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New to the board but need some advice from the Knottie Experts on AAW

Hello Everyone,
I am new to the board, but I have been reading some of the posts so I thought I would put one up as well.  I already feel like I am a part of the family just by reading the posts. :-) Anyway, I am getting married to the most fantastic man in the world on May 18, 2013. I am so excited because it has been a long time coming.  Anyway, I got engaged in August and I have gotten a lot done (At least I would like to think so).  I have my dress, all my bridesmaids have their dresses and their shoes. I have my venue. I have booked my counseling sessions. I started purchasing my bridesmaids gifts. I am 98 percent done with my website. I have my veil. Now I need some help. My theme is music and memories, so I am trying to think of things to incorporate to make the wedding fantastic. Here is what I have so far:

1. Records as guest books (two records will have a picture of us in the middle and people will use a silver sharpie to sign)

2. The flower girls will sprinkle music notes and rose petals down the aisle.

3. The place cards will have music notes on them.

4. I will have a where were you when you heard this song segment.

5. We are putting pictures of us from birth to now all around the venue. It will have different guests in the pictures so they will bring back memories.

6. The DJ is going to play a snippet of wedding songs of people that are attending the wedding.

Any ideas you can provide will be so helpful and appreciated.

Also, I was wondering if anyone had ceiling draping at their wedding. I am contemplating this but I am not sure if I am ready to take the plunge yet.  Well thanks in advance knotties for any info and advice you can provide.

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    [QUOTE]Hello Everyone, I am new to the board, but I have been reading some of the posts so I thought I would put one up as well.  I already feel like I am a part of the family just by reading the posts. :-) Anyway, I am getting married to the most fantastic man in the world on May 18, 2013. I am so excited because it has been a long time coming.  Anyway, I got engaged in August and I have gotten a lot done (At least I would like to think so).  I have my dress, all my bridesmaids have their dresses and their shoes. I have my venue. I have booked my counseling sessions. I started purchasing my bridesmaids gifts. I am 98 percent done with my website. I have my veil. Now I need some help. My theme is music and memories, so I am trying to think of things to incorporate to make the wedding fantastic. Here is what I have so far: 1. Records as guest books (two records will have a picture of us in the middle and people will use a silver sharpie to sign) 2. The flower girls will sprinkle music notes and rose petals down the aisle. 3. The place cards will have music notes on them. 4. I will have a where were you when you heard this song segment. 5. We are putting pictures of us from birth to now all around the venue. It will have different guests in the pictures so they will bring back memories. 6. <strong><u>The DJ is going to play a snippet of wedding songs of people that are attending the wedding</u></strong>. Any ideas you can provide will be so helpful and appreciated. Also, I was wondering if anyone had ceiling draping at their wedding. I am contemplating this but I am not sure if I am ready to take the plunge yet.  Well thanks in advance knotties for any info and advice you can provide.
    Posted by RanyattaCasey[/QUOTE]<div>
    </div><div>Welcome to the AAW board! The ABSOLUTELY, MOST POSITIVILY, BEST BOARD on TK!!! </div><div>
    </div><div>Congratulations on your engagement and your checks girlfriend! I LOVE your theme and especially like the idea of playing wedding songs of the guests...that's sweet and touching! All your ideas are great! You can possibly have a Song for each table/group to let the guests know where they are seated if you are having a seating chart/arragned seating. </div><div>
    </div><div>Are you doing any favors for the guests? If so, what? </div><div>
    </div><div>Cha

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  • First welcome to the board!  Second - hun your ideas are fantastic!  I don't have a clue what I could add to those ideas.   :)

    Ceiling draping is wonderfully dramatic.  I am comtemplating adding that to my design.  Right now I have floor to ceiling draping in the reception area and then draping all throughout the foyer of my venue.  



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  • Welcome to the board and congratulations on your engagement! All of your ideas are great. I might add Karaoke on the side in place of a photobooth per se to give the guest something to clown around with musically. Happy planning.
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  • Congrats and welcome Just a question have you tried to write on the record? They have grooves in them I love your theme
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  • hello and welcome! I would do cd's as favors!
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  • AHHHH SHUCKS! You guys are making me feel welcome already. I apprecaite all the suggestions already.

      I am doing favors.
    I will have a photobooth.
    I am also doing a candy bar.
    Lastly I am doing handsantizer sprays.

    I have tried to write on the record. I work at a school so the shop teacher says he has an idea on how to make it smooth for me. YEAH FOR FREE!

