QOTD l 10/18/13

Good morning!! Happy Friday (finally!)!

Seems like everyone is with their guest lists! Whats your magic number? Also, I finally just got all my bridesmaids in dresses! success! Tell me about your bridal party and lets see the dresses!!


Our guest list is 150 now, but we have a lot of out of town people. We shall see who shows. Our room guarantee is 100. My BP is 7 people. my MOH is my big sister, Meg (Megglez108). The rest are close friends from different times in my life. My best friend from high school Michelle, my best friends from college Jenny,Ely and Mike (bridesman). My best friend from graduate school Andrea and someone I've worked with for the last 7 years (my adult best friend? lol). they are in Watters Hawthorn in Navy. My FH has two of his 3 sisters on his side (groomsmaids!) They are in Watters Willow in navy. I'm SO excited these dresses actually worked. I fell in love with them right away. We used RK Bridal 'No Frills' to make them a bit more affordable. And all the boys (bridesman included) are in grey three piece suits. The boys checked those off yesterday!


Have a wonderful wonderful FRIDAY!!

Our minimun is 150 which we really wanted to stay at, I think in the end we will be closer to 170 - Not horrible.

My Bridal Party is my 2 best friends, 2 best co-workers and 2 Sister in Laws. They are all in TwoBirds gown length gray dresss. ON SALE!.. woo hoo!

Our guest list is at 360 without our family from Italy (on both sides) and Canada, so around 400!

Our bridal party is 1 MOH (my friend), 1 Best Man (FH's friend), 2 bridesmaids (my 2 FSIL's) and 2 groomsmen (FH's 2 other friends). That may be the only small part of our wedding. lol

We have't gone for the dresses yet! But I want a neutral color (champagne, cappucino, maybe slate gray), long, and satin.

ETA: Our 360 number also doesn't include me or FH's cousin's children who range from 4 to 24 years old (FH and I are the youngest cousins), or my parents' cousins children (my 'second cousins' I guess?). If we invited these people who knows where we would be at.

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Our RH minimum is 150 and as of right now we're lookin' at around 180sh on the guest list, i'm SURE that number will go up. oye!

As for our bridal party, I have 8 ladies! My cousin Jill is my MOH. My friends AnneMarie and Carolyn whom I've known since i was 4 yrs old and 7 yrs old (respectively). Then I have Bridget, my college roomie. Then Ali, Laura, Megan who are sorority sisters. And finally my bro's gf MaryAnne!

FH has 7 groomsmen. His best friend Anthony is his best man. Two are his brothers Nick and Anthony and two more are my brothers PJ and Joey. Then Chuck and Chase are his other two groomsmen.

I feel like we have so many people but i couldn't ask for a better or more hilarious group of people

**oops had to add, we're still working on what we want both groups to wear. I'm so indecisive on this!

Our guestlist is up to 290 250 is my magic number!! although less wont bother me.. LOL..

This is my bridesmaid dresses.. @ moh and 2 brides maids :)

Cant load picture. It is Davids bridal satin strapless with side brooch in Marine

our minimum is 125 we have 165 on our guest list.

As for bridesmaids my sister is my matron of honor my best friend since I was 9 is my maid of honor. I have 3 bridesmaids that are my close best friends one that I have been friends with since we were 5, the other 12, and 21. Then I have my bridesman my gay best friend who I have been best friends with since I was 19. I love my girls and guys they make up a very interesting group.

I have not picked out dresses and tux yet because it is a bit early I know the kind of style I want and will be going shopping for that after the holidays are over.

Our minimum is 100 and we are trying to stay as close to that as humanly possible. Our invite list is at 138 now and we're expecting 110ish. That is if FH can stop reconnecting with old pals!

I have 7 in my Bridal Party, 1 MoH (my best friend) 3 Bridesmaids (2 sister and a close friend) 2 Jr. Bridesmaids (my twin nieces) and a flower girl (fh's neice). We're doing short chiffon dresses in Horizon blue for the BMs, a long chiffon dress in Horizon for my MOH and I'm thinking yellow with a blue sash for the little ones but haven't picked theirs yet.

My guest list is 154 and we have a 125 minimum. The bridal party we are keeping small otherwise we would have had to have 25 people. FH and I went to high school together so my girl friends are friends with his guy friends, so we are a big bunch.
MOH is my sister and I have 2 bridesmaids, my cousin and BFF. FH is having his 2 brothers and 2 BFF, not sure who his best man is yet. They girls are wearing Jim Hejlm 5030, in navy and I have no clue what the guys will wear. The bridal suite at Bridgeview is huge sometimes I wish I was having a large bridal party, but I couldn’t deal with the drama of it all.

Our minimum is 175 and there are about 210 on our guest list. I'm hoping to keep it as close to 175 as possible before kids and vendors.

