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Thanks for all of the compliments! I had so much fun that day and all of the months of planning, fighting AND anticipation came together nicely. The bridesmaids dresses are from David's 81594 in clover with an optional white sash and underskirt. My dress was from a standard bridal salon - it's an Ashley Jordan (but it's made by Impressions I believe). It's a floor length dress. Here's one I found online: http://www.onlineweddingdeals.com/pd-ashley_jordan_v402_by_impression_bridal.cfm
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I have to admit that I had other influences with the green and white. I went to Michigan State, worked there for several years, and the ceremony/reception was on campus so it was just natural to have a green and white theme. As I've mentioned before, I had a hard time getting things to match, but there are a lot more options with a hunter green than the clover color I chose. I know I'm partial to green and white, but they are such classy colors! Plus everyone looks good in green - from a stunning fair/blonde (HI KATIE) to a fabulous woman of color. Gravitee fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Oct 10, 2008 |
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I really like your dress LittleCat. It's very princess-y without being over-the-top girly. WB - I like the Alfred Angelo better. I get the impression that the Wai Ching dress would only look good on sticks like the model. It's rough because the dresses are really creative and colorful and not too expensive. Maybe you have a friend in Seattle who's roughly the same size as you who could go try one on? I'm the same size as you and I wanted to accent my better features (boobs, neckline) and downplay the middle. I wanted to get an A-line or ball gown type dress with a halter top that covered up the midsection and I didn't have to keep yanking up my dress. I didn't have to wear any shapewear underneath the dress. I was able to breathe and shake my rear end on the dance floor until they kicked us out! CK - I can't believe you bought a new dress! Haven't you already started the fittings on the other? This one is really pretty but the other one fits with the overall vibe you're trying to create. You'll have to show us pictures when you get the new one in. I'm surprised you posted pictures because Matt is such a jerk about seeing the dress. Seems like everyone's SOs are goons who are nosey. Goons marrying goons!  Also stool photos! Edit: HAHA They look funny on top of each other!  
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I have to say that there WILL be a lot of pictures of your back. You'll have your back to the crowd the entire time your at the alter, there will be the requisite "walking away holding hands" shots, and plenty of you dancing your first dance from behind so don't disregard it. I love the last dress though, it reminds me of Grace Kelly. WB - Your designer has a few other dresses that were colorful, sleek and modern. There was one with orange in it that might go great with blue hair. Just a thought. If you're going to be bold, go all out then. CK - I had a brilliant idea. You should buy two or three more dresses and Cher it up and do dress changes between events. For the sake of my young male relatives, no black thongitards please. (What the hell do you call that thing she wore in the video with all of the sailors?)
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Oct 11, 2008 04:36
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Oct 13, 2008 14:27
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I got my veil on Ebay for $15 and I'm sure Etsy would have good ones too. It was a fairly traditional comb one, but I wasn't going to pay $80 for one from a bridal salon. It's a drat ripoff like the rest of the industry. I asked my seamstress about corsets and she suggested a local lingerie/dance outfit store. I figured she'd seen thousands of dresses and their accompanying undergarments in her day and would know where to find good ones. Seconding WolfensteinBag on the Friday wedding comments.
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Farewell Horizon posted:I have a question. Is it really expected of the couple to have a first dance, or can it be skipped? It's your wedding. Do whatever in the hell you want.
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That place is gorgeous! Non-traditional reception venues are so elegant.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou: Research, research, research. I spent most of the first two months I was engaged on the computer every night trying to find prices/venues/colors and the other assorted BS you have to decide. The Knot is a good place to start - but also check out their message boards to get reviews on vendors. (Tread lightly - some of those girls are crazy!) I also went to a Bridal Show to get the feel on what was available in my area and the range of costs. Even if you don't live in the Orlando area you might be able to go to a local one to get a sense of the options available to you so when you are looking for vendors in Orlando, you know what you are looking for. Most vendors don't need an exact head count but if you say "I'm thinking between 100 and 125 people" they can still give you a pretty solid quote. brc64: Congrats! Absolutely none of my family lives in Michigan where I got married. We chose near where my in-laws live so it would be close to at least one side of the family. Our venue was a hotel/conference center so we held the reception in the same place where everyone could stay. That seemed to work really well and there was no one getting lost in a city they weren't familiar with and people could drink and not have to drive home. Even if you don't go the route I did, a lot of hotels will allow you to block a group of rooms to hold for out of town guests. In addition, I set up a wedding web page with lodging info, maps, and reservation numbers so the information was readily available and not likely to get lost. CK: Did you get your other dress yet?
