Maura

rebecca did your flowers come yet? i dont remember seeing photos of the arrived product

i just tracked my AA flowers and it says they are on the fedex truck out for delivery today!!!! eeeeeeeee!!!!!

you cannot have flowers imported into mexico from the US. your only option for importing flowers to los cabos is importing them from within mexico - often the best place to have them imported from is mexico city. sorry to be debbie downer but your mom wouldnt be allowed to bring flowers into mexico. you can always order stems from a florist and have your mom do all the arranging.

amy thats wonderful news! if you end up needing a backup for any reason, you have my phone number

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl "WAKE UP PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A WEEKEND BACKYARD BARBEQUE WHERE YOU CAN JUST GO RUN OUT FOR AN EXTRA CASE OF BEER AND A COUPLE EXTRA BURGERS! ITS A FUCKING WEDDING!!!!!!!! USE PROPER ETIQUETTE ACCORDINGLY, ASSHOLE!" this is my new unofficial siggy quote i am best known for my eloquence - hence the reason i am a journalist LOL

amy, just FYI i have a dozen and heres what they look like: i can ship to you like this in the box, or put together with ribbon already let me know!

ah shiiiit i forgot i drove to work today because i dropped jose off at the airport, i have to get my car outta the lot by 7 and nordstrom is 5 blocks from here. no way will i have enough time. big boo. hmmm.... now i have to think... go home and do stuff there, or go drive somewhere to get a bra....

LOL.... i am backing up my files and then my arse is outta here!

amy, if you dont have your flowers in hand by tuesday morning next week, please let me know --- i have extra DIY stems, white callas that I can bind together with some nice ribbon, and i will gladly overnight them to you in case you need flowers

chrisnessa please resize your siggy, its WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over the size limit

omg that will look sooooo hot! LOL i am thinking about ditching out of work right now to go bra shopping... what do you think? should I? i mean....... i have to be here by 8 tomorrow morning anyway, might as well enjoy my night!

abbie dont forget pics!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl wow. that does suck! some people have no class. on the other hand, at least you are getting rsvp's. we have had 47 out of 200 respond, and today was our deadline. nice. thanks for paying attention assholes now i'm on the "it already has a stamp how f-ing hard can it be to mail it" rant. we have about 20 RSVP responses out of 100 invitations sent (just counting the US) - however, i submitted several of those on my own, because i heard through friends that certain people wouldnt be coming or because a guest emailed me to let me know they couldnt make it. but regardless, we have about the same percentage back and your wedding is one full month before mine. my deadline to RSVP is june 28th, and i just know ill have to make phone calls. Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan I knew all about the RSVP drama from friends wedding so I specifically planned my wedding with no RSVPs needed. People either booked or they didn't. we even did RSVPs on our website to make it easier for people to do it because we knew people are stupid when it comes to sending back RSVP cards! you'd think they'd do it already...but no! we made it so easy for them it just makes me sick how rude some people are. Quote: Originally Posted by Christa Ugh Maura, you captured one of my biggest pet peeves! I love it when one of my friends will call & be all pissy because I didn't respond to her "important" question that she left on my myspace page! WTF woman! I'm 32 years old...I have a job...and a phone....and email...I do not check myspace daily, much less weekly. Fricking insensitive weird people!@ i should mention too --- one of the people who facebook messaged me to let me know she can no longer come to the wedding is almost 50 years old! a college professor of mine who is a dear friend and was my mentor. she of all people should know better. everybody we know is aware i have a highly demanding job, and am best reached by phone or email - REAL methods of getting a hold of me efficiently because i have a blackberry so email & calls come to me instantly....i dont check my facebook everyday, i just dont have time. and i NEVER go on myspace. WAKE UP PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A WEEKEND BACKYARD BARBEQUE WHERE YOU CAN JUST GO RUN OUT FOR AN EXTRA CASE OF BEER AND A COUPLE EXTRA BURGERS! ITS A FUCKING WEDDING!!!!!!!! USE PROPER ETIQUETTE ACCORDINGLY, ASSHOLE!

Quote: Originally Posted by Just Martha I think people use email, facebook, IM, myspace, whatever as a cop out when they don't want to actually speak to someone. Rude!!! I totally agree with you Martha -- in fact, when my sister backed out of my wedding as my MOH, she did it via IM! How tacky!!!!

i mean, i know i am preaching to the choir here, but you guys know what i mean!

