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Jeez, I was getting all hype reading this, so I am so glad to see your update and that the renewal is after your wedding. Guys just don't understand.

I want to see ALL of them! Ab, I can't wait to check out the BD ones thaty ou are willing to share! BD photos are my favorite cuz they seem to be the most artistic, and a bride stepping out of her comfort zone. Plus mine were my favorite pictures ever of me, so I think they are really important and I can't wait to see them all!

I think that if you asked them to be in your wedding, it means they are very special to you. Who cares how many guests you have? I had 3 BM's and 5 (or was it 6?) GM's as well as 2 flowergirls and 1 ring bearer, and we only had about 25 guests. Including the weddnig party! So I don't think there is anything wrong with having the people that you felt should be in it! I also had 4 BM's that couldn't come to Jamaica, but they still participated in everything (shower and whatnot) and wore a special dress to the AHR so they appeared to be a part of the bridal party. I wouldn't change a thing. Ok, so that was me. Maybe you don't really care what I say (not in a mean way!), and you want to ask people to step down. Who will you have remaining? Siblings? Just wondering, cuz I think it depends on the people on how to go about it. Like if you have a sis and your FI has a bro, and those are the ones you want to remain in the party, I think it would be easy to say "We aren't having the turnout that we originally thought, so we decided that we needed to cut the bridal party down to jsut family." Or whatever. But honestly, I don't think you HAVE to, unless you WANT to. Hope that all makes sense and maybe even helps you!

Oh, that is AWESOME!!!! So excitng, and I am so jealous. I want my own house so bad. Good luck at closing and be sure to come back and update us with pics of your new home!!!!

Oh share, please share Morgan!!! I had the full version of Lumapix on my old computers, but I bought a new one for home and got a new one at work and now I only have the free trial at home. So boooooooooo!

No problem! I havent' actually bought anything from them, but I think they have really cute inexpensive stuff. I think Amy bought some stuff and perhaps, Alyssa? Unless maybe Alyssa just had the pair that Amy sent her. Too much information gets talked about here, it's hard to remember it all!

I used a pair that my photog had with her. Some cute little red pumps. I don't have a picture here at work. But, Amy&Andy had posted a really cute, inexpensive shoe site before. www.cutesyshoes.com. You should check it out!

Your dress is beautiful. But a veil is totally a personal opinion. I always liked the really long mantilla veils. But the dress that I found had so much beautiful lace and beading, that I needed an ultra plain veil, so the two items didn't compete. I think you should try your gown on with a whole bunch of different veils and probably one will stand out. Personally, I am alwasy a fan of the longer veils. Actually, your dress looks like a style that would look good with my veil. I was going to make it myself, but ran out of time/energy, so had my seamstress make it for $25. I bought 108" of tulle, whatever width was widest in the fabric store, and had it tapered from 108" at the bottom to 56" connected to the comb. This allowed some sheerness where it covered my dress, but gave the volume that I wanted. Just an idea. Oh, and I am 5'2 and was barefoot, so I don't think length is an issue for height. I think it's more about the dress.

Pretty much anything with pictures for me.

I did Colonix last January (about then) and I felt great too. I want to do it again, but don't want to spend the money. Glad you are having such a great experience!

Wow, that's a sad story. I am so sorry that your aunt/family is going thru this. You should write to Oprah or something!

I love #1! No doubt. And I added a poll for you....

That's a great idea! I would def talk to a jeweler though. There is one on the board, if you want to PM her - lilpaisley. She was very helpful to me when I had some jewelry questions before. My mom had my Nana's wedding band re-shaped and gave it to me at my wedding. It's really cool to have that.

Good questions, Ab! One more - neither of us changed our tax status to married, does that matter? If it doesn't, how would we file a combined tax return? Just take them both to a place together? We own a duplex and rent out a floor, so I know that he has deductibles and shilz, but I usually just did mine over the phone real quick. So not sure what really changes.

Yeah, I agree with previous posters... All wedding related things should go in the book - wedding, reception, TTD, AHR. Whatever you wore your dress for! So I think it should be a wedding book. But I also kinda like the idea of giving them a collage rather then a book. I am keeping this in mind for myself now! Oh and I also liked Morgan's idea of making a collage at the end of the book to include vacation photos. I am kinda all over the place, aren't I?

Hmmmm. I think that you should only make "wedding" books. Don't do any vacation books. And I think that mini books for the wedding party are a great idea! Too late. Psssshtt. I am still working on mine too, so you're fine. It'll be a nice way for people to remember how fun it was! If you NEED to include vacation photos, I would keep it to a minimum in chronological order. Like start off wtha few vacation ones, lead up to the wedding, end with a few vacation ones. But I still think having jsut a wedding album is the way to go.

Ditto to what Trisha said. I could add more, but she already said it all! Take a break if you need to, a week, a month, whatever. Sometimes we just need to walk away from stuff.

You look great! I love the dancing fool pic, so fun. Removing the date is a biotch. I have adobe lightroom and you have to do a replacement thing that a pita to do. (Two small circles, one circle is highlighting a portion of what you want to replace, the other is highlighting what you will replace it with. And you have to use like a million tiny circles to do this to make it not obvious.) You might be able to ask the people to remove the dates from their camera and redownload the pics from the memory card.

Hmmm, this is hard since Dec-Jan are so low traffic due to the holidays. I'm gonna have to think on this one...

I am feeling #2. Can you post your dress, so we can put it all together?

Very cute!

I see this thread hasn't been updated in a looooooong time, let's see what some new bride/bride to be's can add! (I am in the process of clearing out all the comments and leaving only postings with photos in this thread. If you notice that your thread has been removed, it was probably b/c the photobucket link was broken and the picture was no longer displayed. I am also adding all the photos to posting that only provided links or attachments.)

Wow, you sure are thorough! Great job pulling everything together and keeping track of it all! I absolutely LOVE your idea of the locked box for you bd photos. Wish I had thought of that!

I love your dress! I liked your original BM dresses too, but I really like the VS convertible one. 4 of my BM's wore that in fuschia for my AHR and they all looked great (I thought anyway!). So great choice!

Wait, your avatar thingy says your wedding is May 14, so how can they ship it to you May 20? I am hoping that is a major typo and you meant they can ship it March 20. If that's the case, I think that's pleny of time for alterations. A good seamstress can do it within a week. You might pay extra, but since it was their mistake, I would just tell them that they have to pay the seamstress' extra fees. Good luck!