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Wow! It's beautiful on you. You look fabulous! I'm so jealous that you can fit into a dress like that. THe back is sexy and the front is beautiful. (My boobs are too big ) Congratulations!!!

Happy happy day, Nicole!!! Hope it's wonderful for you both

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Hope your legal day goes well and you have a great time!!!

OMG It's gorgeous on you! You don't need to change a thing. The dress (and your shape in it) is perfect. I love how it flares out at the bottom. It's shiny and gorgeous. If you want something more dramatic you could go with a more glitzy veil, but I love the veil you have on.

WTF? THat's ridiculous. I mean, it's not tiny beading it's big F*ing pieces of chiffon! What a moron. Glad you're on her and hopefully she'll fix it!

I haven't exercised since the week of my wedding when I ran on the beach once... I have been eating like a fool and DH and I have both begun to pack on Lbs. Boo Now as of yesterday, I think I have bruised my tailbone. Not sure how though. I'm having a pretty severe ache in by butt area when I stand up and sit down. Even when I was sleeping it bugged me last night. Im pretty sure it's my tailbone. Damnit! I may have to go to a doctor. I think I can still go jogging. I may try.

Go ahead and invite them, but promise yourself not to get upset or stressed if they don't respond at all or leave you hanging til the week of. They seem like they might do that. Quote: Originally Posted by townie princess Ummm so question #2 is, do I send her an invite to my wedding? Seeing how they've already received a STD. I'm assuming they're not going to come because it's across the country. I emailed her about a seat sale and she responded that her mom was considering getting them the flights to our wedding as an early wedding gift for them. I wrote back saying that would be great if they could make it out, she said well they didn't get the tickets after all. I'm thinking I should send them one and expect the rsvp with regrets in the mail. What do you think?

Wow. Sounds like a really unhealthy relationship that should not have gone on for this long... Just say you can't make the wedding and stop calling or trying to invite them out. When they invite you places, you back out. Eventually you will have 'broken' up. It doesn't sound like either of them is going to prolong this friendship anyway, so it shouldn't be too difficult. And your FI isn't into the relationship anymore either, so you're working as a team.

