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We arrive at now jade may 17 wedding is the 20th. You are there too right? We will run into each other at some point I'm sure

Well I may have just gained a bridesmaid back! Lol...she wasn't going to be able to come but now is thinking she may, not her fault I don't blame her she's going through a ton of life stuff right now. So she will order her dress and put a rush on it and it should be in by mid may!! I'm trying not to worry but if she departs the 18th and the dress comes in just days before I might be freaking out a little!! I am excited she is most likely coming now though, and that our wedding party is back to being even It wouldn't be my wedding if there wasn't some craziness going on I suppose! And this partially makes up for my fi's parents bailing on us and acting like its too expensive but are now proceeding to get new carpet, re-do their kitchen, and buy a few hundred dollar bird bath. Ridiculous. Can you tell I'm just a little pissed?!? end rant.

@Mlite83 you definitely helped me, I just emailed concierge with my questions that would concern them, I'm sure they are slightly less busy than Pilar! Thanks so much!

You're preaching to the choir! I have a lot to do still, nothing too major but still a lot of little things. I feel your pain on the money worries and the no rest, I just planned my sister's baby shower and my best friends bachelorette party, then we had her wedding last weekend, this was all in the same month span. I am just glad it's all over and I can focus on the wedding finally!!

So for a minute there I was worried we might have approximately 10 guests but I am super happy today because apparently all our friends and family are procrastinators (like us!) and we now have 24! Just had to share my excitement!!!

Is anyone else having a major problem with pilar not responding to emails? She used to get right back to me, then it started taking a while (maybe a week or so) and now nothing, ever. And our wedding is 2 months away so now I'm getting anxious for answers to my questions.

Ok I have another reception question: All along I have been envisioning a dj, but now that we are more sure of guest count (between 20-25) I wonder if it will be weird to have one? What do you all think, anyone have their wedding already with this amount of people? My fiancé thinks it is pointless, but I really like the idea of someone running the show, not just an ipod playing in the background...

I have a seating question hopefully I can get some insight on. We will be doing one long table for our reception on the carnival terrace and most likely 20-25 people attending. I have decided on maracas as favors and escort cards/name cards and I'm not sure how to make this work. If the tables are broken up it would be easy to name/number tables but I'm not sure if they will be or if they'll be pushed together to form a single long table. Does anyone know what is the norm? I guess my other question is do I even need to do escort cards with this smaller number of people, and just put the maraca on the table at each seat with their name? Or will everyone be circling the table to find their seat so I would need the escort card...and if so how should I do it?

I need some help with an etiquette question everyone please weigh in if you have opinion one way or the other, thanks! So I originally was planning on not having a shower whatsoever due to it being akward as I didn't invite everyone to our wedding in Mexico just our nearest and dearest friends and family. That would have left me with just a few people to invite (less than 20) and I didn't want to ask those women to get a gift as many of them were going on the trip and paying so much for that, and the people who were not invited to Mexico and only to our at home reception wouldn't be technically going to a "wedding" only a wedding reception, so I felt inviting them to a shower would have been weird. I have had a lot of people lately tell me to just invite anyone whether they are invited to either, and now have a close friend wanting to throw a shower for me which is amazing, and I really want to say yes but it is a sticky situation. Should I have the shower and invite everyone, not have the shower at all, or only invite the people invited to our actual wedding in Mexico and make it a super small thing? As you can tell I need major advice!! Help!

I am working with her and love everything about my experience with her so far, super helpful, quick to respond, no issues whatsoever. With that said you will need to block rooms if you want your guests to work with her, I believe. You won't be stuck paying for anything as long as you release the unneeded rooms by the date set in your contract, hope that answered your questions? Let me know if you have anymore.

Does anyone know if they are doing the live webcam for ceremonies yet? I know they were "working on it" but before I ask pilar yet another one question email I figured I would try here first, Thanks!

To all the people who said they are not doing oot bags I am right there with you, they are just an added expense and most of the time it's unnecessary stuff that people won't use. Though there are some things I think would be good such as bug spray (most people wouldn't think to bring this) but I just don't feel like lugging a bunch of junk to Mexico either. With that said, we are still debating on what to do as a larger gift in each room. We still want everyone to feel that we are grateful that they made such an effort to come. I looked into excursions, waaay too pricey from what I have seen so far but I only got different quotes from one company. We want it to be something we find there locally so I think my anxiety will just have to continue over this until we are there and whatever it is we decide to buy is purchased!

my fiancé is obsessed with the fact that he is doing this excursion with a few of our guests who are interested, I think he may be more excited about this whale shark excursion than our actual wedding!!

If you don't mind me asking, what company are you going with for the catamaran and appx. how much did you get quoted? You can pm me if you want too. I just got a quote from Amstar and it was insane! Like appx. 100 a person depending on option? This is way out of our budget, I am hoping I can find something not so crazy expensive, let me know, thanks!

I'm not having a shower, unless someone randomly throws one for me but I've made it known that I don't want/need one. DW definitely makes it weird, asking people not attending ceremony for gifts, it feels tacky. And the people who are attending the ceremony will be paying lots of money to travel to Mexico so asking for more from them feels wrong too! I just tell anyone who asks about the shower that I will just have a super amazing baby shower when that time comes!

Thanks ladies, I do like the idea of doing a pre-trip package too...or even the excursion, I will have to look into this. My fiancé wants to swim with whale sharks though, which I am not into at all! A catamaran cruise is much more me

So...tell me if I'm crazy and delusional from wedding planning but I don't think we can going to do welcome/OOT bags. Originally I thought obviously we have to do them it's what you are supposed to do! But the more I think about it and my fiance and I talk about it, it's just a bunch of crap no one is going to use or want and all the toiletry type stuff people bring with them anyways. No offense to anyone (well...everyone!) who is doing them I think they're cute especially the bags themselves, but maybe not for us. It will be waaay less stuff to drag down there, save money, time, effort, etc. Instead, I think maybe we will buy everyone a bottle of champagne or some sort of bigger useable gift to show our appreciation for them coming to Mexico for our wedding. What does everyone think about this? Good idea? Bad? Any other ideas of bigger gifts we can do per room?

She usually gets back to me within about a week or so, if it is more pressing she seems to get back sooner if it is a random question she takes a little. Hope this helps?!

I will gladly pay 60 dollars to rent vases and not have to bring them as a carry on!! I will already have my dress to worry about so definitely don't need anything else to "care for" on the plane and during travel to and from airports!

Two together for sure (first one) I will probably do the same if I can find affordable ones!

Two together for sure (first one) I will probably do the same if I can find affordable ones!

Two together for sure (first one) I will probably do the same if I can find affordable ones!

Two together for sure (first one) I will probably do the same if I can find affordable ones!

I believe I will have mine in 2 garment bags!! When i called air tran told me you can only chose the priority boarding when you check in online, so I plan to do that as well.