Bumblebee's updates

Bumble, girl you did great! Veils and tiaras are so expensive at bridal salons. I think I'm going to steal your idea. lol

But, I cannot see your gown. :-( Please try to post it again or let us know the style name/number.

Neither can I. I am thinking about going to New York to purchase my bridal party jewelry, my jewelry, and my veil and tiara. A friend of mine who just got married got her tiara for 9.00 and her veil for 22.00. I am going to ask her to take me there.

when I went to try on my gown, I had picked up a tiara and it looked really nice on, but whenever I saw that it cost $199 I almost threw up! I will look into clair's, didn't know they had tiaras...thanks. try and post your pics again...I would luv to see them.

Bumblebee,I'm so happy for you.I can't wait to see your pics!Your time is winding down.

MsBoston, check out www.hannahdonline.com for inexpensive tiaras.

Bumblebee~ CONGRATS!! One month to go..... and all is well. Keep us informed on the updates. (for some reason I can't see the pics but I am sure they are fab!)

Bumble:

You posted the pics perfectly, except we can't see them if you are not logged in! It is a timed private server your pics are hosted on. So if you have pics anywhere else they should show fine with the code you used.

[quote="housewife147"]Neither can I. I am thinking about going to New York to purchase my bridal party jewelry, my jewelry, and my veil and tiara. A friend of mine who just got married got her tiara for 9.00 and her veil for 22.00. I am going to ask her to take me there.
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House, please let me know the place's name when you find out. Those are my kind of prices.

OK I was slow to do this 'cause I just saw your e-mail, Bumble! Here are the pics. You look great! What is with the scared look on your face? did you just realize what you PAID? lol Pics too big I have to resize! lol

Thanks so much Rosie.

Bumble you look fabulous in your gown. Congrats again.

Wow Bumble! The gown looks great! Congrats!

[quote="SeptBride"]Neither can I. I am thinking about going to New York to purchase my bridal party jewelry, my jewelry, and my veil and tiara. A friend of mine who just got married got her tiara for 9.00 and her veil for 22.00. I am going to ask her to take me there.

House, please let me know the place's name when you find out. Those are my kind of prices.
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I'm going to a store called Metropolitan. It's on 6th Ave. My aunt got her tiara for $11 from there.

Nice gown!

Beautiful gown Bumble! Your day is fastly approaching, how do you feel?

Gorgeous Bumble

I like I like I like you look beautiful!

ooooooo.....pretty!....

Ajia, do you have to have a vendor's license to go to that store?

Thank you Platinum...I'm about to check it out when i'm done up in here.
Bumble...You look soooo pretty!! for real. Yeah a little scared...LOL, but really, really beautiful. 1 MONTH!!! yes please tell us how are you feeling? I'm so scared and I have 7 loooong months to go.

your gown is sooo pretty, I love the fitted bodice and corset back.

Princess

That dress is beautiful and you are beautiful in it! I love corset's. I live in California, I guess that is too far for most of y'all but I heard you can get good deals in the fashion district, kinda of like a whole sale place that you can bargian down.

[quote="SeptBride"]Ajia, do you have to have a vendor's license to go to that store?
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Nope! We just walked right in. I think if you have a vendor's license it would be even cheaper.

That gown is simply beautiful

Bee, girl, you look amazing!!! Girlfriend, you are wearing that gown!!! My favorite feature of Maggie gowns are how the back of the gown is strung up-corset style.

Bee, you look great. You're going to look like a princess on your wedding day.

House, please let me know the place's name when you find out. Those are my kind of prices.
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I surely will, her b-day is this weekend and her husband took her out of town, but first thing monday morning I will give her a call.

THanks house!

Simply beautiful! Your gown is gorgeous and you look like a queen!

Simply marvelous, you look amazing. Funny I here everybody say they are trying to loose weight. Here I am struggling to gain weight. Funny how life is............

So Bumble, are the nerves starting up now that your big day is getting closer?

Bumble what are you doing to lose the weight.

