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OOOH good call on the Joe Fresh!! I'll head there today!

My girlfriend and I always buddy up on orders from VS - it has to do with import taxes I guess. It's easier to swallow when I'm splitting the cost with someone!!

Thanks for the direction on the shoes, girls! I have my first fitting on thursday and I'm scrambling to find shoes as my original plan for shoes hasn't exactly worked out the way I wanted.

love the frames Tiera!! question for the Canadian brides...wedding shoes....where'd ya get em? I don't want to go with just flip flops (I'm a bit of a clutz and need something strapped to my foot - paricularly if I'll be having a few bevies) I'm leaning towards a gladiator style thong (around the ankle, between the toes) any thoughts as to where?

CUTE!

I'm sorry to hear that your FI's god family has been difficult. I can relate! But what I've had to remind myself and what I pass on to you is this is YOUR day - the one day you get to do whatever you want to do. Try and keep your head up and be positive and remember the reason you are going away - LOVE!

Beautiful!

My FI and I had been planning to get married for sometime before he actually proposed. He had been telling me for awhile that I would have to wait until Feb/Mar since the fall. We were going to see my family in the midwest for Christmas so we had decided that we would have "our" Christmas on Dec 20. He said that we should do something special on that evening before we open gifts, perhaps go to the restaurant we went to on our first date 3yrs ago, I thought it was a great idea. We had gone snowboarding a couple days before and we had talked about remembering when being kids, playing out side and being so cold then coming inside and having your mom make hot chocolate and snuggling under a blanket. At dinner he thought we should go for a walk in Stanley Park and get all cold and come home and make hot chocolate. I'm thinking he's crazy - it's windy, cold and possibly the rain is going to wreck the hour's work I spent on straightening my hair. He pipes up "I brought an umbella" - I laugh and tell him's thought of everything except for the stiletto's I'm wearing but I agree. Although, the entire night I'm thinking that it would be the perfect night to propose but he had been telling me that it would be at least a few months out I was pretty positive it wasn't happening. We drive to the park and find a clearing where we had a great view of Lionsgate Bridge and West Van - the wind is blowing all the hair in my face, I'm trying to keep balance in my stilettos on the grass and all of a sudden he says "I have a rock in my shoe" and I'm wondering why he's telling me that so I just say "I guess you should deal with it then". I'm trying to get my hair out of my face and he's still on his knees and I can't figure out what he's doing as it was SO dark. He calls my name and I turn to him and he's on his knee with an open ring box and asks me to marry him (It is SO dark that I think it's just a box - like in that scene in Knocked Up when Seth Rogen's character is sort of proposing to Catherine Heigl's character by saying "this box is a promise....") I don't really remember what happened next but apparently I was so suprised that I kept stepping back and he had to reach out and grab me as we were on a downwards slope and apparently I faltered a bit and if he didn't catch me, I would have landed in the ocean! He finally asks for my answer and I told him "of course" then he told me there's a ring too! It was pretty surreal and amazing It turns out he had been carrying the ring and the box around all night in his sock just praying that it wouldn't fall out!!!!

Our flights from Canada were about $900 all in.....hard one to swallow.

THey are lovely!

It looks amazing on you!

we decided against them - no particular reason. We're having a really small wedding so we figured either everyone or no one would be wearing corsages

That's SO awesome!!! yay!

Lovely!

I love orange so I'm more drawn to the orange ones. I think the wording is great! We used the whole "is finally getting married" on our STD's as well! GREAT JOB!

I'd like to know as well! Please and thank you!

I'm sure you ladies can relate to frazzled emotions with a month or so to go until the big day. I just spoke with my sister and asked her what the heck was wrong with me. I'm not like this...I roll with punches and am pretty easy going and I'm just kind of laughing at myself for being so hyped up over this. Basically - I want my parents there regardless if they give me $$ or not. I wrote my post in the heat of the moment and maybe that's exactly what I needed to do. I guess I hit my boiling point with all the weird family drama that all the DW drama brings which I KNOW every single one of you have experienced. Such is life and regardless of the dolla dolla bills....it's a day about love that I am experiencing with those closest to me and at the end of the day - that is priceless

I want to thank you ladies for your honest opinions and I think it's rad! I do feel better after sleeping on it....

We said the same thing that C&J said to their parents. They insisted and said "let us do this" so I did. I budgeted the amount they initially told us they would give. Now it's been changed. Don't get me wrong, I am totally grateful that they are contributing. But I think they perhaps shouldn't have told me one thing and then another. I know it makes me sound like I'm horrible daughter. I'm not.

Ha - I just feel so......dejected right now - trying to stay positive but I'm feeling pretty low. I have 2 (younger) sisters that married before me and my parents paid for a portion of their weddings. My parents said they were going to give us a certain amount for our wedding. I've come to find out that we have only received a quarter of what they initially were going to give us because they're using the other 3/4 of the money to pay for themselves to come to our wedding. so essentially I'm paying for my own parents to come to my own wedding. I know it sounds like it's about the $$ but it's not - it's the princple behind it. it's taking everything in me right now to call and tell my parents not to come

Looks awesome!

I should mention that when I talk about my "mom" it's my step mom - not to confuse anyone.

SO SO SO special My mother past away years ago and I have her ringn which I wear everyday with 2 silver bands on either side, then I have her mother's (my nan's) engagement ring as well as I'm going to borrow my OTHER grandmother's engagement ring to wear on my wedding day.

Well - my parents always knew that IF I got married it would be non-traditional and on a beach. My parents weren't expecting the costs associated with it. However - that being said - they insisted that we DID NOT go to Mexico with all the nonsense that is going on down there. The thing is, from what we found, Mexico was the cheapest and my FI absolutely did not want to get married down there so we chose the Dominican. Now my FI's family is a different story. Horrible from day 1 - they knew what we wanted before we got engaged. When we called his parents to tell them that we were finally engaged the first thing out of his mom's mouth was "you have to tell me when you're planning on doing this as some of us have to take time off work you know" - no congrats or anything - THEN his dad insisted he wasn't going to attend. It took 2 months for his dad to finally agree to come. The rest of my FI's family were pretty ridiculous about the whole thing - I got to the point where I wanted to just tell people to just tell us they couldn't make it and stop telling me how expensive it was. My mom started on the "too much money" train about a month and a half ago as well. I quietly told her that if she didn't think she could make it work financially, then she didn't have to come. This comment actually infuriated me because if I wasn't going to get married in April, she was going to go to Australia for 3 weeks with her friends which 1. the flight is pretty much the same cost as the entire trip to DR 2. I don't think she realizes that hotels are so expensive over there 3. food prices really high. None of my friends are coming which really sucks but it's the way it goes. I really didn't expect the pushback we received from our families in particular. We'd told everyone a year and a half ago what our plans were altho nothing was official yet and to start saving their pennies and everyone was really excited but when push comes to shove - no one came thru. Our wedding guests consist of immediate family and my FI's best friend. We wanted a small wedding so this is fine with us however I didn't appreciate the negativity. Bottom line is that we wanted to go to an unreal location and stay and a nice place - none of our guests are paying over $2k each which was what we wanted. It's our wedding and we wanted a little luxury - and I'm not kidding when I say this...in hindsight...we should have ELOPED You're not alone!

SO FUN!!! I loved looking at your pictures.