Poll: WR

LaFemmeRousse · August 2009

Because I want to know more about everyone's weddings :)1. When and where is/was your wedding? 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most?9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision?

brivb10 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? January 2, 2010 - Watertown, NY 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? HONEYMOON!!! 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? My mother - she is anti his side, even though they are contributing. So far - hardest is Bridal Shower invites. UGH! My poor BMs who are hosting. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 3 - very pleased. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Spend the money on what you want (be it photos, rings, etc. It's YOUR day) 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Black/Silver. Everywhere, linens, bm dresses, invites, tableware, decorations, programs, signature cocktails, etc 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. DRESS!! But my shoes are a VERY close second. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? HONEYMOON! and the first dance I think. And watching me come down the isle probably! 9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Dollar dance will be a no go for us probably, but so far, everything else is in there~ 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? NO KIDS AT ALL UNDER THE AGE OF 18. and I feel great!!!!! about it. It's an adult celebation, my party, and I do NOT want to hear screaming, running around, or crying. A black tie event is not!!!!! for kids! (paging DF"s preggo relatives, NO KIDS!!). Df and I are VERY firm on this. Clearly. lol.

dreamalotmp · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? Dec '08. Ceremony - First Unitarian in Shadyside, Reception - The Edgewood Club 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Seeing everyone smile back at me when I smiled into the pews during the ceremony. It was an amazing feeling. Everyone should do it. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Getting DH to do the parts that he picked to do. Procrastination sux! 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? I had 3. Just perfect. Although one of them and I don't speak anymore. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Keep on doing what you're doing because you guys are so happy together. (Not really advice, but said during my stepdad's speech. Made me so happy) 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? My colors were cranberry, dark brown, and cream. We incorporated them into the BM dresses, the flowers, the table linens, the programs, the centerpieces... pretty much everything except my Mrs. P booty shorts that I wore. They were baby blue. :P 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. Hard to pick. I LOVED my dress (after not loving it for so long). But I also loved my earrings and my veil just as much. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Having his whole family there to support his 'finally' finding true love. :)9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Nothing. We didn't do anything at all that was excessive. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We had relative kids and one daughter of friends who handed out our little 'ringy bells'. I was fine with it. I wished that we could invite more, but there would have been 28 if we let all of our friends bring their kids.

blush2422 · August 2009

1. May 1, 2010 St. Joseph's Church New Kensington and Lingrow Farm Leechburg 2.Nothing yet too early to tell! 3. Caterers not emailing you information in a timely fashion. 4. 4, they are all my sisters! 5. It's going to look great no matter what. 6. Purple with hot pink accents. I'm going to have mostly purple flowers with touches of pink. I'm thinking of doing a purple and pink table number thing. 7. I don;t have a dress yet, I have no idea what I even want. picked out a few pictures and they are all different. 8. The food.9. Money dance at reception 10. We will be having kids. I don't think it will be as fun with out them!

dicer2 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? Greensburg/Four Points, May 09 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? It totally surprised me, but saying our vows. It was a big moment for me. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Getting my invitations to stay glued together! And also having to give up the church at my college because I couldn't find a priest to marry us there. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 4, it was perfect for me. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Take moments during your wedding day to stand back and take it all in. Those are the moments I remember the most. It goes so fast! 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Indigo blue with silver accents. I had a lot of blue stuff, pomanders, centerpieces, banners, through all my paper products. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. My dress for sure! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? He said he loved seeing me for the first time walking down the aisle. It was his most memorable moment.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? I would have invited less people. I wouldn't have worried about centerpieces at all. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We don't have many kids in our family, my cousin's daughter (8) couldn't come. Four teens were invited because I'm close with 2 of them and the other two are my god children. One of my BMs brought her one and half year old and he had a blast!