    Island07 who is your draping company and how much is your drapging? For those of you in the DC/Baltimore area, My wedding is at the Hotel at Arudel Preserve(near the casino and Arundel Mills Mall), so I need to find a vendor that can put draping in that space.
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    [QUOTE]AHHHH SHUCKS! You guys are making me feel welcome already. I apprecaite all the suggestions already.   I am doing favors. I will have a photobooth. I am also doing a candy bar. Lastly I am doing handsantizer sprays. I have tried to write on the record. I work at a school so the shop teacher says he has an idea on how to make it smooth for me. YEAH FOR FREE! Island07 who is your draping company and how much is your drapging? For those of you in the DC/Baltimore area, My wedding is at the Hotel at Arudel Preserve(near the casino and Arundel Mills Mall), so I need to find a vendor that can put draping in that space.
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  • May2013 weddings in the building...heeyyyy..waving my hands. Im a May2013 bride...welcome to the best board on TK ! I am loving your theme..that is sweet ! I dont have nothing to add except for what Cha asked..are you naming your seating arrangement by songs ? Other than that I dont have anything to add..your are on it girly !
  • Welcome! Loving your ideas!
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  • Welcome to the board.! I LOVE your ideas, and I love The Arundel Preserve.! Love love love it. Nice to see another May bride.! I'm having draping, but only at the ceremony. I'm getting married at The La Fontaine Bleue. It comes with the room. It would be cool as other PPs said to name your tables after songs. Oh and did you ask the hotel if they offer draping.??
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  • Heyyyy Girl...

    I'm a May 2013 bride also.. I'm a day behind you. I love your ideas and karaoke sounds like fun as well. That's all I have to add, Just wanted to welcome you to the board.
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    [QUOTE]AHHHH SHUCKS! You guys are making me feel welcome already. I apprecaite all the suggestions already.   I am doing favors. I will have a photobooth. I am also doing a candy bar. Lastly I am doing handsantizer sprays. I have tried to write on the record. I work at a school so the shop teacher says he has an idea on how to make it smooth for me. YEAH FOR FREE! Island07 who is your draping company and how much is your drapging? For those of you in the DC/Baltimore area, My wedding is at the Hotel at Arudel Preserve(near the casino and Arundel Mills Mall), so I need to find a vendor that can put draping in that space.
    Posted by RanyattaCasey[/QUOTE]<div>
    </div><div>is that hotel open? </div><div>i used to work down that way i have not been down there since lol</div><div>
    </div><div>great on making the records smooth..... 

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  • I am actually doing CDs as my invitations.  Jodeci is my favorite group...so it will be a greatest hits album....Everybody may not be a Jodeci fan like I am, but hey you cant knock great music. They do have some bomb love songs....Forever my lady, love you for life, my heart belongs to you, what about us....I could go on and on. Then we got that TRUE  baby making music,,,you got me feeeeennninnnn....and who could forget freaking you!

    Here are my invitations.
    http://www.senorsenora.com/2010/09/motown-vinyl-record-cdr/
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: New to the board but need some advice from the Knottie Experts on AAW : is that hotel open?  i used to work down that way i have not been down there since lol great on making the records smooth..... 
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    It's open girl! and its BEAUTIFUL!
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    [QUOTE]I am actually doing CDs as my invitations.  Jodeci is my favorite group...so it will be a greatest hits album....Everybody may not be a Jodeci fan like I am, but hey you cant knock great music. They do have some bomb love songs....Forever my lady, love you for life, my heart belongs to you, what about us....I could go on and on. Then we got that TRUE  baby making music,,,you got me feeeeennninnnn....and who could forget freaking you! Here are my invitations. <a href="http://www.senorsenora.com/2010/09/motown-vinyl-record-cdr/" rel="nofollow">http://www.senorsenora.com/2010/09/motown-vinyl-record-cdr/</a>
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    </div><div>Totally love the invitations! Love that it looks like a record but is a CD! Very nice!!</div>
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: New to the board but need some advice from the Knottie Experts on AAW : Totally love the invitations! Love that it looks like a record but is a CD! Very nice!!
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    They have cds that look like records on Amazon. I have included the link below. I plan to change the center of course.

