I've only been to Tx motor speedway once to see a concert. Never been to the car races. The concert was so crowded and it took us 5 hours to get home when without traffic it would have been 30 minutes. Bad news. I hope they've improved to road ways out there! Now I live in Austin, which is about 4 hours from the speedway. It's near Dallas, but I guess you know that! It's a nice stadium. I worked on some related legal stuff and learned a lot about it.

HI Ladies! I had a long weekend full of circus! I saw more horses and bands then I'd ever wanted to see. Jason and I were just told by his dad that we better get moving on invitations! I thought I was more orginized but I guess I was way wrong so today during work I need to make phone calls. I think I am with you two on having our guests bring in Champange and Alcohol. Nothing is worse then a hangover on bad wine! I still love the bucket idea, I decited that i'm going to do that, hope you don't mind. What about cake, are you having cake? See I am very un-orginized!

That's a good question. I haven't thought of a cake either. I guess that I will have to start on that one too!

Maybe cake comes with your dinner at ramons? Maybe I don't need a cake, but then what will I mush on jasons face? If you find out something Let me know!

As for cake, I'm skipping it because it's too expensive. I'm just having dessert with dinner. Tazmara at SunDiver described the dessert, I think she said they were, well, let me go get the e-mail, and I'll paste it here....
Here's what Tazmara had to say about wedding cake and the dessert they will serve at our wedding:
Wedding cake is very expensive $600.00 BZE to start.
What about Individual Coffee Bombes
What is a coffe bombe you ask... well it is a formed ball of ice cream with
a center of cake crumbs, ground almonds(can be ommitted if you have people
with nut allergies) chocolate, and brandy. Decorated with chocolate leaves.

That sounds so good! I'm not a huge fan of wedding cake, so I opted for the above dessert instead.

I hope you girls are doing well. My poor dog broke my window today and cut herself and had to have emergency surgery! YIKES! She's like a child to me, very pathetic.

Take care and keep the questions/ideas flowing!

OH - please use the bucket idea. My mom will be very flattered! I'll try to post some pictures when we get back....

A cake is not included with our deal at Ramon's and Andrew and I envision that if it was it would be a really, really dry cake for some reason. So, maybe we won't have a cake...I'm still trying to figure out the food part. Ugh!! I really like the ice cream bombe idea!

I will have to go Home Depot to look for the buckets soon. Then, at least I will have them and I can start collecting items over the next couple of months to put in it: camera, bug spray, sunscreen, etc. I should do that this week as Andrew is out of town. We'll see.

I talked to Jason last night about cake and he laughed! He thinks maybe I'm thinking about this wedding stuff way to much (You can see i'm the one who has done all the planning) I guess we don't really need it. Looking for more Ideas come on Ladies throw me something fun.
Tammy, Are you heading to Festa this weekend?
Maybe we can meet up. I will also try and e-mail you some fun information and places to be for Portland soon.

One idea that I have (my fiance doesn't seem to hip on is this):
After all is said and done, and we've had the party and everyone's about to go to bed, I want to get a picture of Joe and I jumping into the ocean with our wedding clothes on (my dress is very informal and not too heavy, and I really have no real desire to save it). You know, like we "took the plunge." I just think that would be so fun! He seems opposed to it. We'll see! The thing I'm looking forward to most is the day of the wedding, the boys are going fishing so I won't see Joe before the wedding, and the girls are staying at the hotel. Tazmara has hired a masseuse, manicurist, pedicurist, etc. to come in and give all the girls beauty and relaxation treatments. We'll have a champagne lunch and just relax and indulge. I am so stressed out right now, that's all I can think about! That may be a fun thing to do with your "girl" guests.
We're also tossing around the idea of hiring a local drum band for the reception and have someone come to teach us to Punta! Now that sounds FUN! Joe's got white man's syndrome, though, so he's not much of a dancer.

Hey ybon, I'm not sure if I'm going to Fiesta. Andrew left this past Tuesday to go to Sonoma, CA and won't be home until this coming Monday. My brother's girlfriend's b-day is today (which I forgot :0) so I might have to go out with them. My best friend takes pity on me when Andrew is out of town so she wants me to go to the Dells with her, her man and her daughter. Are you guys going?

Turnbun, I like the idea of the jumping in water! Who knows, maybe your man will get really drunk and do it!