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Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy Um, Butthole Surfers? Interesting choice. And come on, Gasolina? That's Puerto Rican! Where's the Mexican music? No salsa? No mariachi? It's not a Mexico mix. It's a silly dance party mix. Not a butthole surfers fan? I even owned the CD. I probably still have it. The pencile shoved in the ear on the cover. I do not endorse all songs on the mix. Some are so bad they are good. The cheese factor gets major points at our parties.

Quote: Originally Posted by timelsel Yes, have your legal ceremony May 20, Morgan! No, really!! That's our 31st anniversary and Mandy's brother's 2nd anniversary. You could officially be part of our family then, not just the wedding idea guru! Wow May 20th is a big day for your family. I mean our family I haven't told Mike, but there is another event that might make the 21st not work. Some day that week I am supposed to go to a friends house to learn the michael jackson thriller dance. Is it wrong to let my wedding date get influenced by Mandy's wedding date & thriller lessons?

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Quote: Originally Posted by Nrvsbride Ok this is really annoying. Sorry if this is a stupid question but do they have to go for 8 days? I'll be honest $2,000 is a lot of money to just have lying around. If they can't afford it now, its doubtful they are going to have the money to pay you back anytime soon. Can they shorten their trip? Couldn't they at least go for the weekend like 3nights-4 days type of thing? Is there traveler's insurance? If so you can usually cancel or at the very least change the dates for a shorter time. I think that makes a lot of sense, but they should have brought that up before the commitment date. Most of my guests are staying only 3 days so it's a quick & cheap trip. But, If $2000 was too much, they really should have told you something before they screwed you like this. I am SO ANGRY for you! If they told you in advance they couldn't afford it or were even just concerned about the cost, there would have been so many options. It really sucks that they even waited until it was too late for the trip to go to anyone else or anything. I can not believe they knowingly stuck you with their bill. I seriously can not believe this. it wouldn't have been wrong if they just said they don't have the money. What is so wrong is how they waited until it was too late to say something. That is so cruel. Do they know you will now have to foot the bill for their empty seat? OK I have to calm down. I think I need to say a few serinity nows for you.

Wouldn't you just be out the deposit? Isn't that what a deposit is? The ammount you lose if you back out? I can understand them saying $2000 is too much IF it hadn't already been paid. But, once it gets paid they can't back out! I know it's too late for you, but I think it really helps with a DW to never be counting on anyone for anything. To fill your required numbers, to pay you back a deposit...nothing.

Quote: Originally Posted by beckyandbrian thank you everyone for your nice comments. i really appreciate them. morgan, i added a word attachment with lots of wedding quotes - some i used, some i did not, but they all should be on the attachment. i don't have the authors of the quotes. i found that when i was searching for quotes, there were quite a few times that i would write down the author and then find that another website listed a different person as the author...so, rather than list an incorrect author, i left all of my quotes w/out that info. Thanks! I took this evolution class a couple years ago. The teacher took this mark twain quote "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please" and did an evolutionary graph of how it was distorted throughout the internet. It was pretty funny. So maybe the quotes you used were so distorted it wasn't even plagerism anymore

We are getting married on the same day as when we got engaged so I don't have that problem. If not, I might just do something sweet that day. Like put together a silly card or something. One year Mike sent me a "happy cheeseburger day" email because it was the anniversary of this day we went to lunch together before we were dating.

