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They are beautiful. I just picked up my dress tonight (finally!) and am in love with mine, but... I really like Sapphire. It's super sexy and glamorous.

Beautiful! And very unique

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Mostly wrapping paper, depending on gift 2. Real tree or Artificial? All my life I've had real, but last year we bought a fake one. It's so much easier... but I miss going out and getting a real one. 3. When do you put up the tree? As early as FI will let me! Dec 1 is when I am "allowed" to start decorating. LOL! 4. When do you take the tree down? Jan 1 5 . Do you like eggnog? Ewwwww. NO! Way too rich and buttery. I do not eat butter. 6. Favorite gift received as a child? Wind up Pooh my first Christmas. Apparently I went up the next night and tried to hang up my stocking again. LOL! 7. Hardest person to buy for? Dad. He doesn't care - he doesn't even open or use anything I get him 8. Easiest person to buy for? girls 9. Do you have a nativity scene? No 10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail 11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? My dad once gave me skate cards. I'm not kidding. 12. Favorite Christmas Movie? It's a Wonderful Life for sappiness. Elf for goofiness! 13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Throughout the year when I see something someone will love, I store stuff for birthdays and Christmas. 14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Probably. 15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Candy cane cookies 16. Lights on the tree? all colours 17. Favorite Christmas song? The bells song that Southpark made a joke of. 18. Travel at Christmas or stay at home? Some in Australia with mom, some here. 19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yep 20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Neither. 21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? one xmas eve, rest on morning of 22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? All stores playing Christmas music non-stop. It totally stresses me out. 23. What theme or color are you using? Gold and red 24. Favorite for Christmas dinner. Turkey with cranberry and my dad's stuffing 25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I haven't thought about it! Wedding planning is taking over my brain 26. Who is most likely to respond to this? everyone 27. Who is least likely to respond to this?

Quote: Originally Posted by Simistar To be honest...It doesn't feel any different:-) Not YET anyway:-) For us, our Mexico wedding is the "real" one...We're not even wearing rings or anything:-) That's how we're sort of taking it too. No ring exchange, only a few people know at work. It's all good. We keep calling eachother "secret wife" and "secret husband". It's fun :blush: Quote: Originally Posted by Simistar WHAAAAAT?? I'd be pretty pissed too... I mean, if she doesn't know how to do something, she should SAY so! Or at least consult you, or whatever... I REALLY hope this works out for you! Keep us posted! I'm SURE it will all be fine...but yeesh! who needs the aggravation?? UPDATE ON FITTING: I worked a whole day today and then we had an event on way out in the west end, which I worked at until 7pm. I'm exhausted. I finally got home tonight at 8pm and the seamstress had called to see if I could come to try on the dress. Of course, I just took right off again for her place. It's WAY better. PHEW! Thank goodness. She fixed up the cups. She fixed up the sides. The cups were very weird and hard to fix. She ended up making a seam to get rid of all the extra material. She needs to reposition the beads along the under bustline to cover the seam. I think it's going to look gorgeous. But man oh man she said agian how if I'd been a real size 14 there would be no problem. WTF?: Shut up! I mean seriously! I know that she basically had to redesign the dress to suit me. You're a seamstress for god's sake! Oh well, it's done. I will probably get to pick it up on Monday. And now I have a shower weekend! Tomorrow's the family one.

Melissa - everything looks gorgeous! I love your wedding colours and all of your own stuff looks fantastic (hair flower, dress, jewelry)! Did you do a hair trial and a makeup trial? Have a fantastic time!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by ErikDaGenErik Thanks!!! How did you end up deciding which dress to wear for which occassion? did you wear 1 for the ceremony and the other for reception? I decided to change my first dress to the second dress entirely. The first one was very beachy, short in front, long in back and lacy. Gorgeous dress, but I relaized that I didn't feel princessy enough. I wanted something bigger and poufier. So I found my 2nd dress. Now I'm going to try to sell my 1st dress I wish I'd looked around more. But I'm super happy with my poufy dress!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by uspoiledme I just thought about the fact that you will have two anniversary dates! How cool!!! LOL! We're spreading them out really well so far... Our "anniversary" is the first day we went on a date: July 29th. Then we have the day we got engaged: March 1, now we have the JoP wedding: Nov. 18... next the DW: Dec 12. Too many dates to remember! I'll have to tattoo them on his wristt. LOL!

Those a great gifts! I would love to receive one of those boxes too!

I loooove them! The double-band combo is fantastic. Can never have too much bling. I like your e-ring band too - very pretty and unique. And those earrings are awesome! I love Swarovski crystals!

BOOZE IT UP!!! We're having a similar situation, but a bit less time in between. Our wedding is at 3:30, then we're having a cocktail hour by the pool bar where we'll have munchies and drinks from 4-5pm and a mariachi band. 5-7pm is going to be the issue for us. We decided we're going to keep the modified open bar open from 4-10pm. So if people want to just hang by the pool, socialize and drink in the afternoon before dinner they can do that. Otherwise, they can wander back to their rooms, go for a swim, do whatever. I'll be interested to hear what others say though!

Thanks, ladies!!! I'm still kind of in disbelief. I don't know when it's all gonna sink in. I guess after the DW. We didn't exchange rings and it wasn't in front of people, so... then again, my bosses made me spill the beans to my small team at lunch today - they wanted to give me a gift. It was super cute. So one of my teammates keeps coming by calling me Mrs. LOL! DH (!) took a sick day today, but I worked and then had to pick up my dress. I can't wait til the weekend to spend some time with him. And I've got to get used to printing my new last name (thought technically it won't be until February). Woot!

