April 2010 Brides

Hey Jen, welcome to the site and to our AWESOME thread haha! As the other girls said, it's probably best that you get out to look for your dress soon but I know that many of the larger stores especially will sell off the rack so if you find the dress for you then you're set! I think you'll do just fine as long as you keep on top of it. And that's awesome you already have 15 guests booked too. It's so nice when people start booking their trips.

I haven't checked the rates at our resort yet, but I know that I did get a good single night rate the other day when I booked the room for my photographer. I have a couple friends who have really been procrastinating about booking so hopefully this will tip the scales for them

Welcome! I agree with everyone else… you should find your dress soon. I ordered mine almost 2 months ago and it won’t be in until the end of January.

This site will be very helpful in getting all of your planning done in six months.

I think your cake topper is very cute!

I’m waiting to get most of my accessories after my dress comes in, but I plan to get my shoes and undergarments before the dress comes in since they say you should have them on for your fittings. As for the “lack of presenceâ€, I need something to “lift me up†more than anything. I’m finding that the older I get, the further south they go!

That has to be such a relief that your guests are starting to book… makes it feel more real doesn’t it?

I just had to share... My sister was in town this weekend to shop for bridesmaids dresses (she is a bridesmaid). I'm only having a maid of honor and one bridesmaid. My maid of honor will be wearing the same dress. The dress is shown in brown, but we are ordering it in garnet (a deep red color). It is a D’Zage Style 8003. What do you think?

 

Dress on model

 

Since we ordered the bridesmaids dress from the same shop as my dress, I was able to put on my dress sample and see how the bridesmaids dress will look next to mine. The surprising thing is that I look much thinner in my dress than the first time I tried it on (I only lost 5 pounds). It was a nice surprise though... more motivation to keep losing weight.

 

The bridesmaids dress will be similar to the red color shown in the pic below.

 

It’s such a relief to get one more thing checked off the list!

I just lost my entire post!!!! Y does that happen when you type entire conversation.

 

I am on to page 8 on this thread and I promise I will continue to read, please just forgive me if these questions have already been addressed.

 

This is where I am:

-resort: booked

-dress: ordered and shipped

-BM dresses: ordered

-photographer: booked

-airfare: booked (what did my fellow jersey girls end up paying for their air?)

-honeymoon: booked

-mom's dress: ordered

 

What I am working on

-FI: suit (any suggestions on where I can get a linen suit, and how long it takes to order?)

-my shoes, accessories, and undergarments (ladies I am VERY top heavy, where can I find appropriate and comfortable undergarments for my dress help!!)

-invitations (I will send out end of December for February 1st, rsvp); i know timing isn't great but I just sent out std's in August.

 

am i forgetting anything here that I may be behind in? there is so much detail, whoah overwhelming!!

-do you have your dress?!

-are you doing a private reception? if so.. are you having a dj? or doing an Ipod?!

-rings?

when I think of more I'll let ya know!!

but so far you seem like your doing really good. Try and not stress to much. I've realized everything will come together.

I really like that bridesmaids dress- nice choice. It looks great with your dress, too, and that garnet colour is really pretty, thumbs up! Can I just say how much I love your wedding dress, too? It is absolutely gorgeous and you look awesome in it!

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I forgot to mention I am so sorry!!! I loooooooooooove you BM dress!!!! I especially love it in the red color.

Were they $$? they look to be.

So far, so good! I think you have it all covered. Have you thought about favours or welcome gifts/OOT bags at all? Might want to get an idea about what you want for these so that you can order them when you get a decent idea of what your head count will be. Also- have you done a website? If you're sending out invites in the new year you may want to make sure your guests are informed about everything and for me that was the easiest way to keep everyone in the loop and excited.
Keep it up, you're doing really well with your planning.

I’ve lost what I was writing several times due to my terrible wireless internet connection. So, I started typing my posts in word and then doing a cut and paste. .. saves having to retype a whole post.

Anyway, it looks like you are on track with everything. I didn’t get officially engaged until August, so I didn’t send out my STDs until mid-September. So, I don’t think it was too late sending out STDs in August. I can’t think of anything else you may be forgetting other than what the other ladies have already suggested.

Oh, as for linen suits, there are a couple of threads on this message board on Studio Suits that you can check out. Sorry, I don’t have the links, but you should be able to do a search and find them.

My sister tried on like 20 different dresses and we had it narrowed down to this one and three others. The funny thing is, this BM dress was the third dress she tried on.

Thank you so much for the compliments on my dress. I hope my FI likes my dress when he finally gets to see it on our wedding day .

Thanks. The dress was $200. We had to put down half to place the order and we’ll pay the remainder when it comes in. A little more than I planned to pay, but I fell in love with the style of the dress. I am paying for my sister’s dress since she is still in college. My MOH is paying for her own dress.

I haven't checked in awhile but after seeing your post I checked and surprisingly the rates have dropped!! So thanks for bringing that up! I just have to contact my TA now and see if she can do anything about changing the original quote she gave me.

The BM dress is really nice! Your sister pulls it off well, my BMs tried on a dress like that and they felt like marshmellow puffs lol. I love how the red really pops, great choice!

I still need to do this and I saw that you can rent linen suits at Mens Wearhouse, have you tried there yet?