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Mine is July 2nd!

Good job! The poem is cute!

They look great! I'm hoping to do something similar. I like the lifesaver idea, I hadn't thought of that!

Thanks for the review! I'm so glad Ida held out for you!

I've read that your only supposed to pay for two nights of the hotel for your attendants because they only actually have to be at the location the night before and the night of the wedding. Anything else is extra so they have to pay for that themselves. We're on a tight budget but it does include paying for 2 nights for 4 attendants as well as their clothes for the wedding. We also gave our attendants over a year to prepare but feel that we should help them out since they'll be spending so much money to come to our wedding.

Quote: Originally Posted by tdotey These look great and we have the same colors! I see templates all over the forum for the actual STDs but can you tell me how you make the jackets? I missed that part somewhere along the way. Thanks! I believe there is a template on the Aylee Bits website for the jackets. She thought of everything!

Quote: Originally Posted by stacey I belive you will have to sign some sort of contract when you send in your deposit, that way you wont lose your date. You can make finalll decisions when you get there. Or in my case, I changed evertyhing. Nope! We weren't asked to sign anything when we sent the deposit. We'll sign it after we get there and get everything settled.

Thanks for sharing! That's the cheapest price I've seen yet, I'll definitely be heading over there next!

Quote: Originally Posted by jwilke5 Hi Nadine - question for you... Do you happen to know how far in advance you have to commit to a number of guests? I have a feeling I will have several people that drag their foot on booking, or even committing to coming. Do you have any idea when you have to sign the actual contract? Thanks for your help =) From what I understand, you don't have to actually sign the contract until you get there. Many of the past brides have said that you'll meet with the WC a few days before the wedding and work out all of the contract details within an hour. I believe you'll tell her then how many people will be there. Cecilia sent me my contract and I'm not going to ask for changes until I get to Mexico. I don't think either of us need the frustrations of communicating by email!

We finally finished our boarding pass STDs last night and I love the way they came out! First I want to thank everyone on this forum for sharing theirs, it was a big help in putting mine together! Here they are: I used Aylee Bits :: Aylee on weddings, design, personal finance, travel, photography, the internet and more for the boarding pass template and used Microsoft Publisher to do all of the editing. I printed the STDs on white 65 lb cardstock with our home printer and they came out better than I expected! For the covers I used Wausau 65 lb cardstock in Celestial Blue and the envelopes were Harvest Orange in case anyone wants to know the colors. I used a rotary cutter to make all of the straight cuts and ended up cutting the round edges by hand because I bought the wrong paper punch! It ended up not being too bad. We also printed out our address labels. I was excited because I got to put our logo on our return address labels! Luckily a friend had packs of the Avery printable labels so we just stole one sheet of each since we didn't need a whole pack. Overall, I believe the invitations cost about $0.65 each in paper (including envelopes). We bought new ink right before this project and only used about 1/3 of it to print 25, so I think we did pretty well with the final price. Hope this information helps!

Hmm, I don't have photoshop, but I used 'paint.net' to erase the background of a picture that I used in my STDs. It's a free program that I got off of the internet and I just I used the 'eraser' feature. Hope that helps?

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

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They look great! I love that your logo is on the cups and the bags!

Congrats on your engagement! Welcome and happy planning!

Welcome to the forum!

Quote: Originally Posted by bride2b10 Nope, not one of those. It's one palm tree leaning to the right. Most people have that one in their templates but it's so frustrating because I can get it into 7 random colors and then that's it...I hate 2007 version of everything!!! Thanks for your help!!! Hmm, you have Office 2007? Here is a link that explains how to change the color of clip art in powerpoint. Change The Color Of Your Clip Art In PowerPoint 2007 ~ Windows Fanatics Once it's changed you ought to be able to copy it and paste into whatever program you are using, like word or publisher. At least that's how it works in Office 2003, which is what I have. I hope that helps!

I tend to agree with Morgan, I wish that this crazy tradition never got started! As a first time bridesmaid this past year, I was shocked how much money I had to spend just to be in the wedding! Now, if you've spent that much to be in your friends' weddings, then I don't think they'll expect anything different to be in yours. It's definitely a case-by-case basis and you know your friends best. Personally, I'll be paying for two nights stay, dresses, makeup and hair for my bridesmaids.

What a way to celebrate your renewal of vowels! Congrats and welcome!

Hi Beth! Good luck with planning!

These look great! I can't believe you have these done over a year in advance!

So cute! I love the belt idea! I may steal that for my bridesmaids!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn't even thought of checking out Etsy for postcards!

Very cool! Thanks for the idea!

Congrats and welcome! I'm also getting married at Dreams Cancun, but in July. Nadine gave you some great advice, good luck planning! Definitely use the search feature to sort through all of the threads, it's really useful. To get you started, here is the link to the thread Nadine was talking about, I hope it works: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t2782