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Quote: Originally Posted by Ashlynn039 Kym - I like it!! I love the top especially, with the little cut out with the detailed fabric underneath! Looking forward to you posting a picture when you're ready! Thanks - it's nothing like I would have picked on my own - so whenever you go try dresses on make sure you take a few of every style to choose. YOu might be pleasantly surprised! Which websites have you looked at real touch flowers on? I've seen a few different sites for them but I really love real flowers - so I'm at a crossroads. Plus I'm worried about taking a whole bunch of things down there!

Quote: Originally Posted by Ashlynn039 So I saw at some point the list of brides/wedding dates for DRC on here and it seems like there were a decent amount of Jan/Feb brides. I wonder where they all went! I hope some of them come back and post their reviews of it all! Kym - I'm having the same problem as far as the deposit thing goes & the same exact worry! It doesn't help that I have no patience and have trouble waiting for things! Congrats on buying your dress! Exciting! Any plans to post a picture of it on BDW? Ashlynn, I am feeling the exact same way. I have no patience at all when it comes to things like this.. I always want things done like yesterday, so this is really testing my patience! I'll probably put a picture of it on BDW in the future when I try it on again looking half decent lol.. but here is the link to it! It's the diamond white color though so more of an Ivory rather than the white dress that is in the picture and looks 100 times better in person - I'm in love. https://www.alfredangelo.com/Collect...spx?style=2082

Quote: Originally Posted by rdsjcr Cool- what is your date? I still can open things on here- and I have talked to Ana- but not a LOT-- I asked a ton of ??S though Have you gotten a lot of planning done.. I know it is far away but I have done nothing! It makes me nervous! (I know I want to get married on the beach but that is all I know) Any suggestions, etc?? October 19, 2010 - but we have not paid our deposit yet.. she is taking forever to get back to me regarding it.. so now I'm starting to get stressed out. Thinking by the time she gets back to e-mail she's going to say.. "sorry the 19th is now booked!" ARGH. Anyways I think you have to have at least 150 posts before you can open or download attachments on here! So far not a lot of planning has been done - originally we started planning an at home wedding (we've been engaged for two years) so I've been in the process of cancelling things here.. Although I did just purchase my wedding gown last saturday and was able to take it home that day (I was the first one to try it on!!). Other than that I've just been gathering ideas and started making my invitations/stds! I feel like I'm waaaaaaaaaay behind some of the other girls on here.

Quote: Originally Posted by rdsjcr YEA! We are getting married at DRC and honeymooning at Secrets Maroma, too! Looks like a few of you are as well! Anyone else going to be there when we are? (Getting married 10/24) going to be at Secrets 10/25-10/30 I'll be at DRC the same time as you.. not sure about the honeymoon yet.. but we'll be there until the 24th at least!!

Those are awesome! Did you design them yourself?

sorry double post.

We got engaged at about 3 years.. By the time we get married we will have known each other for over 6 years, been dating for over 5 years and engaged for 2 years

Quote: Originally Posted by KPEG That'd be my concern. Dresses look so pretty in pictures and even others but the moment I put one on that I think might be ok, it looks terrible! If anything, I would try it on in a store and then order online to be a litte more sure of the purchase. I completely agree - most of the time the dresses you like on the hanger and what you actually end up getting are two tooooooooootally different things!! Definitely try it on in a store before you purchase it online, you'd hate to spend all that money to get the dress and hate the way that it looks on you. When you do go to the store.. be open minded and try on a little of everything.

Quote: Originally Posted by allegraapple Hi girls, I am officially part of the group now. We just confirmed our wedding date for 12/12/10! YAY!! We are so excited. Welcome!!!

Congrats! We are getting married there too on October 19th, 2010!!

Quote: Originally Posted by *Heather* Ya but I don't see how Gia could be a good match for him...she seems so strong and independent and I can't see her being attracted to a pussy man like Jake. Plus she's a city girl and he clearly is not a city dude. Hahaha... I think Gia would grow bored of him waaaaaay too quickly. you're right he is definitely a pussy man hahaha P.S. *Heather* - your anniversary is a great date.. it's two days after the date we picked.. plus the 21st of October is my birthday

Quote: Originally Posted by svetayasofiya *thumbs-up* yes, yes and yes! except I don't really like Tenley. She hasn't even kissed a guy since her divorce. One should not jump from one marriage to another. Not that these ever last but the two of them, never. Definitely true!! But let's face it.. she's probably lying anyways.. no one ever said these girls had to act real..

Congrats and Welcome!

Hey Ashley! I'm from the Edmonton region - good to see another Alberta bride on BDW.. We are getting married October 2010 in Riviera Maya as well - but at the new Dreams Riviera Cancun! You'll find lots of information here to help you decide on a location and much much more!! Happy planning

Just joining this thread but I've been watching this season of the Bachelor since the beginning and Wow there has been a huge amount of DRAMA. I love Tenley & Ali is a close favorite but her voice bugs me. Jake is too quirky for me - he's definitely not my type.. something about him seems a little off to me ?!? I think this is why he has kept Vienna around for this long.. (but thats just my opinion!) or it could be to boost ratings and add to the drama of the show - shocking a reality show that hasn't been somewhat scripted? Don't get me wrong I love reality shows!) This show is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine - thanks for this

Holy Wow - I agree with many of the Brides on here, I'd report them to the Better Business Bureau.. but that doesn't really help you out when it comes to your dress at the moment. You should probably go into the store where you purchased the dress and confront the owner and seamstress - you'll make more of an impact than you would by just having a conversation on the phone. I'd tell them you aren't going to leave until the problem is resolved either by them giving you options on ways the dress can be fixed and if it isn't suited to your liking they will have to put a rush order in for your exact dress.. at their cost! Remember though you catch more bees with honey than vinegar - just be firm!

