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smilz4milz

First off I want to apologize that i have so many questions! i did the same thing to Lisa7 when she came back. I will number all of my questions to make it a little easier to answer. And if you do not want to answer everything on here please feel free to email me;apiffanynow2002 at yahoo dot comThanx for tip on the baggage prices with US Airways. Thats good to know. Its also good to know that you guys flew out of Indy.  I read your G/B/U and it has gotten me all excited all over again.  I am definetly going to use your suggestion about the Bug Repellent Wipes and the koozies (1)(btw did you have them personalized? (2) and what are tears of joy packets?We are having about 29 people total as well. and I have been trying to decide if I really want to spend the money for a private reception.  It sounds like the resort will accomodate you even if you dont pay for a private reception. So we may just keep that money in our pockets. (3) What do you suggest?  Also I noticed you said there were 18 people on the resort with you.  (4)Were you all classified as a group booking? (5) did you have a cocktail reception before dinner was served?TIA
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  • Hellooooo!!!1)  The koozies were from Christmas Tree Shops...33 cents each.  I picked out "boy-looking" ones for the guys (no monograms) and found girlie ones that already had initials on them.  (PIB)2) Tears of joy packets are tissue holders (to wipe "tears of joy" - or in our case I think that they were used more to wipe sweat off of heads!)  They can be made as intricately (or NOT) as you want (you can Google Tears of Joy packets and find templates online).  You purchase "pocket tissues" (like for your purse - PIB too).  I put 5 tissues in each tears of joy packet.  I was on a time-crunch (made them the night before we left!) so I simply used cardstock, cut it to be a bit bigger than the tissues, wrapped the cardstock around the tissues, and held them together with a cool sticker that I made (FULL SIZE LABELS WERE MY BFF!!!  You can make anything the size you want and just cut - I found them cheapest from Ebay and used them on just about everything...stickers for the OOT bags, labels for all OOT items (cute - everyone loved the little personalization on each item!), stickers for palm fans, our wrap labels for invites...).3)  A private reception was just way out of our budget.  Our TA (Lisa with Beach Bum Vacation) started working with the resort prior to our departure about getting a place for us all for dinner.  But I didn't think that they were going to do anything for us because nothing had been settled as of the day we left.  I really think that with the resort knowing that we were going to have 29 people going to dinner that night, they wanted to make it more organized (I originally thought that someone would have to go over to the restaurant when they opened and just give them our name and # of people that needed to be seated - which really wasn't an issue because 2 nights we did have 14 of us dine together...it just took a little bit for tables to be put together for us - we just grabbed a drink and waited for them to get us when it was ready).  So I think that this was more for the resort's benefit than ours...but I like to think that they did it just for us!  HA!  So really we set all of this up when we met with the WC the day after our arrival (we arrived 4 days prior to our wedding day).  If that restaurant had been serving buffet-style for dinner, I think that we would have ate the buffet.  But the night of our wedding the Bayside was restaurant-style with menus.  The buffet would have been perfect for us too...and wouldn't have taken so long.  (The Bayside is themed each night...might be Caribbean buffet one night and formal dining the next...and the restaurant that could accommodate our large group).4)  We were a group booking, but we didn't qualify for any of the extras...we only had 9 rooms booked at Sandals and it's 10 for the extra perks.  We did have 11 more people pay the day pass to come to the wedding though.  (They all paid the day of the wedding, not prior like Sandals wanted...)5)  We did not have a cocktail reception...we just "took over" the Piano Bar before dinner.  There weren't too many people at that bar then anyways (and those there we had previously met and they were all applauding and congratulating us...it was super!  The people at the Piano Bar had also watched our wedding from afar).  But it great because some guests played pool, some put on their suits and went swimming, and others bellied-up to the bar.  Before dinner people primped and we then we dined.HTH!!!
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