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It is so true that I wish I could be on here more, but things are getting crazy. I cried half the day yesterday. My best friend told me her soon-to-be ex husband burnt her passport!!!! We leave in 6 days. Ummmm freaking out. I care more about her coming than my own mother! She ran around all day to get the stuff she needs. She is planning on driving to Washington DC on Friday (from Pittsburgh) to try and get an emergency replacement. All I can do at this point is jope for the best : /

congrats!!!!!

I just got the call that my BD pics are done. I have been trying to find an album for a while now. No luck really. Let me know if you find something great please!!!!

Thanks Leigh!!!! Hope everything goes even better than you had planned. Have a beautiful and memorable wedding

Hey Carly! I just wanted to say hi : ) I am about 14 weeks now, and I am nine days away from flying out. I would love to stay up even later to read all this and share a little about myself but wedding DIY projects are still calling. I really look forward to coming back and talking more as soon as I get back!!! Hope you are feeling good

I looooove the way crystals look in bouquets. You could always give it a try. Looks good so far!

ahhh Pucca.....could you possibly take anything else on? You make me feel like a bum. haha No seriously though, I hope you can get excited soon. Just remember what all your hard work is for : ) Thanks for the pics Leigh.....Heaven!!!!!! oh and the playlist. Packing, packing, packing, ughhh I felt like I got some stuff done during the day yesterday. It felt great to pack up all the decor for the AHR (there is alot). It's so nice to have it all sitting by the door ready to go when I get home. I am doing mostly all the decorating myself (I am anal and have a certain way I picture things). I will pretty much only have two days. We get home the 16th and the AHR is the 19th. So i am getting anxious about the million and one things I will have to get done during that time. I am just trying to be as prepared as i can be now. My FI started packing all his stuff last night while I laid on the couch feeling horrible. He tried on his ceremony outfit again which got me really excited, but also got me thinking..... For the ceremony I will be barefoot adorned with red-i by chelsea jewels(FI has no clue about this). We got him some nice shoes for the ceremony a while back that match well and look great when considering just his outfit. I don't know if it will seem weird with him wearing shoes and me being barefoot. Neither one of us really like his outfit as much with the flip-flops. I don't want to tell him I will be barefoot so I can't ask what he thinks about it. What do you ladies think? BTW I slept from about 9 last night to about noon. Thank God I work for my FI cuz I woke up feeling just as terrible. I canceled my final dress fitting today : ( Hopefully i will be feeling better by wed. so I can go then Trying to stay positive and excited!!!

oh wow. The starfish are intended to be hairpins. I don't know why i thought the jewels were glued, the pins make so much more sense. I'm glad i asked!!!! Thanks for the link. I think i might have to make some myself if i can't find them in a store. TIME CRUNCH!!!!

I still have not decided on what I'll do for the ceremony in Jamaica. I think I am just going to take them a couple pics of what I don't like and give them a few guidelines. Hopefully what they come up with makes me want to cry (in a good way of course). I finally found a pic I love for AHR. My dress for home has a red sash. I really love the look of black beauty roses. I hope my florist can glue the gems in like that. Does anyone have advice for that? I don't know if she has done it before or not. My FI also got me these starfish to stick in there. I ordered something like these gems wrapped around the stems from save-on-crafts.com. It was way more than i should have paid for it, but I could not find what I wanted in the craft store. Plus, I can use it for Jamaica and AHR. I love it! I'm so glad I have a little direction now

Thank you. I have been trying to do just that. ah u poor thing. Please spare the kittens!!! j/k The construction alone would make me want to kill someone. I hope you guys get your alone time soon. Before the wedding?....hopefully!!

If no one here has anything I know some brides have gotten really cute ones from ETSY.

