How is everyone? We are fine except for no power or water. We have a lot of downed trees and flooding. They said 5 days for power, but we live near a hospital and are hoping it will be sooner.
I'm using today to do a ton of manual wedding stuff like wrapping the BP gifts, getting the paper items together and writing thank yous for my shower.
I hope everyone and your families are OK!
Re: Hurricane Update - everyone OK?
Right now it is sunny and nice out, and doesn't look like anything even happened.In this area, it seemed just like a regular heavy rain storm, not a hurricane, or at least nothing like what we were expecting. I expected to see debris flying all over the place and tons of trees and limbs down. I guess we lucked out. I wanna go to the mall! lol
[QUOTE]How is everyone? We are fine except for no power or water. We have a lot of downed trees and flooding. They said 5 days for power, but we live near a hospital and are hoping it will be sooner. I'm using today to do a ton of manual wedding stuff like wrapping the BP gifts, getting the paper items together and writing thank yous for my shower. I hope everyone and your families are OK!
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PS, I'm jealous you have 132 pepole coming to your wedding! lol.. we invited about the same amount of people, and we will be lucky if we get 120, our minimum is 125. thanks to FI's sucky family - only a handful of them are actually coming.. and my family has a lot of OOT people that I guess didn't want to bother trying to come :(
Aww...dont worry if u have less people. We invited 215 and ended up with 130 saying yes and having just exactly 125 (our minimum) the day off due to 2 no shows and a few ppl having illness/emergencies. I loved having it a bit smaller..it gave us time to truly talk to everyone (and it cost less! haha). U'll have a beautiful day no matter way
And so far so good here...still have power and praying it stays on!
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[QUOTE]You know what? We are LUCKY that we made our minimum of 125. We were only going to invite around 175 to keep it low, but FI had a hard time cutting his guest list. We thought we were going to be way over. That 80/20 rule doesn't always hold true- lol. Can you negotiate to use those $$ for other things at the reception? And you still have time before your due date. We were missing 64 on our RSVP date and had to track down a lot of people. And if you are headed to Short Hills, call first. I have to go to Tiffany bit they are closed! Do you have a lot of wedding stuff to do? I feel like it's a lot and I'm afraid I will forget something.
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Looking at our list of non-rsvp'ers... about half are obvious no's.. so we'll see. I haven't asked about negotiating yet, I figure I'll wait until we know for sure. I would've gone to Jersey Gardens today but they are closed.
I've been trying to do things that involve being home.. we just made an ipod playlist for our limo ride to the reception, and we FINALLY ordered the groomsmen gifts.. so still getting a couple checks this weekend!
[QUOTE]How is everyone? We are fine except for no power or water. We have a lot of downed trees and flooding. They said 5 days for power, but we live near a hospital and are hoping it will be sooner. I'm using today to do a ton of manual wedding stuff like wrapping the BP gifts, getting the paper items together and writing thank yous for my shower. I hope everyone and your families are OK!
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Aww! Hope it comes back sooner than 5 days! We are good here just extremely windy and lots of down limbs, some trees. Stay safe everyone!!!
But thankfully we are ok just sucks not being home for a week!