This is alexusjoanne08's Purple Wedding!

Being that the dresses for the bridesmaids will be both dark red and purple, what color jewelry should I pick for them? I was advised to choose a dark gold, but for some reason I can't imagine that color going with the dresses. Should I do rhinestone, silver, or gold?

Ok I am starting to worry because I can't find a style for my wedding invitations. I am making them myself and it has been a pain to find stationery that comes in both red and purple as designer paper. My shades are dark purple and dark red. I have chosen dark purple pocketfolds and wanted to incorporate an aquatic scene on the invite, but I need something to be red. What to do...

As you can see, I found my perfect dress and I ws just wondering, when are you planning to buy your dress? I felt that it was too early to buy mine. Plus I'm still in the middle of losing a few pounds.

I just came home from trying on dresses at David's bridal and I have found the perfect dress. I've tried the dress on twice, this time I wanted my mom and sisters to give me their opinion on it, and they loved it the most among all of the dresses I tried on. Although I feel that it is too early to buy the dress, I can't wait. It fits perfectly, the only alterations needed is that it is cut off at the bottom being that I'm 5'2". But I may be able to find taller heels to make up for that!!!!!!! Who knows, it may even be cheaper by the time I'm ready to buy it. It was the very first dress that I tried on and I was so surprised because I thought it would take me months to find the perfect dress.

I found this really informative post on how to make your own pocketfold invitations and I am definitely going to utilize it. For those of you who would like to make your on invitations, check it out:

http://amyandjoeysbigday.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/how-to-make-your-own-pocketfold-invitations/

Another place you can also try is www.cardsandpockets.com
their prices are very reasonable.

And I'm sure you have heard of envelopments.com. They have gorgeous invitations but are on the pricey side. You can see some pictures on their website:
http://www.envelopments.com/mixandmatch/featuredrecipe/list/whatsnew.aspx

At first I just wanted the traditional cake toppers. After all, it didn't really matter. But after I saw these I knew that I would pick one. Not sure which one yet because I like them all, maybe I'll let someone else pick it for me.

I am planning to lose twenty pounds for my wedding putting me at 126 pounds. It's almost the year mark for our big day and I'm not sure if I should start trying on dresses yet. Should I wait after I lose the 20 pounds or should I start and as I lose weight go to my fittings?

It took us a long time to finally find the perfect place. After changing our minds and location of the wedding we finally found a place we both liked.

Ladies!!!!!Oh my gosh this is becoming so hectic for me. I'm beginning to hate that I decided to plan this wedding myself. There are so many details to think about, not to mention that I am in school and working two jobs. I know I have plenty of time but sometimes it seems like I'm not making progress fast enough. Please share your secrets. How do you all destress when you feel like there is so much to do and so little time?

Ok, I think I may have a problem. I am a very passive person and I tend to try to protect others' feelings before I protect my own. I am having a hard time picking which "little ones" (flower girl, ring bearer, etc.) will be in the wedding because everyone is making the decision for me and my fiance. He has two 4 year old twin siblings (a boy and a girl) and I have some siblings of my own. So how do I tell relatives no without hurting someone's feelings??????

I was looking through one of Martha Stewart's magazines and her website and I was inspired to come up with an idea for both wedding favors and seating. I decided to go with filling boxes with three dfferent types of candy (his, hers, and ours) and placing our guests' names on the boxes. Of course the box will be red and purple. Also the paper over lay that you fold back to get to the candy will be from Kim Casali's Love is... comic book (found by another bride).

We also decided to make CDs of our favorite love songs and hand them out to our guests. It's very easy and inexpensive

I think this woud look lovely on my mother. Of course it will be purple. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be the exact color of the bridesmaids dresses or any shade of purple. I picked this one because it comes in the exact color. What do you think?

