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Quote: Originally Posted by tvt Just my 2 cents, but I like your first dress more... For whatever that's worth Thanks Tara! I actually do love my first dress and I won't be unhappy wearing it (the picture doesn't even do it justice, its so pretty!) I don't even know why I started thinking about the other dress again, but when I saw that perfect picture of it I almost cried because I just felt like such a princess in it, it made my waist so tiny, it pushed up my small boobs, and it was so lightweight and different than any other dress. Its such a difficult decision! Quote: Originally Posted by gkashmira I went through a similar dilemna and in the end bought my dream dress (with a nightmare price-tag). However I actually already have a buyer lined up (through Craigslist) who is going to buy the dress from me for 2/3 the original price. After my ordeal I have a few notes pre-wedding (so my opinions may change day-of): - If I could do it all over again I don't think I would have bought it. (Part of the reason though is I am concerned that the dress may not be super flaterring) - I am finding it very difficult to sell the dress and keep secretly hoping the other brides backs out! - I also actually bought a different dress at first and cried that night - freaked out and called the salon at 1am saying I wanted to return it for the one I really wanted. - Maybe it's just overall wedding jitters for me though - maybe my dress will look awesome and I'll be the happiest girl in the world. So in other words, I am absolutely no help. So I my advice it go with your gut. Both options will work and no matter what you will love whatever dress you end up wearing. Pick one and then just go with it - either way! (Again, sorry about being no help) Kash, everytime I think about this situation, I think of you and scarlet! And I don't know if I'm going to want to sell it after the wedding either! At first FI said, well you're going to use it to make other things after the wedding right? you know how some people make christening gowns, quilts, etc... out of pieces of their wedding gown and then he said well you could sell it too, if you're worried about spending that much money. So I know if I didn't sell it he'd be okay with it, but I don't know if I would. It seems ridiculous to me to spend so much on a dress to wear for a few hours, but I just love it! (I also love the dress I already have, I don't want to turn into a 2 dress bride!) And by the way Kash, you're going to look absolutely stunning in scarlet on your wedding day!

Okay ladies, I'll try to answer everyones questions. Yes, I have tried it on, twice, and loved it!! The material is so light, it would be perfect for mexico. When I tried it on the second time my mother was with me and she thought it was too fancy for mexico, I thought it was no fancier than any of the others I tried on, and then when she heard the price she almost had a heartattack, so that made me kind of stop thinking I was going to get the dress. The dress in the store is a cognac color and I want white, I wish they could show me a pic of it in white! As far as alterations, it is a corset back, so that part would be okay and MS makes petites, so I think I may only need a bustle. I like the seamstress idea too! I really have to move on this if I am going to order it because I only have 5 months and I don't even know if that will be enough time! I did find someone selling it online for 1200, worn once. Oh, btw, heres my dress that I have now:

So as some of you may remember I fell in love with a maggie sottero limited dress that I had no picture to show you because there are no pictures. Well the other day I started thinking about the dress again, I don't know why, and I didn't buy it because it was $1500 and I didn't think I should spend that on my dress. So today I was determined to find the name of the dress and I did it! And I still love it, the pictures make me want to cry! The thing is 1. I already have a dress, that I really like a lot and I could be perfectly happy with, but its not this dress, I also got a sweet deal on my dress, so I could just put it on ebay or something too. 2. I don't know if I can spend this much on my dress! FI happened to ask me what I was doing whem I was looking at it and we had a whole conversation about it and he says I should just get it and he would have expected me to spend that much and why can't I just sell it after the wedding. What do I do Here's a pic of the dress I love!

Yay! I just won these bags from the same ebayer!! For the same price! I ordered 10 as well, so it came to 42 with shipping, and by the way they have all of the colors available too, so I got 5 different colors, I'm so glad thats done, I feel like I've been looking for bags forever!

Quote: Originally Posted by Amy715 I've been having the same problem! I hope the ones that didn't return with an error message went through!! Unfortunately, I dont have another email address other than the one you listed. Maybe someone else will... I know! One of my email addresses I used didn't give me an error message, but I have a feeling it didn't go through, just because I tried several times over the course of 3 or 4 days, and I was still getting the message, and I've never gotten it before. Quote: Originally Posted by kucka00 I'm using the same e-mail and never got an error message. Maybe her inbox is full! Jill, aren't you using Donna? Why don't you just have her contact Claudia? I'm sure you'll get answers much faster:) Yes, I am using Donna and I forwarded my email to her yesterday and she sent it on to claudia, I haven't heard if she had any problems with it going through yet. Quote: Originally Posted by Susan101207 I know some of you are also using Claudia Rodriguez's studio for photography (I've booked with Citlalli...I'm so excited!). Anyway, she sent me some pics of her coffee table book. A 10-page book is $350, 20-pages for $650. What do you think? Susan, I'm using citlalli too!!! I'm so happy you posted this book, its gorgeous! Now I want one! I was thinking of designing my own when I got home, like Sarah did. Now I'm not sure!

