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Quote: Originally Posted by doblauvelt I'll take them Shannon! I'll send ya a pm!!! Quote: Originally Posted by caribbeanLover Quote: Originally Posted by shan13 Thank you so much for sharing you e-shoots. They turned out amazing!!! and your FI B really does look like his having fun, enjoying himself. Hope my FI can do the same. We are the same type of couple, very casual, nothing fancy. I think I may just pick up a new top to go with a pair of jeans, and will get Mike to put on a plain black button shirt with jeans. BTW, LOVE the boots!!! Thanks again for sharing!!! That's the way to go...we had on new stuff in the orange and the black/grey were items we already had..we just wanted to be ourselves..we are beer dranking, have fun type of folks..ya know what I mean...I wanted us to be reflected..not some image..oh the boots came from Burlington..lol!!! Quote: Originally Posted by jerseykitten Love the pictures - the ones in the trees are awesome - i love your boots and your eye makeup looks fantastic!!! Thanks..girl we "borrowed" that pose from someone else & he took it to a whole other level..lol!!! Thanks for the comps...guess all the late night makeup vids on youtube are paying off..lol!!! Quote: Originally Posted by KPETT10 Hi girls! I am getting married on April 10, 2010 as well Yay now I am a date triplet!!!! Welcome!!! Suzy I hope all you guys get to feeling better!! It's a bummer to be sick and tryin to do a zillion other things at once. My daughter turned 17 on Saturday so I had been MIA trying to handle her & her friends and b-day dinner and stuff..that's done...ladies we don't have long..once we get through the holidays..it's on!!!!!!

Very nice!

Quote: Originally Posted by Jennywong LOL i m getting married april 2010 too! congrates! Welcome and congrats!!!! Have you decided on a date? About the dress issue...I did get the "feeling" but I did think my first one was the one..but I went looking some more and found the one that suited my personality..and it made me dance!! If anybody wants to do Tears of Joy Packets...please let me know..I got some from Moepeedy and don't need them...it's the glassine envelopes and Tears of Joy labels..not looking for any money just don't want them to go to waste...

Thanks everybody!! We enjoyed them..Brian was so much fun...Ms. Gloria(photog) has even called to "check" on him...lol!!!! Quote: Originally Posted by alkoch You guys look great congrats! We just did ours and I can't wait to see them!! I like your studio session too - our photog suggested we do one and your pics make me want to do it now! Oh you should...our studio session was first..then we changed and went outside...all pics taken were on photogs property...and it took about 2-2 1/2 hours...

Well Brian & I took our epics and this is the result!! I loved our photographer..Ms. Gloria was awesome to work with and let us be ourselves!! Engagement - Smith & Parker

Natasha~..u & my cousin are name twins..love it!!! Thanks for the comps on the pics...she has added so many more and called last night to see how we liked them and told us she had mailed our discs out already!!!! Now Brian was a HAM..LOL!!! He had fun though!!! Meghan...I love the centerpiece..it is gonna be beautiful..sucks how much the lights were but I like the look you are going for!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by tim-juleswed Well hello April 2010 brides! I am very new to BDW and so far I'm loving it. I only got engaged just over 3 weeks ago. Since then we have booked the resort in Jamaica and the wedding is set for April 1, 2010! April Fools day has always been "our" day so we thought is was fitting. Today was the first day people were able to contact the TA and apparently we have had almost 18 people book so far. Yay! We are expecting about 40 people or so. The STD's went out and through an E-vite with the TA info and so far so good. I am 5 1/2 months away, no dress or shoes or anything but I'm not stressing oddly enough. LOL I think I'll wait for all of that until the new year. Right now once we have final numbers from the TA I will start the DIY invitations. There was some pretty good ideas on other forums here that I have made note of so I'm pretty excited. After the invitations go out in mid to late November I will breath easy. Booking the place was the hard part. But so far everything is coming together! Welcome to the site and the April 2010 thread..the ladies here are awesome!!! Can't wait to hear/read some of your details!!! Tracy I like the postcard...you did an awesome job...can you do mine for our AHR...lol...I am so not a computer saavvy chic...lmao!!! I love them!!! Suzy..thanks...I just saw them a little while ago and have been cheesing...just wish I would have worn my Spanx..lol..but all in all they are nice!!!! Mel...thankfully she was really good as far as my pkg...and she is doing our e-pics, my BD shoot & AHR...so we get all our pics on disc of course, photog copyright release & 2 storybooks which she makes..one will be my BD book for him, the other is a combo of e-pics,pics from Vegas & AHR...

