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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 7:51 pm
Here only society types may get a pic in a paper, not many at all make it in the paper...
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 7:58 pm
It is so strange when we find out something that we think everyone does is only done here in the South. I am always amazed at regional differences. 
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 8:04 pm
OK in NW Indiana, where my cousin is getting married, and where I got married 23 years ago, you submit a pic, any pic, and if there is room they'll print it, but nothing special!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 8:07 pm
Heck, here, it's no making it in..it's paying it in!!! you buy the announcements just like any other ads.
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 8:29 pm
I don't know if you buy space here, but everyone wants to make the front page of that section. Very competitive!
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 8:59 pm
In my area, we submit a photo of the couple for the engagement announcement (I personally still need to have engagement photos taken!) and a photo of the married couple in the wedding announcement. The wedding announcement will include all the details of the wedding: where it was held, where the reception was, the bridal party, where the couple will honeymoon, the couples education as well as their current place of employment, and their town of residence. Anyone that submits an engagement or wedding announcement will get their information in the paper, I live in a pretty small area. Oh and I LOVE black and white photos, as well as outdoor shots. About 80% of my wedding photos will be black and white, but at two different speeds. I can't remember which, but either the slower or the faster speed produces a grainy-er look to the photo. Very artsy, which I LOVE. We're renting out an old mansion for a few hours after our ceremony where we'll do most of our formal shots. The grounds of the mansion are beautiful and the architecture is very grand. I may have some pictures of the mansion somewhere on this computer... Yankee - the cupcake "cake" is very in now! I personally will not be doing one, but it's definitely a cute idea. The one's I've seen will have an actual cake layer at the top so the bride and groom have something to use when they cut the cake, but otherwise everyone else gets a cupcake! I think it would be nice for a casual summer wedding, exactly like the one you described.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 4:59 am
OK, invitations are out and I'm off to my auntie shower. My aunties give a shower to each of their nieces who marry, wherein the best gift of all is a cookbook they made of the family recipes. None of which I can have on the Atkins, I might add, but it's the principle of the thing. I've had to troll around the family for years to learn how to make the good stuff. Now I will finally have my own grown-up married-girl cookbook. Colossus is going to go to the flag store and play with the pirate flags while I get showered, and has agreed to show up looking sheepish (he does a good sheepish) at the end of the shower. My hair is falling out in handfuls and my hairdresser has bailed by taking a job in another state, so I'm hoping I have at least one long hair left that some new hairdresser can highlight, wind around my head a thousand times and secure with the tiara just to get through the ceremony. I like those cupcake cakes, but Colossus wants chocolate-chip cookie cake, so we'll compromise and go for the traditional three-tier with real roses on top.
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-22-2004
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:27 pm
Froggie, I wish I had a picture readily available to show you but I did have a cake topper with frogs of sort on my cake. When I was a kid, I had a big thing for Precious Moments so when I got engaged a good friend who were unable to attend sent me this Precious Moments couple for the cake. Not knowing how to say no, I tried to incorporate it with me cake. My mom's hobby is cake decorating (tho I keep saying she should retire from teaching and do it pro) so I was not worried about the cost or the craziness of the cake cuz I knew she'd handle it. One of my bridesmaids knew of my dilemna and found a Precious Moments groomsman (or maybe it's the groom) that has a frog hanging out of his pocket - (frogs have been a big part of my life for a while now). Another found a Precious Moment's bride that was wearing daisies (the major flower of the wedding). So the result was a multi tiered cake with a gazebo on the top layer with the couple topper my friend sent. Then on a lower level was the bride looking down a set a stairs that led to a lower cake set to the side of those cakes with the groom looking up at her. My mom was going to put these really pretty daisy flowers all over the cake and gazebo (but her older sister basically told her that she had a better idea - but's that's a different story). In the end, it was really beautiful and tho I was really against using the Precious Moments figurines, it all worked out. . . I'll see if I have a pic of the frog for you tho. . .
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 6:03 am
4 WEEKS FROM TODAY!!! WOO HOO!!! Got dj, got cake, and most fun of all Colossus bought my wedding ring last night. It is spectacular - my engagement ring features a princess-cut diamond with channel-set diamonds down either side. My wedding ring has channel-set princess-cut diamonds that go from finger-to-finger. Much sparkle, I have to say - that makes Colossus happy (me too - "I'll have that one daddy," LOL). I'm ordering Colossus' ring today - a turkish braid in 18k gold. Man, I am ready to do this already. One shower and some attendant-gift shopping to go!!