I found these dresses a long time ago and I believe their popularity have caused the price to go up. When I first saw them they were $44. I couldn't believe that, but now they are $98. The ribbon on the side will be a dark red (claret) color. I have not thought about the shoes nor the accessories. I'm preparing to go lok at the color combination soon before making this dress my final decision. This is a tedious job to complete. I'm stessed and if you look to your right you will see how many days I have until my wedding. Plenty of time???? No I don't. (See I knew what you were thinking)!!!! www.foreverbridals.com plenty of options with this company

Besides music and dancing, what are some other ways to entertain your guests at a wedding reception? As you can tell from my other post, I am a Christian and I strongly believe that some types of music should not be included.

I have a very hard time with heels. No matter how comfortable they are, the longer I 'm in them the more they start hurting. I'm very short and I'm almost sure that my wedding dress will ending covering my feet. I was thinking that maybe I will replace my heels with stylish flip flops whenever, or if they begin to hurt. What do y'all think?

This has got to be the most unsual color scheme ever because it is so hard to find people who have used these two colors for their wedding. It's even hard to find pictures with red and purple together. I'm still looking!!!! It's cool. I guess I will be the first to post pictures.

Since my wedding colors are red and purple I have decided to use dark purple and red tulips for my bridesmaids' bouquets. I will have to use a florist to design my bouquet.

Being that my fiance and I are devout christians, we have decided that there will be no dancing at all at the wedding (other than our first dance). We finally found the perfect song for our first dance. Also my father and I will not be doing a father-daughter dance neither my fiance and his mom a mother-son dance, so I am trying to come up with some kind of way to replace these dances with something else. The only idea I could come up with so far was for us to play some type of game where we answer questions about each other, but make it funny. Does anyone have any suggestions????

Someone asked why no dancing except for the first dance...well, don't get me wrong, I don't believe that all dancing is wrong, but I don't want to give certain guests the opportunity to convert a simple dance into a derogatory and unrespectable dance. Everyone that will be a part of my wedding are not saved and it's hard to tell people to dance a certain way when what is decent to me may be "dropping it like it's hot" to others. I definitely don't want to give people the chance to disrespect a celebration of our holy union and God, plus there will be ministers and other devout christians present and I want everyone to feel comfortable. Although I do not agree with my father's view (that no worldly music should be played) I have to respect his wishes (play what I feel is appropriate) and not expect him to do a father-daughter dance.

Because our theme is focused on us, we will be having our favorite stuff and icecream is one of my favorites along with chocolate covered strawberries. So I decided to have and icecream bar where people can choose from a big variety of our favorite icecream flavors.

Our relationship was really ment to be because I had no intentions on opening his message on MySpace.com. I only joined MySpace.com to see if I could find some of my friends from high school or hoped that some of them would find me. Routinely, I would just go through and erase every friend request and message of those that I did not recognize but instead of clicking delete I mistakenly clicked on the message. I expected something like "Hey lil' mama can I get yo' number" but instead I found "Do you have enough room for me in your entourage?" So I thought I would talk to him and see what he was about. Sending frequent messages enabled me to see that he was a christian with no kids and no alcohol or drug use so I decided to call him. Everything just clicked between us and almost 2 years later we are engaged to be married.

He called me on his way from work and told me to start getting ready ( take a long time) because we were going to go to Kemah. Funny thing is, he had never been there and I was supposed to take him to see the boardwalk. We waited for an hour to eat at Saltgrass and then walked on the boardwalk under the moonlight. He took me to feed the stingray and we continued to walk for it seems like forever. He says that he was trying to figure out where to propose after we left. Anyway he found an isolated area and poured out his feelings for me and then he proposed.

I plan to have centerpieces that correlate with both of our likes. My part would be tall vases that hold either goldfish or purple and red bettas (1 per vase). His part will be the lighting. He loves neon lights so I figured I would turn them into lamps some kind of way with purple and red lights. I'm not sure of how to do this because Im almost sure that each table does not have outlets. Does anyone know where I can buy tall vases at a reasonable price? Any suggestions?