Brides to Be

Thanx, i'm aiming for an eco-friendly wedding...my dress is 100% organic hemp and silk...and suprisingly it's only $900...i'm not telling anyone it's eco-friendly though because they'll just sit and point out everything that's not eco-friendly lol...i like the coaster idea too...i think if you get awesome engagement pictures, they will look amazing...look at avon (sounds dumb i know, but you can get them for under a dollar)

Thanx, i'm aiming for an eco-friendly wedding...my dress is 100% organic hemp and silk...and suprisingly it's only $900...i'm not telling anyone it's eco-friendly though because they'll just sit and point out everything that's not eco-friendly lol...i like the coaster idea too...i think if you get awesome engagement pictures, they will look amazing...look at avon (sounds dumb i know, but you can get them for under a dollar)

seriously? my mom sells avon, never even thought about it. i found some online for around the same for a set of 2, i cant remember the site. my plan is to put 2 in each spot, one with our engagement photo and one with the persons name, so it serves as a favor AND a name plate for the seating at the table

Thanx, i'm aiming for an eco-friendly wedding...my dress is 100% organic hemp and silk...and suprisingly it's only $900...i'm not telling anyone it's eco-friendly though because they'll just sit and point out everything that's not eco-friendly lol...i like the coaster idea too...i think if you get awesome engagement pictures, they will look amazing...look at avon (sounds dumb i know, but you can get them for under a dollar)

seriously? my mom sells avon, never even thought about it. i found some online for around the same for a set of 2, i cant remember the site. my plan is to put 2 in each spot, one with our engagement photo and one with the persons name, so it serves as a favor AND a name plate for the seating at the table

oh that's an awesome idea...you're going to have an amazing wedding...

aw thank you!! im hoping we all do

ok people here's a question, how do you deal with the jerks that are trying to ruin everything (ok a little dramatic, but they are being really selfish and whiney)...for example, my MIL is mad that we're having our wedding in my parents backyard...well it's an absolutely gorgeous back yard, and my MIL lives in a one bedroom high rise in the middle of the City...or my SIL is raging because she's not in my wedding party...i don't even like her, why would she be in my wedding party? even my mother feels that I should have a hand-me-down wedding because she still has stuff from my two sister's weddings...i figure if i'm paying for everything myself, i should get what i want right?

I am getting married July 16th 2011 and am super excited! I weigh 220 and would like to be 150 by then So I need to get cracking. My colors are chocolate and light blue. Ok so i totally feel the same as you, its your wedding, do what you want and don;t worry about anyone else. In the years to come the people who tried to control your wedding will have moved on (and prolly have now tried focusing on controlling someone elses life) but you will remember not doing all things you want ed to do for YOUR wedding. We had to kick my SIL out of our wedding. I will tell you all the story if you really want to hear it but ultimatum we came to the decision we did cause it was what's best for our wedding!

ok people here's a question, how do you deal with the jerks that are trying to ruin everything (ok a little dramatic, but they are being really selfish and whiney)...for example, my MIL is mad that we're having our wedding in my parents backyard...well it's an absolutely gorgeous back yard, and my MIL lives in a one bedroom high rise in the middle of the City...or my SIL is raging because she's not in my wedding party...i don't even like her, why would she be in my wedding party? even my mother feels that I should have a hand-me-down wedding because she still has stuff from my two sister's weddings...i figure if i'm paying for everything myself, i should get what i want right?