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My bustier was $45 from a local lingerie shop. Before my last fitting I took the bustier with me and tried it on with the dress just to make sure it wasn't going to show. Thankfully it didn't. My alterations were $130 for a bustle and taking in of the halter part of my dress. I got mine done at a bridal shop (although not where I bought my dress) and the woman was highly recommended by a friend.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:How does that compare to the "will not oxidize or decay over time" of platinum/palladium? Better, worse, or same? I do want something that doesn't tarnish. It looks like it has the same non-tarnish properties that platinum/palladium have. There are many urban legends about tungsten and titanium rings not being able to come off fingers and they have to chop off them off in case of emergency. They may have to cut your ring off, but they won't have to cut off your finger.
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I think I'm going to take an informal poll about engagement rings. I am very happy that I was engaged before the SO and I went ring shopping and I picked the ring after deciding what looked best. However, many people feel the need to pick out a ring before they propose. I know surprise proposals are the norm but I am curious about the reality of wearing something on your hand for the rest of your life that you may or may not had any say on. I would like to know: A. If you are female and engaged/married - did you pick out your ring? If not, do you like what your SO picked out for you? Would you have preferred something else? Did you discuss at all what your likes/dislikes were beforehand? B. If you are female and not engaged/married - do you want to pick out your ring or do you want to be surprised? C. If you are male - is finding the right ring more important than the proposal? Did you have/would you want feedback beforehand regarding your partner's likes and dislikes? Discuss!
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Thanks for the great stories. I'm glad everyone got a say in what they received. It makes me hopefully that real life isn't like the awful Kay Jeweler commercial I just saw on TV. We spent the money we saved on the ring for a nice honeymoon. We went to an all inclusive in Mexico. It was great. 
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Nov 27, 2008 21:34
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Endor posted:A neat historic renovated barn in a local city park. Doesn't look like much from the outside, but very nice open-air "log cabin" feel on the inside. I was at a wedding there this summer (the weekend before mine actually) and it's pretty nice. My only complaint was that there were probably too many people for the venue and there wasn't much room for dancing/mingling. I also felt bad for the people who ended up being sat on the 2nd floor.
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Hello thread I missed you!Lowness 72 posted:What I'm worried about is that the wedding will be on the east coast, but all my family is on the west coast, and most of my friends will be flying in so I'm worried about them being able to come as well. Ugh. Venues are typically location specific. You can check out a local area bridal magazine. They have lots of adds for vendors in your area. Also don't forget to check out local museums, botanical gardens, and historical sites. They all make great venues and sometimes get overlooked.
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MarshallX posted:It's now January 3rd....are we behind or ahead in terms of planning? I feel like we are behind and the wedding is going to sneak up on us like something fierce. Sounds like you are pretty ahead of the game. Good luck! ElanoreMcMantis posted:Survey - Bridal showers: All females invited to the wedding OR close female friends/family. Traditionally, it's all females invited to the wedding. Traditions, be what they may, aren't always practical. I only had one shower thrown by aunt/cousins -in law and I invited my friends, bridesmaids, my Mom, and all of the female relatives on my husband's side because all of my family is spread out. I didn't think it would be fair to most of them to invite them for a party that lasted 3 hours. No one on my Mom's side said anything to me or my Mom about not being invited and I even got a few presents from my aunts. Many people these day have 2+ showers which I think can be inconsiderate to your friends/family if they are invited to all of them. My mantra was always "It's my wedding. It's what I want to do." And so I did, with my parents blessing of course.
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tvb posted:A short wedding story, and advice for the broke guys like me. That is super sweet. Congrats!
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fine-tune posted:You're only supposed to invite the bridal party, appropriate spouses/fiances/etc and parents, right? Also, outside of the bridal party, who gets flowers (parents, grandparents, etc)? For the rehearsal dinner I believe it's supposed to be the bridal party and their SO's, parents and siblings, and any out of town guests. I also bought flowers for other guests of honor like grandparents, ushers, officiant, and the person who did a reading during the ceremony. If you are generous you can go with musicians and emcee/DJ.
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fine-tune posted:I guess we'll need to break tradition since everyone will be an out of town guest 99% of my side was from out of town too. We just had a big BBQ as a rehearsal dinner so we could accommodate more people. Basically we just invited everyone who was around Friday night and it worked out well. If you can't invite everyone from out of town, it might be nice to suggest good restaurants, movie theaters or sights in the area if they arrive early and have time to kill.
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. On the plus side, our officiant is a priest so he will have fancy robes and no need of flowers!
