Tinkersofi's Planning Thread - Azul Fives August 13, 2015

[TinkerSofi]

@@TinkerSofi That's a cute little book! And the color is perfect for me, too. Might have to check it out. I wasn't planning on getting vow folders/books/what are they called? but I seeing them I also have started wondering what to use instead. A bunch of post-it notes stuck to my hands? 

Yeah, I was afraid that a normal piece of paper would be blowing all over the place. Maybe one big cue card? That was my plan but then I saw this and the price was right so I got it. I thought it would look cute. It doesn't match my wedding colours but whatever, I'm over that at this point and chances are no one will even care haha. 

[racht33]

I love your vows journal! I actually never thought about getting a vow book and this actually makes me want to get one. Love the color. I dont believe we have indigo here in the states...

 

Im sorry you're dealing with so much drama, esp. with guest. The closer the time gets the more things seem to go haywire ugh. Hopefully you guys do hear from that person and they have proper explanation to the last minute drop out. There would just have to be, to drop out and lose that money. But im glad you were able to work it out.My peace clock is ticking away as I know the save the dates will be hitting mail boxes real soon and the guest drama will begin. My FI and I went out yesterday to celebrate our "confirmation signing and to cheers to the last peaceful moments" haha any excuse to get out and have a nice dinner lol

 

I love that you guys are taking dance classes for your first dance!!! Anything special planned? i love when couples do surprise dances. this will have you guys spend alot of time together doing something fun. and will help relieve that stress.  Im even more excited for your video now!!

[Wafflesmom]

@@TinkerSofi I love your vows book! I never even thought to look at Indigo. The weight of the book will be so much better than a flimsy piece of paper. At least you know it won't blow away if windy.

 

And I'm sorry to hear about the drama and anxiety before the wedding. It's funny how people's personalities come out during the wedding prep. I don't understand how your guest could back out and not inform you or Juan. A simple text would have sufficed but I guess he's too self involved to even consider anyone else. But I'm glad you've gotten it settled.

 

I'm sending lots of smiles, positivity and love your way. In 2 months and a week, you'll be in paradise getting married to Juan. You'll look back at all of this drama and just laugh it off because in the end, despite the drama and the tribulations, you came out happily married!

[TinkerSofi]

@@racht33 I honestly didn't really think about it until I saw the ones that @ bought. Even if you don't have an indigo, I love her personalized ones . That etsy store had a bunch of really cute ones. 

 

We're planning to do a salsa dance. We've been learning for about 2 years so I'm hoping that it will look somewhat decent hahah. We definitely need to practice, but I feel that the wedding has been taking over everything so we haven't had much time to practice lately. This will kind of force us to set the time aside  

 

@ exactly. I'm feeling a lot better about it now but I try not to mention it to Juan because he just flies off the handle hahah. I think it was just a bunch of things that happened sort of at once, not just related to the wedding and this was kind of like the cherry on top. I was talking to a friend the other day who's also getting married in July and he said that he's super stressed out as well. I think it just comes with a wedding, once payments are due things get stressful, people back out, drama starts. Today the sun is coming out, I feel a lot better and i'm focusing on the things I need to do with a smile on my face  

[TinkerSofi]

Update of wedding activities during the weekend

 

First Dance: 

I'm so excited for this!! We had our first class last thursday and we have been practicing quite a bit. I was able to get the steps right away but it's taking Juan a bit longer to remember the sequence of things so i'm helping him out. However, it's coming along nicely (even if Juan thinks otherwise haha, he's a perfectionist).  We have our second class this thursday and we might be able to learn the second half of the routine and then it's all about practicing and ironing out the details so that it looks super sharp on the wedding day. We won't look like professional dancers, of course, but whatever. This is something fun and I think we look pretty darn good anyway! 

 

I was telling Juan that I'm so glad that we've been taking lessons for quite some time. I don't know how we'd be able to learn this routine without the past year or two of practice. We would have definitely needed more classes and it would have been overwhelming. It still is, especially for guys because they have to lead and remember the steps, but at least the moves are similar to things we have already done in class. I don't want to discourage those that don't have previous experience and want to try something like this. It's doable, but make sure you have plenty of time before your wedding. Right now Juan and I are both overwhelmed with everything else, if we had to learn salsa from scratch right now I don't think it would be possible, just too much pressure. 

 

Just like you ladies said, it's been nice to spend the time with him. I was kind of mad at him yesterday, we were kind of arguing, and then we started dancing and laughing. He laughs at me because and says that the second I start dancing my anger just goes away and my face changes right away haha. So, new form of therapy? Just as long as you're patient and understanding with each other. Dancing has taught us a lot about us as a couple. It's great! 

 

Photo Booth: 

 

One thing to check off the list! Last week I worked on the props and I think they're pretty much done. I bought a printable of some fun signs from an etsy seller, FunnyFaceProps. Here's a picture of a few of them already cut out and set up, I bought the 26 pack: 

 

 

Then, for $3 I bought some card stock props (moustaches, hats, sunglasses, etc) from ebay. They come already cut out and assembled so I thought it was a good deal. There's 23 of them in the set and shipping was free! I'm still waiting for them to arrive. 

 

Today, I decided to scavenge our halloween and party vault to see if I could find any other cool things and I'm impressed with the stuff I found! Here's some of it: 

 

 

I think with that, the photo booth is settled and done! The few friends that know about it are pretty excited.  