I am extremely pissed about something this week that I just have to get off my chest before I explode. My shower was last weekend, and several (yes, several as in more than 3) people did not even have the decency to RSVP to the hostess. After the fact, I received messages from 2 of the people on FACEBOOK to let me know they basically got caught up in their own lives and that's why they didn't a) RSVP or show up. I am sorry, but I think this is so so SO totally inappropriate and INCREDIBLY rude and poor mannered to not respond to an invitation and then send your regrets that you were an asshole via facebook or another like method. I also received one email from someone who didn't show up who also failed to RSVP for the shower. Her excuse? She was out running errands and was nowhere near the shower location when it began, so she just didn't show up. WHAT?! You knew you had to be somewhere on a certain day at a certain time... why did you not plan for that? Even if you don't have enough decency to go for the bride, please have the decency to at least RSVP to the hostess, who usually goes through a lot of trouble (and $!) to put a shower together, making sure there are enough refreshments, etc etc. All it takes is a 2 second phone call! My rant for the day is that I am extremely irritated at how easy the internet has made it for people to facelessly try to excuse their unacceptable behavior. More and more often recently, I read posts here on the forum about how so-and-so's mom/sister/cousin/friend/MOH/whoever wrote them some nasty email expecting something. In most cases, I would bet my entire year's salary that these people would NEVER have the gall to say these things to our faces, yet somehow when they send it via email, they think it is ok. I am so so fed up with people thinking that it's ok to act this way! IT ISN'T! Another guest we invited to the wedding, who already booked her plane ticket and hotel stay also informed me VIA FACEBOOK this week that she is no longer able to attend. The reason she has to back out is totally legitimate and I am not disputing that, in fact, if I were her, I would make the same decision. But after you RSVP to a wedding that you're coming, you MUST pick up a TELEPHONE and CALL the bride & groom to let them know your plans have changed if you can no longer attend. FACEBOOK IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE METHOD! I feel like writing a generalized note on facebook to address proper manners, but then I would be the one who looks crazy even though I am not the one who has bad manners. I just want to extend a BIG to the universe today. I am so tired of people having bad manners!

LOL martha, too bad you tossed the dress!

Quote: Originally Posted by shawna Congratulations to all the engaged ladies out there! Has anyone gotten married at the Historic Chapel at the Palmilla Hotel in Los Cabos? I have heard that it starts at about $10,000 to get married here. I am looking to spend about half that much. Really, all I want to do is get married on the chapel stairs in front. I don't even need to go inside, or stay at that actual hotel. Is that possible? The Riu Palace in the Riviera Maya is my back up. They have a little, very gold, chapel inside the hotel. If anyone has info on that it would be great too. Thanks for your help welcome! regarding your question, the palmilla does not allow you to use the chapel or its property unless you are a paying guest of O&O palmilla

if youre going to have crinoline at all, you need to have it before. my alterations lady refused to do anything to my dress if i didnt have my undergarments or crinoline if i was using it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kat81 LMAO Maura!! Actuallly my friend sent that to me via email today because she was making a joke about me doing that..... I am proud of my girls but not THAT proud LMAO I will leave that for the honeymoon the girl in the photo doesnt exactly have the kind of ta-tas id be proud to show off like that anyway she needs a breast lift it looks like. glad i made you laugh! hahaha i bet you never had so many people interested in your boobies before in your whole life

whattaya mean kath?! you mean youre not going to do that with your dress to show off your new ta-tas?

Quote: Originally Posted by Alyssa i don't know - i just got a shower gift in the mail yesterday and we opened it. i guess you could either bring them to your shower to open with the rest of the gifts or hold to the side if the gift giver specially requests that ?? alyssa you dodo dont open any gifts that arrive in the mail between now and your shower! its bad enough you already know what they are besides, you want people to take your pic opening the gift at the shower, so you can show the person who sent it! my friends who didnt make it to my shower saturday but sent gifts LOVED that i sent out a link to a photo album of me opening their gifts

yari thats hilarious! noo! you should open your gift when it arrives unless someone tells you not to -- the reason being that most of the time when someone sends you a gift, they know when it's been delivered, so if too long goes by that they havent gotten a thank you note, they tend to get cranky about it. a friend of mine did that and her guests thought she was so rude (i was friends with several other guests who sent gifts and didnt get immediate thanks) -- turns out she just hadnt opened any of the boxes yet!

i want to say also that although i voiced my opinion above that i wouldnt mind because im a bride and i know the prints can be costly, i do have to partially agree with alyssa & jamy - jac i think because you are having a more traditional at-home wedding, your guests who are not superclose friends probably would be like WTF, she wants me to pay for her photographer?

we've been living together for just about 1 year now, and for me the biggest adjustment was sharing a bathroom... for some reason my FI cannot pee without sprinkling the edge of the toilet bowl, and sometimes even the floor if he goes in the middle of the night. it drives me absolutely mad. he doesnt wipe it up either and he is the biggest clean freak i know! its so gross. now, on days when we are going to have company or when i've just cleaned the bathroom, he sits down to pee so i dont get mad. when i lived alone, i also used to throw stuff wherever when i got home from work because i was tired and figured why should i put it away now if i can put it away later? haha. that annoys the bajesus out of my FI so i had to stop doing it. we have a queen bed, which fits us both fine, but when we buy a house we will be getting a king bed for sure. my FI likes to stretch out. he just left this morning for a biz trip for 5 days and he said he would miss me but he was excited to sleep in a bed by himself so he can sprawl out!