October 2012 Weddings — The Knot Community

Flower girl dresses glad I didn't wait!

Alisha9544 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:47:10 +0000

So some of you may remember I posted last week asking if it was too soon to go flower girl dress shopping since DB told me 2months before the wedding is when I should come in. Well we took the girls this weekend. And thank god! We found this very cute pick up ball gown that we could get in colors. Well after the girls tried them on & loved them we decided to get the youngest in Tangerine with the Horizon bow & the older girl in Horizon with a Tangerine bow. Nope! When they went to input our order into the computer it said we couldn't get the Tangerine in time. So they called corp to try to get an override. Nope. I was hesitant to order & started asking if I ordered when would the dresses & sashes be in? Not till Sept 26!! Cutting it close aren't we! Goodness so I decided both the girls in Horizion with Tangerine sashes. They lady said she hates it when she hears other reps tell brides 2months for flower girls. So thank goodness you girls reassured me it wasn't too soon! But YAY! Flower girl dresses are ordered!!

I know NOTHING about invitations, especially pocketed ones!

aro1589 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:05:54 +0000

Seriously!

FI and I found invites we both liked on weddingpaperdivas but I really have my heart set on pocketed invites. weddingpaperdivas only has maybe 6 colors of pocket folds to choose from (none of which would look good with the invites we picked out). I stumbled upon cardsandpockets.com. So I guess I could order the pocketfolds from them and attach the invite from weddingpaperdivas (making sure all the dimensions are correct, of course). Is that how that works? would that be our cheapest option? (trying to spend under $250 for 100 if possible) What would I use to attach it?

I also am not sure I "need" pocketed invitations (but they're so fancy!). The majority of them will only need an rsvp card. We only have maybe 15 that would need a card for directions or hotel accomodations. I just think pocketed invites make everything look more organized and reduces the risk of the little rsvp card/envelope getting lost.

ANY suggestions or help would be appreciated! I'm running out of time!

Invites are in!

huskerfan246 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:44:34 +0000

So excited our invites arrived in mail today along with our custom stamper. Time to get busy with these things!

I want to rip my teeth out.

lepoissonrouge — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:51:19 +0000

Argh... I have the most horrible awful toothache. This is so frustrating. I hate my teeth : /

I have really weak enamal and i swear it takes nothing for a cavity to develop. I went almost six years without going to the dentist because we didn't have insurance. The summer before my senior year we all went back and I swear I had to hae every tooth in my mouth filled. I bawled my eyes out for days. The dentist felt terrible for me, but I am now her star patient, haha. I had to have like 6 appts for stuff that summer. One tooth had to be pulled and my wisdon tooth came in and filled the spot up. The wisdom tooth was imperfect tho, and within a year I had to have it filled. I'm in pain now because the filling fell out (and I haven't even had it a year!!) but also another one of my teeth just plain hurts : ( I feel so pathetic,

I hate going to the dentist so much because I am just so afraid of what they're going to tell me is wrong now. I have an appt tomorrow. O, and I still have no insurance so I hate to think what this is going to cost me. And I cannot do this for two more months til I get on FI's insurance.

As a disclaimer, which is the part I hate the most. Having all these fillings just makes me feel so gross and bad about myself. I have very nice, white, straight teeth... that I take such good care of! I don't understand why I have to deal with all of this : (

Ok, done pouting now : )

checks

[Deleted User] — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:26:41 +0000

This weekend we talked with the guy who is helping us with our music. Most of it will be iphone, but he will a play a few songs and work the iphone for us. We booked our honeymoon, to Maui finally! I almost finished my invitations, just have to print inside labels.

so sad!

