<p>Mollie, you gave me goosebumps with that personal look at your wedding. Congratulations and best wishes (and a penny in my mind for your shoe.)</p>
<p>Like Zoosermom, I have never posted, but I have kept up with all the preparations! Thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures with us! You look every bit as lovely as you sound. I am sure your wedding is going to be just perfect. I can’t wait!!</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing. I love the blue bridesmaid dresses and the orange and yellow bouquets. I would not have visualized how striking the combination was if not for the pictures. The reception place is just wow!!!</p>
<p>Best wishes to you and Adam. I can’t wait for the wedding pictures.</p>
<p>Count me in…I have enjoyed following your plans every step of the way and especially these planning photos. I feel so excited for you. It is going to be the most amazing day, you’ll see! All the thought that went into the wedding day will turn out magically and will be unforgettable. I hope it is the start of many incredible moments in your marriage. </p>
<p>We’ll be thinking of you this weekend and we can’t wait to see the wedding photos. It definitely is more fun to follow than the weddings on the Today Show cause we feel we know ya! </p>
<p>Happy everything…</p>
<p>Hope all goes well</p>
<p>My best Wedding Tip…</p>
<p>The week before AND also the day before: Call caterer, florist, etc and reconfirm everything - time, location, quantity, colors, etc. (Have THEM read their info to YOU - not the other way around!!! If they read their info to YOU then YOU will catch their mistakes - however, if you read your info to them, they may not carefully look and see if what you are saying matches their records.) </p>
<p>My florist (who seemed to be the most “with it” person) had inadvertently written the wrong time for delivery. Thank God we caught the mistake the day before the wedding. She read the order to me over the phone and when she said, “deliver flowers to XXXXX church at 10 am” I immediately caught her mistake - wedding was at 10 am, but pics were at 9 am. So… Flowers needed to be there by 8:30 am. She had written the wedding time as the delivery time.</p>
<p>Also, I wish that I had known that the below issue was going to be a problem… I now advise people to gently and diplomatically ask their co-workers if they are certain that their spouses will be attending. I think everyone knows how expensive weddings are so I doubt anyone would be insulted by a gentle question.</p>
<p>It seems like co-workers’ spouses have a habit of not showing up at wedding even if they RSVP’d that they would. I think the husbands are the worse offenders. When I got married, most of the husbands of my female co-workers didn’t show up. I ended up paying for about 12 uneaten meals because of this. This may not sound like much but the per meal costs were high plus you have to pay tip and tax on top.</p>
<p>It was my experience that wives are more likely to go to weddings with their husbands even if they (the wives) don’t know the bridal couple at all or very well.</p>
<p>Signing in to the virtual guest book here…I’ve enjoyed your college tips over the past couple of years, and your wedding planning adventures this past year.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best for a wonderful wedding and a wonderful life with your sweetie!</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best as well. </p>
<p>My best wedding tip is to think through your vows carefully. They will come back to you over the years, in ways you can’t predict, so just spend a little time meditating on them now.</p>
<p>Have an absolutely fabulous wedding.</p>
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Same experience though luckily not as many co-workers, and it was the wives who stayed home. I ended up with a half empty table since they were all at the same table.</p>
<p>I love the mouse!</p>
<p>Have a wonderful wedding!</p>
<p>All the best Mollie, for a wonderful wedding and all the happiness in the world for you and Adam now and for all the years to come. I know that the day will be the perfect culmination to all your planning and something to remember always. We will actually be right in your area this weekend to see schools - I promise there will be NO wedding crashers as tempting as that might be, but I will be thinking of you!</p>
<p>I haven’t read the entire thread, but have enjoyed popping in from time to time. I love the photo of your fiance making the test cake! My best friend was married at Memorial Church years ago, and I’m pretty sure her wedding date was also September 15! The photo of the Charles through the windows made me ache for Boston.</p>
<p>Best wishes for a wonderful wedding day, and many happy years together!</p>
<p>Who said no wedding crashers? We’re making our final plans, too. (jk)</p>
<p>Love your Buckeyes! (another Ohio native here).</p>
<p>Hope you have a beautiful day and a wonderful life together! Thanks for sharing–we’ve all enjoyed this thread.</p>
<p>My last advice is this: Make sure you give everyone in your wedding party a photo of the wedding party. (I’ve been disappointed several times–after making huge sacrifices so H or children could be in a wedding party–they received no photo–OR were directed to a website where they could PURCHASE photos. . .)</p>
<p>I also love the yellow and orange flowers. It’s a combination I use in front of the house. I can’t wait to see the actual wedding photos!</p>
<p>I am in the process of reading this entire thread, but I skipped to the photo page first. Thank you so much for sharing, the pictures are lovely as are you and your handsome soon to be husband. Enjoy your special day, I will be thinking of you on Saturday. BEST WISHES!!!</p>
<p>I feel really really tempted to crash the wedding to see the bride, the groom, the attendants in all their wonderful finery!!</p>
<p>Best wishes!</p>
<p>Marite: when I was growing up, it was customary for anyone who wished to go to the wedding, if it was held in a public place like a church or chapel. I believe Memorial Hall is open to the public. Please go and take all our best wishes with you!</p>
<p>Just chiming in that dmd’s reported custom is also what I was raised on - anyone can go to the church. Invited guests to the reception.</p>
<p>Send photos, marite! No wait, that might be a little much to show up with the photog equipment.</p>
<p>Actually, It’s Mem Church, inside the Yard. Mem Hall is dedicated to Harvard students who perished in the Civil War on the Union side. Part of it is now Annenberg cafeteria (aka Hogwarts) serving freshmen and the other side is Sanders Theater, site of concerts and huge lectures (such as Michael Sandel’s Justice). Mem Church is a more restrained and lovely 18th century style chapel Either way, it’s about a 15 minutes’ walk from my home. I’ll see…</p>
<p>Oh, the church holds nine hundred people. Nobody’s going to notice if a few extra slip in. 
I would absolutely love to have anyone who wants to come – we’ll even spare you a paper airplane!</p>
<p>I am so grateful for everyone’s kind words and wishes – I think my favorite part of the last few weeks has been the joy and the kindness of everyone in my life. The getting presents part is great, too, don’t get me wrong, but I have enjoyed more than anything reading cards and reflecting on how many great people are in my life.</p>
<p>(Just FYI, in light of the goopiness in the previous paragraph, I would like to assure everyone that I have already purchased the most waterproof mascara that Sephora has to offer for Saturday. :))</p>
<p>Just chiming in from California, wishing you both all the happiness in the world. I so wish I could just walk to the church and hide in a back row with marite. You’ve been so generous to share your plans with us. Did you ever train that bunny to walk down the aisle?</p>
<p>I wanted to wish you and Adam much happiness together! Enjoy your big day! I have been following many of your posts and looking at the linked pictures as you planned for your wedding. I really enjoyed all of the pictures that you just put on facebook.</p>