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Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel I love Tango. I think he is the CUTEST guy (well not in the hot guy factor, but more in personality) He just cracks me up! Yay! A fellow Ghost Hunter. When we were in Philly we made sure to go to Eastern State Penn. I would love to live on the East coast and go to all the places they hunted. I love this show! My mom and I are ghost obsessed we will call each other during the commercials or we'll sit on the phone and watch together! Eastern State is GREAT! Being I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia I've been there many times, we actually had to shoot an assignment there in college and I had numerous images with orbs in them. It's a lot more cleaned up now then how it used to be, which kinda sucks because the peeling paint and dirt floors added to the appeal of the place. Next time you're in town you'll have to check out Fort Mifflin, which I do believe they just did an episode there! I can be your tour guide! Valley Forge is super scary at night.....the cemetery is SUPER spooky even though you aren't supposed to be there at night....but it's just as eery during the day.

Thanks Alyssa! Yeah, someone has to be responsible here.... if you can't tell, I'm a little bitter.

PS.... She went for her genetic testing so we'll know soon where it is hereditary. Looking forward to that one!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lorilou the brand is Countess Mara. I think you can search on their website on stores near you that might carry them. I purchased ours at Macys (In store). they only carry about 4 ties at each location so i had to go to two locations to get enough of the tangerine. They have different designs in the same color scheme. very cool. THANK YOU! If I can get my hands on these....life would be good! Thanks again! By the way I love your shoes and everything looks AWESOME!

I MUST know where you got the ties! I am a burnt orange and chocolate bride and I am having the groomsmen wear orange ties. I love them!

UPDATE: So I just wanted to post another update for those of you who have been generous enough to show your support... My mom's doctors have decided to ahead with the surgery before the wedding. She will having her surgery on June 20th at Penn. They found that the acoustic neuroma on the left side of her brain has a cyst that is attached to it that is 3 times the size of the tumor itself. They are afraid that the cyst will have a sudden growth spurt between now and the wedding. So here's the procedure... The will make a C incision behind her left ear and remove her inner ear leaving her with zero hearing in that ear, which is no big deal because she only has about 12% currently. They will then drill into her skull to remove the walnut sized tumor and the even larger cyst. Now why can't they just drain the cyst? Good question....there is tumor matter all around the cyst so they would feel much better if they just took it out. They will then fill her ear back in with fat from her abdomen. She will be the ICU for about 3 days and then upgraded, that is if all goes as expected. She will then need to be on bed rest for 2 weeks and it will be a total of a 3 month recovery. It all seems so easy, right? Well let's just cross our fingers that it is just that.....easy. Let's just say that when it rains it pours... While my groomsmen are giving me a hard time. Tomorrow I have to drop Tim off at County Jail so he can pay for his night of drinking and driving.... So he will be on work release for the next 90 days and during that time my mom will be having surgery. And I promised myself that I will try my hardest not to strangle the first person that gives me a hard time! Thanks for listening....

Ladies.... I hate to say this but if we go with June 22 I won't be able to make it. I just found out a few minutes ago that they scheduled my mom's brain surgery for June 20th and since she'll be in the ICU I don't think I should make plans. I had voted for June 1 but I could also do the 8th. Sorry...

I'm having a hard time....this kinda lame but what about.....Adult Content?

Oh Edna! I am so sorry to hear about this! Seriously keep us posted about what's going on... Was the inner ear infection due to the flu? This is horrible, ear pain is BAD! I suffer from strep throat like it's job.....seriously it happens all the time, and I ALWAYS end up with ear infections and that's bad enough I can't even IMAGINE what you're going through....hang in there and get healthy! I'm thinking of you....

