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I love the dress! The redesign is going to look AWESOME!!!!

The save the dates for his family are officially here. I love them sooo much I could cry!

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Edited by Kayla*Mathew, 27 January 2010 - 06:23 PM.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-27 18:19:00

Wedding list!

2009
June 9, 2009 - SapphireDreams (Civil/Legal wedding)
July 7, 2009 - PopRocks (Beach/Legal wedding)
July 17, 2009 - July09Bride (Church/Legal wedding)
July 17, 2009 - Kristin & TorontoGuy (Civil/Legal wedding)
July 24, 2009- Hapycloud (Civil/Legal wedding)
July 28, 2009- Chadlaure (Civil/Legal wedding)
August 6, 2009 - HuggleBuggles (Ceremonial/Legal wedding)
September 5, 2009 - Chadlaure (Ceremonial wedding)
September 19 2009 - TimandJoyce (Ceremonial/Religious/Legal wedding)
October 10, 2009 - Minnew (Church/Legal wedding)
November 14, 2009 - Hapycloud (Church/Ceremonial wedding)
November 25, 2009 - Darkchilde (Legal Wedding)
December 31, 2009 - Peachey and Varba (Legal Wedding)

2010
January 9, 2010 - Sam and Ben (Legal wedding)
January 20, 2010 - Ashenflowers (Beach/Legal wedding)
January 20, 2010 - Danu (Legal Wedding)
January 23, 2010 - Spoom/ScooterMac (Legal/Ceremonial Wedding)

January 27, 2010 - Rhiann (Legal/Ceremonial Wedding)

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-23 20:42:00

Ok so, most of us get married right away legally and then have a wedding later right? (Well some of us anyway, and that's what we chose to do).

So my dumbass cousin is now saying "Why go to Peachey's wedding? she eloped!" OMG, Yes, I obviously eloped to my in-law's living room...

I'm worried now some of my family won't come in May

What a dumbass...

I'm sure they'll come. You may be already married, but that doesn't mean that you can't exchange vows in front of your family and friends, either. I'm sure that those closest to you and that love you the most will want to be a part of your big day.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-23 19:35:00

Those sound so pretty!!

I've got my heart set on either of these two sets, unless I can find something with more sparkle.

Diamond Toasting Flutes

or

Flutes with crystal thingies in the stem

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-22 08:52:00

Since getting engaged I've become obsessed with Bridal shows! Yes, even Bridezillas!!!!

But Say Yes To The Dress is my favorite. It makes meh cry sometimes. Sniff sniff.

I'm now looking for toasting flutes...with sparkles!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-21 20:05:00

I am going to have a huge issue finding a wedding photographer with me having done like 6 weddings now. I will be so picky!

As good as the wedding photographer is - it helps when the bride is willing to try new things. Maybe I will have to go thru the galleries and see all the shots I love that I took when the bride was unsure but agreed.

During our engagement session we told our photographer we'd do anything he wanted. And we did. We got down in the grass and we rolled around. We were like two little kids running around in a park.

It was really the most fun I've had in a very long time.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 22:03:00

Oh my goodness I love the pictures!!!

My photographer is by far the most expensive thing we're having at the wedding. But I feel that pictures are the most important part of the day. 50 years from now when we're both old and gray, we'll be able to look back on our pictures and remember how perfect the day was. My photographer studied photojournalism instead of photography in school, and I really think that it shows. There's none of that posing stuff, it's all natural. He'll tell us to do something(like jump, for instance), and then shoot it at the perfect angle.

My avatar on here is from our engagement session and all he had told us to do was lean against the stone column. Mathew had said something funny and I hugged him and that's when he got this shot. It makes everything feel way more real if it's a natural moment, and not something that's forced.

Of course, if you've got a great photographer, none of that matters.

On another, and more grumpy note, I'm really getting annoyed with savethedatemagic.com. We ordered the save the dates 2 days ago and I'm still going around and around in circles with them about the proofs. She'll email me something, I'll answer within 2 minutes, and I wont get another reply until a few hours later. It's just SO frustrating!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 20:50:00

I love your dress, Bern!

I've been known to take the item and the receipt to the place of purchase and ask for a refund of the difference. If they've refused I have told them I would like to return the item, and then I buy it at the sale price.

