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Hi Dajara!
Congratulations, wedding planning is both fun and stressful. I got married last September so a lot of this is still fresh in my mind too. Kelly recommended theknot.com and it's excellent for all wedding relate things.
If you want to invite the children then put their names on the invitations
We ordered our invitations as neither of us had time to make them, plus I am a perfectionist and not good enough at putting things together ie I wouldn't have been able to do it to the standard that I wanted. It is really nice and personal to make them yourself if you are creative, such a lovely personal touch to your big day.
We had cake and I cheated and had a little and it was amazing..lemon sponge..mm! (we had a chocolate and baileys layer and 2 lemon sponge layers, all with white chocolate icing..mmmm!)
Our invitation wording was:
Jane Bloggs and Joe Soap
together with their families
would like to invite
<insert names of guests>
to join them in celebrating their marriage
to join them in celebrating the marriage of their daughter
Georgina with Mr. Nigel Richardson
at
on Saturday, date 2007 at 2.30 p.m.
and afterwards at a reception in
The Hotel, Nameoftown
We wanted to do the inviting ourselves but included our families (some people include parents or parent's names, but that got tricky for us due to family situations)
Don't worry about what people consider "normal"- your wedding day is about you. Our wedding was pretty conventional but had our own touches that made it personal and special to us. You seem really organised, your dress sounds really cool.
My wedding skirt was a similar shape only in ivory silk and with stitching going diagonally across, it was soo comfy to wear.
Your rings are really cool too.
Make the day about you and how much you love your hubby to be, that's what weddings are all about, that's what's normal 
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#270308 - 06/21/06 04:39 AM
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Toady
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We made, or actually, I made the invitations. My former maid-of-honour / best friend was supposed to help, but she and her husband and their son dropped out of the wedding in Feb. So I said screw it and made them myself. I'm not a really fancy person, so I bought the invitation kit - it just had gold swirls at the top and bottom and I worded it, no pictures or icons. Email me your email addy and I will be happy to send along the sample. cmkossila@shaw.ca I only needed 9 invites, so having them made, with the reply cards and menu cards (sit-down), was unreasonable, as most places here had a minimum order of 25! Um, I need 9, what do I do with the other 14? Wallpaper the bathroom? My wording was simple too, I found it on the internet, as I did a lot of my stuff.
For the cake, we have an awesome bakery here, I had a 14 inch heart cake made and delivered to the inn. My 79 year old grandma, my mom and I also made the traditional fruit cake in January and set that for seasoning until the end of May. Then we sliced it, put the marzapan on it and packaged it up in the doilies. (Had to have something traditional - my grandma is the cornerstone of our family and she is very traditional - I love her to pieces!)
We had a ton of cakes left over, so I took some to my mom and brought a lot to work and Thomas managed the rest. I was fine eating the cake as long as I didn't have the icing. You should have a small cake at least so you can have pictures!! And no, we did not smush it on each other's face. I think that is disgraceful!
Let me know what ever else you need! I'm happy to help!!
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Cassandra
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up!
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Re: Looove the rings!
#270309 - 06/21/06 04:40 AM
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Absolutely! Ours are great, yours are awesome!!I'll have to post my pic of ours on my site (soon....)
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Cassandra
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up!
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as mom to a new bride..
planning is key but it sounds like you are on it.. nothing ever goes perfectly, but thats ok, if you've planned enough it will all work out beautifully anyway..
there is plenty of good advice here.. if you want $$ as gifts, well many give that anyway.. you're better off registering for at least some things as there are always people who won't give $$ to anyone and that way the gifts you do get will be things you'll like!
Amie
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So what is the most tactful way to go about mentioning a registry? I mean, don't get me wrong, we aren't getting married just for the gifts or anything like that, and if I have come across that way I do apologize I'm just not sure how to go about certain things..
After reading all the posts it got me thinking that maybe we should get a registry or something. (Could always use some household items after all) Also thinking that things like gift certificates from the local grocery store or something to that extent might be good too.. (Yay practicality) <Sigh> I mean, I know people do registrys, it's quite common.. I worked at Stokes and tons of people came in for those kinds of things.. Like I said, this is just something that they don't really deal with on bridal shows on TLC haha
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Sounds very cool and love the rings and your outfit sounds very pretty! I'm a bit of a non conformist as well so I think your plans sound marvelous!
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just go into the store of your choice.. talk to someone that works there and they will set you up.
you carry around a little scanner gun throughout the store and scan what you want/need into the registry. Plus, I know most stores (such as my faves pottery barn/crate and barrell) will give you a discount on any items that you register for and don't recieve after your wedding. Because of that, some of my friends registered for dining room sets, bedroom sets etc that they knew they wouldn't recieve, but that they were able to get themselves at 25% off because it was on their registry. You can also register for a few things, and also put on your registry that you'd also like gift cards (i've had friends who have done that).
Think of the places you want gift cards too (ie target, bed bath and beyond, linens and things, I think even walmart does registry now) and register for a few things there.
As for the ettiquete.. i'm not too sure, but most of my friends have attached something with the invitation that said the bride and groom are registered at (crate and barrell, store name, and store name etc etc etc). Out of the 4 weddings i've gone to in the last year, all four have mentioned their registry in the invite (not on the actual invitation, but on a seperate piece of paper enclosed with the invite.)
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According to etiquette, you're not supposed to include registry information in wedding invitations but it's okay in shower invitations. It's okay in shower invites gifts are the purpose of a shower.
However, if you're not having a shower, that does make it difficult, doesn't it?  You can also do it by word of mouth if you don't want to put the registry info. in the wedding invitation. Tell people if they ask, or tell the person(s) who your guests might ask if they don't ask you directly.
By the way, your dress sounds beautiful. I loved my wedding gown, but sometimes I wish I'd done something less traditional than ivory. On the other hand, my gown had a halter bodice, which is decidedly untraditional for me.
And our caketopper involved squirrels. 
Have fun!
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Yay squirrls... I was hoping to find one that i could put pantball masks on the bride and groom (we are avid paintball players) but the only ones i found were going to cost way way too much.. (about 2000) So thats ok.. it was a neat idea...
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I did the majority of my wedding stuff myself, and I made my cake topper. I have this strange fascination with Little People (the ones they stopped making in the 80s or so because they were actually Little Choking Hazards), so I dressed up two Little People from my collection as a bride and groom:
I don't have any digital color pics, unfortunately, this is the best I've got. The groom was originally a LP with a green body -- I painted it black and put the little bowtie and bib on front. The bride was originally a LP with a blue body -- I used scrap fabric to create a wedding dress and veil.
My husband thought I was really weird but eventually agreed to let me do it, and actually, everyone told me how cute it was (and probably thinking inwardly, "What a freak", but whatever, it was MY day and I could be a freak if I wanted!!!).
Ahhh, I really miss all of the wedding craft stuff!! Makes me want to get out my tulle and glue gun again.
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jen
"It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off." -- LC
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