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Quote: Originally Posted by Kathie Hi Anne. Has anyone been out of the running yet? Isn't it that when you don't send in your weight you're out? Or are you just out of the jackpot race? i'm pretty sure the rule was added this season that if a contestant misses 2 consecutive weeks of weigh-ins, they are out. for instance, i missed one week while on vacation, but notified ann beforehand and resumed weigh-ins the following wednesday, and i'm still in.

hang in there, phillybride ... it's VERY frustrating in the beginning! i eventually got my travel agent in touch with the wedding coordinator and she was able to get available dates for me ... but even that took the TA at least a week or so. then a few weeks later i finally got a response to the emails i had sent about 2 months prior! it gets better ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kathie That's awesome mummergirl! Quote: Originally Posted by DanielleNDerek Thats great Mummergirl! thanks, ladies! hope i can keep it up ... i have a LOOOOOOOONG way to go! good thing i have until may (and beyond) and not just until the end of our little contest!

i think i may have SOMEHOW gotten back on track after all the vacation & birthdays, because i'm down 4.1 lbs this week! yay! a new chick just bought the curves franchise that i go to ... so this new owner was there this morning kicking people's butts, correcting everyone's bad form, and pushing us (i don't know how many of you go to curves but it can start to get to the point where you're just barely going through the motions, if you let it). she showed us all her "before" picture from 10 months ago ... she lost her weight at curves and was inspired to buy a club of her own! seems like her presence there will be really motivating. yamille, it *totally* could be water weight ... don't fret! best part about gaining a little is that you get to have that "big loss" again, like most do the first week!

last i heard was that plans for a wedding webcam were "in the works" ...

need a pic or at the very least the size of the dress and a description so people know whether to bother looking. also, how much $$ are you selling it for?

Quote: Originally Posted by TA Jill I would ask her about that, she may have just punched in the wrong numbers, because that seems silly. yeah i figured it just had to be wrong and wasn't too worried, except for the fact that my wedding is in may so there might be more than one wedding that day. i'm definitely going to get the times all straightened out immediately! thanks again, jill, for your insight on the room issue. for everyone else's benefit here, according to jill (who is a TA), it's pretty typical for a TA to only be able to get a limited number of each category of rooms (and she actually said 8 was a lot!), especially if you're going during a peak season, which we are. so tell your guests to book as early as possible ... latecomers are going to likely run out of cheap options!

if it doesn't fade much and you feel like you want a little blondness back, you could try just a few subtle face-framing highlights. i think it looks great as-is tho! oh and your guy is just too cute with his comment.

not to be a post whore, but ALSO ... we got our contract from claudia ... we requested a 4pm ceremony, which is noted on the contract, but then she has our cocktail hour listed as 7-8pm, and reception 8-11pm! why the 3 hour lag time between ceremony and cocktails? that's ridiculous! is that the only time they do receptions on the terrace or something?

somebody stop the neverending CAKE!!! haha this weekend we celebrated my sister's AND my mother's bdays (as well as mine and my fiance's AGAIN, since we hadn't seen my family since), and then today we celebrated a co-worker's bday here at work! HELP! AND we're going away the next two weekends ... which means more meals OUT, which is always difficult. to the gym i go! as always, thanks ladies for your support, and keep up the great work ... some of you are REALLY doing well!

i am currently freaking out because our travel agent now says she cannot get more than 8 (EIGHT!!!) of the regular deluxe (i.e. cheapest) rooms at Dreams for our guests during our wedding week. our wedding isn't until may 28th of next year, and already everything is sold out!?! wtf? our guests can't exactly afford all sorts of upgrades just to be able to get a room! (and we are pissed off because we offered to put deposits down a few months ago in order to hold rooms and our TA said it wasn't necessary!) and don't get me started on airfare, which is currently almost $1000 PER PERSON from Philadelphia!!! Oh of course we could just have connecting flights to bring the price down, but the nonstop flight was one of the main reasons we chose cancun mexico to begin with! or we could fly from newark, nj or nyc and it's cheaper but our guests would have to travel 1 1/2 - 2 hours just to get to the airport (which is the reason we didn't chose tulum or even jamaica ... wanted to avoid long land transportation)! wtf? we are just screwed, and no one is going to be able to come to our wedding! *remind self to just breathe* /rant

Quote: Originally Posted by Samantha S Do you gals think it would be a bad idea to send the total amount we owe for the wedding to Dreams right now? I am paranoid about being able to save enough and think it will be easier on us to do that but wonder about the risks of doing that.... any thoughts? i would only pay the deposit now, and keep your money you're saving in whichever kind of account you can find that yields the highest interest (we have ours in an ING direct acct. might as well make a few bucks on your savings ... heck you might be able to afford one more flower, between what dreams charges for stuff and how low the interest on savings is these days! LMAO! seriously, you definitely don't want to charge it all now unless you've got a 0% interest kinda deal.

