Bio

Getting Ready

First the girls, 'cause we take longer to get ready.


Gretchen gettin' all dolled up!	Wooo! Big hair on it's way to fabulousness!

This is before make up, I had bronchitis and slept terribly the night before. It really shows in this picture.	sigh I love this shot.

It's not a drug deal, I swear.	Gretchen's turn for make up.

Now the Guys

Here's my handsome husband, fresh out of the room
putting his tux on. Now already to get his bout put on.


The last finishing touch!	Anthony's brother, the Best Man.

	I love how some of these shots have Anthony in the background, I wish they all had him in the frame. The lady in the photos is our DOC and her assistant. They were fantastic!

FOG getting, pinned up.	Now it's the FOB's turn!

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The Reveal


One my way to see my groom!	I love this shot of my hair and back of my dress. Oh and Anthony waiting for me. :-)

I brought one the gifts I got for Anthony to our reveal.


Opening the teeeeeny box.	His gift was the lego cuff links.

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Wedding Party Photos

We started out taking pictures in the ceremony room, then walked across
the street for shots with the wedding party at the Ohio State House.

Gotta have a pic with the parentals!

With my Aunt, who married us.


The lovely ladies and I.	Our photographer was a pretty funny guy!

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The Bride & Groom

Honey, can I have a sip?

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Ceremony

DIY inspired by Martha Stewart: our trifold programs
and tissue paper pom poms we used to line the aisle.


	MOB being escorted by the Best Man.

The Groom escorting his mother.

Anthony was very nervous before the ceremony started - so nervous he popped a mint from the bathroom basket in his mouth before heading to the ceremony with out considering how it would affect his speech when saying his vows. We've got a few fun pictures where it's obvious he's playing with the mint in his mouth.
However, according to him all that changed as soon as he saw my nephew (well, our nephew now) come around the corner with his mother. Our ring bearer decided he was too good to use his hands to carry the ring pillow, and instead carried the ring pillow by the strings with his teeth! There were many giggles from our guests that I heard in the hallway but had no clue what had happened until Anthony filled me in later.
Anthony said once he saw the ring bearer, he knew nothing could go bad after that and he calmed right down.

The Matron of Honor and the Flower Girl. My aunt, the grandma
of the FG, made the FG's dress. She did an awesome job!

He's anxiously (and no longer nervously) awaiting my arrival!
The pastor behind him, is my Aunt, the same one who made the FG dress.

Here we come!

This is a video of our sand ceremony. We had a lot of compliments on this, and my dad keeps
talking about how cool the sand looked as it mixed together.

I love how you can see my MOH smiling as we're kissing. :-)

We're all so happy! Especially my cousin on the far right who is watching us and clapping.
She's got a huge grin on her face!

We had a non-religious ceremony that we put together ourselves using pieces from
other ceremonies that we like. This is what we came up with.

Opening Remarks
On behalf of the Cxxxxx and Sxxxxxx families, welcome! We have come together to witness the marriage of Kristin Elizabeth and James Anthony. Each of you sitting in the audience has been asked here today because you have played an important role in one or both of their lives. Some of you have traveled short distances to be here, and some have traveled much further. Know that you are welcomed with love and appreciated for coming to share this important day in Kristin and Anthony’s life.

Who brings this woman with love to marry to this man?

Kristin’s Dad:
Her mother and I do.

Minister
Who bring this man with love to marry this woman?

Anthony’s Dad:
His mother and I do.

Kristin’s Dad sits down. The flower girl and ring bearer are told they can sit down with their parents at this time.

Minister:
Anthony and Kristin have selected some readings to share today.

First Reading
Excerpt From: On Relationship by J. Krishnamurti
Love is something that cannot be cultivated; love is not a thing to be bought by the mind...Love comes into being darkly, unknowingly, fully, when we understand this whole process of relationship. Then the mind is quiet, it does not fill the heart with the things of the mind, and therefore that which is love can come into being.
Love is both personal and impersonal, is both the one and the many. It is like the flower that has perfume; you can smell it or you can pass it by. That flower is for everybody and, for the one who takes the trouble to breathe it deeply and look at it, a great delight.

Second Reading
The Art of a Good Marriage by Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.
A good marriage must be created.
In marriage the little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon, it should continue through the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.
It is standing together facing the world.
It is forming a circle of love that gathers the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy. It is speaking words of appreciation
and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow old.
It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.

