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So, I sent out STD's 9 months in advance of our wedding. On the STD's I printed out wedding website where I have onlinve RSVP-ing enabled. I was hoping I'd get some idea through that function (or people just calling me) to figure out how many we will have. Well, my friends all let me know, but my damn family for the most part hasn't even bothered to call & say "yes, we'll come" or "we won't be able to make it." It almost makes me wonder whether they received the STD's...they did. So, I plan to make my RSVP by date 8 weeks prior to our wedding date. I pray that my 35-40 # I've been estimating everything on is at least close to right.
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Maybe you should take a field trip to an electronics store & try one of the ipod speakers out for yourself. The one I have is just as awesome in terms of sound & volume as a Bose Wave (if you've ever heard one of those). They retail for approx $160-180, so it would definitely be worth finding out for yourself if it's loud enough, you could end up saving a lot of $$ on sound system rentals. -
OK girls, while I haven't actually done this for our wedding yet, I have put playlists together for parties at our house (and others) and been very successful with creating a seamless, all night mix of music. We have a Lansing speaker box for our ipod, it's portable & we plan on bringing it with us to Cabo. The last party we had was outside in our back yard and we actually had to turn the volume DOWN because it was too loud for conversation!
So, I would advise you to do this if you or your FI are ipod/itunes literate and own a speaker box. You can design play lists for each phase of your event - cocktail hour, dinner, dancing - whatever you want. You can also easily hook your ipod to a house sound system, but from what I've heard the rental rates for these arrangements have been outrageous!
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Congrats Megan! Thanks for the quick turn around on your review. It sounds like you made the most of your situation. Good for you! I love that you all ended up in the pool at your wedding reception - I'd love to see those pics
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Originally Posted by JANET1111 But based on your very strong recommendations, I promise to re-think this... I don't know why I am so hesitant? I think I just want to minimize the "extra stuff to do".
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I think in the long run you're event will go more smoothly if you put a little effort into this one...sorry -
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I'll email my coordinator & see if I can add some more confusion to this thread!
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OK, as if we need something else to worry about! I remember hearing about this DST experiment a long time ago, I guess it's really happening. Sooo, I'm still confused though. I assume Mexico (and the rest of the world) will continue to follow the old program? My head hurts.
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WOO HOO Meagan!
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Oh, totally! When I found it a few weeks ago I was like
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Here's a tip that I use everyday, when you visit an ongoing thread that you've read thru to a certain point, you can click "View First Unread" in the upper left hand corner of the screen (just under the "post reply" button & just above the first post). This will take you to the first post in the thread that you haven't yet seen. It's handy!
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MM - you are so on top of it! This is the kind of thing I would probably do in the month preceeding my departure. I am very spreadsheet oriented. You are my kinda gal
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OK, now I'm confused. Here's my understanding (as a March bride) --> DST begins March 11, 2007. Sunset for my date 3/17 is 7:29 pm. Sunset is 7:32 the following Sat 3/24.
Until I read this...
MEXICO TIME ZONESMexico uses three time zones. Most of the country uses Central Standard Time. The Mexico states ofChihuahua, Nayarit, Sonora, Sinaloa and Baja California Sur use Mountain Standard Time and Baja California Norte uses Pacific Standard Time.
Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 a.m. local time on the first Sunday in April. On the last Sunday in October areas on Daylight Saving Time fall back to Standard Time at 2:00 a.m. The names in each time zone change along with Daylight Saving Time. Central Standard Time (CST) becomes Central Daylight Time (CDT), and so forth. The state of Sonora does not observe Daylight Saving Time.
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Welcome to the board! Can't wait to hear about your big day, it's so soon!
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in Wedding Invitations, Passport Invitations, Boarding Pass Invitations, STDs, photos & website
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Thanks for confirming my suspicions Karla! I have a myriad of problems on this topic:
-Half of my family doesn't get the whole using the computer for anthing other than emailing stupid jokes thing.
-2 of my best friends are having babies next month, and although they both said they would come, neither of them have decided whether their hubbys will come or stay home w/the new babies.
-My FI's family thinks RSVP's are unnecessary - they are Hispanic & apparently expect everybody & their inlaws to show up for their events, so why shouldn't I.
-And, last but not least, I just found out that a few of my girlfriends from the pre-engagement days are seriously planning on just showing up (they have not been invited.) I don't even want to get into that right now.
However, I've invited 45 ppl total, and am confident that at least 30 of them will show up, so I'm basing all of my figures on 40. It should be fine, but GAWD, what's up with people??