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Welcome and congrats! I hate to say but it's me who has the palapa that day, LOL. Hopefully we can exchange some useful info since we have the same wedding day!!

Hey ladies - Araceli has sent me the 2013 packages, if anyone needs it emailed to them let me know

Haven't been on in awhile, but happy to say that my group booking decline ended last week, and we're at 32 confirmed! Loving all the new reviews I see

Looking fantastic so far, great job!

Hey Vegas gals! I'm a Mexico bride, but I was in Las Vegas last week for my BFF's gorgeous Caesar's Palace wedding. Oh my word was it amazing! I'm a photographer as well, but since I was a bridesmaid I couldn't do day-of photos, so I offered to do a day-after bridal session. If any of you are looking for a ridiculously awesome place to do a Rock the Dress, the Neon Museum downtown is UNREAL. Here are a few of the images I took with them. I can't say enough about how cool this was, so many unique and interesting backdrops for photos, a very cool depart from the usual bridal portrait. They book up early, so call soon!! Happy Planning!!

I'm 30 booked as of today! Woot woot

I think if you just use auto shapes and use my size as a guide, you could come up with the shape and make a thick line, and just use word art to make the dots. The starfish was from a font I downloaded online, I went through until I founds one I liked. I believe if you google sealife fonts, you'll find it!

Sorry gals, thought for sure I posted the antiquing instructions, here they are

The card box is just that, for people to leave cards and/or money in them. I supposed it must be a North American tradition, but most people give money now-a-days, especially for most couples that have lived together and already have everything they need, that sort of makes sense. We def. aren't EXPECTING gifts, but if people want to give anything, this was they can (obviously no one is going to haul an actual gift all the way there, so money or giftcards would be what we get).

Janette, everything looks fantastic!! Do tell us when you get a planning thread up, I can't wait to read about everything you did!!

Eeeek! I'll weigh tomorrow AM at the gym and post!

Hey gals who were looking to use my logo, I know most are not versed in Photoshop, so I took out all of my personalization, and I think if you save this as a photo, and then open in a word doc, you should be able to use Word Art to put wrapping text up above, and then add your names/date with text boxes pretty easily. For anyone that wanted to know, the cursive (Scriptina Pro)I am using can be downloaded here: Da Font Hope that helps!!

This is giong to be the next thing I tackle: http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-wedding-challenge-2010-vintage-signs I found raw wood boards at Micahel's for $1.50. I'd like to do Bride & Groom seat signs and possibly a guest book plaque as well. Something to this extent (but with my colors and styles of glazing I've already used). But I do intend to use the transfer paper like the project wedding one shows, I just don't have steady enough hands to paint the words myself! I will report back!

Not really, I actually have about four inceptions of the monogram, I just played around until I loved it. I swear Photoshop makes things 1000 times easier though too! I used to used publisher, and I think that could work quite well too if you do not know PS.

The glaze was Bear I believe from Home Depot. It's actually called furniture glaze and then you choose whatever paint color you want to add in, I went witha darker grey color and just bought a "tester" size of the paint because I didn't need too much. You mix a half and half of the paint/glaze together to create your mixture. The spray paint I used was plain white.

In case anyone follows Kimberly Snyder, I've decided to start doing the Green Smoothie as my breakfast (not sure how much of the meal plan of hers I will follow, I still need to read more). This sounds great, and I think it will be a great way to work towards cleaning up my diet for the better!! Check it out: http://www.kimberlysnyder.net/blog/2009/07/11/green-smoothie-recipe/ Also, it's FINALLY gettting warmer up here in Alberta and I've re-discovered how much I love running outside!! I'm pumped for that and want to really push hard. Thankfully I have a very energetic Labby who really pushes me hard. Best running partner you can find is a dog

Thank-you!! I know I'm way ahead of the game, but I'm super busy all summer with other people's weddings (I'm a photographer) so I figured I better get on it now when I've got the free time

I would suggest wearing gloves! I didn't the first time and totally wrecked my nails. For the frames I was smarter and got latex gloves which made clean-up much simpler. Also, for the first couple of tries I would leave the glaze on less time that you think. Wipe off, see how dark it is and you can always add more. The good thing about it is it's meant to be random and imperfect, which is good becasue it's really hard to know what the end product will be! The font on our names is Scriptina Pro (one of my faves!!) I'd share - do you have Photoshop though? That's the clincher

I figured I should just start a thread with my goodies, since I'll be going along and wanted to share in case anyone else gets some ideas from my stuff, I figured I post it as I go along. They'll be lots more to come, as I'm not getting married until January, but here's what we have so far: My Birdesmaid invitation boxes Just something I pulled together with a little creativity at the local dollarstore. I really wanted a different and super special way of inviting my girls! My Save-the-Dates. I designed these up in Photoshop and then just had them printed on 4" x 6" photos, and attached them to magnets (I cut up self-adhesive biz card magnets from Staples and stuck them on the back). My self-designed logo (again, Photoshop). We'll likely use this for some of the tags as well as the mugs I'm going to get screen printed. My centerpieces *I think* I saw something really cool this weekend that may make it's way into these plans and flows a bit more of the vintage feel into it, which I'll of course add here if I do!! Again, dollar store cheapy vases and Orchids from Jysk (surprisingly good quality). Pardon the crappy cell phone pic . I think I'll have some scatter gems mixed with seashells around these. My card box. I love this one! I cam across this treasure chest at Jysk for $15 and I just loved it, but I really want some more vintagey" feeling things at the wedding. So, I painted it up and antiqued it. A very messy but fun process. My "vintage" table number photo frames! Again, a steal at the Dollarama, they are actually $1 plastic frames (which is perfect because they weigh NOTHING for travel). I spray-painted them (using a spray paint meant for plastic) and then used my same paint/glazing method as I did for the box. I'm not sure this is my final design for the numbers themselves, but that's what I've come up with so far, that co-ordinates with my other Photoshop designs so far. That's it so far! I hope to have lots more to show you (lord knows I have a head full of ideas, whether they actually work or not, that's a different story!!)

So how's everyone doing so far? I had a stagette to go to on Saturday night, and I must admit fell off the boat a LITTLE bit (IE drinks were had), but I have full intentions of being completley booze free until mid April when we head to Vegas for the wedding I am in! I want to look good for the pool! I've been pushing harder on the weights lately. My FI has gotten a lot more on board with my efforts and makes it to the gym with me about half the time, which is great. I think I'll be bold enough to post my "before" photos for the start of April. Should give me good motivation to push hard until our April 18th departure!! Good luck this week ladies, work hard!

It was me! Thank-you! Do you think you could send me the info you have, I don't have that pricing anywhere? [email protected]

I thought I would share the project I just finished. I found this chest at Jysk a few weeks back for $15 and saw some potential for a more vintage, buried treasure kind of a vibe, which is what I'm after. I found the directions for antiquing here and followed it loosely. I was thinking of having the lid open with one of those cute little flag banners that says "cards" So after much paint, rags and mess here it is!

Fantastic work, everything looked amazing, you had a stunning wedding! It's so nice to see some vendors that ship to Canada too Any recommendations on where to but the sky lanters?