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Suzanne & Ken's Wedding

I’ve been wanting to get something to whiten my teeth for the wedding and today I finally ordered my teeth whitening kit on Amazon. I’ve done a bunch of research and read online to see what other brides suggest and this product has had rave reviews and the price tag is just right! LOL
I ordered [...]

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I Need to Lose Weight for My Wedding (Poll)

by suzanne on May 13, 2009

Well … planning your wedding and preparing for your big day is so much fun … but with it also comes some stress and hard work.
Weight loss …
From what I’ve read approximately 75% of all brides want to lose some weight for their wedding and I’m no exception.
The first step was to actually weigh in [...]

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Email Destination Wedding Save the Dates

by suzanne on May 11, 2009

Once we finally decided on a destination, a venue and had a date we realized that we were really in a huge time crunch for inviting our guests. We decided to go ahead and send out email destination wedding invites / save the dates to our friends and family while we were waiting to get our [...]

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Boarding Pass Wedding Invites

I am so excited about my boarding pass wedding invitations.
I initially thought I would create and make them myself but I soon realized that I would need help with the design I had in mind. After getting some email quotes I hired Jessica of The Stylish Scribe to complete my design. She quoted me $30 [...]

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Destination Wedding Venue Dreams Tulum

We pretty much knew before we were even engaged that we wanted to have a destination wedding … but we had no idea what destination … much less what resort or venue.
In a previous post I wrote about all of our destination options and to re-cap that a bit:
Things we’ve taken into consideration while looking [...]

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Is it Dangerous to Travel to Mexico?

Well, once we finally decided that we were indeed going to get married in Mexico we ran into a roadblock we hadn’t planned on. As we happily announced our plans to our friends and family we heard over and over, “Why would you want to go to Mexico? Haven’t you heard about all of the [...]

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Destination Wedding Passports

Knowing that we really wanted to have a destination wedding, and with Mexico quickly becoming our top contender, we decided we’d better start getting all of our travel documents ordered.
If you are traveling someplace that requires a passport (you now need one for Mexico) you will need a certified copy of your birth certificate with [...]

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Destination Wedding Budget (Poll)

by suzanne on April 8, 2009

Our Destination Wedding Budget
One of the most important aspects of your destination wedding planning is your budget.
Truthfully, we had absolutely no rhyme or reason to our budget. Ken asked me if I could set up a nice destination wedding for $15,000 and I said, “I think so.”
This amount is intended to pay for the travel [...]

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We’re really excited about having a destination wedding! So … what are the options?
We live in Texas but most all of our family is in California … so we definitely feel we’re great candidates for having a destination wedding.
With my family in Southern California and Ken’s is in Central California … we could choose one [...]

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That Went Well … NOT!

by suzanne on April 3, 2009

So we’re engaged and we’re really starting to get serious about wanting a destination wedding of some sort. Hardly any of our family is here in Texas and that means that most all of our family will have to fly in, rent a car, and stay in a hotel. So, if they’re going to be [...]

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