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Surprisingly, with everything we are brining with us (even vases for the centerpieces), we were able to fit everything into 4 carryon bags and two big check-in bags. One is the carry-ons is my dress and my mom will carry that, another is my FI's suit and our shoes and small accessories, I'll take that. Then we have two Office Depot file boxes will all our wedding stuff (most of it, some is split between the two big check bags, but the most important stuff that we would hate to have lost is coming with us). My FI and his dad will carry those. We also have two "personal item" bags, mine has all the mini pinatas in it, I dont want them to get smashed and my wallet, book, etc. My FI's bag has the laptop for our music and all our documents. I was so worried, but everything seemed to have worked out, the only thing not packed is our make-up/toilettries.

PS: I read a review that they stop you if you have stuff in boxes, so i have an envelop of all my receipts in one of the boxes, just in case.

We got them from Group Caricatures. It was fun, we sent in the pictures of the boys and told them what we wanted each guy doing, they did an awesome job and it only took like 2 weeks.

My garters:

 

Custom napkins instead of placecards:

 

table number holders from IKEA:

 

table number pictures (us doing things we normally do):

 

first attempt at our table setting, it looks a bit better now, but no new pics:

 

centerpiece:

 

We're renting umbrellas for our tables as it will be hot at 6pm, renting sound system stuff to use with our laptop, our friend will DJ. I made little "tears of joy" packets using templates I found on here. I think that's about it. Thank you guys.

Invitations (sad I know, it was before I found this place, I sent my invitations back in January, I couldn't wait):

 

Baby pinatas and Mexican candy as favors for kids (we have shot glasses etched with our names as favors for adults, I dont have a picture and they're all packed now):

 

For the sand ceremony:

I hot glued a shell to the top of the jar and put shells inside, we will use the sand from the beach to take Mexico home with us.

 

guest book and photo pages:

 

 

photo and sign for guest table:

 

fans with wedding programs:

BM's dresses:

 

GM's shirts (they're actually in blue, but I dont have the right pic):

 

Wedding Stuff:

cake inspiration

 

location, Lake Terrace

 

BM's gifts (abalone necklace/earings from Avon, photo albums, BM tanktops and straw bag):

 

 

GM gifts (custom carricature of all GMs, cigar, tequila and sunscreen):

Hello all,

First of all, I would like to thank you guys for your support and ideas, I'm so happy I found this website. I'm leaving on Friday, July 18 and my wedding is July 23, so here it goes:

 

We got engaged July 28, 2007 at the Aventura Spa Palace. Here is a picture of my e-ring and band (ignore whatever it is I'm doing with my fingers):

 

 

Here's my FI's ring, its black tungsten with silver stripes:

 

My dress and shoes:

 

 

FI's suit and shoes (that's a model in the pic, not FI):

 

Nicole,

We changed the location of our rehearsal party, it will now be at the North Solaryum (no clue where that is, but its on the Sunrise side somewhere close to the pools, FMIL wanted to be by the pool) at 8pm on the 22nd (tuesday). If you guys want to stop by, I'd love to meet you.

 

Thank you girls for your wishes, I can't wait. I will post my planning thread today and will do my review when I come back.

Yay, we heard a bit about the show, welcome.

Sharla,

Glad to see you back, your pictures are gorgeous, I'm so sticking with the hotel photographer. Can't wait for your review, but I will probably miss it as I'm leaving next week. Sorry you had a bad experience with the WC, but glad to hear everything was perfect. I loved your bouquet, I'm doing the same exact thing, only with white roses instead of red. You looked absolutely gorgeous, I love your hair and your dress.

My FI's parents are members, but we didn't get any specials, other than the nicer treatment when the guests booked. We had all our guests book with member weeks, so they're all getting the free transportation and massage packages, plus the lower prices, but we as the couple didn't get anything out of it. I didn't even think to ask. The one cool thing is, Moon Palace has a hydrotherapy area and its usually $25 to use, but members can use it anytime for free, so we're going to do a "girls" day there one day. Sorry not much help from me, but if you hear that there other perks, let me know.

I think the terra cotta fits right into your color scheme, the pictures of the fountains you posted have bits of orange in them. Plus its such a neutral color, its not a strong color on its own, so it will just play up whaever colors are next to it. I dont think you need to change a thing and I love the fountains.

They're going well, I dont know the name of anything, she keeps talking about the underhanded right turn and stuff, I'm lost with the names, but I know we're doing the Nighclub 2 step, does that sound familiar. I love it, she is making us move all around the room, lots of big steps and spins, just what I wanted. Our third class is today, we have two more to go after that, I think we're doing ok. I'm excited, thank you so much for asking. We told the dance instructor we have lots of room and showed her one of the pictures of the terrace and your diagram, so she is more comfortable with how much we need to move around.

Ok, now I feel terrible. She just called and she broke her ankle, I guess I've been sending too much negative BDW feelings her way. I feel bad about all the mean things i said since now she cant do the zipline or anything at all we have planned.

I haven't heard about being licensed, all i heard is that they have to stay at the hotel as guests. But they are very strict about that.

I would add some sentences at the end summarizing what you want the hotel to do other than assign a new WC, something like I would like for you to reinstate my $900 spa certificate or give me a discount or something. It will make your letter stronger to end it with your demand.

This is a great thread. My FI didn't have an opinion on anything, until i made the mistake of sending him a link of some centerpieces I liked. He thought they were tacky and put it upon himself to save our wedding from the tackiness I was planning. We just about called off the wedding over centerpieces. Mind you, he didn't do anything, just called everything i wanted to do "tacky." So we had a nice talk that involved a lot of tears and guilt trips and threats and now he happily accompanies me to Michaels and loves everything I want to do.

