Matt and I just returned from Mexico where we attended the destination wedding of his cousin, George, to Jennifer.  They chose the Azul Beach Resort just south of Cancun for all guests to stay at–it’s a boutique hotel (with only about 60 rooms) and was so intimate and wonderful.  Oh, and the best part was that it was all-inclusive.  This was the first time I’d ever stayed at an all-inclusive resort and it was soooo convenient.  When I mean all-inclusive, I mean all the food we ate, whether we went to a restaurant on the beach or ordered in room service was included.  All the drinks we wanted including the daily stocked mini-bar in our room.  This was a huge incentive for all us guests to, well, just stay at the resort the whole time!  It ended up being such a fun experience having everyone nearby all the time.  Since this blog is an ode to weddings, I thought I’d share some pictures from George & Jenn’s wedding on the beach.

Pre-wedding, here I am with Matt and his parents.  Note that we are all wearing white.  All guests were asked to wear white to the wedding, which actually made it a fun experience when seeing all of us together.

This is the ceremony site set up on the beach.

Here is Jenn coming down the aisle.  George and his son, Zack, look on…

George & Jenn with all their children during the ceremony.

A shot of the whole wedding afterwards taking photos

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Yay!  Phoebe and Jigna came over yesterday to help me finish the batch of frog buttons on the invitations and we finished it!  We all got on a roll, put on a couple movies and finished it pretty quickly.  All that’s left is for me to put the invitations in the outer envelopes, stamp them and send them off.  Excellent.  Here’s a picture of our setup and with Phoebe putting a button on an invitation…we, of course, were munching on cheese…

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Phoebe, Jigna and Sri came over tonight to help me assemble invitations and glue frog buttons on.  Assembling invitations was a breeze–that was done pretty quickly (i.e. putting all the inserts into the pocketfolds and stamping the rsvp envelopes).  Glueing the frog buttons—well, that’s another story.  After about 3 hours, a few glasses of wine, some cheese, and watching America’s Next Top Model, The Next Pussycat Doll, American Idol and part of Top Design (very intellectually stimulating television, you see….), we only glued buttons on about 50-60 invitations.  Oh so tiring…I’ll have to continue this on into the weekend and then maybe, perhaps, I can get invitations out the door next week.

Also, finally weighed the invitation….[drumroll…..] 1.8 oz.  Darn it.  Not even close to making the 39-cent stamp…so I ended up getting a bunch of 63-cent stamps.

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We finally completed writing up bios of our wedding party—check it out with the link on the right side!

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Over the weekend, I picked up lots of boxes of wedding stuff, such as the wedding favors!

Being that this site is for the guests, I’m keeping it a secret what’s inside the boxes for now!

I also finally picked up the invitations!  Whoopee!  I’m very happy with them–now I just need to slap on a ton of frog buttons and buy some stamps and they’re ready!

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