I'm that type of person too, HOWEVER, I bought the dress back in June. After my very first visit to Canada to see Mathew, my mom picked me up at the airport and we went dress shopping. I tried on about 15 dress, most of which I loved, and then I tried MY dress on. And I started crying. I knew that was the dress for me.

I wasn't ready to commit to buy it or anything since the wedding was over a year away, and the salesgirl was fine with that. But when I got home a few hours later I had a message on my machine from the store manager saying that my dress was one that they had put out for discontinuation. At first I thought it was just to make a sale, but I called stores in other states and they confirmed that it was true.

I guess I should have asked if they discontinued it for STORE ONLY or if it would still be available online. My bad!!!

But now that I think about it, they may have only discontinued it in the Davids Bridal Women collection. I have this problem where I've got quite a bit of boobage and a small waist. So I'd find dresses that would fit me in the middle, but would never ever fit me at the bust. The only collection I found that I can wear comfortably is the DB Women collection.

Maybe that's it. Yeah.
-making myself feel better

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 13:05:00

I was going to go the huge heel route, but Mathew is only 5"7, so I didn't want to end up being taller than him, or really even close to it.

They're going to pull my dress up from the top of the skirt that way everything still looks awesome.

These are my shoes, which I'm going to have dyed pink to match my bridesmaids(I mean, really, whos gonna see em?

). They add about an inch and a half to my height so hopefully I'll be safe.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 11:05:00

Haha, true! Basically, what happened is I went to visit my now husband for 4 days before he got deployed, and then we ended up getting married.

And about your dress, it's a beautiful dress. And it sucks that the price went down but at least you have it and that's one pre wedding worry eliminated.

True. I found my dream dress on the first visit to the store. I stopped looking after that. If I kept on, it would be like me continuing to look for men after finding Mathew. And I'd never, ever do that. :luv:

He's my wuvie. Like, you know, the peanut butter to my jelly. The mac to my cheese. He's my snookumswookumsbabybunnybutt

Yes, I'm aware we are disguistingly in love with one another. I don't know how people here stand it when he comes to visit. It must be very hard to watch, LOL

I love your dress! But I do know what you're talking about with the height thing. I'm only 5"2.

Edited by Kayla*Mathew, 19 January 2010 - 10:58 AM.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 10:56:00

Ahhhh geezus. I just looked at the price on db's website for that gown. It's $249 now!!! I paid $500 more for it.

:crying:

nooooooo.

Wow, this is so exciting. I loveee weddings! <3 I never really got to plan my wedding at all. So all of my friends are pressuring me to get married again. As if. Good luck everyone! And don't laugh during the entire ceremony like I did.

You should totally do it!!!! My step-grandmother is badgering my papaw for a wedding now. They never had one. We never even knew they were married until like 4 months after they were.

I think that everyone deserves to have a wedding at least once, maybe twice if it took you twice to find your prince charming. :luv:

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 10:48:00

Please post yours!

I love your dress!!!

Heres My dress

I really, really hate the way that girl looks in it. She makes it look awful. I wish I had taken a picture of me in it that wasn't only of the train. I loooove the train on this dress.

But on another note, a random bird just knocked itself out by flying into my window....Crazy bird.

And here's our honeymoon.

So excited! Above & Beyond Cabin

Edited by Kayla*Mathew, 19 January 2010 - 10:08 AM.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-19 10:07:00

Holy cow 9000 petals.
That's all I gotta say

lol, when you look at them it's not that much. Not even enough to fill up one garbage bag. It just sounds like a whole lot. :lol:

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-18 22:48:00

Out of curiosity which store/ebay seller did you girls buy your rose petals from? I am thinking of picking some up myself and if you have a recommendation on a seller that would be great

Oh -- one other wedding related thing ... I finally ordered my dress today! I tried it on a few months ago but just finally got the nerve to buy it today. I kept thinking I might see something else I liked more ... well, after shopping a ton I definitely have not It should get here by March 18, still plenty of time before our wedding for alterations and all that

concemme is the ebay seller I used. The rose petals I got were AMAZING quality.

I want to see the dress!! I'll show you mine if you show me yours!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-18 22:35:00

I got all of mine off ebay. I think I paid like $30 for all 9000.