its his own fault, he should have been helping with that stuff, how are you supposed to know that stuff?? I would've made the same mistakes because I know nothing about any of that! I like the throw rocks at him idea

Thanks Girls, I'll try that! Paula, I am printing clear labels for our invites (because I don't have very good handwriting) and I was going to use it for that, but FI doesn't like it, so I might use it for one of my DIY projects.

could someone tell me how to download a font I feel like an idiot, but I went to dafonts.com and I want scriptina, and it pops up in the winzip window, but then what do I do so I can use it??

I know a lot of us have mentioned the email response being slow lately, have any of you gotten error messages? The reason I ask is because I tried sending a message to claudia 3 times from work the other day and got mailer-daemon messages back saying there was a problem with the email address. So I thought maybe I just couldn't send it from work. So I have two other email accounts I tried sending from one yesterday and one today. One of them I got an error message. The other one I didn't get an error message, but no response either, so I'm thinking it may still have not gone through, maybe that email account just doesn't let me know when there is an error. I am using [email protected] which is listed on their website. Does anyone have a different email address? Has anyone else had this problem?

Quote: Originally Posted by soulmates Jilly, your doing a great job!!! Keep it up! I went running again yesterday and I did my pilates this morning. Can't wait to go for a run after work. I'm starting to really look forward to my runs. Good Job! You've been really good about working out twice a day! I wish I could get myself to do that too!

I did 45 minutes of turbo sculpt this morning, my entire body hurts, this is day 4 in a row, I'm so proud of myself for getting up every morning! As I was rolling over in bed last night, my muscles were in so much pain! Good pain, but pain nevertheless! And I know this probably sounds really silly because its only been 4 days, but I put one of my work shirts on this morning and I swear it fit better! I know sounds stupid, but I'll take it!

Quote: Originally Posted by Cassondra2009 Jilly- I live in Attleboro, MA. Its south of Boston. Where do you live? I live in Holland, near Sturbridge, its about 1/2 hour from Worcester. There are a couple of other Mass girls here too

Welcome Ally! I'm so jealous, St. Lucia looks beautiful!

Its so hard to decide!!!! I voted for #3, but I loved them all!

I can't wait to seem them!

Hi Cassondra! where in mass are you from? I'm from mass too! I'm also getting married at dreams cancun, let me know if I can help. choosing the location is the most difficult part so be glad that you have plenty of time to research!

Congratulations Anny! You look beautiful, I love your dress, I can't wait to see your other dress too!

I got up this morning and did turbo jam cardio party! 3 days in a row of getting up and working out, my whole body hurts! I just keep reminding myself that summer is coming and I want to buy new clothes and I only have 5 months to my wedding, yikes!

well, I was going to order them from oriental trading, because I'm too lazy to make my own, haha, so I would think they would be flame retardant, since they know thats whay they'll be used for, maybe I should check, but I don't think it says. I think I'm just going to go with regular tealights. Maybe sarah can tell us how hers worked out when she gets back.

really?? so I'm assuming by "set it up right" I should make sure the bag is pulled fully out?

Quote: Originally Posted by CaboDate You know what.. Harry Connick Jr. did a fantastic remake of that song on his album 'Songs I heard'!! Thanks, I'll have to check that out!

for those of you doing the lumiaria bags, are you at all worried about them catching on fire? I found some battery operated tealights and thought about buying those for the bags but they are expensive, so I'd rather not, but I wanted to see if anyone had done them yet and if I should worry.

Jules get your butt in gear, 5 months to go! J/K, take it easy while you're sick, but then get moving again!

Tammy your dress looks beautiful, glad to see you posted pics!

Quote: Originally Posted by Chicago80 I finally joined WW. I'm doing the online 7 day free trial and so far it seems ok. I have not told my FH that I'm doing WW but I am making him go for bike rides with me in the evening. If he knew I was doing WW he wouldnt want to eat anything I cook. Anyone have good recipes that are man friendly? He wont eat chicken or pork so my options are really limited. Ohhhh, you're in the same boat as me! Almost. My FI loves beef, he'll eat chicken & pork, but would rather have steak most of the time. although I have to say, last night I said I was going to stop at the grocery store to pick up something for dinner and at first he's like get a rotisserie chicken and some of those sides that they sell. Well I'm sure all of you know that those "sides" are loaded with fat & calories as is the rotisserie chicken, so I kind of snottily said, well thats fine for you and hailey but I can't eat it. so he told me to pick up some fish instead and he would cook it for me. I felt kind of bad for being mean.