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Everything looks fabulous!! Have a wonderful vacation and wedding!

Very nice! I love the robes!!

Beautiful picture!

Our really good friend's baby girl is turning 1 years old the day before we all leave for our wedding trip. Any ideas for a special gift for a 1st birthday? Thanks for your input!

and congrats!

Amy this is fabulous! The kids will love it! I also can't wait to see your planning thread!

I can seriously still feel the sensation of the pain after reading your post! It's so achy and miserable. I read online that one of those doughnut pillows works well to sit on. I'm sure if you googled tail bone pain and pregnancy you would find more info. Good luck with everything!

That is so beautiful! I agree...I would totally buy one if you sold them! Great job!

Quote: Originally Posted by Cattie Don't feel bad. The way I see it is, they're already putting out x amount of dollars to come see us get married, we shouldn't occupy all of there time. It is a vacation also for them. I know most if not all of my guests are using this as there vacation for the year. Completely agree

That happened to me in 8th grade and it was horrible! I can totally relate. I remember having choir class and not being able to handle the sit/stand and sing part of the class. I remember being told by the doctor that it happens to girls at puberty and also can happen when you get pregnant. Any chance you are preggers? I read online that women in the first trimester can experience this. Some women say that it's the first pregnancy symptom for them. Just a thought for you. I hope you feel better soon!

This is so tough!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by *Casey* Well, you're a shoe in! Oh yeah, and I had to have them resend the confirmation too. Totally worth it though! Good luck Thank you! I'm sitting here with the window open hitting refresh every minute. I need to stop this at some point . If you hit refresh after 60 seconds it automatically submits another vote.

Woooohooo it's legal day!!! Congratulations !!!

Quote: Originally Posted by *Casey* Ok... finally got to vote! For some reason the confirmation e-mail went into my junk box. That pic of him is too much! I just want to squeeze him! Awwww thank you so much Casey! I love him so much and he is very squeezable! If you click "next" at the top of his page the next pic is of my pug girl. I decided it made more sense to campaign for one pic instead of both.

Thank you so much girls! The website has been a PIA. I was able to register easily, but my mom and FI had troubles. Hopefully it goes smoothly for you. FI didn't get a confirmation email and had to click "resend confirmation email".

Hmmmm, it's working for me. Maybe the site is busy. Thanks for trying!!!

Hello everyone! I recently entered my pug's photo in our local newspaper’s Cutest Canine Contest. The newspaper has received over 6,000 entries! Yikes! There will be three rounds of voting over the next month. The first round includes every single entry and will help to narrow the field significantly for the final two rounds. I think the only way for people to advance to the next round is by campaigning for votes from friends and family. I can't imagine the general public will sift through over 6,000 entries to find a few they like. I thought I would post the link to the contest and my pug photo. If you happen to like it and think it deserves a vote that would be amazing! The contest website says you can vote as much as you’d like (it seems like you can cast a new vote every 60 seconds!). Voting for this 1st round goes from December 29 – January 8. You do have to register for the newspaper’s website to be able to vote but it’s super easy to do so. The voting just opened today and I noticed one picture already has 225 votes! I don’t know how they did that?! Entry entitled “Puggy Loves the Sunshine” on page 410 last entry on the page #4920. Direct link to photo: Dog Photo Contest | StarTribune.com There are registration instructions included if you click the above link. Maybe a few of my fellow Minnesotans will already be registered users and able to vote? Thank you for your time and support!!! Andrea

We aren't doing any group excursions either. We told them we have only one requirement of their time during the vacation, and that's our wedding day! I'm sure some of them would have appreciated an organized event, but we decided against it.

It looks great! And if you don't get a lot of pieces you can pick them up over time.

Absolutely beautiful Casey! It fits you so perfectly! I think you could go either way with a brooch.

They haven't offered to pay for anything. It's a awkward situation because my parents have given us money and it would be extremely helpful if FI's would offer to pay for a part of it like the appetizer/cocktail reception or something. But it's too weird to ask them to give us money. I was hoping by now they would have mentioned it. Especially because 5 of our guests are really their guests.

I've been downloading a few over the past year to get ideas for our letter. We ended up creating a passport welcome book instead and actually just mailed them off yesterday. I still love the idea of a newsletter to send ahead of time or to put in their cabins on the first day of the cruise. I will attach the various newsletters that others have shared with me Okay, one attachment won't load for some reason. It's a save the week/save the date newsletter instead of a pre cruise newsletter. If you are interested PM me with your email address and I can try to send it that way.

Fabulous work Morgan! She's going to be so touched by your gift and all the work you put into it!

Hi Ashley! I'm Pug3636 from CC. Glad you figured out the posting thing!

Welcome fellow cruise bride!