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cheesy: smile

they look awesome, i love the colors!

they look nice, great job!

Thanks for the review Nina! Looks like you had a great time, congrats!

necklace: charm

Christina- You don't have to spend lots of cash on your formal invites. Like my STDs I'm DIYing them too. What I did was download a program called GIMP (it's like Adobe but free) and designed my STDs that way. Then when it got down to printing them I had FI sneak a few at a time printing them at his office's color printer haha! Do you have access to a printer at work or anything like that? Hope this helps!

i love your photos!! esp. the one with you being dunked haha looked like good times. Congrats!!

stomach: hungry

Taylorbride- I'm also having an AHR but haven't gotten anywhere near that topic in the planning yet. So far FI and I have thrown ideas at each other but we haven't had the time to do so. Good luck with that!! I'll need it soon Sperger- Yay for a date twins!! What dress and what color are your BM dresses? I'm on the same boat as Erin. I'm having my BM pick their dresses. All I ask is that they be in the same color and fabric. As for your honeymoon, are you looking for somewhere in DR? FI and I are having our honeymoon just 40miles south of our wedding resort. We figure it would be less cost effective and hardly any time wasted when leaving the wedding resort.

great job, these are really nice!

walk without tripping on my own feet: in new shoes

i sent an email to my bridal party to book by a certain date, lol. let's hope they can follow this one simple rule for me. on a different note, what are you guys doing for your formal invites? andrew and i are leaning toward something more elegant/formal than a destination theme (passports, beach, palm trees). we still have a lot of time before we send them out but we're also not trying to do it all in a 2 month span like the stds. i think i'm going to try and pace this one out. start with the design then the paper and etc. in two weeks we're going on a cruise to the eastern carribean after we return we plan on visiting places for the ahr. fi's dad wants something low-key but i totally want to do it big lol. not big as in decoration/centerpiece fancy but i do want to wear my dress again and have the bride/groom's first dance a second time. i really think there won't be much dancing in mexico since my group will be a small one, anyway. so anything to resemble a local wedding reception would be nice for the ahr, at a budget of course.

eight:thyme

new shoes: wish i had

haha, "I'm hurtin for a squirtin" I like that!

the weekend: finally!

Thanks guys! Yes it is a huge budget cut and I'm so happy I'm one of the lucky winners. For awhile I was stressing out about booking a photographer and now I'm really happy to say I don't have to lol.

I forgot to tell you guys, I won a photography package from Nora! I'm listed as winner #3 but I got bumped up to #2 because the other couple already booked a photographer. Free photography contest!! ** UPDATED Winners posted ** - Best Destination Wedding Forum Now I don't have to worry about booking a photographer, woo hoo!!

wings: redbull

Tina! Welcome back! I'm so glad you had such a great time, I can't wait for your review

s'mores: yummy!

I'm on my way out from work but I just wanted to stop by and say hi and congrats to all the new April 2010 brides, we're getting bigger and bigger! Kerbear- You already have 20 people booked? Good for you! I just sent my STDs, still waiting for people to pick up the phone and call my TA. Mandee- You must have a lot of patience to handmake photo albums for your girls. How are you doing it? Erin- the picture in my siggy was from Kauai. FI and I along with my brother and his then gf went last August. My brother has a pro camera, a nikon or something, and we all thought it would be a cute picture to take home with us for memories. It took him forever to set this shoot up, he was a noob then haha! but it came out great! I really think that this is our only normal picture of all the years we've been together. An engagement shoot is still needed, lol.

trees: autumn

Whoa, I don't check this for a few days and this is what happened! I've been so busy with work lately that I haven't had the time to sit and read. Anyway, welcome chevy, jojo, negrillb, bholthof, and tara. I'm so glad you guys joined this thread! It's incredible some of you already have guests booked, what a feat! Erin I saw both your bd pics and engagement pics, they're so nice. And you and your FI compliment each other so well! I can't wait to have my engagement pics done, lol if I ever get to them.

so sexy erin! i love the first pic, it's blurry but it adds a mysterious complex to it!! love your tats, esp the one on the side