Meghan...sorry about the lights..but I am totally with Suzy on emailing the guests...or we can hire Guido and nem to pay this company a visit...I'm just saying!!! I am sure the centerpiece will be fab!!! I like the dress idea as well..but you know after drinking for a while they would all look the same to me..lol!!! Erin..sounds like you will be having lots of fun and can you fedex me a piece of cake?..oh wait I am dieting...oh well just tell me what flavor and I can imagine how good it would taste..lol..can ya tell I am hungry!!!!! Suzy...cute story and I love Martes name!!!! My kids names came from whatever was going on at the time..but I did stick will all C's!!! Soooooooo our e-pics are up on our photogs website and here is the link and info how to get to them.... When you open the link..go to Client viewing on right side Once that opens you should see another page that says welcome Go to page 2 & look for engagement smith/parker Click on the box and you should see them…if not call me Brides In Bloom Photography

Quote: Originally Posted by SuzyQ76 I LOVE your logo too Shannon! Did you make yours? Everyone is so talented.... ) Thanks!!! Girl heck no....mine was done by an Etsy vendor...DesignsMadeEasy...if not right it's posted in the share your Etsy finds or I can get the info..she did a poker chip for me as well...

Thanks for the idea and info...I love these...might have to "borrow" for our AHR!!! Great job!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by harv0136 I am also having a pretty formal AHR at a golf course near my place w/about 200 guests. We only have about 30 guests coming to our wedding (sibling, parents and close friends). None of our other family members are going which is the main reason we're having this. Plus, it's like having 2 weddings!! We're doing cocktail hour w/apps, sit down dinner, DJ and the works. The wedding party will be wearing their attire and I'll hire a photographer for a few hours. We aren't having a DJ for our wedding in Mexico...just an ipod. We still plan on doing a first dance and father/daughter in Mexico. For those of you having big AHR....are you planning on repeating the whole first dance thing I won't do the bouquet toss, etc. but thought it would be nice to do the dance again. What is everyone else doing? Thanks! Well in my case it's just my FI & I going to Vegas..so we will probably do a first dance..and since my Dad is deceased..B can probably do a mother/son dance if he wants but I do plan to do a bouquet/garter toss only because we won't be doing any of that stuff in Vegas.

Well thankfully I found us what I think are great rates on Southwest 91bucks each for one of us...so I am happy plus I prefer Southwest since they don't charge for luggage and date changes...we're happy!! Oh our wedding is in April..

Michele~ I love this thread as well..I was hanging out in the Vegas thread but nothing was poppin there...I love the April Brides!!! Kim~thanks girl 150 I know right...I am finally not a noob anymore!!! Dallasbride~will your guests be able to attend with short notice or is that not an issue? it's close to the holidays & we are still in a recession..so that might be something to consider..try getting the venue first and some prices and you should be able to pull it off...GL!! Stacey~if your cool w/off the rack then you should be ok..sometime it takes longer to order but have u been looking at any pics or magazines to get an idea of what kind/style of dress you want? I know that really helped me..GL!!

Michele..sound like you got a good TA..willing to help take some of that load off...and she will make the resort sound so wonderful which I am sure will get folks thinking and booking!!! Erin..I am serious..u know they say when snakes roll around in a ball their mating..in our case we are just fighting for space in the bed..lmao!!! It's all Suzy's fault because she got us started on the bed issue but that is one of the reasons I want to spend the night apart..