I haven't asked my bridesmaids yet, but it's looking like 10 girls total for me. My best friend from college will be MOH, and the BM's will be FH's 3 sisters and my 6 best friends from high school. I think I want black dresses with either a cobalt or silver colored ribbon, like one of these: http://watters.com/Product/WtooDresses/295/#Colors:black,steel or http://www.rkbridal.com/bridesmaids-collections/bill-levkoff/bill-levkoff-bridesmaids-748-rk-bridal-has-the-best-online-service.html. I think FH will have 9 total between his BM and groomsmen.

We guaranteed 200 people but we are inviting like 240. In my Mom's head she thinks every person is going to check off yes, lol, bless her heart...

I have 9 girls. They consist of my sister, FSIL, two aunts (that are close in age to me), 4 friends and my FH's cousin.

The dresses are going to be navy but the look hasn't been decided just yet. I'm thinking something by Bill Levkoff. FH hasn't decided on what kind of suit. I'm leaving that up to him so he can see what it's like to research this stuff

We did the all inclusive package at the east wind, so our max is really 100. Which is fine, right now our guest list is only 90, but we haven't really given it much thought yet. I'd love to keep it at or under 100. Since we're footing the bill for the entire wedding, there won't be anyone at my wedding that I don't know. No parents friends, distant third cousins i didn't know existed, stuff like that.

I'm having 6 bridesmaids, my bff from high school as my MOH, my three sisters and two friends. FH hasn't decided on his groomsmen yet, but knows he wants his cousin to be best man. He's worse than a girl with these kinds of decisions! LOL!

I did pick the girls' dresses!! From David's Bridal (they're all over the country and it was just easier) in Plum. Except my MOH who will wear the same dress in Wisteria.

We had to guarantee 150, but our guest list is 264. I'm hoping we have a bunch that can't come and a lot is composed of out of town so we'll see.

My MOH is my cousin
I have 7 BM :
My sister
FSIL
3 of them I've been friends with since pre-school
2 of them I've been friends with for 11 years

*I had 8 BM but my cousin is moving to Paris on Monday so she didn't want to commit when she didn't know what her schedule would be like. I'm so excited for her though! Their dresses are Royal Blue and by Bill Levkoff.

The guys: Best Man is FH Cousin
He has 6 GM:
My brother
His BIL
4 close friends that he's had since he was younger

OUr min. is 110..we are inviting 160 right now but 1/2 are OOT guests.
My MOH is my sister and i have 1 BM
My FH has 1 best man and 3 groomsmen

bridesmaids and sister will be in teh same chiffon short plum dzage dress and hte groomsmen will have black suits black vests with black ties classic

Our minimum is 125 at the hall... as of right now our guest list is around 250. (Totally insane bc I dont even have everyone on it that I want there- so it might increase!!) Needless to say, we shouldn't have a problem hitting that magic number.

As for my bridal party... my sister is my MOH and FH's brother is his BM. The only other person in our party is my nephew- the ring bearer! That's it! We kept it small for a lot of reasons and we're both really happy we did! As far as the dresses, theres a pic in my album! The guys will be in gray tuxs!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Our minimum is 60. Our guest list is at 95 right now. I'm hoping for a fair amount of 'no's' because the room only holds 90!

Our girls: MOH who has been my best GF for the past 14 years, BM who has been dating my brother for the past year (and the first of his GF's I've liked), BM who used to be my assistant at work (I had to fire her about a year ago--at the insistence of my boss, who never liked her--thankfully we've stayed good friends), and FG is my 5-yr old goddaughter. BM's will be in Navy chiffon strapless floor-length Bill Levkoff dresses (pics in album) and MOH will be in a slightly different style but the same color. FG will be in an ivory dress with gold sparkles.

Our guys: his BM has been one of my best friends for the past 15 years, but is now very close to FH, and two GM's--one of his close friends that he met through off-roading message boards online, and my brother.

UGH our guest list was a major source of drama in the beginning. I still get annoyed when I think about it but whatever, I'm trying to go with the flow. Our minimum is 140 and I reallyyyy didn't want to go above that but our final guest list number was 192 so I'm assuming somewhere around 160 will attend.

The girls dresses are long soft satin sweetheart neckline in eggplant. I LOVE them!

Our minimum is 60 and we are inviting around 80 people, hoping for around 60-70 max to show up.

I have 4 girls and FH has 3 guys in our bridal party. They will be wearing navy blue short satin dresses and the guys will be in charcoal grey suits.

Our minimum is 125 and our guest list is about 163...we are hoping to go not too far over the minimum. FH family is from all around the country, so we are really counting on them not making it, as terrible as that sounds.

I have 4 bridesmaids, my sister (MOH) FH's two sisters, and my best friend from college. We have not yet ordered dresses, but we did shop around and I know what we are doing. We are going with Bill Levkoff Navy blue floor length chiffon dresses, but each girl will pick the style and neckline they feel best in. Two girls are toothpicks, another is very chesty, and my sister will be 6 months out from having a baby..it would be cruel to try and put them in the same thing.