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Natalie from Irving, TX writes:

The week started with finding out that my Maid-of-Honor betrayed my trust on something significant, so she has now been placed as 3rd out of 7 ladies in the lineup...still keeping her in the bridal party because she's already purchased her dress.

I met with the florist and loved what I saw; we just received their proposal yesterday from our meeting 5 days ago.  We have some questions and changes to be made to it, but we're closer to getting the florist lined-up for our big day.  We're in communication with the photographer/videographer but we haven't come to a final decision and signed contract yet; still have a couple loose ends to cover with them before we feel comfortable locking things down with them and signing a contract.

The invitations are currently with the calligrapher until tonight; I will go and pick them up after 6pm.  I will be able to stuff the envelopes tonight and tomorrow to hopefully get them all into the mail by tomorrow late afternoon...with the wedding May 29th, we're running out of time to get these out to our guests.

The wedding dress came in yesterday that I ordered back on January 20th, so I plan to pick this up on the 15th of March.  Today, I am custom-creating the Thank You cards, just as I did with the invitations, using MyGatsby.com.  And in this last week, I managed to get the guest book ordered, ring bearer pillow ordered, sand and sand vases ordered and engraved for the unity ceremony, gem confetti ordered, my garter ordered, and monogrammed cake knives, Swavorski crystal cake topper and six-pence all ordered.

:-D Yay!...My list is dwindling.

Happy Planning!

Following celebrity weddings and reading glamorous bridal magazines can be a lot of fun, but nothing’s more helpful than learning how real brides plan their big day.  With that in mind, meet OWD's Real Brides: real OurWeddingDay.com brides-to-be sharing their experiences every day.  It’s not about the “right” way to plan; it’s about each bride planning the wedding that’s right for her.

Another wedding party blunder!

Attention all brides: I need some serious advice! I have a Maid of Honour named Michelle who is great; my second best friend is a male by the name of Scott, and my third best friend is another male by the name of Ibrahim. Now seeing how it's 2009 I didn't see a problem in having male bridesmaids standing up for me. So I asked my three best friends to accept their roles and of course they did with bells on.

Well, my fiancé, Steve, lost it when he found out. He doesn't agree that we should have men on my side standing up, he would like to be more traditional and have only men on his side. I could relate to his theory if I had more women to choose from but my friendships are very important to me, and I keep very few people close enough to ask such a question. What am I to do? I already asked my male friends, they already said yes, we have looked at tux colours, and now I have to figure out some way to tell them without putting all the blame on Steve that they can't stand for me anymore.

Would any of you put your foot down and say they want males on their side? Should I take it as Steve is threatened by all the men standing up? I know I want to be the prettiest girl on that day, maybe he wants to be the most handsome and the most important one up there on the big day. I don't know what to do, I don't mind having only the MOH and the Best Man standing without any other attendants but then the pictures will be of just four people and I always pictured a big wedding party. I could ask my male friends to be ushers, but it's really important to me that they stand next to me. I just don't want to upset Steve on our big day-this is obviously driving him crazy!

I asked my male friends over two months ago..and he is just blowing up now. Can anyone relate or give me a hand with this problem I could really use some great advice here ladies!