19 days!!! Time is going to FLY by!! Did you decide how you want to do your hair yet? Sounds like you had a blast at your jack & jill!! :)

Wish you so much luck in your last few weeks of finalizing plans!!

I've never heard of a Jack and Jill either, they just don't happen around here!

I met with my friend's mom on the weekend, who is supplying all of our candles for free :) She sells candles and said she offers the same thing to every wedding in their family, or special people to them. Her daughter is my matron of honor, and we've been best friends our whole lives! Anyways, my mom and I went over and took the candle holders and found some great turquoise colored tealights to use.

I know I still have a lot of time left, but I've been thinking about hairstyles! I watched the Oscars last week and I kind of fell in love with Tina Fey's hair. I had thought I'd wear my hair down, but now I really love the look of that classic elegant updo! We'll see, I still have time to think about it :)

Hi Linz, it's gayle from 4 women. I wore my hair up for my first wedding, in a style I had never worn before and never worn again. I really thought it looked pretty, but I always wished my wedding pics looked more like "me" and I just didn't think the hairstyle looked like me. For my second wedding, I wore it down in a style i often wore, and I liked my wedding pics much more when I felt like me. However, I understand your wedding is a once in a lifetime event and you may want to look completely different for that special day. It's just something to think about.

Hi Gayle!! I agree, I do want to look like myself. The last time I got all dressed up was my high school grad, and I had my hair all curled in this extravagant updo and I looked so pretty, but not like myself! My hair is not curly like that lol! I do wear my hair up quite a bit, normally when I'm dressing up for a party or event :) This looks similar to any updo I would do on myself, just a little step more... a little bigger, a little nicer lol.

Linz, I like that hair style alot! Have you had your hair trial yet? I think you will definitely know if you want to do it after a trial. If you decide to wear it down, you could always keep the front part of this style and wear it as a half up style. Either way, I think you will know exactly how you want it after your trial :)

Nope I haven't had the trial yet! I think I will do that around the end of May/start of June. When I go in for my first dress fitting I think I will put my hair up and see how it looks with the dress. Every time I've tried the dress on I've had my hair down!

Are any of you girls wearing a veil? If so, what does it look like? I am trying to decide what type (and length) of veil I want. Please post pictures! :)

I think I am going with a birdcage veil. It's all I've tried on so far! When I was trying on dresses, I put on a birdcage veil with the dress I picked, and I loved it! I may try a longer one too when I go for fittings. I think I like the vintage-y look of the birdcage though! I'd like to get one with a little ivory flower or something on the side, and after the ceremony I can take off the veil and keep the flower in my hair :)

My engagement photos are done!!! Here are the ones our photographer posted on his blog. We are getting the dvd of all the photos today. It was soooooo cold that day! The last picture is more candid and you can see my hands stuffed in my sleeves lol! I couldn't even feel my hands at that point!

blog.naiduphotography.com/2012/03/07/lindsey-scott-engaged-in-saskatoon/

How exciting!!! I love your photos. The one of you two on the bench taken from the back is so cute!! It looks like it should be a card or something!

If you do your hair in that updo you are thinking a bird cage veil will look really good!! The flower idea is great too...even if you don't find one with a flower, you could always buy a flower for your hair separately.

I just started thinking about my veil. I think I want either a floor length or a chapel length veil. Not sure if I want just plain tulle or chantilly lace at the end (just at the bottom not on the sides). I am leaning towars the plain tulle one since my dress is mostly lace with a little tulle.

Also, I ordered the belt to go with my dress, but am debating wearing the belt to the church...not sure it is too much with the veil. I was thinking of going no belt for ceremony and then after I remove my veil, I'll put the belt on. Here is a pic of my dress again. What do you think?
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Yes! Teddy & Piper will be there. Our hotel is pet friendly so after the ceremony we are going to take a few photos with them! :)

I think a long tulle veil would look amazing with your dress!!!!!

I am still not sure about my pups! Layla will be at the hotel for sure, and we're not sure about the other two now that our pet sitter did not work out! Lucy has a very shrill scream and she's so scared of everything that she will scream for hours in any new place, even if she's surrounded by people she knows. We took her to my parents' house on the weekend for the first time and it was deafening!!! I don't think we can do that on our wedding night... for both the other hotel guests, and for Lucy being so scared!

Nothing to crazy. I think I will get a cute bowtie made for Teddy & put a bow in Piper's hair.

They will not be at the church ceremony or the reception. In between we will just snap a few photos with them and then they will go back to the hotel. Luckily for us our families are big yorkie lovers. My cousin and his wife said they would get the dogs after the ceremony bring them to us for pictures and then take them back to the hotel. In the morning getting ready, Piper will be in the room with me and Teddy will be in the room with Matt. I love that idea and think we will have some cute pictures.

Linz, I love the style in the pic. I do think that would look pretty on you.

All the options seen perfect for a luncheon ... My fav I option 3! Have fun tomorrow!!!

I just loved reading about all brides to be wedding plans. Wishing all of you a perfect day, enjoy every minute of your special day:)

Sorry I have not been on!!! My wedding is 11 days away!!! My hall ticked me off soooooo badly today. Its been a mess with them since the booking! NO Communication at all. No help with anything. They are a 4 star Inn & Resort, they are voted #1 in NH wedding venues. Yet my experience has been crappy from day 1. Now the event coordinator left there yesterday. I have a new contact who has not contacted me for head counts, meal counts, dietary needs, day of schedule, rehearsal, final payments, no explanation for a $375 charge we see on our CC that we didn't expect. Its a mess, and I'm a mess! I paid for THE BEST, and I want THE BEST. I shouldn't be FREAKING out 11 days before the wedding, begging my HALL to meet with me to ease my mind! :( :( What a mess!!!!