PattySmith101 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:08:23 +0000

i just got a text from one of my brother " would you hate me forever if i couldnt make it to the wedding, the reason i ask as of right now the only job options i have right now are tours" he works in a theater and he just moved back to the area recently and had a really hard time finding the job he has now so i woudnt hate him for doing it and i would never say no dont do it i want you at my wedding ... i understand he needs to work.... the ironic part is when i sent the std i kept joking around with him because he didnt come home much, so i sent him a std every month so he would know that the date and he was like " i promise i will be there stop sending me std's"

my other brother works for the airforce and they are sending him< and my sil and nephew to texas in september for a class that is 6 months long so he is not sure if he will be able to make it but i know he will be trying but he wont know if he can come till he gets out there in september, espcially since my wedding is on a friday and he might have a class on that day and not be able to fly out< if it were a saturday he would definitly be able to make it /> so now 2 of my brothers, my sil and 1 of my nephews might not be able to make my wedding and i am really upset! the people i wanted there the most were my family.

my oldest brother and his family live in New mexico and they were the ones i was worried about not being able to make it since their son is 8 so i didnt know if they would let him miss school! and as far as i know they will be coming!everyone else is/ was local! i am the youngest of 7 so i know it is difficult for everyone to be able to come but i just wish they could all make it!

Invites

ap142193 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:25:25 +0000

I let my mom convience me to use a friend of hers for our invites. Her friend owns a printing company (not invitations). I had to buy the paper and I will have to put them together. I will be putting them together from a photo I found (see my siggy). I am super stressed because I dont have them yet! I have been trying to get ahold of the lady for almost 2 months and she never calls me back. Last week I called and was told she was on vacation.

Our original RSVP date was August 26th, but I figure that it will take me two weeks to put them all together, address them, and send them out.

Its too late to switch to another vendor and I spent a fortune on paper because what she originally told me was only a 1/3 of what I acutally needed.

This is really just a vent, but I cant believe this lady is doing this to me! I am so stressed!

NWR-Drivers License.

futuremrsjdmartin — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:53:15 +0000

I got my drivers license today! Where I grew up in Washington I didn't really need one so I didn't worry about it. Now I live in Tulsa and public transportation is practically non-existent. I wanted to get the license before I turned 26 in a month so I am so glad I passed today!

How to fire an officiant?!

mrskristinyc — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:55:15 +0000

We're planning our wedding long distance. We had found an officiant online and met with him when we were in town over 4th of July. Since we were kind of in a time crunch, we paid the $50 non-refundable deposit before our trip.

When we were in town, he forgot about our meeting and was 20 minutes late. When he finally got there, we asked him about himself/his views on marriage, and he spent 10 minutes explaining the pay structure (we had found him through a website that's essentially a broker, so he was explaining that it would cost more to cover the broker's fee). Then he spend the rest of the meeting doing a sales pitch about his wine box ceremony (which was a cool idea, but he presented it as if it would be the cornerstone of our marriage and would solve any problem we EVER faced as a couple..).

Needless to say, we weren't terrribly thrilled with him. We just found a different officiant that we like a lot better and want to work with. How do we go about firing him without it being awkward? I would just send him an email and call it a day, but the catch is - he's performing another ceremony at the same venue as ours an hour and a half after our ceremony!

Pocketfold Question/Tips

Bryan&AmyC — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:27:26 +0000

Yay!! Our invites arrived yesterday and we love them! It seriously made the wedding feel so much more real for me! :) Now comes the fun part of addressing and putting them together! For those of you who are using pocketfold invitations, what are you using (or did you use) to secure the invitation to the pocketfold? Also, any other tips to putting the invitations together?

Ceremony Programs

ANM2012 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:43:14 +0000

Good Evening Ladies!

I'm working on the content for our ceremony programs and I need guidance on a couple of things:

1. My fiance's father passed away...how do we denote this in the program where it lists our parents?

2. My parents have been separated for a number of years (14 to be exact) how should I list them in the program (Mr. & Mrs isn't going to fly lol).

Thanks in advance!
Ashley

RB Outfit

LDubHawksFan — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:17:22 +0000

I want some opinions! So my FSIL got my FG dress awhile ago at JCP. I hadn't thought about what our RB was going to wear until we were picking out our tuxes this weekend. (Which btw I think we decided on and they are way more reasonable than Men's Wearhouse! Thank goodness for local businesses!) They don't have a dark grey version for kids though, so the black option for him would still be $80! Yikes no! So I am going to find him a cute outfit somewhere else.
Here are the ones I like best. My colors are violet and a sage color green....but so far our wedding party will all have purple accents, with the girls in a Wisteria DB dress and the GM with purple ties. However, the FG dress does have some green in it. The purple dress shirt seems a little bright compared to everything, so I'm leaning towards the green.
What do you girls think and which color would you have him wear??