Quote: Originally Posted by STACEY Yeah for self control!!! How many cocktails did it take LMFAO! so marie, fess up!

Quote: Originally Posted by PhillyBride09 Hi! I see our from Philadelphia and getting married at drems Cancun...Well same here! :-) Just thought I'd say hi since we are neighbors! hi neighbor! do you have your date confirmed yet? if so, when will you be arriving at dreams? (we will be there may 23-30)

Quote: Originally Posted by jrodsgirl I've been able to lose easier before but seems this body of mine is fighting me on it. i don't know how old you are but age definitely is a factor in weight loss. in my mid 20s i dropped 45 lbs. in 3 months ... now in my mid 30s, i'd be *lucky* to lose that much in 6 months. i think part of the reason is due to hormones.

Quote: Originally Posted by jrodsgirl I've been able to lose easier before but seems this body of mine is fighting me on it. i don't know how old you are but age definitely is a factor in weight loss. in my mid 20s i dropped 45 lbs. in 3 months ... now in my mid 30s, i'd be *lucky* to lose that much in 6 months. i think part of the reason is due to hormones.

when i was 10 my parents got rid of my dog, patches, and said they "sent her to live on a farm where she had plenty of room to run around and play ..." which i totally bought. flash-forward to COLLEGE ... a friend had to put her dog to sleep and said, "yep, we gotta send him to the farm" and it was like a LIGHTBULB WENT OFF over my head! i was so upset and called my mom that night to yell at her for "killing patches and lying to me about it" ... she was like, "you JUST NOW figured that out?" hahaha ok and this one wasn't me but my mom's best friend and her son: he had found his mother's maxi pads in the closet one day and inquired as to what they were. his mom quickly said, "put those back ... they are for when mommy has a headache!" a few months later she sees him lying in bed with one stuck to his forehead ... "but you said they were for headaches!" LMAO

Quote: Originally Posted by Hartyt509 Nope today lol yours is soon isn't it? HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIE!!! (hey, our birthdays are exactly one week apart! i know you're around my age ... are you 1972 as well? yay for leos at any rate ... must be why we get along so well ) and sorry to hear all the crap you're dealing with ...

Quote: Originally Posted by STACEY However she said that FMIL didnt cry so that is good. [/color][/b] haha that just cracked me up ... almost sounded like getting her to cry was her GOAL, haha! glad someone else took the reigns here so you didn't have to!

welcome! (and btw, your subject line cracked me up!)

Quote: Originally Posted by JODEY Hi Paula, thanks for your responce, I'm just having a few issues at the moment trying to explain that I don't want to use my 3hours of dreams equipment during the dinner, I want to save it all for the partying after and use our docking station for back ground music during dinner, we'll see what she comes back with ..... jodey, i think the problem is that the 3 hours you get for your reception INCLUDES however long you spend eating. you don't get dinner and THEN 3 more hours for partying. does that make sense? so i guess what you really want to ask her is how long dinner takes, and if it's an hour, then you only want to rent their equipment for 2 hours. we decided we are just using our docking station for the whole thing, but we don't have many guests, so announcements/toasts will be easy to hear without a mic. seems like 3 hours will go by *really* fast ... i think you can pay (of course, haha) for additional time (but i think we'll just pack it up and head to the "free" bar when time runs out).

Quote: Originally Posted by Kat81 Yeah, I am pretty chill about it all. I figure whatever happens happens. It's going to be the BOMB.COM no matter what ha ha ha you definitely have the right attitude! i don't think anyone in either of our families has ever been to a destination wedding, and many (not even the two of us) have never been to mexico or to an all-inclusive, so no matter WHAT happens it's gonna be AN EXPERIENCE!

Quote: Originally Posted by ethrondson Here is a link to the pics of my invites I made: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t20051 just checked out the link and i have to say that cake is FABULOUS! i am in LOVE with it! also like the bouts ... i was thinking of doing something like this (using shells instead of flowers for the bouts, and doing a combo of shells/flowers for a DIY flowergirl pomander) ... nice to see an actual bout done this way for reference!

place looks pretty cool ... anyone know how far it is from dreams cancun? like can we stumble there and back?

we're sending ours out early, so one insert will likely be a STD card or magnet. you could do one solely reminding people that passports are necessary and providing links or other info on how to obtain a passport and costs. wedding website info? TA info w/date when deposits need to be in?