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Quote: Originally Posted by KittenHeart I wish I had more of a vintage shoot! Each time you ladies show me your pictures it makes me want to do it again, which I probably will, just a different style, so fun! Agreed on wanting to do another shoot! Every time I see someone else's pictures I think "Ooooh, I want to do that!" Quote: Originally Posted by ~Katie~ Wendy I totally agree! I was going to private reply but that doesn't seem to do you justice! You have amazing eyes girl! I can't remember which pic it was but one of them as soon as I looked at it, I was taken away by your piercing blue eyes! Wow!!! And agree with amy - it looks so well put together with your outfits, hair, settings and style of photos. You (and the pics) are absolutely amazing and I hope you are over the moon with them. Stunning! You rocked it!! Quote: Originally Posted by renee1811 Wendy, your pictures are stunning!! I love the vintage look--very class and uber sexy. Your FI is going to love you for those!!! Thank you girls!!! You've made my day!

OH NOOOOOOO! That is just horrible!!! I can't believe something like this would actually happen. I'm sure you've already hit the ground running this morning, but I would first call the manufacturer, second call the lawyer, third take the day off work and hit the stores. GOOD LUCK and keep us posted!!

Quote: Originally Posted by KittenHeart Wendy, I planned on responding to your email with the BD pix but I feel like I need to compliment you for everyone to hear (see) I love every single on of the photos you sent, they are SO classy and GORGEOUS!! I love the black veil piece and the red teddy and the white thigh highs so almost period pieced in the lovely location.... I'm blown away! You are such a gorgeous woman, your hair, makeup, porcelain skin! My absolute favorite one is when you are leaning up against the open window looking out... stunning! Your photog did a great job as well, you should be so proud! Aw, thank you!!!! I don't even know what to say! My photog brought the black veil. I was surprised at how vintage-looking the pictures turned out. It's not what I was going for at all, but you're right, my photog really played on the strengths of the setting. That's one of my favorites too! It's a front-runner to be the one I give him on our wedding day.

Meghan, I hope this works! I'm uploading our programs for you to see. Sorry I don't have the template since we didn't do them ourselves. We just did a very simple front/back, nothing fancy. I don't know if it comes across well in the scanned copy but the background on the back side is a beach. Also, since our guest list is so small and everyone will know each other, we didn't include the names of our wedding party. Wedding program Side 1.pdf Wedding program Side 2.pdf

Quote: Originally Posted by KittenHeart I'm not doing programs persay, it's more of a tree themed horoscope type thing... sounds weird I know but it's just something to do while they wait. Find their birthday and the appropriate type of tree they are and see what it says about them. It looks better than it sounds... me explaining it isn't working well, lol! Coooooool!!

Okay girls I'm ready to share some teasers of my BD shoot! To make a long story short, my attempts to upload to the forum were denied (files too large), so if you message me with your email, I'll send you some pics. I promise to leave out the topless ones

Quote: Originally Posted by meghan Are any of you doing programs for the day of your wedding? If you are, do any of you have a template available for sharing? We have programs but sorry there's no template to share. We had the girl who did our invitations make our programs for us. The front side is a welcome message from us and the itinerary, the back side is the ceremony info.

Quote: Originally Posted by Melidell FI just booked us a limo to take us to the airport for our trip. We figured "why not, we're getting married, we should have a limo like everyone else." We're going to ride with two good friends and it should be a blast (the airport is about 45 min away from Halifax so it'll give us some time to enjoy it). Now he's all excited about that, too. We decided to splurge too! Not on a limo but on private transportation to/from the airport. Shared transport was included for us but we figured, hey this is our wedding so why the hell not!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lecreatifbride Were you told that the timeshare guests would have to pay a fee upon check in per day for food and drink? My MH reserved a room and had to cancel because the food charge was more expensive than booking the all inclusive thru the resort. Please tell me if you heard otherwise. That would make a big difference for my immediate family. You heard right. We're at AB (sister resort to AS) and my FSIL and her family were going to go the timeshare route. Without the food and drink it's a BARGAIN, like $400 for the week. But add in the food and drink costs and it ended up being more than our promotional rate. She ended up booking with us instead and saved her timeshare for another vacation. Quote: Originally Posted by amandamarieb Is anyone using their ceremony flowers for the reception also? If so, what are your plans? I am hoping to find tall stands to put bouquets in. (Tall enough to be mid-torso of seated guests. Maybe put them every other row?) I would then move them to vases for the reception. Hopefully that would work. Tiffany did tell me I can use the ceremony flowers at the reception. Yay! That should save atleast a few hundred dollars even with the expense rates for Lomas' vases. We're having our ceremony flowers brought over for the reception. We haven't worked out where they'll be at the reception yet. I'm going to leave that up to the onsite team to figure out!