I'll keep you all posted, I really hope they straighten up their act! I know I am not having a summertime, 500 person wedding, but they are still getting about $8500 of OUR money and whatever money our guests spend either staying in a room or drinks or food in the restaurant/tavern/wine bar or gift shop on site. Its disgusting!

Oh that would be so frustrating! You should really talk to the manager and let them know that you are ready to write a review online to let other brides know what kind of troubles you've had dealing with them. That should make them want to make things better before you resort to writing a review..

We met with our pastor yesterday about our wedding ceremony. He gave us our options, and now we have to decide if we want to go with the new version of things or the old version of things. I love the old language in the old version, but that is the version where I would have to promise to "obey". Also, when the pastor asks who gives me away, my dad would say "I do". In the newer version, I would not have to "obey" and my parents would both say "we do" Now I thnk I'm leaning towards the newer version!

Thinking about all this stuff makes it seem SO REAL now!

Oh yeah Linz!!! Thats a little bit of a reality check huh? We are having a JP and not a religious ceremony so we wrote our own ceremony. That helped us I think!

ahh!!! you are so close to your wedding!!! I am so excited for you!!! :)

Oh No! I'm so sorry you're having these troubles so close to the big day! I hope you get it all worked out to your satisfaction. I know to us this is our biggest day, but to the venues and vendors we deal with, it's just another job.

We met with the priest 2 weeks ago also to do last minute paperwork, and to choose our readings. We went with the old-school wording and saying the "I do's" instead of repeating the vows after the priest. Fiance was nervous that he would stutter if he has to try to repeat the vows. He said he has always pictured himself saying "I do" at the altar. :)

Oohhh That sounds so sweet! Your mom is a real kind wonderful person! :)

My mom finally told my family that she needs to be with me as we finish the wedding planning. After my grandmother passed away on feb 20, she was catering to her father (my grandfather) for 3 weeks and it was stressing her out after awhile. And she wanted to be here involved in the wedding planning but it was not working out that way. She finally told my grandfather that she has to be with her daughter to do wedding planning and wedding related stuff. Tomorrow is the bachelorette party!

We met with our new hall wedding coordinator and she was wonderful! She put my mind at ease, she had all the arrangements down by the time we left yesterday and even was able to do things we were originally told NO. After we met with her I told her we were going to go to the wine bar for a glass of wine and show it to my mom (who was with us) and she came up and comp'ed our drinks! :)

Normally I would be eating terribly too! But Ive been sick twice in 1 month and my grandmother passed away, Ive lost 10lbs since Feb 1 and now I can't lose anymore. With only 8 days to the wedding, there is no more time to alter the gown and it's already borderline loose.

Awwww how sweet of your coworkers!!! :)

My bachelorette party was not an average one... we did it at one of my bridesmaids houses. We had a spa evening. It was sooo nice and super fun! My mom made all these all natural homemade spa recipes, an exfoliating scrub with almonds and mayonnaise, then a mask with avocados & egg yolk for dry skin and egg white for oily skin. Then a chocolate mask with oatmeal, honey, coco powder (it tasted delicious!!) and a strawberry hand & foot salt scrub with fresh strawberries, olive oil and sea salt. It smelled wonderful! That one we didn't eat bc well... salt... and strawberries, didn't sound appetizing, but everything else we could eat it or we could use it on our skin (or both!)!
We played some silly games, we sang really bad Wii karaoke with games we had, we did have drinks, they were all green drinks, like key lime pie martinis (delicious!!), appletinis and mojitos. Since it was St. Pattys Day, we also did a boiled dinner of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes & carrots, we had other foods that were all green too, like an all green veggie tray with dip, and deviled eggs that we dyed green on the inside. We made spa baskets for everyone with faceclothes and towels, soaps, lotions, exfoliating gloves, mani/pedi tools, green wash basins, cups & fun twisty straws, candles, turbi twist hair towels and green nail polish. Everyone got to take home their goodie baskets! They also hired a massage therapist to come in and for $40 you could get a 1/2 hour massage. aaaahhhhhh

It was soooo nice! Now the countdown is really really on, 5 days until the wedding!!!!

It was a GREAT night! We had so much fun!

It is so close!!! You must be getting nervous! I don't feel like my wedding will ever be just 5 days away lol! Your bachelorette party sounds like a lot of fun!!!

I finished all of my invitations on the weekend. It took me about 5 hours over 2 days to put together 82 invitations :eek: We used invitation kits from Michaels, but we added some ribbon and stuff to make it a little different. 5 hours of ribbon and glue, ribbon and glue, ribbon and glue... I hope I never put together invitations like that for the rest of my life lol!

We also ordered Scott's wedding band :) And we went to Sears to add more things to our wedding registry. It took us about 4 hours :eek: It's not that we're picky but there's just so much to look at lol!

Oh my gosh Linz! I hear ya on the invitations! We made 55 of them, but we made them from scratch! It was sooooooo much work, hours & hours, of cutting, printing, mounting and tying ribbon! UGH! In the end, we forgot to put return addresses on the envelopes! DUH!!! LOL Its ok though, they all made it to where they were supposed to!
Getting the rings ordered is so exciting huh? It makes it almost real!