morganphd · August 2009

Because I finally have a short break at work today, I get to play:1. When and where is/was your wedding? June 13, 2009, ceremony was in Munhall, reception at Grand Concourse 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? The ceremony. It was beautiful. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Although difficult to plan from OOT, it wasn't the hardest part. The hardest part was dealing with my MIL who kept fighting us because we weren't getting married in Philly. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? We had 6 BMs and 2 Jr BMs - I wanted less, but we had to placate family members 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Just ignore everyone else and do what you want. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? They were tropical blue and light mocha. We used them in everything. Our BMs were in the tropical blue, the Jr. BMs in the light mocha. Both colors were in our invites, in the color coded escort cards, in our favors, in all of the ribbons we used, and in our programs. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. 2 Pieces: I loved my veil, since it had so much meaning. I converted my mother's veil from her wedding. The second was the hairpiece that the florist made for me from an orchid to wear the rest of the evening (I didn't want to wear my veil all night since it was so long and bulky). 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? He liked having our pictures done at Kennywood.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? We ended up not doing the dollar dance, even though it is traditional in my family. Things were running late, and we just ran out of time. I honestly didn't miss it. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? OF COURSE!! I have 10 nieces and nephews and 2 great-nephews and a ton of cousins with kids, as well as most of my friends now have little ones. There was no way that we were getting married without them all!! And, they were having so much fun. We had a great time seeing them all.

npales · August 2009

Yay! This makes me happy!1. When and where is/was your wedding? 9/5/09 at the National Aviary 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Everything except the guest list! 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Guest List 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 1 MOH, 3 BMs, 1 Jr BM. Perfect number! 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Enjoy it! The day goes by in a flash! I really need to keep this in mind. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Black & ivory/champagne with touches of rich red. The scheme is in the stationery, flowers, centerpieces, favors, linens, etc. I'll one-time link my bio for all the newer girls. Haven't updated it in a while since I took it down, so a bunch of projects are not on there. [url]http://sites.google.com/site/neweddingbio[/url] 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. Dress & purse 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Seeing all of our friends and family from OOT9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Not doing a traditional guestbook. We're doing a grid-painting guestbook instead. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? Yes. We have 6 children under 10, 3 infants, and 4 teenagers.

themissizz · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding?11/15/08 - Pine Run UMC and reception at The Willow Room in Belle Vernon. 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far?None really. I didn't enjoy planning my wedding. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning?Talking to my mom every morning, hah. Dealing with all unmarried wedding party members who didn't offer to do anything for us. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number?5, it was fine. I definitely wouldn't have had more than that though. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard?Enjoy your wedding day because it flies by. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them?Black and ivory. Our centerpieces were white callas in black vases, we had black and ivory linens. The girls' dresses were black. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc.I loved my earrings! I also wore a vintage shawl that my grandmother wore for my mom's wedding which felt so special to have to wear to my wedding! It was gorgeous and modern looking too. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most?He had a great time dancing, hitting a bar with his friends after the wedding, and just seeing everyone and enjoying the da.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without?A big fancy wedding. I wish that we would have done something more modern and funky instead of having the big ballroom wedding experience. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision?No kids at our wedding. Our friends and family are big drinkers, we knew that many of them would dance and be pretty drunk so we made the decision to have an adults only reception. We also would have only had a handful of children there so it just wasn't worth making the accommodations in our opinion.

cobrien1976 · August 2009

Because I want to know more about everyone's weddings :)1. When and where is/was your wedding? 10/24/09 Pittsburgh 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Trying on my dress for the first time; planning part was eating cake and our food tasting...yumm! 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Invitations and guest list, FSIL's comments about this and that. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 7 bridesmaids, 3 flower girls. NO! My bridesmaids are evil, except for 2 of them. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Take the money and run away - I should've listened! Nah, don't get too caught up in all the wedding related drama. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Chocolate brown, gold and Ivory. Everything is drapped in brown with gold or ivory accents, candles everywhere! Fresh fall flowers. I cannot wait to see it all! 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. EVERYTHING about my dress is perfect! I could careless about the shoes or veil. The jewelry I'll be wearing has been bought by Scott over the last 7 years of being together! He has great taste!8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Scott is excited to see me and my dad walk down the aisle. Him and my dad are super close too, so it makes it all so sweet! I'm sure he'll shed a tear.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? We are not doing the garter toss! 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? It orginally was no kids and now we are ending up with 13. I'm ok with this decision now because the kids are all well behaved and they are close family members and I can't imagine them not being there!

