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Advil can be called "head candy!" I actually PLAYED Montezumas revenge! lol. Great idea!

thanks! I will make sure to recommend you guys to future brides!! <hugs>

what about dried rose petals instead of silk or live? Would still look pretty. Oh, maybe something else instead of rose petals. Like, um, sea glass, or colored stones, or something like that.

thanks for the template! It looks great!

Morgan, you are TOO crazy! Your not busy enough with your OWN wedding! lol. I swear....you should be a wedding consultant! I think its meant to be! I have lots of beach type pictures, if you need them. Let me know. Lots of waves and such. Scenary, trees, things like that. (Fi is big into photography.)

gosh, sorry Morgan. I got nothing.....i have some beautiful beach pictures from Canada....but not Cuba! I'd get you one when I come back, but, i have a feeling that will be TOO late by then! Why do you need a cuba beach? Your getting married in Mexico! You could use a mexico beach.

be careful with loose medication though. Going over the border.... Good tip on chapstick on ebay. I would never have thought of that! I will order mine through ebay! It is cheaper than any i have seen fo far! Maybe I can find first aid kits on ebay too!

thats actually kind of the plan. Just a bbq...and, his family is actually bringing salads. SO, potluck bbq! lol. We are not even calling it a reception!! But, I still need to make invites..which is exciting. (gonna do boarding pass ones.) And, i have a tealight project I am making to hang from the tent we are renting. (I will post pics when I start.) Other than that, its at a friends acreage. So, really, not TOO much stress. My MoH is suppling music. (her brothers in a band...) So, it actually shouldn't be too bad. Actually, we are having our Handfasting at this bbq. (I am pagan, so, i wanted to do a pagan wedding, so to speak.)

thanks!! I actually have a shopping cart loaded up on Oriental, ready to go! (I mean, can't just buy ONE thing!! Would be a waste of shipping!!!)

You could ask your guests, if they want to give you something, to help pay for your honeymoon. Set up a registry with your TA. (Thats what we did.) Otherwise, are you having a party back home after you get married? We are having a "we got hitched" party the following summer. (There is where I will get stressed! lol) Anyways, guests could bring gifts to that. I will need to do this ALL over again once I have that summer party. Have to make invites, decorations, food, music, etc! Eeeks!!

well, you have to declare wedding gifts. Recently the duty-free personal exemption was raised to $800 per person and can be combined among family members. Mexican arts and crafts doesn’t count towards your limit and one liter of alcohol is allowed duty-free. The following items are legal in Mexico and readily available everywhere in the border area, but cannot be brought into the United States: Cuban cigars, turtle products, switchblades, butterfly knives and fireworks. For full customs information, check the U.S. Customs web site. CBP.gov - home page

none in Saskatoon. Or, nothing special. We have maybe 1 or 2 stores here....and thats it. So, not such a brig chinatown here!

hey. Morgan...when are you sending your brochures out? I am trying to get an idea on when to send my brochures out. How many months ahead!

well, when and if you create your brochures for your guest lists, welcome letter and things to do in Mayan, let us know!!! Would LOVE to see them too!! You might want to include something about customs in your brochure. What people can bring back! Also...you COULD print your brochures off yourself. Just use a printer setting that prints on both side on cardstock or heavier paper.

great prices!!! BUT...they don't ship to Canada!!!!! <boo>

I am getting fans. I am sure people will use them not ONLY for the wedding, but before and afterwards! Besides...who doesn't like fans!!!

mine are still in first stages...back where you started! lol. Though, I actually sent them to by FI to look at (he's a geologist, so is in the field up north for 3 months right now..) Anyway, he LOVED them! <grins> He is really impressed with the layout you created! So, now I am trying to get some ideas of excursions for my guests...and, yah, having fun playing around with your template!! Got any more? (laughs) I keep watching your blog site...to see what you started! AND....i created my own blog site too! Not much on there yet...but, maybe as I progress. I have to remind myself....my wedding isn't until December! I have LOTS of time! I don't need to send brochures out until....oh...April! <laughs> I want to do everything NOW!!!!

this is a great idea! I love the little boxes. I am going to have to hit my dollar store...see if i can find anything similiar!

I would never have thought of embossing powder!! I love using it too! Thanks for the idea!! Lisa

yah, i like them too. Not sure where I am going to use them! lol. But, we will see!!! Lisa

WOW! That is all I can say! You should really seriously consider being a wedding coordinator Morgan! I think you would be a wonderful job!!!

yah, i thought that one was good, especially since most of us are marrying by an ocean!

thanks! Would you like to see mine, when I finish tweaking the one you templated? <grins> It looks like yours...or...same format, just my words and activities! Thanks for the great ideas! Your wedding if going to be so awesome!

I was looking for wedding vows...and found some lovely ones I thought I would share. SUDDEN LIGHT ~ By Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more? EXCERPT FROM "THE GIFT FROM THE SEA" ~ By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~ When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, mot in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides. Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever ~ Richard Bach ~ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. CHEROKEE PRAYER God in heaven above please protect the ones we love. We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor mother-earth - and ask for our marriage to be abundant and grow stronger through the seasons; We honor fire - and ask that our union be warm and glowing with love in our hearts; We honor wind - and ask we sail though life safe and calm as in our father's arms; We honor water - to clean and soothe our relationship - that it may never thirsts for love; With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony and true happiness as we forever grow young together. Amen. ESKIMO LOVE SONG ~ Author Unknown ~ You are my husband My feet shall run because of you My feet dance because of you My heart shall beat because of you My eyes see because of you My mind thinks because of you And I shall love because of you. I PROMISE ~ Dorothy Colgan ~ I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give. I promise to respect you as your own person and to realise that your interests, desires and needs are no less important than my own. I promise to share with you my time and my attention and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship. I promise to keep myself open to you, to let you see through the window of my world into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams. I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting. I promise to love you in good times and in bad, with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how. Completely and forever. and....my favorite... EXCERPT FROM THE VELVETEEN RABBIT ~ By Margery Williams ~ "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but Really loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

found TA Jennifer! Thanks! Didn't look at the ADVANCED search features! <sighs> Can I say I am blonde!!! Lisa