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So I'm obviously late on this, but I LOVE the sweetheart one. It is just beautiful on you, completely compliments you and just looks perfect. That's just my opinion!

I just bought extensions a few weeks ago and love them! I bought real hair, the types that clip in and they were $250.00. There are probably 8 or so "pieces" that came in the set, some with three sections of extensions, some that are singles. I took them to my stylist to do a trial run (yes, a trial run before I do a trial run in Cabo...I'm that worried about my hair!) and they looked awesome. She only put in a few of the pieces, but it added quite a bit of lenght, my hair looked fabulous in a pony tail, I have shoulder-length hair right now, and then she did a few attempts at differnet styles. I will post pics so you can see the ponytail extension, and then what I looked like with them just in regular. Honestly, I will probably be using them in the future, they are so much fun! But definitely buy the real hair, and don't get the ones that are glued/sealed into your hair b/c it causes way too much long term damage. Oh, and I bought mine at a wig store!

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel OK, so here's the stupid part. What are shakers? Do they clap or something? Rattle? I guess that makes more sense. Not stupid at all! Those "shakers" are the animal things...they have beans or beads or something inside, like a rattle, so when you move them around, they shake! Quote: Originally Posted by Wisco4 That looks great! I love the flowers in the center of the table! Did the restaurant do that or the people who put the shower on? That was their house, and actually they have a coordinator they use for stuff like that, so she did the majority of it. Quote: Originally Posted by Galit Beautiful and festive! Are those ribbons hanging off the tableclothes? I loved the tablecloths! They are actually sort of overlays, if you look really closely, they are like donuts...the middle is cut out. So the ribbons are attached to the circle part and hang down, and they just put a neutral color table cloth under it so it wouldn't look obvious. This would totally be a doable DIY project for someone who can sew a bit! Thanks Ladies! We had a blast! I just thought the decor was so great and would work for so many of us that are on the forum!

Sorry those pictures are so large...I tried to resize?

So I was so wowed with how the hosts of our Couples Shower created the ambiance and decor of the event, I wanted to share for inspiration! It was an overall fiesta theme, serving Mexican food, margaritas, a guitar duo, etc. But I was totally in love with the decor. It was beautiful and casual, very festive without being overpowering or loud. I truly loved it all and thought that the colors, flowers etc might be able to help. It would be especially lovely for an AHR. And the favors were those animal shakers, placed at each place setting and were a total hit. I had been to a wedding in Mexico where they passed out these shakers at around 11pm and they were so much fun, definitely added some flare to the dance floor. Enjoy! Outside dinner seating: Closer view: Dinner Buffet (those sunflowers were gorgeous!): Up close of the shakers/favors: My favorite part: custom bride & groom pinatas that match our eye & hair color...those were real flowers on the bouquet and the veil! We saved them, and took pictures of them which will go on our wedding favors (cookies) for our guests! These were placed on the gift table. They look a little creepy in the pictures though.

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel Description here: Light Columns and more decorating ideas, organizing tips, and homekeeping and cleaning solutions on marthastewart.com It's white beachballs with weights tied to the end. Love this. Yah Martha! THOSE ARE FABULOUS! Hmmmmm....I need to stop looking at this forum with 20 days left!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by michelle08 I know people are posting replies and I can tell there are 2 pages now...but I go to click on page 2 or click view last read and it brings me right to the same front page again...weird. So I can't see what anyone is posting. Michelle, I had the same problem, I could never get to page 2. So I went to Page 1 and hit Reply so that I could at least read at the bottom what people were saying. There must be a bug!

Thank you! I'll play with those and see what works best for the sizing of the cookie! Gracias! ha!

Quote: Originally Posted by PaulaV Happily Ever After Y vivieron felices para siempre (and they lived happily ever after) Goodness Paula, you are fast! Is there a shorter version of that, maybe just a few words? We are trying to put the phrase on a cookie!?

