Sarah

Wow Melissa- that is an awesome hairstyle! Can't wait to see it on you with a wedding dress too...

Julie your pictures are amazing. Everything looks sooo beautiful. Thanks for sharing! I loved the way you had the flowy fabric on the palapas and arch for the wedding.

Quote: Originally Posted by Christine oh the ribbon idea is perfect, thanks Sarah, I have a ton of ribbon I got on clearance recently. You really should change your screen name to Martha... rofl..It's always easy to come up with ideas for someone else. It's a problem when you're deciding on something for yourself.

Quote: Originally Posted by akh I think I am just going to throw them in there. I hope it doesn't look too unorganized! I am second guessing it all when I saw Sarah's neat, organized little pockets! lol That's funny. I actually think my invites look really boring compared to the new ones that have been posted lately! lol, we always critique our own stuff the worst. I think it's fine to just have them neatly stacked on top of eachother. Many wedding invitations I've received over the years have been that way. Maybe you could stack them all together and tie a ribbon around them or something, if you want it to look more organized...

The Mega store had tons of different vases while we were there. You would be kinda risking it and depending on them to actually have in stock what you wanted while you were there, but this may be the route we end up going...They had tall, short, round, square- alot of variety.

We are going for a "white wedding" look overall, so our primary wedding colors are champagne/khaki and white. Our accent color is red. BM Dress: Champagne Groomsmen Attire: Khaki pants, white shirt Flower girl dress: white Flowers at ceremony: white roses and lilies My bouquet: Red roses BM bouquet and all bouts/corsages: Red roses Reception Table decor: Drowned red roses, ivory candleplaceholders with each guest's name in red, ivory votive candles Reception Area decor: Over 80 white luminarias with our red logo on them & white chinese lanterns Invitations: Black on the outside, with champagne inserts, velum overlay and red accents Menus: Red cardstock with champagne paper and velum overlay Programs: Red and champagne cardstock Fans: White, with red and champagne thank you tag

omg Ann- how fun! You look exactly the same! I also got married the first time in 1998- yup, do the math I was only 19. No wonder it didn't last...Anyway, I didn't keep any of my wedding pictures. I left them all at the house when I moved out. I also left my wedding dress too! I figured it would be a nice reminder for him- vindictive, aren't I? lol

Aww, I'm sorry Christa. It also must be hard for you to say good bye to an old friend. I'm glad this is over now, though, and you and your mom can focus on the wedding. Shadow is now in a better place...

So far it's just burning down the inside. That's what I'm most interested in...HOW it burns. If it burns like that I'm totally doing them. Then there's no way it will catch on fire. Especially since I couldn't get it to burn yesterday even when I tried!

Well Tammy, apparently they have great quality candles at Target (note to self for the future). However in this instance I'm really wishing it wasn't such a great candle. I burned the darn thing all afternoon and evening yesterday and it's nowhere near the tissue paper. So, I lit it again this morning. Somehow I think this is going to take a few days until we know the answer.

I'm making a book, and then someday when we have teenage boys it will have to be well hidden in the bottom of the dresser or something! There's no way I could choose just one of these pics to frame..there's just too many that I like!

Just checking in Christa...you doing ok hon? Every day I'm counting down for you too! Isn't that sad? I'm just so excited for you!!!

Aww, thanks. Well, as long as they don't burn my house down I'll keep going and make 17 more!

lol, only 18- but I'm thinking Christine's clear labels are sounding better and better all the time...

Quote: Originally Posted by jilly76 Me too, me too! I just want to see what I'm in for if I do this. I understand sarah if you don't feel comfortable Quote: Originally Posted by Christine Sarah, can you show me too...if you don't mind. I really want to do this now. lol you all are too funny...you just have to reciprocate and share back, got it?

Sarah, I think they look great! As everyone else has said, I can't tell the quality of the flowers from the picture you took, but as far as I can see it looks beautiful. I would definitely not add anything to the base. In fact, I might take away some of the tealights or shells. It almost looks a little busy, in my honest opinion. But the flower part is great...What's inside the vases?

Quote: Originally Posted by anacgarcia Sarah did you burn the house? ?? The house is still standing, however the candle still hasn't burned down to the tissue paper level yet. For the love of God- how long is this candle going to burn for!!! Quote: Originally Posted by amyh Sarah, I'm a little confused. Did you print directly onto the tissue paper?? If so, how did you do this? What type of tissue paper did you use? I love this effect! I did actually print directly on the tissue paper. It's tricky though, because my printer can't handle it, so I taped the tissue paper to a regular piece of printer paper. You just cut close to the edge of the design anyway, so it just results in a wasted piece of printer paper. Smaller designs definitely work better, and it works best (well, actually it only works) if you use no larger than a 6x6 inch or smaller square of tissue, and make sure you pull the edges tightly... Does that make sense? Oh, and it's just regular white tissue paper like for lining gift wrap boxes.

Quote: Originally Posted by leigh miller sarah can i see the collage too? pretty please Quote: Originally Posted by CABOBRIDE200 Sarah ~ I really want to see it too, but I understand if you don't feel comfortable sharing. I loved your teaser photo and the slide show Leigh put together! I PM'd you both...

Congratulations! Now on to the fun stuff!

Too funny, nope- probably not!

Well, when it's a bunch of women who you work with for 12 hours at a time, you end up talking about this kinda stuff. Even worse, when they're all nurses, because they're all like "C'Mon, show us ALL of them- you don't have anything we don't see 500 times a day..." blah blah blah...So now pretty much like 20 nurses and a few residents have now seen more of me than 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the general population ever will!

Quote: Originally Posted by akh i wanna see too Sarah! Yea - there was a dungeon like place, literally underneath the stairwell at this building we shot at. at it was at the end of the shoot when we had all relaxed a little and were just walking around 1/2 naked! I sent you my collage too Ann. I finally had to make a collage of some of the "safer" pics because my coworkers kepy having me access the whole album at work. I figured it was just a matter of time before "the powers that be" figured out who the pictures were of since I know they monitor what we do on the computer...

Quote: Originally Posted by TAMMYM Man ever feel like everyone around you had an inside joke and you were never let in on it.... This is torture... Hang on Tammy- I'll PM you a collage that I made of some of my "PG-13" rated ones and show you what I mean about "under the stairs"...

That's kinda what I was thinking...

That's too funny- I was wondering that too...I guess the three of us would since we knew what Lenita had up her sleeve! She's foxy little mama, but I can't wait to hear from her what picture got that expression!