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Congrats to everyone on their weight loss'! Wait to go JennyPenny!

I know i've been MIA the past couple of weeks. I'm finally planning on writing my review now and getting back on track with losing weight. The wedding was amazing but I have to say it's almost as if I went into post partum once it was over. You plan sooooo much for an entire year and then poof it's all done.

 

Anyways, congrats again to everyone!

 

Here's a link to some of my wedding pics. Review is coming soon!

 

Wedding pictures by hdunster_2010 - Photobucket

Hi Everyone! I'm back! Had a great time in the Dominican and our wedding was beautiful. I'm going to write a review very soon, so stay tuned. I'm happy to say I'm down from when I left on vacation but unfortunately its because I caught a bug just before we left and nothing stays in my system for very long lately.

 

I'm feeling better though and looking forward to getting back to eating normally and working out.

Wow! Camping, beer and a weight loss! Way to go lol.

Congrats to Tifany and good luck to you Natasha!!

 

Well I was bad this weekend but I didn't gain. My goal is to just maitain this week because my dress is fitting perfectly right now and the big day is next Wednesday!!

Holy Crap!!!

Hi Ladies,

 

I've been dealing with wardes and she has been pretty good about getting back to me fairly quickly. My big day is next wednesday!! and I arrive on Saturday. I'm not too worried about the pricing right now because I have a feeling we'll be able to negotiate once we get there.

 

I'll be sure to write a review when we're back! Don't worry, hang in there!

Yay I'm down this week! I've been eating really well, although not exercising as much as I would like, and I think the stress of being only a week away from the wedding is keeping the scale down. So Yay for stress weight loss??

 

Can't to relax this long weekend! Happy May 2-4 fellow Canucks!

Hey Ladies,

 

I was up last friday and this weekend was a total drink fest for my bachelorette! I'm happy to say I'm back down a bit though and ready to get all OCD on what I'm doing and eating this week.

 

I leave for my wedding in exactly 12 days!!! YES 12! I'm excited and freaking out at the same time! My goal is to really push myself this week and lose another 5 pounds before we leave. I think I can do it... But on top of it all comes the stress of organizing everythign and getting ourselves ready too.

 

Wish me luck ladies!!

Thanks Jannae! I might consider the whole monogram thing after the wedding. I'm also thinking about doing a 5K - I mean you have to start somewhere right?

 

I have to submit my weigh in tomorrow morning - completely forgot this morning - and work through me a wedding shower this aft and how could I say no to my own congratulations cake!! eep.

I also have my bachelorette party tomorrow night so this weekend is going to be a rough one!

Thanks Tifany! I actually made the monogram myself, I was thinking about becoming a vendor and offering to make them for other brides but I think I need more experience doing it first. If you need one, PM me, maybe I can come up with something for you.

And good luck with the cleanse! I know I wouldn't be able to do that!

Congrats on the weight loss everyone! I have to say I was definitely bad this weekend. 12 hours of driving in two days plus eating our and funeral food = bad weekend. Thankfully I only gained back a pound and I'm pretty confident i can lose that and hopefully another one by Friday's weigh in.

 

3 weeks til we leave for our wedding.... I'm exciting and freaking out at the same time!

For those who are making a welcome brochure or who want to give a heads up to guests as to which tours they can do, I found this website:

 

Prieto Tours

 

It's a company that only does tours through the resorts and they offer quite a variety. At least this way your guests can get an idea of what's available to them.

Thanks for the thoughts and prayers ladies. I'll keep you posted on what happens. Despite the bad news I've been pretty good with eating. Normally I would have eaten an entire tub of ice cream by now but I've held back!

I'm finally back on track to and made up for my gain last week... congrats to all of you who doing so well! I've learned not to weight myself more than once a week because the fluctuations can be really depressing. Once a week only from now on!

 

I have to say I'm really stressed though and I don't know how this is going to play out for me over the next few weeks. FI's uncle was killed in a work accident on Tuesday and we've just been told his grandma has a lump in her colon and their worried it could be cancer. Regardless if it is or not she'll have to have surgery and may not be able to come to the wedding.

 

It's been very hard for FI and now we have a funeral to go to on Monday that is 6 hours away. His family has been through so much over the last year I don't know how to help him cope.

Congratulations Eliana!! Now. off to spin class to turn that + into a - !!

This week was nooot a good week for me. Cake and pizza seemed to be around 24/7! AND on top of that I was supposed to get my period this weeked... but I decided to skip it so I don't get it on our trip - which @(&$^! is in 4 weeks!!

 

Ok so this is kinda off topic, but have any of you tried to skip using Alesse before?

I got all of my graphics through istockphoto.com. Some of the ones I really liked are called grunge graphics. You just search grunge tropical or grunge palm trees and you'll get lots of stuff.
If you know how to use Illustrator, I would recomend getting vector based files because then you can really manipulate the original files any way you want.

Just want to thank all of you who posted pics and templates. I could not have done this without you!

 

I was very lucky to have a printer I deal with at work offer to print my invites for me for free! That saved quite a bit of cash. With postage, graphics, paper and ribbon I think I was at $2.50 per invite.

 

Without further ado.

 

Here are the invites:

 

Here are all the pieces before it went together:

 

All wrapped up:

 

And my sweet pearlized green envelopes:

 

It's hard to see the colours in the photos but they are eggplant and chartreuse green. I designed everything in Adobe Illustrator so if someone wants the Illustrator template just PM me. It's too big to post on here.

That's too bad about the fabric choices. They must be getting a lot of orders. I'm sure it will all work out. We ordered English beige suits for FI and the groomsmen at the beginning of March. I got all 9 suits in three weeks and they all fit.

 

We ordered the straight fit in the leg, so for those of you who are unsure of what fit to get here, here is a picture of FI in his pants.

 

Good morning Ladies! SO i've been MIA for the past week but I have been keeping up with the posts. Congrats Jenny!

I'm hoping I have a better week this week but with my wedding only 5 weeks away I have to admit I think the nerves are getting to me. I'm doing weight watchers online and softball is starting up this Friday so that'll be a good stress reliever.

 

Does anyone else mix up their types of exercise? I do ballet once a week, softball and spinning once a week and see a personal trainer once a week for circuit training and kick-boxing. I find the variety keeps me motivated.

I work out with a trainer once a week and we do circuit training that involves kick boxing and karate. It's awesome! If you're like me and carry your weight in your hips and butt then check out kick boxing. It really tones your derriere!

I just sent my weight pic in! Let's get it started!! I should be able to send in my before pic in a few minutes. Waiting for FI to get home.

Hi everyone!

 

I'm going to hop on for Season 9 since I missed the boat for season 8. I've got seven weeks til my wedding and 12 pounds to loose! I know you lovely ladies will keep me motivated!

 

Heather

Hello ladies! I have an update!! I send my bouquets to Debbie at Enchanting Memories and she has been absolutely amazing to deal with AND she fixed my bouquets!! Without further ado here is the updated picture:

 

 

It's hard to see the whole thing but it already looks a million times better than the old leaves! I can't wait to see what my bouquet is going to look like.

FYI - I sent an email to Studiosuits regarding cleaning the suits since it doesn't come with care instructions and they wrote back saying dry cleaning is recommended.

Sometimes it's worth it to get the samples before hand to see what you're getting. Photos can only do so much. We got all of our suits in English beige and new what the pattern was like because we had bought samples.

The fit and construction of the suits is impeccable and all of our guys loved them. I'll try to post some pictures tonight...

I think it depends on the colour of the dresses, but they are so light and flow away from the body that I doubt that A - you would be sweating a lot and B - it would show through.