LaFemmeRousse · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding?My wedding will be in Pittsburgh on July 17, 2010. Our ceremony will be at St. Boniface and our reception will be at the Duquesne Club. 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far?Honestly, I love everything about planning so far! I'm sure this will change soon

I guess picking our venues was my favorite part so far. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning?I'm sure that limiting our guest list (and making our parents stick to that limit!) will be difficult, although we're not quite there yet. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number?I'm having 5. I'm happy with that because it's my closest girlfriends and FI's sister. One of my BMs lives out of the country but is able to come, so I'm extra excited about that! 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard?Set your budget from the very beginning and stick to it! Spreadsheets are great. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them?My main color is a vibrant celery green with jewel tone accents. Each of my BMs will wear one of these colors (not matching), I'll probably wear colored shoes and jewelry, we're doing a candy bar in the palette, and of course the stationery, linens, flowers and other decorations will incorporate the colors! 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc.Right now I'm loving dress shopping! I kind of want a short "reception dress" to change into during the dancing portion of the evening, but I feel sort of silly for even wanting it. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most?I think my FI will probably like our FOOD most! 9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without?We're doing a couple of un-traditional things- I will have one fewer BM than he will have GMs, we're not doing a head table, and my BMs will not be in matching dresses or colors. There will probably be more as we continue planning! 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision?I'm going back and forth about this. I don't think I really want kids there, but FI comes from a large family with some cousins who are still children, and I think I might feel bad not inviting them.

colleenmclaughlin1 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding?Sept. 12, 2009--St. Stephen Church/Salvatore's 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far?Getting gifts for my BMs--I'm spoiling them and I love it! 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning?At first it was dealing with my mom, but now she's great and it's getting back RSVPs! 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number?3 and it's perfect! 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Something will go wrong, and when it does, you'll know that's the thing and just let it go.6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Fuchsia and black. Everywhere--my dress, BM dresses, OOT bags, programs, placecards, invites, Guys' ties and pocket squares, linens, cookies, cake topper, flowers7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc.I LOVE my dress. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most?I think it will be dessert and the "party" part of the reception. Just having a good time with friends and family.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without?We are forgoing the cake cutting, money dance, and bouquet and garter tosses--just not our style. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We are only having my neices (3 and 7) and nephew (5) who are out flower girls and ring bearer. My cousins who are 13 and 17 will be there, too. Other than that, none because they guest list would have gotten out of control and made the families look even more lopsides (he has about 15 family members coming, I have about 50. With kids, it would be 75).

skybluejen · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? June 27, 2009 at my church then Montour Heights Country Club 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? I loved everything about it. I guess all my DIY projects were my favorite. They made it so special. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Invitations! Everything about them! 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 9. It was fabulous. I'm all about big weddings and bridal parties

We had SO much fun! 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Enjoy every moment of wedding planning and being engaged. Its so true. It goes so fast, but its such a fun and exciting time! 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? baby blue and white. They were incorporated in everything...right down to my blue cake! 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. My dress! And my pearl necklace, it was my mom's. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? He loved celebrating with all of his closest friends and family, and having everyone together in one place!9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Everything I did, I'm glad I did. Everything went perfectly smooth and I got so many compliments on the little details! 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? Yes, I had kids at the wedding. I would not have changed that for anything. I have tons of little cousins and I loved having them there. Their parents were still able to have fun, and the kids danced all night long!

themissizz · August 2009

2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far?Ooops, kind of mis-answered that one! My favorite part of the wedding was the time I spent in our bridal suite drinking and eating appetizers with our bridal party before being introduced.