Okay Katie, I've got a lot of favorites! How many do you get to choose? 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 12, 18, 21, 25, 26, 27, 30, 35, 38, 43, 45, 48, 51, 75, 77, 80, 84, 88, 91.

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Katie~ Ok, no laughing....I'm putting my life on the line here..... here's ALL my BD shots....with NO retouching...YET! To view your images just go to: Zenfolio | Amy Symons Photography | KatieGBoudoir and enter the password: (going to be annoying and ask you to message me for the password - I'm conscious that anyone can look on here and click on it, hope you all understand) These are the processed images but are not yet retouched, retouching includes: line, spot + dark circle removal, skin smoothing, lump and bump removal, background and outfit corrections, and small colour/tone adjustments. Let me know the numbers of the ones that you would like as 9x6 retouched prints. The number shows in the corner of the image, on the right, when it is selected, and also underneath the image ************************************************** ******* let me know which numbers you think are the best as they are (if any lol) and which would be the best to get retouched...I hate making decisions! Katie you are seeeeeeeeexy!!!!!! You go girl!!!! I absolutely love your black and purple outfit. So hot! Favorites, TBD....

Quote: Originally Posted by MrsVaughn2B wrong link the first time. Hawes Photography and Design : Vaughn Wedding Andrea, you're right your photographer did amazing work for you!!! He did some really great things with his color processing, and he captured every minute of your day. Lucky, lucky you!!! I got teary eyed during the ceremony part thinking of how soon, very soon that will be me!

Quote: Originally Posted by Afrommert hey Ladies I just wanted to give the girls who are choosing to do a legal ceremony in Mexico a heads up.... I got married feb 13th and I ( AND ANDREA) didn't know until we got to mexico that there is no english wedding license. Which means we had to pay $150 for a wedding license that the states would accept. It has to be "professionally" translated and meet your sec of state requirements and guidelines . AND it takes approx 4-6weeks after the wedding. I just got mine last week. THEN, i took it to sec of state to change my name and they told me my translation was not acceptable. SO my reccomendation to you girls is to NOT get or pay for the translation there but to bring it home and it's only approx $50 here and takes 2-3days and you can tell them what requirments it needs to meet. Amy that sucks! You got it translated and it's not good enough You need to work some voodoo!

Quote: Originally Posted by renee1811 OMG, my photog friend just messaged me wanting to see if we could do my first BD shoot this Saturday--I don't know if I'm ready!! I might do a crash diet for the next 2 days, lol. I'm reading all the posts for tips and poses. I might have to buy a bottle of wine Saturday morning, lol. You can do it!!! Better to do it now and realize how much fun you'll have than fret while waiting for your date down the road! Quote: Originally Posted by meghan I didn't realize the symbolic ceremony script was so religious....we are not at all Me neither. It's quite religious, isn't it? Surprisingly so. You're right AmyKH, it's not very useful if you're not religious, LOL.

Shortnsweet your stuff looks AMAZING!!! I absolutely love it that you got everyone doors signs. I think that's so creative and unique!

Quote: Originally Posted by ewok I think the band is real pretty by itself, but understand how you could think it's a "man ring", since it's quite large, and that's more evident sitting next to your engagement ring. Sure hope they're able to something for you, but have no idea what! I'm happy that my jeweller makes sample of his work in silver first for review, testing and approval. We made quite a few little seemingly insignificant changes to ours after that! I agree with everyone else that it's pretty and matches well your e-ring. I also agree that by itself the band is really very pretty but appears large next to your e-ring. Could the jeweler keep the same style but make it skinnier? Wedding bands are difficult, IMO! I have such a unique e-ring that no wedding band goes with it. Even a custom made one would take away from the daintiness of the band. I'm using my grandmother's plain white gold wedding band as my wedding ring and it just doesn't match at all! Or it could be that I'm just not used to it...

Katie!!!!! Soooooooooo, how'd it go?!!!!

