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March 16th, 2010
weddingplans
[chitowndiva]
 | 10:21 pm - Show me your.......floral substitutes?
I can't think of a good way to word it, hahaha. But I'm curious to see what people came up with in place of floral bouquets and centerpieces. I'm kind of in the "flowers die" camp, and I just can't see spending a lot on them, so I'm really interested in other ideas. (Note: fake flowers are ok too, especially if they were budget friendly!)
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weddingplans
[desireless]
| 10:36 pm - Hi, I'm new!
Name and/or LJ userID: Sydney
Wedding Date: August 26 tentatively
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): Bride
Age: 30
City/State/Country you live in: Toronto, Canada
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Brockville/Gananoque/Kingston, Ontario (we've yet to decide)
Your song/First Dance song: n/a
Wedding Colors: n/a
Formality: n/a
Theme (if you have one): n/a
Number of guests: 0
How'd you meet your fiance?: I used to be his boss when we worked together
How long have you been together?: 4.5 years
Do you have a personal wedding website?: No
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey? Yes
Anything else you'd like to tell us?: We are eloping... kind of.
( other stuff )
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weddingplans
[champagnexdream]
 | 08:49 pm - Adults-Only Wedding/Cousin Drama
( Ugh why so much dramaaaaaaa! )
Edit: Thank you all for the advice...sorry if I came off as a harsh person, but I'm really not. Just frustrated. It's been a long week, and I was hoping for some unbiased advice. I'm going to have comments not e-mailed to me from this point on because this post is getting a bit out of hand, but I'd like to have it for reference, because even though a lot of it was...direct...hah...I do appreciate the advice. Hope that's OK. :o) Thank you again. (Edit 2: I will check as I can, so sorry if you have something to say and I do not get back to you immediately).
Current Mood:  aggravated
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[inmeggsyoutrust]
 | 06:42 pm - Parking?!
Hey hey hey!
So I have finally decided on what I want to do about the parking situation at my venue.
I'm getting married on Friday night over Memorial Day weekend in downtown Baltimore, MD.
The hotel we're getting married at is right in the center of the tourist attractions like the Hard Rock Cafe and National Aquarium, so parking can be at a premium, especially if there is a concert happening one pier over, so our families have decided to host the valet parking.
How should I word this on the insert in the invitation to say "Hey, parking is going to be crazy, so we're paying for you to valet?" without sounding ridiculous?
Thanks for your input. I've really come to rely on this comm for advice.
Megan
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[darshdarsh]
| 11:34 am - Bridezillas, the television show
Have any of you brides seen this show? I've been watching it for the first time today, and I'm feeling stress from their antics. These women really got married with how awful they are? The episode before the one I'm watching now had a bride trying to stiff the band, and she set her husband up to deal with it and to try weaseling out to paying the balance, and the episide ended with the hint of annulment already. Kirsten was her name, I think. The episode now with bride LaJune just hd her calling and disinviting a guest because she sent out more invitations than available seats, but said she still expects "my gift" because she spent money to send an invitation. So she expects a gift from everyone who got invitations, even after she's telling people who've RSVPd that they're not invited anymore and will be excorted back to their vehicles if they show up. She's still demanding presents. It gets worse for both of these brides. Even if these are just the worst of the film footage and they've been nice otherwise, I think what I'm seeing is bad enough that these women are just awful! They're so mean it's really nowhere near funny.
I'm going to keep watching and hope it helps me not be a bridezilla, even with some relatives who are being relative-zillas and demanding their kids be flowergirls in my adult-only wedding, and some people inviting themselves to be bridesmaids and to do readings. Maybe this show will help me be kind and gracious instead of opening the can of verbal whoopass I want to unleash.
The venues we were considering that keep all the food and cake after the weddings we aren't considering anymore. It's annoying not getting to have a plate of food saved for after the wedding because we will probably be too easy to eat, but the dealbreaker is not getting to keep the cake we will bring in. We have nothing done for our October wedding. It might be better to move the date to spring. How are weddings fun with all the stress?
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[jaxrax]
 | 10:58 am - Our School Cafeteria Wedding Shower
The inspiration for this shower started from one simple principle: a desire for a centerpiece that was consumable.
In traditional Indiana wedding showers, the centerpieces are a BIG DEAL. When you're a little kid, you FREAK OUT if you "win" the centerpiece. When you're older, you hope and pray you don't have to make a spot in your house for some kind of fake plant/teacup/basket/candle combination. Well, at least I did. From that instant reaction of "let's spare our guests from having to bring home some contraption," my mom and I decided the centerpiece should be edible. Not the edible arrangements kind of edible, but something to get people excited...
