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Hot damn Maria those sound sooo good. I remember you saying you bake a lot. I might be making an assortment of cupcakes at this rate!!

Your explanation makes total sense, thanks so much for your professional opinion. That really helps )

Mmmmm...now I want banana cake for breakfast!! Thanks for sharing ) Julie there is no rush, whenever you get the chance is fine. Thanks!

Oriental Trading is the coolest! We ordered the flip-flop playing cards and domino sets from them for our OOT bags and people loved them. (and actually used them too)

Quote: Originally Posted by Julesr I have a great recipie for Buttercream icing, its vanilla, but you can add fruit puree's, or melted chocolate to it to make it whatever you want. I always use the buttercream as my base, unless someone wants a cream cheese icing. Let me know if you are interested. You need a mixer though (I use my kitchen aid), to get it the right consistency, do you have one? I have a mixer. I'd love to see your recipe, it sounds nice and versatile!

haha...Heidi I already have that recipe...lol Now that coconut one sounds yummy and easy!!! I love anything coconut. I'll check out allrecipes.com too. Thanks )

Enjoy your birthday Jill. I hope you get some cake!

It's called "Which Way Por Favor". It's a good movie to rent if you're jonesing for a fix of PV's southern beaches. I rented it a few weeks before my wedding and it got me even more amped to get down there. We just rented it again yesterday and I want to go back to PV now!! It's not going to win an AFI award anytime soon but it is surprisingly entertaining and funny. If nothing else the scenery is spectacular in Yelapa. Get some beer and tacos and it makes a good date night movie too )

haha..oh yeah, I'm a bigtime night owl!

Quote: Originally Posted by erik.wade Hey, does anyone actually keep their cake for a year in the freezer anymore and eat it on the 1 year anniversary? That always sounded so odd to me that I wasn't about to try. Um, no. Old cake is not hot...especially if it moved through a few time zones before it made it to the freezer...lol

Welcome to the forum! There is so much information here you will find it quite easy to get it all together. Happy planning!

So weird, try this and if it still doesn't work pm me with your email and I'll send it that way. It was 3 layers, I'm quite sure they can get any kind of cake you want. I've heard the chocolate cake is good, the tres leches was excellent. It did have fresh flowers, and orange ribbon to match my color scheme, although the ribbon looks red in the photo. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...1111_0_ALB.jpg

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I hope it's not true. If it is you can talk to grandma and explain how much you want her there but it sucks because you shouldn't have to. You want people to come on their own will, not twist their arm into seeing you get married. I also had family issues too. One of my favorite uncles declined the trip from the start because it was going to cost $4000 for his family to go - this is an uncle whose kids' college funds have been paid and sitting in the bank since before they entered pre-school. Since I announced my wedding they have been to Atlanta to watch a baseball game, Phoenix to watch a baseball game, and they're going to China next month for (surprise) a baseball game. Don't say Mexico is too much money!! Sorry I went off like Maria, lol, but it hurts when people you envision at your wedding choose frivalous things over a major family event.

Anyone have any yummy cupcake/frosting recipes? I like to bake from scratch and want to play with some new versions to possibly have at our AHR. I have a decadent lemon recipe but I'm looking for some variety. Thanks )

Great review Anny. It sounds like for the most part everything went well. It's a good thing you have friends in high places though....that drink situation would have made me mad too!! Thanks for sharing )

lol...too Funny!

Well, it was the home of John Huston, famous movie director and father to Anjelica Huston. In the 60's he filmed Night of the Iguana in PV starring Richard Burton, and that's what put PV on the map and started attracting moviestars and regular folks as a vacation spot. (sidenote - Burton was having a scandalous public affair in PV with Liz Taylor, there are some cool stories to google about that) Anyhow, Las Caletas is where Huston settled and lived until his death. There is a tiny museum at Las Caletas with his belongings and photos, it's pretty neat. Here is a cool pic and a link to his thoughts on Las Caletas: About John Huston and Las Caletas in Puerto Vallarta Mexico

LOVE THEM!!! How gorgeous you are!! Your wedding was so regal looking, love the bm dresses, the church, the pic of the couple (parents?) in front of the car. Looks like you had a fun group, my kind of party! Thanks for sharing!! Oh, and that pic of the dude doing the robot is HILARIOUS!!!!!

Betcha didn't know Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock, the Ramons conquered the Geeks, or that Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world....Hilarious! This history of the world has been compiled by Richard Lederer from actual student bloopers and mistakes collected by teachers. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked “Am I my brother’s son?” God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother’s birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob’s sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fougth with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David’s sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines. Without the Greeks, we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Achilles appears in “The Illiad”, by Homer. Homer also wrote the “Oddity”, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athen was democratic because the people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn’t climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought the Parisians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men. Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History call people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March killed him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. Then came the Middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames, King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harlod mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was cannonized by George Bernard Shaw, and the victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense. The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello’s interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper. The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself be fore her troops, they all shouted “hurrah.” Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived in Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies and errors. In on of Shakespear’s famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miquel Cervantes. He wrote “Donkey Hote”. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote “Paradise Lost.” Then his wife dies and he wrote “Paradise Regained.” During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Later the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and the was called the 6cPilgrim’s Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by Indians, who came down the hill rolling their was hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porposies on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses, which proved very fatal to them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this. One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their pacels through the post without stamps. During the War, Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared “a horse divided against itself cannot stand.” Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. George Washington married Matha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. Them the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. He said, “In onion there is strength.” Abraham Lincoln write the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also signed the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called “Candy”. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are flaling off the trees. Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorrilas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon’s flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inheret his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn’t bear him any children. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. He reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign. The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick Raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy. Louis Pastuer discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturailst who wrote the “Organ of the Species”. Madman Curie discovered radium. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

You totally don't need one, but if you wanted to have some sort of bridal flowers there is always a flower tiara. Or you could have a bouquet and after you walk down the aisle present it to someone special like your mom or a sister before you take your spot.

Sure you can . . . which resort will you be at?

Nice review. The bonfire and private bartender sounds sweet!!

Different boats are virtually impossible, but if they must ride on the same boat, a few words to the crew will at least help. Your WC will be at Las Caletas all day so she can't physically break anything up that starts but the crew is good in an emergency...lol IDEA, give everyone dramamine but have them give her a sugar pill. She'll hopefully fall ill and that guarantees at least 40 minutes of her not being able to start shit!!! Seriously, I also say bring the one you favor over early with you guys, telling the other one that you can't risk ruining the harmony of the boat ride. Or you can make up an excuse as to why you need her on the boat, or why you need the other one there early - like maybe to help with hair/makeup/last minute sewing in case something rips? lol