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How will you tower over him? I'm not a genius but if you are 5'4 and the shoes are 4 inches that makes you 5'8 on a good day. I doubt you will trip! But I still want pics!

Quote: Originally Posted by Alyssa ! my wedding day will be crazy... Bride MTOH MOH 4 BM's 3 good friends 1 M-O-Bride 1 FMIL hair and makeup I had- Bride MOH BM M-O-Bride Groom BM BM's girlfriend Hair & Makeup AND IT WAS CRAZY. I have no advice really. I think having a bridal party is really just personal preference. I'm sure the people who asked their good friends to be part of their wedding fesitivities didn't realize they would go ape-shit crazy. I would however like to see BM's wear dresses they like and less matchy matchy so they don't have to buy shoes, accessories and such. I would also like to see bridal parties responsibilities decreased. I love my friends and I would LOVE to help them out with anything and everything, but I hate that it's expected. It becomes more of a "chore" rather than doing a good act for your friend.

Men are morons. I'm still having bridezilla moments- hahah

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan my mom was telling me how some of the teachers get really upset when kids say "pimp." They find it really offensive. A guy in my class in high school got in big trouble for calling benjamine franklin a pimp. My mom tried to explain how to kids now it's not really a bad thing. She also had to explain 69 to another teacher who didn't know why it made the kids laugh. And since we are still jacking this thread up- One of my sociology professors was talking about the term "tossed salad" being used to refer to America society rather than melting pot. Every time she said tossed salad the class would laugh. She thought she was just being interesting. So she began to ask questions like "If we were to create a tossed salad what would you put in it." Kids began shouting out things like carrots- more laughter, cucumbers- even more laughter. Poor thing never got it.

Maybe with AF in the house you could still kneel in your dress so you wouldn't have to worry so much come wedding day. I would try it on because if you can still do it bloated you know you can do it later. As for the heels, you need to keep them!

Quote: Originally Posted by Team Gracey but is this something you get up front or have to earn? LOL. Thats funny. I think it's all about complimenting the Ering. If you want two, get two. if one looks best, have one. I don't think there really are rules about this.

That was my only concern! LOL Have you tried to do all that movement in the dress? Most brides just have to walk their butts down the aisle and stand there for 15-20 minutes. You, Catholic brides on the other hand, have a lot of work cut out for you.

I think you can work it out girl. No to alterations, bustle and any other dress related question. Are you having a formal catholic wedding- as in a really long one with lots of kneeling, sitting and standing?

I'm sure your brother and SIL will have no issues asking your parents to babysit if they need a break. How dare they shut out excited AND AVAILABLE grandparents. Just not right.

She and her husband had a seperation a couple months ago. They are back together now, but my aunt had lost a LOT of weight during the process. She doesn't look very healthy to begin with. She isn't the stressing type but she also holds everything in. She really need to obviously seek professional help to deal with all these issues. Oh and Maura, Thank you for the offer to get this out to the public. I have emailed my grandmother this morning telling her I would like to begin a formal letter. Of course, I dont' want to really take any action unless it's ok with my aunt.

I know some women feel overwhelmed after they have a baby, but I also think it's important to let the grandparents see the baby as well. It almost seems intentionally that she is trying to leave your parents out- like her friends and family are ok but the other side isn't. That's ridiculous. It's also ridiculous your brother just sits idlely by. I would have such a hard time not calling him on it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Raeka What the heck?! What games did they play? I dunno- I'll have to find out. I heard this during our WW meeting at work. This person has lot a considerable amount of weight so I'm sure a change in diet helped. I have heard the boxing game can be like a cardio workout.