dvansky · August 2009

1. 10/10/10- ceremony at Holy Ghost Orthodox Church in Ambridge, reception at The Chadwick in Wexford. 2. Scanning the web for hours (and I mean, hours!) looking at dresses! 3. Overbearing aunts. Ugh. 4. 6 and yes, very happy! 5. From my wonderful SIL (bro's wife): "It's your wedding, do whatever the hell you want." love her. 6. Dark red and champagne. The girl's dresses are red and will have champagne colored flowers. The guys will have dark red vests and ties, and other small things. But I'm not going color crazy. 7. Jewelry! 8. Hmm...good question! Probably the bar at the reception hahaha jk actually I think it will (in all humility) be me. He wants to know nothing about the dress until I am walking into the church! 9. No money dance. Tacky. 10. Well, we're not banning them, per se, but we don't really know that many and there won't be that many invited. Neither of us have nieces or nephews or really young cousins. And our friends that have kids, have REALLY young kids that they've already told us they don't plan to bring.

hey_its_jenn · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? September 19th - New Kensington/Cheswick 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Getting to tell my mother no so many times

haha, no, I've really liked most of it thus far. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? My mother has been a nightmare since day 1. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? After a very long, DRAMATIC escapade, I have 3 and I'm really excited for it. There are 5 GMs but oh well. Two guys for one girl - it'll be cute! 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Don't stress the small stuff - only you'll notice if something isn't done or doesn't go right 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Chocolate, Champagne with gold accents. Anywhere I could throw color, I am.7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. Dress, for sure. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Watching me walk down the isle.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Even number of GM/BMs. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We are having kids and I love the idea. My mother and FMIL do not like it but it's not their wedding

Honestly, we don't have that many kids (maybe 10) so we didn't see a point to exclude them.

jlryan1 · August 2009

Because I want to know more about everyone's weddings

1. When and where is/was your wedding? 5/9/09 in Irwin at St. Barbara. Reception at Banquets Unlimited 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? My favorite part was the ceremony- which surprised me! 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Dealing with family who didn't care what we wanted. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 8! It worked out great for me! 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? That everything will work out once the day is here. So true! 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? victorian lilac and ivory. I had lilac shoes, a sash on my dress, BM's wore lilac, GM ties were lilac, flowers, cake, it was everywhere! 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. My gorgeous purple shoes! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Seeing everyone together at the wedding! 9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? I wish I hadn't bought cocktail napkins. I have SO many left. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? Only the FG and RB and it worked out great.

AMK2009 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? April 25, 2009 at St. Pete's Church in New Kensington, and reception at the VFW in Lower Burrell 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Honestly, the best part was coming home the night after the wedding and being able to say "It's finally OVER!" 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? the seating chart and guest list. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? I had 6. The number was ok, but I was excited and asked them way too early, and if I would have waited even a few months later, it would have been different. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? don't budget for more than you can pay for up front, you don't want to be paying for this years after the wedding is over 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? pink! I had pink everything: flowers, cake, shoes, bridesmaid dresses, just about anything that can have color was pink. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. I liked my shoes. And my jewelry. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Hmm, probably just being with family and friends. And his awesome wife! :)9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? I wish I wouldn't have bothered with favors and donated to a charity instead and I didn't do something borrowed, something blue 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? I have tons of children in my family and of course I invited them. I would never consider having it any other way.

pinksonya · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? August 22nd! 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? I guess I'd have to say the knot! I've met so many great people and have learned so much. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Ooh, finding a caterer, getting a hold of vendors, finding a dress, and making a million other decisions... 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 3. It's a great number, but I wish I would've waited longer to choose. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Don't worry so much about the little details. No one will notice except you. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? We don't really have colors. We originally were going to use green, so we decided to order green linens and fuschia gerbera daisies.7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. The dress. It better be after all the hassle! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Exchanging vows, finally seeing my gown and partying with family and friends.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? We tried to scrap a lot of traditional aspects, like the cake cutting, but got suckered into it. We aren't having a bouqet or garter toss or bridal party dance. I'm sure there are others. Our ceremony is unique and very us. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? Absolutely. This was never a question. We have 18 children attending from less than a year old up to 15.