Thank you, I love it too, otherwise I would have gotten rid of it a long time ago and bought something more beachy. Its miserably hot, my boobs pop out and it wont fit in a carry-on and forget carrying it, its the size and weight of a person. But its my dress and I'm sticking with it.

I think I would be more comfortable with a full on bra, I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to sticky things, but if the bra doesn't work, I'm definitely going to try the nu-bra, I looked it up and it looks great.

I wasn't going to wear a bra under it, its so thick, I could get away with not wearing a bra, but I think that's what I'm going to do. I have a Victoria Secret 100 way bra, its the one that goes around the waist, but its in nude. I'm going to try it with my dress and if that works, I'll buy a white one of those. If not, I'll try the new bra. I think the problem is that i dont fill the dress all the way out, so there is a lot of space for the "ladies" to move, if I can fill that space with a bra, there might be less movement. We'll see, thanks for the advice.

So here is my dress, becuase of all of the fabric in the skirt, it is really heavy.

 

I was a bit worried about the strapless top, since I dont usually wear strapless, I was worried it would slide down and I would be constantly adjusting. The lady at the store assured me that since its so heavy and it sits perfectly on the hips, it will not slide down, which was true and I was happy.

 

I was at my parents house on Saturday and thought I'd try on my dress and practice dancing with my stepdad to see if its even possible to dance. I had no problems dancing, and the skirt swirls really pretty, but then i lifted my arm to do a spin and my boobs lifted along with my arm and the dress didn't. Luckily my stepdad is a bad dancer so he was looking at his feet the entire time and didn't notice, but I totally had a Janet Jackson moment. The problem is that the dress is so heavy, it doesn't move if i stretch up, so my boobs just go (while there's not much there, its still not something I want to do at my own wedding.).

 

So incredibly long story short-I need to do something to either make the dress move with me (Which i dont think will happen) or at least cover myself up a bit. I was thinking those stick on bras, but I know I'm going to be sweating buckets in the dress and i dont think they will stick. The other option is a stapless bra. Anyone else have this problem or has any ideas? I would love all input, including laughter.

My stepdad and I are dancing to "Then They Do" by Trace Adkins. I love Trace and this song is so cute, it makes me cry and its slow and easy to dance to.

Thanks girls, I just wanted to know I'm not overreacting (or at least not terribly so). I did tell her she can do whatever she wants, we'll see how we do when we actually get to Mexico. Thanks for the support.

We were about 18 when we got our "promise" rings, we were so cute. We officially got engaged when we were both 25, together since 15.

I know some of you might not think this is a big deal, and if it wasn't 2 weeks before my wedding, I'd probably laugh it off. But I'm a bit of a nervous wreck right now, so everything bothers me. Yesterday I cried because the guy at the sandwich shop put mayo on my "Please no mayo" sandwich and I really took it personally. My poor FI.

 

Anyway, we have stayed at the hotel where we are getting married about 3 times before and she (my MOH, FI's sister) was with us everytime. We have done most of the activities offered by the hotel. So a few months ago I sent out a "suggested" activities timeline along with our hotel information booklet to all the guests. Right away I get an email from her going "I can't believe you guys are doing the zipline tour, you love the tour." We enjoyed it, but didn't love it and we didn't think people wanted to pay $115 per person for the tour when our hotel offers a bunch of free tours. So we just ignored it and told her guests can do whatever they want. Well she doesn't want to be the only one to go and she hates it when it looks like she wants to do something, so she just manipulates people into making the final decision so if anything goes wrong, its not her fault.

 

She brought it up a few more times and each time like "I can't believe you dont want to do it, i know you lovvvvvvved doing the tour." So yesterday, we are at her parents house for dinner, my parents and all the siblings are there and she goes "I can't believe you guys dont want to do the tour, Ryan and Kiel and West and all the boys want to do it." And she starts going on and on about how all the friends want to do it and we are the ones holding everyone back. Thank God my mom was there and she and I speak Russian and we just went inside and I exploded. She can do whatever the hell she wants, but for her to get the boys (who are all secretly in love with her anyways, so they'll do anything and I bet she didn't tell them about the price since they're all broke) and try to change things. GRRRRR.

 

Even as I write this, it doesn't sound that bad, but she always does this, she always has to be in charge. Everything has to be about her and what she wants. I just hate the thought of her going behind my back and talking to the guests. I dont want to talk to her about it, everytime I confront her about anything, she just turns it around and I'm the bad person. GRRRRRR.

I think I'm doing well, we have some last minute room changes, my MOH brokeup with her BF, so we need to move some people around and that's a PITA. Other than that, I'd like to think we have everything done. We are doing a sand ceremony, i found a script online and emailed it to my WC, she said there are no problems with the JOP reading it, though she did try to persuade me to have one of our friends read it. As an aside, I might end up killing my MOH, but I think I'll post a whole new blog about that.

I haven't seen the Grand yet, it was just getting built last time we were there, but there are some great pics of it on TripAdvisor and the rooms look great. Dont worry about having to go to Nizuc or Sunrise for dinner, just do the lobby shuttles, its not really that big of a deal, its like if you were staying in a hotel and had to go out to dinner. At least your guests are in Nizuc and not Sunrise, that would be more of a PITA. I'm a bit jealous actually, I love the look of the Grand rooms.