Quote: Originally Posted by SunBride I just made photobooks for my MIL and SIL (also a bridesmaid) last week. I can't wait to get them. I'm going to make myself one too, but I don't know if I will use mypublisher. There were some things about the program that bugged me, like trying to fit the text into their little caption boxes (there is no way to make the caption boxes larger or move them around, and they only have like 10 fonts to choose from, and most of them are plain boring fonts). Although they have lots of different page layouts, sometimes they still didn't have anything to match my needs, i.e. I wanted 5 photos on a page, one of them vertical and the others horizontal, but they wouldn't have any layouts like that, so I'd have to change my photo choose to either more horizontals or more verticals (just a random example, but this happened to me several times). Also they have different styles of layouts, like some are more classic and plain, others are more fun / collage style. But you have to use the same style for the whole book, whereas I would have liked a mixture of classic and fun layouts (the classic ones always have the photos straight, there are none that are like diagnal or layered). I also didn't like the wedding background design and colors, they only have one choice (for the wedding background), and I didn't think the color went well with my photos. So I just stuck with plain white background. So those are some of my complaints about mypublisher, but overall I'm still happy, I just would be happier if I could find another company that is more versatile. Shipping to Canada is expensive unless you are ordering many of the same ones. Shipping is 17$ + 5$ for a duplicate (But so if you are ordering 3 different books it would be 51$ for shipping! ) There is no shipping discount for larger orders unless you are order multiples of the exact same book). In my case I want to put together different books for myself, my ILs and my own family, because I want the book to have more of a focus on those people who it's for. At least I will use duplicates for MIL & SIL, and also for my Mom and my sister, so that will reduce the costs. I suggest getting a program like lumapix (if you have a PC) to make your collages. After working with a program to make my collages, I can not stand to use a template. You have the ability to lay out your pictures whoever you want in any size.

I love how you put the song lyrics by the dance pictures. Any chance you have the quotes you used typed where you can copy & paste them? There are so many great ones in your book I'd love to save. I also love the book jacket with the words on it. Your moms will love it!

Quote: Originally Posted by starchild Uggh Morgan 2 more weddings? They are fun but they can become tedious...we just went to one in March and have another one in July (both in Vegas!) and I wanted to say no but I didn't so now we're committed. I know all about that and it definitely cuts into that vacation time! A cabin sounds nice too, anything to be alone. I'm sure you'll be satisfied in Mexico, after all one can't really complain about being on vacation...lol (it beats being at work!) Brazil is on our list of places to go too, fun! Yep, my brother's wedding in Texas in August & Mike's college roommate's wedding in Ohio in September. We are also both in the wedding party. Since I moved to North Carolina 4 years ago, I have only planned one vacation that wasn't going home for Christmas or a wedding. Once I leave grad school, all my friends here will dispurse across the country. So that will probably make for a bunch more out of state weddings. Sometimes I think I need to stop making new friends so I can start taking non-wedding vacations. Or at least not be a BM anymore. But, I haven't been to so many places in the US, so I figure that's how I'll see the country. One wedding at a time I do RSVP "no" if I'm don't want to go atleast. All these weddings are just people we are close too. And I love shaking it on the dance floor the way you can only get away with at a wedding dance. They may not play Baby got Back, Da Dip, and Rumpshaker in clubs anymore, but it will always be at a wedding dance. And I've got to keep my macarena skills sharp. OK, I'm done

Quote: Originally Posted by starchild I hear you, I wasn't sure how it would work because we had never done it before. We were worn out after the wedding week, for sure! But once we got on the next plane and were flying to start our honeymoon in a new place we were super excited all over again...kind of how we felt on the way to the wedding. Price wise it would have been less costly without the additional flight but being in Jamaica - alone - after being in Mexico with everyone was refreshingly awesome. Plus we stepped off the plane as newleyweds and got to make memories in a place that was only ours, we shared Mexico...if that makes sense. But yes, a vacation 6 months later would be nice too That's great that it gave you your second wind. I worry I'd be burnt, sick & tired. Also, it's really hard for Mike to take off more than a week from work at a time. Then we have 2 more weddings this summer. Precious vacation time. Our plan is if we don't feel satisfied with our honeymoon time, we'll get a cabin in the NC mountains when we get back. I really want to go to Brazil or Costa Rica next. But, I want to do a ton of planning before that trip to know all the places I want to see. And with all the riviera maya planning & wedding planning, it would be too much to do. So I think planning the next trip will be how I prevent the post wedding blues.

