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i love love love howard stern. the only time my sirius is not on howard 100 is when there is someone else in my car. we also have sonos, so i have it wireless throughout my whole house. it's what i listen to all day when i'm home alone - over and over and over!

try clicking on the mood itself.

we didn't have a ringbearer. our best man held them in his pocket.

i'm playing the jeopardy theme song in my head while we wait. good luck!!!

i had a carry on and a 'purse' (a HUGE duffel bag) AND my dress. i certainly wouldn't ship - what if?! it can usually lay in the overhead.

i think you should go to kion lounge and check it out for me. i'm thinking about having dh's surprise 30th there. it's a restaurant and it turns a little bit more clubby at night... other than that......i think glenda and the other girls have covered it. definitely see wicked - it was fantastic!

i think chelsea and mark will go home. it's a hard week! last week, i predicted will would go home and that debbie allen would choreograph this week. i was SHOCKED that she didn't. but nigel said that ppl prob. didn't vote for him because they thought he'd be safe no matter what.

the denture cleaner is an old trick that cleans lots of things. i dont know if it will help with nails, but i used to use them to clean my retainers, and my mom still uses it for jewelry. i don't wear nail polish, but i find that when i remove dark polish from my toes during the summer, it leave a yellow tint. i'd just put a non-yellowing clear coat on for a few weeks and let them grow out a bit. see what happens.

totally something i would do... we had a really ugly stripper at my friend's bachelorette a few years ago. he left us a stack of cards w/ his name and a nudie pic (w/ something covering his package). i took all of them and left them wherever i went. i'd walk into a restaurant and put one or two in the middle of the stack of business cards at the hostess stand, post them on community bulletin boards, etc. i had a GREAT time w/ them! if you can't return them, just start leaving them in places! maybe james' friends will run into themselves!

my aunt told me that jewish ppl wear engagement inside, wedding band outside (which is how dh wants me to b/c he's afraid i'll lose it), but i wear wedding band inside, engagement outside. i want another wedding band to have one on each side.

i would wear mine again if i had an ahr!

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i like #2.

i know i'm in the minority, but i like #3.

great pics, thanks for sharing! i love your shoes!!!!!

first, we decided we did not want jamaica or cancun. then, i looked for all inclusives, where reservations were not necessary and where there were at least a handful of restaurants. then i narrowed the search by looking at price, and decided on mexico. then i narrowed it down using trip advisor and other reviews. i'm not positive how i decided on dreams, pv - i don't remember what i read/saw that made me pick it, but it was def. the hardest decision of the planning process.

happy birthday morgan! i hope you get many ferrets!

Quote: Originally Posted by ErinB Dear Husband's Family, I have tried everything to be nice to you people. You all seem to like me. It has been 6 years and I haven't gone away. Of course, when someone comes to visit you and bends over backward and asks for nothing in return, there really is no reason to be mean. The one time we ask you for something, to come to our wedding or our AHR, NONE of you show up. Not ONE! You didn't RSVP to either event. Had I known you would completely ignore us, I could have saved quite a bit of money on the invitations and postage. Since you didn't bother to send a card, much less a gift, we are really in the hole. Not to worry, I'll be sending your bills out soon. We will accept cash or check, even credit cards. I could care less about the monetary value. The issue is that you don't support your family (my husband), haven't welcomed me into your family, or even acknowledged that something major has taken place in our lives. Next time you ask us to attend an event or move back to Kansas, I will politely smile and tell you to F-off. I will not be apart of nor raise my children around the attitude of "if it's not convient for me, I can't be bothered with it." Oh and BIL & SIL...You call $40 a gift? Seriously? You got married 3 weeks before us, on purpose, and caused a big stink within the family because of it. You were the Best Man! Togeher you and your wife make over twice what we do. Have you never been in a wedding? I gave your wife a $75 shower gift, that she scheduled on THE SAME DAY AS MINE! I have tried to welcome her into your whacked out family! Your wedding gift was $150, because your brother, my husband, was a bridal party member! Please forgive me for not feeling satisfied with the $15 toaster from the shower and the 2 $20 bills. Oh, and the spoons, how could I forget the obviously re-gifted spoons? Three kitchen spoons, all different colors, different bands, and not on my registry was kind of a tip off. I'm so glad that I don't have to see any of you again until Thanksgiving. I'll be able to cool off by then. dear erin's new family regardless of whether you choose to accept it or not, you are now family. act like it. $40 is barely a birthday gift, let alone a wedding present. you suck and i don't like you. lauren Quote: Originally Posted by STACEY Dear God, You work in ways that are sometimes a mystery to me. Usually the things that you do are wonderful and generous. But what in the world would have caused you to take such a wonderful, caring, generous man from this world in such a terrible way? This person has done so much for the young people in our community and has touched the lives of people in a way the most could ever dream of doing. How could you take someone a way in such a cruel and and devastating way? WHat is the lesson that is supposed to be learned? If it was you dont know what you have until its gone? well the lesson could have been taught in a little gentler of way. I am not happy with you, and my faith is beginning to fade. Sincerly, A very hurt and pissed off lady dear stacey, anything you want to talk about? lauren dear cousin, why did you decide to pawn all of this work on me? you wanted to go camping. this was your baby. just because i dont work during the summer doesn't mean that i have time to chase after everyone and try to make reservations 2 weeks beforehand. i don't even want to go anymore. grow up, lauren

i don't have any advice, as i was married in february, but there's a new wc? sheesh, they change wcs like i change nail polish!

gorgeous pics!

