Angela139

Gorgeous!!!!

Hi Angela! Congratulations and welcome to the forum! This is such a great place for information and advice! I'm sure you'll find all the information you need here

That's awesome! Congats You must be so excited!

I actually grew up on packaged gravy dressings, have never EVER enjoyed the ones created using meat drippings. I'm a vegetarian now, so couldn't eat REAL gravy even if I wanted to, but honestly, I've never thought it tasted very good! Try one of the pre-packaged gravy mixes, you'd be surpised how good they are!

Hi Everyone, So I'm thinking about having two maids of honor - I have four ladies in total, so half would be bridesmaids, half maids of honor. I know it's a bit weird, but I have two best friends, and love them both so dearly, it is difficult to call one of them my "maid of honor" and not the other. Do you guys think this is totally strange? Have you ever heard of someone doing this before? Thanks! Angela

Hi All! I am trying to decide whether to offer to pay for our bridesmaids and groomsmen's attire. What do you all think? What are you doing? Does anyone know what the proper etiquette on this is? Thanks in advance! Angela

Ours is costing us about $22,000 - but that includes the cost of subsidizing the travel expenses of several guests (parents). If we didn't have to do that, i would cost us about $18,000. We hope to pay the whole thing in cash as well. Living like a student i order to do so! lol

Those look fantastic!! I am sooo going to copy the return address idea - thanks!

Kevs girl, I'm getting that dress too! I LOVE it. I'm going for a fuschia-type color, similar to the ones in the original post. No input from the bm's yet, but unless they HATE it, that's what it's going to be.

Congrats and welcome! This place is fabulous, I'm sure it will be a great resource for you. I just joined myself!

We are thinking of shipping ours to the resort a head of time, and having them placed in our guests' rooms so that they will be there when they check in.

Hi Christina! I'm getting married at the Majestic as well Try the facebook group, "Majestic Colonial Brides" - there are thousands of photos on there, and information about EVERYTHING you could ever want to know about weddings at the Majestic! Quite a few of the photos are by the resort photogs. Also, there are some message threads about the resort photographers...you may even be able to find someone to share a private photographer with for the week of your wedding! For what it's worth, I've heard that the resort photographers are good

www.ewedding.com is great! We're not quite done our site yet, but you can take a look at it to get an idea: www.jasonandangela.com the site is really easy to use and has all of the functionality that I need. Good luck finding something that works for you!

Hi everyone, I'm getting ready to send out my invitations, and I'm trying to decide what to do with respect to addresssing the envelopes...what are all of you doing? I was thinking of either handwriting the addresses, or just printing off labels (at work) and sticking them on. Are either of these tacky? What is the best way to do this? Thanks in advance!!

Here are mine:

Thank you everyone It was hilarious after, by the way - I essentially an around the resort telling everyone I saw that I was engaged. lol We'd been together for 5 1/2 years, and he had known for 5 of those years that I wanted to marry him. It was the happiest moment of my life!

I don't think it's rude at all, and in fact, I think I'll copy you!

Wish I could help, but we actually decided on our location well over a year ago (we only got engaged last month!) when we were visiting it. We took a trip down south, decided that we loved the resort, and that we would get married there. Pretty simple. Of course, I had done hours and hours of research on trip advisor before booking that trip, and knew at that point that it was one of the best resorts in the area. We also had a friend who married at that resort a year earlier, and although we did not attend, we had heard great things. Good luck!

They are both beautiful! I prefer the first one though - it looks great with your figure.

Hello Ladies! My wedding is scheduled for October 2009, and I'm wondering whether to send invitiations now (or soon) or to wait. I know that with traditional weddings the rule is that you wait until a few months before the date, but many of our guests will need time to save the money to come, and I'm thinking that it may be a good idea to send them out as soon as possible...what do you all think, and what have you done?

I'm so sorry Lizzie - I know EXACTLY how you feel. My mother pulled the same thing last week, for almost the EXACT same reasons! And thrown in to the email were snarky comments about how we were selfis to expect people to pay that much for our wedding. I was heartbroken, and wanted to call her immediately to hash it out - but my fiance wisely suggested that I not speak to her for a week, let her simmer in it, and hopefully realize she was wrong. It was really, really hard to do, but I did it, and lo and behold I got a voicemail almost exactly a week later apologizing and saying that there was no way she would miss my wedding. So maybe listen to your Mom and give it some time - hopefully he will come around!! I really feel for you, and hope it works out!!

My fiance and I had been together for almost 5 1/2 years when we spent a week together at the Excellence Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in October 2008. My birthday happened to fall on our first full day there. That evening, he insisted on taking me for a walk along the beach before dinner. The setting was perfect - the beach was lit only by the moon and stars, and the waves crashed rhythmically in the background. After gazing at the stars and the waves for a few minutes, I turned to him, and commented that it was a perfect moment (having absolutely NO idea what was coming!). He told me that he loved me, and embraced me. He then pulled back, and reached into his pocket. "I have something to ask you..." He then got down on one knee in the sand, and looking up at me, asked me if I would marry him. I apparently responded with "I can't beleive this is happening!" before starting to cry, and joining him on my knees in the sand. I continued to repeat, "Oh my God..., Oh my God..." for several minutes, before he interrupted and exclaimed, "Are you going to say yes?!" I did.