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Quote: Originally Posted by sunnydaes yes it still exists today. It's the strongest form of china. And people like to collect it, it appreciates over time, collectable items. but is it still being made this way? I only read about people buying old bone china.

Quote: Originally Posted by sunnydaes yes, its the left over. sorry i'm vegan, so any animal by-product is gross. I just don't understand why they have to make that china the "best" and the one that everyone feels that should invest in. There are soooo many alternatives. Also we live in the 21st century, do we really need to use bone ash in plates? read this:"You have probably noticed cups and plates often carry the label “Bone Chinaâ€. Does it really mean they are made of bones ? Bone China is a product of a technique perfected in England to add bone ash of animals to the clay, resulting in delicate looking but very strong china. Sometimes, it does not carry the label “bone china†but it can be easily recognized as it has more transluency and whiteness than normal porcelain. How it’s made Calcined bone ash makes up about 50% by weight of the final body recipe. It is produced from animal bone, which is first processed to remove any adhering meat which is generally sold as pet food. The bone is then treated to remove glue, which is processed and upgraded for use in normal applications where glue is used, and also for the sizing of expensive paper. The raw bone which is left after the meat and glue have been extracted is then heated to about 1000 C at which temperature any residual organic material is burned off and the structure of the bone is changed to form suitable for the manufacture of bone china. It is then finally ground with water before being added to clay." It is something still done? From the little googling I did, it sounded like it was in antique china. I don't want to drink out of a tea cup made out of animal bones. I'm not registering for China. I have no interest in owning it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Saraha Thanks Erica! You can do it! You can do it!!! Plus now that you said you have to..... I will bother you till you do ;o).... Your FI will be forever thankful haha! did you notice after you posted your pictures there were about 3-5 new posts of people looking for BD photographers? I think you have inspired so many girls to do it. I hope the experience has made you feel like the hot, fierce woman you are.

Here is the first of my letters.

now I'm working on sappy letters to go on the first inside page.

Quote: Originally Posted by sunnydaes they are so fun! and you used real photographs i love it! Looks like you put your heart and time into it. I started back in 2005 after a wedding I was in. She gave us albums of silly pictures. It was my favorite BM gift. So I've been collection silly pictures as I think about it. I spent a lot of time scanning them in, because many are from before I had a digital camera. Once I started planning a DW & decided not to have BMs, I wanted to still make these.

Quote: Originally Posted by Alyssa i love both of those dresses - i would let them choose whichever they like better - the dresses are so similar in style - i can't seeing it being a problem at all! where are those dresses from? i may want to get one just to have the 2nd looks like a j crew BM dress I've seen. My friend has it & she was really uncomfortable with the deep v neckline. She's pretty modest. Another reason why letting them pick is a great idea.

http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t18266 They are just about finished!

I like the first. If you like them both, I think letting them pick is great.

As many of you know, I'm not having actual bridesmaids, but I'm having 8 honorary BMs. All an HBM does is get their heads superimposed on a silly picture. It was just a way to tell 8 of my friends I love them without the hassle of having BMs. Most of them can't attend the wedding anyway. Here are the albums I just finished making. I tried to pick the silliest pictures of us: Planning details: The plastic albums were 50 cents at AC Moore. They hold 24 pictures. I bought 1000 prints off ebay for snapfish for $13 to keep print costs low. I had to print over 200 pictures to fill 8 of these. Here is the thread about superimposing thier heads on pictures http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t16614 I also bought a quote stack at AC Moore about friends. There are some quotes throughout the books. Then I typed up my own captions & taked them to a few pictures. I can't wait to give these to 3 of my HBMs on Friday when they fly up. I still need to finish up one for a local friend so I can give them to the 2 locals friends. 2 girls will get there at the wedding & another will get hers when she drives to NC in May.

Quote: Originally Posted by PaulaV Very Nice Morgan! Are they all tucked in your closet like in 27 dresses? I've sold 1/2 at a garage sale & I have the other 1/2. Most of them don't fit. My friends & I throw a grad student prom party & that's a great opportunity to wear one again.

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Quote: Originally Posted by BarefootBride girls what are you doing after the starfish dies? We should think "green" and do something cute or crafty with it! Morgan you have any ideas. I would ask to borrow one but I am so afraid it wont make it to Japan! Im going to order mine this week and when Im done you girls can have it! hmmm, I'll have to put on my DIY thinking cap. What happens when a starfish dies? does it fall off the stick? or lose all the stones? too bad BDW starfish can't regenerate.

