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I just finished a book. Now I'm about to get ready to go out. I don't go out much. I like staying in & have a couple of friends over. But, tonight I'm going to a house party with lots of dancing.

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel My minister emailed me like 4 days before we left. This is his ceremony and I think he does a fabulous job. Everyone remarked how beautiful it is. I never listen to this part of weddings because its all to me. I listened this time. lol Is he the same guy that did Ann's wedding? I always tune out wedding ceremonies, but I bawled watching hers. He really was great (if that's the same guy). I think it touched me because it seemed so real. So often I think ceremonies get kind of bland & don't really touch on what a marriage is really about. The hand ceremony gets me everytime. I hope I'm not all snotty from the crying. Maybe I should make a recording of it I can listen to on my ipod to desensitize myself

Does the church have a rec room? Could you rent that & cater something? Would eloping get you in trouble with them too? Sounds like you don't want all the stuff, but just want to get married. It's sad these other things have to get in the way. I personally love the idea of having a backyard catered thing, especially since they have a huge backyard. But, if they are against it that probably wouldn't work. I am really happy to hear you are getting married in June. I didn't know what you were doing after the DW was canceled. My brain is full of money saving ideas & i'd be happy to help.

I think it looks good. Rachel, I also really like yours. Thanks for posting these. I need to start working on our ceremony. We also do not want to have it religious. I'm sure these places are used to a non-religious ceremony & can accomidate it. How does it work? Does the person doing the ceremony contact you some time before to find out what you want said? My date-buddy is working on her's so it makes me feel like I should be working on mine

after your wedding you can post it to sell on amazon & maybe even make a profit.

You would need to wait until night then. It needs to be very dark.

Someone on the forum bought a cheap one for about $150 & sold it after the wedding. They got it off amazon. It's not a really great projector but it sounds like it did the trick for them.

Quote: Originally Posted by RyanAmanda After a bottle of wine and a long conversation with an old girlfriend tonight, we started talking about the great things we envisioned doing it as kids. Cure cancer, save children, that kind of things. So I started thinking about how all I do is work and spend time with FH and friends. Don't get me wrong, I have a great job and an awesome guy and friends. But I'm not doing anything life changing or anything that's making other people have a better life. So tomorrow I'm going to change that. Any ideas? What do you do that makes the world a better place for others? I'm thinking I'm not going to cure cancer (I can't even stop FH from snoring..lol) so I thought I should start a little smaller. It's funny that this is your example. I do genetics research & we always joke about our job being so important because we are curing cancer. My research ties in to cancer research, but I am so far away from anything clinical. But, one of my friends it much more likely to have an impact. So I say my important role is to keep her motivated to cure cancer. I also organize the happy hours for my program. The friend I took the job over from said, "Just think, you will be doing so much good by bringing people together who might collaborate & actually cure cancer."

Quote: Originally Posted by LuvGrand I got my bachelors from University of Texas....hook 'em horns! (Sorry you Aggie fans) Saw em' off! Just kidding. I'm not a rivalry kind of person. I saw someone combine all their colleges into one mascot on an earlier post & thought that would be fun. I'm an Aggie Pirate Devil! Pirate- Victoria college (communty college first 2 years) Aggie- Texas A&M Devil- Duke I also took one class at another communty college during the summer. I don't know their mascot. I have a lot of transcripts! At $6 each, applying to grad schools was expensive.

ok i started making a guide & i think it will be a pita to follow. photoshop isnt as easy to show. what program did you make it with already? does it just need to be resized to fit the dimensions for vistaprint?

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura morg, do you have instructions for just photoshop? i'm redoing carly's postcards and would like to get it done quickly rather than mess around with it for a few hours. i have all the image files i need, im just not used to doing this is photoshop. If I was making a postcard now I'd use lumapix or photoshop. At the time I made this guide I was much more familiar with powerpoint. What do you make your collages in? they look great so maybe that program would be better. I'll work on making a photoshop only guide while I eat lunch today & post it...it should be up in 15 minutes or so

Quote: Originally Posted by deznchris2006 Thanks for posting these directions. I'm making VistaPrint post cards to send out with the room rates and Travel Agents info....Unfortunatly, when I save it as a gif or jpeg or any way, the text gets fuzzy.....any suggestions on what font works best? that never happens to me, but I've heard other people say thats a problem they have with powerpoint. do you have photoshop? you could make the whole thing in photoshop & not have that problem.