Quote: Originally Posted by Nrvsbride At the risk of sounding mean I'm about to get real nasty up in here: 1. First of all I don't mean to sound ignorant but how small is this first hospital? How could they keep telling you to go to a neurologist? WTF? Aren't there any neurologists in the hospital? Who does rounds and treats patients that are admitted for neurological problems? Glenda- the hospital DOES have a neurologist on staff. I asked the nurse this after I was crying my eyes out. I admit I was probably being kinda bitchy but that seems pretty understandable to me. Anyways, she was such a bitch and told me in such a snotty tone "why yes we do. His name is Dr. ____". I then was a little irate and asked then why don't you go get him! She told me that she would speak to the ER doctor about that. He later came out and talked with us all. He was a cocky, arrogant ass. He did a seriess of tests on my aunt in the waiting room- in front of everyone! He had her walk through a tremor and would snottily tell her husband to not prevent her from falling. He then made her touch her f'ing nose making her repeatidly hit herself in the face. He told us he would go check to see if the neurologist had free time to check her out and the fucker never returned. 2. Do you mean to tell me that this hospital doesn't even have residents or med students? Hell at that point I would have taken an intern. They are perfectly capable of at least doing something. Geez! This is not that small of a hospital either. I just looked up some facts on the hospital and oddly enough one of the specialities they list is "neurology." 3. I can't believe the neurologist would tell you 2 weeks. Like I said before I used to work at a neurologist office and if we got an emergency call from a potential new patient we would fit them in no questions asked. An emergency is an emergency. Then we used to tell our patients that had to wait for a long time b/c of the added patient that this person had a life or death emergency and that they would want the same courtesy if they were in the person's shoes. Not one person complained. And we are talking about cranky NYers here. This situation really pissed us off because we kept asking the hospital to contact one for us and tell them it's an emergency. They wouldn't and insisted that she was not in a serious life or death position. Bullshit- they have no idea whether that is true or not. The only testing they did on her was a CT scan and bloodwork. They don't know if her brain was being affected by all of the convulsions. I just don't get this. Writing a letter to the 1st hospital is not going to do anything. Someone will read it and file it somewhere. You need to go to your local news station or contact the local papers. The journalists will be all up in their faces with camera crews and microphones and put them on the spot. This is the only way to get to these people. We plan on not only writing the letter to the hospital but to also send it to our local newspaper. I hope these assholes get fried! I'm glad your aunt doesn't have something serious (well it is serious but you know what I mean). Hopefully she can find a way to manage her stress in a way that will be more beneficial to her healthwise. I am praying that she gets better soon. As for today, she went to her primary physcian and he said her seizures, convulsions, tremors (I don't know what to call them!) are too frequent and too violent for ones he has seen in the past for pseudo seizure patients. He is referring her to a neurologist. My aunt is starting to get stubborn about doctor's visits which I don't really blame her. I hope we can make her realize she needs to keep faith and get this sorted out. She can't live like this.

My family isn't really proper like that. My parents invite themselves all the time- but then again, we are both close with them so we don't care. If that's how his family is, I think it will be hard habit to break. After all, when you have kids and you want to visit them, do you want a relationship in which you can't just ask them if you can visit but instead wait for them to invite? I know I certainly don't want that. BUT with your MIL, your DH really needs to stand up for you- or at minimum, back you up when you stand up for yourself. Don't let her treat you like garbage. She will continue to disrespect you. You don't deserve that and your DH does not need to pass it off as you being sensitive. So what if you are sensitive even. The point is that you feel like shit. He shouldn't allow you to feel abused.

Sounds yummy. We eat turkey burgers a lot and like them plain. What a nice recipe to spice it up.

Quote: Originally Posted by amyrak Hey, you could have it the other way. I got in a fight with my parents because they want to stay longer than everyone else...ha Greg and I want 3 or 4 days to ourselves as a kind of honeymoon so-to-speak. Just time to ourselves to relax and not worry about meeting others for dinner etc. Mom said flights were cheaper to stay longer..I said sorry Charlie. So, Mom and Dad are mad at me. They could have gotten their flights earlier and saved so not my problem they waited. So, theirs was truly the money thing though..ha Why couldn't you just switch hotels or they switch hotels? Or even if the resort is big enough, just ignore each other? It's really easy to go incognito and have some time alone.

I was worried too about signing the old name vs the new, because the SS office states on their website that it must show the new name. Ummm- mine didn't but it listed my hubby's name so it's not rocket science to figure what I would change it too. Unless we combined our names or something. They accepted it no questions asked.

Cute dress Amy! It looks like you guys had a great time and you scored some good loot! LOVE the bar too!

I never signed my new name. I signed it with my old name. I think it will be ok, but I didn't have one from Mx. Mine was from Vegas.

Maybe start a water balloon fight. That way you get to throw things at the annoying co workers but it is done under the pretense of fun.

Great job Glenda. You are much more disciplined than me! Erin- how is it going for you?

Celina- I am so sorry your family had to go through this. I'm very happy to hear that they figured out your sister (or ex-sister) is psychotic. Big hugs girl. You guys made it through such a tough period.

haha. We must be reading his aura or something.

I haven't decided on Jeremy yet Yari. I like him, but I wonder about him as well. Something doesn't quite seem sincere to me, but I have no reasons to feel that way.

Jaime- are you one of those people that celebrate for a week? haha We can call it Jaimakkah or Jaimapalooza. We do that for my friends who have incredibly long celebrations.