Quote: Originally Posted by athena I love all of these different tips!! I've been using movie maker for about 3 years now. It's fun to put pictures faded into movies that relate. I have ran into a few problems with it though - if you make a movie/pic slideshow over 30 min, it can freeze and you loose all your work. Not fun!! Especially since editing can take forever!! Anyone else run into this problem? What if you saved as you went along? I haven't made anything that long. But, I do backup often so I don't lose stuff. Would you lose it even if you had saved? It freezes up on me even when I'm making short videos. have you tried rehans pan zoom effects? they really enhance movie maker. It's $8 for the download.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lorilou where did you buy your music in MP3 format online? i'd be happy to pay $1 each for 3-4 songs just to get them in mp3 format. thanks. I've only made a few slideshows & used old mp3s. I don't download much music now. I'm stuck in 1995 & just listen to all my old stuff over & over. And I podcast a lot so I listen to shows more than songs.

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Quote: Originally Posted by becks Morgan: If FI and I babysit Nibblet while you're honeymooning, can I get a CD of your mix? Looks GREAT!!!!!!! I even have a special pair of headphones for Nibblet: By the way: Another nominee for the badges: Yeah, I'll give you my mix when it's done. I still have to make my way from JT to Ying Yang Twins. Nibblet only gets to listen to the edited version. I haven't made the edited version yet, but I plan on it. A friend might use this mix at her wedding so I need to clean it up. I also like the edited versions of most of these songs better. "I'm not a player I just crush a lot" is so much funnier.

we are staying at the same place for a week. Most of our guests are only staying 3 days. I think it will be more relaxing to not worry about packing up & changing hotels. I don't think I'd like back to back vacations. I imagine I'll be pretty worn out after the week we have planned. I would rather save the vacation money & go somewhere 6 months or a year later.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lorilou so were you successful converting from itunes to cd to mp3? I don't know how to convert the music i already have into compatible MM format. My music is MP3s, not MP4s like itunes uses so I haven't had this problem. But, I think what you do is burn the song on a CD & then save the song on your computer off the CD. It should then be an MP3 you can use in movie maker. You can crop the songs in movie maker. Betsy ended up using photostory which she said was easier.

I design mine with lumapix & then upload the pages to shutterfly. I use shutterfly because I get freebies all the time. I've heard mypublisher is better. You can buy shutterfly codes on ebay cheap.

Congrats! We are making it legal this month too. If my bday was in May, we'd do it then too. Instead we are planning for May 21st because the ceremony is june 21st. Maybe we'll bump that up a day so we can be date twins

