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how adorable! haha i'm already thinking i'm sure i could figure out how i can make my own! must. stop. making. more. projects. for. myself.

eBay Store - moodswingsonthenet: Party-and-Wedding-Favors: 150 Butterfly Cookie Cutters Wedding Favors Free Ship some great stuff in this ebay store, cheaper than i've seen elsewhere, and all purchases over $50 have FREE SHIPPING! for instance, i've been eye-ing these dolphin bottle openers for wedding favors for a dreams cancun wedding (since they've got the dolphins there on site, i figure it would always remind guests of the resort and the wedding). they've got 'em for $189 for 72 ($2.63 each). this would in actuality be a lot cheaper per piece than the $3.05 i found elsewhere, except that i don't need 72 of 'em. i need about half as many, so it's more money than i need to spend. they've also got cute silver luggage tags (perfect for destination weddings!). unfortunately, the quantities are still too much for me (i really don't need 96!), but i thought i'd pass along the info because the prices are good ($207, or $2.15 each)! hope someone can take advantage of this!

Quote: Originally Posted by Hartyt509 Its one of the reasons we are having a DW because FMIL will invite every bugger she has ever known in her life and it isn't happening, Its your wedding so you get to invite who YOU want. Don't bend under the pressure lol i feel your pain about the FMIL! mine thinks that since we are having the wedding at an all-inclusive, she can tell anyone and everyone to come along! she has told friends, neighbors, etc. about our wedding and keeps telling us how all these people want to come to our wedding in cancun too! if we pay *anything* per head, none of these people are coming. their family is huge enough as it is, which is why we're doing a dw in the first place!

Quote: Originally Posted by happyone I'm sure it was troubling but it is also really funny if your mom did that. Parents tell there kids things and forget to tell them the truth later on. Not such a big deal but my mom told me that chocolate milk came from brown cows and white milk came from white cows (jokingly). I was always really gullible. Being lactose intolerant, I believed her until an embarrassing situation in 6th grade....parents. hahaha LMAO at chocolate cows! my mom told me my childhood dog was given away to a farm where she had more room to run around and play with the other animals. it wasn't until i was in my 20s when someone else was talking about sending a pet "to the farm" that i remembered my mom's story and put it all together! to think, i was so gullible i thought patches really was frolicking on some farm! then again, if i was putting my kid's dog to sleep, i don't think they'd be getting the real story from me either! and i guess as kids we believe what we want to believe, ya know? i was a bright child i don't know how i didn't put it together! now i want to believe my puppydog is frolicking with chocolate cows, lol!

Quote: Originally Posted by K&Rwedding I love your bands. I have to tell you I am a simple girl and would have loved a band, but honestly I would love anything my FI would have gotten me. I hear ya there on the budget, we too are paying for everything ourselves. i was just so touched that he was even *thinking* about wedding bands and surprised he even had an opinion, to be honest! haha! and "my soul mate"?? how could i say no to that?? he did buy me a platinum engagement ring (but not particularly expensive, i told him i'd kill him if he spent a lot, haha), but i definitely won't be able to wear with that band. i will just move it to my right hand.

Quote: Originally Posted by nikkianddean Are you catholic? Maybe Marie was your confirmation name? so i called my mom today: me: "hey mom, what's my middle name?" mom: "marie." (very matter-of-fact) me: "no it's not. not according to my birth certificate." mom: "what do you mean?? then what the heck is it?!?!" me: "i don't have one." mom, after a long pause: "i don't know then. i thought i named you lisa marie." 20 minutes later, she calls back: mom: "marie was your baptismal name!" my sister confirmed this, remembering it from my baptism (she was already almost 14). baptismal name never heard of such a thing. i had heard of confirmation names before, and actually the passport lady had suggested it might be a confirmation name, but my baptism was pretty much my first and LAST foray into church/religion (i received no other sacraments and never really went to church. these days if i had to label myself i would say i'm agnostic). i will probably try to add it when i change my last name, just because i've had it (or thought i had it) for so long (i don't even particularly love it ... it's SO common ... i just feel like a dumbass now ) i joked about picking a totally new middle name, and one of my friends suggested "danger" HAHA! "DANGER IS MY MIDDLE NAME!!!!!" oh and i think it's very cool when brides take on their maiden names as new middle names but my last name is long and unpronounceable so i don't think that'll work! it's a shame too, since my father didn't have any boys, and he was the only son his parents had, so the name ends with me.