Quote: Originally Posted by foxytv Girl, I feel your pain. I had some really, really shitty BM experiences leading up to my wedding ... and now that the wedding is over am thankful for the eye-opening experience about what I/we expect out of friends and what some people are willing/able to deliver. I was just like you months ago, heartbroken, hurt, angry, almost in tears --- but truly like these others BDW ladies had to tell me ... NO ONE cares about our wedding as much as we do. I tried to let that be my foundation, and it helped ... but the hurt feelings still remain for things that no one helped with, etc etc etc. Just remember that in the end, its you and your man and as long as you are in it together -- it everything will be perfect. And I just got back from my our honeymoon less than 24 hours ago so trust me! :-) You are absolutely right! Nor do I expect them to at my every beck and call, but I have done numerous things on many different occasions for each of them.....and while I don't expect the same treatment, I would appreciate some support or concern on their part. After all we chose these people because they were either a REALLY close friend or a family member and I just didn't expect this from grown adults! *****IMPORTANT NOTE TO MENTION***** My mom also has to have brain surgery for a rare disease that we only found out she had this January and we were hoping that they would be able to wait until after the wedding to operate.....but it's not looking like they will be able to wait! So now my stress level IS REALLY HIGH! They all know about my mom's condition too.... So needless to say I spoke with Tim's dad's wife tonight and she called my future sister in law, Tim's brother's wife. To which she called me.... I then returned her call..........and let's just say I vented! I mentioned NUMEROUS times that this was not directed at her I was just pissed in general. Well don't you worry........she yelled back and pretty much made excuses for her and her husband.....ranging anywhere from "our email is down" to "we're just really busy". This conversation accomplished nothing but PISS ME OFF more! I just can't win!!!!!! At all....and she kept telling me that I'm over reacting and that everyone has other situations going on..... REALLY? Who else's mom has to have brain surgery? Seriously what the FUCK? It seems that the offenders think I'm over reacting where the non offenders think I'm warranted in my rant......interesting aye!

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura danielle, if it makes you feel even an ounce better.... my FSIL made a HUGE deal about making a trip to the US to try on a bridesmaid dress even though it is totally unnecessary! she just wants to milk my FMIL for a shopping spree while they are there. typical. so anyway, i come to find out from my MTOH today that the dresses are shortly not going to be offered at ann taylor anymore, so the trip my FSIL scheduled for the end of may is now totally stupid to make, because she wont even be able to get her dress then because they wont carry it in the store anymore. my MTOH even called the specific store my FSIL was going to go to to confirm everything. now, my FSIL is making a BFD about giving me her measurements so i can (somehow, with my busy work schedule working 14 hours a day) track down a fucking dress for her! i am SOOO pissed off right now that i want to just explode. then she tells me this afternoon that she's looking into prices for me to fedex her a dress. and guess the cost to fedex from here to mx city? $150!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! some friends of ours from mx city are coming at the end of may so i offered FSIL the option of sending it back with our friends and they can drop it off to her. i certainly am not paying $150 to ship her a dress, and i dont want her swindling my FMIL to pay for that either. so ridiculous. well, FSIL does not want me to send a dress back with the friends, even though that is free shipping!!!!!!! she is being all wishywashy about looking at the measurements chart to pick a freaking size so i can track down a dress for her, and from her response to me asking her to do it, she basically wanted me to change the dress color just for her when everybody else already has their dress, even my deadbeat sister who looked up her measurements over a month ago so i could go purchase the dress for her. i am going to drink a cocktail in your honor tonight, danielle! SHUT THE F UP!!!! You have got to be kidding me? I swear they are so not worth the trouble! Don't they realize that this is supposed to be about US and not them! My future sister in law just called me....but I'm just still to pissed to want to talk to her right now! I wished you lived closer so we COULD get a drink!

