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that actually made me feel a lot better about not getting the credits ... thanks! lol how much of a b*tch am i that i got mad people in our *family* were getting freebies?! LMAO! stress brings out the ugly in me i guess! oh, and i told you in a PM already, but your pics are absolutely beautiful! congrats again!

i just saw this guy recently in another post and like his work: DESTINATION WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG NEWS IDEAS INFORMATION PACKAGES PROMOTIONS REACTIONS LOCATIONS FROM WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER PETER VAN DE MAELE

hahaha looks like a blast and i love the whole outfit that accompanied the hat, lol! what a sweet FI for showing up with flowers, too.

congrats, MRS! glad to hear you are staying for your honeymoon now and all is well. also very good to hear your venue redeemed themselves and your wedding was fantastic!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by jls62081 my mother in law's work will not let her go back to work for like 2 weeks if she goes (same with my best friend). ugh i am so tired of hearing this sort of thing! not only is it just not fair, it has got to be against the law for employers to mandate this! it's more in the US now than mexico, so how does it even make any sense?!?!! i'm so sorry.

Quote: Originally Posted by jshukdinas Unfortunately, my guests are very worried about the swine flu situation and some have started to cancel. I don't know what to do. I've advised them about tamiflu (which my dr already prescribed to me), but it doesn't seem to make a difference. have the recent reports over the past few days helped any of your guests reconsider? mexico has lowered their alert level, as cases seem to have dwindled significantly. my MOH was canceling yesterday, but now that there are cases in her hometown her doc told her she might as well go, and gave her tamiflu just in case. i really hope all works out for you and the most important people will be there.

how did you find out? are they the kind of family who do practical jokes? like just to see if you freak and then they all laugh about it? (ok not so funny, but i do know people like this) it's pretty widely known etiquette that no one but the bride wears white (unless you're doing an all-white wedding, which looks awesome). i wouldn't have cared if my mom wore white but i certainly wouldn't have wanted other guests whispering about what a faux-pas she had made behind her back either, KWIM? if you're really bothered by it have your FI talk to her and tell her it bothers HIM.

hehe i posted those bags when i saw them on ebay because i thought it was too good a deal to not share ... i'm glad a BDW bride actually bought them! http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...197#post770223 i think that seller had other sets of bags as well, for those girls still searching!

Quote: Originally Posted by yamille We are basically forcing our parents to go. (Just kidding- sort of) i hear ya on this ... we're paying for his grandmother to go and i'm fairly certain she would have canceled if it was on her dime. Quote: Originally Posted by yamille I mean people are being nice and all "we DON'T want to stress you out but..." Then stop emailing me! haha i got *exactly* that email ... she even went so far as to say, "i'm sure everyone and their mother is emailing you so i didn't want to bother you and upset you, BUT..." Quote: Originally Posted by yamille We have already been engaged 15 months. We are done. kwim? yup! we will have been engaged two years this month ... the time has come! not to mention i turn 37 this summer (and yes this is my first wedding) ... honestly i think i have waited long enough!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by quackquack It feels so good to hear that others are not calling off their wedding. I am going to make my final decision tomorrow, but leaning towards keeping things the same. It's been such a headache trying to look for another location without guest paying more money. I am also fed up with calls and e-mails. I just stopped answering my phone. I really can't stress over this anymore. I am ready to party in Cancun!! i agree it was seeming like it would be impossible to move the location and i'm honestly just SO done with it. so we are still proceeding as planned, unless now our stupid flights end up canceled because they are empty (wouldn't that be a b*tch?)! anyway, you have to keep your wedding as planned ... how else are we going to meet up for a drink on the beach? update on MOH: she got her doc to prescribe tamiflu, and he also told her that in light of the fact that there's swine flu now in philadelphia & bucks counties PA (where she lives) she might as well travel to mexico. that's exactly what i was trying to tell her ... thankfully her doc finally backed me up, and she'll listen to him!

Quote: Originally Posted by soccergurl3 I just watched this show for the first time on Friday night with my FI and I have to say I am addicted!!! I kept asking if he liked this dress and that dress and he would always reply "that one is too poofy, or frilly, or don't like the mermaid style" and so on. And then out of the blue he said "I love that dress" and guess what? It looks exactly like the one I am wearing!!!! I am so excited that I know he will love it now!!!Thanks Say Yes to The Dress!!! oh man, you're so lucky ... i would have been paranoid about him hating one that looked like my dress (although the same dress can look entirely different on different people)! FI has already made fun of someone's hair that was styled the way i had been planning on for the wedding--SCRAP THAT!

Quote: Originally Posted by KathleenandDan Mummergirl, I guess I'm meeting up with you now since phillybride09 in banned. Let me know if you received the starfish from dc22173 for your wedding. Thanks Kathleen i was thankfully able to get in touch with phillybride09 via email ... her ban will be lifted by the end of this week and she'll be back (and still wanting to borrow the starfish, of course!) ... dc22173 is back from her wedding and i am anxiously awaiting arrival of her starfish!