 

Wedding DJ app: 

I bought this app to set up our music and I am amazed with it. It's so good and such a great choice! I posted a more detailed "pre-review" on this thread: 

 

http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/topic/79242-dj-app/

 

I'll post a final review of it after the wedding to let you guys know how it went on the actual event

 

Deadline day is here!!! 

 

We've had a few hiccups today with getting the last few people booked. For those that hadn't payed their balance at this point I kind of knew they would probably cancel, which is ok.

 

Now, FYI ladies, if people put down their deposit and then don't pay the full balance but don't cancel, your airline might hold you accountable for those tickets. In other words, they leave you and your fiance on the hook for that money. I didn't know this until friday. Today when my TA told me that a few people still hadn't contacted her to let her know if they'd be paying or cancelling, my anxiety started to go up again. I started contacting people and letting them know to please make sure they cancelled their trips if they weren't going to pay and told them that otherwise Juan and I would have to pay and we just didn't have the money. I probably didn't sound like my nicest self, but whatever, it's crunch time haha. 

 

Then also, this morning someone else cancelled, leaving their brother with single occupancy, on the most expensive room (which is a brutal difference). The person who is now staying alone, wanted to change things around so that he wouldn't have to pay single occupancy, but that meant that someone else would have to, and I didn't think that was really fair either. We basically told him that he either pays for single occupancy, gets someone else to come with him or he's not coming. We're just done putting out fires for people. I just really wish people would get their crap together sometime before the last 6 hours before the deadline. They had a year! Even my TA told me today that it was too bad that people waited until the last minute to do this because it leaves us without many options. I honestly feel embarrassed towards my TA knowing that my group is so disorganized. 

 

One more thing before I end this novel of a post: 

 

I tried the veil weights today. It's a pretty windy day so I put my veil and went outside. I think they worked pretty well. The veil does move, but it wasn't all over me or anything. I had a summer dress on and that was blowing all over the place but not the veil. Let's hope for the best on the wedding day! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[yycbride2016]

@@TinkerSofi I'm so glad your dance classes are going great! That's fantastic! It will be so beautiful on your wedding day!

Your photo booth props look fantastic! I bet people will have such a blast with that at the wedding!

I hope everything gets sorted out with your group and that everything goes smoothly from here on out! Good luck!

 

 

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[Wafflesmom]

@@TinkerSofi you've done a great job with the photo booth props! Those are great costume props, I think I like the googly eye sunglasses best.

 

I think it's great that you and Juan are taking dance lessons. And I love that it's your new form of therapy. It definitely tests out patience, communication and coordination to work together, especially salsa dancing! Please PST a pic of your first dance, I'd love to see it all come together

 

And I'm really sorry to hear about the cancellations. Thanks for letting us know about being charged for those who don't cancel. I had no clue that could happen! We definitely don't have the budget for that! Good for you for putting your foot down about accommodating and solving everyone's problem. They're all adults and you have more than enough to deal with! Ugh, I'm frustrated for you.

[TinkerSofi]

@@TinkerSofi you've done a great job with the photo booth props! Those are great costume props, I think I like the googly eye sunglasses best.

 

I think it's great that you and Juan are taking dance lessons. And I love that it's your new form of therapy. It definitely tests out patience, communication and coordination to work together, especially salsa dancing! Please PST a pic of your first dance, I'd love to see it all come together

 

And I'm really sorry to hear about the cancellations. Thanks for letting us know about being charged for those who don't cancel. I had no clue that could happen! We definitely don't have the budget for that! Good for you for putting your foot down about accommodating and solving everyone's problem. They're all adults and you have more than enough to deal with! Ugh, I'm frustrated for you.

thanks! I think the googly eyes will be a hit haha, I love them! 

 

I'll definitely post a little video of the dance. We're planning on doing it first thing when we walk into the reception, so we will still have our photographer and videographer . Also, the other night, we went out, I had some wine and then we went practicing lol. Let's just say that I got dizzy a lot quicker, so I told Juan, that's the reason why I want to do it first thing, otherwise I won't enjoy myself knowing that we still have the dance to do haha. 

[vancouverpetunia]

@@TinkerSofi Sounds like everything is moving along, except your guest issues! Ugh. I hope everything works out. As you say, they had a year to figure it out. There's not much you can do at this point. Thanks for the heads up on the possible cost commitment for us if a guest backs out but doesn't cancel. Yikes! I'll definitely look into that with my TA and make sure we cover that angle, should we have some guests in that situation!

[TinkerSofi]

Deadline has passed, numbers are confirmed. We have 32 guests, 27 of them will be staying at our resort. All adults, no kids. 

 

Yesterday the drama reached its climax. The guy who was left alone in his room royally screwed us over, hours from the deadline. He arranged things so that he wouldn't have to pay extra, but we would; despite us being clear and explaining to him that we just could not afford for him to make those changes. Now I have to pay $600 more, money that was not in our budget whatsoever. I honestly hope he doesn't come because I 100% don't want him there anymore. I was just too nice to uninvite him yesterday despite the fact that he obviously didn't give a crap about us. I should tell him to go just go eat at the buffet the day of the wedding and join us only for the dancing   hahaha, wouldn't that be something? but who am I kidding, I'd never be that rude to someone, even if they deserve it. 

 

We're waiting today to hear back from our TA today with the final word as to whether we get a price drop guarantee or not. Crossing fingers! For those that don't know how that works, at least with Transat, the tour company has to have the amount of free seats available on the plane, plus the hotel needs to have our amount of rooms free, in the category we booked. They basically need to cancel everyone's trip and re-book them at the cheaper price. It truly sounds like finding a unicorn, but I'm still hoping for the best haha.