Quote: Originally Posted by Heidi I met a local guy on Action News - Don Pollack. My sister & I were grocery shopping and ran into him. We went over & talked with him a bit, and he signed our Genuardi's receipts. hehe! That's funny Heidi, I wasn't even thinking them.... In that case Rick Williams and Larry Mendte are clients of mine I do they're children's pictures and when I was at my old studio, Timothy Lake was one of our clients. Rick Williams was one of the nicest people and his son, is his mini me! Once, in college, I was drunk in the middle of the day and week on South Street and Larry Kane was jogging right next us while we were waiting to cross the street and I said "Hey I know you....you're Dave Roberts!" He starting laughing and jogged away.... my friends kept saying all day...."Danielle I don't think that was Dave Roberts" I was certain it was. Turns out it wasn't no wonder he laughed at....ahahaha! *******Hahaha I need to correct myself****** See I did it again it wasn't Larry Kane......DUH Danielle! It was Marc Howard! I'm idiot and I'm not even drunk!

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura did they give you a font list to choose from at all? Yes....they are listed on the website...here's the direct link! But for me I loved one of the designs already listed on the website and just said that I wanted the same thing....just with our names...lol! Order a Border Wedding Dress Label

Quote: Originally Posted by LadyCheese It sucks that you have to go through this...you are helping them out big time by paying their accomodations and this is what you get in return? I really hope this all works out soon...I agree a talk in person or on the phone is needed. I too am going through my own little thing with my bridal party...and I wouldn't think I would have any issues with these people, my cousin who is the MOH has been MIA for 3 wks now...hasnt returned any of my calls or emails...and my bestfriend since 5th grade hasnt even went to get fitted and keeps giving me the run around. I just stopped calling them and just said "the hell with it"..if they come around, great...if they dont, then i'm not stressing it, i know where I stand with them. best of luck to you...let us know what happens. I talked to Tim's dad's wife tonight to see if she could get his dad to take of his brothers. As for my bridesmaids I spoke to one today....and she's not really being a problem but she the most supportive other than my sister and said she would pass my feelings on....so my sister didn't have to! I'm still really pissed though....

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl living in seattle i've had my share of music scene and celebrity encounters, esp. working at the airport! to name a few, (minus the stories): alyssa milano eddie vedder tori spelling the girl from smallville kristen kruek mary kay letourneau (ok that one is stretching) pat boone rose mcgowan danny masterson john schneider peter reckell bill engvall john curley (local celeb, evening show thing) rico suave guy (gerardo??) mandy moore mark wahlberg stevie b. mariska hargitay angie harmon and jason seahorn ok that's it for now i know there's been a buttload more, but that's off the top of my head. and dont feel like you're missing out on the stories, for the most part, our conversations have been limited to, "Hi, where are you flying today? Can I see your ID? How many bags? Here's you're boarding pass, you'll be at D3, thanks!" haha Holly Cannoli...... that's a lot of celebrity citings.......

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl OMG danielle, is that one of his little bro's bowl haircuts behind him in the pic? sure looks like it, maybe you can add him to your list of encounters ahahaha! Yeah it is! That's so funny! I should list him, Andrew I think is his name......I've got a look it up........hold on.......yup it is! Ahahaha!

Quote: Originally Posted by SunBride Even if not everyone can go to your shower, I'm sure you will have a wonderful time. I got neither a shower not a bachelorette because I live out of town from my family adn old friends (although I have new friends here, but none as close as my elementary/high school girlfriends). I totally would have flown home for those events if anybody had tried to organize anything. Pitty party for me Mom thought a shower was inappropriate since we are having a small destination wedding adn didn't invite extended relatives. Just try to focus on the positives and be greatful that those who are there were able to make it. That's so sad! I want to throw YOU a shower.....hold on I'm giving you a gift!

I am going through a similar situation with my girls too... It's hard because you want to say "Hey you signed up for this, where's your commitment?" I doubt that his niece is going to remember that she wasn't there. But you'll remember forever that she wasn't there....priorities!

Very nice! Did you shoot on location and in the studio? She did a great job!