Vows
Minister:
Anthony and Kristin please stand facing each other and hold hands. The passage just read is an example of only a few ways to make a marriage successful, are you prepared to enter into a life long commitment of marriage?

Anthony and Kristin together:
We are.

Minister:
Anthony, do you take Kristin to be your lawfully wedded wife?

Anthony:
I do.

Minister:
Will you love, respect and honor her throughout the rest of your years?

Anthony:
I will.

Minister:
Kristin, do you take Anthony to be your lawfully wedded husband?

Kristin:
I do.

Minister:
Will you love, respect and honor him throughout the rest of your years?

Kristin:
I will.

Read by the Minister, repeated individually by first Anthony and then Kristin.
I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give.
I promise to accept you the way you are. I fell in love with you for the qualities, abilities, and outlook on
life that you have, and won't try to reshape you in a different image.
I promise to respect you as a person with your own interests, desires, and needs,
and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own.
I promise to keep myself open to you, to let you see through the window of my personal world into my
innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.
I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face change as we both change
in order to keep our relationship alive, faithful, and exciting.
And finally, I promise to love you in good times and in bad, with all I have to give
and all I feel inside in the only way I know how... completely and forever.

Symbolism of the wedding band
Anthony and Kristin have chosen their first gift exchange as a married couple to be their wedding rings. The wedding rings are a symbol of longevity in the Marriage covenant. The circle of the rings symbolizes a never ending circle of love and commitment which you are making. Always see the best in each other and each day that you are together, let it be full of the beauty of the never ending love you have for each other through the symbols of these rings.

Exchange of Rings
Read by the Minister, repeated individually by first Anthony and then Kristin.

I__________, take this ring as a meaning of a lasting life. This ring symbolizes our life together from this day on, for it is never ending and always beginning.

Sand Ceremony
Minister (read while the string quartet plays "Meditation from Thais" by Massenet):
There is a song that speaks of "a long and winding road" and before you met, your lives were on such a road... each going in different directions and seemingly leading to different destinations. But somewhere along the way you took a fork in the road to a destination called "love" and today you find yourselves standing together at the entrance of a new path that will join your once separate journeys into one.

Before each of you there is a container of sand. Each container represents the separate journeys you once were on. They also represent your own sets of friends and families that once were apart. I will ask that in a moment you both blend your individual container of sand together... representing the coming together of your friends and family, through your marriage, into one. And as the sand is blended into one container, your once solitary journeys will now be one of companionship, as you walk a single path together into your future.

I now ask that you blend your containers of sand together.

Anthony and Kristin up their individual containers of sand and blend them together.

As the sand has blended together, your lives are now joined. Your friends and family are as one as well, for now you will share those who are in your lives and will walk hand-in-hand along the path of your marriage - united and strong as husband and wife.

Closing remarks
We asked the Minister’s to say what she would like during this portion. She chose to read a passage from the bible talking about life and commitment.

Declaration of Marriage
Minister pronounces Anthony and Kristin husband and wife and they kiss. Minister then introduces Mr. and Mrs. James Anthony Sxxxxxx to the audience.

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Reception & Details

Laughing it up with some very close family friends.

Gretchen flashing a smile because she's about to get her drink on!


Lourdes, our fantastic DOC, keeping me informed.	And now flashing a pretty smile for the camera!


Being introduced into the reception as Mr. and Mrs.	The Best Man doing his toast, and the MOH waiting to do hers.



You can see the Chicago Bears garter I surpised him with on his arm.

My cousin giving my 3 year old nephew a little help getting the garter.	Kim caught the bouquet, and she got married the next weekend!

He couldn't figure out what the garter was, so he decided it was a headband.


Our table setting including our DIY table numbers.	The head table runner I DIYed.

The toss bouquet sitting at the head table.	Escort card table with our DIY name cards.

We had red and white lanterns hanging above the dance floor.	A centerpiece and our sand ceremony picture frame.

Our DIY card box (in red).	The cake table with our embroidered and monogrammed table runner.

We did our candy buffet in red, white and black candy. It was a HUGE hit with our guests. My parents thought I was nuts when I told them we wanted to do a candy buffet, so they were absolutely shocked when they saw everyone lined up at the candy buffet immediately after people were let into the reception. To the right is the DIY gum drop topiary I made. It was a really fun project, the only disapointment about it is that I couldn't do it all in red, white and black (since all the other candy was in those colors), however I wasn't willing to spend the money to buy enough gum drops to be selective with the colors. Regardless, everyone thought it was cute.

