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Sorry for the delay this week, I'll have the results up tomorrow! I had a lovely weekend filled with delicious food... chocolate, strawberries, and red wine... but I was back on track today and hopefully I'll make up for it by the end of the week.

WEIGH-IN DAY!!! Yes, today is indeed weigh-in day! I know, it comes so quickly... Just a heads up that I will be away this weekend and probably won't post the results until Sunday evening. Happy Friday everyone!

Cindy and Natasha -- you guys are awesome! Perhaps I can cheer you on from the sidelines, hehe. I've never tried to run really... maybe one of these days. I hope everyone is having a good week! I know I am going to be a little bad this weekend... I booked a little romantic getaway for me and FI at Niagara on the Lake (complete with winery tours & the theatre festival here in Ontario). It's been a crazy work week so I'm really looking forward to the break.

Quote: Originally Posted by Vintage Bride Hi Renee, Try this link Elegant Perspectives - Wholesale Wedding Decor: satin sashes, bows, chair covers, tablecloth, tablerunners, etc. - Canada & USA They are based out of wasaga beach area and have chair sashes for around a dollar a sash. Awesome, thanks so much!

Quote: Originally Posted by MexicoBeachBride2010 Hey everyone, I leave in 2 days for my wedding and I will definitely post a review when I come home. I am having my wedding on the colonial side and doing a 2nd week at the elegance club. Let me know if you have any questions and I can try to get them answered for you too. I can't believe a year has come and gone. Time flies! Congrats and good luck planning, your day will be here before you know it. As for times, we are doing ours at 4pm. We are having a symbolic ceremony with Pastor York and doing a first look moment and pictures before with Phil Steingard. I can't wait to meet both of them! We also booked Diego from Brightlights for our video. Yay, that is so exciting!! Please do give us all the details when you get back. Have a fabulous time!

60 min on the elliptical

My ceremony is at 3PM -- I didn't even realize that they had specific times. So we finally decided for sure to book the Presidential Suite! I sent the deposit in today for it... I'm so excited!!

Quote: Originally Posted by SouthernSweetie How soon before departing for the wedding would you ladies recommend having this done? If your nails are short like mine were, you might want to get them done for the first time 3 weeks before you leave. After the 3 weeks, you can go for the refill before you leave and then they should be long enough to do the french manicure, but still not be too long to drive you crazy.

Ugggggh... I had a bad day today. I stayed up late lastnight preparing for this meeting, and then I was at this conference all day with the coffee and the cookies and the muffins.... I just didn't have the energy to fight it all. At least the meeting ends early tomorrow, so I can get out of there before it's too late!

Quote: Originally Posted by LilRebel Still trying to catch up with Phil to see if I can get him to be my Photographer. Don't even know who we will be inviting yet either...seems that my wedding is in the last place in all the other priorities right now. Terrible! Hey LilRebel, I just got a message from Phil last week -- he's been in Punta Cana for a while, flew back for this weekend, and I believe went back to the Majestic today. He also had a death in his family recently, so all of these things may have delayed him getting back to you. I've found he responds most quickly on facebook. You can find him through the Majestic Brides group: Welcome to Facebook | Facebook Hope this helps. Good luck!

I don't think 1 year is too early for save the dates. Ideally, you want to give your guests a good amount of time to save up! A few of our friends may have already planned their winter vacations if we didn't give them lots of lead time. And wow, the time does fly...

Looks great, Sarah! Although, I must say you look almost as good with no make-up, you lucky girl. I haven't tried MAC make-up much at all, but I'm a huge fan of the Smashbox primer. Thanks for the tips, especially the colour selections!

Quote: Originally Posted by Sapphire723 So, I yelled at FI today and cried. I wanted to grab some food, because I still hadn't gotten groceries, and he insinuated that I could have fit it in when I was on the couch and watching tv (I was actually grading papers with the TV on in the background, which was at a time where the local grocery stores were closed, and I'd have to drive a little ways to find a 24 hour one). I pretty much lost it and said "OR you could have picked up something healthy for me to eat on your day off when you went grocery shopping for non-healthy food and played video games all day! That would have been nice!" We talked it out and made up, but man was I upset! Ah LeAnne, that is really frustrating! Glad you made up, but I know how tough it can be sometimes to find the time and energy to get groceries, make healthy dinners, and think of FI as well. I would love for FI to make dinner sometimes, but his idea of dinner would be like hot dogs and pita bread with ketchup (ewww), so I end up doing most of the cooking. My guy is awesome, but he doesn't really think ahead about healthy dinners or getting groceries. Anyways, I hope you finished all of your marking and found something decent to eat!

