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[mingus_drake 0]

congrats! great news for you and matt!

[MzMo1102 0]

Thanks on the congrats guys!!!

@Annex – still have a few more months to go but definitely will post pics when the time comes…no, havent thought of any names as yet..its soooo difficult to pick names lol!

Your wedding plans sounds nice – pls post pics when you can..looking forward to seeing them.

@Kaffy – yes, he’s been more active the last week and a half. I feel him move several times a day. Theyre still very light taps and fluttering but there have been a couple of times where I get jabbed which still shocks me here and there lol.

That cherry blossom tree is just absolutely gorgeous!!!!

@ Annie - CONGRATS ON THE VISA!!!! Thats excellent news!!!

Nope, still havent come up with any names unfortunately…it will be a while lol..

@Katt loves Matt – Yes, that sounds about right…seems like everything’s in order..not long to go!

[AnnexoxShay 1]

@Annex – still have a few more months to go but definitely will post pics when the time comes…no, havent thought of any names as yet..its soooo difficult to pick names lol!

Your wedding plans sounds nice – pls post pics when you can..looking forward to seeing them.

Hey MzMo Yeah Ill definately post some pics I tend to be a little paranoid because I hate being overweight but Ill post a couple ...

Shay and I have already picked baby names Ronan Kristian if we have a boy after his father who passed away when Shay was 15 and his mum whose name is Christine ... And if we have a little girl her name will be Natasha Marie after my grandmother whose passed away and my mum ... were also playing around with Micah (One of shays grandfathers) and Shayla Storm ... Shayla because its a play on Shays name and Storm which is my Internet User name in all the forums I've visited for years and years and ironically Stormy was one of Shays great grandfathers names ...

[kat loves matt 0]

Thats the happy dance!!! I just got a call from Matt!! We got Approved!!!

Congratulations, I'm thrilled for you both!

[deedertot 0]

I have a question for you all about your wedding dates.....how far in advance did you set your dates? I'm mailing off our packet tomorrow...and I just don't know if I should risk setting a date too soon. I've tried estimating how long the process will take but that seems too risky for me to book vendors and end up having to reschedule. I don't know what to do!

thanks...

~ Dee

[kat loves matt 0]

I have a question for you all about your wedding dates.....how far in advance did you set your dates? I'm mailing off our packet tomorrow...and I just don't know if I should risk setting a date too soon.

We didn't even think about trying to set a wedding date until after we had received our NOA2. Even now we're not sure if we'll be approved in time for the date we want - June 27th. Having said that, we're having a very small wedding and will only have immediate family & friends. So it's not like we have a big reception or similar to book.

I'd be erring on the side of caution and not booking vendors or anything like that until your petition is approved, or even better, until you get your packet 3. This is all of course, dependent on what date you determine that you want to get married.

Edited April 1, 2009 by kat loves matt

[Chris & Mara 0]

I have a question for you all about your wedding dates.....how far in advance did you set your dates? I'm mailing off our packet tomorrow...and I just don't know if I should risk setting a date too soon. I've tried estimating how long the process will take but that seems too risky for me to book vendors and end up having to reschedule. I don't know what to do!

thanks...

~ Dee

Orignally when we filed last August we said August this year and had August 22nd booked..... but as you can tell by my timeline we are no where near getting our visa and being able to organise it all by that date.

So we have moved it to August 14th 2010, we will be married by then (well before) I am actually hoping that we can get married on the 14th of August this year so that we can renew our vows exactly a 1 year on at our wedding

[Matt-and-Annie 0]

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Thats the happy dance!!! I just got a call from Matt!! We got Approved!!! Thank the good L-rd!! Baruch HaShem!!!

Well like most, they didn't ask him for ANYTHING! LOL ... he took a huge thick folder of evidence and nothing was asked for... the officer that interviewed him ask him when he was planning to get married he said may 31 (which is officially our wedding date!! woohoo!!).. and then towards the end ask him if he was going to marry me... my poor babe is half deaf and didn't understand the question instead he said no! LOL!! he said the officer gave him a puzzled look and when he finally repeated the question he was oh YES YES YES!!! haha found that too funny!

Anyways I am so relief and just bursting with JOY!!

Thanks to all for all the help!!

Wooohoooo.... Im soooo happy for you!!!! Congratulations to you both .... How did Matt go? was he nervous? I found the staff really friendly and so I was pretty calm ... Did Matt feel the same?

Hey there friend!

He was a bit nervous! but then calm right down! Everyone was really friendly Matt mentioned that the officer that interviewed him was the same that interviewed him and denied his B1/B2 visa.. he was a bit nervous about that but mention he was super friendly and everything went great! Absolutely no hassles!! I am so excited!! I'll get to see him iin 26 days!! and we marry may 31!!!!

