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Nice work! I'm very impressed by your OOT bags, I thought you were a budget bride!! Your guests are going to absolutely love them! Have fun and good luck!!

I've booked my stag n' doe party at Blue Parrot. Free of charge, and they've agreed to hold seats for 30 of us on the beach by the dancefloor.... What's this about bad reviews? I guess I should have done my homework....

Looks great! You will have an amazing time there, I'm sure!!

The pictures look great!! Where did you get those mini-beach ball favors?

We'll be at the resort for a week, with all of our guests, then a week on our own, with a Platinum room and Platinum privelages. A few of our friends will still be around for a few days into our honeymoon (they booked on a different package), but I made it known they shouldn't count on seeing us! lol

Nice work on the DIY flowers and centrepiece!! SuzyQ76, there is an option at GRP for single flowers for the bridesmaids, $10 each. That's what I went with, I'll let you know how it turns out!

I come from a family that has more than its fair share of mental illness, so I know where you are coming from. I agree, it's likely in your best interest to have her un-invited somehow, as you don't want to spend your week worrying about her (best case scenario) or trying to get her out of a bad situation (worse case scenario). Mental illness does not mix well with alcohol, in my expereince, and I'm sure the booze will be flowing during your getaway wedding week. Hopefully your mom is able to find a way to remedy things without causing a rift. Good luck!!

Cute pictures!! Love the bride and groom ears!!

Oh SNAP! Just realized you're from Calgary! And headed to the same resort as me! PM me your email and I'll give you the low down once I get back from Mexico!! Sorry, to the other OOT thread users.. just to make this relevant, I saw canvas totes with plastic pockets to put pictures in at the Dollarama.. $2 each. Regretted my own OOT bag buy at that moment, as these ones you could easily personalize with pics of bride/groom or guests.

Another bride on here made a post about receiving an invitation that requested "No boxed gifts, please" (weird, right??) and another BDW member replied that she should buy a blender, remove it from the box, and wrap the blender itself. LMAO!!

SuzieQ76, you are the best ever! Thanks so much for taking the time to dig that up for me! I don't have enough posts either, but my boss is away today, so I guess that'll be my goal for the day!! lol POST! POST! POST!

BWAAAHAHAHAH!! I love the advice to take the blender out of the box and wrap it! aaahahahahhahaha, that's priceless. Don't actually do that, it would be a bit spiteful, but frig, I can just see the look on the brides face!!! I'm in stitches here....

I hear you, girls. I've got a dozen DYI projects that still have yet to come to fruition as well. Most of them are at least designed on my computer (that much I can do at work! lol!), but still have to be printed/laminated/cut etc, which is truly the time consuming part! I'm going to take a few projects to the lake this weekend and con my MIL and SIL-to-be into helping me out! I leave in a month and am starting to get a bit panicky. Feel like there is so much left to do!! Will think of something then 5 minutes later forget what it was. So worried I'm going to miss something! lol Spent over 100 bux yesterday on travel items (tide to gos, sunscreen, mini-hairspray etc), and found my guest book. Things add up so quickly!! And how the hell am I going to fit it all into one piece of luggage?!?!?! Lucky for me, a couple of our groomsmen are flying with an airline that allows you two pieces... I'll have to assign them each a bag! As for the rings... I've got 5 days from arrival to when we marry. If it were less, I may risk the safe... if I put it on my right hand I'll never get it off (hand is slightly bigger and will swell in the heat). Might ask my MOH to wear them on a chain, since she is arriving the night before the wedding....

I also agree with you, it's a very tacky way to ask for cash. I've heard of some people adding a cute poem that suggests they would prefer monetary gifts, but NEVER have I heard of anyone actually telling you what NOT to get. My fiance and I are moving to Taiwan after the wedding, where my fiance intends to get his PhD, so we faced the same issue of not wanting to accumulate a bunch of stuff. I ran the poem idea by my fiance, but he thought even that was too tacky. So we've just left it on good faith. We haven't registered anywhere, and those who ask about a registery, we just politely explain that we will be moving overseas and thus unable to take things with us, so we haven't registered. People seem to get the hint.

Check out Victoria Secret's convertible dresses. There are short versions, and your bridesmaids can then choose which way to wear it that will be most flattering to their bodies. They are not as pricy as ordering a dress with the word 'bridesmaid' attached. I would have ordered these myself, but I have one bridesmaid that is on the larger side, so I would up having something quite similar cutom made (she's since backed out, due to fund shortage, dangit!). This was significantly more expensive, to get them custom made, so I don't really suggest that unless its necessary. I haven't seen them yet, but I'm confidant they'll be beautiful! I used a dress similar to this as my design: Etsy :: BRIDGET VINTAGE SILK DRESS SKIRT WRAP SARONG by Kariza from SOHOKARMA Good luck!

Quote: Originally Posted by SuzyQ76 Tracy - that's the same booklet I'm using!!! I think I'm just going to print it on cool paper and add a ribbon or something! There is also a printable puzzle book I'm going to do too! I still don't know what I'm going to do for bags...working on that one! Where did you find the printable puzzle book?? I'd love to use that!

I don't have any recent pictures from Halloween, but I figure this one will give you all the creep crawlies, in the spirit of Halloween!

I don't have any recent Halloween pictures, but here is one that is sure to give you all the creepy crawlies, in the spirit of Halloween!

Ladies, what are you planning to do with your wedding rings leading up to the big day? I've heard so many nightmare stories of valuble items being stolen from rooms, even from safes. I'm being told to just wear it, since technically we'll already be married anyway, but I really wanted to save that for the ceremony. I've asked a couple people to just wear the ring for me, but they don't seem to want to take on the responsibility. lol. Any ideas??