so today i went to apply for my passport (don't worry ladies i have plenty of time) and apparently i was incorrect my *entire* life: my middle name is *NOT* marie ... i don't actually *HAVE* a middle name, according to my birth certificate!. so at the passport acceptance facility, i'm there arguing with the lady. "where did 'marie' come from?" "what do you mean? it's my middle name!" "not according to your birth certificate it's not. you don't have one." *quizzical, dumbfounded look* she then made me cross it out everywhere it appeared on the forms. mind you, i'm 35 years old, and have *always* included "my middle name" on forms (legal and otherwise), as well as used "my middle initial" in my signature. it's not on my driver's license either, though i'm sure *i* always included it. i always just assumed it didn't fit due to my very long last name, haha! what the hell??!?!! did my mom forget to give me one and then just lied and made one up one day? i have got to get to the bottom of this! maybe when i change my last name i'll add "marie" while i'm at it ... or even better -- just make up a new one! haha

Quote: Originally Posted by DougsGirl guess what? doug LOVES the song you mentioned (love you till the end), so that's it! haha so now that makes three of us just on BDW alone! and i thought we'd chosen an unusual wedding song! so much for being different!

Quote: Originally Posted by SoontobeMrsE She cracked me up when she called Heather Stevie Nicks. Not sure if it's correct, but a girl at work just told me that what Daisy actually called Heather was "Skeevy Nicks," which is WAY funnier, and far more clever than I'd ever expect Daisy to be!

that's totally gorgeous! i didn't want my reception on the beach until i saw *that*!!!

i personally think the 2nd is much more flattering on you, but that depends on your perspective (you look really boobalicious in #2 ... if you want to minimize rather than emphasize, then you have to go with #1)! i think #2 looks better in the waist and is really flowy ... love the back (like the tiers in the train), though it looks as though it wasn't laced properly and the insert behind the lacing is just sticking up weird (i think that's why most people here haven't liked the back ... properly laced and tucked and you'd look perfect!). i was stuck on dresses with splashes of color for quite awhile, but ultimately decided that years from now it might seem very dated, much in the way we look at big puffy sleeves now and instantly recognize it's an 80s dress. if you know that won't bother you (like if you'd rather be "timely" than "timeless"), then go for it! do what inspires YOU. part of me still wants some color too, so i'm considering a colored petticoat (classic on the outside, party underneath! haha)!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by skye15 Thanks so much for that info re day pass. Oh and by the way the date I am trying to get is the 31st July 2009. They have not asked me what time of day though? i am not enjoying this experience!!! Thanks again Tracy you would be getting married on my birthday! good luck getting a date nailed down ... i've been waiting weeks for a response! gonna start calling them soon, because email just isn't cutting it!

looks like i should have read the whole thread before responding! congratulations on your beautiful new venue ... i just KNEW things would work out for you. others have offered, but if you need it, i too would be happy to offer help, specifically with any graphics you might need to redo (i'm a graphic designer. oh, and for free of course ... we could all use some good karma, ya know?).

wow i just read this and came to the realization i'm not nearly the good human being i'd like to believe i am ... i know that i would be devastated and stressed, but admittedly, i'd be selfishly most upset over having to make changes to my trivial (in the grand scheme of things) wedding plans. the fact that you're feeling so much compassion for the others affected by this speaks very highly of your character. good things happen to good people, and i have no doubt everything will work out for you. best wishes.

off topic but NYjen, i like the wording in your invites ... "to find out how this story continues" ... usually those types say "find out how the story ENDS" which is IMO totally inappropriate, ya know?! kudos!

Quote: Originally Posted by JennyK omg I feel like such a bad girl.. I've done every single thing everyone hasn't done except the arrested part and money for sex part lmao Never have I ever.. gone skiing (i know its boring) don't feel so bad, with the exception of the two you mentioned (and boring ones like skiing) i've pretty much done them all too! that's why i wasn't playing ... i'd have to post every 3 seconds! hahahaha!!!! maybe it's because i'm older than a lot of you either that or i'm a dirty drunken skank, haha!

