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You're all so sweet! Thanks again! I used waterproof Lancome mascara, other than that it was just regular make-up.

Thanks!! We didn't have Jonathan though... we had Juan as the assistant. Are you sure they were our photos? Unless Jonathan is the American name for Juan! Lol!

If anyone is interested in seeing more of our Del Sol shots, here is the public link to my Facebook Album http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150233720863348.326198.512003347&type=1&l=d9ec6c0f47 Sol was amazing at getting a variety of shots in just a few short hours!!

Thanks!! OMG I am SO excited for you.... Del Sol was absolutely the best choice (aside from my choice of groom ) that we made for our wedding. I did my own make-up. I was a little worried, but thanks to Sol's amazing talent the make up really didn't matter too much!!

Hi Val! Sorry for the late reply... I'm not opn here as much these days! Thanks for the compliment! I ordered them from Zappos.com. They have a ton of bridal shoes on there. I got the wedges because of the sand factor. I'm quite short so I didn't want to be overwhelmed by my dress so heels were a must. Even with the wedges, walking in the sand in my tight dress wasn't the easiest but I didn't have any near falls or anything like that. Definitely wouldn't go with stilettos if your cermony is on the beach - that would be a disaster, especially at Playa Azul where the sand is softer and deeper than the other beach locations. I hope this helps!

Hey Avens! My bouquet was done by the resort and my bm's bouquets and the gm's bouts were done by Planner One. My huppah and chairs for the ceremony and lounge furniture for the reception was also from Planner One. Here is the link to our ceremony and reception proofs. I haven't weeded through them yet and there are a lot of them, but you'll definately get a sense of how things were set up. The are all out of order so keep scrolling through for more pics under the huppah. http://www.luckiephotography.com/blog/Proof/2011/Megan+Shawn/cr/ http://www.luckiephotography.com/blog/Proof/2011/Megan+Shawn/rc/

Hi ladies! I was married at the Barcelo in April. I see that some of you are looking for some excursions. I really can't reccommend Paradise Catamarans enough www.paradisecatamarans.com . We took our crew out for an afternoon booze cruz, and it was definiately one of the highlights of the trip. They went totally above and beyond with a bunch of sweet suprises for us that we weren't expecting. The whole thing cost us less than 2K for 36 of us, and it was worth every penny! If spoiling your guests is in your budget I say do it! As for make-up I really contemplated going with Adrian but at the end of the day I decided to risk it and go with the hotel. I am SO glad I did! They use Mac at the hotel spa too and I was so happy with how it turned out... and it lasted all day! It wasn't without some challanges though, the first girl who tried to do my make-up was horrible but she could see I wasn't happy so she passed me off to another artist who was incredible. If you go with the spa at the resort bring pictures and don't be afraid to let them know if you arent happy. You can see my make-up in my albums below. I only just got my pictures in the last couple weeks and have gotten around to uploading my getting ready photos and the post ceremony photo session albums... I still have to upload the ceremony and reception albums. I will definately share the links to those when I get around to it, because I'm sure that's what you girls will want to see but in the meantime here are the links to first two albums: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150263112608348.334961.512003347&l=5b2f6cbe92&type=1 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150262541433348.334780.512003347&l=e66fd0ed73&type=1 This forum was invaluable to me when I was planning so I am more than happy to answer any questions if you have them! xo

Ohhhh THAT is what happened! Facebook! haha. OK well can you guys please add me (if you'de like) Megan Kane and my profile photo is one of our ttd shots. I decided to follow up with the photog again today. He wrote back saying that he is working on our photos starting today and we should at least have the online link next week. Fingers Crossed!!!

WOW! It sure has been quiet around here!! Was it something I said?? lol! I miss you ladies! As a side note it's now been over 3 months since our wedding and still no photos

Awww thanks ladies!!! We love them! I can't wait until we are old and smelly so we can look back at them and talk about how we were babes once! lol!

