Jess3414

Oh that sounds fun!! Is it going to just be the two of you??

Soon I will be doing a planning thread. My wedding is only 7 weeks away and it's coming up so fast!! I can't wait to share all of my fun plans. What I really can't wait for is the day I get my professional photos!!! I am keeping things pretty simple. My whole ceremony and reception are going to be white everything with a splash of color. My dress has a sash on it that is watermelon and Mike's (and the GM's) vest and tie are the tiffany blue. He is wearing a white jacket and the guys have black jackets. Our flowers will be bright tropical colors. I'm thinking gerber daisies, lillies and roses. All pinks and oranges. My BM's have black dresses with a watermelon sash to match mine so I may do black chair ties just to tie that in. The centerpieces will be colorful tropical flowers but I am tying the tiffany blue ribbon around the vases to tie that in somehow. I am doing flowers on my cake too that are pink and orange and then tying blue ribbon around the layers of the cake. I still have tons of DIY projects that I need to get done, like welcome brochures and our menu....I will have to find a cute way to incorporate the colors there. I got white OOT bags and I am stuffing them with pink and blue tissue paper.... haha so there's just some of what I am doing but when I get closer I will share pictures!!

Quote: Originally Posted by mnh1983 I love the red gerber daisies! Simple but elegant.

LOVE! Gerber Daisies?

I love the one that is done in power point... This has given me many great ideas. Now to decide how to lay mine out!!

By the way....my colors are tiffany blue and watermelon. I am doing tangerine accent also but only in the flowers. We're color twins

I like numbers 1, 5 & 8 the best. They ALL came out really nice though!!

Welcome to the forum

Quote: Originally Posted by August2010Bride someone from this forum is a photgrapher and offered to write names in the sand and take pics for several of us! How thoughtful/helpful!

I would just do the cake cutting and do a small bite for pics and stuff and then actually serve the cake at the reception. That makes more sense to me.

Quote: Originally Posted by kerrij JESS thank you soooo much! i've been struggling with tieing parts of our script together and you just helped me out!! I'll post mine when FI gives the ok tonight! Glad to help! I can't take much credit though. I just strung it all together from google and this wonderful forum! Dont know what I would do without this website!

Quote: Originally Posted by BostonBride2010 This is so unique! Beautiful!

Quote: Originally Posted by ablj209 My Turn!! The Model Me in the sample (of course, I was talking when my mom took the pic!) I'll try to post a better picture when I go back for the fitting! This dress looks better on you than the model! I LOVE IT!

Like. Ebay?

Great! Thank you for the heads up. Looks like I'll be editing and spliting everything I can

Quote: Originally Posted by Shakara thanks Jess... i guess my concern is rhinestones coming off or the iron decals coming off... but that a good idea doing it just for the wedding party I wish there didn't have to be a minimum for getting these towels. The robes are also good idea that would be really cute if we are all in them getting ready for the wedding lol Where did you get your robes? The robes are from Sierra Trading Post ? Great Deals. Great Brands. I believe. We took them somewhere in town to have them embroidered.

I love these. I thought about doing some similar but went with something different. after looking at yours it makes me want to change my mind again! haha ahhhh!

Congrats and welcome! You will find everything you need to know here

Thanks for all the advice here. I originally thought to ship all of my OOT stuff but after reading some scary stories from other brides of their stuff not making it so now I plan to carry on. I want to understand...what's the deal with the $300 limit? Everyone is saying keep things around or under $300...is there a specific reason for that? Or just to avoid paying a duty tax on things?? What if some of my receipts have amounts higher than $300? (I ordered lots of things all at once and had a couple of large orders...)

Quote: Originally Posted by simba1234 None of the links that were posted work...they all direct me back to the main forum. Does anyone know why that happens?? I'm so worried about this custom issue because I have $400 worth of beach towels, a $300 aisle runner, and a ton of other stuff I'm bringing down such as shot glasses, flip flops, tote bags, etc... I have receipts but since I'm splitting everything up between my FI, my mom and my luggage I don't know if should just make up fake receipts? Obviously wouldn't make sense for each of us to carry receipts for the full value if we're splitting up the stuff... anyone know? I have read in other places that girls made "fake receipts". You could just make something that looks like an emailed receipt. I ordered a lot of stuff offline so some of mine are just a printed piece of paper from my email. (easy to duplicate)

I went around and gathered up all of my receipts! I am impressed (patting myself on the back, lol) with how many I still have. Usually I throw those things out immediately.

This is a great idea! My dad, fiance, and all of our groomsmen love cigars. I thought about having a cigar roller there, but this is a great way to personalize them and save on the cigar roller. We can just set them out or whatever. Thanks for sharing!!

How sweet Congrats! Your ring is really pretty!!

Mike knows what dress I am getting (he's seen it in the magazine I carried around for MONTHS before deciding, haha) but he hasn't gotten to see it in person or on me. So I think thats what matters.

I don't dislike it either way, but I think it looks more elegant with both layers.