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Dr Scoofles posted:As my sister is getting married this May I went round her house to rifle through her wedding magazines. I have been told so far by Weddings Magazine that the average cost of a wedding here is £20,000 (about $30,000). They quote about £2000 as the average spend on the dress. How do people spend this much? My sister had her dress hand made to her exact measurements from scratch out of silk by a skilled dress maker and ended up paying £800. This included all her consultations and fitting sessions as well as the cost of the fabric. I admit I am nieve when it comes to the wedding industry, but I can only conclude shops stick an extra grand onto the price of a dress because Weddings Magazine tells us brides to be thats the right price to pay. Congratulations and welcome to the thread. Magazines are great for ideas, but by no means are the gospel. My first piece of advice would be to figure out what you don't want to skimp on. Some people decide that they want a huge cake and the best photographer. Then figure out ways you can save on other things like having a handy sister-in-law decorate your pews/aisles/arch. Don't think that you *HAVE* to have everything that you see in the magazines either. I went with very simple centerpieces which I posted earlier in this thread. Big centerpieces are nice, but then your guests have to talk through them. I didn't have cake. I had pie and I know several people who went the cupcake route. I didn't do save the dates, aisle runner or have a formal guest book. There's several things you can do yourself if you have lots of time and lots of many crafty friends. I had two people who decorated day of and I owe them a lifetime of steak dinners. Things add up, especially during the last few weeks. Off the top of my head I bought: Lingerie and garter to go with the dress $60 Gifts for bridesmaids $400 Kissing bowl $10 Materials for escort cards and other misc. paper goods $40 Shoes $80 Hair and makeup $200 That's not even including all of the final payments on the venue, photographer, etc. The more you can do early will save you $$ in the long run. Also, we got engaged after dating a little under two years and living together for one of those years.
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squirrellypoo posted:I've just been sat here for 5 full minutes trying to figure out what this could possibly be, and all I'm getting are those mental images of the kidney-shaped pans in hospitals to stop you drooling on yourself... Someone want to help me out here? We didn't want people to clink glasses all through dinner, so we used a kissing bowl. If you wanted us to kiss you had to make a donation and put it in a glass bowl we had on the head table. We ended up raising $75 and donated it to charity. It worked too - clinking was kept to a minimum and we were able to raise money and not look like greedy bastards. (e.g. Dollar Dance)
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Most weddings I've been to have had the clinking of the glasses to get the couple to kiss so I forget it is a regional thing. My wedding was held in Michigan but a bunch of the family was from Canada and Kentucky. I've been to weddings were they start to clink glasses and the bride was in the bathroom. I thought it was kind of tacky and wanted to avoid that. (On a TMI note, once I got dressed, I didn't go pee once. I was dressed for nearly 12 hours and I didn't go to the bathroom the entire time.) I think the Dollar Dance is very tacky and slows down the pace of the party. I think that is a midwest thing too; I've only seen it at Michigan weddings. I thought people would get bored watching me dance with cousins, uncles, and friends. My mother-in-law asked that I not include it and I happily obliged.
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ElanoreMcMantis posted:Bridal showers are kind of rear end. My friends are mostly males, and even though I managed to not invite the 140 old ladies and various people my mom was trying to insist on, out of the 60 invited, about 40 of them are people I don't know from his family, or people I barely know. It was hard trying to decide which people from my old neighborhood to invite, because they all were a huge part of my life, but since I moved I hardly see them. My MOH said she thought I did a good job doing the list, but I still worry like 8 people will show up and I'll feel like a huge loser. I am still mad she wouldn't let me just invite all my guy friends. I've been to a Jack and Jill wedding shower and it was pretty laid back. We did split up the girls and guys for a bit. The girls played a few shower games and the guys played XBox or something. The rest of the day was a normal BBQ except for presents. It was a relief for me because I only knew the bride and none of her family or friends.
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On a unrelated note, I got my pictures back today so I'm going to plaster them all over the internet!
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moana posted:Couldn't you just register for a bunch of stuff, then return it to the store? Or would that not be possible without receipts? Many places like Bed Bath and Beyond have liberal registry returns. You can return without a receipt as long as it's on your registry. I even had some friends who received stuff they didn't like, put it on their registry online, and returned it no problem.
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LittleCat posted:FidgityRat - here's what I did. Some people may find it rude, but I've got nothing but good reactions so far. I put on the RSVP card a line saying "visit https://www.ourwebsiteurl.com to RSVP, and for directions, registry information and more." From the wedding website, I linked to myregistry.com, which is a nice little online registry service that allows you to set up a cash gift fund that goes directly to your paypal with no extra fees. There I explained that if people want to give us cash, we'd love to go on a honeymoon, and anything they wanted to contribute would be fantastic (or something along those lines). This is a great idea. I did a wedding website and linked all my registry information to it. I didn't do a Paypal link, but if I did, I would just explain that the money would be going toward a house down payment or honeymoon so people don't think you are using it for a new xbox. (On a side note, a couple who we are friends with who are getting married this summer registered exclusively for DVDs, games, and other electronic devices. I'm not sure if that is really cool or not.) I would say that 50% of my wedding gifts were in the form of cash which was nice. 100% of my shower gifts were off the registry though.