I'm very good at catching deals!

A while back a friend of mine gave me her WeddingStar book and I found some stuff I really liked in it, so I asked Mathew to look the item up on the website to see if he liked it. Well, whenever he did, he asked me why everything was $3.98. Of course, I like flipped out and checked for myself, and sure enough it was all $3.98. So I bought my guestbook, pen, garter, ring bearer pillow, and cake cutting kit for $27.98 including shipping!!!!

But the next day I got a call from them saying the website had crashed and they needed to charge me $130 more. I had absolutely none of that and talked to the president of the company and he made them go ahead and ship it.

Yeah, I rock. :dance:

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-18 22:32:00

Wow, that's alot of petals.
I only ordered 300

I'm going to line the aisle with them. I've already got 6000 petals that I've picked apart, and I'll need 3000 more. So in total that'll be about 9000ish, give or take a few duds.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-18 21:01:00

I just ordered the very last of my rose petals today from ebay! So now I've got purple, pink, and pink with white.

Now I'll just have to tackle the task of picking apart the remaining 3000 that I've just ordered when they come in. :blink:

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-01-18 20:43:00

Thread on VJ and IRS website didn't help...

Vero, I think you're freaking yourself out to make it way harder than it is. I just did our taxes last week and it was a breeze. Turbo tax will do everything for you. All you have to put in is the foriegn income and then the address of the former employer. It will be on the Other Income portion(If I remember right). It'll probably take you about 10 minutes to do, but it's really really easy. I didn't have to include any other papers, just efiled and our refund should be deposited before Feb. 4th.

Breathe!!!

To valerie78:

Turbo tax allowed me to make Mathew a pin when we got to the efile portion.

Edited by Kayla*Mathew, 24 January 2011 - 11:18 AM.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2011-01-24 11:18:00

Tax questions - first time filing since I married my citizen husband

nickbits - i was using turbo tax to try and figure out the foreign earned income credit and they're asking me what type of visa orfee had to work in canada...he lived in canada and didn't need a visa to work - obviously..

i'm confused..did you get that question for your wife too?

We didn't have that question when I filed our taxes this morning using turbotax. I used the physical presence test to determine his eligibility. Everything went smoothly with that option, it didn't ask for anything other than his trips here(to determine how many days he was in canada), how much he made, and the company he worked for. Piece of cake!!!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2011-01-20 22:11:00

Job Interview

I know that with AT&T medical coverage is something that you sign up for yourself, it isn't automatically done once you're hired. I don't have insurance through them because, well, it sucks. Usually you enroll online or fill out a form--totally voluntary. It was that way when I worked at Wal-Mart too, so I'm just guessing that's the norm. Could be wrong, though!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2011-01-28 21:06:00

Job Interview

Congrats! I hope you hear good news!

Now if only Mathew had some good luck in the job search. 5 months of looking and counting...

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2011-01-26 12:00:00

Those emails are always messed up. Mine came in completely the wrong order, and then we even got a couple AFTER we got the green card in hand. At least you know it's on it's way! yayyy!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2011-01-20 22:08:00

I just knew when I saw the AOS'rs thread on the front page that Kimbear had gotten what she was waiting for.

Congrats Kimbear! USCIS free for 2 years!!! :dance:

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2011-01-19 10:04:00

Well if they take the same amount of time with mine as they did with yours, I should be hearing something soon. /crosses fingers

After all this time once they're done with your RFE it should be almost instant. You've been waiting long enough, and they need to give you that approval 'cause you want it! So they gotta give it!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-11-28 20:57:00

After we had our RFE, it was touched multiple times before the status ever changed. It was very disappointing to know that they were looking at it every day, but never approving/denying or whatever else they do to our file.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-11-27 21:23:00

Here in Kentucky Mathew had to retake the written and drivers test if he wanted to get his drivers license. However, theres information on the DMV website saying that as long as he was from a Geneva Compact country all he had to do was present his visa and I-94 and that would be good enough to get his license. Try telling that(and even handing them the paper that said it was okay to do this) to some severely incompetent workers and all you'll get is a headache.

Oh well, at least he didn't have to wait for his EAD or Greencard to get it. For that, I consider us lucky.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-11-09 20:13:00

Well, guess I was right in thinking he wasn't practicing anymore!