I loved my bouquet and the monogrammed sash.	We used the altar arrangements at the entrance of the reception also.

Bustle!	The obligatory rings in bouquet shot.

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Cake

This is one of my favorite parts of our wedding. I absolutely loved
our cakes and they each had quite a bit of meaning to us.

The Story of the Bridal Cake

My father hand carved the topper for our wedding cake. He is a very talented bird carver. I may be biased when I say that, but he has won several awards in international bird carving competitions to help support my statement. Carving is one of his hobbies that he continues to improve on piece after piece. My family is very proud of his talent and in awe or every single piece he creates. Anthony and I asked him if he would make a cake topper for us (after the suggestion of my coworker and friend, when she first saw some of his bird pin carvings). I know my father is a very creative person, and enjoys the freedom to be as creative as he likes with his carvings, so the only thing we asked of him was that he carved Cardinals (both a male and female) for us, to sort of keep with our color scheme. Everything you see on the topper,including the flowers was carved out of wood. The only exception would be the brown base it sits on.
Anthony and I are thrilled to have this beautiful carving to keep and always remember our
wonderful wedding day and the love that my father put in to creating the carving for us. Our hope is that this carving will passed down through our family, even better would be if future generations of our family would use it on the top of their wedding cake also.

Our cake table at the reception.

The Story of the
Groom's Cake

Anthony is a huge gamer, he has been since he was a young boy. His gaming system of choice (more like love affair) is Xbox 360. I knew immediately if we were to get a Groom's cake that it would be shaped like a Xbox 360. I never once told Anthony of my thoughts to get him a Groom's cake, I wanted it to be a surprise. I snuck to the bakery one day to talk to them about making a cake for him, I even snuck around and took pictures of his Xbox at home so the bakers had a reference for making the cake. Anthony never found out about my plan and was completely surprised and thrilled on our wedding day when he saw his special cake.

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Photo Booth

We used Clix Photo Booths at our wedding and it was a huge hit!



We had our guests sign scrap book pages with photo corners	to insert their photo into, they also got a photo to take home.

Here's what the guest book looks like after it was all assembled.

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Honeymoon

We took a cruise to Alaska on the Norwegian Pearl for or honeymoon.

We spent the first night of our honeymoon in Seattle. We had a great time exploring the City for the afternoon.
That evening we had a really nice dinner at the revolving restaurant at the top of the Space Needle.


I definitely won't be forgetting my spouse, thanks.	Our first glimpse of our boat!



Mendehall Glacier in Juneau.	Waterfall running near the glacier.

The Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, pretty cool place and good food.	At Glacier Bay National Park.

We couldn't get over how blue the glacier was!	The view out of our port hole when we were at Glac.ier Bay

This was our tour guide while in Skagway (way cool town!).	When we tried to tip her, she made Anthony make a "deposit."

Our big excursion on the trip was a tour on a former Discovery Channel "World's Deadliest Catch" boats.
This is one of our favorite shows to watch and we had an awesome time on the boat!


Us after the boat ride.	The Captain

Kiwi, the only guide who was actually on the show.


	And this is where the batteries in my camera died. The fresh batteries I had bought and installed the day before. Yeah, I'm still ticked about that. I missed taking pictures of the crab pots, the octopus traps, and even more Bald Eagles. Fortunately, Anthony brought the video camera so we have video footage.
The threw fish over the side of the boat to lure Bald Eagles in for us.

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Vendor Reviews

Vendors Who Exceeded Expectations:

