Maura

Quote: Originally Posted by SoontobeMrsE I agree here 100%! I am a hand written thank you card giver! I even make my kids write thank you cards. There is nothing worse than a thank you letter that is type written and not signed. In my opinion, why write it?? i 100% agree too! among my friends, i am famous for sending out thank you cards quickly and also calling to say thanks when i receive something. i always make my own thank you cards too, it gives it such a personal touch in addition to personally handwriting and signing your card -- and no generic "thanks for the gift" message -- i always write something to the effect of "thank you so much for the ____." and then i tell them something nice about how i used the gift or whatever. i always get comments about how nice my thank you cards are, but really i think its something everyone should do. in college, i had a side business making thank you cards and other personalized stationery for sororities, and its something i love to do to be creative anyway. i just make myself a batch of them all at once and keep them in a drawer, and i also always carry an extra small 4 bar thank you note in my day planner in case of emergencies. haha.

Quote: Originally Posted by PaulaV Hey! We both have 'El Angel' i always make the chofer drive past it at least once every time i visit haha. i love it! i have a photo i took of it as the background on my computer at home! i will try next month to put another mexico city photo in mine, i challenge you to do the same!

Quote: Originally Posted by redwards Awwww Maura...I can see why you're upset. If it helps any, my DH did a similar thing w/ the wording on some stuff he sold on ebay. Actually, he writes up some "sob story" like that every time he needs to sell something. His thinking is that it gives the buyer a reason that a guy would be selling a perfectly good "whatever" and makes it more relatable etc. usually it's something like, "My wife says she's tired of xx item taking up space in the house...either it goes or I go." It's total BS...and honestly, the ONE thing I'm always nagging at him to get rid of is the the ONE thing he hasn't sold yet! loL!! Ah, the irony. I know there are a lot more reasons that you're upset about this...but hopefully my little story helps a little with the ad-wording that's bothering you. I think it's just a bunch of bs that he wrote to garner sympathy and maybe drive up the selling price a bit. ;-) Well Rachelle, it turns our your DH and mine should be best friends. I talked to him about it when I got home and he did exactly what your DH did, hoping it would garner sympathy and more money. don't i feel stupid now... he even told me i shouldnt believe everything i read on the internet, because i am the one always telling other people that! haha

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel He really wrote that Maura? Or did someone else as a joke? I don't even know what to say. I'm so hurt for you. no he seriously wrote it. he told me he placed a craigslist ad for the drums yesterday, and i was going to call his mom to talk some sense into him to not sell the drums, so i went looking for the ad to be sure he really placed it. i dont even want to go home right now.

i am in tears at my desk at work right now because i just found an ad on craigslist that my FI posted to sell his drum set which i asked him explicitly NOT to sell. his boss demanded that he remove it from his office basement and my FI doesnt want it to sit in storage "taunting him" but he LOVES this drum set. anyway, the ad says some mean stuff about having "a demanding fiancee" and that he "needs to pay for my fiancee's dream wedding, sell out, hand over my nuts and resign to a life of blister-less hands (well, maybe except for my jacking-off hand once i get married)." what do i do? i told him many many times, that i dont want to spend more than we have, go into debt or have to sell anything to afford our honeymoon.

trish, can you post them as jpegs through photobucket? im having a hard time opening the attachments. it comes out jumbly

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMrsB Steve's band is Palladium. It is made by Scott Kay and we bought it at Jared's. They had to order it but it came in about 10 days and he loves it. Scott Kay has a lot of nice pieces and should be relatively easy to find. Good Luck! Scott Kay doesn't make a band as plain as my FI wants He wants something that looks like this: 4mm Palladium Wedding Band, Domed

skip the fuss, go with #3!

