Wafflesmom Moon Palace Planning Thread - January 23, 2016

[yycbride2016]

@@deecol

Thats so awsome! That would have been perfect for my FI to his best man (brother). I'll have to show him this. He'll get a kick out of it. 

[deecol]

@@yycbride2016 he added to a box/basket with his name on it, added a tallboy of bud, a picture of them with his friend's son and a bodybuilding.com shirt or something I think lol I was pretty impressed

[yycbride2016]

@@deecol Yeah no kidding! Most years for x-mas we make our groomsman a "workout gift basket" so this is a kind of similar idea! Such a good one. 

[TinkerSofi]

@@deecol that's super cute. 

 

Our story was a bit different. Juan didn't want to have groomsmen, but his one friend really wanted to do it so he was like "ok" hahah. 

[maddjax]

Wafflesmom, it looks like we will see each other in January! My wedding is booked for January 28, 2016 and we will be there from Jan 24-31!

[acw271011]

I'm still playing catch up with all of the threads.... aahhhh

 

I didn't have anyone I needed to ask since we're already married so I didn't get that pleasure, and the ones that we did ask when we went to Jamaica backed out about 2 and a half months before so we ended up on our own. But you all have cute ideas!! I definitely wasn't that original. I just did it by phone. lol

 

I love the wine bottle labels! Very nice and very original!

 

Can I protest? I like "alpha" bitch better than what mine is (nice bitch) Am I allowed to switch??

 

@wafflesmom  things are coming together nicely! Looking forward to seeing more! 

[Wafflesmom]

@@maddjax another BC bride, and another Moon Palace bride too, I'm so excited! Yes, we will definitely be seeing each other since we overlap a few days. Unfortunately we miss each other's wedding day but still exciting. How's your wedding planning coming along?

 

@@acw271011 thank you so much! My bridal entourage really loved the wine bottles, especially since we got to drink it after lol. And of course you can switch, though we've only ever seen your nice side I'm just drafting my next thread entry so I'll have more coming up ☺

[maddjax]

@@Wafflesmom. Planning is going well. It's the second time around for me so it's laid back. Got my dress. Photographer is booked. Gonna do artificial flowers and so have to order them. Started getting thing for the gift bags.

 

Enjoying reading your blog. PM me if u are interested in getting together to meet in person to compare notes.

 

 

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[Moments That Matter]

Great story, Wafflesmom, and well done on starting your planning thread. Wishing you all the best with the rest of it, and that it turns out just the way you envision, or Even Better!!! cheers, team mtm

 

[Wafflesmom]

Save the Date:

 

Once we placed a deposit with Air Transat to secure a group booking, we had until December 8, 2015 to get our guests to place a $200 deposit. Given the short time frame, we knew that we didn’t have too much time to create and mail out save the dates. I researched online and came across Paperless Post. It lets you create online stationary, email it to guests and allows them to RSVP via the same medium. What was great about it was that it had tons of beautiful designs to choose from and it saved paper. Plus, once you email the invitation, it actually marked if your guests opened the message. It sure alleviated the worry of invitations being lost in transit! We chose a simple design of coral since we were having a destination wedding. In it, we also included the link to our wedding website that had more information on the resort. We also included our wedding hashtag: #jerrick 2016. It’s a combination of our names and sounded better than #derilee LOL. In addition to the Paperless Post Save the Date, our wonderful travel agent created a 4-page information package resort information, prices/package details, deposit deadlines and her contact information. It was so handy! Right away we had people replying that they wanted to come.

 

 

Of course, like almost every destination wedding bride, although people said they would like to come, placing deposits was a whole other story. We sent out our save the dates in mid-October and the majority of our guests didn’t book until the very last week! I sent out friendly email reminders at different intervals: 2 weeks before deadline, 1 week, and last day. By the end we had 28 people place deposits (two people have since cancelled – my coworker and her daughter since she found out she’s pregnant and her due date is in January). So now we have 26. We will realistically have at least 2 more book , one being my bridesmaid. I’m so happy that she’s decided to come. I knew it was gonna be hard for her and her family to be able to attend due to financial restraints. I asked her to still be my bridesmaid since we’ve been friends since we were 11 (24 years of friendship) and she can still be a bridal party for all the local events. Well she and her husband have discussed it and she will be going for five days! Woohoo