to give you real-life scenarios under direct supervision so that first you can learn stuff in a new way to pass boards and second so you have training to fall back on when you're on your own. Good luck! You can make it!

Quote: Originally Posted by shannon I know!! I can't believe it-- and you are just a week and a half out!!!-- I wish we could be around to see your wedding --we leave the morning of your wedding.. I will keep my eye out for you!- Hopefully we can share a drink-- just keep your fingers crossed for good weather! We get to the Cancun airport at 10 the day of your wedding, then we'll be staying in the Casitas too. Your wedding was at Gazebo 55, right? What time again? I will be looking for you, and I would love for the 4 of us (if we can get the boys to agree!) to have a drink! Maybe Anna can join us.

Did BrigOpens get married legally at EDR or was it a symbolic ceremony? He can send you his program and outline if so.

Shannon, only 1 MORE WEEK until your wedding!!! I can't wait to sneak my peek and see how beautiful you are!

If the policy is truly changed and they stay true to their word in other areas of the planning, I would be much more inclined to start sending friends down there for their weddings.

I think many brides have steered away from Azul for that very reason.

Wow! How awful for you! Do you have replacement bridesmaids that might be able to fit into one of them? Would you fit in one? If not, I would follow up with a phone call. "Your beautiful 'occassion' dresses are here now! We're sad you can't wear them in our wedding, but I can't wait to see you in them! When should we get together to swap out the dresses so I can pay the store? I hope we can do it over coffee or dinner!"

I thought it was time to add a couple of photos of our legal ceremony. Enjoy!

http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t19177 This probably has the most current info on photographers. You may get more responses posting on that thread as well, as this thread has become quite outdated with the policy changes you mentioned.

My mother/grown daughter pair is getting one bag, however, inside that bag I have included an extra bag and a few other duplicate items, such as the zip-up flowery coin pouch and chapstick. The advil, other medications, beach ball, post-its, hand sanitizer, etc they can share. They have the same amount of snacks and candy as the other couples. Hope that helps!

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan Wow May 20th is a big day for your family. I mean our family I haven't told Mike, but there is another event that might make the 21st not work. Some day that week I am supposed to go to a friends house to learn the michael jackson thriller dance. Is it wrong to let my wedding date get influenced by Mandy's wedding date & thriller lessons? It's not wrong at all!

Quote: Originally Posted by becks Oh... and do you remember the last time Jean-Marcus took him? Was this about the time he was kicked out of Canada?

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan Here is what I have so far. Songs are cropped to about a minute each. I'm working through my list alphabetical & I've gotten from Ace of Base to Justin Timberlake. Butthole Surfers daddy yankee - barrio fino - gasolina1:11Blues15/3/2008 10:32 PM Um, Butthole Surfers? Interesting choice. And come on, Gasolina? That's Puerto Rican! Where's the Mexican music? No salsa? No mariachi?

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura congrats mandy! and happy belated birthday too! i just got your card in the mail and i was so excited to see i got a card from you that i was literally jumping up and down in the elevator when i read that you were doing your legal ceremony. ive been so busy with work lately and hadnt checked my mailbox at home for a few days, what a great surprise!! hugs to you and isaac!!! Yay! I'm glad the card made your day! Sorry it took so long to get to you. Did you get the paypal e-mail?

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan Congrats! We are making it legal this month too. If my bday was in May, we'd do it then too. Instead we are planning for May 21st because the ceremony is june 21st. Maybe we'll bump that up a day so we can be date twins You should totally get married May 20! Yeah, I just said totally. How would you explain this, though? "Honey, we have to get married on Tuesday instead of Wednesday because that's when Mandy's getting married!" Let me know how that works out for you!

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan We have this in North Carolina too. I've never experienced it, but I've heard others talk about it. Just so no one thinks it's some scary exotic thing. Like that penis fish in the amazon. Leave it to Morgan to bring up the penis fish.

The best advice I got one time for new hair styles applies here as well: don't tell anyone what you're going to do, then people don't feel like they have the right to give negative opinions once it's done

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan mandy, are you telling me to get back to work? I've actually finished most of my planning so the ideas are slowing down. I'm just tying up loose ends now. It's a lot of the stuff left I was putting off. I'm also working on music. I'll be posting my dance party mix one of these days. I'm cropping a bunch of songs & putting them together for the AHR. So can I keep playing? Actually Isaac and I have been trying to figure out our music for our reception in Mexico, so you're going to have to keep working. So far, we pretty much only have salsa music. But you can play a little, I guess....

We had actually gotten our marriage license a few weeks ago, so we just took it to his dad's house and had a friend marry us. We're not telling a ton of people, so I'm not quite sure yet what to say when people ask what I did for my birthday!

UPDATED WITH PICS!! See post #25. Tuesday afternoon, I guess Isaac and I didn't have enough to do, or maybe he'd forgotten to get me a birthday present, but we decided to go ahead and get legally married on my birthday, which was on Thursday! I hazard to guess that this will be my most memorable birthday ever! Now we just have to get through the next couple weeks until we can have our wedding. By the way, has anyone ever thought about how strange it sounds when you tell people that you're getting married, going on your honeymoon, then having your wedding?

So I heard about this thread in another thread. Somehow, I just knew it had something to do with either Morgan or Jean-Marcus or both. And now that I've found the ferret thread, who do I see started this whole show? None other than my very own idea coordinator! No wonder the ideas have slowed down! We're too busy dressing our imaginary pets! While I do commend you on the constant parade of photos, don't stop with the ideas! And by the way, FI thinks we're all nuts!