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i love the recipe idea, very cute:)

Two of my favourites: Alyssa, and Andrea (Drea)

Hi Eleanor, welcome, Jamaica is one of my favourite places you will have a wonderful time. Have fun planning your wedding everyone on here is great and will help where they can:)

welcome Sherry, happy planning:)

Does chasing my friends 2 year old around my house count as exercise? Then yes:)

Sarah, how are you, I bet business is booming, are you ready to quit your day/nite job yet:) seriously I don't know how you find the time to fit all you do into a day, all the power to you, you rock

Alyssa your location is so beautifull, your wedding will have no choice but to be beautiful with a setting like that. Everton and I will be with Jamy and Will, stalking you and your guests for a chance to get a look at your breathtaking day:)

Up here in the great North I have never heard of it. I can't think of anything at McDonalds I like

Quote: Originally Posted by cabobridey Hm..... When I asked my WC what the day pass fee was for photographer and videographer and she told me 75 per person. (I am getting married at the Riu Santa Fe) I am assuming since she told me the price and didn't sound concerned, I should be OK. BUT I am about to pay my deposit on my photographer and videographer.... maybe I should get it it writing that they are allowed to be there! It couldn't hurt to have it in writing, it eliminates surprises on your wedding day.

I hmmmd and hawwwed about this forever, we had hosted a pre wedding barbq and invited everyone important to us so I felt we had already kind of celebrated that we were getting married with everyone. The most important people were all coming to our wedding, so I didn't know what to do. Everton's dad and brother couldn't make the wedding and it was for this reason we considered the ahr. When we got home and started to think about planning something I just didn't want to, I was all weddinged out and I was sure others were also, so we opted to just call it a day, I have no regrets that I didn't have one.

I feel the same way you do about showers I hate them, I have been to soooo many and I really don't enjoy them very often. I had everything I could possibly want so a shower was not needed. My girls, meaning my daughters 19 and 15 at the time, along with my good friend planned a very simple shower and it was great. They arranged a personal coctail shower for me on a Saturday night, friends and siblings only, no parents, aunts, ect, ect. They asked everybody to bring lingerie, or something personal and we had lot's of coctails. They arranged the shower on the same nite as Everton's bach party, and they arranged that after the shower around 10pm we girls all headed out to a bar for my bach party, my daughters bowed out of this part of the nite and stayed home to clean up for mom:). The girls and I partied and later in the night, after their nite of strippers, all the guys met up with us at the bar. We danced, laughed and a good time was had by all. It was the most fun ever had at a shower, my daughters did a great job arranging a nite that they knew mom would enjoy, and yes they invited only those invited to the wedding, not all came to the wedding but they were all definitly invited.

The shop here I bought the dress referred me to a seamstress that does all their alterations, she wanted an unbelievable amount to just shorten and bustle my dress, over $300.00. I went to my regular tailor, and she shortened, and bustled my dress. she also took the crinolin out and made it into a slip for me and moved the clasp on the ribbon. She also shortened my daughters bm dress, and took it in in the chest and shortened her straps, she then shortened my husbands pant's and charged me the small amount of $145.00. Now one reason I am sure she charged me so little was because I regularly have things altered by her, I am a good customer. If anyone has a regular seamstress I would ask what they would charge you, and if you don't I really think you will be charged higher if you stick with the bridal salons seamstress's. Another things you girls should think about is try to negotiate your alteration costs with the bridal salon before ordering your dress, I managed to get a pretty good discount on my dress from my salon because I asked, and I made it clear I had other dresses in other bridal shops that I liked just as well (not true) but it worked.

My guests all used their travel mugs, well worth the money, the travel candles were also used by most. My guests all used the yellow stick it pads I included. We would leave little messages to each other and leave them on our doors, like gone to breakfast, ect, ect. They really kept us connected to each other:) My guest also loved the milk bath, and body butter. I also put in chapstick lot's of people didn't think to bring any and it really helped in the sun. I don't think there was anything I put in the bags that wasn't used. If you don't mind spending a little money I think a disposable underwater camera is a great idea, most don't think to bring one and they are so expensive at the resort.