BM Dresses FG Dress (she won't be wearing the sweater at the ceremony)

RB Options:

Invitations complete!

lepoissonrouge — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:54:09 +0000

Finally!!! These have been in the works for SUCH a long time and I am so insanely excited that these are finally done. I am very happy with the way that they turned out. The three colors are gold, brown and burgandy. I have mulitple color combinations for the actual invites.

For the reception cards I decided to just keep it simple and go with what I did. I was able to get more per page than I thought I'd be able to and that actually made my life a lot better because I was able to have enough gold paper to make more response cards. Which is one of my favorite parts of my invites. So hooray!

Now to just get envelopes stuffed and hopefully they can go out by the end of the week!

Invite Mess-Up :(

Mandz33 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:18:25 +0000

We just sent out our invitations and I was so happy to have that done and my SIL just told me that her response envelope was missing a return address. It had a stamp but no return address and now I'm worried that I missed a few more. Our return address was on the outer envelope but I think I forgot a couple on the response envelopes. Is it going to be okay? I'm freaking out right now!

Boudoir - I did it!

mlperkins12 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:02:25 +0000

Hi Ladies,

Last week I posted about having my boudoir shoot on Thursday. I wanted to circle back to you and let you know how it went. I found the experience to be really fun, despite my nerves at the outset. My photographer had a professional hair and makeup artist as part of the package, that was certainly a big help and it really boosted my confidence. Fake lashes are apparently a must. She recommended the individual lashes rather than the strips and they worked out well. All of the sample photos she showed me used some type of lash extension; they seem to make a big difference. I did 5 changes: his shirt with a white panty, his wedding tie with a white panty, white panty and my veil, blue and white bra/panty set (some with pearls some shots without and, taupe panty with a bed sheet.

The shoot took about 3 1/2 hours; I was surprised by how comfortable the photographer made me. Last week Rockstar gave some great advice, RELAX! Having a female photographer who understood the look I was going for and understood the basic insecurities of a woman made a big difference. After every few shots she told me that I looked beautiful, or said "he's going to love that".

If anyone is considering doing boudoir, I'd highly recommend it. It's a fun experience. Worst case, if you get the picture and hate them, you don't have to give them to FI or show them to anyone. I should have my "sneak peek" up mid-August and the final product (CD and album) mid-September. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they turned out. Thanks ladies for all of your encouragement!

ETA: I was surprised by how long it is going take to even see the sneak peek of my images. My photogpher also does weddings and that coupled with her other work has her really backed up. You definatley want to allow enough time to get your pics before the big day!

QOTD 7/23

minionlover — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:07:42 +0000

Are you having a getaway car? Will it be decorated?

Invites are Done!

Lang125 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:45:27 +0000

We made our own invites, and what has seemed like the longest project of my life is finally over! I am so happy and it seems like the biggest check so far. Now we are just waiting until the end of this week to mail them out - we have quite a bit of OOT's.

Invitation Vent!

brainybrunette — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:01:26 +0000

We're running our invite envelopes through our printer...I don't have nice script handwriting, hate the look of labels, and calligraphy isn't in the budget. This worked out really well for our STDs...a few envelopes got messed up, but it was pretty easy to do.

Today, we started this whole process for our invites and all hell broke loose! We started with outer envelopes and printer #1 (our laser printer). The printer smudged about every 3rd envelope to the point where you coudn't read the address clearly. So we gave up on that printer and moved to our 2nd printer (the ink jet). This stopped the smudging but the address would come out uncentered (like to the point where it was almost off the envelope) on a good number of envelopes. There was no rhyme or reason to this...it would work on a few envelopes in a row and then fail. (this pattern repeated pretty much all day). It's not like we couldn't get it set up at all...more like it would randomly stop working.

Originally, I ordered about 20 extra envelopes but now we're out of envelopes. We didn't even get to the inner envelopes or the response envelopes! I said bad words, FI said bad words, there may have been a bit of violence against the printer LOL!

So, I just ordered more of all 3 envelopes...more outer envelopes to finish up plus extra for when they mess up. Plus, I'm assuming this will be the problem for inner and response envelopes so I preemptively ordered more of those as well.

