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  1. Hi everyone! I’m a Dreams Villamagna bride getting married December 1, 2014. I have got so many fabulous ideas from this site, I can’t even begin to explain. I have loved reading through people’s personal journeys and experiences, and really want to give back some of my own thoughts and ideas in the hopes it will help someone out as others have helped me! Part 1 - Our Story Me and my wonderful FL have been together for over 9 years - we knew very early on that we had something special. We met in New Zealand (we were both there on working holiday visas - I’m from Canada, he’s from Argentina). We met through mutual friends and the rest really is history - it was kind of an instant thing with us. We had been “dating” for about 7 months, travelling around New Zealand together, when it was time for both us to leave NZ and go back to our respective countries as our visas were up. The thought of leaving each other (and New Zealand!) was unbearable, we had been through more as a couple in that 7 months than a lot of couples go through in a lifetime! We made the decision to try and get our current employers to sponsor us for a year-long work visa so we could stay another year in New Zealand and be together. And it worked - our applications were successful! Three wonderful years later, our relationship had blossomed into soul mates, best friends, partners - he was the one and I couldn’t imagine life without him ever. We had now been living together in New Zealand for almost 4 years, renewing our work visas every year, and it was a time where we both wanted to start planning a more stable future together. We were faced with the decision to either try for permanent residency in New Zealand, move to Argentina together and start a new life, or move to Canada together to start a new life. We initially started applying for residency in New Zealand and quickly realized it was going to be a long and expensive process. Although we loved New Zealand and it was our first home together, we decided to abandon our residency application. Argentina was ruled out as my FI just didn’t see a life for us there - it’s a beautiful country with a wonderful culture, but the political and economic problems were something my FI didn’t want us to have to struggle with. So Canada it was! We collected our exhaustive list of documents and filled out countless sponsorship forms and then we received the exciting news that my FI had been awarded permanent residency to Canada. We moved to Canada together and started our new lives. Two years later in 2010, we welcomed our beautiful baby boy into the world! Our little guy is now just over four years old and continually amazing us with his brilliance and hilarity! Marriage was something we had discussed very early on in our relationship, and something we continued to discuss often during the 9 years before our official engagement. Marriage was a topic that we always talked about - as a wonderful way to celebrate a relationship but maybe just not something for us! It sounds unromantic but the cost of a wedding always just seemed so wasteful! We loved each other, knew we were going to be together forever anyway, so why bother was our thought! I think after we had our son, we started little-by-little to think how great it would be if we could really have that celebration of our relationship, not as a way to cement our relationship as we were already committed to each other for life - but to celebrate our journey. We started to throw around the idea of “one day” getting married on the beach - a small, intimate celebration, we could do it somewhere in the middle between making my family travel from Canada and his family travel from Argentina. We started talking about it more and more, I think probably because we also were sooo ready for a beach vacation somewhere! And then one day I was making supper in the kitchen. I opened the fridge and bent down to get something, and when I stood back up there he was - holding out this box with a stunning floral halo ring and asked me to marry him! I couldn’t close my mouth or say anything for at least 5 minutes! I love that we got engaged in our home, just making supper, having a normal family moment - it was so simple and beautiful. The Ring! http://img.bluenile....$&fmt=png-alpha
  2. Love the yellow and grey! That's what we're going with for ours - soft yellow, grey and white with little pops of soft orange. It reminds me of a beach sunset...and it's such a calming palette!
  3. Mine's getting delivered today - I ordered it from amazon.ca - I got it on sale with 2 packs of film for $65! I'm not using mine for a guestbook - instead I'm setting up a sign (need to work on the wording) asking guests to take 2 pics - one for the mini easel frames I'm having on everyone's dinner plate for a favour, and the other to either clip on some frames that I'l be making (but with materials in our colours of yellow, grey and white - inspo pics below) or to clip on a banner we will have hung up at our reception. I found the mini picture easels, white clips and yellow and white striped twine on http://www.hugeweddingsavings-canada.com/
  4. This thread really resonates with me. I always understood that having a destination wedding meant not getting upset when your invited guests can't actually come, but I never thought people just wouldn't bother responding to an RSVP! So please excuse my rant, but I think I will feel better once this is off my chest! I only invited two of my friends, who I have known for years, as we really just want a very small intimate wedding, mainly family. They couldn't even bother to RSVP - is it so hard to reply "no"???!!! They have both been married themselves (one of them twice!) so they should understand that it's hurtful not to have a response. I'm not upset that they can't come, I get that destination weddings are asking a lot. I'm just upset that they can't even bother to respond. I haven't heard a peep from either one of these girls since the RSVP deadline passed, and I'm not sure what to do about it? I've totally discounted them as guests, and that's ok, but I am hurt that they can't bother to tell me they can't come. They haven't even asked how the planning is going. End rant, and thank you for bearing with me!
  5. Bumping this - any new Dreams VM brides here? I'm getting married there December 1, 2104 and would love to share planning experiences.
  6. December 1, 2014 - Dreams Villamagna, Mexico!
  7. I have this issue too - my in-laws are from Argentina and don't speak much English, and my family doesn't speak much Spanish! We chose to get married in Mexico as it is the perfect half-way point geographically and language-wise both our families can use their own at the resorts! It is the first time our families are meeting and I don't want anyone to feel left out or minsunderstood. My fiancee and his siblings are completely bilingual and will be doing a lot of translating during the week lol! I'm not that worried about the ceremony, as it's pretty universally understood what words are being exchanged, but hopefully there won't be any akwardness at speech time. My fiancee and I are both planning on saying a few words at the reception in both languages just to express our love and thanks for everyone being there. I
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