Yeah, we got that stupid stupid stupid RFE for that. They RFE'd us for everything that was bundled right together so I know they lost it or something. It was a good thing I made copies because that could have been a really frustrating situation, even more than it already was. :angry:

I wouldn't think it would be for your medical since we got by with just the vaccination sheet, but I guess what goes for some of those officers wont go for all.

At least we know that for whatever it is it's their fault. You don't have to have another medical and from the looks of that picture of your packet you included everything you needed.

Or maybe they're just not fans of the highlighter and tabs, lol. Maybe as a kid they were tortured by school children wielding highlighters!

Edited by Kayla*Mathew, 29 October 2010 - 08:16 PM.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-29 20:15:00

This post from Ewok in the AOS forums is helpful. http://www.visajourn...93-and-ds-3025/

Q: I received an RFE for Form I-693 and my medical is less than one year old.

To have your vaccination information transcribed to Form I-693, the following Civil Surgeon will do it by phone and fax for a nominal fee ($10 at time of writing):

Dr. L. E. Arnold
4534 Westgate Boulevard, Suite 106
Austin, TX 78745
Tel: (512) 444-3131
Fax: (512) 447-4699

I'm thinking this may be the doctor that isn't practicing anymore. I know I remember reading about one that pretty much everyone used because of how well they worked with people, but they retired.

As for the proof of a bonafide relationship, we didn't send any. We just sent a copy of our drivers licenses showing that we have the same address. I was under the impression that all of that stuff would come if we had an interview and later on.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-29 20:11:00

GC arrived today.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-16 18:39:00

Yeah our RFE was early on in the process. They lost all of our financial documents. The day we got the RFE we sent it back out and it started reprocessing again a couple days later and was transferred pretty soon after.

I really think they ought to stop processing current cases and get the backlogged ones out of the way. But then thatd probably cause yet another backlog. Just can't win with the system. But 5 months and upwards is insane. I don't know how you guys do it.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-14 16:39:00

That's what I was beginning to think about mine. We hadn't had a touch since the 3rd of September and then we got the card production email yesterday. They probably put it in a stack to be approved and forgot about it. Same with yours. I can't honestly imagine what could take 5 months to approve. You look at it, see they've got everything, got evidence, APPROVE. Seems simple enough. But maybe they've got to do a test on the paper to make sure everything was printed on the right type, maybe do a little carbon dating, check the news for the day that petition was filed.

Hey, maybe that's why I got an RFE for the financial stuff. We used the wrong freakin' paper. Darn it.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-14 11:24:00

I'll be happy to start sending one of my hubbys fingers for each day y'all dont have your GC's. Eventually they'll get so grossed out they'll HAVE to send them!

But it's weird, we just got 2 emails and texts in a row saying that they've sent a notice approving his AOS, and when I checked online it's now moved to Post Decision Activity. Maybe they sent the emails in the wrong order?

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-14 11:15:00

Just got the email that Green Card production was ordered! yayyy!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-13 13:38:00

Its been over a month since Mathews AOS was touched. Just about everyone else from the July group has gotten interview letters, or approvals, and the rest are stuck in limbo waiting for Dallas to send out Biometrics letters. Mine has been transferred and is just sitting there.

Booh. Looks like we're in for the long haul.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-10-05 10:48:00

One of the filers from the July group just had an infopass appointment on Friday because his biometrics hasn't arrived yet. I'm not sure if it was because it was a biometrics situation, or if they're just letting people make appointments whenever they feel like they need to now, but I always thought you had to wait a little longer before they'll meet with you.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-09-19 08:35:00

They keep touchin' that stupid EAD. Quit touching it! It don't wanna be touched no more! Touch the AOS! It's lonely!! It wants to get all snuggly with mr. approver-man and tell him all her secrets and hopes. :luv:

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-09-12 08:53:00

We got the email last night saying card production was ordered on Mathews EAD. Too bad we got it in the mail yesterday.

Nice try, USCIS. Maybe next time you'll get it right.

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-09-09 13:34:00

YAY!!! So the only thing they had left to do was approve you! This is such great news!

Kayla*Mathew

Female

Canada

2010-09-03 08:41:00