Hey April Ladies! Sorry I've been MIA for a while! Laura I'm sorry to hear about your FIL going behind your back like that. Not fair at all. I just hope that whatever you choose to do with that money brings you happiness that will out last the bitterness towards your inlaws!! I need some advice from you girls. I just don't know what to do. My photog for the day of the wedding has been a complete dissapointment so far. It is now well over the two month limit outlined in our contract as the time in which we will get our photos. Originally I had asked him to have our photos ready for our AHR which obviously didn't happen. I just heard from a bride on another forum that he actually took 4 months to get her her photos, and she says he hardly edited any of them, just rushed through the whole thing!! So now I'm panicing. I am not willing to wait 4 months for our pics, but I'm afraid to rush him in case he just doesn't edit them!! This is such a nightmare. I was thinking that maybe I would write a review of him on here as 3 stars and put in there that I can't finish the review unitl I get my photos and that hopefully when I recieve our beautiful, well edited photos I will upgrade the rating. I know he checks this forum so I can keep it positive but let him know that I will be going public with my experience so he get me my pics fast and they better look good. Thoughts??? WHAT DO I DOOOOO????

Lesee your set up was BEAUTIFUL! loved it!!! I liked the way you used the lanterns and displayed the pics! How easy was it to hang stuff on the tent? I made buntings that I want to attached to the garden tent the venue rented for us, but I'm hoping it's not a complete PITA. What type of string did you use to hang the pics on?

Hey Girls! Mocha, you need to get it translated by an official government translator from what I understand. One more hoop to jump through! Laura I know it's daunting to have that list but honeslty it may not be as bad as you think. I was wigging out a few days ago about everything we had left to do. Hubby pitched in and now we are completely good to go, with 2 days to spare!! I'm borrowing our office projector as well. It's not like they are going to use it over the weekend anyway! Good call on the cake mix... I find it always turns out better anyway! Mmmmmmmm buttercream. We ordered cupcake minis from a gourmet cupcake place and it was really reasonable. We got 72 of them with custom frosting and little flower decorations for under $80! The Macrons were another story... for 48 of those suckers it will cost the same as all the cupcakes! Oh well. Lisa I will add you on FB too. Ivan is my photog and I specifically requested that he send me my photos in time for our AHR this weekend. No dice. Part of the reason I chose this date for our AHR is that I was sure I would have the photos by now. At least Del Sol was professional enough to get me my TTD photos, so I can display those.

Hi Tori! No worries at all! It didn't trash it at all. I had it dry cleaned at the resort and it came out good as new. The seamstress steamed it before we left, it had to travel in an over head bin on the plane and made it to the resort unscathed. I didn't have it resteamed before the wedding or the ttd and it was fine! Is there any stores that carry both dresses on so you can see them one after the other? Or maybe you can take pics of you in each and flip them back and forth? The Mikela is lovely too, I can see why it's tough! Maybe post the pics of you in both on here and have other brides give their opinion or ask a family member? Here are a few more pics of the dress in action, maybe it will help? One thing I can say is that we got our wedding video this week and I absolutely loved the way the ruffles on the train blew in the breeze as I walked down the isle. Good luck! Let me know if you have any more questions.

Our TTD was done by Del Sol, and they just blogged about it!!! Here are some teasers: The link to more pics is in my signature if anyone is interested!

In the spreadsheet we filled in there was a spot to fill in photog info, so I put them in there. I'm so excited! We were lucky enough to have Del Sol do our TTD session, and they blogged our shoot! If anyone is interested in seeing the posting it's at http://delsolphotography.com/blog/post-986/Megan-Shawn-IN-LOVE-Playa-del-Carmen-Trash-the-dress-Photos-by-Sol-Tamargo

WOW Lesee!!! You and your hubby are such stunners, I love the whole vintage glam vibe you've got going on!!! (Go team Vancity). I feel so special, Del Sol blogged our shoot!! They asked me to write about how Shawn and I met, and they incorporated it into the blog! http://delsolphotography.com/blog/post-986/Megan-Shawn-IN-LOVE-Playa-del-Carmen-Trash-the-dress-Photos-by-Sol-Tamargo

