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Sundae posted:Possibly not an answerable question, but I figure I'll try. After months of frustration over not being able to find anything affordable, we stumbled upon a godsend yesterday: a historic farmhouse. It's $650 for the whole day, no vendor restrictions, and it's beautiful. House, barn, magnolias, fields, yay!  They don't advertise the fact that you can rent it for a wedding, which means it's not booked ten years in advance like a lot of the other affordable places were. The way we found out about it was pretty convoluted, though: I pulled up the national registry of historic sites for our county and just started googling all of them. Pain in the rear end, but well worth it.Parks are also awesome, but they book pretty far in advance. The best parks in our area are already booked through August or so of next year.
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Eggplant Wizard posted:Parks, small historical sites like old houses, country clubs?, national parks, friend's nice backyard (worth a go...), university venues/museums/parks. I'm getting married at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, MA. It's a non-profit historical site, so the prices are very reasonable. I'm hoping the leaves look good thie Nov. OMG only 3 weeks to go!
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Definitely check out nearby historic places. We ended up with a place called Camp Hammond in Yarmouth, ME which is an old house in the small downtown area with beautiful landscaping that required no decorations whatsoever. Even though it's owned by a local catering company we were able to rent the venue for the whole day for a measly $200. We were locked into their catering but for 25 people eating both lobster and stuffed pork with 15 bottles of wine, plus all of the service and cake, we ended up spending something like $2200! Southern and coastal Maine is a huge destination wedding locale and I still can't believe we were able to pull it off for so little. So yeah, if anyone's looking to plan a wedding in the Portland, Maine area they should definitely check out the Black Tie Catering Company! Picture dump [edited for thumbnails]:  Click here for the full 540x720 image.  Click here for the full 540x720 image.  Click here for the full 540x720 image.  Click here for the full 720x540 image. Lupe Del Toro fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Oct 25, 2010 |
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My wife and I went to a wedding a couple years ago at an awesome old mill in Delaware. It was renovated very beautifully and was just amazing for the fall season. Definitely in agreement on the old farmhouse type of ideas that I've seen.
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Also obligory website with pics LOL http://www.lika-joe.colketphoto.com/
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My fiance and I are planning for this January 9th for our wedding. We have a limited budget, being as we're both students, and neither of our families are particularly wealthy. We've been putting together what will amount to a party for our immediate families and a handful of close friends. I've actually gotten to hate wedding planning. I don't even have any real issues with what I've gotten together so far, but its been so much more stressful than I could have imagined. I have a little over two months to finalize everything, and that includes things like a photographer (don't even have a line on one yet), final dress fittings, finalizing reception menu/cake/etc., clothes for the groom (why is our color so hard to find?! It's GREEN, for heaven's sake), even simple things like getting the invitations printed. I have all the materials to put them together, but we haven't gotten around to actually printing them up because until a week or two ago, we hadn't decided on a ceremony location. And even that feels so half-assed to me. Lately, I've been leaning more and more to doing a quickie JoP wedding sometime before January 9th, but stupid things are hanging me up on that, such as my Maid of Honor (the only bridal party, along with my fiance's Best Man) wanting to kill me if I make a choice that renders her buying a $175 gown already sort of... moot. I've mentioned wanting to just get the ceremony part over with to her and she gets comically upset. It's a little tough to tell if she's joking.  My fiance is great, mostly. He has helped with choosing things when he has an interest or a preference. We picked out my ring together, and I browsed tons of dresses online to get an idea of what he would like to see me in (though he didn't get to see the final choice). We settled on a reception venue, which actually belongs to clients of my MoH, so they aren't actually charging us for use of the restaurant. All we have to pay for is the food/tip for waitstaff. They are even bringing in a live guitar player (who is quite good) as well as doing the cake since they are part bakery. (We also get a free top-layer of the cake for our one year anniversary so we don't have to hold onto the first one.) For an estimated guest list of about 40 people total, including half a dozen bottles of wine for toasting, the cake, and an insane amount of delicious Italian food, our price estimate was only a little over $700. Not to mention, certain key family members won't be attending, so I'm actually revising our guest list down in number. Our price might be a bit less than the estimate. On the downside, HIS