Maura

also, what about something like: "must wave your invitation, but please send us a postcard" ?

Quote: Originally Posted by manda0812 these look great, so elegant and taste of what is to come. BTW love your new signature (or is it called avatar??) it looks great thanks! i did it with pages on my mac. took like 3 days for me to figure it out and make it look good, but i am so excited for next month's siggy challenge now!

snarky is an actual word --and its actually british slang, according to the dictionary. snarky - Definitions from Dictionary.com

Quote: Originally Posted by amyh I'm not sure if this is a Catholic or Latin thing, but I usually see a little cross next to the name to signify the person is deceased. i've definitely seen this before!

uyyyy if i got one that said that i'd be offended for sure.

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl well yeah, but we're doing STD's for our big fake wedding at home because it is in the summer when a lot of families with kids are on vacation, and we wanted to make sure they plan around us! we have about 200 people coming to that one, LOTS of kids! ah..... well then yeah, you should get on that! technically for at home weddings, you only need to send STDs to people out of town, but since you have people with kids, i would say its a good idea to send them if you want everybody to come! my FMIL just ordered the STDs for mexico yesterday and will get them in 2 weeks. so dont stress, but yeah you should get those out in the next week or two.

morgan that looks great! but one question -- who is the guy you are with in the picture at the end who isnt mike? haha

legal size paper maybe? not sure. she should be back any day now though! ill shoot her an email and ask her for more pics. i was going to copy her programs for ours, so i was going to see if she had an extra she could mail to me that i would return.

felicidades celina, que lo pases bien!

abbie dont freak out because im an early aug bride, but i sent my STDs march 4th. dont all the people coming to hawaii basically already know theyre coming though?

ok, i really cant seem to capture the true ugliness, but here's the best shot i can get. the paper quality of the folder is just really really poor. we arent crazy about the paper samples they sent us that matched. obiously, ignore that the paper that has our details on it is reg computer paper and i didnt cut completely straight on the lines. but they look just awful.

katrina how did your fitting go?

ok i was so inspired by all the other creative siggys this month that i had to make one. it took me like 3 days to put it together so i hope you like it! (and now that it's halfway thru march haha, i will have to start earlier on next month's theme!)

my FI is battling this. i personally think smoking is one of the most disgusting habits to have. i stopped allowing him to smoke out our living room window over the winter which made a significant impact. but he is super stressed out right now at work and i caught him hiding ciggys the other day so i wouldnt be disappointed, and he looked like a kid getting caught stealing from the cookie jar. i have 2 grandparents die from cancer related to smoking. FI's mom smokes, and shes a breast cancer survivor. i just dont get the mentality. i expressed to her how sad i would be if she died from smoking related illness and how i really want our future children to have a strong bond with her. she promised me over christmas that she was going to gradually quit smoking so that by the time our wedding arrives, she wont smoke anymore. smoking is really a horrible addiction, just dont give into the temptations. my FI is so bitchy when i tell him to stop smoking or to resist the craving but once he makes it over that hump he's ok. he does inhale extra deep if we pass someone on the sidewalk with a cigarette though, which i think is so disturbing!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy Morgan, I was going to suggest a DIY intervention til I read this: Now I'm just sad for both of you! (But Maura, we want to see pics of what you created!) hahahhaa no i didnt recycle them into a DIY project, i mean i literally threw them in my recycling bin and put them in the recycling compacter in my condo building so they wouldnt go into a landfill

wow leia - $100? thats a steal for that kind of beauty insurance ;-) and i just noticed youve already got 80 guests booked for OCTOBER! way to go girl! re: makeup not melting -- my photog recommended MAC makeup and foundation. it photographs well and wont run.

Quote: Originally Posted by BeachBride82 I asked a friend of my parents who is a local wedding coordinator this question. She said that she would prefer money over a gift. She said that it's fairly standard to tip 15%. 15% of her fee you mean? what about people using the hotel's WC, what are you doing? (assuming you actually like them and they are helpful. so far the westin has not even given me a WC and the people who i have to deal with in the meantime are incompetent half the time.)

Quote: Originally Posted by dmarie17 Okay, i made an appointment for tomorrow. I am going to do a Brazilian wax and my armpits. I am scared. oooh where did you book? i didnt see you asked for a referral and i have someone who is really good and i wont go anywhere else. my girl is in lakeview. PM me if you want her info! and let me know where you made your appointment!

Quote: Originally Posted by marip123 Well, we are having our ceremony on the beach. I'm sorry to hear you still haven't been able to confirm Arricefes. that would just be a magical place for a ceremony. After I saw this post, I went and emailed Lorena again with the email she sent me telling me she would get back to me last week. Funny, but not really. Kind of annoying. dont bother with asking about doing the ceremony at arricefes. they want a $10,000 buyout fee to use the foyer. we told them thanks but no thanks. we have to pick another location now. grrr. i will post an awesome map they gave us, but it doesnt include the terraces. its on my home computer though, so will post tonight.