Quote: Originally Posted by sungoddess_08 I am trying to find these in my area - but it seems like no one does them. Do they really work? What would I ask for when I call the salon? (is this the only name)? Thansk! Hey Sungoddess, the ones I got are called BioGel. They seem to do the same thing (I posted a pic a couple of pages back). Good luck!

50 min on the elliptical and 100 crunches.

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WEEK 4 RESULTS: bikegirl/Lindsay: +1.99% chipolte99: +0.41% Cindy*: -0.50% elifrigo/Eliana: -0.66% Hunniebee724: --- jamk32179: --- jennypenny23/Jenny: -1.76% LadyTrunck/Jannae: -1.96% Leez309: -1.11% Mere/Meredith: -0.32% Mischaka: 0.00% mnh1983: 0.00% nsbride2010/Natasha: -1.86% pamphilia/Pam: -0.41% Sapphire723/LeAnne: -1.34% SheriB: -0.69% Stachr/Stacey: -0.28% sunstarmoon: -0.56% Tifany: +1.23% Vallarta_2009/Heather: -0.91% Non-competing category: Oryx/Renée: -0.12% Total pounds lost this week: 14.4! Total lost to date: 70.3!! And our winner for this week is.... LadyTrunck/Jannae!!! A lot of challenges this week, but we're still sticking with it -- great job ladies. And congrats to Jannae! P.S. If you are running late, you can still send me your picture anyways. If I haven't posted yet, then maybe I can still get you in for the week. And if not, then at least I can record you for the following week.

Quick question about the OOT bags -- are you giving one to every guest, or one per couple?

Quote: Originally Posted by keight I too plan on getting married in Punta Cana during the last week of February 2011. That's about all I've decided, YIKES! Do most people pick a wedding date on the weekend or does it really matter with a destination wedding? I was already feeling overwhelmed about picking a resort and actually setting a date. Now seeing how far along everybody's plans are I know I better light a fire under my butt! I'm wondering if everything will be booked up and I'm leaving this too late, any suggestions!? There was actually a poll on this, and Saturday was the most popular day: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/fo...married-46453/ I'm getting married on a Thursday though, because most of my guests will be travelling from Sunday - Sunday, so any day of the week would have worked. If you do choose your resort, why not see what days they have available and go from there?

Quote: Originally Posted by jennypenny23 Good morning ladies! The scale showed a small loss this week but the best part is my BMI... Im finally out of the "Overweight" category (barely...but it still counts!!) I've been doing my best to get my lazy butt to the gym this week. I hope everyone has a good friday!! TFIF!!!!! lol Congrats Jenny, that's awesome!

WEIGH-IN DAY!!! Good morning ladies, it's Friday and you know what that means.... please get your pictures to me today, or tomorrow morning by 12:00 PM EST. I thought I had a decent week, but work has been super busy and I didn't get to the gym/yoga as much as I had wanted. Looks like I stayed about the same this week. I hope everyone else had a good (or at least decent) week!

Glad to hear you are doing alright, Heather. How is everyone else doing? I had a pretty good week. Mostly ate low carb -- only one lunch that I couldn't resist sushi. But as far as cheating goes, I wouldn't say that was too bad. Hope everyone else is doing well. Weigh-in day tomorrow!!!

Hello Maggie brides, I just tried on the Alexandria and loooooved it! I think I may have found THE ONE! Alexandria - by Maggie Sottero It's funny that what I thought would look good did not look great on me at all... all those flowy chiffon destination gowns just did nothing for my shape. Love the Alexandria!

Majestic Colonial, Punta Cana

Hi ladies! I just went dress shopping today and I think I found THE ONE! I am so excited, everything is starting to feel so real.... Jessicad -- sorry, I don't know much about that resort, but hopefully you can find more info here in the DR section. jhartford19 -- the coordinator at the Majestic told me that the judge books one year in advance (February 2010 for February 2011). She also told me that the judge may change the date/time even after booking... we decided to go with the symbolic ceremony in the end because it just made things so much easier. And hey YIweddings! Don't lose hope... I hope your next experience is better. And it's funny with dress shopping -- what I thought I wanted was not what really looked good on me. But I just tried everything on that the salesperson suggested and I fell in love! Please let us know how your next trip goes