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Quote: Originally Posted by carly I thought that, but then figured you would know! I like the titles you used "Big Fake Wedding" "Small Real Wedding". Ok, hijack over... Yeah, I found I have to have a way to differentiate the two weddings when talking about them to people at work, and on here, so I started doing that way back! (BFW= 200 person home wedding, SRW= 15 person legal DW!) Check! Hi-jack officially over !

Quote: Originally Posted by DRbride we were dating for 11 months when justin proposed..and when we get married it will be 2 years we have been together We're BDW wedding date twins! 7-11! Doug and I have officially been together for just over 2 years, Feb 5, but we were on/off while we got our crap together for about 8 months before that. At the wedding it will be about 2 1/2 years officially.

Quote: Originally Posted by carly Abbie - you're bringing your dogs to Hawaii? I wish I could bring mine to Jamaica!!!!. Oops, sorry for the confusion, Carly, we're using them in the Big Fake Wedding at home, HI actually has an embargo/quarantine on domestic animals travelling by air, so we have to leave them at home for the Small Real Wedding!

Quote: Originally Posted by JODEY 4 months.... not long now, are you all sorted ? Oh my gosh! NO! Read my post under the thread "July Brides" for more info! http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t16719-3

I don't think this is too old at all! With a DW, you can do whatever you want. Lots of traditions have gone out the window. Our wedding party is made up of kids UNDER the age of 15 (our GM's and BM's!) And our ring bearer is actually our two dogs! We are going to put the rings in little organza bags and tie them to their harnesses. I think including your nephew is a fantastic idea.

yea laura! mandalay bay is so pretty, and vegas is a blast! i go at least 3 times a year, we love it!

For the gals the Zoo bar is always fun, has a club-like atmosphere.

For the men, an easy going laid back place is the No Name Cafe (right on the malecon, down near (and between) where the old Hooters and Planet Hollywood USED to be), its like a sports bar, decent sized. I'm not 100% sure about the dancing part tho, I haven't been there at night. I'm thinking they do have it tho.

yeah, whats funny is as i was finishing up that post, i was thinking to myself that it wasn't as long of a list as i thought! i was feeling pretty darn proud of myself for getting all the stuff done that i have! haha!

OMG I just caught this thread. I think I can blow you guys out of the water with my list. I have an excuse, tho, since we are doing our Big Fake Wedding at home and our Small Real Wedding in HI within 5 days of eachother! Our home wedding has 200 guests, HI will have 12-15. SO-the shorter list is for the Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii wedding and 4 day Vaca. ~Make sure that our officient got his letter of good standing sent to HI to get licensed to perform ceremonies in the state. ~Figure out which hotel/condo we want to stay at and check airline employee rates/Book it! ~Car rental! ~Find a cool Luau that we can go to the night of the wedding. ~Edit and print our Hawaiian wedding ceremony, and find a Mother's Lei ceremony online somewhere. ~Make/send boarding pass invites for the 12-15 guests (just a week or 2 before we go, we are all able to fly standby due to 3 of us being airline employees and the rest being spouse/parent/dependants of, so we basically do this whole thing on the fly!--oops no pun intended! Ha!) ~Find an inexpensive photog or a friend who can take decent digital pics for less than an hour. ~Find a nice restaurant for brunch after the late morning wedding, and a fun restaurant for the "welcome dinner" the night before. ~Find a florist in Lihue to get 3 lei's for our mom's and my stepmom, and a fresh plumeria blossom for my hair. That's all the big stuff for the SRW. The BFW list is a mile long, I have to much to do and NO money to do it with! Our road trip to Chicago at Christmas really put us back a LOT further than we wanted to be financially right now, and my stupid work isn't offering as much OT as you would think I could get closiing in on Spring Break soon At least I KNOW and have decided on everything, I just have to order and pay for it all! ~Finalize and pay deposit for chair covers and sashes ~Pay balance of venue ~Pay balance of photog ~Order and pay for favors, tie ribbons and tags to them.(Need to make that too!) ~Order and pay for centerpiece components ~Make or find organza table overlays or something to cover top of table under centerpieces. ~Buy roses and stephnotis for my bouquet (I'm making my own, just getting flowers from Costco day of. I made my Mom's for her wedding and it turned out FANTASTIC! Saves a TON of money.) ~Buy makeup for the wedding. I want to do my own so I still look like me, only more dramatic. ~Figure out WTF to do with my hair! Do it myself or pay BIG$$ for trial and day of. Torn up about this. ~Buy shoes for Doug, Me and the whole wedding party. (Our gift to everyone is matching low-top Converse with the persons role and the date embroidered on the side!) ~Find and buy Doug's pants?? Some sort of Khaki's or soemthing. ~Find and have them buy the BM/GM shirts/pants. ~Order and pay for paper parasols for me and all the girls (5 bridesmaids). ~Go to venue in the spring and see it all pretty and flowery! ~Make and go over menu/menu cards with Doug's mom (our caterer). ~Make our arch for the ceremony, and figure out what to use to define and "rope off" the aisle from the seating. ~Make sure our amp and mike work for the ceremony. ~Figure out what table to use for the sand ceremony and buy sand and vases for that! ~Pick up my dress from alterations April 11. ~Finish my 100 freaking STD's and send them! (Need to buy twine, roll postcards, and wax the tops of the bottles, and stick address labels on all of 'em.)--Was supposed to have these mailed by today! ~Finish invites and mail. (I have all the paper product, just need to print and tape, put together, make inserts and map, and mail!) ~Order table linens 2 weeks before wedding. ~Have appt. with venue to decide on table/dancefloor placement. ~Pay deposit and balance to DJ (fortunately it's a friend from work, so he's cool!) and make a Must Have playlist. ~Order MatronOH dress. ~OH LORD I know there has to be more, but this is off the top of my head the last 30 min while I'm sitting here organizing my thoughts. Cool! Now I can just copy this post to a Word Doc and print it! I can't believe I haven't listed everything out like this before! Hang in there, July Brides! We will get thru this and conquer! Remember that this occasion is supposed to be happy and joyous, so think about that when something doesn't fall into place the way you want it to! The most important part is that you have your man, you are in love, and you are going to have an amazing day and you will look beautiful! Don't forget that!