For anyone interested, here is the attachment of the little quiz Helen was sweet enough to send me. KatieandChrisengagementparty-Games[1].doc

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan Is it a cutural thing? Anny is making some beautiful decorative invites in Mexico. I think it might be an upbringing type of thing. I love decorative stuff. But some of my friends think wedding invites have to be ivory with little pieces of tissue and the most decorative the can get is a scripty font & some embossing. I totally don't agree. I get bored with the typical invite. If people thought my bright blue invites were tacky then they can just call me Tacky McTackerson I thought white aisle invites were high class. They look so formal too me. i think its a combo of culture and upbringing. he comes from a very wealthy family, and especially because mexico city (i cant speak for every other city in mexico) is very classist, he grew up with a lot of things and notions that are different from the way i was raised. he always only attended private bilingual schools, always had a chauffeur, a live-in maid and another maid who came (and still comes to his parents home) 3x a week. Because his family is wealthy, they subscribe to a lot of the formalities that come with wedding stuff -- like all white super formal invitations -- which I just dont think are appropriate for a DW, but I went with it because it was their tradition, their cultural norm. He didnt want script, and his mom kind of threw a fit about it at first. Then she eventually softened to the idea. I personally love Anny's colorful invites, they are more my style. I like colorful things. However, my FI deems them inappropriate. One of the invitations I initially liked was colorful and had a palm tree graphic, and he told me it looked tacky and like a children's bday party invitation. One thing I feel we are constantly having to consider when doing wedding stuff is how the mexican guests will perceive things. For example, we aren't doing a welcome dinner or a rehearsal dinner because those are not custom in Mexico. My FI really doesnt want to do OOT bags because the mexican guests "will think it's weird" -- but realizes that not doing anything for the americans will be rude, because they will expect something. Among the social circle his parents belong to, when someone has a DW, most people fly in on Friday and leave Sunday. The time they're there other than the actual wedding is generally spent catching up with friends on their own so they dont like planned stuff. I feel like much of what we plan, or rather what I agree to, is being done in order to impress my FMIL's friends --- which I am OK with. She was generous enough to offer to pay for my dream wedding, and is sparing no expense, which my parents never could have afforded to contribute a dime to, that I feel its a small concession on my part to let her do stuff like invite a few extra guests, we are doing all the mexican catholic traditions for our ceremony, etc. I only asked that I have complete control over 2 things: the photographer, and the wedding invitations being sent in the U.S. I love decorative stuff too, so call me Tacky McTackerson. I felt the white aisle invites were very classy, and not overly casual with the graphics. I thought (and still think) they're elegant and lovely. I still want them. I dunno it's a difficult situation coming from two totally different backgrounds, and don't get me wrong its not like I grew up in the sticks, I grew up in an affluent Chicago suburb, attended the best public schools etc. I think the cultural opinions we each have sometimes cause problems like this between us, because he will never change his view, and I am not willing to bend mine either. I don't want to send wedding invitations that don't show my personality at all, and I dont want to regret sending something I'm unhappy with, ESPECIALLY because I'm paying for them, you know?

ok at least i dont feel so bad. maira gallegos was going to call me this week to decide a ceremony location, and she never called. surprise surprise. where are you doing yours on the grounds?

you guys are seriously the best! my FI bust out last night that he hates them, but then i reminded him that 1) i am paying for the invitations, and 2) i went with the more boring, bland, traditional wedding invitations being sent to his family and friends in mexico. i am hoping when they arrive, he feels differently. i havent had a chance to scan the uglies yet, but promise to do it tonight! i cant wait to get my sample in the mail from white aisle, hopefully it comes tomorrow. i am just so tired of invitations by now, that i just want to get them done with no more fighting about our vast differences in taste and what he deems appropriate for a wedding invitation. i told him that i thought his view was based on a cultural difference and he got so mad at me last night haha. he thinks invitations with graphics on them are "low-class, tacky, tasteless, inelegant" etc etc. I told him with all due respect, i disagree and I think the fact that we are from different cultures is why. You shoulda seen the shade of red his face was.

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan Bed Bath & Beyond gave me those little enlosures. I should have gave them back because it seems so wasteful to trash them. Hmm, wonder if I can do a craft project with them. Stick something on the front over the words like it's a piece of cardstock... I recycled my BB&B enclosures! Quote: Originally Posted by nikkianddean Oh, I got so sad when I saw that wording. Morgan, you could never be the queen of tacky: I had a sorority sister last summer who: 1. Asked for monetary gifts 2. Told me I could not bring Dean because we were not married or engaged -we were only living together. (To make matters worse she had been living with her (now) husband for 4 years and they had 2 children) 3. Had a cash bar at her wedding Rest assured you will never be Senora Tackmaster, cuz this girl has you beat hands down!!! Oh hell no! how did she word the part asking for $? I hope you didnt attend that weddding. cash bar? i mean i understand some people cant afford to do open bar all night, but at least do wine/beer during dinner for christssake...i feel like that's the minimum that would be acceptable. and that is just plain rude she didnt let you bring dean -- you were obviously committed enough to be living together! Quote: Originally Posted by heidi&alex I think I can top that... I worked with a girl once and on her invitations she put 'in lieu of presents we ask that you purchase a ticket to our wedding' - the tickets were $80 per person or something and she was telling me how it was still a great deal for a nice meal included - TACKY!!! I agree... there is no right way to ask for money - just not good manners. omg. hahahaha. that is one of the tackiest things ive EVER heard! i think that ranks right up their with mine.

oh yeah, and its prominent on there too. i see what you mean. tacky tacky!