MOTHER might just drive me crazy before we can actually get married. She is the worst sort of traditionalist - the kind who lets everything you say go in one ear and out the other, and then continues rambling about whatever it was that we absolutely do not want to do/have/whatever, for our wedding. She jumped on me and tickled me (she does not know how close she was to a black eye for that... I flail a lot when I get tickled, and I hate it. I almost cried holding it in!) when I suggested possibly getting a non-white cocktail dress to get married in. She insisted that EVERY girl wants to be a princess on her wedding day and so I needed a fancy white dress to prove it! She hasn't shut up about a chapel wedding once even though we pretty much said from day one that we wanted nothing to do with anything religious (yes I know there are secular chapels, but it isn't where I wanted to get married). I hate to sound ungrateful since she and my future father in law are basically making it so we can afford a honeymoon at all, but trying to get along with a woman diametrically opposed to me is nuts at the best of times, let alone during wedding planning. And of course any time I get cranky, it's a personal insult to her and she cries about it. (sigh) Between the future MiL and the wedding planning itself, I'm super stressed about having a wedding at all. I know I want to marry my fiance, but at this point, I am so close to canceling everything and just doing it quietly. I just feel like I'll disappoint a bunch of people if I do that. Not my own mother, though. It seems like she has little interest in the process and its almost a burden to ask her to fly down here to even attend at all. I just found out last week that my step-father decided not to come. That only stings a little... really. I am hoping this comes across as frazzled talk and not as spoiled whiny bridezilla talk. I'm just concerned that this wedding won't please ANYONE, let alone me and my fiance. Anyone with some perspective, stories of the good or horror kind? Even just a "snap out of it, kid" would be good.
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Venyia posted:final wedding plan stress Yes, what you are feeling is normal and is not bridezilla-y. What I learned while planning my wedding is that there will always be someone who is upset with your choices, so the best thing to do is figure out what is important to you and you will insist upon no matter what, and what you're willing to concede on. I wanted a green dress with sleeves and no veil. Check back on my posts in this thread: ivory gown with no sleeves and more than a little bit of veil. What I wore wasn't that important to me, and I knew that my moms would want to see me dressed more traditionally. On the other hand, I knew that I wanted one of a kind invitations. It was a little weird being my MiL's boss and telling her what to do, but we came up with something beautiful that no other bride will have (unless she finds this thread and steals my images). I've also learned that there will be that ONE person who will drive you crazy no matter how much of a not-bridezilla you think you're being. Luckily for me, it wasn't my parents - it was one of the priests we worked with to do our preparation. This guy was really important to the process; even though he wasn't going to be officiating, he was the one who had to help us make sure we completed all components of the Catholic marriage preparation program. I would have to email and call him six or seven times before I got through to him and we could set up appointments, and even then we got zero information from him about what to expect/what we needed to do. Then, when I tried explaining to him my frustration because of this, he interpreted it as me being a bridezilla and stressing about the planning, and the advice he gave me was ill-suited to what I was saying. He told me that I should have an "invitation addressing" party, which is stupid because I was complaining about him, not my invitations. If you really want to do a JP wedding, then do it and don't look back. But if you're willing to concede a few things, stand up for yourself on a few things, and just keep trekking forward, then do that too and know that others have felt the same way about it. 
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I'm in the process of buying an engagement ring and I've already decided I'm going for quality over size, but what sort of ratio should I shoot for regarding cost of the setting vs cost of the diamond? I'm looking at a platinum band with smaller channel set diamonds, so it's going to be on the more expensive side as-is, and right now I've found a ring in my price-range in which the cost of the setting is ~35% of the total cost of the ring. Are there any guidelines folks go by with regards to this or is this a dumb metric for me to consider? BTW, I'm thinking of buying from James Allen, so one possible ring I'm considering now is made up of the following: Diamond: http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-IF-Ideal-Cut-Princess-Diamond-1329340.asp Setting: http://www.jamesallen.com/engagement-rings/channelset-rings/ring/item_58-2809.asp Additionally, If I were to consider a larger diamond ... which means I'd have to drop the quality of one of the other C's so my price stays in range ... what do folks generally recommend should go first? I'm thinking reducing clarify before cut or color, but if someone is more knowledgeable please let me know if I'm again being dumb.