Thanks you guys! I feel like it's a bit surreal. Simistar - congrats! I didn't know you were already legally married. So do you feel like it's really official or do you think the DW will really make it real for you? At work they made me spill the beans (my 2 bosses). They wanted to announce it to our small team while we were out for lunch. So they did and it was fun. I showed some pics and they gave me a present and a card. It was really sweet! I missed hanging with my husband tonight - he took the day off work and then I went to pick up my dress straight from work and it was not fixed. I was kind of horrified - I put it on and there were bumps coming out the sides and the cups were totally not right. The seamsress was pretty upset too. She's super cute, but she kind of pissed me off tonight. She was obviously quite frustrated by the dress and was insinuating/blaming me for picking a dress that didn't do what I wanted it to do... she said that since I wanted it tailored to my hips, and it wasn't supposed to go that way, it made the bumps. Ummm no, it's because it wasn't sewn right. So she fixed that while I waited and let it out a bit so it hung a bit better. But the cups are totally messed up. She came up with a good solution (I think). Now let's pray that it's fixed by next week. She has to cut into under the bust because there's no seam. I'm a little worried... Also, she kept going on about how she had to take all the beads off and then sew them back on. I was like - why didn't you have me come over and try it on before doing that So this time, I made her promise she'd call me to come try it on before going back to sewing everythign back on if it doesn't fit. Blah!

Here we are with our JOP. She was so sweet. She said that she could really feel the love in the room and we were so cute. When she found out we didn't know the girls she was shocked. LOL! Here we are with our posse Two of the girls signed our temporary certificate. DH being DH (!), he suggested I 'throw the bouquet'... so he gave me his boutonniere and I threw it. It was hilarious. The girls were all scrambling. The girl in the middle caught it (Holly). After the wedding (!) we went out for dinner at the restaurant we had our first date at, the Pepper Garden. Had a very nice dinner and complementary champagne too! I'm wearing my rings right now, but tomorrow will have to go in to work and not say anything... it's gonna be hard! But I know we'd just get grief from people if we say that we got married and ddn't invite them... geesh!

It was a super small room and the JOP was really nice. It was a pretty quick ceremony - about 10 mins. We didn't exchange rings because we want to save that for the wedding ceremony in Mexico. We started out holding hands, but after about 2 minutes while she was talking, FI kissed me and then pulled me closer, so we spent the whole time holding eachother closely. It was a little awkward, but comforting too. He got a bit teary, but we both maintained composure. I think I smiled the entire time.

We're married!!! FI and I booked this afternoon off to get married at City Hall. We decided it would just be easier getting the legal stuff done here in Canada before going to Mexico. We got there just in time to get the license and book time with a JOP (and find some random strangers for witnesses!)... our ceremony was at 4pm and lasted about 10-15 mins. It was a little stressful going to City Hall - we had to get FI's divorce certificate too as he had misplaced it. By the time we got to the right area for the marriage licenses we were both being funny (ya know when nerves are getting to you? - KWIM?) At one point, FI thought our number was called and rushed up to the desk and the woman says to us "So you're here to pay a parking ticket?" LOL! We were nuts. We wanted this to be a secret, so not even my coworkers know (some are invited to one of my showers) and we couldn't call friends or family to be our witnesses. So we went to the lobby to 'recruit' witnesses. After asking about 2 groups of people, FI noticed a group of younger girls (students) and went over to plead our case. Of course they all thought it was totally romantic and decided to come along for the ride! Without further ado, here are the pics! Here are the girls who were our witnesses! They were all nursing students. Here they are after watching us get married... We got to chat with them while waiting for the JOP to come and take us to the room. They were nice. They were all giggly and super cute about it. Talk about a story to tell for years to come! Here we are waiting for the JOP to be ready and take us to the room: Here's FI's boutonniere that I made before we left... I had bought some supplies to try to make my BMs hair flowers and decided to just test it out with a real flower i had at home. I think it turned out pretty cute!

FI and I just got married!!! We both booked the afternoon off today and went to the courthouse to do our legal ceremony before our 'real' wedding in Mexico. I'm going to go off and post a thread on it right now! I'm married!!! but it's a secret.... LOL!

Welcome, Sue! Where are you in Canada This is a great site. You'll get lots of great info on here!

Wowzers! Those are pretty amazing dresses!!! I love the 2nd dress in it's whiter incarnation...

Congratulations!!! Everything looks absolutely perfect!

OMG I love your dress!!! I love poufiness. I'm addicted to it. That's why I ended up getting a 2nd dress... I love my dress, but I could have gone with this one. Must - stop - looking - at - other - dresses!!! Veil: I'd actually go with a shorter veil about the length of the 2nd tier you have on there. A very full one though! Much more fun and sassy.

They're gorgeous! Really nicely done. Congrats on finding a great seller and your beautiful jewellery!

They are so fun and modern! You must be really happy

Quote: Originally Posted by Angela139 Kevs girl, I'm getting that dress too! I LOVE it. I'm going for a fuschia-type color, similar to the ones in the original post. No input from the bm's yet, but unless they HATE it, that's what it's going to be. I've heard that it works well for different figures, so here's hoping they love it! I was so relieved when both of my sisters (BMs) loved it! At that point I didn't care if they even liked it I got raspberry, I think. It's essentially fuschia. It's more fuschia than I thought it would be, but it's very nice! Quote: Originally Posted by latinalocany i love that dress! how much if you dont mind me asking? In the store they were asking $190 CDN. I ordered it online through magicmomentscollections and they were fabulous getting back to me. They're in the States and ship from the warehouse. Their online price was $116 US. It's Mori Lee Affairs 735.

Congratulations, Amanda!!! Can't wait to hear all about it!

Boo. I keep getting interested emails and then the person never responds...