DOC: A Time to Toast Lourdes Barroso knottie i_luv_a_rican	Best money we spent on the wedding HANDS DOWN! Everyone who met Lourdes thought she did a fantastic job, including our photographer who admitted to me afterward that he thinks DOCs are a waste of money at weddings. However, he agreed that Lourdes worked for her money and did a great job. She helped make our day go flawlessly, or at least made it appear that way to me, which is exactly what we were paying her for. Her attention to detail is phenomenal and I can’t imagine how we would have handled the day without her. I highly recommend Lourdes!
Ceremony, Reception & Room Block Hyatt on Capitol Square	I’ll admit, I was really worried about these guys at first because I’ve heard a few less than stellar reviews about them from previous brides, but they were fantastic! The people I dealt with in reservations were great at keeping me informed of room rate decreases, and how the room block was filling up so I could do OOT boxes. For the ceremony and reception, our main contact left the company a month before our wedding, another reason that concerned me things might go astray, but she did a good job getting all our details marked down before she left, and the woman temporarily taking over for her eventually stepped in and made sure all the details were correct and were pulled off properly. The employees at the Hyatt were great, they were all very friendly and went out of their way to please. The food was fabulous! I still can’t believe how great it tasted and everyone liked it. I’d recommend the Hyatt to anyone looking to get married downtown.
Baker: The Pink Cupcake, Mount Vernon, OH	We live about 15 minutes from Mount Vernon and I really wanted to deal with a more local vendor for the cake so we could save some money visiting them and with the cost per slice. However in the end, the delivery cost pretty much evened it out to what we would have paid in Columbus. Haha oh well! We still loved how the cake turned out! We gave them a picture of exactly what we wanted, and the baker was ecstatic to be working with my dad on the cake (he hand carved the cake topper). The two of them worked together (long distance!) to make sure their flowers matched in color and shape as best as they could. I think they did a great job. The cake looked and tasted great! They also did a grooms cake shaped like an Xbox 360, I gave them several pictures, and also the dimensions for the real thing and they did a great job duplicating it. They even made a controller, which I wasn’t expecting. DH was very surprised and absolutely loved it! All of his gamer friends thought it was the coolest. I’d recommend the Pink Cupcake, but it’s not very practical for any couples from Columbus, but anyone who’s in the Mount Vernon area, I’d definitely recommend them to!
Photographer: Matthew's Wedding Photography	We love Matt, he and his wife are always a lot of fun to work with. Our e-pics with them turned out really well. Matt goes above and beyond to make sure you are happy and get what you want for photos. He’s open to suggestions and is really good at going with the flow, as well as keeping things on track if they appear to be veering off. With in two days of the wedding he’d already put together 35 photos for us. He went out of his way to meet me in order to give us a few DVDs with our photos on them. He also surprised us by printing off a copy of each of the photos because he was getting these photos ready for us to take with us on our HM since one of our stops on the cruise was in the City my Grandmother lives in who was not able to make the trip for the wedding. He knew we were tight on time that week and figured it would be difficult for us to get the photos printed in order to show her. He’s such a great guy and always thinking of others!
Ceremony Musicians: Davidson String Quartet	They sounded great at the ceremony and cocktail hour. We had a number of guests comment on how good they sounded. They’re a relatively low hassle vendor, though I did get a scare a month before the wedding when I emailed the contact I’d booked with almost a year ago and didn’t get a response for quite some time. It took a phone call to her, leaving a voicemail to finally get a response by email from a different girl. I guess the contact I originally dealt with is no longer in the group since it’s made of high school students. Everything worked out just fine with them and I’d definitely recommend them.
Photo Booth: Damon Renick Clix Photo Booths	This was the crowd pleaser of the evening! Everyone loved the photo booth and our guests are still talking about it! Damon did a fantastic job working the booth. There was a constant line (except maybe during dinner!) and he kept it moving. He also went above my expectations by keeping the pages for our photo guest book organized and had the guests fill up a page before bringing out a new page. I was completely expecting a mish-mash of photos and signatures and empty spaces through out all the pages I prepared for the book. All our guests got a 4x6 to take home, and we got a copy also. We also received digital copies of all the 4x6 4-picture (B&W) composites that were printed out on sight as well as all the individual photos in color. These were delivered to us the Tuesday after the wedding (by Matt the photog when he delivered our teaser pics). If you’re considering a photo booth for your reception, we highly recommend doing it. It’s loads of fun, worth the extra money and we definitely suggest Clix because they are great and very reasonably priced!
Hair Studio Fovero	All of the girls got their hair done at Studio Fovero. We each had our own stylist and I thought that everyone's hair looked fantastic! The ladies at Studio Fovero are always incredibly nice. I've been going there for about a year now to get my hair done and I always use Diana. Since I went in for a highlight, a hair cut, and a hair trial with in two months of the wedding and we had everyone getting their hair done there on the wedding day, Diana didn't charge me for my hair trial. I was very, very happy with my hair on the wedding day and each time I look at our photos I can't help but think how great a job Diana did on my hair that day! I have continued going to Studio Fovero and Diana for my hair care and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Diana/Studio Fovero to anyone whether it's for weddings or for personal hair care.
Honeymoon Cruise to Alaska NCL's Norwegian Pearl	We loved it! The ship was awesome, the scenery was great, and the ports of call were a lot of fun. And the food was awesome – especially in their French restaurant, Le Bistro. We booked our cruise through Capitol Cruises and got a buy one get one free price on our fare, all we had to pay was taxes and port fees on the free cruise. We got the 2 for 1 deal from After Hours Formalwear (now MW Tux) but I’m pretty sure if you go to www.241cruise.com and call the number listed there, you can still get the 2 for 1 deal from them anyway.