Welcome to the Forums! We also ditched our previous plans to get married in the Mountains as well. Destination weddings are more fun anyways (or so I Hope!) - Best of luck to you

Quote: Originally Posted by Boo Maracas start at $4.50 usd each for a simple design, two-tone maraca. An example of that would be Lacy Romance or White Flowers in my blog. It's $5.00 (total order) for each additional color and $.25 per maraca for line of text (i.e. $.25 for date, $.25 for location, $.25 for names). You can check out her site and she is on Facebook for all the different designs - as they are all hand painted you can pretty much get whatever. I have already spoken to Mishka and what I love is they also deliver these to your hotel, depends on where but I believe DRC was USD 40 delivery charge Thanks Boo - Her stuff is awesome. Did you order maracas from her?

Very Nice looking, I'm doing the boarding pass for our Invites/STD all in one!! And I noticed your from Edmonton - ME TOO!

Quote: Originally Posted by Ashlynn039 Those were my thoughts as well.. some of our guests will most likely stay longer and I would like at least a couple of days for us to spend by ourselves as newlyweds! Plus I probably wouldn't mind the change of scenery Yeah we also thought about maybe staying the full two weeks at DRC with everyone.. and keeping to ourselves for the last week.. and then maybe In January 2011 we'll go on an actual honeymoon just us two.

Quote: Originally Posted by coley88 I think we've decided on turquoise and red as our colors. The red is for me because it's my favorite color and it compliments my skin and hair beautifully and it's a very passionate color. The turquoise to tie in with the DW and because my FI has beautiful blue eyes and any shade of blue makes them pop! That gives us an elegant red feel and a fun, carribean blue - but we need to decide how we use them now. But I agree turquoise is a fantastic color and can to so many ways. For the peacock feel, you can focus on the turquoise and use the darker blue as an accent color. There's a thread in here about blue flowers! Good luck. Turquoise and Red nice choice - that is what my FI & I are leaning towards.. it's just such a stunning color combination

I have seen this idea around on here - you could probably try searching and see where others got theirs from.. Here is another place that I know of that does the maraca's - she personally does them and is located in PVR so she will ship them to the resort.. that way you don't have the hassle of taking them down there with you! Mishka Designs' Blog: A Maraca By Any Other Name... I think it's a great idea that I will most likely using for my wedding as long as it isn't too much money

Quote: Originally Posted by Ashlynn039 On a side note - are any of you brides planning on moving to a different resort or different area for your honeymoon? My FI wants us to fly someplace completely different for our honeymoon like Jamaica but I'm not sure how easy it would be to get a flight from Cancun there My FI and I have talked about it but i'm not sure if we will end up going to a different resort.. it would be nice since I know some of our guests are staying for a full two weeks - so if we stay at DRC we're bound to run into them once or twice and won't feel very private for our honeymoon!

Quote: Originally Posted by cougs well, i have never actually considered it, but one of the last times i saw my doctor he had the balls to suggest it. all because at the time i was doing a low carb diet and asked whether there was a sugar free version of the cough syrup he had prescribed. facker. i seriously wanted to smack him. BUT, i will never do any of the procedures like lapband or gastric bypass because they do not fix your HEAD, and *that* is where my problem lies, lol. they wouldn't work for me because they operate on the premise that you won't continue to eat things that make you SICK or eat beyond the point of feeling full (which should happen quickly with your newly minimized stomach capacity). i can't tell you how often i have eaten well beyond being full or feeling ill. overeating is a serious problem and for me, it's mental. no physical surgery can fix that. however, my girlfriend at work got her gastric bypass surgery done in puerto vallarta almost two years ago, looks absolutely amazing, and i'm definitely jealous. something else to consider: the divorce rate for people who have undergone radical weight-altering surgery is many times higher than for those who have not. I completely agree - My problem is more psychological, I use food for comfort so no matter if I had surgery or not I'm sure I would gain the weight back and probably more than I had lost in the first place. I know that I need to make a lifestyle change to get healthy rather than strictly to lose weight.. I know that in order to live a longer/healthier life I should probably start dropping the pounds, but even still I can't motivate myself to go to the Gym. As a kid it wasn't like I was overweight, I was always the chubby girl with a pretty face.. it's only been in the past few years that I've really been unhappy with my size and have really put on the pounds... yet I do nothing to change the situation. UGH!

Quote: Originally Posted by Laura22610 Including us, there will be 30 all together. We invited about 80. Although we knew when we sent the invitations that at least half would not come, we did have some surprise "no's". How far in advance did you send out your invitations? and when did you set your RSVP date for? I'm not sure what the general etiquette for this is when it comes to destination weddings!