    <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digital-Vinyl-Multicolor-Spindle/dp/B00009WO51/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350401101&sr=8-1&keywords=vinyl+cds" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digital-Vinyl-Multicolor-Spindle/dp/B00009WO51/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350401101&sr=8-1&keywords=vinyl+cds</a>
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    [QUOTE]Heyyyy Girl... I'm a May 2013 bride also.. I'm a day behind you. I love your ideas and karaoke sounds like fun as well. That's all I have to add, Just wanted to welcome you to the board.
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    Praise dancing for the May 2013 weddings!  A Sunday wedding....my family would crucify me if I dare did that. I initially wanted the Sunday before Memorial Day and they said....ummm....get your life!...I am sure you are saving though having it on a Sunday.
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  • Welcome!!! Absolutely love your theme & LOVE LOVE LOVE your invitations!!! So cute! Congrats :D
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  • Welcome to the board and yay another 2013 in the house!!!
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  • girl if your theme and designs aren't the most awesomesauce things ever!!   love love. LUH. 

    congratulations and welcome to the board!!

    psst, b'more is a 4 hour drive for me, just sayin. 
  • Congrats on your engagement and welcome to the board! This board is AWESOMESAUCE!! I love alllll of your ideas! I have no clue what I could possibly add to your theme because it is great!
  • Hi and welcome! I loooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeee your theme! Don't be mad if I steal it cuz as of now I don't have one, nor do I really care for 1, but that would really fit FI and I. Between u n MissJ (movie theme) one of yall might just get jacked lol!
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    [QUOTE]Welcome to the board.! I LOVE your ideas, and I love The Arundel Preserve.! Love love love it. Nice to see another May bride.! I'm having draping, but only at the ceremony. I'm getting married at The La Fontaine Bleue. It comes with the room. It would be cool as other PPs said to name your tables after songs. Oh and did you ask the hotel if they offer draping.??
    Posted by shano06[/QUOTE]

    They do offer draping, but just for the ceremony. It is an extra cost but only $150 so thats not too bad and within my budget, but I need some more DRAMA OF IT ALL....and I think the ceiling draping would do it.
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    [QUOTE]Hi and welcome! I loooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeee your theme! Don't be mad if I steal it cuz as of now I don't have one, nor do I really care for 1, but that would really fit FI and I. Between u n MissJ (movie theme) one of yall might just get jacked lol!
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    Do what you have to do girl....its all love in here...Im new to the board but it seems like....as the song goes....Its a family affair.....<img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" />
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    [QUOTE]Congrats on your engagement and welcome to the board! This board is AWESOMESAUCE!! I love alllll of your ideas! I have no clue what I could possibly add to your theme because it is great!
    Posted by CaseynMike[/QUOTE]

    Thanks...and by the way I see you are from Baton Rouge...well my Mr. Lovely is from Pineville, LA. And he would say...GO SAINTS!  I guess I will have to say that now too. I am originally from Jacksonville, Florida but now I live in Balitmore. So I am all over the place sports wise girl.
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: New to the board but need some advice from the Knottie Experts on AAW : Thanks...and by the way I see you are from Baton Rouge...well my Mr. Lovely is from Pineville, LA. And he would say...GO SAINTS!  I guess I will have to say that now too. I am originally from Jacksonville, Florida but now I live in Balitmore. So I am all over the place sports wise girl.
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    </div><div>Girl Pineville is hellllla far from here lol! But yes I am from BR! I am proud to know he is a WHO DAT!! Geaux Saints all day long baby! </div>
  • Welcome to the board your ideas are awesome!

    If you name each table after a song you can ask that table to get up for their song!

    I love your invites! I tried to DIY them and failed.

    If your theme is music , instead of a photobooth why not get a video booth so guests can record clips of themselves but make it a partial karaoke thing so the recorded clips are them performing or singing a song to you!

    Go for that ceiling draping!
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  • Welcome Welcome Welcome.... Everyone has said their hey's already... It is good to see another knottie in the maryland area... I grew up in glen burnie...sooo really really close to there..

    I think that you have done an AMAZING JOB.. so far.. especially since august.. WOW... you're doin the dang thing...

    I think it's great to be different and since you're having your reception at a new place... you can break the place in right!!!!

    Look forward to getting to know you~!!!!

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  • Thanks for all the ideas. I forgot to tell you, I have a photobooth and a video booth.  Please dont say I am cheap, but I found a coupon and ended up getting my videobooth for free.  So I will actually have both for the price of one. I am a major couponer and I often scour the net to find the best deals.  Now I am in search for a photographer and videographer....anybody got a coupon :-)

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