Welcome. Your blogs look great! I'll be interested to watch how your wedding comes together after seeing your beautiful inspiration pictures.

Do you think she was scared to tell you?

Quote: Originally Posted by tkim i vote medium or shaved! The wedding is already done. I just keep bumping this thread because it makes me laugh that guests are always looking at it.

Another guest viewing "man hair." Anyone else curious why that is?

Mike & I are both Aggies (Texas A&M). I'm now a grad student at Duke & he works at University of North Carolina.

Quote: Originally Posted by Betsy Morgan you are too sweet always helping me!! I will burn a cd - is there a way to only burn part of a song on a CD? You'd want to burn the whole thing & then crop the song in movie maker. So you can crop out the intro or whatever part you don't want.

We are sending out announcements (but not having an AHR) I have decided to put a wedding picture on it with our wedding website. Our website will have a link to where they can see more pictures & our home address. That way if they do want to send something they don't have to track down our address, but it would seem like (or be) a request for gifts. I'm going to make mine vista print postcards.

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel Morgan- you and I have demented dreams. I had a dream I killed my sister and Angela Landsbury caught me. I mean seriously, who dreams of Murder She Wrote? My friend does. Probably because she always says about 10pm at a party "OK time for me to go home & watch murder she wrote."

OK on mine it's on the main menu & it says "import audio." If you still have trouble I can possibly call you & talk you through it. I know how frustrating it is when you can't make something work.

Quote: Originally Posted by Betsy How do I add music from Itunes? I have almost given up! Would it be better just to burn a CD? Do you think it will be loud enough if I have it all on a disc? HELP PLEASE! try this. Burn the song on a CD. Then put it back on your computer as an mp3. maybe the fact that it is an itunes file makes it more difficult. Then you just import it into Windows MM. I don't remember the steps....I'll try to open WMM from work...

Quote: Originally Posted by eastman2be I'm happy to see that so many other "brides" did a civil ceremony at home before the DW. I've been thinking about it but wasn't sure how it would work. I originally wanted to get married on the date that we met but it's the day before Easter in 2010 and Jamaica basically closes down on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. It is also the 3rd busiest time to visit Jamaica. So we were going to wait until after the 15th since rates drop almost 30%. Maybe we could work it out getting married here first. What about getting married here 1 year early...Is that too far in advance. I just don't know what to do? Sorry for the rambling!! Any suggestions? I know this is corny but I want our wedding date to signify something in our relationship...We met on 4/3, first date 4/14, moved in 2/14 etc. Should I just pick a date to pick a date?? we will probably do 1 month before on the same day, May 21st.

one thing that often works well is to spilt up the meals & put different people in charge. So one night you might be incharge of dinner & the next night someone else cooks. You can bring board games too. when my friends were up a few weeks ago it was like a weekend long slumber party. It was hard to believe we are 25-26, not 15 when we get together. Another tricky thing is who sleeps where. I think the best thing to do is draw numbers & let people pick in that order. It's hard not to be a little annoyed when you are sharing a bunk bed & someone else has a king and you'll all paying the same.

Quote: Originally Posted by KellyandMatt08 The flight thing is what we are going to have to figure out. Robin said she would pay the difference so hopefully it will be ok. I know, I love when photographers do neat things with rings. I hope it all works out for both of you! Sounds like y'all have things under control. I had a nightmare that I was getting ready for my wedding & realized I totally forgot to make a plan to meet up with my photographer. So I found my cell phone & she had texted me "1885." So I assume that means I should go to the hotel library & find a book labeled "1885" to get a clue about where she is. There was this really weird guy who was working in the library & he was so lonely because no one ever stopped in. So he tried to make it really hard for me to find the book so I'd stay & chat. All this time I'm getting super stressed about having time to get ready. I finally find the book & it's about the american revolution. Then it dawns on me that the number must have refered to a room number, not a library book. I have crazy dreams.