Vendors Who Met Expectations:

Alterations Alterations on Lane Joyce Eubanks	I love Joyce, she’s so much fun to work with. Her pricing is very fair and she’s great at making sure everything fits perfectly, and is what you’re looking for it to look like as well. Many others have mentioned how she has you sit, stand, walk, and dance to make sure the dress moves with you properly in all activities you’ll be performing on your wedding day. My dress fit great! Joyce had a bit of a rough patch while I was working with her, getting sick, getting injured, all making it difficult for her to work, so of course she fell behind. It was a little annoying that I had to make as many trips to Columbus (I live an hour away) for fittings as I did, but I always enjoyed my time with her, and the end product was so great it was worth it all. She even came to the hotel the day of the wedding and pressed my dress, the RB’s suit, and the BM dresses. She’s very reasonably priced and always does a great job. I’d definitely recommend her to others.
Florist: Flowers on Orchard Lane	I had a tough time with flowers from the moment I first started meeting with florists, what I really wanted for flowers was a lot more than what we had in the budget for them. I like to think I was pretty flexible, but in the end it meant I ended up with something a lot different than what I originally wanted. FOOL was definitely the best priced florist of all the ones I met with. Our flowers looked great on the wedding day, I loved my bouquet, even though a month before the wedding we had to change what I originally had in mind because it was just too expensive or not possible to duplicate at this time of year. I was pleased to see that Jan had managed to not use big lilies in our altar arrangements like she originally told me she would. When I asked if there were other large bloom options she basically said no, not with my price range per arrangement. I accepted it, I’d rather have the lilies than incredibly small an odd looking altar pieces. I do remember telling her previously that I did not want any hydrangeas, but every single centerpiece had white hydrangeas for filler. I wasn’t thrilled that she had forgotten that detail, but they still looked really nice and I got a lot of compliments on them. In the end FOOL did a great job at matching our colors, and getting the dark red roses and peonies I wanted so desperately, she even got them into the CPs and altar arrangements. I’d recommend FOOL to others, with the understanding that they don’t seem to work well with a specific idea in mind unless you have a large budget to back it up allowing them to get every component you’re looking for. Jan’s a very nice lady, loves her work and will still provide nice looking flowers regardless.
Tuxedos: After Hours Formalwear, Polaris	Despite their buy out, we didn’t have any problems with them. The guys looked great, as far as I know everyone’s tux fit just fine. We took advantage of After Hours’ promotion for a buy one get one free cruise from Norwegian Cruise Line to use on our HM.
Rin Bearer Attire Gaga's	My sister found out about this site from friends. You can rent formal wear for several weeks. They have many different sizes, styles, and colors to choose from. Since my nephew was going to be between sizes at the time of the wedding she ordered everything in two sizes (except the pants/jacket) for a 5 piece suite, 2 shirts, 2 vests, a tie, and shipping it cost about $45 for a 3 week rental. It would have cost us $80 or more to buy the suit from MW tux and $150 to rent one just like the adults. Good deal! And highly recommended, especially for little guys like my just barely 3 year old nephew (they also have girls’ clothing).
DJ: Jeff (Guido) Snow Matt Ryan Mobile DJ	Jeff is such a nice guy, and very eager to please. He was constantly offering his help. He and some other guys from Matt Ryan went out of their way to put together an audio that contained a couple clips from two songs that we wanted to use for the WP and our entrance. I was really excited to hear it and we picked some upbeat songs that we hoped would really get our guests excited. However, for some reason the music didn’t play when he was announcing everyone. He apologized later for the mix up, and I’m still not sure what exactly happened that made the music not play, but honestly I didn’t care afterward. No one new there was supposed to be music at that time except Anthony and I (and the DJ and DOC of course), so nothing seemed out of sorts to the guests, plus the entire announcement had no music playing, which is all I could have asked for instead of getting half the people announced to music and half not. Other than that little mix up, Jeff was just fine! He did exactly what we asked him in terms of what types of music to play or not to play, and he had minimal interaction (speaking) through out the evening which is what we wanted also. I’d recommend Jeff to anyone, but if you want a DJ who’s a little more out going and interacts more with crowd, I’d suggest a different DJ from Matt Ryan Mobile DJ, because it’s in Jeff’s nature to be a little bit more on the quiet side.