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Meefy Bread posted:Additionally, If I were to consider a larger diamond ... which means I'd have to drop the quality of one of the other C's so my price stays in range ... what do folks generally recommend should go first? I'm thinking reducing clarify before cut or color, but if someone is more knowledgeable please let me know if I'm again being dumb. Does JohnnyRnR frequent this thread? I'm sure he'd be more help than me. When I bought my fiancee's stone, I dropped clarity first. I ended up with an SI1, but the stone is clean to the naked eye, which is all that really mattered to us. It also wasn't enough to affect the brilliance of the stone. I think you can pretty safely play with color at the point you're looking at. I actually privileged color when I was looking, and ended up with an E. My justification was that you can only really see color at that range when its up against something very white, and my fiancee has a very fair complexion.
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Boxman posted:Does JohnnyRnR frequent this thread? I'm sure he'd be more help than me. Heh, thanks. Boxman is right. You've picked a fine diamond. Just something to keep in mind: Princess cuts have a high depth (73.7 here because of the thick girdle) so the same carat sizes visually appear smaller than a similarly weighted round brilliant. If you wanted to find a maximization point between size, quality, and sparkle I think that you could very safely move to a fine make VVS2/VS1 diamond in an F color. At those criteria (and same price point) you'll be over .90 carats and in a princess cut the extra size makes quite a bit of difference to the appearance of the final ring. $2,000 is a fair price for a ring with a small amount of side diamonds; I don't think you're overpaying. Putting a $3,500 diamond in a $2,000 ring isn't an uncommon proposition.
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Oh yeah, I never posted photos from the real thing, just the JoP event with my friends. The whole thing was a lot of fun. I probably should have read what his brother (our "officiant") wrote; he used a ceremony from a movie that...well, my more conservative family members might not send me Christmas cards this year. Most people had a lot of fun, though. My veil fell off during the ceremony. Also, creepy floating smile.   My friend made our cakes. She was up really late the night before making little fondant dinos. Our topper is made of two cheap prizes from an arcade.  My mom dressed like Mario. 
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Zaftig, y'all look like y'all had a blast! Congrats! Another random question. I stated before that my dad would not be able to attend my wedding due to an illness. I know traditionally that the father of the bride is supposed to walk the bride down the aisle. Would it be a huge faux pas if I just walked down the aisle by myself? I know it's silly but I hate the idea of somebody else replacing my dad since he means a lot to me. How did you other wonderful people deal with this?
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I don't think there's anything weird about walking down the aisle yourself. Think of the wedding in Sound of Music, nobody walked Julie Andrews down the aisle. My mom walked herself down the aisle for her second marriage, but it might seem more appropriate since she was already given away the first time. I had a friend that had both her mom and dad walk her down the aisle, which inspired me to ask my mom to give me away, since my dad passed away. If your mom gives you away, she can also speak for your father, responding to the officiant's "who gives this woman?" with "her father and I do." If your mom isn't down, perhaps your brother, godfather, or an uncle or grandfather, but I don't think you necessarily need anyone. However, you might upset the men in your family by declining their offers to take your dad's place. You can also walk down the aisle with your husband escorting you, and have the bridal party march out in pairs before you.
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I'm facing having to walk down the aisle alone, because I'm just not close to my dad and while he'll be there as a guest, he's not enough of a father for me to want him to be part of the ceremony, and mum is too shy and and doesn't want to do it. I'm freaking out a little about doing it alone, but can't think of a way around it without having to straight up tell my dad that I don't want him to do it.
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I'm getting married, probably in January or March. We'd like to go to Vegas and we're looking at themed weddings. I want lasers and fog machines but the only chapel that seems to have it is Viva Las Vegas. I've read some very differing reviews, and I've yet to see another chapel that does more than one or two themes. Has anyone had an experience with Viva Las Vegas or had a theme wedding at another chapel in Vegas?
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Um, I can't seem to find anything but AGS-0 Diamonds from respectable online distributors. Am I using the price-scope/whiteflash search engine wrong or what because I would actually consider a AGS-1 if the price was right.