Quote: Originally Posted by megansg I picked and played first (aioli, hard to do better with all vowels!) wow! that IS good for having so many vowels! haha

yay scrabble brides!! we planned on playing that night after dinner. i was doing the dishes and yelled out to him to get the game all set up while i finished up. when i finished the dishes, the game was still in the box, and he was standing in the middle of the living room watching the phillies game. so of course i get all mad like, "all i asked was that you set up the game while i did the dishes and you couldn't even do that!?!?!" so all in a huff, i ripped open the game box to find the words "lisa will you marry me" spelled out on the board. i thought to myself, "haha very funny" until i realized he might actually be for real, so i whipped around and said "are you serious?!?!?" at which he got on one knee and whipped out my e-ring. i got down there and hugged him and cried (and cried and cried) and kept saying "it's so pretty" until he finally said, "um ... you still haven't said yes ..." hahaha obviously i said yes, and the rest is history. here i am on bdw!

wow you ladies have a lot of beautiful bling! cha-ching! our very simple wedding bands have the words "mo anam cara" on them, which is gaelic for "my soul mate." it's not what i would have pictured for my ring, but my FH actually sent the picture to me out of the blue one day and i was just touched that he'd want something that said i was his soulmate, ya know? (he's not usually the sentimental, lovey-dovey type ... i don't even know what got him looking at rings) we got them off ebay and because of the travel involved with the dw, we actually just got sterling silver and paid $60 for BOTH. later i might get it remade in platinum, but for now frugality was the way to go for us (paying for everything ourselves). i won't be able to wear it with my e-ring, but that's ok. i'll just switch that to the other hand.

actually it looked WAY worse than it felt. the back of both arms and my butt were completely BLACK! i had such a good time that day tho that i totally didn't care and it's still my favorite part of the cruise. we met some honeymooners on the jolly roger who we ended up hanging out with the rest of the cruise ... just great people. we didn't have the "girls gone wild" or spring break factor ... ours was mostly couples in their late 20s - 40s. it was also august ... i'm sure time of year has something to do with it. hadn't considered that tho ... i wouldn't want to subject my family to that either ... maybe just the bridal party?!? hahaha definitely something to think about. edit: i'm pretty sure i could have fallen off the ship, 151-rum punch or not. i'm a total CLUTZ!!!

i finally learned how to post an image here! that's the model, obviously. i'd like a flower too, but in my hair, not around my neck, haha!

i can't speak for any pirate cruise out of cancun, but my fiance and i went on the "Jolly Roger Booze Cruise" as our excursion in Barbados while on a Carnival Cruise, and it was the most fun we had during the ENTIRE 7-night southern caribbean cruise! any cruise brides should definitely look into it ... it was a blast, and they even stage a "pirate wedding" on board. they anchored offshore where you could walk the plank and dive in or jump in off a rope swing, they had a great dj and dancing the whole time, not to mention the free-flowing 151-rum punch. we got LOADED and had the best time dancing and swimming and drinking all day! We are DEFINITELY looking into doing something similar with our guests in Cancun!!! p.s. drink the rum punch at your own risk!!! i actually FELL off the pirate ship back at the dock (somehow, in the maybe two-foot gap between the boat and the dock) and hit every part of my body on the way down. drunken me thought it hilarious, but everyone else was panic-stricken (in hindsight, i could've been seriously injured). besides the AWFUL bruises everywhere, all was well ... a pirate jumped in to save me, and i hadn't even lost my pirate bandana or mug!

Quote: Originally Posted by LC_Rachel Awesome. I didn't do this, but I did have blue undies too. Mine were not sexy though- haha. Just some big ol' blue grandma panties. I didn't want them up my ass the whole night. thanks for the laugh!!! i cracked up when my friend showed me the knee-highs she was wearing under her wedding dress! SEXY! she was like, "no way i'm suffering a whole day in control-top pantyhose!"

Quote: Originally Posted by michaelwachniak One of my all-time favorite Love-type songs is a fairly rare one called "Love you till the end" by The Pogues. I love it, you should take a listen, but ultimately it has to be a song relatable to both of you, something that brings back a memory or two. as of right now, this is ours. my FH and i don't agree on much music (haha or much else ... we're total opposites, yet somehow it works). i searched high and low for something i thought he'd actually approve of, and this was the winner! he's irish (originally wanted to wear a kilt, but not since the wedding moved to mexico, haha), and a huge hockey fan (it's the love song at the end of the movie "mystery alaska"). once i told him it was an irish band AND a song from a hockey movie, he was sold, haha! even still, i just searched nearly every song you guys listed on this forum, to see if i could find something even better, or just add to the pre-ceremony music. some great ideas here!

if no one comes up with a free used one for you, you might want to try ebay or craigslist?