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That's great! Not only is he a wonderful photographer, but he is also a really nice guy. I'm loving all the BDW bride-photographer pairings. I can't wait for all the weddings to see the pictures.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kat81 YAY I have never figured that out lol! It took me a long time. You basically hit "MQ" for all the things you want to quote. Once you've hit them all, hit "quote." That's the part I never got. I'd hit MQ & then get frustrated by what to do next. It's funny, once tammy posted the explaination there were multi-quotes all over the board.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kristie Ottinger Posted by Kristie Ottinger oooo, ive accumilated quite a few shooting weddings, if i can find time, i'll have to get those up! i was considering having a bloopers section on my website. Pictures of SarahA running from the hikers? __________________ no morgan, i was running behind her covering her butt with my camera:) btw, i dont know how to show the quote im referring to...uh! computer lamo:) http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t1043 there is a "quote" and "multi-quote" button next to the "quick response" button

I am so sorry to hear this! We are here to help you as you start again with your planning.

Should I put them in this picture? Who gets to be Pukey McGee?

They look great. Your daughter is so lucky to have all your help!

I don't scrapbook, but I am working on a photoalbum for my HBMs (honarary bridesmaids)tonight. I bought these small, plastic albums at AC Moore for 50 cents each. I have filled it with pictures of us together, mostly silly. I bought a quote stack with quotes about friends & put thsoe on some of the pictures. Then I also typed up my own captions. For the cover & back, I am superimposing their heads onto the bodies of funny looking BMs. Hopefully I can finish that tomorrow. I'm making 8 of these so I wanted to keep it simple. A friend of mine once made us picture frames that had magazine clippings on it. I loved that gift. She went through magazines & cut out anything that was an inside joke. That might be cute in your scrap book.

Quote: Originally Posted by michaelwachniak yeah I totally agree with Kristie. The more coverage you have the better you will be at preserving the day, but 6-7 hours is (to me) ample time. You'll have time for your getting ready shots (EXTREMELY important in my opinion), ceremony coverage, formals (or informals as I like to call em), and a few hours at the reception. By this time, there will be several people with a drink in one hand and a point-and-shoot in the other... lots of coverage at the reception, but its always good to know there is one sober one in the crowd taking the spontaneous photos, rather than the 'posed-fun' photos... my 2 cents (but they are canadian cents so they are pretty strong at the moment lol) Canadians say "my 2 cents?" I thought they said "my 2 loonies."

I just realized I need to get a move on with this project. 3 HBMs will be in town in less than 2 weeks. I want to give them their photoalbums when they come to visit. I'm busy typing up silly captions for the pictures. I'll try to finish up my superimposing tomorrow at lunch. I want to place my snapfish order in plenty of time.

Quote: Originally Posted by Denise40 Ok, I was able to finally get mine done!! These are some pics that I took last year. I am waiting for more bluebonnets to come out so I can go get more pics. My hobby/pastime is photography. I have a whole lot to learn, but I am getting there. Thanks for making me get back into photoshop. I miss bluebonnets!

if you open the back, you really have to worry about tanlines. I don't think it is worth the stress because your dress already looks great on you. What about getting a beautiful open-back dress to wear another time on vacation or for a TTD?

nevermind I see its a corel program

what's snapfire?

We got engaged in June & planned our wedding for to be 1 year away. I told close family & friends we were aiming for June 08 in Mexico when I called to tell them about the engagement. Once my wedding website was up in July, I emailed that to a bunch of people. I think I had on there we were shooting for June 21st, but it wasn't confirmed. Once it was confirmed I updated that on the website. We booked our trip about 9-8 months in advance. We actually got a good price compared to what it is now. That isn't always the case, but airfare has been going up lately with high gas prices. Some TAs can take the cost off your balance due if the price drops. We sent out STDs in September (9 months prior). I don't think we had booked our trip yet, but we had the date reserved at the hotel.

One of the BMs is wearing a scrunchie on her wrist even though she has an updo. And for some reason she doesn't have a bouquet. You have to wonder why they took their pictures in front of a garage door.

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl Angela, they are beautiful! How will they know all of BDW is going to be there if we don't call first? JUST KIDDING! Ha Ha! They look beautiful. I love white aisle.