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Um, I can't seem to find anything but AGS-0 Diamonds from respectable online distributors. Am I using the price-scope/whiteflash search engine wrong or what because I would actually consider a AGS-1 if the price was right. What are you looking for? I tried to send you a PM, but no plat.
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Finally got engaged on Monday. It took me a while to figure out some way of doing it but I got it figured out and added my own touch to it. If anyone wants to see, this is the video I created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQ2me1rOBc&hd=1 I showed her this, which led her to a website, which then had pictures of a fall scene I had created on the back porch (I was going to do it elsewhere but we had a terrible storm come through and basically everything in the town was soaked. The overhang on my deck was the only dry place) with a sign that said "come & find me". Once she got there she opened the lid and found a fake ring box and when she turned around, there I was. The "my spin" part to this is that I actually filmed it with 3 cameras so we'd always have it. You can watch the video of her reactions, including proposal, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09kASU9ezOw&hd=1
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suddenlyissoon posted:Finally got engaged on Monday. It took me a while to figure out some way of doing it but I got it figured out and added my own touch to it. Wonderful! I teared up myself.  Congratulations!
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suddenlyissoon posted:Awesome Proposal I don't even know you and you made me cry! Congratulations on your engagement!
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I am married!! After months of planning and severe hemorrhaging of money the day finally came! We had a very (and I mean very) small ceremony with less than ten people including the photographer and us. We seriously lucked into an amazing spot, my cousin (who is a minister and married us) is an actor and is friends with a very famous designer who just tossed the keys to his lower west side penthouse complete with 600 square foot rooftop terrace and gave us free reign of it for no charge whatsoever. The weather cooperated completely and everything went off without a problem. Enough talking, here are a couple of photos for now: Extra vain photos of me!  us with our little man: 
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Thought I would post some quick ring porn. Thanks to JohnnyRnR for his help choosing the stone and setting. I would recommend him for any goons on the fence. The quality of these pics is fairly awful - it's a great looking ring.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image.
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I was wondering whether I should put a certain joke in my best man speech / toast. "So today's been a very hectic day ... blah blah blah ... [groom] asked me for 'directions to get to the conception.' [Pause for laugh] I had a good laugh and said, 'I can't believe I have to tell you this ... its like riding a bike.' [Groom] says, 'Riding a bike?! Jeez it'll take forever to get there!'. I say, 'What? No its just an expression, and don't worry; you get there when you get there' to which [Groom] replies, 'but I have to get there before my guests!' Is this too 'smutty' and/or too involved ... or just not funny? I was aiming for tongue in cheek, I think. I wouldn't feel bad telling this joke in front of my buddy's parents, but I don't know the bride's side of the family well, and I saw a picture of Jesus hanging on the wall in their house
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Sidmae posted:I was wondering whether I should put a certain joke in my best man speech / toast. I think it needs to be worked on a little bit more and then it would be a funny joke. As is, it's a little unclear in some places and makes some jumps that aren't terribly plausible without giving the joke more meat. Is it appropriate for a wedding toast? I don't think it is. It makes the groom look like a bumbling idiot, the kind everyone is surprised is able to dress himself each morning. If you're going to include an amusing anecdote, have it be something that actually happened, not something that you wished happened so that you could make this kickass joke you wrote. And have it be something that is amusing in a romantic way. All in all, you just want to wish the bride and groom all the best, they're so great for each other, blah blah blah.
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You're probably not going to get as big a reaction as you are hoping for from the initial "conception" line and then you're just going to keep dragging it out as things get more and more awkward for everyone else in the room. I would probably cut it from your speech or at the very least run it by the groom and/or bride to see if they are okay with a more risque joke like that being told in front of their entire family.
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Sidmae posted:I was wondering whether I should put a certain joke in my best man speech / toast. I think you need to worry less about offending the religious and more about offending those with a legitimate sense of humor. Your joke isn't the WORST, but....well, it's definitely not the best. You could retool it but I'd honestly just scrap it and do what everyone else does, which is tell a funny story about something the groom actually once did.
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Sidmae posted:I was wondering whether I should put a certain joke in my best man speech / toast. I would definitely not do it. You don't know the bride or her family, and you have to keep in mind that it's not just the groom's parents--it's the bride's entire family, the priest,, the groom's grandparents... better just not to offend anyone, unless you know for a fact that everyone there loves bawdy jokes.
