Ack!!! I have missed you all soooo much! Its just been hitting me that I am down to less than 4 months to go before the wedding and my to-do lists aren't getting any smaller! So, working on the wedding projects is leaving me no internet escape time. Until tonight, I am saying to hell with it! I need my TV.com!!!

::I Do Diaries::

The realization that I have less than 4 months to go is hitting me hard and I am franticly going over to-do lists, check lists, ideas, notes, etc making sure that I am on top of it all and that it will all get done! I've started wrapping napkins, but of course since I am a perfectionist, it took 3 1/2 hours to do 30 of them!! And I've been playing around with table designs and finally got it figured out how I want to set them up. I need to find a fake pumpkin so I can set up the full look and take a picture to show you! Its looking like it is going to all come together quite nicely on a dime budget! =) Everyone keeps telling me my less than $5,000 wedding is going to look like at least a $20,000 wedding! =) So yay! Goal accomplished, so far anyways! =)

::How to I Do::

I've almost got a couple of my big do-it-yourself projects done, so when they are completed I'll post pictures of the look I was copying vs what I came up with.

::Platinum Weddings::

So I am usually not into pop/hip-hop/rap or anything like that, but since I need some dance tunes for bootie shaking at my wedding when we're all drunk and feelin good, I have been trying to pay attention to current songs. So I heard this song on So You Think You Can Dance (my guilty pleasure show) and downloaded the full version and I have to admit, I really really really like it. I can't help but move to it. So its a definite tune being played at the wedding.

Timberland - The Way I Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhSY-gdTcU

::Wild Weddings::

In honor of my beautiful honorary bridesmaids, here are some awful bridesmaids dresses you can be glad you (hopefully) will never have to wear! (Gawd these are hideous, but FUNNY!)

::The Real Wedding Crashers::

First videois the infamous wedding party breaking it down to THRILLER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPmYbP0F4Zw

These guys had one too many!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXFzzNeaxV8

Not all wedding bloopers, but check out the butt grab!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4K0S2OmB4

Crashing, Literally. (Mostly wedding)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOZKM0ixITQ

::Wedding Altered::

The custom of a double-ring ceremony, in which the groom as well as the bride receives a ring, appeared first in America in the 1940's.

During the Victorian period, wealthier brides began wearing white gowns to show they could afford a special dress they would only wear once.

In early times of marriage women were thought of as property and the ring was a sort of leash or band of property. The earliest evidence of wedding rings dates back to around 2800 B.C. in Egypt.

The groom's cake tradition is strongest in the Southern part of the U.S.

In ancient times the garter represented the virginal girdle; thus, the groom's removal of the garter meant the relinquishment of that status.

In Poland, it is believed that sprinkling sugar on a bride's bouquet keeps her temper sweet.

Aisle runners were originally used to treat the bride as royalty and keep her from walking on the same ground as "commoners".

::Til Death Do Us Part::

So I am totally sorry I haven't been around much lately, but it seems like it will be a trend in the months to come with everything I've got to do (on my own, BTW, no one in the wedding party is offering help besides my mom and my honorary girls that live many moons away). But I promise to try to jump on and keep up with everyone. I am going to try to go catch some blogs right now before I head off to dream land. Love and hugs to all my TV.com friends!