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Pcakes2
Member
08-29-2001
| Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 6:51 am
GAL, I am so happy for you. Things are finally coming together, like we all knew they would.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 1:42 pm
Yay!! Want to see pic of the rock!! my dream ring is a 2ct emerald cut with a baquette(sp) on each side, platinum setting, sigh...
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 3:08 pm
Yay!!!!! Gal!! I'm so glad things are going so well for the two of you!! Thinking happy thoughts!!
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Cliotheleo
Member
03-13-2002
| Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 6:50 pm
Wow, I had no idea this part of the board was here. (It's amazing the things you discover when you leave the confines of the "Big Brother" area once the show is over.) I am a wedding consultant for bridal boutique. My customers tell me all the time "you must love your job" and I do. It truly is my "dream job" and I feel so lucky to be able to do it. I have been fascinated with weddings my entire life and for as long as I can remember have poured over bridal magazines. I even worked in the china department of a department store and am a PK(preacher's kid.) I think I'm very lucky to be exposed to so much joy all the time (I know that sounds sappy, but it's true.)
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 8:01 pm
GAL--great news! I bet the time will fly by for you from now till your day. Before you walk down the aisle, take a look at everything in front of you--the people, the setting, the feel of it all. Soak it up all you can. I think you will find a special kind of peace just before you take that walk. 
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 8:19 pm
GAL....can't wait to see you! It's going to be a beautiful day, and it sounds like everything is going well now! Keep breathing!
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 12:00 am
Clio said it- I fell down the BB rabbit hole and just came back up for air! Now I can be over here with the wedding peeps! I am so excited for you GAL- I think about you and Froggie and now Spy every week at every wedding. I can't wait to see you as a bride! Wait- isn't Froggie getting married this Saturday? Wow!
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 7:41 am
I don't know, but Bandit is. 
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 8:21 am
Nope not me, lol. I was IN a wedding this past Saturday and will be in another on October 9th. Unfortunately MY wedding isn't for another 13 months. I may die before then... Anyway, good luck Bandit! Hope you have a beautiful day and we all can't wait to see the pictures!!!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 9:38 am
Best wishes for a beautiful day, Bandit! Keep breathing! (or maybe that is what I need to tell FroggieGirl, so she doesn't "croak" before her own wedding!)
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 10:09 am
Marm - I was all for the long engagement, really, but it's just getting to be too long. We'll be engaged just about 21 months come our wedding day. God, that's depressing. It would be my wedding next month, but my cousin beat me to it, lol. But things are booked, deposits are made, so no changing the date now. I'll just have to be a good little girl and sit and wait patiently. Patience is not my strong suit. 
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 11:26 am
Ack- I was obviously away to long- of course it is Bandit- and if I wasn't in Carmel I would be in Las Vegas! (Which MIchael insists on calling Lost Wages)
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 12:44 pm
Thanks everyone!!! I'm so excited, I can hardly stand it. I was hoping I'd be so nervous, I wouldn't eat, but no such luck, lol! I will have PLENTY of pictures to show off!
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 2:38 pm
Can't wait to see them!
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Spygirl
Moderator
04-23-2001
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 4:00 pm
Yay, Bandit!!! Only a couple more days! Here is an update on my planning...I have chosen and booked the church and reception hall. The DJ, florist, caterer, and photographer are all booked. We have registered. The "Save the Date" cards went out Tuesday. The wedding invitation choice is narrowed to two and will be selected by the end of the weekend and ordered Monday or Tuesday. I have chosen one song (so far) for my brother to sing during the ceremony. The wedding guest favors have been selected (thanks to a TVCHer!!). The dress arrives at the end of November, the veil and headpiece arrive in the middle of October. The date for the big bridal shower is set for the middle of December, and the bachelorette and lingerie parties are in the works. Left to do.... Get with the bridesmaids about dresses, decide on centerpieces for the reception, select wedding party gifts, select gifts for the parents, choose a venue for the rehersal dinner, choose a bouquet, select tuxedos, submit a selection of songs for the reception, find people to be ushers, cake servers, and other reception attendants, schedule the engagement picutres, schedule the bridal portrait, select the menu and cake, decide whether we can afford a limo (most likely not), and decide whether we can afford a videographer (again, most likely not). I know there are more, but that's what I have off the top of my head. Whew. Xanax, anyone?
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Moondance
Member
07-30-2000
| Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 4:19 pm
MsSpy - I so want to be your videographer...I will see what I can do What is the date again? Yeah Bandit! Great wedding thoughts and vibes coming your way! I wish you and Mr.Bandit lots of love love love!!!! You are doing GREAT MsGAL!
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