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I think the joke is awful...sorry :-/ I think people need to be really careful with speeches like that. When my cousin (a former Ketamine addict) got married, his best man's toast speech included tales of the two of them skipping school to get high and stuff (there were also curse words). It was pretty awkward for all involved and not really something grandma wanted to hear. Thankfully the dude redeemed himself at the end with a heartfelt thank you to the bride for being there for the groom through all his struggles.
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I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I didn't take the time to go through all 100 pages to find out. Anyone know of a good/quality website for invitations? Have you used them before, if so what was your experience? Thanks in advance!
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Sidmae posted:I was wondering whether I should put a certain joke in my best man speech / toast. The best speeches/toasts are 60 seconds long. Heartfelt congratulations, a one line joke, and a toast of well wishes. Wedding speeches are always awful, and I think we should see the tradition put to rest. Kaddish posted:Thought I would post some quick ring porn. Thanks to JohnnyRnR for his help choosing the stone and setting. I would recommend him for any goons on the fence. Congrats!
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JohnnyRnR posted:Wedding speeches are always awful, and I think we should see the tradition put to rest.
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I got married a couple weeks ago; I was going to post in this thread a long time ago when we were still in the planning stages, but...yeah that didn't happen. All in all our costs weren't exorbitant, but even with significant financial help from my parents, his parents and cutting corners where we could, we have quite a bit to pay off. Ceremony/Reception venue (and catering) - $3000 Flowers - $600 DJ - $600 Bar - $400 Dress and accoutrements - $1200 Photography - $0 (His father took pics, they used to do it semi-professionally in the early 90s) Cake - $0 (Made by his mom) Rings - $700 (my engagement ring was passed down from his grandmother, I chose not to get the matching wedding band so I got a plain gold band, his is tungsten with a celtic design around it) I think that's everything...his mom helped with a large majority of the wedding, and was pretty much a free wedding coordinator for us. Sometimes I wish we had put our foot down and gone to Vegas or the courthouse to get married since we're going to be paying this off for awhile, but everything went smoothly overall and it was a lot of fun. The only downside is that we had a big home game that day and although about 100 people RSVPed, only about 60 or so came, so we paid a lot more for food than we needed and had a lot of leftovers. We were pretty bitter about that (neither one of us like football, and I guess we expected that a family event would be more important than a football game) but we just have to shrug and move on. Anyway, some pics: My bouquet  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Click here for the full 720x540 image. The venue was really nice and the weather was gorgeous. October in Nebraska can be very unpredictable where weather is concerned. The previous year it had snowed on that day.  Click here for the full 720x540 image. The cake his mother made...the ribbon was pulled away so we could cut it. I made the mints.  Click here for the full 720x540 image.  Click here for the full 720x540 image. Maerlyn fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Nov 7, 2010 |
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Maerlyn posted:The only downside is that we had a big home game that day and although about 100 people RSVPed, only about 60 or so came, so we paid a lot more for food than we needed and had a lot of leftovers. We were pretty bitter about that (neither one of us like football, and I guess we expected that a family event would be more important than a football game) but we just have to shrug and move on.  Man, I know I'm pretty non-sporty, but that's unbelievably tacky. You're probably right about shrugging and moving on but holy cow. Anyway, it looks like you had a beautiful wedding and a beautiful day for it, and congratulations
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My fiance and I started planning our wedding in the Dominican Republic (we live in Nova Scotia), which would cost us right around $5,500, with everything included (flight, 2 weeks at the resort all inclusive, flowers, decorations for both wedding and reception locations, dinner, cake, officiant, hair and makeup, and all the other little stuff). That didn't include my dress, his outfit, invitations, and our welcome bags we were going to make for our guests. Then we got pregnant (5 1/2 months currently), and we very recently decided that we are going to go down to the court house and get married, probably before Christmas. So, the only things we have to purchase are our rings (he's getting a tungsten ring for $250, and I'm getting a silver band with a small pattern for $175), marriage licence ($120), and the cost to have us married at the court house ($85). We still want to have the ceremony and honeymoon in the Dominican, and we'll be getting custom rings done by a goldsmith in the city when we do, but we didn't want to have to wait to be married. We aren't a traditional couple anyway, so my parents weren't the slightest bit surprised when I told them we were just going to the court house. In fact, they were very supportive, and said they thought it was a fantastic idea. My parents rock, and from day one have wanted what my fiance and I wanted for our wedding, and never pushed their thoughts and ideas on us.