Like a school lunchroom tray of fruit, twinkies, hostess cupcakes, juicy juice and fruit snacks. And to take it home, let's make them reusable lunch bags.
( Read more... )
Current Mood:  accomplished
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ladysaphira
 | 01:51 pm - pea coat
Back in December Neil mentioned how much he wished he had a nice coat, like a wool pea coat. We went into a few stores and he tried things on while I took notes on what he did and didn’t like. Then I came home and went diving through the fabric stash, I have a surprising (or maybe not) amount of wool in there too! We picked up some liner fabric, buttons, and thread and I got started.
This project moved in fits and starts. I cut everything out in one nerve-wracking weekend. Sewing isn’t like knitting, if you screw up the initial prep work there’s no going back. But after finishing the “hard part” the pieces sat for two weeks.
Then I spent a weekend doing the big sewing, fronts and backs, sleeves and liners. One major trick to a professional sewing job is double-stitching the seams (look at most jeans and jacket seams, see what I mean?
(taking photos of black on black is HARD)
Then the coat hung in a corner of the living room, taunting me (and probably Neil too)
Finally last weekend I got the hems pinned, and did the slow, time consuming work of hand stitching the liner (along the whole bottom edge of the coat, the sleeve cuffs, the buttons, etc). It can be done fast or it can be done right, there’s no speeding up without sloppy stitches or exposed seams. Neil’s pretty pleased! (he even agreed to a photo shoot in the drizzle)
One thing I stole from a store coat which I think worked really well is the added shoulder ease. It’s like a little accordion fold just in the back shoulder which gives that whole area a bit more stretch. Since one of Neil’s biggest comments on the store coats was about how hard it was to lift his arms this was very important for me to get right.
I’m really proud of this coat. It fits him well and he loves it. Over the weekend someone commented that it looked store bought. They meant it as a complement, what they mean is it looks professional. I appreciate that! There are a few places that I can point to and say "here, it could be better" but really? I'm just really proud of it!
Current Mood:  accomplished
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weddingplans
[ctscream]
 | 09:11 am - What color suit goes best with eggplant colored BM dress?
I can't match colors...
I have the option of dark grey, light grey, a medium grey with pinstripes and black. They may have a light tan color, but my mom thinks that will look wierd with such a dark dress and for a night wedding. I liked the grey pinstripe, but the grey seems a little on the blue side.
Any thoughts?
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[werkelijkheid90]
 | 09:08 pm - Renaissance Festival Wedding- Ticket Etiquette
I don't believe this has been addressed yet in this community, so allow me to first pose the question. I also think anyone can answer it, regardless of their experience with a wedding at a renaissance festival. This is more of matter of opinion, I suppose, than anything else.
SO, guess where I'm getting married? XD
It'll be at the Texas Renaissance Festival and they offer three different wedding packages. We've finally settled on one that will meet our budget requirements. Unfortunately, in this particular package it only covers the cost of 10 tickets to the festival for our guests. Needless to say, there will be more people at our wedding than 10. That barely covers our immediate families!
So my question for you guys is...to pay or not to pay for tickets? What is expected of us here? If we're going to invite people to our wedding is it just good manners to pay for their tickets to the festival as well? I know this isn't a common worry with weddings and so there probably isn't a specific rule of etiquette written for it...
So what do you think? As a guest, what would you prefer? As a bride/groom, what would you do?
Current Mood:  confused
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March 15th, 2010
weddingplans
[putontheritz]
 | 10:44 pm - Music
There are so many "music" tags/entries I wasn't sure which to look under, but could someone remind/tell me what the name of that orchestra/band that takes the pop songs and makes them sound classical? I can't remember for the life of me.
Thanks a head of time.
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[beloved_tree]
 | 05:31 pm - Any Springsteen fans in the audience?
Hey there Weddingplanners! I could use some outside opinions regarding a song choice. :) My intro post is back thataway, if anyone's interested.
My father and I are very close, despite some occasional ups and downs; at the same time, we really don't have what I'd characterize as a classic "Daddy's little princess" relationship. We've always bonded the most over things like fishing, woodworking, sci-fi movies and classic rock -- with Bruce Springsteen being our biggest shared love musically.
As such, I really want to use a Springsteen song for our father/daughter dance. Specifically, I'm attached to the idea of using "Hungry Heart" -- my dad has never been much of a dancer, but this is the one song I do remember him dancing to with me when I was a little girl, so it's special to me and to our relationship. (You can hear the whole song, and read the lyrics, at this YouTube link, if you're not familiar with it).
