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60 minute cardio class at the gym tonight...lunges galore!

Welcome Amanda! We're getting married in Punta Cana, but we were just in Maui in May and completely fell in love with it! Where in Maui are you getting married? If you're free Thursday evening you should come out for drinks with us!

BDW : planning

like spicy food?

Holly Hunter : Home for the Holidays

I love these! And they ship to Canada! Fantastic - thanks for the link

Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in - We're using Upon Our Star, which is a wish registry. We requested household and honeymoon 'wishes' for gifts. Was super easy to set up, and so far we have had lots of people get really excited about it! The fee is 3.5% plus a one-time $15 admin fee. Good luck!

It's beautiful!! I love the style! Congrats

Thanks everyone! Natalie - I will be there on Thursday! Can't wait!

Wow what a gorgeous dress! Can I ask how much it's costing you to have them made? I've been looking everywhere for BM dresses but I'm having absolutely no luck finding what I want! I'm thinking having them made might be my best option...

Lol very cute story! And Versailles is such a romantic place, congratulations!

Oh wow! That is such a romantic and cute proposal! Congrats and welcome to the forum

Amazing pictures! Wow! Congratulations!

We are doing teal as our main colour, with accents of purple, fushia, yellow and white. And our theme is really just tropical - we want the location to speak for itself

Welcome to the forum Terri! Enjoy helping your daughter plan

Congrats and welcome Vanessa! You've come to the right place to start planning!

Wow great job! Everything looks beautiful, I really love the aisle runner - how did you make that?

Congrats and welcome Sarah! You've come to the right place to start planning!

Welcome to the forum! This site has tons of great information and people, I'm sure it will be a huge help!

Congrats and welcome Julie! You've come to the right place to start planning!

Congratulations and welcome Steph! You've come to the right place to start planning

Wow I LOVE your Save the Dates! I love the front and the back, what a great idea!

Wow! What an amazing location, perfect backdrop for the TTD shoot! Thanks for sharing

Hi everyone! Well I went dress shopping on Friday and wanted to post a review of the shops I managed to hit in Calgary. It was a long, long day, somehow I thought we'd have all this spare time to drop in on other places but we really didn't! The great news is - I think I found my dress!! I found 2 that I LOVED, but I think one of them is more along the lines of what I imagine myself in at our wedding on the beach. I will see if I can post pictures in another post. Our first appointment was at The Bridal Centre, which I haven't heard very good things about. But I actually had a really good experience! It was fun to explain what I wanted and have someone pull a bunch of dress, plus the woman helping me had insanely fast fingers and trying on dresses with tie-up backs was a breeze. I found one dress that I liked, but didn't fall in love with. She gave me the price, designer, etc, so that I could look it up on my own. We weren't supposed to take pictures, but my mom snuck a few with her blackberry lol. We then went to Beautiful Bride which was fantastic! The girl helping us was so great, she pulled a bunch of dresses and asked what I thought and then just went from there. This is where I found 2 dresses that I completely fell in love with. I thought their dresses were a little...different, whereas at the first place they were a lot more traditional. We had great service, we took tons of pictures, and they were super patient. They are having a Stampede sale until the end of July too - 10% off your order. Not sure if they do promos often but good to know! We then grabbed lunch and hit The Parisian and Cameo & Cufflinks. We didn't have an appointment at The Parisian, and I'm glad we didn't. Their dress prices are great, quite low (lots under $1000), but I didn't really like very much. And the dresses I did like and tried on were more than twice my size so it was impossible to tell how they'd fit. Also the girl who helped lace me up into one dress took soooooo long it was unbearable. I didn't want her help at all after that! Cameo and Cufflinks was great, the service was awesome and they had lots of nice dresses and good price ranges. The only reason this appointment wasn't much fun was because we'd already found 2 phenomenal dresses earlier in the day and nothing compared! lol, not their fault! All in all it was a great day, no big complaints about any of the shops. I found 2 amazing dresses which is so exciting! We will go back in a couple weeks to try them on again, I can't wait! Oh - actually I will post links if you want to see the 2 dresses (I will try to post pictures too!). Ella - the one I think I will end up with: Ella Bridals Pattis - love it but not as beachy: http://pics.classifieds.weddingbee.c...ttis_Deion.jpg Sorry for the long review Sandy

Congrats and welcome Danielle! I'm getting married next May in Punta Cana as well. This site has been amazing for getting lots of ideas and advice - happy planning!