Congratulations! Your baby girl is beautiful and you were a beautiful bride!! It will be only my FI & I going to Vegas for our wedding...was your husband still surprised after helping you get dressed?

Quote: Originally Posted by shortnsweet7675 I just had to share… I got 4 more RSVP postcards in the mail today, so that makes 13. Yay! Just waiting for 39 more! My RSVP deadline (preliminary RSVP) is November 6th. So, for now I have 11 sailing and 9 non-sailing guests for my cruise wedding. Yay for getting more RSVP's!!!! Quote: Originally Posted by shortnsweet7675 Congrats on making over 150 posts! I saw a thread yesterday with photos of a wedding where there was only the bride, groom, their child, and the bride’s parents (I think). This is the link to the thread http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...g-photo-50655/. She had a link to her wedding photos in her post. Some of the photos showed her husband-to-be helping her get ready. I’m not sure if that is something you would consider. I know I want to do the tradition of not sleeping together the night before the wedding, but I don’t know if we can avoid seeing each other the day of the wedding before the ceremony. Since we will be doing a cruise wedding, it will be difficult to avoid seeing each other in the port. But, I definitely don’t want my FI to see me in my full wedding attire until I am walking down the aisle. If I were you, I would move your ceremony up earlier in the day if it is just the two of you. That gives you more time to spend together after the ceremony. Just think of all the anticipation you will be feeling while waiting for 5:30 to roll around. Thanks for the idea & info...I am really thinking of moving it up...I have 2 rooms...one is the stripview for our wedding night..I planned on fixing that one special for our wedding night..will just play it by ear..like most of you we live together neway..so maybe we could part ways on that Saturday morning... Quote: Originally Posted by Melidell I think we're going to spend the night together the night before the wedding. I like the tradition of sleeping separately but we've been living together for so long now that neither of us sleep that well without the other and I want us to get lots of rest for the big day. I really don't want him to see me in my dress or anything until I get down the aisle, though! He hasn't seen my dress, either, not even a pic so it'll be a nice surprise. EXACTLY!!! My dress is over B's mom house..he hasn't seen it or knows it's there. Quote: Originally Posted by SuzyQ76 I am sooooooo kicking his butt out of our room the night before nuptials! and mostly not because of tradition, although I'm looking forward to the anticipation of not seeing him until the ceremony...because we ALWAYS see eachother lol It's mostly because I can't bloody wait to have a King Size bed all to myself!! My FI's a crowder, roller, sleep talking hugger and I'm a need space and need to be able to breath sleeper - So the night before my wedding may just be the best nights sleep I'll ever get for the rest of my life, lol!! Oh yeah - getting rid of the kid for the night too, gotta love Grandparents!! lol OH I can't wait for a little slice of HEAVEN!!! OKKKKAAAAYYYYY!!! We have a queen bed at home and Brian is always under me...I am constantly pushing him back on his side..lol..and we are both tall he is 6'5..i'm 5'11 we just a rolling around hot mess..like some alligators or snakes or something..lmao!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by ashly87 We'll be having a formal AHR also. It's going to be the exact same reception back home that we would have had if we had gotten married there, complete with decorations,dinner, drinks, cake, dancing, etc. I'm even going to wear my dress and the wedding party will be in their wedding attire as well. We'll also show our wedding video from the DW as well as pictures. Only about 20-30 people will be coming to the DW and about 300 will be at the AHR. My FI family are Catholics so they were kind of weary at first about us not being married in a church with all of our family there so we made a deal that we'd have a big reception back home afterwords for everyone who couldn't make it. I love the fact that we get to keep celebrating the wedding even when we get back! I'm trying to make it as DIY as possible to save money because we really want to buy a house soon after the wedding! We also lucked out because there is a restaurant nearby our AHR venue that caters delicious food for extremely cheap! We are doing the same...only my supv caters weddings and makes really good food and we are using a legion hall & I am doing my centerpieces. We have decided on just the 2 of us going to Vegas..so I only have had to worry about us and our arrangements which is done.... I am Diy'ng my centerpieces, already contacted Mrs. Field's for my cookie buffet and picked my favors..put deposit down on venus already as well. It was easier for my family to come here where I live..and I am thinking of having a little mixer at the bowling alley or something for our family that is coming from oot...most will be meeting for the first time.