Quote: Originally Posted by NYJen For every wedding I've ever been to, my gift giving policy is I give a physical gift (something off the registry) for the shower and cash for the wedding. Brendan and I already have everything, so I didn't register and I didn't have a shower. I was hoping people would take the hint and just give us cash for the wedding (like we did for them.) But we've already gotten 2 Tiffany vases, a digital picture frame, a Waterford candle set, and a gift card. And my uncle (who is not coming to the wedding) sent us a very generous check. He gets it. Yet I have friends who keep asking me where I'm registered and when I tell them I'm not because I don't need or want anything, they tell me they'll come up with something "creative." I would NEVER tell them that I would prefer cash, but come on people, we're in our mid-30's, we own our house and fully renovated it already, we do pretty well for ourselves and buy ourselves whatever we want. What can you possibly give us that we still need or want Everyone knows we don't like clutter. Just give us cash or a gift card, seriously!!! I hope that doesn't sound ungrateful. that is exactly why I registered. So I don't end up with a bunch of vases & candles. I always give cash too.

Quote: Originally Posted by starchild I don't know what kind of material my china is made out of but it is still boxed and in a closet! I guess whatever Vera Wang uses is what I have. Out of curiousity, what type of animal's bones are used for bone china? Also, are these animals raised and killed for the sole purpose of making china with the rest going to waste, or animals killed for other reasons and the bones are salvaged to make china? Its from animals were slaughtered for food so not as bad as I orignially thought. I thought it was like ivory where the animal is just killed for the one thing. Still, it sounds gross to me.

Quote: Originally Posted by cessyboston my mom, donnies mom and my grandmothers hankies they came out so cute i ordered them through #1 Wedding Handkerchiefs and Bridal handkerchiefs, Handkerchief Poem Wedding from Felicia's Fancies! (thanks morgan) I got the idea from someone else on here. I haven't started making mine yet. I need to find the handkerchiefs still. So now we know what you've been doing while your computer was down

Quote: Originally Posted by michelle08 wow morgan...you have been in a ton of weddings! How weird you had the same dress in 2005 and 2008! BTW: You are so photogenic!! Thanks The bride in 08 was a BM in the 05 wedding. She wanted the same color anyway, so she let us rewear the dress. 4 of us were in both weddings. Dresses were loaned to the girls that were not in the 05 wedding. It was great to save that money on a BM dress, especially when I've spent so much on them throught the years.

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there is lots of info about claudia on the forum. she is great. she does book up early though so she might not be available in Aug. In that case, Citalli is also really good. You can see a lot of her work on the forum too.

Quote: Originally Posted by cessyboston omg too cute.......expensive but so cute.....i am so getting this for my girls and me lol....i wish i could make it maybe morgan you can start a new business lol....thought i would share guest_book its called the snotty bride ...lol...hankies for the girls.. they can match the dresses.. i just ordered..... ha ha! That's cute. I have a feeling my DIY hankies are going to look pretty sad. But I think the moms will like them. Kind of like the coffee mug I painted for my mom in 2nd grade. Looks terrible, but she thinks its precious

Thanks for sharing. I think it's really important to spread the word about stuff like that so consumers can avoid it if they don't approve. I will definitly never own bone china in my life now that I know what it is.

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl AHHHHHHH! See! Thats exactly why I don't want an updo for my wedding! It's mostly because those pictures are scans of scans. Also, in an outdoor wedding it won't blend in the same. In the pro pics I'm not bald. I think my little camera didn't have enough flash.

Quote: Originally Posted by BarefootBride Thanks for sharing! that makes me want to look for photos of me in my bm dresses! I remember wearing some hideous dresses! My favorite is me as a JR Bride in my profile photo. That dress was an exact replica of a brides dress... veil and all. In my actual wedding I wont be wearing a big hoop skirt under my dress or a veil. I've always wondered who that was a picture of, because you haven't had your wedding yet. I thought maybe it was your inspiration look

Quote: Originally Posted by amyh So cute morgan I've only been a BM 4 times however, I have a ton of quincenera dresses I've worn as a "dama", now those are horrible! I have a funny store about a quincenera dress. When I was in 6th grade my mom bought me a shiny bright blue dress with huge puffy shoulders at a garage sale. I wore it to a band concert (I have a picture of me wearing the puffy dress holding my trombone- I'll scan it if I find it). I got picked on so much at the concert. Pretty sad when your the one picked on out of all the other kids in the band I mean, there were some other nerds around that night. Many years later when I was in college I was working at a gym. One of my coworkers learned I had a scanner & asked if I'd scan some pictures for her. When she gave them to me, it was her in that puffy blue dress at a quincenera. I asked where she lived & sure enough it came from her garage sale.

welcome!!!