Vendors Who Were Somewhat Below Expectations:

Bridal and Bridesmaid Dresses
Alan Ray Bridal

I’m torn on Alan Ray, I think I had a better experience there than others have, considering all the negative comments I’ve heard before. They were great with the BM dresses; they arrived exactly when they said they would. However, we ordered extra material to use for making the FG dress and the material should have arrived the same week, but it didn’t come in until almost a month later. The staff blamed it on the manufacturer who for some reason just didn’t ship it. I would normally believe someone when they said this, I have no reason not to, except for the run around I got with my dress.
I ordered my dress in mid-July 2007, according to their original delivery quote, my dress should have been in mid-November to December. I called them mid-December to check on the status and they told me it would come in January 1st. It was obvious they gave me a quick answer on the phone to shut me up for the time being. I inquired again after the first – when we went in to pick up the BM dresses. They said they’d call Maggie Sottero and check on the dress, and gave me the BS about the manufacturer shutting down for Chinese New Year… except I ordered my dress way before the shut down and it should have been completed before then. They never called me back like they said they would when they found out about the dress so I tried calling once every couple of weeks. Beginning of February they finally told me it should be in mid-March. I wasn’t thrilled, it would be 3 months late at that point and couldn’t understand why no one could have told me that date from the start, I wouldn’t have called them as often then, and I don’t like being lied to. A week later I noticed a missed call from one of their phone numbers, they didn’t leave a message when they called and I called them later that day to inquire about the extra material I was still waiting for, I assumed if my dress was in, they’d also tell me so at that time. The material was (finally!) in so I went to pick it up a week or two later. While I was there they asked if I wanted to pick up my dress too. What?! It’s here?! Oh yeah… it came in already, there was a note they called me about it too… dated the same day I missed that call with no voicemail left.
All in all, everything came in with plenty of time for alterations, and arrived in good condition, I just feel they handled the situation poorly and told me what they thought I wanted to hear instead of telling me the truth, which doesn’t sit well with me at all. Because of that I didn’t get my alterations done there and haven’t been back to the store since the day I picked up my dress and walked out with it. I’m neutral on these guys, I’d go there again for BM dresses, but wouldn’t send a bride there for her dress, I didn’t need the added stress of trying to figure out if my dress was going to come in time for our wedding or not.

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Favorite Knottie Bios

Here are some of my favorite bios I've come across on the knot.
I also love Mrs. Bird of Paradise of the WeddingBee.com's Knottie Bios of the Week.

mrs.julia.goolia Love her photo booth!	redshoegirl Totally envious of her web design skills. Teach me, oh wise and mighty bio one!	Mrs.Tanya2s A weddingbee.com knottie bio of the week. She has some awesome pictures and the imfamous fabric pocketfolds.
Redheadbride2be Beautiful ceremony set up.	ChiMonique How can a Columbus Knottie not love this fellow C-bus lady's bio?? She's the Queen of DIY on the C-bus board. She also made my awesome BM jewelry!	bkbistro3 Another Columbus Knottie, her wedding was featured in Brides Magazine Chicago edition. She had a beautiful urban feel to her wedding that created breath taking photos. Her planning bio can be found here.
	99VintageGlam A very unique theme to her wedding that is pulled together fantastically! She has lots of DIY projects that aren't typically found on the knot boards, including her DIY photo booth. VintageGlam married bio.

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Our Professional Wedding Album
Our photographer assembled a beautiful flush mount album for us.
We are thrilled with how it turned out. Here are just a few of the page layouts he made for us.

Oooh look I was selected to be a Maggie Bride!

Maggie Sottero's website selects brides who share their experience wearing
one of their designs to be featured on their website. I loved this when I was
planning because it showed their dresses on real brides, not just on the models.
It gave a much better idea of how the dress translates onto a more normal figure.

Columbus Knotties logo made by the talented bkbistro3.

I love my May 2008 Knotties! What a great bunch to be sharing ideas with!
If you have any questions you can find me most often on the May 2008 board.

Click here to visit the May 2008 Board Bio

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