I am in the middle of finding the right reception hall.  I have called many halls to find out what the price would be and my goodness.. I am trying to pick through 2 halls right now, so we will see which one will be available.  My only concern is what if I get this hall that holds more than the other hall and not that many people show up.. Any thoughts or ideas of other halls?

Well I have had 2 bridesmaids drop out of the wedding do to a pregnancy...   so this should help out in the planning now with the groomsmen..

Writing out of concern..

I have asked 8 people to be a bridesmaid.  These 8 girls I talk to almost every day.  Is 8 really too many?  On the other hand he only has 6 groomsmen.  Do I just have the other two walk by themselves?

It has been the hardest time to get Justin more involved.  He says it is my day and I should be planning it.  How really do you get the groom more involved without gettting upset with them?  I want to get everyone together to let them know who will be in the wedding, but he doesn't want to take the time to do that and said he has already told them they are in it.  He has only told his best man.  I have 8 bridesmaids and well he could only come up with 6.  I've mentioned maybe putting a few extra in there but he does not want that.  How do you get him to just agree and want to help or give his opinion on things?  I'm struggling in this area.

Trying to find a photographer is outrageous.  Everyone that I have talked to has told me that pictures are almost the most expensive part of the wedding.  I've been looking through each persons website at the quality of the pictures and everything looks great.  We have decided to also put the cameras at the reception to cut down the cost, plus it would be great to see who actually takes the cameras around and uses them.  My friends wedding pics from that night were really funny.  It looked like everyone had a good time.  Any thoughts on photography?

I am starting to finalize my guest list and let me tell you it is even harder to figure out if we have everyone from the family and making sure we invite people that we know aren't coming but would be upset not to get an invite.  We both have big families so just both the families alone are only around 175 and that's not including the friends we still have to invite.  I'm still trying to look for a caterer so that I have them booked because it seems as though everything goes so fast especially for wedding in the summer or even at all.  I've created my to dolist online as well that was really helpful.  Still looking for dresses. I went shopping a last week found one I like alot but the price is crazy, my mom said you only get married once so you might as well do it all  out.  Still trying to figure out what kind of theme I will have, its crazy but I've been watching platinum weddings to try and get some kind of idea.  For the price everything is really nice but for my budget its not that nice.  We'll see some of my friends are very creative.