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Our wedding is at an Iberostar resort. The resort has a preferred vendor for music and lighting. I emailed them two weeks ago for a quote for a DJ and lighting for our reception. A week passed, and I hadn't heard back. I sent a follow-up email. Now,...

FH and i are paying for our wedding ourselves. My parents didn't offer. I hadn't given a second thought to it until now. They paid for my sister's wedding 11 years ago, but I mean, they never though I'd get married, they're retired now, and FH and I...

We made the decision not to have a Maid of Honor or Best Man or bridesmaids or groomsmen because... well, I didn't have anyone I could ask and my fiance had too many people to choose from. We made the decision on January, but I feel kind of bad about...

Our venue (a resort in Mexico) has "preferred vendors" for photography and for music/lights. Trying to get information our of the photography guy was like pulling teeth! He was SO unresponsive that I actually went to their website and got their main...

I'm considering "You Can't Hurry Love" for our first dance, since I'm going to be getting married for the first time at 36 (and have always loved the song, especially the Phil Collins version). I don't know what type of dance to do to it, though,...

We're doing a destination wedding in Mexico, which means our phones won't work. The resort does have wi-fi, though. Most of our guests are going to be at the resort for five days. I want to be able to communicate to people things like "Today, the...

I just want to commiserate because it's a different kind of planning than a wedding near home and has its own brand of issues. I, for one, am really frustrated with the concept of "preferred vendors" at my resort. If I don't use their "preferred"...

I know that i need a song for me (bride) to walk in to, and I know we need a song for us to walk out to as a couple. But what else do i need songs for? I haven't been to enough weddings to really have an idea, but I just feel like there's usually...

Our mutual obsession with cats is part of what led my fiance and I to want to get to know each other better when we first met. Our two cats are extremely important to us, but we're having a destination wedding and obviously won't have the kitties...

They're the "in-house" photographer for the resort we're getting married at. Their website looks really nice, but I can't find any reviews for them (positive or negative) online. Has anyone worked with them or been to a wedding where they did the...

So we're strongly leaning towards a destination wedding, and I'm wondering the etiquette for invitations. Do we send them out super early so people have time to book? Or do we send out like a "save the date and BTW, let us know if you can't travel"...

I've found a lot of calculators that help you total up where your budget is going - how much the venue costs, the price of the dress, dinner, makeup, etc. I've also found a lot of advice about not going over your budget. What I *haven't* found,...

We haven't decided between doing a destination wedding or doing a wedding at home (Chicago) and won't decide until we find out how much each would cost. I'm having the darnedest time finding out how much dinner costs, though! Virtually nobody even...

So I'm trying to preliminarily price out a destination wedding. The problem is, I don't know how to figure out the guest count. It seems like I can't find out who can come until I have a date scheduled, but I can't schedule a date until i know who...