**sigh**

Shoes

jenny&will2014 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:16:25 +0000

This has probably been asked but what shoes are you guys wearing?
I am not a dress up kind of girl so heels are definetly not what I want but i am wrestling between blingy tennis shoes, flip flops or something of the sort. help please

Bridal Party Gifts

fjw2012 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:03:58 +0000

I've been trying to figure out what to get my bridesmaids as gifts. I was thinking a cute tote bag like this and filling them with a bunch of stuff from Bath and Body works, homemade cookies, and if I could afford it a little something personal for each of them. For example my one BM loves bird jewelry, so I would get her a cute necklace. Would you want this gift? I just want to make sure they know they're appreciated.

Invitation help

[Deleted User] — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:24:50 +0000

I didn't realize that you have to put the names of the people you are inviting on the inner and outer envelope so I only made address lables for the outside and did not make a label for the inside. Is that really necessary, I put the names of all the people that were being invited on the outside?

Finally!

ericaandtom2012 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:54:37 +0000

FI and I finally picked out his attire and the groomsmen attire this weekend. I can stop bugging him that we need to go do that. He still needs to ask 2 of his GM (I know, it's <3 months out, he needs to get on it!), but at least they'll be clothed.

We also went to the jeweler and picked out a wedding band for myself, but we're waiting to see how much it will cost before we order it. It's going to be less than what we had planned for, mostly since my fingers are tiny. FI is planning to get a tungsten band, so we aren't planning to get it from the nice jewelry store in town (I don't think they even sell tungsten bands). He did try on a couple of the sample bands to get an idea of what width he wants.

It's getting closer and I'm starting to only have the little things left (minus addressing and stuffing all the invitations)!

NWR - Help!

islandmonkey8 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:43:25 +0000

My FI and I are set to close on our house Wednesday at 1:30. This morning my attorney called to tell us there is a problem. The property is multiple lots. Apparently only some of the lots are the executor of the estate’s, the others are the deceased siblings/children and we don’t know the names of or where these other people are and they all have to sign the deed for the sale. The attorney doesn’t see how we could possibly close on Wednesday or now he says even in the next month. He’s asking us what we want to do. We don’t know what we want to do. We love this house and there isn’t anything else out there like it. We don’t know what to do. We’re also afraid of walking away and losing all the money we already put out toward this house. Help!!

Fun rehearsal bouquet?

[Deleted User] — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:10:32 +0000

Are any of you ladies using a fun rehearsal bouquet? I know some brides use the bows and ribbons from the bridal shower. But what if you don't have any bows or ribbons from the bridal shower or you didn't have one? Any other ideas?

Cake Cutting song

staycb01 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:19:41 +0000

Hello fellow brides!
For your cake cutting which song are you planning on using? We were thinking about "Ice Cream" - Sarah Mclachlan

last week/weekend=wedding HORROR STORY.

[Deleted User] — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:55:21 +0000

lkj

Seriously!?! Can it just be October already?

Lrini1 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:33:30 +0000

Deleted. Just in case someone were to stumble upon it. Not worth hurting feeling.

Cheesy or not?

semay23 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:37:52 +0000

We are having our very rustic, casual reception in a barn. I’ve been saving wine bottles to fill with flowers and use as decorations for the reception area. I know I’m going to decorate them in some way, but I haven’t figured out how yet. I thought about having custom wine labels made with our names/date/thank you for coming/something along those lines, filling them with flowers, and placing them in the table as a centerpiece. I asked a good friend her opinion, and she said it sounded cute and matched my theme. I asked my sister her opinion, and she hated the idea and said it was cheesy.

I know the only opinion that matters in the end is mine, but I’m just curious for other people’s thoughts as well!

Just as a side note, the labels would be pale yellow, tan, and very understated. No crazy pictures or wild colors involved, if that matters.

Decided to make my own Table Numbers... (PIP)

huskerfan246 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:52:29 +0000

I decided to try making my own Table numbers so I bought all the supplies for less than $10 at Hobby Lobby the other day, black foam board, rose printed paper, vinly stick-on numbers and black ribbon. Today I bought the little heart place card holders (16 of them)for 50 percent off at Hobby Lobby, think I have an addiction to that store! Here is the final result, what do you think?

Thursday Confessions

fishinflagrl — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:10:30 +0000

I hope I got today right, Confession day!!! haha