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Oh that is so awful! I hope your doggy is doing better and they can figure out why this happened. I am sending your doggy healthy vibes.

Have an amazing time! I hope everything goes just the way you always dreamed it would! Oh yeah and hurry back and bring pictures!

I think #4 goes best with the casual vibe that you want but still fanciness of the dress, however by the looks of your hair I have a feeling that #4 would not hold up as well as #1, so I'm going to say go for #1. I also think to make a better assessment I need to see your jewelery. Did you post your jewelery somewhere. If you are wearing a big necklace than I think you should do an updo to showcase it. But if you are keeping it more simpler than one of the low ponytails could work too. It depends on how much you have going on. Are you wearing a veil? A flower in your hair?

I love the new dress! And I love it even more b/c you are happy with it. Ultimately that is all that matters. Hooray for new dresses!

Uggh I can't believe weighin is tomorrow. I am not doing well. Okay I think if the food is not in my face I do well. But the minute my FI makes food I can't resist it. And he usually makes enough food for the week and then runs to work so there I am staring at the food in the fridge and I end up binging. I don't understand how a lot of diet plans and some of my friends say you can have a cheat day, b/c everytime I cheat even a little I do bad on the scale! I wish FI would stop making that damn yummy turkey chilli! But its not fair of me to tell him to stop. But I really can't control myself its like an addiction. ~Shelley rockband is a total work out, so keep playing it and lose those calories. ~Jill my FSIL tried to give me my favorite dessert which is funfetti cupcakes with pink (vanilla flavores) funfetti frosting. I almost killed her. I refused to take any and I walked out the door. I was shocked I had that kind of will power, but I just knew that if I had it in my house it would be all over for me.

Jill I'm so glad it was your b-day yesterday or else I would have felt pretty stupid. LOL. The cake sounds fabulous, although I'll admit I want nothing to do with it. LOL. I could just picture my thighs growing as I licked the frosting! I would have no self-restraint so I would have killed James if he brought that cake home!

I don't have access to a computer on the weekends so I'm a day late but CONGRATULATIONS! I hope it was amazing and everything you hoped it to be.

What a great review! So detailed and very well organized! I'm not getting married there and I felt very informed. LOL. Thank you so much for sharing all this info, I know the Tulum brides must be so happy right now. I'm glad you had a wonderful wedding, your pics look amazing. You look absolutely gorgeous and I loved everything including your dress and the way you wore your hair. Absolutely PERFECT!

Wow those are amazing! Your guests are going to love them! They turned out great, you did an awesome job.

Quote: Originally Posted by Raeka happy birthday Jill - go for it and eat as much cake as you want regardless of what Glenda said kidding! Don't listen to her she just doesn't want you to win the carrot this week! LOL. J/K

Okay I'm not even sure its your b-day b/c its not on the calendar but I think you mentioned in the Biggest Loser thread that today is your birthday. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I hope you have an amazing day and don't indulge too much on cake! LOL. Remember weigh in is this wednesday!

That is awesome Amanda! I wish I lost that much weight! LOL. I'm so jealous. Your dress is going to look so good on you.

I own the complete set. I've taken dance when I was younger but I'm not a good hip hop dancer. You kind of have to know what your doing a little bit or else you look silly. Then again if your doing it in your home and no one is watching it doesn't really matter. The day after I did them I could feel soarness in my muscles which is a good thing. I never did them consistently enough to see results though, so I'm not sure if they work that great. They are fun but they can get boring once you keep repeating them.

I realized that I do really well all week and then I have like one day (usually sunday) where I go crazy and eat too much. I don't know what my problem is. And if I don't have the food in the house I don't do bad, but FI keeps making yummy food and it really screws me up! I can't resist it when its just sitting there. Its never bad food, its healthy, but I eat way too much of it. Oh and also I read that the week before your period and the week during your period you bloat and retain water which makes you not lose weight as much as you would like. Great, just great! (please note my sarcasm)

Thank you Abbie, I merged this thread with another EDR photog thread.