Flickr: Search http://www.marthastewart.com/article...003d370a0aRCRD the martha stewart link includes DIY instructions.

plan B seems like it's just not in the cards for us. it's looking like we are going to have to proceed as planned no matter who cancels on us. we are mostly on USairways and they will now waive the change fee up thru may 31. however, the resort is only offering postponement or switch to one of their dominican resorts for travel up to may 16. since that is still a week prior to when we leave for our trip, we are kinda stuck in limbo. in the meantime i have contacted the WCs at all 3 dreams resorts in dominican republic, and 1 doesn't have a wedding date available that week, 1 can accommodate us but not for a legal ceremony (which is the whole point), and the other hasn't said either way. our TA says it will be near impossible to get us all flights and rooms for that week anyway. and, it looks like the flights to punta cana cost hundreds more than our flights to cancun? oh, and our photographer won't refund our deposit unless there are border closures/canceled flights forcing us to cancel. while that's perfectly reasonable (they are running a business after all), it still sucks. not to mention we'd be back to square one looking for a photographer, and they'd have to be amazingly cheap since we'd have $500 less to work with. so far, we plan on going forward with plan A, mostly because we don't have a choice that doesn't lose people a lot of cash. best of luck to all of you who need to find and implement a plan B!

i think the smaller the group, the more compelled i would feel to do them, as the expense would be far less and i could therefore afford to buy higher quality items that might really express my gratitude for their being there.

i just found out that some of our last-minute bookers were given $300 resort credits! wtf? so i don't get *anything* for booking (and paying!) in advance, bringing all this business to their resort, and not to mention, not cancelling on their flu-ridden mexican asses?!?!?! but lazy, procrastinating, last-minute losers get $300? (not to mention MUCH cheaper flights than i got!) ok, so really i'm happy for whomever got the credit, but it hardly seems fair. it's not like they just booked AFTER the swine flu story broke. they booked in april. and our TA told them not to tell us!!! isn't *that* shady as hell?!

i confess that i felt bad about b*tching about our lack of "drive" lately, so tonight i made sure the deed got done! maybe it's because it had been awhile, but i can definitely say once we got going the spark was still there! totally hot!!!! LOL sorry if this was TMI ... sometimes i'm a little too comfortable sharing with you ladies!!!

confirmed case of swine flu in pennsylvania ... might as well go to mexico!

marie LMFAO! you might get an even better wedding WITH NO FMIL!!!! honestly if st. lucia wasn't crazy expensive that's where we would have been going in the first place ... it's breathtakingly beautiful! hope you feel better soon or they won't let you on a plane! LOL

Quote: Originally Posted by Cassondra2009 Are any of you having a planned welcome/rehearsal dinner? I know some brides just show up with their guests to a restaurant and ask to accomodate everyone, but we have 45 people so I'm thinking that we wouldnt all fit. we're not because we have guests arriving almost every day of the week, but since most are arriving the same day as us we are going to gather in one of the bars for our semi-official welcome drinks. for the rehearsal, we will attempt to go to dinner with ONLY the people who are IN the wedding. i don't see any reason to have (or pay for) a second private dinner for all the same people. it would be like wedding part deux, ya know? besides, it seems silly to me to keep paying for dinners when it's an all-inclusive! to each their own tho ... do what you feel is right!

Quote: Originally Posted by LSUangel25 Oh Mummergirl...been there done that...and she canceled on me. We've been friends since we were 11. I'm so sorry, I know what you're feeling. mine is my niece (she's my matron of honor ... i was her MOH 4 years ago). she has already cancelled TWICE. once when she thought she was pregnant (she wasn't) and then later when she decided she "couldn't afford it." mind you, my mother and sisters knew how important it was to me that she be there, and they all have chipped in to pay for her (and her husband's) ENTIRE TRIPS. so she and her husband, by crying poor, are getting a totally free trip, and now they might cancel? when it's not even their money that might not get refunded? are you effing kidding me?!?!?! going to take some lexapro and pour myself some of jaimelynne's anti-swine wine in preparation for the dreaded phone call.

and yet another panicked email ... this time from my MOH. she wants me to call her ... i haven't got the strength.

Quote: Originally Posted by stachr I'm not sure what age women are supposed to peak. I think you might find this site interesting! The Thirty Year Old Sexual Peak haha that was great! i actually think i went through mine a few years ago, when FI and i met ... and since i'm 9 years older than him, he may have not been too far from his peak either, LOL!

Quote: Originally Posted by kevsgirl I confess that I have not really wanted/cared to 'do' my DH in over 2 months. I know it's the pregnancy, but I feel terrible! It's not that I'm not attracted to him or love him. I just have zero drive. i'm sure he's aware the pregnancy is effecting your drive, and that it has nothing to do with any lack of love or attraction. not only am i not pregnant, but we're not even married yet and it seems we just can't get it together. we're *both* always too tired, maybe later, how about tommorrow night ... it's sad, actually LOL. i should get off the computer right now and go "do" him, but i just don't feel like it. hahaha wtf is wrong with me? aren't women supposed to be at their peak in their mid-30s? LOL

not sure what i just did, but i totally lost my whole post. let's try again, shall we? jax!! so excited for you!!!!! marie, have you been able to get anything sorted? i cannot believe it's may already. i have SO much left to do ... pretty much dropped the ball on all of it in the midst of all the swine flu hoopla ... seemed like none of it mattered anymore in the grand scheme of things. we've pretty much resolved to go forth as planned, so i guess i better get my head back in the game, huh? time to get my ass in gear!