I am getting married July 16th 2011 and am super excited! I weigh 220 and would like to be 150 by then So I need to get cracking. My colors are chocolate and light blue. Ok so i totally feel the same as you, its your wedding, do what you want and don;t worry about anyone else. In the years to come the people who tried to control your wedding will have moved on (and prolly have now tried focusing on controlling someone elses life) but you will remember not doing all things you want ed to do for YOUR wedding. We had to kick my SIL out of our wedding. I will tell you all the story if you really want to hear it but ultimatum we came to the decision we did cause it was what's best for our wedding!

yeah i want to hear it...after we asked our MC and my SIL lost her mind, my fiance asked if she wanted to co-mc with my best friend...total disaster, i wanted him to ask her to politely step down...she doesn't like me, and doesn't think we should be getting married (however i'm the best thing that's ever happened to my fiance lol)...so she's going to stand up there and lie to my face about how proud she is of her brother and how happy she is that she finally has a sister :sick: the sad part is, my original MC is the size of my SIL thigh, and my SIL is a heavy smoker, so she can't even laugh without hacking up a lung...it's gross...

For those of us getting married tomorrow, congratulations, and of course you can join us! Maybe you can give us not only fitness advice, but also wedding planning advice!*LOL*

My wedding colors are mocha and violet. Everyone always says they're a weird combination, but if you look at my weight loss ticker, you'll see the paisley patttern that is the inspiration for the entire wedding!!!:-D

Shannon

I love those colors together. I am doing a fall theme seeing as though it is right before thanksgiving and all. I love the colors too. I am having yellows, oranges, browns, reds...so pretty!

ok people here's a question, how do you deal with the jerks that are trying to ruin everything (ok a little dramatic, but they are being really selfish and whiney)...for example, my MIL is mad that we're having our wedding in my parents backyard...well it's an absolutely gorgeous back yard, and my MIL lives in a one bedroom high rise in the middle of the City...or my SIL is raging because she's not in my wedding party...i don't even like her, why would she be in my wedding party? even my mother feels that I should have a hand-me-down wedding because she still has stuff from my two sister's weddings...i figure if i'm paying for everything myself, i should get what i want right?

I am getting married July 16th 2011 and am super excited! I weigh 220 and would like to be 150 by then So I need to get cracking. My colors are chocolate and light blue. Ok so i totally feel the same as you, its your wedding, do what you want and don;t worry about anyone else. In the years to come the people who tried to control your wedding will have moved on (and prolly have now tried focusing on controlling someone elses life) but you will remember not doing all things you want ed to do for YOUR wedding. We had to kick my SIL out of our wedding. I will tell you all the story if you really want to hear it but ultimatum we came to the decision we did cause it was what's best for our wedding!

yeah i want to hear it...after we asked our MC and my SIL lost her mind, my fiance asked if she wanted to co-mc with my best friend...total disaster, i wanted him to ask her to politely step down...she doesn't like me, and doesn't think we should be getting married (however i'm the best thing that's ever happened to my fiance lol)...so she's going to stand up there and lie to my face about how proud she is of her brother and how happy she is that she finally has a sister :sick: the sad part is, my original MC is the size of my SIL thigh, and my SIL is a heavy smoker, so she can't even laugh without hacking up a lung...it's gross...

