MI07Bride, that sounds like a great idea for the flowers!
Your FMIL sounds just like my mother! My mom told me over one of our many conversations about the wedding a few months ago (she has back off a bit, but then thats because my fathers mother has been in and out of the hospital a lot lately to get blood transfusions) So what my mom told me was that "ever thing that i dream for your wedding is not happening the way I planned it." And what i told my mom was, "of course not" because as i told her, her dreams are not my dreams, and my mom seemed a little sad to hear it, but it is the truth.
=) Is your BM boyfriend going to pop the question soon? So exciting seeing other people getting asked, or knowing their partner is going to ask soon and the other is all in the clouds about it.
July07Bride, Welcome to this thread! It is nice planning early to spread the money out, other wise we would feel VERY poor at the end of it all. =D And getting the dress this late in the game (for that bride that you ran into that is getting married this summer) that would be to stressfull for me to leave the dress for almost last thing to buy.
We are going with a Deep red wine kinda color with a nice cream color (don't have the color pinpointed yet), and i thought maybe a splash of sliver would look nice. (have the silver in the flowers of something like that)
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Our Goal: $5,000 at most...under if we can help it...oh man girls pray for me, thats not much money. We are not poor, but we will feel like it soon, we are going to be buying a house together this summer, and want to put as much down on the home. Plus why feel like you need to go into dedt (we have not yet talked to either parents about if they want to pay anything yet, cause we don't want them to say that in order for them to give them a cent we have to do things their way for the wedding.) So we are going to wait till we know what we want and say to the parents, "this is happening here, and we are going this there, would you like to help out?"
We had a friend that just got married about a month ago and they only spent about $2,000 on their wedding, she is my role modle!
MI07Bride, i like your idea of the single stem roses being the momorials, i was thinking of candles. My FH has no grandparents left, so i thought one candle for each set, and one of my grandfathers who has passed on, so i though after the wedding i would then give the candles of my FH grandparents to my F-in-laws, and then the candle of my grandpa to my grandma, but if she passes before we get married, i'll give it to my parents (hope she will be able to see me married, i'm her first grandchild to get married.)
-goes with the fireworks!) and then an accent of yellow because my favorite cut flowers are yellow roses (reg. I LOVE orchids- can't grow them but do love them. Of course I love my English tea roses also- I am fifth generation with them and up until moving them to future IL's they were thriving
... don't ask! I am trying to find them a safe location to move them to until we get a house!)