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LittleCat posted:I was originally going to try to do a lot more myself, but I ended up getting a lot of help from Etsy. I'm making table numbers, escort cards, a card box (which turned out really well!) and probably programs. It feels like just the right amount of DIY for me - not so much that I'm stressed out, but not so little that I feel like I'm uninvolved. I got my invitations through Etsy - turned out the girl lived 10 minutes from me and dropped them off when she was done! I did the rest of my paper goods myself. (Note to self - invest in a paper cutter...) http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/0emyE8WhZutYqxv6Af0liQ?feat=directlink http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9m8b7h-xtkNa-Meee8IScg?feat=directlink http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/A17iOyRG2cyZFP651QkZlQ?feat=directlink
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:So our website is done (long time ago) and we'd like some input: Very cute site! Layout and info is great. I had problems bringing up the pictures - it was just say loading at the top and nothing would come up. I had to refresh the page to get back.
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CalamityKate posted:I had a panicked dream that there was no-one to serve alcohol at ours. I would step in for you! Although I was at a wedding last summer where they forgot the taps for the kegs so don't forget your taps, kids. I kept track of how many wedding dreams I had - I think I was up to 12 or 15 by the time came.
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I had a classical guitarist perform during the ceremony and cocktail hour. I had him play pretty typical stuff. He had a website with clips of him playing so I was able to pick what I wanted, but I searched other websites and just went to Amazon to find clips of things that I wasn't familiar with. Honestly, I don't remember a drat thing as far as music went for the ceremony, but people tell me it was superb. Processional Jesu Bride Processional Pachelbel Canon in D Recessional Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Ode to Joy) I'll give him a shout out too: http://www.russellguitar.com/home He's got a list of his wedding repertoire if you're looking for both modern guitar and classical. Gravitee fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Feb 26, 2009 |
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MarshallX posted:Can anyone honestly tell me the benefit of having a limo/bus? Our entire wedding is booked and planned for October except for Limos. I've seen it work and not work. The wedding I was in a week or so ago, they had planned on being on the party bus for 2 hours between the ceremony and reception. Things ran late and we ended up being on the bus for 30 min. It was a total waste of $600. I've also been to two weddings were the wedding party and their significant others got to go on the party bus/limo and it was a lot of fun. In one small Ohio town, it was the norm to go bar hopping all dressed up for a few hours. It was fun as hell and you arrive at the reception drunk off your butt. However, it is totally my own opinion that making your guests wait around for the wedding party to show up after drinking around town for an hour or two is rude. I know sometimes it can't be helped to have a large gap between ceremony and reception, but if you just extend your guest's waiting around time just so you can have a few beers with your buddies, you create an inconvenience and annoyance for your guests.
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amethystbliss posted:
That is super cute and congratulations!
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I was at a wedding last summer where the groomsmen just wore a white button down shirt and khakis. It was on a beach during the summer so a suit/tux would have turned them into little groomsmen puddles.
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CalamityKate posted:Whee! Got the thing done last Sat, the 14th. I just showed this picture to a coworker and she said that it looks so pretty, it looks fake. You and your dress really stand out.
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Enderr posted:Not sure if this has been asked/answered or if this is even the right thread, but here goes: I am the best man is a wedding next week - first time - and I am wondering what type of gifts the best man usually gets for the groom. The guy is my best friend but has been living in Australia for the past six years so neither of us are completely up to date and each others likes and dislikes. I am calling his fiance tonight (drat time difference) to get some ideas but would love to hear great gifts that some of you have either given or received. Thanks in advance. I've never been to a wedding where the best man gets the groom anything besides the usual couple's present. Usually it's the other way around - the couple gives presents to their attendants.
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I ponied up the $30 bucks (on sale!) for one of the plug and chug wedding website makers. It has all of that stuff included - online RSVP, lots of pages for hotel information and registry info, directions, and I even put a little bit about each of my attendants. I admit that some of the templates were cheesy, but I found one that I could live with.
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I think the topic has been covered ad nauseum on the forums, so I'd leave it out. I've provided several links to diamond alternatives in the OP so people can decide for themselves what kind of ring they want.
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It's not a bad idea, but you really need something for the older folks and families to do. Why don't you set up board game or card game stations?
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