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I'm bored at work...

I basically watching the kids who don't get to go on the field trip today.  Babysitting the detention room.  I'm so bored, lets talk weddings.  Here is a run down of what we have planned so far, would love any input/opinions.  (Its ok, you won't hurt my feelings)

Getting married July 23.  We originally invited 40 but are settling for 60 invitees.  I think we will have 20-40 guest.  A couple friends are preggers and won't becomeing and I know some family members probably won't be able to come for a vareity of reasons.

We are having a basic wedding ceremony at Aria, we aren't doing any upgrdes because I love the chapel and am a big less is more type of gal. My FI has this weird this against wedding attendants.  He wants it to be jsut the two of us taking our vows, so we won't have and gm or bm.  NBD to me, I only cared taht my dad would be able to walk down the aisle and he said of course.  

I have my dress (woohoo)!  I can't decide on shoes and jewelery to go with. 

With the wedding package we have the chapel for 1 1/2, I liked aria because there is only one chapel and there is a lounge room available for guest to sit and wait in.  I was thinking of adding some champagne or wine there for guests while they are waiting.  We will be taking pictures with cashman only for the wedding and the rest will be done by a family member who is a photographer.  Im a little worried because dinner is at 6 so there is a gap, but that is the time that was available for the private room at Wicked spoon.  We choose wicked spoon because we have all kinds of dietary issues and requests (gluten free,egg and milk and nut allergies, vegans...) So I felt everyone could get something here.  I hope so at least.

Afterwards, I was thinking of getting a party bus for about 3 hours, maybe around 9 so that people could get dressed in their night life clothes. We would go to the Vegas sign first and I love the idea of having an Elvis impersonator there for a meet and greet, sing a song or few lyrics to my grandma (she was totally the crazy screaming fan when she was younger and is still Elvis crazy)  Then hop back on the bus for bellagio fountains and a few other pictures depending on time.   Have the bus dropp off those people who don't want to hit the clubs, and the rest of us go to a club that night.  Depending on our group size I may get bottle service.  But we are trying to keep a reasonably budget. 

If you were a guest, would you enjoy this?  My FI is worried that I am trying to plan too much, he wants to ensure people have time to do what they want.  I figure, its vegas and its one night.  I think most of our friends adn family will be happy if we keep feeding them and providing alcohol.  Plus, a 3 hour party bus would be done by midnight and thats early in vegas time. 

I could be going a little crazy, with nervous energy.  I always need to be doing something and there is really nothing to be doing/planning right now. 

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    Here is my dress :) I can't wait to get it altered and see how it will really fit when its all done!!!!

  • Valeriecruz82Valeriecruz82 member
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    It all sounds like alot of fun! The only thing I would worry is the time that you are planning to go to a club it gets crazy packed so if you end up doing bottle service, which in my opinion is great but also very expensive,we looked into it and was going to be 2500! so if you don't end up going that route thy usually hike up the cover to get in. Guys can range from 30-100 juat to get in lol It's crazy. The earlier you go the better, at least from my past experiences :) But I don't think you are planning too much, like you said it's Vegas! Sounds like fun!
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  • the simple stuff is like me, i'm a pretty simple girl, you are getting married a few days after me! i think it sounds fine with what you are doing, we are having guests fly out sunday night after our wedding and since that is happening we decided to do the in-suite thing instead of forking over a bunch of money for a big reception,our wedding is at 2:30 and some of our guests are flying back at 5-7pm, we chose sunday b/c it was a huge price difference. 

    for our plans i need to lose a few more pounds to fit into my dress 
    waiting for my shoes
    saving up; for a bit longer to pay off everything 
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  • Thanks @valerie. I have contacted two club promoters we met last time we were down in vegas for a bachelorette party. They hooked us up with free bottle service and are doing the same again for the night before when it's all girls. They offers us a good discount the second night, because there will be guys in our group, between 250-500 per bottle.depending on the club I think it helps it's during the week (wednesday) and a relatively less busy weekend. If we choose to skip bottle service our girls will be free and guys will be half price. So not to bad.
  • Ohh no wonder I've only been there during the weekends! I need to go during the week! haha That is pretty good! Our wedding is the weekend Mayweather fights so I'm sure that has alot to do with our crazy prices  we got quoted. Girls will be free but guys will all be 50.
    Which clubs have you looked into? We are doing Hakkasan @ mgm
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  • a13049a13049 member
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    @steele I look forward to your pictures. We chose midweek because of the significant price difference. It helps 2/3 of our guests are teachers. We are paying for or wedding as we go so we don't really have any big bills once we down there. We have paid our ceremony in full, we put a large deposit down in the reception which will cover 20 people. Once we know our head count I'll pay the rest. She told me thy could refund any extra if we pay over.
  • that's what we are doing! I'm sure already know this but I'm assuming if you have guests as teachers then they work for the state? Have you checked in to discounts with the hotel b/c they are a state employee? some hotel chains do that. It's crazy how much the price changes! We had a lot of unhappy guests with us getting married on a sunday versus a saturday but the price difference we really couldn't do it on a saturday!
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  • We checked, but got a better rate with our group block
  • a13049, who are these awesome club promoters that got you bottle service for free?! I am dying for such a connection! The ones we know offered some good perks, but nothing that great!            
  • I'll text him them and see if I can share his contact information.
  • Thanks for even asking, either way! :D
  • ok this was the jist of our conversation (after he reminded me he doesn't usually wake up until noon vegas time haha.)  He doesn't usually guarantee bottle service until the week of and sometimes the day of because he doesn't know which clubs will have what available.  So if you are looking for a specific club, then I would suggest another avenue.  He told me the week/night we chose he usually has a handful of clubs with open tables, especially during the week which is why he can offer to us.  I won't know which clubs I can choose from until that week/maybe that day. His list of clubs is really random to me, but I love them all and we just wanna dance and drink after a male show.  He also said, he can only offer the free bottle service to groups of all "exceptionally good looking girls."  They found our group laying out at the pool, taking shots, walked up to us and asked if we wanted bottle service at Bank.  We swapped numbers that evening when we talked about coming back in the fall.  That time, we texted him that morning and he gave us a choice of lavo or 1oak, we chose lavo.  Since he can only offer the deals to groups of hot chicks (which i think just means groups of fit, fairly good looking girls because I don't feel like we are a group of models or anything.)  Then they will need a picture to approve,(he says they usually only approve about 1/4 of the groups) and if your picture misrepresents your group then they will deny you service.  It seems really harsh, but I guess its vegas and vegas is really superficial.  I asked about the great discount for our group the second night and he said, he basically is giving us free bottle service for hte girls and charging us for hte guy, but we have a lot more girls coming than guys.  So that makes a big difference. 

    Long story short, he would prefer I not plaster his contact information on the internet boards because he says he gets bomarded with emails of people wanting freebies.  However, if you feel you group meets the criteria you can PM me and I can pass on his information.  He said, its usually just easier for him to just walk around the pools and along the strip for groups of hot girls than to pre arrange, unless its a group he has hooked up before. 

     

    Crazyness.  I had no idea, being a club promoter had so many rules.  lol

  • Ok, thanks anyway and I totally understand...we will stick with our guy and see if he can hook us up! :)
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