Celina

I love the silver on the envelopes - looks SO classy. They came out beautiful! Great job!

I love the beads on the bout. Great job!

WOW Rebecca - those came out wonderful! Your guests are going to love your bags!

Quote: Originally Posted by ethrondson There aren't really that many weekends left to do things! That is scary. I think there are only 6 more pay days until we have to have our trip paid off too. OMG - What a way to put me in check!! OH CRAP - SEVEN - 7 paydays till we are in Mexico! I get paid the day before the wedding - but that doesn't count. OM FREAKING GOD I AM TOTALLY FREAKING OUT OVER THIS!!! It is going to come faster than I think!! Quote: Originally Posted by tvt ok, so now i keep thinking about favors.... is it tacky not to do a "favor"? every wedding i've been to lately it's been a little box of candy - which I love since I have a huge sweet tooth - but really I don't want to bring anything extra down to mexico... so what do you think. tacky to not have favors? Nah - it's not tacky! I'm not doing favors for my AHR. The people who attend the Mexico wedding are getting HOOKED UP! Everyone else gets food and a slideshow of what they missed! Quote: Originally Posted by Chiquita I am not doing favors. They are all getting a nice OOT bag full of wonderful stuff so I don't think a favor is necessary. Everyone always forgets them anyways.. unless they are food they eat right away! Heh. EXACTLY - The OOT bags are loaded - why do more? I really shouldn't talk here because we are having one other little favor of palm tree boxes filled with M&M's. I HAD to do it though! FI gave me my e-ring in a bag of M&M's. It's symbolic to no one else but us and the kids - but it's us. I am just going to put them on a table with a poem in a frame. OKAY - so I called FI and told him about 7 pay days. He laughed at me! OMG - I have to get myself in gear here. We are having a bridal party assembly day on August 16th. We need to get the invites out. I have them doing a bunch of DIY stuff too like flip flops, luminaries, programs and tears of joy packets. He is so laid back. I e-mailed my WC and she said we could line the aisle on beach with palm fronds. YAY!! I also got our friend who is a caterer lined up to help us for our AHR. He had some great ideas for food. I feel like I am rambling...I am still in shock over 7 pay days.........

That came out cute! I need to check JoAnne's - I need to get another BM iron on. Great job! Doesn't it feel good to save $? Those custom shirts are outrageously priced!

Those are CUTE!! I LOVE that color! Great idea!

Have an awesome day Abbie! Rock those Converse and enjoy yourself! LOVE YA!! ~Celina xoxoxo

Wow Dez, you are on the ball! I'd love to see the pendants and pashminas. I was thinking of buying our moms some pashminas. Good for you!

Quote: Originally Posted by Kat81 OMG how crazy it that? I love it. All that time you had known this lady and she had befriended your mom so many years back. I think I have typed this out before in another thread but here goes...... My friend Codi's Mom passed when she was four months old. It was sudden and unexpected. Codi got married last August and it was really really hard on her because we tend to rely on our Mom's so much through this process. She decided to dance with her Dad to a song called "holes in the floor of heaven" which is about a Mom passing and on the daughters wedding day it is raining and everyone is telling her how it's her mom crying wishing she could be there. . OMG I have tears in my eyes just from reading that! How beautiful! Who sings that song? Jacqueline - that is SO cool. I had someone read my palms once and it was true what they said too.

Harty - you always have a way with words LOLOL!!

This is a good thread...I was wondering the etiquette myself.

I love them all! When you upload your pic on photobucket you have to save it as medium to make the pic not show so big.

Flygirl - Welcome to the November Bride thread! Let us know how we can help! Michelle - my seamstress suggested I take her my dress in late August at the earliest. I'm kind of glad I put it on because now I know what I need to work on to make it fit better! Jessica - hope the wedding went well! The FG dress is cute! I love the bottom of the dress - I'm sure she'll look like a little angel! Erica - YAY for finding the fans! Well - FI went camping and misplaced our camera so I couldn't take pics of my invites and OOT bags. I wasn't able to go look for a sombrero because I was so tired. Me and the kids ran errands all day Saturday in the heat and my poor little boy was so tired of going all day. We got home around 3 and he was knocked out. I was going to go yesterday but FI got home early from camping and was very sick. So I just stayed in and finished laundry and made dinner. Our weekends are filling up. I am starting to feel the pressure!

