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Wow Yari, that REALLY sucks. Just keep imagining LC and breathe deep. Margies and beach and ocean waves and warm sunshine. Use it like a mantra until your FI kicks their ass. Let us know what happens!

Great Job!

Hi Maura, I'm not a TA bit since I work for an airline and do this for a living I thought I'd give you my two cents I just called AA's ticket counter and asked them, their response is that once you book a mileage award the only way to upgrade is to call the AAdvantage phone line and have them redeem more miles for the upgrade. Basically you might as well redeem a first class mileage award if you had the mile to begin with. No cash upgrades allowed on mileage awards. (BTW same policy is true where I work as well-Alaska Airlines) AAdvantage phone contact: USA or Canada 1-800-882-8880 24 hours a day Hope this helps!

Yea! Right on! Now us picture whores need to see the ring! Pics!

Well put and not at all mean or rude. I found myself smiling (and cringing) as I read thru your examples. Good job and thanks for the awesome advice!

Oh Jaime, that really sucks. I've been lurking on this thread to see what happens and I feel so bad for you I hope you start feeling better quicker than very soon!

Orange and Lime or Orange and Hot Pink or Orange and Aqua would really pop!

Maura, that's a great idea! I think the guests would appreciate getting the full blown Mexican version, I know I would.

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureMrs.L Has anyone used table top tiki torches for their tables? I saw this idea somewhere, and was wondering how it turned out for people. I thought it would be cute to tie ribbon of my colors on the tiki torch stem. If anyone used the table top tiki torches, did you find that the smoke was bothering your guests? As far as the tiki torches, you would have to make sure they have never been used prior to packing them for travel, also you would have to buy the fuel once you arrive since that type of thing is not approved by the TSA for travel. Awesome idea if you could make it work tho, and I saw some at OTC: Polynesian Tabletop Torches

Maura, I just saw this and I'm so sorry! I can't believe the stress this must be causing you. I really like the idea of just you two and your parents having the catholic ceremony in the morning. Altho we are having our Big Fake wedding at home for all to see, Doug and I and our parents will be doing our Small Real legal ceremony in Hawaii, and we wanted it to be intimate. Altho we wanted to have all the aspects of a DW, we still wanted to keep the "real" one private so it would be more meaningful to us, and then have our big "fake" wedding at home to insure all 175 or so of our guests will be able to join us to see us "get married." Please keep us updated on what you guys decide on doing and feel free to vent away to us, in order to keep the peace at home!

Quote: Originally Posted by mauraw i just had to laugh at how cute he was about trying to do it as a surprise and then when it didnt work out and he told me, he had the cutest sad puppy face! See Maura, THAT'S why we keep them around. They do have some redeeming qualities

Oh good, and if all else fails, the local alcohol (like Cuervo or Sauza Hornitos) idea is great, you could shop for cute woven bags or something to present each of them in, to make it look nice and to add some Mexican flair.

Have a fantastic and magical day! Happy birthday!

Erin, that's a great Blue But I do like the emnroidered initial inside the dress, I was thinking about getting the date embroidered inside mine, and I love that you might use your grandma's (and yours!) initial

I'm ditto-ing everone else so far, like Maura I lurked on a few other boards before I found this one, and they were awful! I think they just don't have the same kind of moderating, and there are waaayyyy too many regulars for people to become close like us. I think that really helps with the tightness we all feel towards eachother, even tho the majority of us have never met. BDW ROCKS and I am so glad we have the opportunity to share together!! It's been a lifesaver in more ways than one.

That's beautiful! And of course Maura and I are biased due to the pickups as well Pics when it comes in the mail, please! Plus, like Maura says you can resell it, or donoate it or whatever, and some sellers sometimes give refunds if you get it back right away. You just have to ask, even if thie policy says No! AND, you already have another dress that you like, so no worries!

Instead of all the threads in any given catagory being in order of most recent post, for some reason today mine are all showing up in ABC order. even if they have a recent post. Did I accidentally change this somehow, and is there an easier way to go back and quickly check to see if anyone responded to a thread I've created than visually scanning the threads for my thread title? TIA!

Mine has been running the same as it was this morning when we still had the shoutbox, I'm on a work computer with whatever the superfast amazing connection type of internet thing is called. And most days I am pulling my hair out trying to post or whatever, but today it's been awesome before and after the shoutbox. Which I will really miss if we have to permanantly disable it I think it adds a personal "real-time" element to all of our "conversations".

Quote: Originally Posted by DanielleNDerek I never realized that you were kind of screwing music artists out of money when you got songs of itunes. I thought as long as you were paying that .99 per 10 songs they were getting a cut from that. Actually when you pay the .99 or whatever, you can use the songs like 5 times off of itunes to burn to CD or ipod or whatever, then if you try to use it again other than to listen off your computer supposedly it won't let you unless you buy it again. So technically no one would ever know if I mad 100 copies of any given song, as long as I just used the itunes to burn the original CD, then used that CD file to burn the other 99 discs, so that's where the infringment occurs. (anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong, thats just my understanding of how it works?). And I do assume the artist gets a cut from the .99. Quote: Originally Posted by amandalovesryan Abbie- what about what Maria said? Can Doug record his own music? Quote: Originally Posted by MikkiStreak If he's into bands, music, plays guitar and is in a band---- does he have any recording software on the PC? Or does the band record their sessions or gigs? If so, I think it would be cool for him to do some of his own music on a CD and give that out. Great idea Maria and Amanda, but we don't want to really use our wedding to promote his band, also cause one of the biggest reasons I like the CD idea is so we can compile our favorite songs together and share that part of us with our friends and family.

I totally read it that way too, and wondered A) why is it in this catergory, and why am i opening this? This sounds like fun!

Forget the wine and go straight to the vodka! We all can completely understand your stress and worries! But try not to freak out (I know, easier said than done) because you are about to marry the love of your life. Just breathe, and have a nice hard drink You'll be fine! We promise!

Thanks Jen, it doesn't have to be music, I just love how personal we can make a CD, and like the luggage tags, it's something that people will use. It's not a bag of jordan almonds thats gonna get lost under the seat of someones car later that night!

Quote: Originally Posted by carlymcmullen Problem is, he doesn't do it "right". Right being the way I want it done. Carly, exactly! No offense to them, but (see below) It's hard cuz we have spent so much time and energy from day one planning every little part and they decide one day, hey it would be fun to do "this" and have no idea how much you have already involved yourself in the other idea! I could not have said that any better. They just don't realize all that we've got going on and planned in our minds because they don't ask! Then when they do ask, they zone out when we get started talking about it all, or when they come up with an idea on their own, we're suppsed to be all excited that our dreams are flushing down the toilet! Haha, I'm only half joking

That's ok, I could use the laughs this morning!

Ahhh, but back to the subject, we aren't going to do inserts in anything due to the fact that we'd just as well rather not get anything in the first place. If we did want stuff, I think an insert would be fine in a shower invite only.