e8jackson6 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? 9/13/08 at Phipps 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? I loved our ceremony because we wrote it ourselves - I also loved hanging out and dancing at the reception 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Hardest part was probably the guest list and seating 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 4 and yes 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Don't sweat the small stuff - just relax and have fun 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? periwinkle and sage - my shoes, bm dresses, gm tuxes, flowers, all things paper 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. Loved my $6 shoes

8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? I think he liked his wedding gift ;p9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Wish I hadn't invited CWs 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? Only had DH's nieces and nephews, and only because we didn't want to start WWIII - no other kids

pinksonya · August 2009

Oops! My wedding is at a farm, but who doesn't know that!

cobrien1976 · August 2009

Opps..Soldiers & Sailors

Pumpkin_Princess · August 2009

1. October 31st, 2009 in the Valley of Fire, NV2. Well aside from getting married, I would have to say the location3. Trying to make everyone happy. It doesn't work. It also annoys me that a big chunk of the people who said they were "definitely going to be there!" backed out.4. No BMs. It's way easier not having to pick people considering that right of the bat 3 people demanded to be MOH. 5. You'll never please everyone, so make sure that it is what you and FI really want. 6. Black, orange, and cream (with green accents). Black linens, orange flowers, orange crinoline, Black and orange invitations, and my garter has jack-o-lanterns. 7. My dress and spider hair pin.8. The helicopter9. We're not doing the garter/bouquet toss. It's too weird.10. No kids. I'm sad that my nieces and nephews can't attend, but I don't feel like Vegas is an appropriate place for them.

punkNess · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? 9/18/10 - New Kensington 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Actually, seeing my parents excited about helping me plan. I'm the baby and only girl, so it's the only time they get to do this.3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Right now, making pocketfolds. Ugh..4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? I'm shooting for five, working on the cards and asking them next week. Eh, I could go with four, but I can't ask one neice without asking the other.5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Still waiting on that. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Blue, brown, green, and ivory. Still working on how it's all going to flow together. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. Um, I'm lame. I have no attire right now. I have all the supplies to make a haute bracelet, so I'm excited about that. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? FI is really excited to take pictures with the helicopter that's at the reception site. 9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? I'm contemplating mixing up the bridal party for the BP dance. My MOH's hubby will only be a GM. I'm thinking I won't make her dance with the BM if her hubby is there. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? I'm secretly hoping people do not bring kids, my cousin is 23 and already has five kids. I feel bad coming right out and telling them not to though.

d78 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? 6/13/09 at Mayernik Ctr in North Hills (ceremony & reception) 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? There were lots of fave parts of the wedding, but if picking just one, it was being surrounded by our loved ones on such an important day. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Tracking down the guests who didn't RSVP. Making decisions was hard too, but I got used to that. ;-) 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 3. It was perfect and I still talk to who I chose. lol5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Don't just plan for the wedding, plan for the *marriage*. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Brown, Ivory, & sage green 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. My dress! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? I think he enjoyed getting to see people we don't get to see too much. He also said he loved seeing the details come together and how well I did with it all. (He's trained well!)9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? We did lots of non-traditional stuff, so I wouldn't know where to start! Maybe money dance? I have no regrets at all about being non-traditional! :-) 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We had about maybe 12 or so kids there and I was hoping for more. I think kids make the day so much more fun. I wouldn't have imagined it without kids...I love being around them (but not in a creepy way!lol).

