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Hi ,

I would be delighted if you send me pictures of your Wedding. I can't wait to

see everything. From the way you described everything, I can't decide which

word but describes your description of everything. Elegant or gorgeous, so I'm

using the both. From everything you described it will be the social event of

the summer, I'm sure. I sound like something that a movie star or a famous

person would have. I do have one question? What is a bridesmaid tea? We don't

do them in our area, and I was just a little curious about it? Is kind of a

party for the bridesmaid, like a thank you for being in the wedding. That is

very nice of your sister-in-law to offer and I think you should take her up on

it and sit back and enjoy the day. I am beginning to learn that people usually

don't after to help you out, unless then really mean it. It has taken me many

years to figure this one out. I guess I use to think they did it because they

felt like they had too, but I have found out that way of thinking is wrong, and

now I more likely to say thank you and take up someone offer. Maybe it has come

from me not being able to do as much as I use to do. You mention about the

bridesmaid charm for the cake, well believe it or not, my daughter wanted to do

that since her cake was so big, but she went to a wedding a year before of a

relative and they had use the charms, so she didn't want them to think she was

copying so she decided not to use them. I can't believe that Nikki has had 5

showers. She must be able to furnish a couple of houses. There won't be

nothing left to buy her for a wedding present, except a house to put all her

gifts in. With 5 showers, you all must have a very large families or know

everyone in the south. had just 2, a large shower that about 70 people

show up for and then her sister had a small personal shower here , for just

family and the bridal party. From you post to someone else. You said that

Nikki graduates in May and Her Wedding is the end of May. What a busy month

that will be for you all. That sound almost as bad as when got Married

on June 5, she sister Graduated in May , so I had that party to do for Elissa

Graduation plus my mothers birthday, and then her personal shower was here on

May 25. That was a busy time for us, but a very enjoyable time too. You dress

sounds like something like I had wanted, but I was much heavier than I'm now,

about 25 pound heavier and very short. So we decided that a straight dress

would show off too much of my stomach and butt, so I went for a long dress that

had Short sleeve in a pinkish-light mauve color and it was one piece but looked

2 piece because the top had lace over it and the skirt was a-line with satin

underneath with matching chiffon over it, I had matching shoes and purse too.