Good luck!!!!! I know i should just stop and take care of myself ,but it is so hard. I don't even have shoes yet!!!! I ran around all day yesterday and have no clue how i managed it. I am pretty sure I am skipping the Halloween parties tonight though : ( Thank you for the good thoughts!!!!! Oh BTW FI is really good with helping with little projects and stuff. He is scared to help me sometimes though cuz i am a perfectionist and i yelled at him for putting the stickers on our invites crooked. He knows can can only do the preliminary helping. haha

11 days away from flying out and I am still so sick. I have so much to do and all I really want to do is lay in bed. ugggghhh

Initially I wanted to do a message in a bottle invite to a welcome cocktail hour. The idea just evolved into doing it as the welcome letter instead because I wanted to have as few scheduled things as possible. I just wanted our guests to do what they want when they want. It's our wedding, but their vacation! The wording: The wait is finally over! We made it to sun, fun and relaxation…. Welcome to beautiful Jamaica! We are both so happy and are especially honored that you have traveled so far to be part of our wedding celebration. There are no words to describe how much it means to us that you would take the time and expense to be here with us during this exciting time in our lives. Please join us for dinner at Platinum restaurant Thursday at seven thirty. We will join hands in marriage Friday at four. Following the ceremony, we invite everyone to join us off the resort for sunset pictures and dinner. We look forward to spending the next few days with you, and hope this time will be as memorable for you as it will be for us! So put your feet up, enjoy and don’t forget your sunscreen!! With love, Casey and Brian PS Please enjoy the “goodies†inside this welcome bag. They are just a small token of our appreciation! I found some cool parchment paper at a local store for 10 cents a page then burnt the edges. Sorry its blurry. My phone is the worst. I found glass bottles at Micheal's for $1.50 (I think that was the price) with a cork stopper. I really wanted glass over plastic so I loooove these. Then I decorated them with some material that was actually used as decor on one of our wedding gifts. I had to tape the letter together after rolling so the letter would come back out. Thank God I had an extra one cuz I got one stuck in one of the bottles. Our welcome letter!!! I could not be any happier....I am so not the DIY type, but this wedding may have transformed me. I'm so glad I pulled this off!

I used many different welcome letters from this thread for inspiration. Our welcome letter is a combination of those plus my FI's input as well as my own. The wait is finally over! We made it to sun, fun and relaxation…. Welcome to beautiful Jamaica! We are both so happy and are especially honored that you have traveled so far to be part of our wedding celebration. There are no words to describe how much it means to us that you would take the time and expense to be here with us during this exciting time in our lives. Please join us for dinner at Platinum restaurant Thursday at seven thirty. We will join hands in marriage Friday at four. Following the ceremony, we invite everyone to join us off the resort for sunset pictures and dinner. We look forward to spending the next few days with you, and hope this time will be as memorable for you as it will be for us! So put your feet up, enjoy and don’t forget your sunscreen!! With love, Casey and Brian PS Please enjoy the “goodies†inside this welcome bag. They are just a small token of our appreciation! Sorry it's a little blurry my phone does not take the best pics : (

I am so excited! I finally figured out how to get the pics from phone to computer : ) The way that the escort tags turned out could not be any better! I was stressed out for a minute if I was going to be able to get them done or not, but once I started I finished over 100 in two days (most in one night). My dad finished the tray for them and I love that too. I found a cool looking piece of wood in his garage I liked for the sides and the bottom is just plywood from home depot. I ordered the fish net from save-on-crafts.com. I think I might wrap it around the sides once the tray is filled with sand. I feel an amazing sense of accomplishment

Thank you~! Still a work in progress. I think my FI and I have decided to write our vows together and repeat the same thing. We were both getting a little stressed over that part. Hey, It was his idea to begin with to write our own. I was instantly like "ahhhhhh, really!"

oh wow. I never ever thought until I read that to not use an aisle runner at all and just have the petals as the runner. What a great idea. At our resort a runner starts at $75 and up. I was going to use both, but I am not sure I will need to. I guess only if it is windy. I am worried they will blow away.

So I just did a trial run of what my centerpieces will look like for AHR and I thought they were just a little boring. Like they needed a pop of color. When I added a sprinkle of the rose petals i loved the way they looked. (I would love to upload some pics, but I can't figure out how) Looks like I am ordering some more burgundy petals!!!

wow! he will love it!!!!!

oh wow. Good luck = )

Everything looks so great!!!!

I also have my fingers crossed for everyone being affected by Rina. I'll be praying that everything goes well for you all.

very nice!!!