YAY! Another PV Bride! Welcome to the forum! Hope we can help!

Okay Ava - I totally want to give a smackdown to that girl! UGH - I had this happen to us too. Fortunately the one making the fuss is no longer going to our wedding. YAY!! This is what we did. I broke down the expense for them. The cost to stay at the RIU was cheaper because at timeshares, you have to pay for food and alcohol. At one hotel the cost for a one-time use of the coffee maker in the hotel room was $9 for a pot of 6 cups of coffee. Even though you can buy food at the timeshare hotels, a bottle of water was $5 and a margarita was $8. Depending on the location of the timeshare, you have to pay for a taxi. The RIU hotels are in the back of Nuevo Vallarta. A taxi from the RIU to downtown was about $18 one way. I told everyone that we put a lot of time and effort in 1) finding a hotel that offered the most in a wedding package because it is OUR WEDDING! and 2) we put a lot of time and effort in finding a hotel that was affordable for everyone. If they chose to stay at another hotel we would have to have them pay for their own day pass IF we had space because you can only accommodate a certain amount of time share people in your wedding because of the 80/20% ratio required at the RIU hotels. Tell them that you have prioritized it and only these guests are staying in time shares are exempt because they are family (or whatever) and that anyone else staying in timeshares can not come to the wedding because they put you over the ratio. Tell them you ARE having your wedding there and that you aren't changing it for them. Be firm. She'll either back down and see the light or she won't come. You can always tell her if she doesn't comply that your girls at BDW are going to give her a smackdown!

I love that poem too! Very cute!

Waaaaahhhh Abbie!! One pic! You are such a tease! Go finish getting married and we'll see you when you get back! You look good in the one teaser pic! GOTTA see more pics of your hair - it looks SO good!

Speaking of which, my FI just got back from a "guy only" weekend camping trip. I dont' mind if FI goes. I think he needs time with his guy friends and it gives me time with my girlfriends. We don't really have any single friends anymore. Most of our friends have kids, so when the guys are gone, the girls can hang out with the kids and let the kids play while we catch up on girl stuff. The guys he goes out with are all married and responsible and they aren't into strippers, girls and aren't getting into trouble. OH believe me, I know they look - but it never goes as far as that! I absolutely trust him. He has went on long weekend trips to Vegas with his boys. It doesn't bother me. I think it is good for us to sometimes spend time apart. We recharge our batteries and are much nicer to eachother. Some people may not agree with it, but to me it gives us each a little independence away from our daily lives with kids, work and everything else. When he got home yesterday he said this about one of the guys, "Geez, I'm glad I'm not___. He said when he get's home his wife is going to dump the kids on him and have a chore list for him like you wouldn't believe". On a side note, IMHO - if you are going to agree to his/her weekends - you need to do it without making the other spouse feel guilty about it. (Okay...I'll step down from my soap box now)!

Quote: Originally Posted by Aimless911 Great stuff so far! LOVE the sand ceremony vases...have been looking for something like those...off to Pier 1 I go! :-) Keep up the great work! My thoughts exactly! I LOVE those vases!

Oh Maura, I am SO happy for you and Jose! You looked beautiful! You look so radiant and are glowing in your pics! Who was the lady you were holding hands with in the group photo? You can tell there was so much love there! Your weekend sounded amazing! Congratulations! Luv ya! Celina

Somewhere else there was a post and someone had a pic of lining the aisle with palm fronds and rose petals. It looked really nice. If I can get that at our hotel, I am going to. I e-mailed the WC last week and haven't heard anything.