Quote: Originally Posted by SuzyQ76 Shannon!! you're soooo close to 150!! Hehehehe I know right!!

Kimmy yep I will be alone...didn't think of it the way you did as far as all day by myself...I am still considering moving it up though...and I really wanted us to do couples massages...after talking to Rhonda my WC I do get use of the bridal suite and they will take photos then as well... We live together but I think I am a bit superstitious because my first husband and I slept together the night before and didn't last 6mnth after being together 7yrs..go figure..I am def for moving it up... I guess if we don't move the wedding up we could do individual spa visits

Mel & Tracy..yep I am all for not sleeping together the night before the wedding...he doesn't know it yet but I am gonna be holding out all week anyway..lol!!! Mel I already told him we are wearing our attire at the ahr also!!! I just spoke w/my coordinator and we still get to have the candlelit ceremony..which was a big issue for me..I am gonna keep the 5:30 slot..still going back & forth about having it on the net..I mean it's a Saturday 2hrs behind where I live..not sure many folks will be tuning in and I am purchasing a dvd of the ceremony for the ahr..so she says we have the option to have the minister turn it off...hmm just not sure.... I don't know what we are gonna do about the men waiting until the last minute..and men's wearhouse is having a sale and I found a nice linen suit for Brian..now just getting him to go get measured.....

Erin & Meghan..thanks for your thoughts....I really want shots on the strip more than getting ready...I also purchased a pic pkg for the venue...I just didn't want us to look goofy (lack of better word) with it just being us two. I had already reserved a seperate room for me to get ready in so I can just sleep there as well. Also our wedding is @ 530p and I am seriously thinking of changing the time to be a bit more early. But I am gonna keep on my dress all day..hehe..and maybe considering changing later in the evening.

Morning ladies..hope all is well with you guys..now why did I see the Tungsten rings in Wally World yesterday I am still gonna go with the site recommended here but I thought that odd...or is this common? I have some issues..beware might be long but thoughts are appreciated. My original wed date was in June but we had to change due to my vac schedule and the fact we pick in seniority order...we had invited folks to go with us but opted to change that since we changed the date to April and most folk's kids would still be in school and told them we will party at the AHR we are planning. There was still one couple that was gonna go with us in April and now they have opted not to go...leaving it just Brian & I (which is what B wanted). I still plan to wear my dress, jewelry, all that and Brian his outifit. Here is my dilemma: should I have photog do any getting ready shots since it will be just me or just keep him for our shots on the strip? (we had to get an outside photog since venue doesn't allow them) B & I were gonna sleep in separate rooms the night before..should we still because I don't want him to see me until the wedding time. will we look stupid going by ourselves? Erin don't feel bad B is the same way...why rush when we have a minute...no we really don't...

Tracy~thanks! I think they are gonna be so fly..I am not gonna do a necklace cause the earrings are enough bling... Erin~I like the Tun bands..and the black ones are really nice...how neat is that your mom still has her garter!!! mine went to JOP...so no olds for me... now that BOUQUET is gonna be gorgeous...it is gonna be so pretty..I love it...can't wait to see the finished product.. hope the dreams don't get worse b4 we get to Vegas..lol!!

Natasha~thanks I am so excited!!! I wish she would give us some teasers already!!! Hey everybody not much on my home front. I feel you guys about being organized...I have been dreaming that I am gonna forget something when it's time to pack..eeek!! I am thinking of getting Brian a Tungesten band because he is not flashy and doesn't want diamonds or anything in his band..so I am gonna try to get him to look a them tonight so I can get to ordering..since my set came with a band already..although he hid it from me so I can't play with it..lol! I am thinking of using an Etsy vendor for my bc veil...not sure another girl ordered hers from another site and it was pretty too... I am getting these earrings... and this bracelet