KimWard · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? May 16, 2009, Penn Hills/Monroeville area. Ceremony was at my home church in PH and reception was at Gateway Hall in Monroeville. 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Oh gosh, fav. part? It's hard to choose. I loved walking down the aisle (guess I'm an AW!), enjoyed the limo ride (was worried b/c bridal party didn't know each other, but everyone got along great and we had a blast), dancing to our first dance (choreographed), and the Dollar dance b/c I was able to visit with guests as we danced. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Hardest thing was when I found out last minute my aunt, uncle, cousins, and grandparents that live in AZ could not come. :-( I have not seen them in 8 years, but plan to visit them early next year. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? Had 3, which was perfect for me b/c they are my 3 best friends, and I have known them for so long. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Enjoy the day, b/c it goes by SO quickly. It really does- it was by far the quickest day of my life. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Lilac and silver- BM dresses were lilac, GM wore silver vests and ties, my flowers were lilac and white roses, decorated church with lilac-flowered garland, rose petals at reception were lilac, cake had lilac flowers on it...there's prob. more! 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. Dress for sure- I felt so beautiful and special in it. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? He'd probably say the wedding night, haha. I really think he enjoyed dancing though, and the garter removal of course. ;-)9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? OOT bags b/c the hotels did not give them out to everyone, and in general I think it was a waste of my money. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? Kids were welcome, but our families don't have many young children. The youngest we had was like 13 or 14. I definitely think kids should be part of the wedding day though!

glassybroad · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? March, at the Mayernick. 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? My favorite part of planning so far was picking the venue and getting the date I wanted! (I haven't done much planning, as you can tell!) 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? The guest list. My mother is a nightmare about it. And she's already b1tching about seating arrangements. I haven't even THOUGHT about them yet. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 2. My sister, and my fiance's daughter (she's only 5, but I don't want her to feel "junior" anything...I want her to feel important). 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? If people are questioning your choices, or giving you grief, stop telling them anything. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Plum and Clover. Only really using them for bridesmaid dresses and flowers. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. So far, it's my dress! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Eh, neither of us want to be the center of attention, so neither of us are that excited...I think our favorite part will be when it is over and we get to be alone together.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? I'm not doing the garter/bouquet toss. No special dances other than FI and myself. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? I didn't want kids there, but we have several out-of-town guests that have nowhere for the kids to stay, so we're inviting a few. I feel ok about it.

EmilyBerdell · August 2009

I really should be doing something productive at work, but this seems more fun.

1. When and where is/was your wedding?November 7, 2009. St. Margaret Mary parish in Lower Burrell, PA/ reception: Syria Mosque, Cheswick, PA 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? Everything. I plan events for a living and it's SO FUN to plan for things that fit my and my FI's taste instead of the attendees at my work events! 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning?The huge guest list. But I've come to terms with it! 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number?Five BMs and yes, I'm happy with that number. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard?To practice meditating. I'm a crier, as is my friend who was recently married. She said she worked on meditating leading up to the wedding so she could 'remove' herself from the emotional situations and not bawl her eyes out all day long. I really need to do that too! 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them?Cobalt blue and fuschia. The BM dresses are cobalt, as are the ribbons on our STDs and invites. We'll have cobalt marbles in the floating candle centerpieces, and cobalt votives on the tables. I'm also planning to use cobalt glass bottles with single stems on the escort card table. The fuschia will be in the flowers - gerbera daisies - bouquets, CPs, etc. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc.Dress and maybe earrings! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most?I think that all of our family members and friends will be gathered together to celebrate with us. He's very sentimental. :)9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without?Bouquet / garter toss. We have literally 2 single friends. I refuse to put them on the spot. I think we'll do the anniversary dance or nothing. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We are having family members' kids, and BP kids, but that's it. The equals 25 under 14. It is what it is. I am really close to all my cousins, so to not invite their kids never crossed my mind. Other peoples kids? Well, we already have a guest list approaching 400, so I just can't have any more.