Hiya ladies! This is the chattiest bunch ever, I love it!!! I couldn't possibly catch up so I'm just going to jump in! Quote: Originally Posted by caribbeanLover I just got my brochures in, and I love them. If it wasn't for you Michele, I wouldn't have been happy with them, Thank you so so much Those brochures are amazing! I'm quite jealous. Quote: Originally Posted by SuzyQ76 Here's a pic: there are a couple things I need to fix but this is it for the most part! Sooooo pretty!! Your BMs will love them!!! Quote: Originally Posted by jerseykitten My girlfriend loved the OOT bag - she texted me last night about the Tshirt that says "I'd rather be at jim & michele's wedding" I just posted the thread in the OOT section. http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...gs-done-57075/ Lol, I'd rather be at your wedding too!! These last few weeks of waiting are killing me. I want to be in the sunshine sippin' a cocktail. Your OOT bags are awesome!! Quote: Originally Posted by taraappl Hey do any of you ladies know where online I could make a photo book by uploading pictures? I am not having my photog create our wedding album for us. I'd rather make it myself online. I'm putting in another vote for Blurb. I just got a book from them a couple weeks ago. It's a book I made from a trip FI and I took to Europe two summers ago. I've been working on it for almost a year (it's soooo full of details), and I was so happy with the way it turned out that I almost cried!! Get the premium paper and make sure you constantly back up your project to somewhere else, like a flash drive. Just a little advice coming from a girl who lost half her project at one point. Blurb can't retrieve it for you, so fyi. My book was 160 pages, 8x10 imagewrap hardcover on premium paper for $63.

Great planning thread!! Your guests will love your attention to detail!

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Katie~ Right girls....I'm up wayyyy too late and am off to bed now. BD shoot tomorrow - 1pm and i'm absolutely cacking it!! excited as well though. photog did say I could bring one person, and they could be with me while i have my hair and make up done, but she'd have to wait outside while I had my shoot as there's not enough room in the studio for someone else....she was really nice about it so I'm not fuming, but I will be going on my own. Just packed my suitcase of goodies!! so much to do in the morning to get ready before I leave!! GOOD LUCK!!! I don't think you'll need it though, as you'll be fabulous!! Can't wait to hear all about it!

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Crista-Lee~ Taylor, are you planning on doing the sand ceremony directly into the photo frame? Yes! We got the idea from a bride on here. Milejilo is the username. If you do a search you'll find her planning thread. It's a frame with multiple panes of glass so the sand can go between two of the panes.

Yay yay yay yay yay!!! I just got my BD photos and they are out of this world! I'm sure for those of you who have yours already, you can relate to the shock of seeing yourself like that. I'm so excited to share them, but at this point all I have is online access. And well, that would give access to all the pictures and well, I'm topless in a lot of them. LOL. Though to be honest those are my favorites! I should have the CD with all the pictures very soon and I'll be sure to share with you ladies. I just wanted to give a little shout out to myself!!

I never even got the symbolic script from the Karisma WC. Didn't know there was one! We're completely doing it from scratch.

Quote: Originally Posted by amybermuda I have about 4 friends who are SUPER excited for Mexico and every time I talk to them all they do is gush over everything. We all need to assign a couple people like that to call when we feel down about the whole DW thing. Yes! My brother is the one for me. And oddly enough, my friends who aren't going. They're more excited than some of my guests! Quote: Originally Posted by renee1811 I understand what everyone else is going through. I had someone last night joke that they will need to take out a mortgage on their house in order to attend my wedding--I know he was just playing around, but it just makes me feel guilty, like I shouldn't have done a DW. But I keep reminding myself this is what I have wanted my whole life, and the people who come are super-excited about it. Oh isn't that obnoxious? I've gotten that too. Just little flippant comments people make and don't realize how much they affect us. Like, "Everyone's making sacrifices to come..." I want to say to them that coming to the wedding was a choice and not an obligation! Like amyb said, I feel I may be guilty of the same crime. But now that I know and have been through it, I will not make that mistake again. What gets me is the people who are married and have been through it but still make those comments... Quote: Originally Posted by KittenHeart I was like, YOU try getting 40 people to take a vacation together at the same time!!!! Hahaha, YES! I say that all the time. YOU try planning a vacation for two families!!!! So true and people just have no idea.

Welcome and congratulations!! I'm getting married in April at Azul Beach in the RM.