Oh my oh my.....where to start? I totally believe that Ben controls the black thing! Sayid becomes Ben's avenger like in a previous episode when Sayid kills that chick and Ben was the Vet... Daniel Faraday....he knows a lot more then they think, but I feel like he's conflicted about what's right and what his mission is. The boat doesn't care about the survivors because everyone already thinks that they're all dead! They want Ben! I am beginning to think this is some rich man game between Ben and Whidmore. The question I have now is how do they know each other? I don't believe that anything is in the present (200. They are in 2005, Ben makes sure of that when he asks the lady at the hotel. I believe that he is suffering from the same flash backs and forwards as Desmond but knows how to control and use them to his advantage.... How did he REALLY end up in the desert in Iraq? He didn't charter a plain from Fiji!!!

Not at all.....I would ask them all!

Quote: Originally Posted by Yari I love the pic Danielle! Yeah.....don't mind the holes my brother punched in our noses....lol!

FUN question! This is so great to see who everyone has met! My very first encounter with a celebrity was back in the days of Blossom! Whoaaa, it was Joey Lawerance! Since he a local, we were shopping on Black Friday and he was shopping with his family and my mom went up to his and said "my daughter thinks you look like Joey from Blossom, can I take your picture with her?" I was in HEAVEN!!! 14 year old HEAVEN! Then on my birthday in !996 we were waiting in line at the movie theater and John Popper (lead singer of Blues Traveler) was standing line behind us! He was SUPER tall and SUPER nice! Then my next encounter was in college during a photoshoot that I assisted in for Carney Wilson and Wendy Wilson, right after her surgery. They were really nice! A little demanding but nice! Then the following year in college we were in NYC and I saw Diana Ross.....now I NEVER freak when I see famous people......But I flipped OUT! I was screaming.....lol! One of my good friends' boyfriend is Jimmy Pop the lead singer to the Bloodhound Gang, so we a celebrity friend! He's ridiculously nice and not nearly as obnoxious as he appears on Bam's show! He's a true sweetheart.....she might be on here soon because hopefully they will be getting married soon!!!! I might have met some others but I just can't think of them right now....maybe if I do I'll add them later.

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel I know I would be pissed- especially since you paid for the trip. Hellooo ungrateful people. They need to start kissing your ass because seriously, if I got a free trip from someone I would be doing whatever I needed to do to make sure I "repaid" them somehow. So you've justified that they aren't an inexperienced bridal party but do you think they may be a bridal party that's over all the wedding crap because they have done it so many times? Like they look at you as an irrational bride since they have the been there, done that attitude? Exactly!!!!! The been there done that attitude is REALLY coming from Tim's 2 brother's and his sister in law! Which sucks because this is there little brother's wedding! I feel like with the 3 of them specifically that they aren't taking this seriously.........WTF!!!!!! Is this there way of protesting? And as for having the groomsmen buying suits, we talked to each one of them individually MONTHS ago to see if this was something they could or would be willing to swing! In fact Tim's oldest brother was the one who piped up with......"I don't rent anything!" Ok! well, if you don't rent anything then why haven't you gone for your measurements? I to think that we've been more than accomidating to our bridal party! The only thing that I've asked of them is to pay for there attire and they're transportation. My one bridesmaid alone, because she has 3 kids and a husband we rented her, her own 4 bedroom house at $1300 for the week! Seriously, I don't think I crazy and have been a really lax bride thus far, but this has now put me over the edge! It all just really upsets me! Thanks for all your support. I knew I could count one you ladies! You ladies are the best!

Quote: Originally Posted by kendra I had the same problems. I just let them go , but they all come around on thier own. I am thinking of giving them a deadline and if can't meet it then they will be excluded from the bridal party.... I want nothing to do with this anymore! Quote: Originally Posted by Hartyt509 You aren't alone. I'm not having a bridal party and the guests are being PITA too and its a bloody year away!! I dread telling FMIL - FI actually said well she needs to "plan" - what what FFS she's just got to turn up!! So I feel your pain, it might kill you but what about if you send them an email saying right you lot obviously aren't interested so i'm doing no more and i'm not hassling you anymore. Do or don't but if you aren't coming have the courtesy of telling me as we are paying for your stay. Bet that gets you a response lol