Mexico Wedding Planners....AHHHHHHHHHH

Ok, to this date I have tried to work with four different wedding planners. The last one was an event planner for the resort we will be staying at. She was great. They had wonderful prices and she would answer your questions in a timely manner. THEN SHE GOT A PROMOTION! :( I am happy for her cause she was really great at her job and she deserves it….but can I throw a little selfish fit and say….”HEY WHAT ABOUT MY WEDDING???” Ok I am done. So they replaced her with a new person.

This person doesn’t seem to know that it is really not appropriate to take a month to answer a simple yes or no question. I simply asked if there resort has a sound system for the beach or if I would need to find one to rent? I really think that this type of question should be able to get an answer within a week? Maybe I am too impatient, but seriously a month?!? What happens when I ask her the cake flavor choices? Will that take two or three months? Wow, I though I was ahead of the game since I started planning over a year in advanced, but I guess not for her. Ahhhhhhhhh!!! I am just a little frustrated right now. Plus I keep having nightmares that we get to Mexico and they are like “What wedding?!?” Ok enough venting for now.

Tesoro Resort

We have decided on Tesoro Resort for the wedding!!!

We will walk down the stairs and out toward the ocean for the ceremony!!! I love it and am so excited!!!

Invitations- DIY or purchase? That is the question??

Well after completing our DIY save-the -dates, that happen to come out fantastic(will post pictures soon), we decided that it may be cost effective to purchase inviations. So I began my search for a great deal.

Since this blog just began you have no idea what kind of a bargin hunter I am. Some may call me cheap, but as anyone in my shoes...I call my self thrifty.

Ok, back to invitations. A co-worker who is getting married this summer pointed me in the direction of http://www.costco.com/ for wedding invitations. I thought to myself..."Costco sells wedding invitations??? How ghetto!" Well, being a bargin hunter I still checked it out and it just so happens it is not really Costco that sells them. It must be some sort of partner deal where if you log onto the website on http://www.einvite.com/ via the Costco website you save a TON of money. Not only are they very well priced they have an awsome collection! Needless to say more, when I got home that night Warren and I logged on via Costco.com and found the perfect invite for us. That night I ordered a sample and it showed up earlier than expected and looked great! We added a peacock feather to the front to personalize it just a little....Voila the perfect invite at an unbelieveable price...we could not have made them at this price.

So we made a spreadsheet with the guest list for the Anchorage reception and the Mexico Ceremony and needed about 50 invites. We ordered 75 to be safe. lol and at times I think I am too prepared as we ordered our invitations 4/10/08 for our 1/20/09 wedding. Oh well, they were on sale and it is one more thing that is finished and didn't take alot of time!

D.I.Y Save the dates

I was really Happy with how well they came out! Warren designed the front and the magnet. With some basic assembeling they were ready!! Super easy D.I.Y project!

Inspiration: Peacock feathers

I wanted something unusal for the decor and color scheme. So I picked peacock feathers for the inspiation of everything for a Mexico ceremony and dinner party.

I ordered a ton of feather from Matoska Trading Company http://www.matoska.com/cgibin/gencat.cgi?AC=gencat&PC=11&ST=0&S1=92&S2=NULL&RS=2&NO=0, if anyone is looking for feathers they are the best price and they ship fast! I have ordered three shipments from them with wonderful results each time!

Location, Location, Location

After much debating...we selected Ixtapa, Mexico for our destination Wedding. Look at that sunset!

The Proposal and Ring:)

Warren completely shocked me with the proposal on October 13, 2007! We had dinner reservations set up for that night and then we were going to meet his parents at his house to play cards. But around 4:30pm I was starving! I told Warren I was hungry and didn't want to wait until 6:30pm when our reservation was. He said ok and it just so happened that we were driving by the restaurant (our favorite) and we had our first date at. Warren asked if I wanted to stop there and cancel our reservations. I agreed and we sat at the same booth from our first date. He kept saying really sweet things about our year together. Warren is normally really sweet and says things like this all the time so I didn't think anything of it. When we left, Warren said he had one more place to go so I laid back in the front seat and took a quick nap since we would be up late. When he woke me up we were at the park we had gone to on our first date. I was surprised and he just said that we had some time before meeting his parents. So we walked to the point where you can see planes taking off over the inlet. We were talking about an upcoming trip we had when Warren bent down, so I turned to see what he was doing and he was tying his shoe...so I turned back around and continued to talk. He was down there for a while when I turned around and said "do you need some help?" Yet, I was stopped mid sentence because he was on one knee with the ring! I was shocked! Honestly I do not remember one word he said. All I remember was hugging him. He finally said so will you? I hadn't answered or looked at the ring!

This ring was all him. He had it custom built with the center stone so he could have a radiant cut diamond!! I love love love it!

Intro

So I may just be a bride maniac and a copy cat, but I just do not care;) I loved the idea of having an open dialoge through the rest of my wedding planning. Will anyone read it? Probly not, but I will have something I can save and look back on all the little things that bugged me, pissed me off, or just made me feel on top of the world! However, should anyone attempt to read my blog I must place this disclaimer...please see below

**** DISCLAIMER**** I suck at puntuation! I suck at spelling! I suck at anything that has to do with grammer! So should your eyes glance across my blog and notice numerous mistakes...look the other way because I know and it sucks to read if you are a grammer perfectionist...but sorry.

So if you are still reading...WOW thank you! I hope you enjoy and if not Oh well, this is a personal thing.

About us

Pictures from the Christmas Party...the last one was later in the evening...can you tell?? lol

Warren and I met while I was working at the House of Harley. However, we didn't start dating until the following winter shortly before Christmas. I invited him to my company Christmas party for our third date and this is where we would actually pick our wedding date. Wait, we are not crazy! We had both had a couple of cocktails (ok more than a couple!) and started to discuss when the perfect wedding day would be. I do not remember the full conversation; however we ended with January 20. The funny part was we had valid reasons for the date, we live in Alaska and both had always wanted a beach wedding so it would be perfect timing for a break from winter. It wasn't during any major holidays and would be more of an off season since schools would be in session. Well, it would be a while before we would know that that conversation would set the date for OUR wedding.