Laura and Mocha, I'm glad to hear the AHR stuff is coming together for you! Ours is too.... mostly because I had a mental breakdown on Saturday morning and freaked out at my hubby because this AHR is in his hometown. I don't know 3/4 of the people going, and the 1/4 that is going I mostly don't like!! He hasn't once asked what needed to be done or if he could help and has no clue what is happening with it. There was just so much left to do and I was completely overwhelmed... so ya... I lost it. He was awesome though and sprang right into action getting things done. Right now he is en route to the cupcake store to drop off a swatch so they can match the icing! For ladies looking for ways to display some sweets I found some awesome vintage plates and candle holders at Value Village that I'm gluing together to make cake stands (or in this case macron stands) Then I made a cupcake stand out of cardboard cake rounds, painted cans and vinyl drawer paper that matches the exact patterns on the escort cards! The place cards are actually mini flags that will be stuck into a mini galvanized pail filled with wrapped blue salt water taffy. Lots of sugar for a brunch but we purchased cupcake boxes from the cupcake place so people can take it all home. I also made buntings out of rectangle lace paper doilies and blue ribbon that I can swag across the tent ceiling and ordered a printable guest book "tree" poster that people put their finger print "leaves" on out of ink. It was awesome actually. A girl on Etsy designed it for me, I sent the file to staples and it came out perfect. The whole guest book design and printing was less than $20! Sorry about the info dump, the AHR is on Saturday so I'm just so anxious to get it all together!

Michelle the same thing happened to us! I have a brother with a mental disability that causes him to get lost very easily. I had asked repeatedly that all our guests be in the same area so that everyone could chip in to keep an eye on my brother. At the very least he needed to be near my mom. Well when we got there, not only were we in a crappy room in the wrong building with a view of a bush, but our guests were spread out all over the resort and they had lost the reservation for my mom!! I was furious!!!! I called and lost it on Grecia. She did her best to fix it but since the hotel was so booked up nearly all of my guests had to take rooms with 2 double beds instead of a king, how is that for romantic! We were staying for two weeks and though we qualified for a premium room upgrade, they would only give it to us for our second week, meaning we would have to switch rooms again on the wedding day. We had way too much stuff with us to move for a third time so we said screw it and stayed in the pool view room that Grecia had us moved to after I complained. Again, with the sheer amount of money/volume weddings bring to the resort, you think they would bend over backwards to accomodate them!

The photogs were able to eat and drink because we paid for them as wedding guests which you will have to do as well unless you want them to leave the reception to go to the buffet.

Hi Ladies, We were just married at the Barcelo in April and we paid the $300 fee but no day passes. I've posted about this before but make sure you pay the fee before the wedding day, we thought we could pay after but they held our photog at the gate and wouldn't let him into the hotel!!! My poor hubby had to run around getting money and going to the lobby when he should have been enjoying the day. It ended up making my photog over an hour late which obviously meant a lot of missed photos! I still can't believe that with all the money weddings bring to the hotel (we figure our group brought in about $90,000) they nickel and dime you for $300! They really need to change that policy it is just so tacky.

Laura try dollarama. I've seen little vases like that there. If not I know Michael's has them, but they get a little pricy so I'd really coupon the you now what out of them or else wait until they go on sale.

Laura and Mocha I hear you on the AHR! There are more people coming to it than came to the wedding and I've probably put about 2% of the effort into it! It's in a week and a half and I still have a ton to do! Mocha are the costco flowers available in Canada? The website looked American to me when I checked it out a while back. So I went with http://www.flowers-direct.ca/Index.html . The prices were really good. We got a box of 40 stems of tinted hydrangea for $125 including tax and shipping. Can't say yet about the quality because they get here two days before the AHR, but I can let anyone know if you're interested! I'm doing the hydrangea in galvanized steel pails as centerpieces along with the canvas table signs and the leftover pinwheels from the dw in mason jars.

Thanks so much Tori! I did have the straps removed. I also switched out the flower for a feather one. I still love that dress and am so happy I went with it. It was the first one I tried on and I knew it was the one. It's definately a dress for the groom because it really hugs your curves. My hubby is still talking about it and a bunch of my guy friends told me I was the sexiest bride they've seen! Best of luck with your planning!

WOW ELLA!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! That is so exciting!!!!!