Groomsman Gifts

We found these online and bought them a few months ago. Jamaica coin cufflinks. 

They are handmade and a portion of the profit goes to charity. I think they are pretty unique! 

Now what to find for my girls?? 

His Wedding Band

I bought it yesterday when we were out shopping. It's so shiny! 6mm 14k white gold  plain wedding band. It looks something like this...

I'll probably take a picture of it at some point but this will give you an idea. =) Oh, I submitted my tax return so we will most likely buy our plane tickets to Jamaica when I get my refund in a week or so.

So FAT!

I weight 148. WTF! It's my fault. However I ran on the treadmill for 35 minutes and it was hard! But my knees were holding up and no sharp shooting pain. So I will be at the gym again tonight. Possibly strength training after at least 30 minutes of cardio.

Need to lose 18 lbs for my life and the wedding! If we even make it to Jamaica that is...

More Wedding Shoe Inspiration

 

So I went to Yorktown Mall yesterday. Not a hugeee selection but got some ideas. Paris Hilton. Love these! Didn't buy anything yet...just getting ideas. =)

Wedding Shoe Inspiration

Sooooo cute! I don't know where to find these though............Help!

Parasols for the Girls

I bought these yesterday from TheKnot for my girls (7 bridesmaids and 1 flower girl). Oh, and one for me too ;o). I think they are great to keep them cool under the Jamaican sun and can also double as a cute prop. Since the girls' dresses are pink, I ordered the parasols in white.

I am thinking that the official wedding colors are going to be pink, white, and yellow. So far I have pink bridesmaids dresses and white parosols. What will be next? Hmmm...

Inspiration-Flowers

Save the Date's

I got this idea from Martha Stewart. We took this picture using a 10 second self-timer on my digital camera. We pinned an old sheet on the wall to get a blank background. Set two chairs together and threw a blanet over them to look somewhat professional. I had a really hard time finding rubber stamps to stamp over our L-O-V-E shaped fingers so I improvised Martha's idea. Since "true" has four letters and "true love" is engagement-y we used this phrase instead to incorporate our fingers.

For the back of the cards I went to Office Depot and found silver shiny paper that matched our black and white photo. The girl found a palm tree and added that to upper left hand corner. I stamped on our wedding date with red acrylic ink. I used a paper cutter to trim the edges of the paper so it would fit in the corresponding red envelopes.

*rubber stamps and paper cutter borrowed from Jess's lovely sister. Thanks! =)

P.S. I am not DIY'ing our invitations...it took me FOREVER to do these darned save the dates!

Plus I found invitations I absolutely love online and will probably just order those.

Venue

Iberostar Rose Hall Beach-Montego Bay, Jamaica

We are getting married on the beach! This resort got the best beach and food reviews out of the places we were looking at in our budget. It is an all-inclusive resort located just 20 minutes away from the airport that we will be flying into. Not bad!

They have 3 specialty restaurants...2 of which we will be utilizing for our rehersal dinner and reception dinner. They include a steak house, cajun restaurant, and japaneze restaurant. The resort also offers several other buffet style retaurants and many many bars!

More details to come...

Bridesmaid Dresses

The Dessy Group: Alfred Sung Style D437

I am having 7 of my closest friends stand up in our wedding. I am so happy that they all are excited and willing to make the trip to Jamaica to witness our marraige. I couldn't ask for a better set of best friends!

Bethany, maid of honor
Lyndsey, matron of honor
Caroline, bridesmaid
Dana, bridesmaid
Hailee, bridesmaid
Lauren, bridesmaid
Lisa, bridesmaid

I was originally going to have everyone chose their own style dress, in the same color and fabric. But when we went to the store, everyone seemed to like this one the best so we chose this dress for all the girls.

I love it. I am deciding between shades of pink. It's going to be either strawberry or papaya.

Our Wedding Photographer

I am going to start blogging about my wedding plans just in case I want to look back and remember the lovely details one day. =)

I guess the thing I am most excited about is our photographer. We are hiring Michael Saab, of SAAB Weddings based in Montego Bay, Jamaica. We love his photojournalistic sytle of photography. I am not a huge fan of a ton of posed photos...they get redundant. I like the moment to be captured on camera...and Michael Saab does just that. Check out the link for tons of amazing photos!

http://www.saabweddings.com/

He will bring an assistant to help him on our wedding day. So we will have two photographers to document everything. We are getting 5 hours of coverage. They charge by the hour and they are quite expensive! But 5 hours should be enough for getting dressed, ceremony, post-ceremony pictures, and good portion of dinner/reception.