"Hungry Heart" doesn't have super "wedding-y" lyrics, considering it opens with the line "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack / I went out for a ride and I never went back." This doesn't especially bother me; I know the significance the song has between us, I love the melody and beat, and it would be relatively easy for us to dance to. I really don't have any desire to dance with my father to anything of the "Butterfly Kisses", oh-my-baby-girl-is-leaving-me school of wedding music -- I want this to be about the two of us and our relationship, not the cultural conception of Daddy/Daughter relationships.
At the same time, I'm obviously not my wedding guests :P So, my questions for you lovely people are these:
- are people going to get hung up on the "Hungry Heart" lyrics, or am I putting too much thought into this?
- if it seems like people are going to get hung up on the lyrics -- anybody have suggestions for a more 'wedding friendly' Springsteen tune?
Personally I'd also get a kick out of using "Atlantic City," but lyrics about Mob murders are probably a little too over the top, even for me. :P
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ladysaphira
| 04:07 pm - Complicated
In my anxiety about daylight savings time I forgot the real post I had for today. So here's a teaser:
I finished a complicated project that's been underway for awhile!
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weddingplans
[__bin]
 | 02:46 pm - Invitation Inserts!
We're having out invitations professionally printed, but to save some cash we're printing the inserts ourselves.
Can you fine people read over these for me and tell me what you think of the wording and the design? For the invitations we're using the Sparrows design by Hello Lucky in those colours.
( Out of Town Guest information and After Party invitation )
I'm hesitant to direct people to our website for information, but I also don't want to clutter the inserts. What's the etiquette regarding websites?
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weddingplans
[ink_smear]
 | 01:59 pm
Are there any other brides here who are dealing with the stress of marrying someone from a different country? Would you mind a new LJ friend?
If you're dealing with bringing your future spouse into the U.S. I'd be even more interested. I'm Canadian and my fiance is American. I'll be moving there and just the thought of the paperwork and stress involved has me freaked out. I have so many questions! When should we apply for a fiance visa? Where do we have the wedding shower since gifts can't be easily brought across the border?
I'd love having a few people around who are going through or have gone through the same thing.
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ladysaphira
| 12:51 pm - Saving Daylight?
5:45am - alarm went off for the first time. Barely noticed it as I hit snooze and rolled over.
6:12 - alarm went off (must've been the fourth time, but I don't remember #2 or 3) I wonder why the #*&@! it's so dark and think "just 5 more minutes"
Cloudy daylight is just filtering in my window. I vaguely recall a mental note to myself that I'd have to get out of bed in the dark.
Shit - it's not dark anymore. Check the alarm clock - 6:40am. Why didn't it go off? Why don't I remember it going off?
I don't have time for these questions, I need to be in the car by 6:43 to be certain of catching the bus. I realize I don't even have time for panicking.
Put on the first of each thing I grab, first pair of pants, first shirt, first two socks, first sweater. Grab my tooth brush and toothpaste, stuff in purse.
Apologize to animals for not feeding them breakfast as I race out the door. Into the car. Clock says 5:47. Realize this makes it 6:47 and if there's any traffic at all I don't stand a chance. Things are out of my hands. Cross fingers and start driving.
7:07 - in bus parking lot, traffic was light. Other riders are still waiting in their cars, so I'm GOLDEN.
7:15 - check status. Glad that matching socks were folded together. Conveniently orange socks match my orange sweater. Luckily I tucked my cell phone in my purse the night before. Unluckily I have no tea, no breakfast, and no lunch.
7:20 - call Neil and explain why animals are acting like they haven't been fed yet.
8:15 - make tea at work. Am thankful for hard boiled egg and applesauce I have in fridge for emergencies.
I don't mind standard time or savings time - I just wish we could pick one and stick to it. All this switching up bothers me. Finally in the first week of march I started getting up with the early daylight, re-wiring my brain to get up in the dark is practically impossible.
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[nacho_cheese]
 | 09:53 am - Show me your...
... interfaith ceremonies!
FH and I just sent out our deposit to our cantor, who will be performing a ceremony that will have a mixture of Jewish and Pagan elements. We have an idea of what we want, but we're looking for inspiration, too. So if anyone here had or will have an interfaith ceremony, I'd love to see how you're planning it! Wording is what I imagine we'll have the hardest time with. :)
( So far, we're thinking of incorporating the following elements... )
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March 14th, 2010
weddingplans
[cocktail_kisses]
 | 11:21 pm - engagement photo teaser!
We did our engagement session today with my coworker/photographer. She was super excited about the shots we did so she started working on them right away and got 10 done and posted to her website. Here they are!
( photos! )
Current Mood:  excited
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