I did look nice and my dress looked good with the bridesmaids dresses. Would

you believe of all the dresses out there, Her future Mother-in-law, basically

pick the same dress, but hers was 2 piece, but look one piece. She told us that

it was long floor length, but she is tall and when she showed up at the church

it was tea length, but it didn't matter for the pictures. I showed her mine and

she took out her and laugh that we basis picked out the same dress. She said

that she would take it back if we wanted her too. But I told me no, It was

day, not mine. But the closer to the wedding it got, the more it bother

me. I wanted and even looked at a different dress, but couldn't find anything

that would go so well with the bridesmaids dresses. After all I can to realize

I was being childish and no one would even remember what I wore, they would only

remember, how beautiful look in her dress. After all with us in the

same color, our dresses wouldn't clash in the pictures. They wore a pale pink

off the shoulder long A-line dress that had Flowing chiffon over the dress. Very

pretty. She had her colors of pale pink and silver and white. It was a nice

wedding. I'll have to find some pictures to send to you. Her cake had a

fountain in the middle of it with pink water, with many layers if cake. It was

really beautiful. The only problem that we had, and it wasn't really a problem,

we could have used a smaller cake. We did have all lot of cake left over. But

we did freeze it. So it did get used up. I thought that everyone would eat cake

and they didn't. The caterer did give us a very nice complement, she told me

of all the wedding she has ever done that we had less food left over, than

anyone has ever done. She said that we did a great job with our guest list. My

daughter and I were talking about it today and she said that only 25-30 people

who said that they were coming didn't show up. We felt that we all lot, but the

caterer did make us feel better about it. One think that no one knew about ,

not even my husband, only my mother help me pull it off. I want to surprise her

when she came out of the church, so I had a man standing there with a cage with

2 white doves for them to release. It was neat, but she kind of nervous when

coming out of the church and a strange man comes up the steps at her with a

cage, she wasn't sure what was in there, but when she found out, she was very

pleased. I did tell the photographer ahead of time so he could get a picture of

them. Her church was very fussy about what you could and couldn't throw at the

bride and groom. She wanted something different, so we ordered pink with silver

engraving with their names and wedding date on them. They were horns that you

blow when they came out of the church.they even had her castle on it. It was a

fun idea and something other than bubbles and bell, that everyone uses around

here. Her invitations were really neat. They had a castle and a coach, like

Cinderella on them in light pink with silver lettering on it. We had a tiny

scroll at each place setting at the reception that was light pink and silver

lettering and it was rolled up like a scroll with a silver fake(plastic )

wedding ring around it and inside it told a little story of how she was our

little girl and now she has grown up and was married the man of her dreams and

how we were proud to have him in our family now and it thank everyone for being

part of their special day and it was from Ed & me. Many people commented

afterwards on how nice this was. Then at each place setting she wanted like a

favor but something different and one of her bridesmaid suggested that we take 2

Hershey kisses and glue the bottoms together ( so we had our silver) then we

covered them with pink tulle and attracted a stem to then take florist tape and

cover the stems so the look like a Rose. Then they had pink ribbon and a card

with their names and wedding date on it. You should have seem my house the

Wednesday night before the Wedding, there was the 4 of us and and his mom

and dad, all helping make these favors. It was like an assemble line, as we had

to make 250 of them. But we all had so much fun making them . She waited to just

before the wedding to make them, because she wanted the candy to be fresh. They

did turn out to be really cute. I only had 1 already put together, to figure

out how to make them. It's a good thing I " me a kind of crafty person, who loves

make crafts. My new venture is making candles. So far I have only make

container or the tart types. But I enjoy making them. For Christmas I made

candles for all our friends, along with cookie dough mix in a jar, and homemade

cocoa mix in a jar, along with cute tag saying what everything was for and how

to use it. I made 25 of these gift set for Christmas present. They did take a

while, but I do find it fun to do on my good days. Well, our hockey won tonight

and we have home ice advantage for the play-off. Well, I better get to bed or

else I won't be able to get up fairly early in the morning, as It's

Birthday- Well it actually now her birthday and I want to make her a candle and

a basket of silk spring flowers for Easter , as a little extra special gift

along with the money we will give her to get clothiers or whatever she wants.

Thank you so much for sharing you daughter Wedding story with me. It truly

sounds like it's going to be a fairytale Wedding . I'm sorry to bore you with

all the rest of Wedding detail, but I just love Wedding and to find out

what other people do in different parts of the country. That's nice that you

both don't have to be at the church so early in the day to get your hair done

and have picture taken. That will be a great help for you both. You can sit

outside on the patio in the sun,relaxing & sipping the Mint Juleps, the south of

so famous for. Whatever they are? I have only seem them in the movies. But

they look good, The non-alcoholic one, of course. Thanks so much for sharing

your daughter story and all your joy about it with me. Please send me pictures

to our e-mail address- (ED & I only have one ,I should get my own)anyway it

ehall@...

Would you mind if I printed out the details about your daughter wedding and let

my read about it. I sure she would really enjoy reading about it,

since it sounds truly amazing and a very wonderful day that your Nikki will

never forget. One quick question, how long have you been planning all of this,

to have everything so well, planed this far in advance? I think 3 months before

her wedding we were still making changes, but I truly feel like that's because

we had too much time to plan for it. We will pray for a beautiful sunny, with a

gentle breeze for her Wedding day. Sorry for another book. What kind of degree

will Nikki have? What does her future husband do? Will they be living in your

town? No more books, I promise.

Take Care,

Louie in WV