Alright well i will try not to make this a book but my SIL is a very self centered person she has 5 kids with 5 different men(she started having them when she was 13 she is only 27) and will use the oldest (who is now 13) as her baby sitter, she brings different men in and out of theses kids lives all the time. She expects my husband to "family over everything" (which really means no matter what you are doing in your life you better drop it to help me cause the world revolves around me kind of thing) My fiance does not really get along with his family that well cause his mom is in rehab and caters to his sister every whim too. So my fiance is closer to my fam than his so he proposed during my fams 4th of july celebration well against my fiances warning I made his sister a bridesmaid. I worked with her and we were ok friends and she hated her brothers than gf and made their relationship terrible and was always trying to hook me up with him, well it ended up working after awhile and he is now my fiance so i figured i owe her (they only have each other as far as siblings go and if you knew her you would know she is never getting married) well one of my friends had video tapped the proposal on her cell so a month later i put it on FB, well my SIL made this huge deal about how angry she was she didnt get to see it first, she ws mad my whole fam was there and she wasnt, and how she wasnt being treated like family and how i would never treat my fam like this so i told her is she has an issue with who was there when he proposed take it up with her brother and if she cant make this wedding about us rather than her than to not be a part of it......well through out the months since then she has randomly test me being nice to me cause she wants me to put her back in the wedding but i havent so a month ago she calls her brother finally and whines to him about how i kicked her and all her kids out of the wedding, well he has my back and flat out told her that i never kicked those kids out and really i didnt kick her out either i gave her a choice and she needed to decide wether or not she could make this about us or if this needed to revolve around her. well the next day she text me saying we needed to hash this out and she told me she didnt think she did anything wrong and how we are over reacting and how she thinks she needs to be apart oif this wedding b/c its her brothers wedding so i told her that the bridesmaids are my choice and she was like bull **** this is his wedding too so i had to be mean and was like well you know what your brother didnt want you to have any part of this wedding anyways. so that was that and like a week later i start to see online that she is hanging out with my fiance's x, the one she hated sooo bad, she treated him like crap ****ed his friends and there landlord she always talked about kicking his x's *kitten* and now they are bff's they write one each others fb calling each other sis and family and stuff. It floors me how she expects us to treat her like fmaily but she doesnt think she needs to act like it. What kind of a sister does things like that to her brother? So now I am just done w/ her. I dont even want to be around her for the holidays or anything. My biggest dilema now is that her kids were all apart our wedding and i am worried she will pull them at the last minute just to get back at us but i dont want to have to tell the kids they cant be apart of our wedding anymore

count me in too! getting married 7/9/11, having a destination wedding in tennessee, need to lose about 60-80 pounds, 60 off already!!! everyones colors sound fabulous, we are going with bright yellow and pistachio! I am so excited, lots of great ideas here. good luck to ya all!!!!

so how much do you have planned for your big day? i feel a bit nervous, only the chapel booked so far. looked for dresses but the selection in our area (small wisconsin town) is not the best. everything is a size 4 or 6. hope to go to a bigger city after the holidays. hopefully a smaller size by then!!!

So, this is a great place to swap wedding plans and tips, but is anyone doing anything in particular to get fit for their wedding day? My goal is to hit the gym 3-5 days a week and, if I can't get there do Wii fit at home. Each time I go, I do 30 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of weightlifting (upper/lower on alternate days). Sometimes I do this interval style, sometimes not... I just like to keep my body guessing.

My fake flowers came on Friday and turned out great. I'm very excited. A lot of people were trying to pressure me into real ones. I mean they're nice, but expensive! Not to mention, they can get stuff on your dress and can possibly wilt. Fakes save you from all of that hassle, plus they'll last forever (even dried bouquets fall apart after a while). I'm happy about my choice, but I hope my girl's don't mind.....

Eight days until my first dress fitting. Keep your fingers crossed it at least fits comfortably. My hope is to have it taken in at least once though before the big day!;-)

Shannon

i work out at home, using the treadmill, doing the 30 day shred, just set up our gym going going to start using the bowflex and punching bag. so far ive lost 18 lbs, but i also had a baby so i had additional weight to lose...not that thats easier, but still. i didnt start losing until i started eating better though. i didnt realize that was so important, but it is!

Ok, I'd like to join this group. We got married in August of this year, but we are having another ceremony next year for my family. We got married in the UK as my husband is English and only my mom could make it, so we are having a sort of renewal of vows (which will just be another wedding for us) on stage in an old theater in Ohio on May 15th, 2011. That's three days before my birthday. We are doing old Hollywood Glam as our theme, and I want to look hot in a slinky little champagne colored dress. I want to be at my goal weight by then, which is 140. I am currently at 169. I hope it's ok for me to join, as I'm already married. I just don't want to look like a giant glob of marshmallow fluff with sausage arms, like I do in the photos from the original wedding! :ohwell:

Heyyy i get married may 7th tooo good luckk!!

Heyyy i get married may 7th tooo good luckk!!

yay! good luck to you too!