Quote: Originally Posted by jamisoncollette Wait, there was a meeting in San Juan? Ladies, where are the pics and posts about things to do? I've been thinking nobody liked PR! I live too far away from everyone-pout-though I had hoped to meet up with the Canada girls. Everytime I talk about the forum my uncyber friends give me weird looks. I compare it to having lots of penpals! You can meet up with us in NY on June 7th (I think) Jason is trying to put something together.

well I haven't done a large meet-up yet, but Everton and I did meet in Niagara falls with Jason and Karen, aka Super couple, and we had a really wonderful time. Both Everton and I left Karen and Jason feeling as though we made really good friends that day. I also worried that we would not have things to talk about, but our few hours together flew, our personalities clicked and we all felt really comfortable with one another. Yes Karen and Jason were exactly the way they come across on-line. I think even on-line we click with certain people, I know I have a handful of people that I could get together with from here and I know we would have a good time together, there are others I know we wouldn't click. A large group should be easier because you can focus on others if you don't really have anything to say to one person. I think so far when ever these meet-ups have happened they have been fun and a positive thing. I can't wait for the meet-up in NY this June, for one I can't wait to see Karen and Jason again, and second I really hope to meet others that I will be able to call friends. If for some reason the meet-up doesn't happen Everton and I will be making the effort this summer to still meet with Karen and Jason some where, that is how much we liked them. Have fun I wished I lived closer so I could join you guys, trust me, you will have a good time.

I wore everything strapless all summer long to avoid the tan line look in my strappless wedding dress. I wore strapples sun dresses, tube tops and a bandeau bathing suit. I got married in August so I had to be really careful to not get tan lines during the summer and the week I was in the DR before my wedding. If you do get tan lines try appling a tanning cream on the tan lines, thats what a friend of mine did.

oooooh I love your red shoes, I also love your husband's, yes I said it your husbands:) red satin top. You looked like you had a blast, congrats on marriage and your move to Puerto Rico.

My daughter Kenda and I are also excited, we watch it together, and yes everyone makes fun of us also. That's okay though Kenda and I are reality show junkies, we use to be closet junkies, but we have left the closet and our now loud and proud, hehe:)

I am the mother of a 16 year old, and we have rules, no belly buttons are allowed to be seen unless we are on a beach, or at the pool. Short skirts are to be worn with tights, in the summer little shorts have to be under them. No thongs are allowed, no thigh high socks, belly button piercing is a great big NO, her nose is pierced and I am okay with that, not much sexual about that. I am lucky that kenda doesn't seem to want to look like that, she always looks adorable, and appropriate. My step daughter and I however fight about her clothes constantly, she is 12 and her mom lets her wear belly shirts, mini skirts with thigh high socks. Bria hates me when I make her change but she will not wear clothes like that on my watch! I watch the girls walking to school and half of them look as though they are on their way to a club, and it is 8am in the morning, wtf, my daughter wears a uniform and her school is really strict about being in full uniform at all times. Our biggest problem is keeping the girls from shortening their kilts too much, yes I do fight with Kenda about the length of her kilts, but thank god thats it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Helen_S81 Well the fiance calls me Helen, and so does the boyfriend. I don't expect it to change after the wedding. I really don't mind if he calls me mom or not and I would definately not ask him to call me that. I think as a parent we have to give the choice to our daughter/son in-laws. we can't expect them to just start calling us mom or dad because they want to if they have not been invited to. I think the choice should be theirs and something should be said like," I want you to know that I am comfortable with you calling me mom if you want to, but I am totally okay with you calling me blank also, whatever will make you feel the best" This way it has been put out there and everyone feels good. I never wanted to call my ex mil mom, or my mil now, but it sure would have been nice to have been asked!

I am happy Everton is off today for the holiday, and we are off to friends for dinner tonight. Now if I could just get out of the birthday party at air zone, Liam was invited to, it would be a perfect day

just tell her you feel honoured but you are really not comfortable calling her mom, and hope that she understands. It is nice however that she wants you too. I spent 12 years calling my ex mil nothing, avoiding when I had to use a name for her, it was awkward. I asked my ex husband to talk to her, and he told her I didn't know what to call her and could she tell me to call her mom, she says when Kelly feels comfortable she will call me mom, wtf, you have just been told that I am uncomfortable and she was such a bit@h that she would never have put herself out there for me. My mil now I just call by her first name, it was a no brainer considering the age I was when E and I got married. Not that she suggested it either, so you are lucky your fmil has made it clear she wants you to call her mom:)

An idiot like that deserved to lose the ring, and a bitch like his girlfriend didn't deserve to get the ring:|

Quote: Originally Posted by jean-marcus im banned from the country of canada... what do all you BDW'ers think of that... i am actually banned from an entire country hahahaha oct 3 / 08 im gonna go rage it up cause ill be allowed back in hahaha Well you need to share that story with us, because we are the nicest and if we banned you that's a story I want to hear....

I use to get a quarter also, no gum My oldest kids got a loonie and Tim got a toonie, that's what Liam will get also:)