Here is what I have so far. Songs are cropped to about a minute each. I'm working through my list alphabetical & I've gotten from Ace of Base to Justin Timberlake. Rock Me Amadeus0:54Falco15/3/2008 9:46 PM big pun & fat joe - still not a player2:01Blues25/3/2008 9:48 PM Gerardo - Rico Suave 11:13Blues15/3/2008 9:49 PM Gwen Steffani - Its My Life (Club Mix)1:55Blues15/3/2008 9:51 PM Color Me Badd - All For Love1:05Blues15/3/2008 9:52 PM When i came around1:08Greenday15/3/2008 9:53 PM One Week1:31Barenaked Ladies25/3/2008 9:54 PM My Lovin' [You're Never Gonna]1:17En Vogue15/3/2008 9:55 PM Rock the Casbah1:00Clash 15/3/2008 9:56 PM 12341:47Coolio15/3/2008 9:58 PM Ginuwine - My Pony1:07Blues15/3/2008 9:59 PM Brimful of Asha1:42Cornershop15/3/2008 10:01 PM Ace Of Base - All That She Wants1:18Blues25/3/2008 10:02 PM bone thugz and harmony - thugs n harmony - the crossroads1:09Blues15/3/2008 10:03 PM Rhythm Is Gonna Get You1:06Gloria EstefanGreatest HitsPop15/3/2008 10:04 PM Beautiful Life1:06Ace Of BaseA Night At The Roxbury25/3/2008 10:05 PM Da Dip1:45Freak Nasty 15/3/2008 10:07 PM Dancing In The Dark1:05Bruce Springstien15/3/2008 10:08 PM Right Thurr1:07chingyOther15/3/2008 10:09 PM Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey1:06Blues25/3/2008 10:10 PM Motownphilly1:11Boyz 2 Men15/3/2008 10:11 PM Bad Touch0:58Bloodhound Gang25/3/2008 10:12 PM Butthole Surfers - Pepper1:07Blues15/3/2008 10:13 PM Ugly1:35Bubba SparxxxDark Days, Bright Nights15/3/2008 10:15 PM Intergalactic1:18Beastie BoysHello Nasty25/3/2008 10:16 PM Tripping Billies0:42Dave Mathews Band15/3/2008 10:17 PM i will survive0:54gloria gaynor15/3/2008 10:18 PM Britney Spears - Im A Slave For You1:38Blues15/3/2008 10:19 PM Got Your Money f Kelis1:17Ol' Dirty Bastard25/3/2008 10:21 PM Killing Me Softly1:45Fugees15/3/2008 10:22 PM Crazy in love1:46BeyoncéA-sides15/3/2008 10:24 PM bubba sparxx - lovely1:25Bubba_sparxxx-05-lovely-rev15/3/2008 10:25 PM Izzo (H.O.V.A.)1:45Jay-ZBlueprint45/3/2008 10:27 PM Tootsee Roll1:5469 Boyz25/3/2008 10:29 PM Gold Digger (Feat. Jamie Foxx) (ShadyBlock.com)2:12Kanye WestLate Registration25/3/2008 10:31 PM daddy yankee - barrio fino - gasolina1:11Blues15/3/2008 10:32 PM Ace Of Base - I Saw The Sign1:08Blues25/3/2008 10:33 PM Country Grammar (Hot...)1:35NellyCountry Grammar25/3/2008 10:35 PM Get ur freak on1:22Missy ElliottMissy E25/3/2008 10:36 PM Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up1:23Blues15/3/2008 10:38 PM sugar we're going down1:01Fallout Boysugar we're going down single15/3/2008 10:39 PM Tubthumping1:15Chumbawamba15/3/2008 10:40 PM Baby Got Back (1992)1:12Sir Mix-A-LotA-sides25/3/2008 10:41 PM Run-Around1:24Blues TravelerFour25/3/2008 10:42 PM 100% Pure Love1:20Crystal Waters300% Dance Hits15/3/2008 10:44 PM Barbie Girl1:12Aqua25/3/2008 10:45 PM The Middle1:10Jimmy Eat WorldBleed American45/3/2008 10:46 PM Culture Beat - Mr. Vain1:00Blues15/3/2008 10:47 PM nothing gonna stop the flow0:55Folk Implosion15/3/2008 10:48 PM Return Of The Mack1:16Old School RapMark Morrison45/3/2008 10:49 PM DANCE(90's) - Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca1:41Blues15/3/2008 10:51 PM Dazzey Duks1:32DuiceDazzey Duks15/3/2008 10:52 PM Don't Turn Around1:17Ace of BaseSingles of the 90s15/3/2008 5:01 PM get the cool shoe shine1:10Gorillaz Stay (Wasting Time)1:06Dave Mathews Band Sunglasses At Night1:09Corey Hart Hooch1:12EverythingSuper Natural Believe0:59Cher Jump Around1:09Cypress Hill I Write Sins Not Tradgedies1:30Panic! At The DiscoA Fever You Can't Sweat Out15/3/2008 5:02 PM Cyprus Hill -- Insane In The Membrain1:15Blues Ms. New Booty1:35Bubba Sparxxx feat. Ying Yang TwinsD

Quote: Originally Posted by jamisoncollette No Morgan, you may not play if you want to earn your ferret diploma! I will take my university diploma out of its frame & display that sucker proudly! Although, I think playing gets me closer to my ferret diploma than working on Mandy's wedding does

Quote: Originally Posted by Mandy Actually Isaac and I have been trying to figure out our music for our reception in Mexico, so you're going to have to keep working. So far, we pretty much only have salsa music. But you can play a little, I guess.... This mix is like silly dance party stuff. sir mix a lot, bel biv devoe, ace of base... If that is your style you can have it.

OK, so now knowing it's not just a numbers thing or age difference then I change my vote to do what you feel best with. Whats the cheesy saying? Friends are the family we pick for ourselves. There is nothing wrong with being closer to friends than family. But then there is that blood is thicker than water saying. Oh, I don't know which saying to go with. Let us know what you decide.