I Would Do Again * Pick a smaller, more intimate partially inclusive resort: Shangri-La Caribe We got a bit of flack from family and guests because since it’s not AI no one could get good package deals for this resort. We had to pay air and resort separately. Drinks weren’t included and neither was lunch. It was the perfect place for us and our wedding. The room was perfect, the beach was beautiful, the coordinator was fantastic, the staff were very friendly. It was the exact atmosphere that I wanted for our wedding. DH loved it too. I wish more people had stayed with us, but those who didn’t missed out on lots of stuff. It’s so sad that they’re tearing it down. I would have loved to go back year over year. It’s the ultimate resort for us. * Get married in Canada first/ Have an English ceremony of our choosing.So many great things resulted from this: the legal ceremony in Mexico was in Spanish and I didn’t like the ceremony text – getting married before meant that we could have a symbolic ceremony in English in a text we chose. It was so much more meaningful to us. We missed out on all the stress of translating documents and doing the bloodwork. They had a certificate ready for us to sign during the ceremony, so no one was the wiser. * Pink as a main colour Some of our guests arrived in pinks and oranges too. The colours were beautiful with the ocean background. *Insist on having a video of our ceremony (I think DH did this!) *Do the videography ourselves The wedding package stated that we would pay $450 for a 20 minute video of our ceremony. Instead, we bought an excellent camcorder (high definition) that we will have for the next few years to take vacation shots and (hopefully) baby videos! We also purchased a tripod that would work on the beach and asked my sister (BM)’s boyfriend to take the video. As it turned out, he was really into his ‘role’ and got a great video! We’re really happy. I would have been so sad to not have a video of the day. * Do my makeup myself * Pick a photographer that was right for us: Vanessa Vargas The one that came with our package wasn’t very good. We struggled with spending more on someone we liked. I searched so many websites. We finally found Vanessa. Her prices were reasonable and she had good reviews from at least one BDW groom (Jason). She brought her husband and he took pics too. They were unassuming, very nice and professional and right on time. I can’t wait to see their pics! * Purchase a second wedding dress It caused me grief and a lot of anxiety getting a 2nd dress off the rack a month before the wedding and especially getting it altered ($400), but it was worth all of it. I loved it, it was fantastic and it looks so romantic in our pictures. It gave me the exact look I was going for. I was so much happier and more confident than I would have been in my 1st dress. * Trust Christine, our WC. The hairdresser she set us up with, Doranna, was absolutely fantastic. The cake was way prettier than I expected I loved my flowers The mariachis rocked. Our minister was the sweetest, gentlest warmest man and we adored the way he performed our ceremony. All the guests were amazed at how beautiful it all was. He got many complements and many of our guests were crying. She was very professional, sweet, attentive, excellent via email, and did such a great job. * Pick a hilarious cake topper that totally suited us and how crazy we are about eachother. Even if it offended some people! * Ask my sisters to be my bridesmaids and not ask DH’s brother or any of our friends to be in our WP. From the very beginning, my sisters were the only people who did not nag us or try to get us to change our minds from having a DW. They never once threatened not to come. They were excited and so happy from the beginning. When I asked them to be my BMs, they were so happy and I know it meant a lot to them. DH’s brother was fickle and his wife and their kid flaked and decided not to come at the last minute. We didn’t know if even my BIL would come until about a month before the wedding. The only people who cared were MIL and FIL and they can bite me. I think they’re wonderful, but they’re prone to being overly dramatic. BIL didn’t care and didn’t show any commitment to attending the wedding. I didn’t want him in our WP. * Grow my hair out I was sooooo happy to be able to have a beautiful updo. It made me feel very elegant! I haven’t had long hair in over 10 years. It was special for me. * Do all the DIY things – the OOT bags, the programs, etc. The OOTs were a huge hit, as was the Meet the Guests page. * Pick awesome songs together with DH that we loved for our ceremony. BMs and I walked down to Book of Love (Peter Gabriel) and DH and I left to You’re So Cool (True Romance). They were perfect and we didn’t decide on them until about a week before we left. * Not worry at all about decorWe placed confetti bags, programs and fans on the chairs for the ceremony and we had place cards and little favor boxes at each dinner setting. They injected bits of colour. The cake and our flowers did the rest. I didn’t miss I Wish I Had Not Done * Purchase our invitations from an online company in Australia. They were unprofessional and we received 2 sets that were all incorrect. We were never refunded, but we didn’t care in the end. I should have DIY. * Fly US Airways They lost our luggage both ways, our flights were delayed, we had horrible service, the list goes on... * Stress as much about the details * Not practice our first dance I was bummed that we didn’t put any time into figuring out and choreographing a dance for our first dance. It’s a short song and we have taken lessons recently enough that we could somewhat ‘fake’ it, but because I love salsa and merengue, I wish we had actually put the time into making an awesome dance up. * Be guilted into inviting my aunt at the last minute. The stress she caused me with not knowing or booking until a week before and then showing up with one of her daughters was way more stressful than it should have been. It was really nice to see her and meet my cousin, but the stress beforehand wasn’t worth it. * Have our after-dinner at the resort’s bar with no ability to play our own music. It was lame, their music wasn’t working loudly enough, no one was in the mood to party. But I was exhausted anyway, so I was happy to call it a night at midnight J * Let my sister to follow us back to our room at the end of the night because she had left something in our room I am still annoyed. I wanted to walk along the beach with DH in my dress and look at the moon together before bed. Once she left, we were too tired to go back outside. She should have known better. I was too tired to do anything about it until it was too late. I Would Do Differently *Spend a second week after the wedding at the resort or somewhere else. DH and I still dont feel as though we've recovered from the wedding or had enough alone-time. We're both really happy we did a DW, but we didn't realize how demanding it would be in terms of time spent with relatives and friends. We only got to go on one trip to XCaret and we would have loved to see Coba. I didn't spend any time in the hammock during the day reading and definitely not any time soaking up sun on the beach or in the pool. This is partly our fault as we decided how to spend our time and also partly budget. We couldn't have afforded 2 weeks and DH didn't have enough time off. * Buy and Bring a hand luggage scale Next time we travel I will absolutely buy one of those hand bag weighing scales so that we don’t go through the hell of not knowing if our bags will be too heavy and make us pay penalties on the flights. We nearly had a fight the night after our wedding because DH’s parents were being so difficult about the dumb bag weights * Bring walkie-talkies I wish we’d organized walkie talkies or something on resort, because it was frustrating having to run around so much the days right before and day of. Otherwise, I liked the fact that our rooms had no telephones. * Start my own preparations earlier on my WD I didn't start my makeup until after my hair and then I was rushed. I had tons of time earlier on... * Made room in the budget for firedancers or at least bought some sparklers for after dark. We needed something to do other than stand around and drink after the dinner * Suggested that guests bring wraps. It was way cooler than I expected the day of and the evening got quite chilly *Added bug repellent wipes to the First Aid kits. My sister had real difficulties with them. *Trash the dress It wasn’t in our budget. I think it would have been an absolute blast Other than all that, we had a fabulous wedding and it went really well. We are so happy!!!

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We were married 2 weeks ago at 3:30 near Playa. The sand was not hot. It was deep and difficult to walk in, so I was happy that I chose to be barefoot. It was very difficult to walk though and my dress was taken up according to the height of my shoes that I wore for the cocktail hour and dinner. I didn't want to hear flip flops (the sound they make) and I think they would have just gotten more tangled. FI was barefoot as were my BMs and my dad.

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Wow! Your dress, your hair, your makeup - you looked gorgeous. I love everything! Your bouquet is really unique too. Love the colour. Great pics! I love the bottom detail of your dress too!

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Quote: Originally Posted by clmarti1 That's the exact bridesmaid dress I got but in the color pool! I love the way it looks on your sister! How exciting! Did your sister wear those shoes in the wedding? If so, how did the heals work walking in the sand with them? Oooh! i love the colour you got! Yes, she wore those heels, but only after the ceremony. For the ceremony we were all barefoot. The sand was very deep so there's no way we coud have walked in shoes unless they had put down a solid walkway.

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This is funny - so many things change in a few months! Thought I'd update this thread with the dress I actualliy ended up getting and wearing and the BM dresses I went with too. BTW, the Alfred Angelo dress this thread was based on is still for sale! I bought it for $560 and am selling for $300 now. The dress I wore: The BM dresses my sisters wore: Mori Lee Affair collection Both in action!

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