Quote: Originally Posted by JODEY Hi Abbi, that is beautiful ! Thank you for sharing that with us. Can I ask - Did you both memorise it or did you read from something ? The part where the registra says "repeat after me" does he/she read it all then you repeat it all or did they do it in bits ? (am I making sence ? lol ) Hi Jodey, Thanks! We actually don't get to say them for another 4 months, BUT, the minister will read a line until the '/' and then we repeat it, we don't have to memorize it, praise the lord!

Jamy those are cool! Thanks!

Yea! Congrats! It's beautiful.

We are using OurWishingWell.com. I have a friend at work who used it and loved it! You can totally customize the pictures, amounts (up to 'Unlimited'!) everything! We don't want to register anywhere else, since like you we have everything we need right now, and no place to put anything else! ourwishingwell lets you pick what you want, all we put was a new box spring an mattress combo and honeymoon, and then people can contribute any mount they want! If you go to the site and enter our registry number, 14462089, you can check ours out to see if you like it. There's a FAQ as well, if you have QQQ about it.

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren c. suggestion: if it's a beach wedding, dig a hole and squat over it. then no one has to hold up the dress! hawhawhaw! everyone is so full of these fantastic visuals for me today! i'm cracking up! can you imagine the photog that accidentally captures something like that?!

It is on page 94-95 of the current mag, if that helps. not sure if you can view it online?

It's a PDF and I have no idea how to link it here? Sorry guys.

OK I got the email and it's a PDF file. Pretty pics of her and her wedding and a nice little article! She says some very nice things about Tammy and BDW and all the Cabo brides who helped her! Cool!

Never heard of it! And the link won't work at my work Says it's naughty no-no stuff!

Quote: Originally Posted by amy&andy08 *I talk to my cats all the time....like conversations....sometimes they talk back and I swear they can understand me. Me too! Weird! *My dad died two years ago . Oh Amy, I'm so sorry Thanks for sharing with us. Quote: Originally Posted by starchild When I was a kid I could speak and write Chinese. Jamy thats so cool! Too bad it didn't stick in the memory!

OK, I combined/borrowed these from somewhere on the internet, plus from Ann. VOWS Doug, repeat after me: I, Doug, take you Abbie to be my wife / I promise above all else to live in truth with you/ and to communicate fully and fearlessly/ I give you my hand and my heart / as a sanctuary of warmth and peace/ and pledge my love, devotion, faith and honor as I join my life to yours. Abbie, repeat after me: I, Abbie, take you Doug to be my husband / I promise above all else to live in truth with you/ and to communicate fully and fearlessly/ I give you my hand and my heart / as a sanctuary of warmth and peace/ and pledge my love, devotion, faith and honor as I join my life to yours. RING PART Abbie, I give you this ring, as a sign of our marriage/ and a lasting reminder, of the vows made between us today/ I give you this ring, as a reminder that I will love, honor, and cherish you/ in all times, in all places, and in all ways, forever. Abbie, if you accept please say "I do"... Abbie as you place this ring on Doug's finger, please repeat after me... Doug, I give you this ring, as a sign of our marriage/ and a lasting reminder, of the vows made between us today/ I give you this ring, as a reminder that I will love, honor, and cherish you/ in all times, in all places, and in all ways, forever. Doug, if you accept, please say "I Do".

Anything? Still no email from her either

OK I think I'm thinking along the lines of lived in but comfortable with inexpensive drinks! And good but not froufrou food

Quote: Originally Posted by becks 85-year old men in their undies are not a good visual, for the record. Oh Rebecca! The visual! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH! But what an awesome story! Thats great!

yes but does it smell good? my #1 requirement!