frognjessi · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? November 14, 2009... Washington,Pa 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? being able to make it sooooo personal 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? hardest... trying to decide who will walk me down the aisle. Annoying... FI thinking planning a wedding is just finding a church and buying food. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? technically I have 5... but 1 still hasn't ordered her dress so I guess I have 4... I'm happy with 4 or 5. 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? "it's your wedding day, it's not about anyone else" 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? ivory & black with silver & fushcia as an accent. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. my dress but I also LOVE my shoes. 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? that we're making it so personal... it's not going to be traditional.9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? I would love to skip walking down the aisle altogether. And I would also like to skip the traditonal dances. But we'll do all of that. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? We are inviting about 30 kids and I hope every single one of them come! We have 4 kids in the wedding. I can't possibly imagine not having kids at my wedding.

brivb10 · August 2009

Guess I seem to be the only b!tch that doesn't want kids, and isn't afraid to put it on the reception invites, or to spread the word through MOB and FMIL. Oh well - I suppose that's what makes the world go round!

kbielak17 · August 2009

1. When and where is/was your wedding? October 17, 2009 ~ ceremony at Heinz Chapel, reception on the Gateway Clipper 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far? I'm really excited about the ceremony, HC is beautiful and it will be sooo great to finally be married!

3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning? Probably just doing it long distance, not really that hard, but I wish I had my mom and friends closer so they could help me out 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number? 4 (1 MOH, 3 BM) I think it's a great number that fits our wedding well 5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? In general probably just to enjoy not only the day, but planning. I think I've been relatively stress-free and I really have enjoyed planning the wedding 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them? Sapphire blue and silver ~ BM attire, my shoes are blue, invitations, just little touches here and there. I'm not really going overboard with making everything all matchy. 7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc. I love my wedding band! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most? Just seeing all of our family and friends and celebrating with them! We like to party so we're looking forward to the reception :)9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without? Hmmm, I can't think of anything even though I'm sure there's something! 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision? No, we will have a few teens but no young kids....I feel very good about the decision! We don't have a lot of young kids in our family but for those that we do have, the parents are looking forward to a mini-vacation and not having to worry about keeping them occupied

McBridetobe · August 2009

Work has been cutting into my knotting time today! Grr! 1. When and where is/was your wedding?July 5, 2008 - our ceremony was at St. Valentine Church and our reception was at the Circuit Center. 2. What was your favorite part of your wedding OR what is your favorite part of planning so far?My ceremony was my favorite part of the wedding day. Seeing my DH and the end of the aisle was such a surreal feeling. DIY elements were my favorite part or actual planning. 3. What was/ has been the hardest or most annoying part about planning?Uh, sometimes DIY were also the most annoying part!

But I enjoyed it, so I'll say finalizing and sticking to our guest list. 4. How many bridesmaids do you have? Are you happy with that number?I had 7 and I thought it was too many. Haha! But it was hard to cut anyone out, so we went with it.

5. What's the best piece of wedding-related advice you've heard? Focus on planning your ceremony, don't sweat the small stuff and make sure to eat and enjoy your reception. 6. What are your colors? How did you incorporate them?We had a black and white wedding with pink and silver accents...incorporated um, everywhere! BM dresses, flowers, centerpieces, table linens, invites/STDs, programs, cocktail napkins, reception signage...everywhere!

7. What was/is your favorite part of your attire? Dress, shoes, veil, jewelry, etc.I loved my gown and my veil! 8. What did your DH like the most about your wedding day (besides getting married!) or what do you think your FI will like the most?Spending the rest of his life with me, of course!

He enjoyed the parts that he planned the most, I think...food, music, alcohol, honeymoon. And seeing everything come together!9. What's one thing you did that you wished you hadn't bothered with or what's one traditional thing you plan to do without?We didn't toss a garter, NMS. I'm glad we didn't bother with stuff for the kids to do at the wedding - coloring books, a room with a babysitter, etc...it all worked out. 10. Did you or do you plan to have kids at your wedding? How did you feel about your decision?Yep! We both have big families and are close to them - I was so happy to be able to celebrate with our cousins and their kiddos too!

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