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I started on no starch and I am on day 3. My stomach wants to KILL ME!!

Originally Posted by hclibby1982 

 

I always say stick with your original plan. No matter what you do for some people you can't please them so you might as well please yourself!

I agree... it's your day!!!! :-)

Originally Posted by zeman321 

 

Oh, my daughter is getting married in Mexico and I have heard everything from how expensive it's going to be to how dangerous Mexico is....whatever....stay home then!

Honestly, I'm not even nice about it anymore!

I totally understand!!!

Originally Posted by kevsgirl 

 

Here's mine! I just finished it up (well, I am waiting on 2 more pics, but it's essentially done!)

Honestly - all it is is a bunch of text boxes in Word... hope you all like it and it helps!

 

 

Thank you!!!! this is a GREAT idea!!

Meet The Guests Template.doc

Do anyone have photos?

Lovely

Yes. I will be locking in my Nov 2015 date this Nov 2013. I am excited!!!!!! I am not sure what date will he available but Nov it is. Happy planning folks.

Really?? What was wrong? If it doesn't work I will just do a TTD.

Them: Your wedding is too expensive for me to get to! You (in a sweet voice): I'm so sorry that you won't get to join us for our special day. We would love to have you, but understand that only the closest family and friends will be making the effort to come. We'll miss you!

I will ask

Exactly!!! We will be relocating

My fiance and our families are going to the resort where our wedding is for a week.  After they leave, we are hopping over to a different resort for 4 more nights of relaxation and QT!

My and my husband will be leaving the day after our wedding abd heading to another resort for our honeymoon. People can stay as long as they want. :-)

Our wedding is on a Thursday and our whole group isn't leaving until Sunday so there will be no alone time. We also are traveling with my fiance's 9 year old daughter. We are ok with this and excited to have a 3 day celebration with our guests after the wedding. We are planning to try to take another trip 6 to 9 months after our wedding which will be our official honeymoon.

Where can i buy the lanterns?

Wow!

I have reached 150 post and i still cant view attachements. Is their anything I need to do???

LOL.

Omg! Love it love it love it. I think I just got jealous. Lol

Good Luck!!!

I was to be in a destination wedding in Punta Cana in 3 weeks. Now unfortunately, the groom suddenly passed away. The bride is obviously heartbroken and has a lot to deal with. We are all in full support of her and her choices. My issue... Our trips are all paid in full and to be honest I REALLY want to go on this trip as it was to be my only vacation getaway for the year. How do still go on the trip and not disrespect her? I'm open to going to another spot but I don't have the extra $ to spend rearranging my plans. I can get back the $ spent on airline tickets but it won't come till weeks after the vacation time. What the best way to handle this?

This is sexy!!!!!!

here's another really great looking dress I ran across and  thought I'd share with you guys......what do you think? team MTM

This is Soooo my situation. My husband family is small and I have a huge family. Not to mention my wedding is in Jamaica and I am Jamaican so of course its nothing to get my family there. I am worried not.much of his family will attend. My solution is to give everyone 12 months to pay for their trip. I.hope this helps.

I can definately relate to this. My family is HUGE. My FH's family is tiny (and older...) So even with inviting those that we did, it's like a 90/10 split between my family and his. My Mom told me how some of my great aunts (many, but one in particular) was excited to come to my wedding. I point blank said, "But she's not invited." My Mom got upset, but frankly, if you can't tell me what my FH's name is... you're not invited to my wedding. It's pretty simple. I invited some 2nd cousins, as my Mom grew up with them, and they're close... But I'm not about to invite 150+ people from my family, when my FH doesn't even have 25.... Anyway.... I totally get it.

Let me know how it all works out. Best wishes.

Oh it's always nice to see threads with brides to be that have the same worries as you. I have sent out my STDs exactly a year out from our wedding date next November 2013. The TA told me that the deadline for putting down the deposits with the hotel block of 30 rooms is Jan30th, but my family are not very willing to commit this early. THAT worried me a lot as I feel like they would lose out on a good deal, and I won't have the numbers to do the rest of my planning. 

This is a wonderful schedule! I will be sure to take notes.

This is how I did it: Picked our resort...shopped around for a TA, found one that got us a great deal ($1299 inclusive per person from toronto). She booked 30 SEATS with a $300.00 deposit from us... that $300.00 would go to our trip at the end. As soon as I had a date for the wedding and the details ironed out with my TA I made boarding pass invitations with all the information for people to book. From the time we put down our orginal $300.00 deposit to when I sent out the invites, it was about a week. I had one month for people to secure their spot. The payments work out as follows: $150 Due by December 10, 2012 $150 Due by February 10, 2013 $999 due by September 10, 2013 I put all of this information on my invites. I did not ask for RSVP (I wasn't about to stress about people returning them). I sent out about 65 invitations. If I got 16 people to book, FI or I would get a free seat. As of December 3 (first deposit not even due yet), I have about 38 people booked. I am completely happy with that. If I get 50 people, my TA travels with our group and organizes everything at the resort for us (this would be a bonus, but not necessary) I have never met my TA, she was recommended by a friend.  I live in Sudbury, Ontario, she lives in Welland, Ontario, all of our correspondance has been by e-mail except for 2 phone calls so far. Alright, I guess that's it!!

So you locked in the resort rate. Did your guest already pay for the resort or just a deposit??

Hi Loreal30, That's awesome that you were able to lock in the Trip with the TA for $1299/person.  Now does that include airfare?... because I was told that the flight schedule does not come out until 330 days prior to departure therefore they cannot guarantee the prices. So right now, we have a locked in rate for resort only, 1 week stay at $875/person.  The TA is bouncing the airfare rates between a few airlines before we lock in.  We have 50+ attending the wedding and therefore may need to divide our group between a few flights. Airfare also looks to be higher this year because of the fee increases.  Right now we are around $550/person from Connecticut to Jamaica.  I'm hoping she can push them down to $400.

I am praying I will have enough folks for a free travel or resort room. i also plan to research 3-4 travel agencies for the best deals.

We also did it where we picked the resort, chose a TA and she looked into 4 different companies to see where we got the best price.  Transat Vacations gave us the best deal at $1032 pp and every 21st person was free.  We then put a $300 deposit which gave us 30 seats for 90 days.  I sent out the STD and we immediately booked those 30 seats so we requested an additional 30 seats and put another $300 down and only have 2 more remaining (so myself and my FI fly and stay for free and only pay for the taxes).  We still have 3 weeks before the deadline and about 25-30 more people who have RSVP that they were going but not yet put down their deposit.  I sent out our invites last week so I anticipate that the remaining people will put down their deposits soon.  I did send a note attached to the invites thanking the pepole who had already put their deposits and reminding everyone of the deadline.   We also get a one time price reduction. 

You are my type of person. Yes. I plan to give my guest at least a year to pay also. I know how it is to plan for a vacation. My wedding is 2015 and I plan to send STD and travel deposit info by end of NOV beginning of JaN 2013.

We are getting ready to send out STD's. Did you all send any kind of travel or TA info with yours? Our guests can actually book now with a $125 deposit and final payment isn't due until Sept. 1, 2014 for an Oct. 25,2014 wedding. I would like to get that info out there for the people that need to make payments...would it be too tacky to send travel info with STD's?