Quote: Originally Posted by AlmostMrsForbes thanks, girls. i really do trust him - that's not what i'm getting at. the thought just sickens me ... like that kind of intimacy is only supposed to be shared with me. I also think it bothers me more because we are about to make this huge commitment to one another, etc. i'm going to talk with him tonight and really let him know what i think about it. hopefully we can come to some kind of compromise - maybe no lap dances or something. i also think that we're going to have my bachelorette party that night, too. i think that will help - at least i won't be alone and obsessing about it. I think this is how I feel too. I don't really care if he goes to one, just not right before the wedding. I also don't like the idea of bachelor parties being one last big night before you get tied down. If you are marrying someone you should have been commited long before the wedding. I wouldn't want him to do anything before the wedding that he wouldn't do after. We are having parties, but they will be pretty wholesome. I don't think either of us feel like we have anything we need to get out of our system before we get married.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dbld78 i'm not bothered by it at all....he goes every once in a while with the guys and then comes home and tells me EVERYTHING! i trust him to the fullest and well lets face it...would you rather them be honest with you or tell you they won't go and then they do and lie to you about it. tim's brother went to the strip club for his bachelor party 10 YEARS AGO and his wife still doesn't know.....because she would freak! i would just rather him be honest about......although the one thing that does bother me......is the money that they waste there.....lol! completely agree. I really wouldn't care if he went to one, but only if he didn't spend more than $10. I know some guys that blow hundreds at strip clubs. That would make me really upset.

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnR actually we started out by having a contest - we just haven't the last few months. if you're always voting, tallying, posting the results every month - it feels like it's non stop! but we could bring back the contest aspect of this every few months or so. TammyB - thoughts? I didn't like when it was a contest because we couldn't do collages. Wasn't the rule only single pictures that way people were not at a disadvantage if they can't make a collage? I really like the collages. They are fun to make & fun to look at. Didn't we only vote the one time when paulaV won best halloween picture? I don't think we ever voted again. I wouldn't care if it was a contest again, but only if we can do anything with our siggy pics. I think it was great how the march theme got so many people to learn how to make a collage. Another way to do it would be to have an secret moderator pick the winner. Maybe a different one each time. That way Tammy doesn't have to collect & count votes. It really doesn't matter to me. I just like making a siggy pic with or wihout a contest.

Quote: Originally Posted by JamaicaBride062108 How funny that I got this e-mail today! New Page 1 I warn you now, IT IS DISTURBING! do you think it's real? it just seems too sad. the walmart slippers & her showing them off.

I think often it's the other guys who really want to go. I've seen my friends FIs try to fight off their grooms men because they didn't want to go. One time the grooms men dropped off the groom & they went without him. So I do get that it can be hard to tell the guys no. They often set up the groom to get humiliated. Sort of like when your friends tell the waitress at apple bees its your birthday. I don't like strip clubs, but I wouldn't care if Mike went for another guys party. But, I don't want him going for his. I feel like the weeks surrounding are wedding are a really special time & i wouldn't want him having stripper sweat on him right before the wedding. We talked about it & he really didn't want to go to a strip club. None of his guys friends are pressuring him to anyway. I think they are going to have a poker night. he really wanted to plan a hiking trip, but it's going to have to wait until the fall. We both think strip clubs are pretty sad & pathetic. We've gone to a few together, but because we were with a group that really wanted to. I found it to be depressing. Especially the coed one in new orleans. Yuck!

Quote: Originally Posted by BeckyN That was also the realization we had. We will be moving around the next year for school (every 3 months) - so most of the stuff we have will just be going into storage. I made the decision that we will be getting a dumpster and throwing away most of the stuff from his current residence because I don't ever want it to move into our actual house together. FI hates throwing things away... so it will be interesting. If I can't get him to do it now and it gets moved into our new place, I will never get rid of i! I sort of have the same problem. I know we'll be moving out of state in the next 2-3 years. I don't want a lot of extra stuff & we don't have room. So I picked out things I knew we could use now & things that weren't too large. A good knife set is pretty small & you could probably get some use out of it now. I'm also giving away a lot of my stuff to a friend who is about to get her own place after using most of her roomates stuff. She she will get my old dishes & stuff like that if we get new stuff. We can also use new towels now & that's not hard to pack. I was surprised how quickly I filled up a registry with things I think we can fit in our little apartment & in a UHAUL. If we get money though we'll just hold on to it until we settle down someplace.