I would make sure that a friend keeps him away. B/c if you just say you are doing girlie things he could just show up to pick something up and then ruin the surprise. Just get a friend to get him out of the house. And don't tell him you have a surprise or else he may go snooping. And once you get your pics hide them well!

Oh I am so sorry to hear this sad news. I know how excited you were for this pregnancy. I will be sending you lots of hugs and good vibes. Feel free to vent or talk about anything you need to let out, we are all here for you.

Okay here are my thoughts/comments: 1. It does look big on you on the top but I think that's a good thing b/c that means you are losing weight from the BDW weight loss challenge. YAY! 2. The Jim Hjelm dress that it was based on is one of my dream dresses. I stare at the dress all the time and drool. I wish I would have known you were trying to purchase a knock-off from China. The problem with knock-offs is that lace does not look that great IMHO. Not to say that your dress isn't pretty but unfortunately it won't look the same quality as the original. 3. The original cost that much for a reason, that type of lace is very expensive. However, I don't think your dress is that bad and I think we can fix it. 4. First things first you should go buy a different colored sash to get the color and quality you want. If you get a nicer quality sash it will make it look more elegant. 5. When you go get it taken it, maybe see if they can do a sweetheart neckline. Do you like that kind of neckline? This may add a little something more to the dress. 6. Are you wearing shoes in the pic? Put on your highest heels, put your hair up, put jewelery and do your make-up and see how you feel in the dress. You might realize its not so bad. 7. If you really hate the dress than just use it for TTD or try to re-sell it on ebay. 8. Ultimately, I think you look beautiful but in the end its what you think that really matters.

I am so sorry this really sucks! It seems like they are not going to make a concession no matter how much you threaten them. They are clearly used to people cancelling. I think your only option is to find another place or rent a villa. Can you have weddings on rental villas in Aruba? If so it might not be hard to find a venue and to find a company that can cater it. Let us know if you need help with anything! I hope everything gets resolved. Keep us updated.

Tami don't stress everything will work out. And your wedding will be amazing, just like you planned. Its normal to get stressed out at this point in the game. But you've come so far, you just need to relax and know that everything is going to work itself out.

Congrats and have an amazing wedding! Hurry back to tell us all the details!

Celebrities don't always donate the proceeds from their pics. Actually all of them use to keep it. But then Angelina and Brad donated their money to charity so it kind of set a precendent and now makes other celebrities look bad if they don't do it as well. Christina and Nicole did not donate to charity. However, when the rumors were spreading that Jlo was getting a 6 million dollar payday her rep said that "jennifer and marc will be probably donating some portion to charity". Clearly if they had any intention of donating it to charity they would have said do. Instead they kept it for themselves.

Well we don't have snow but we do have torrential downpours. I feel you on the crappy weather. I am so sick of it. I have spent the pass few hours with my socks on top of my heater trying to dry them off. I need sunshine! I had the rhyme "April showers bring May flowers". Uggh literally on April 1, it started down pouring here. West Coast girls are so lucky!

Quote: Originally Posted by Christine isn't that what happened with that Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus chick? Glenda if I get tickets you can come with me, come to DC for the weekend and we'll go to the show...or Ainsleigh and I will pack her new suitcase and come see you! My brother and brother in law can babysit and we can go "hang tough" I would go see them in a ditch! LOL. Christine I would love if we could see them together. Don't get me wrong I'm going to do my best and use every connection I ever made to get tickets but I tried with Spice Girls and had no luck! I heard from this woman that the Jonas Brothers were pretty much sold out before they even went on sale b/c corporations bought them out. That's so unfair!

I saw this release a couple of days ago. I want to see them so bad but the chances of getting tickets will be impossible like everything else. Corporations will do big buyouts and give them to their top clients like they always do. And the true fans like us won't be able to get anything! Boo! Can you tell I'm disheartened by corporations buying out concert tickets? LOL.