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel * My dad thought it would be funny to give his daughter away by answering the "who gives this woman away" question with "Her mother, I and VISA." Oh the comedian... oh. my. god. that's fucking hilarious. wonder where your sense of humour comes from?! i just remembered another long one..and we have it on video, lovely ending... anyway, traditionally at a jewish wedding, the husband steps on a glass, usually a lightbulb, wrapped in a napkin, to symbolize unbroken love and a whole bunch of other junk. in order to appease both sets of parents (who weren't thrilled w/ a minister marrying us), dh was going to break it. i realize halfway thru the ceremony - he's not wearing shoes!!! the minister says mysteriously, "and we have a surprise for everyone!" and i whisper, "no, he can't, no shoes!" she says, "huh? why aren't you wearing shoes?" and then madness entails.....my cousin (6'+, huge feet) throws a flip flop from the back row to dh (who's 5'8" on a good day). dh puts it on and can't get a grip to break the glass b/c the shoe is so damn big. cousin screams "consider that your wedding gift". dh breaks the glass by slamming his foot down - he was afraid that it wouldn't break, and had he not slammed so hard, it wouldn't have ... even after we told the wc to use a lightbulb, she still wrapped a glass up...and not a wine glass, or a champagne flute...a thick glass that you would ordinarily get a soda in.

Quote: Originally Posted by azhuskergirl Wedding Cake So, first of all, congratulations to my good friends who got married last weekend. Congratulations, “mazel tov,†good luck. It was great and I hope you guys are happy forever. That said, I couldn’t help but look around at your wedding and think, “Wow. I don’t want any of this.†But don’t think that your wedding specifically turned me off to weddings. No, we are all now in our late twenties and wedding invitations appear in the mail with almost the same frequency that delivery guys slip take-out menus under my door. And now, having attended and been in a few weddings, I can’t help but think “I don’t want any of it.†funny, i think, "oh shi*t, another wedding....ugh" I don’t want a country club or a church. I don’t want a hotel ballroom or a big white tent. I don’t want a priest or a rabbi. I don’t want 200 people there who I don’t even know. I don’t want numbered tables. I don’t want to put all of my random “single†friends at one table in the corner of the room, making them feel even more alienated than they already are at a stereotypically “coupled†event. I don’t want bridesmaid drama. I don’t want all of my bridesmaids wearing the same ugly color and the same ugly dress and hating their shoes so much that they curse me behind my back. I don’t think I even want bridesmaids. I don’t want anyone to sign a guestbook where they have to come up with some spontaneous wisdom about love and happiness. I don’t want cute little party favors with the bride’s and groom’s names scripted in gold, proclaiming “our special day.†I don’t want people to figure out their seating arrangements by picking up their party favors, which are also wrapped in pink chiffon. I don’t want a big white dress. I don’t want to have to ask friends and cousins whom I see maybe once a year if their 5-year-old son/daughter whom I don’t even really like can be my ring bearer/flower girl. I don’t want guys in blue shirts and khaki pants measuring each others’ dicks with the phrase, “So, what do you do?†I don’t want bored out of their mind cater waiters and bartenders, who hate weddings in a way that even I will never understand. I don’t want “cocktail hour†and passed hors d’oeuvres and most people only caring about getting buzzed before the open bar ends. I don't want to mail out then sort through 300 invitations to find out who wants steak and who wants salmon. I don’t want to be registered at Crate&Barrel. I don’t want my friends finding that all the cheaper items on my registry are gone and that, like, five of them have to go in on a set of overpriced knives. I don’t think I want a registry at all. I don’t want to have to kiss all of my mother’s friends on the cheek, or, even worse, all of my future mother-in-law’s friends. I don’t want a color “scheme.†I don’t want a creepy DJ or a weird band that does a cover of YMCA. And I don’t want the place turning the lights up at 10:30 telling us it’s time to leave. But I do want cake. i understand 100%.

what about a schedule of events? either wedding events or events at the hotel...

ok...nothing huge, but: -the minister called me laurel -she told us that we're all born with a soul, but when we're about 7 our souls die. -she told us that shocks are good, like car crashes at 70mph (i think i wrote this one somewhere) -dh put my finger on the wrong hand (did it at legal day too) -dh lost his ring in the pool and had to send his brother underwater b/c he doesn't swim - not a huge deal, but there were leaves lining the aisle (which i didn't want) and someone had kicked it so it was flopped over...i had to lift my skirt and step over it, making me look incredibly dumb walking down the aisle. i'm sure there are more...i'll keep thinking.

great pics - you guys look awesome!