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Maerlyn posted:The only downside is that we had a big home game that day and although about 100 people RSVPed, only about 60 or so came, so we paid a lot more for food than we needed and had a lot of leftovers. We were pretty bitter about that (neither one of us like football, and I guess we expected that a family event would be more important than a football game) but we just have to shrug and move on. Jesus Nebraska. Stay Classy. Congrats on the weather! We're doing a September wedding in the midwest, and don't have the courage to do a reception site that has anything to do with outside.
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A little while back, I had asked about getting Save the Dates/invites from Wedding Paper Divas online, and I just want to say I've had a terrific experience with them and with their customer service. I have nothing but good things to say about them, and I highly recommend them. In other, slightly related news, my future mother-in-law has decided to add about 30 more people to a previously 100 person guest list 3 months after the last save-the-dates were sent out. They're all fairly close family that she 'forgot' to mention before, and has been calling some of my fiancé's relatives to kind of bully them into coming across the country for our wedding. I want the people that show up to be happy about it, not feel obligated to be there... She is just such a ball of stress for me and my future husband. I can't wait until the terribly awkward dinner when my parents and his parents finally meet (they live on the opposite side of the country, and his mother doesn't like traveling). If I weren't my parents' only child, we so would've went to a courthouse for all this...
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Boxman posted:Jesus Nebraska. Stay Classy. Yeah, it's a pretty big slap in the face, especially when we had family that we KNEW were in town specifically for the game, were told they were going to come after the ceremony..and then didn't show. But we were pleased to hear the Huskers lost the game, and we toasted their defeat on our wedding night September in the midwest is usually safe...we originally planned to get married in September but the venue we chose was booked for that month so we bumped our date back.
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Got married on a whim the other day (after being together almost 20 years). Cost about $150 (license, ceremony, parking) at the county clerk's office. We saved $28 by meeting another couple in the waiting room and offering to be each others witnesses. It was quick, easy, no-fuss, and perfect! We made an appointment online the evening before. But walk-ins were available, you just might have to wait an hour or two.
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Did anybody else really loving regret the decision to ever have bridesmaids? I had no idea it was going to be THIS stressful and annoying. Due to lots of brothers on my side AND my fiance's, he ended up with 7 groomsmen, so I did my best to match them with 4 of my best girl friends, and 3 of my fiance's sisters. There were 1 or 2 I thought might give me some worries, but it's turned out that EVERY one of them is flaking right when I need them the most. I have sent out several e-mails over the course of the last few months, detailing out the dress information, where to buy, how much, the deadline, all the info I could possibly give them. The latest e-mail went out recently letting them know we had only 2 weeks until the shipping deadline and all orders needed to be in soon. Not ONE response. 7 girls and the ONLY dresses I know have been ordered are my fiance's two little sisters, because their parents are broke and we ended up having to pay for and order them. The rest of them are just not communicating with me at all. We talk about wedding stuff frequently, they all act excited, they respond to all my other emails and phone calls, but the dress stuff just gets danced around or ignored. And now I have to sit down tonight and call every one of them and pin them down and say "Look, we only have a couple days left before the dresses have to be ordered. Have you loving ordered yours or not?". I really DID NOT want it to come to this, I feel like these are my friends and they should understand that waiting until the last possible minute is going to stress me the gently caress out. Even if that's what they have to do, a 5 second email would be swell, just SOMETHING telling me that they haven't completely dropped the ball. Am I being a bridezilla? I tried to make things as easy as possible - I gathered all of their input on which dress to pick and had them vote on their favorite so that they would be happy with the selection. I chose an online store so that nobody has to physically go anywhere, they can sit at their computer and do it at their convenience. And I tried to choose a VERY reasonably priced dress. I also gave everybody 6 months notice. So WTF?
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Nov 9, 2010 23:36
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