So excited for you, Natasha!! And for me! Tee hee. Will see you at the pool bar for a shot of tequila soon!!

Quote: Originally Posted by hitchedin09! Hello! I can't believe all there is to do and consider! LOL We're planning our wedding with very little time at the GRP just decided to do it this December and can't believe how much it costs I'm wondering if there is any advice for me out there as to what is a waste of money and what was really worth it. Also the gazebo looks nice but I've seen a lot of wedding photos with shadows all over the bride and groom while they are standing in it during the ceremony. AND my number one question what time of day? they say sunset is at 5pm? I don't want o get married in the middle of the heat but don't want all the pictures in the dark? How did I think I could pull this off in 2 months! LOL HELP!!!!! I believe they have two slots for weddings at GRP. One earlier in the day (1pm?) and one at 4. I've got the 4 o'clock slot, as I also wanted to avoid the heat. I'm hoping, also, that since the sun will be low, we won't get the zebra stripes (from the gazebo shadows) that you're speaking of. We're going to have our photographer taking pics of us getting ready from 1-2, pics of the groom with his family/wedding party from 2-3, pics of me with my family/wedding party from 3-4, then get everyone together and some of him and I alone after the ceremony(which should only last about a half hour). This way, we won't have an album full of wedding pictures that are dark. We've also got a TTD the next day, so we'll have the opportunity for more pictures of the two of us if we run out of time that evening. Hope that helps!

PS. Vikki, I LOVE that cake topper!! Might order it myself and glue a little net onto the mans walking stick, since my fiance is an entomologist!! Thanks for the link!!

Hang in there, Sgt. Pepperette! Don't sweat the small stuff. I had my stagette last weekend, and it was also missing a few key people. But quite frankly, I had an amazing time regardless! And for the amount of quality time I actually got to spend with each girl, it's hard to be upset with those who didn't make it a priority. In retrospect, it wouldn't have been worth them changing their plans just to watch me making an ass of myself, only to get to enjoy brief snippets of conversation throughout the evening. And maybe she doesn't feel comfortable going out with you and friends she doesn't know. I gave a few of my friends, who didn't know anyone else, the option of bringing their own friend. The more the merrier, right?

Notice I did not say disgustingly romantic. lol. Wes and I had been talking about engagement, but he was fairly adamant that it had to be on his terms, he wanted it to be memorable and a surprise. But I knew it was in the works and would occasionally tell him what style of rings I liked, eventually convincing him to take me out ring shopping sometime. One day, we're out at the mall, and he caves in to my pestering. We go to a few places and I show him what I like. After the first few stores, texts start ringing on his phone and he keeps replying, telling me it's his buddy. I eventually get a bit annoyed b/c this I wanted his undivided attention... Anyway, a few weeks go by and we go out to his parents place for Christmas. They live on a lake, so we'd planned to do some ice fishing. We celebrated on Christmas Eve, since his sister would be celebrating with her husbands family on Christmas day, so on Christmas morning he gets up and is gung ho for some ice fishing. It's -30 degrees celcius (-22F), so I tell him I'll go if he drills the holes and comes back for me. First he can't get the quad started. So his dad goes to plug it in and sets a heat lamp in the shed. By the time it starts, it's halfway through the morning. He takes the electric auger down to the lake and it won't work. Comes back up to the house for the manual auger (to manually drill the holes in ice 2 feet deep!) and now I'm thinking he's crazy. It's -30! You are going to WAY to much trouble here! Plus it was closing in on noon, when the fishing isn't great anyway! But, my man loves to fish, so I chalked it up to him not being on the lake for awhile. Anyway, we finally get down to the lake and hole up into little single man ice fishing huts. Much to his chagrin, I'm not the silent fisher type. I'm singing, making up stories, vying to catch a fish.... He eventually gets out of his tent and declares that the minnows aren't working, lets switch to maggots. I concur and he tells me that I've got to bait it myself (I'm a bit squeamish in this regard). I say, no way, but I'll pick the maggot. So he brings me the little bag of maggots and I dig my finger into the sawdust to pull one out, and TA-DA!! I pull out a diamond ring. He's down on one knee in front of the tent, and proposes. I clamber out of the tent and throw my arms around him and of course, say yes! This is especially funny as my husband to be is an entomologist (he studies bugs), so he started telling people he was going to rear the maggots and do a fly releasing at the wedding. LMAO! Obviously I've gotton used to his interest in creepy crawly things (we've got 5 tarantulas as pets), this proposal may not have flown with most girls! hahaha Back to the beginning of the story... turns out when he took me browsing he had already bought my ring the week before with the assistance of my brothers wife, and was texting back and forth with her, panicked that he'd made the wrong choice! And he continued to panick for the next 3 weeks! BUt I love my ring, and still find myself staring at the light bounce off it. So pretty. Anyway, that's it! I'm sure the most disturbing proposals in BDW history! but it's mine, it's memorable, and I love it!

We haven't decided on our first dance song yet, but our processional we are having a friend create for us. Ever since I've known my fiance his 'pump up' song has been 'Eye of the Tiger', before exams, presentations, nights out.... So our friend is going to turn 'Eye of the Tiger' into a classical, acoustic, lyricless version for us. We'll have it recorded before we go (luckily I've got a friend with the equipment to do it!) so he doesn't have to risk bringin his guitar. Hoping between the song (which will be a surprise to our guests) and our good friends ceremony (he's going to officiate and has been creative liscence), there will be enough humor infused in the event to keep me from being a bawling mess! lol