I sort of understand the perspective of the people who have a shower & upgrade everything. If they have spent a buunch of money on buying other people shower gifts in the past, they might feel like it's their turn to get some stuff. Also, the stuff they have might not be as nice as what people typically get at a shower. I know many couples won't buy great stuff because they know they will replace it when they get married. I bought cheap dishes so we'd have something to put on our list when we registered. my dishes are what I'm the most excited to get. I also have a pot set I got in college that's decent. But, I'm excited to upgrade that. Then if a person already has everything already really nice it seems pointless to want a shower. I'd rather contribute to a honeymoon registry or something like that. With people waiting until later to get married these days, few people throwing showers are actually needy. Also, most people that don't have anything yet, don't usually just register for the necessities to get them by. It's usually pretty nice stuff. You can get a complete dish set for $10 at Kmart (thats where I got mine) so no one really needs nice dishes. Showers are hardly thrown to help the poor couple get their start anymore. I agree that baby showers are usually more satisfying. Typically those lists are for things people really do need. Atleast all the baby showers I get invited to are.

Quote: Originally Posted by Maura becky, take it from two people who have their house furnished/decorated mostly with things from college/FI's bachelor pad, REGISTER for gifts. this is the only time you will ever be able to do it to furnish your new place together so you arent living like college students anymore! people are happy to buy you presents, ESPECIALLY the ones who wont be coming to the wedding. my one aunt is throwing me a shower basically because of her catholic guilt that she isnt coming to my wedding. shes inviting all my mom's friends who i know theres no chance in hell they will show up at my DW, but will be happy to give gifts, because over the years when their children got married, my mom gave their children nice gifts. we bought a really nice couch and armchair from crate & barrel last year, but we need a lot of other stuff. we would loooooooove to stop eating off of mismatched dishes and sleeping on old raggy sheets that my FI refuses to part with until he has pretty new ones. I agree, you will get stuff anyway so you might as well register & pick it out. My mom & grandma are thrilled to go look at my registry & decide what they want to get. Everytime I call my grandma she talks about the plates, pots, etc. I picked out. I know several other relatives have checked it out too. Several people have told us they feel bad they can't attend the wedding, but they want to get us a big gift instead. We've made it really clear to people we have no expectations for them to attend or give us gifts. It's completely sincere too. But, I've learned not to fight it. People will want to give gifts so register.

Quote: Originally Posted by sunnydaes You plan only getting married 1 time, right? I think everything is a little crazy...the wedding included. but this is what life is about...these weird traditions that make us happy. I say do everything that you can, while you can. you will regret it later. And regarding the gift thing...write on the invite, "no gifts please" or maybe if they want to give a gift they can donate to your favorite charity. It shouldn't be about gifts it should be about having a good memory and remembering what your shower was like. When you look back or you talk about when you got married, your always going to remember, "I didn't have a shower" and i think you will be bummed. My SIL is throwing me one. Traditionally its not supposed to be your mother or anyone in your immediate family. But its 2008 and I think you can do what you want! Without gifts isn't a shower just a party? So why not just have a party? This is sort of what my bachelorette party is. It's a bunch of girls getting together to have drinks, play games, sing karaoke & just be silly. We are doing it over 2 months before the wedding because thats when it worked out for my friends to fly up. I'll probably have another bachelorette party where we go out to a club to dance closer to the wedding. So i guess technically I could say the party in a couple weeks is a shower, but I prefer party because there is no pressure for gifts. I wouldn't be surprised if they got my lingere or some silly stuff but this way no one feels like they need to. I do like the idea to list a favorite charity on the invite if you don't want gifts. But, I also understand not really wanting gifts, but then wanting some sort of pay back for all the gifts you've bought in the past & will buy in the future. I've had friends who didn't want showers, but their mom's insisted because they had spent so much on other people's shower gifts. Also, I've thrown a couple showers & it was a lot for me to put them together. So it's not a selfish thing to have a shower if someone is wanting to throw you one. I don't think showers are bad, I just prefer to skip them. Hopefully that doesn't hurt people's feelings in the future when I start getting invitited to local showers again. I'm living in a shower free zone right now. All my friends are from other states so if they have a shower it's always in their home state. Now one I know has showers in the town I live in.