Quote: Originally Posted by JennyK Wow Celina..that's some story. More! Okay - so this is the only other story I have about my mom. When this happened I was like - John Edwards aint got nothin on me! LOL!! Six years ago my younger sister (who I recently disowned) - was turning 30. She and I are two years and 4 days apart. She had been depressed for about a week. She was so confused about her life. She had so many unanswered questions. About two days before her birthday, she was all sad and was like - "gee, I wonder if mom was in labor now. I wonder if she had a c-section or if she delivered and went home. I wonder what she was going through. As a mom, what was she thinking about my arrival into the world." She was really down in the dumps about it. I could only be there to listen to her because I didn't have any answers. She was almost 2 when my mom died and has NO recollection of her at all. Honestly, I think the reason she is so flipped out right now is because she has always been looking for something and has never found it. She has a lot of unanswered questions and turmoil in her life because she grew up without her bio mom. Although we were in the exact situation, we processed it differently. I was able to absorb it and find peace and move along in life, both she and my older sister haven't been able to do that. SO - During this time I had been working for the fire department for about 2 years and every year the Fire Chief would send out a bday card. His secretary (whom I had known for the 2 years - we would chat about work, and she was a nice lady) called me and said, "The Chief asked me to call you to tell you happy b-day because we are late getting cards out. He didn't want you to think we forgot about you". I said, oh no problem. She said, "My daughter just had a birthday too". I said, "Oh cool, how old is she?" She said, she just turned 30. I was like, wow that's cool. My sister just turned 30 too. When was her bday? She said, "On March 12th". I said, "OMG- my sister's b-day is March 12th too". She was like - NO WAY!! What's your sisters name? I said Rachel. She said, "you are kidding me! Where was she born"? I said, "St. Lukes here in Denver, we were both born there". She said - "Celina this is so crazy! What is your mother's name"? I said, "her name was Sally. Unfortunately she passed when I was 4 and my sis was 2". She said, "OMG - Celina - your mother and I shared a hospital room when your sister was born!" I said, "NO WAY - that is insane!!" She said, "Celina - I have been journaling since I was a teenager and I KNOW I journaled during the time I was in the hospital with my daughter. I am going to see what I can find during my stay because I know I journaled some stuff about my talks with your mom. Would you mind if I sent you what I wrote? This is so cool! I said, "ABSOLUTELY - this is so awesome Michelle. We don't know much about our mother, that would be wonderful". 2 days later she sent me copies of her journal pages from when she was in the hospital. In it, she wrote down in her own words all of the questions that my sister wanted to know about my mom. Some of them were that "her room mate was only there for a couple of days because she didn't have a c-section like me." She said that she loved her talks with her room mate "Sal" and that she had two little girls at home (I have an older sis as well). During their talks "both of us agreed that we just wanted our children to grow up to be beautiful, happy and successful women". There was more detail in the journal - I just cant' remember it all. Is that crazy or what?!?! I swear, during our most trying times, my mom has a way of presenting her self to me in the most unique ways. I think she uses me as her way to this side. Now that I think of it, I have always been the one to give my sisters information about my mom. I'll run into people who were friends with her. I have been the only one out of us three girls who this ever happens to. Another thing that happens to me, is I am terrified to drive in the snow. Where I live it starts to blow across the highway on my way home and it's a total white out. Sometimes as I am gripping the wheel, trying to drive - I feel a warm sensation in my back like someone has put a hand on me. I know it's my mom. This has happened more than once. Probably about 3 times or so. It's pretty amazing and I just embrace it. I think my mom sees that I am very different from my other sisters. Maybe it's because I am the middle child - who knows. Anyhow - I think it's way cool.

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura for newbies Thanks Maur!

Quote: Originally Posted by ethrondson So I just got off the phone with a marraige commissioner and booked our legal day for 08/08/08 (my birthday and my little sis's birthday) So excited, and I have to go and meet with her tomorrow afternoon to get everything arranged for the day. How exciting. OMG, that is less than a month away! Oh how wonderful! How cool is it that it is on your birthday too! Congrats! SO...........today I got two HUGE wedding things but can't take pics till tomorrow because FI has the camera with him camping........I got my invitations and my embroidered OOT bags and handkerchiefs! ALL are SO beautiful! Today the kids and I are going out to look for a miniature white velvet sombrero for our ring bearer! We are hitting up all the Mexican stores in hopes of finding one. Wish us luck!

OMG Danielle! I am so sorry! Let me know if you need anything or if I can help in any way. I promise to back up my files on Monday - (I have an extra flash drive at work).