My GOODNESS Bumble, honey I'm SO sorry you are having to deal with all of this. I know you just need to vent, it's good for you, but try to keep in mind, it's just ONE day. A VERY VERY special day, but it's only one. TRY (I know it's easier said then done) to look at what is going to happen after your Pastor says "I now pronounce you man and wife". TRY to envision how much fun you are going to have on your honeymoon and the many days and years AFTER that ONE very special day. GOD is in control of all things, so you just do your part, and let him do his. I for one always said about I week before the wedding I plan on cutting off my cell phone....lol....(sounds good don't it?)...even though I know that's not realistic....but after reading your post.....I'm considering it again....maybe even make it 2 WEEKS!!!....(my family would probably put an APB out on my behind!)...anyway, try to get away for a hour or 2 maybe once each week before your wedding and really cut your cell phone off. Take yourself out to dinner, or a movie, or whatever you need to do to clear your mind. Just take a moment and breathe......it will all be over in 23 days!!!!

good advice soon.

Bee, I'm so sry you are going through all of this at once. As far as your coordinator, I think she doesn't mean any harm. It's just that some people don't know how to "slow down". She sounds like she's a VERY good one and just wants everything to flow well that day. But, I could understand your point. She should've just given you a list of what she needs from you by the end of the week or something. But, it will be over soon and I know your day is going to be WELL WORTH IT!!!

As far as your mom, some moms are just like that. I think the same thing sometimes on my mom. Not the jealousy part, but just that she has so much to say re: things in my life. I tell her all the time I'm not a little girl anymore, but I think she's just "nervous" for me. She's always nervous about something and she just doesn't want anything bad to happen to me. I think the same thing goes for your mom. She's had a bad experience and doesn't want the same thing to happen to you, so she's on pins and needles. You're her baby girl (no matter how old you are) and she only wants the best.

Bee,
My heart goes out to you. I think the weekend thing will be great for you. You need not talk, walk or think wedding. Have a you moment. Your coordinator is just doing her job. A little to well if you ask me, but you get what you paid for and you paid for the best therefore she is going to make sure you have the best day possible.

The mom situation,all I can say is you got to love them and Septbride is right. They love you so much that they sometimes don't know how to express themselves and when they do it comes out in a negative way. You just have to reassure her she is not loosing a daughter but gainning a son. No matter who does what she is always going to be your #1 Moma.

It will all be behind you soon then you will probably look back at this post and laugh.So relax and enjoy yourself this should be fun not miserable. This is your wedding day the one you have always dreammed of with the man of your dreams......

Bumble Bee I am sorry that you are experiencing this much headache so close to your wedding as well. I just done understand why people just dont make it as easy as they can for the bride nowing she is under trumendous stress. Why cant they just do what you say and leave it at that. Always someone and somehting to add to the stress.

[quote="Bumblebeekee"]We were talking about how hard the planning is and how less focus is put on living afterwards ....You still have to adjust linving arrangements and expand your place like I am or get ready to move somewhere.....its just so much more than this whole wedding thing.
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I can relate to the bolded part in respect to the wedding budget and money after the wedding.

[quote="Bumblebeekee"]Thanks for the compliments ladies. It makes me feel great. I am on walking program, and watching what I eat.

Okay I am aggravated right now, so just relax cause you'll be reading for a while.......

As far as my nerves I was cool for a while, but now I have about had it. Here it is less than a month from the wedding, and less than half of my RSVP's have been returned! I am getting aggravated because my coordinator is hounding me, and so now I am going to have to make phone calls to everyone to remind them to send the RSVP's. People just assume we know they are coming and thats not true. I truly regret not sending an RSVP back to a wedding I was invited to a while back because now I feel like Karma is getting me back!