Ok, I have a new phrase I need translated please! "Happily Ever After" Thank you!!!!

I'm going to agree with Bridget on this one. My wedding is 20 days away (WOW!) and I have three couples who still haven't booked their flights, and one guest whose plans just changed, so she's attending now. I would say that there are always those guests who are ready to go and book early, and there are those that keep waiting, hoping to find the best deal, yada yada and end up booking three weeks out. My RSVP date was October 1, 2007 by the way, and I had 75 people who didn't make that deadline. You have to be really proactive with your guests, depending on the number of guests you invite. I definitely have sent "friendly reminders" to our guests about needing an RSVP count, and still have some people who just never respond. Frankly, it drives me crazy and I find it rude that someone can't take two minutes out of their day to check Yes or No and stick something in the mail, but that's just me venting. When in doubt, make the deadline early but not so early people forget about it.

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbride try these: floating blossoms pool candles floating globe lights floating lantern floating pool lamps Shelley to the rescue with all of her reseach!

OMG I finally got to see the slideshow! I love it. Seriously it gets me so excited for our wedding. Thank you Leigh! My fave picture is the couple walking over that bridge with the palm trees and the beach in front. LOVE IT. Hooray for pictures!

What about floating candles? Or flowers? My event coordinator is doing some sort of floating stations at the terrace level which has some fountains, and I don't really know exactly what she's doing, but something like rectangular floats with candles and flowers on them? I will have pictures to show after the wedding of course! But I do love the luminaries too.

What a great problem to have! I agree with the others, find some back up locations, research them and have them ready in case they are needed. When is your RSVP date? I would calculate the odds of XX more guests accepting before the date, and then figure out where that puts you in terms of # of rooms needed. And remember, usually someone won't be able to make it, something comes up. On the other hand, we just had a guest have a change of plans, and now, 20 days before the wedding, she's coming! So it works both ways. Don't panic, but do your research and you'll be fine!

That's fabulous! I almost bought the wax monogram thing from Paper Source just couldn't see FI & I sitting down with a glue gun sealing thank-you cards! This is a great alternative. Thanks!

Quote: Originally Posted by Coffee Addict Leigh, I can't open that link, it asks me to "Enter slideshow name" Me too. Meeps.

Quote: Originally Posted by bounciekat how are you getting from mexico to belize? that's the part we can't figure out. flying seems to be pretty expensive and the bus seems very time consuming. i found a private car service that will pick us up in pdc and take us all the way to belize city... but i was wondering if you had an easier way? Oh, we have to fly back to DFW (which is where I live) to get from SJD to Belize. So we're flying from SJD to DFW on Sunday, will stay home that evening, do laundry, repack, etc and then fly out on Monday from DFW to Belize. AA is having a sale right now on tickets from DFW to Belize, so it might be worth looking into!

We will be in Cabo for a week for the wedding. Then it's off to Belize for 8 nights! SOO excited about that. Then, we come back, I move to Denver (FI is already up there), and we're taking a weekend in the mountains of Colorado at a private home and getting legally married! It's going to be like 3-4 weeks of just pure fun!

Quote: Originally Posted by David and Laura We are staying 7 nights at the Estate Lindholm (small B & in St. John, and 4 nights on Peter Island in the BVI. OMG you are going to love Peter Island! Takes lots of pictures for us!

Welcome! We love pictures!

Welcome to the forum!

Best Wishes and Welcome! You'll love it here!

For all you Heidi & Spencer haters and lovers, here is Heidi's recent video shoot...made me laugh!!! Heidi Montag on the Cheap - TMZ.com

We decided to wait and do all pictures after the ceremony. We just want to keep that anticipation. I was also afraid that if we do before pictures, since many of our guests are staying very close to us, they would see us before the ceremony as well. And as a guest, I love that anticiaption of seeing the bride & groom nervous and so excited to see each other. Although I wish we could do some shots before, b/c I'm afraid we're going to lose the light! We'll just have to do them very quickly!