Bumping this because we went and tried on wedding bands for my FI this weekend and we are considering buying him a palladium band. He doesn't like the idea of having to rhodium dip a white gold band. I am coming up with all sorts of sellers when I do a google search for men's palladium wedding bands, but does anybody have any recommendations of sellers? My FI wants a 4mm plain comfort fit palladium band, and I really didn't know anything about palladium until about a day ago. Any advice anybody can provide about reputable sellers would be fantastic! Thanks! And Tami, thanks for the full rundown on palladium above!

those are pretty celina. very classic and clean!

papersource is pretty good about making things right with their customers. i exchange stuff there all the time. its worth giving them a call!

Hey girls, Thought I would share because one of my BMs just called to let me know that the Ann Taylor BM dresses are 25% off right now because of some promotion they're running. Don't know how long it goes. But they are also doing 25% off their wedding gowns, so the $900 beaded dress is now $675, the lace one was $1200 but is now $900 etc. The BM dresses are regularly $198 so with the discount they're $148.50! If you have any summer weddings to go to as a guest, they have other cute dresses for 25% off too ANN TAYLOR ONLINE STORE: Celebrations

oh, i thought of one during lunch. my whole family says "skanks" instead of thanks, because when i was little (like 2) i said skanks instead of thanks, and it stuck. literally everyone -- even some of my aunts/uncles and cousins say it! the first time my FI heard my dad say it to me when we were over at my parents' house for dinner, my FI was like uhhh WTF... haha

nicole, love the hankies, please let us know where you got them!

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl Oh we also say "murdalize" as in, "Ooh I could just murdalize that idiot who just cut me off!" omg. i just busted out laughing at my desk and now people are looking at me. thanks abbie! i have to use murdalize in a sentence today! too funny. jose and i keep a running list of the stupid things we each say, i should pull that out and post a few of my own later tonight!

i made corned beef last night and we bought green river to drink and i ate irish soda bread with butter for breakfast i am not wearing green though because my FI is on vacation this week, and i didnt want to turn on the bedroom lights to look for my green shirt while he was still sleeping

Quote: Originally Posted by Jacqueline Thats a sin and totally not fair for you. Next time he says anything negative, say something right back! Like "You dont have to be a part of our wedding if everything's such a hassle." Or "If I woulda known you'd be such a bitch I would have asked you to be a bridesmaid" (not meanig your bm are bitches but just that he's acting like a girl! For real, F that. That is not fair at all that you are even upset about him. i like this solution, it basically tells him he's got to man-up or ugh, laura, sorry he's giving you such a hard time!

if you dont see anything you like in the stores, try this place, Dyeable Wedding Shoes from Kate Spade, Cynthia Rowley, & More my best friend got gorgeous shoes for her wedding from there and I am considering 2 different pairs from there too!

aw morg sorry to hear this happened to you.

first load your photos into photobucket. then copy and paste the IMG code into the forum post.

Happy Birthday Jules!

Happy Anniversary Christa! Hope you and Rafael have a moment to celebrate without any craziness, and may you always have as much love as you did one year ago!

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan That's my Ex. Is that weird? I mean it's such a good picture of me. Maybe I can photoshop mike's head on his body. Just kidding. That's my brother. He is in many of the pictures with me. hahahhahaha, yeah you do look smokin in that photo though! even if it was your ex, id say still leave it in hahaha ;-)

Quote: Originally Posted by katrina it went well! only minor alterations- cups, and bit off the hemline and i get to pick it up this week! wooo thats great! my dress is supposed to be here march 24, but we are moving that saturday and sunday so i probably wont get to go try it on until the first weekend in april

Quote: Originally Posted by Dbld78 she's already called me and emailed me stating...."You picked a hell of time to get married....your wedding is gonna cost me a fortune". Don't worry it's not affecting her trip to Italy in September at all....hint, hint....that because that's something she WANTS to do! are you kidding? i have the same sort of relationship with my younger sister, and if she said that to me, i would tell her, dont come if youre going to be a bitch. she's bitching about charleston when she should be thanking you for not picking something like cabo for crying out loud!