Other than that I am just trying to get some last minute things done. I am trying to stay cool everytime my coordintor calls me because she asks me 3 billion questions without taking a breath. Plus she gives me these assignments and I can't do them all at once.....Then yesterday she nitpicked about which type of curlers I am going to let the beautician use on my hair! So after all that I still just said, I will decide on my next appointment. And then the conversation about makeup. I really want to do my own, but she insists that I let someone else do it. I DO makeup! I do makeup for other brides, for their pictures, AND I sell Mary Kay, but she just thinks I will be too nervous and paniky to handle it, so I am still deciding on if I want to let someone else do it, but I don't feel compelled to NOR do I want to pay someone else to do it something I am WELL able to do.

THEN she went on and on about my DJ, and she hasn't even met him. When we met with him 2 weeks ago, and proceeded to tell her what his services included, she thought we were going to let him run the reception, and talked my ear off about the dangers of letting 2 people run the show. She even considered stepping back while he ran the whole reception! Talk about jumping to conclusions! He was offering those services because past weddings he'd done he had to help out in that capacity-but we already told him we had a coordinator to do certain things he was offering...but it doesn't matter because she tripped based on half the daggone story.....So now, she has one more time to trip, and then I will be setting her straight. In a "Christian-like" way. But she may not like it, and I don't care. She is too much right this second. But she is very very good. She doesn't have an attitude, she is just getting a little annoying. So I have to get on the ball, so when she asks me if this and that is done I can say yes now go away. I have even stopped answering every phone call from her, which let me know that she was finally pressing my nerves.

Then, okay my FH's parents bought us a new SUV for a wedding present. (Yay! Praise be to God who answers prayers-cause that was a prayer, but thats another post), but when I tell my mom, instead of being happy for me, she insinuates (of course she denies it) that its a bad idea. Then says that I'll know what she means later. She has always said something negative (initially) about the presents they or that he buy me-(I think she is a little jealous), and then smiles and says she's happy later on AFTER I have to convince her that there is no "catch" or strings attached! I wish I coupld tape her sometimes. She thinks they are trying to buy my love, and always goes on and on about what would happen if we broke up? She always asks that, like it won't last. I wish she would get over her own heartache from the past and be happy for me. Its like she can't beleive that people out there actually give gifts with absolutely NO expectations from you. They are the type of people who will not hesisitate to say no, or to say when something is not cool. Plus, its something they wanted to do for their son (first and foremost), and for us. Shoot, they also bought their daughter a new car too that same day!

I try to stay bogged down in work sometimes so I can just coast until the day after the wedding, but everyone is aggravating me,and right now I just want to be alone.
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I can relate to the issue of RSVP. I saw that happen during my friend's wedding planning, so I didn't include an rsvp card. I'm using them as place cards instead of RSVP. I don't think it is fair to the bride, you, when the guests don't let the couple know if they are coming when they already have a response card that will take 30 seconds to fill out and send.

You are truly blessed to have such considerate future in-laws! Having a new SUV sounds so nice!

It's also good that you can do make-up. I'm stressing over that issue right now because I'm not a make-up expert at all.

Although you say you are agg'ed, all I have read are a lot of blessings from you Bumblebee. I hope you see that as well.

Bumble- I have a few things to address since I'm so so late: 1) do your own make-up. You know what looks good on you. Not only that but i've yet to see a horribly made MK lady. 2) I HATE (majorly dislike) when people want you to set up contingency plans (like your mom) for when the marrige doesn't work out. I like to tell them that there is no other option. Between God FH and I a promise will be made...and a promise will be kept. PERIOD. 3) word to the wise put your MOH to work on the phone and get some of the RSVP's for you...she's there to lighten your load. 4) as stated in previous reply re: your new SUV you GO GIRL!
hope you weekend went well...18 DAYS!!!!!!

I'm excited for you Bumblebeekee. I can't wait until you get back and show us pictures.

Yay for March Brides!

Just a little reminder that your day will be everything that your heart desires! God is in the midst!

Bumble Bee I know I am extremely late but your dress is beautiful.

Bumble, I'm getting butterflies FOR you, Just one last weekend as an engaged woman. You holding up?

My thoughts exactly, are you nervous yet, or anxious?