[MzMo1102 0]

@Annex – still have a few more months to go but definitely will post pics when the time comes…no, havent thought of any names as yet..its soooo difficult to pick names lol!

Your wedding plans sounds nice – pls post pics when you can..looking forward to seeing them.

Hey MzMo Yeah Ill definately post some pics I tend to be a little paranoid because I hate being overweight but Ill post a couple ...

Shay and I have already picked baby names Ronan Kristian if we have a boy after his father who passed away when Shay was 15 and his mum whose name is Christine ... And if we have a little girl her name will be Natasha Marie after my grandmother whose passed away and my mum ... were also playing around with Micah (One of shays grandfathers) and Shayla Storm ... Shayla because its a play on Shays name and Storm which is my Internet User name in all the forums I've visited for years and years and ironically Stormy was one of Shays great grandfathers names ...

Dont be silly, who cares! i cant wait to see them though...not long before you're outta here!

Wow, you guys have the baby names already! Thats good though, we still havent even figured it out ...

[MzMo1102 0]

So we have moved it to August 14th 2010, we will be married by then (well before) I am actually hoping that we can get married on the 14th of August this year so that we can renew our vows exactly a 1 year on at our wedding

Im looking at doing the same thing...we originally hired an attorney Dec 07 for the K1 who stuffed us around and we were planning to get married last year September 27th...then we ended up filing ourselves in July last year which USCIS had lost our petition so we had to refile again in November!!! ....we then had our big wedding set for April 25th 2010 but then I ended up getting pregnant then our whole plans had changed all together ...so now, we just figured that we'd have a civil wedding and then have a main wedding when we're both financially settled. It wouldve been alot easier if we both werent coming from huge close knit families on opposite sides of the earth!

I was thinking of doing the civil wedding but not changing my surname until our big wedding....Im wondering if this will be ok and wont affect the AOS or anything??

[AnnexoxShay 1]

I have a question for you all about your wedding dates.....how far in advance did you set your dates? I'm mailing off our packet tomorrow...and I just don't know if I should risk setting a date too soon. I've tried estimating how long the process will take but that seems too risky for me to book vendors and end up having to reschedule. I don't know what to do!

thanks...

~ Dee

Hey Dee ... We set our wedding date about a month ago ... We set 2 dates the 2nd of May and the 16th, we both prefered the 2nd but we thought we should have a back up just incase but I wasnt thrilled with the 16th as thats the date (different month) I got married to my ex 16 years ago ... and the rest of the month was pretty booked up as Shay is a Chef and they had a couple big bookings and also his mothers birthday and the anniversary of his dads death which are all in May ... which meant we would have to wait till July unless we could squeeze in a day in June and neither of us wanted to wait that long! His boss wasnt very happy but we came to a compromised and shortened our honeymoon from 7 days down to 5 and we were able to keep the 2nd as our wedding date ...

Were not having a formal wedding soo the only thing we had to book was a pastor and he was flexible and the park but thats officially closed til June (I think) and so the town was more then happy to accommodate us ... thats the great thing about being in a small town, everyone knows everyone and is more then happy to be flexible to help you out, mind you instead of inviting people they are actually asking to come themselves! ... Im not even going to wear a wedding dress instead I found a nice blouse that is silvery grey and Im wearing black slacks .. Im going to do something with my hair I spose and have a little bouquet ... we're going to keep everything very simple and on our first anniversary were going to renew our vows and have something that is more wedding like ...

Actually when you get a chance you should put together a timeline because it will be easier to be able to tell you when to expect what .... We used the flow chart thats available here somewhere and it was pretty spot on for us ... give or take a week or two ....

[AnnexoxShay 1]

@Annex – still have a few more months to go but definitely will post pics when the time comes…no, havent thought of any names as yet..its soooo difficult to pick names lol!

Your wedding plans sounds nice – pls post pics when you can..looking forward to seeing them.

Hey MzMo Yeah Ill definately post some pics I tend to be a little paranoid because I hate being overweight but Ill post a couple ...

Shay and I have already picked baby names Ronan Kristian if we have a boy after his father who passed away when Shay was 15 and his mum whose name is Christine ... And if we have a little girl her name will be Natasha Marie after my grandmother whose passed away and my mum ... were also playing around with Micah (One of shays grandfathers) and Shayla Storm ... Shayla because its a play on Shays name and Storm which is my Internet User name in all the forums I've visited for years and years and ironically Stormy was one of Shays great grandfathers names ...

Dont be silly, who cares! i cant wait to see them though...not long before you're outta here!

Wow, you guys have the baby names already! Thats good though, we still havent even figured it out ...

yeah who cares ... I dont have much of a choice everyone wants pics ... I went to say goodbye to the ladies at Salvo's that I do volunteer work with earlier today and they all threatened to do me harm if I dont send pics ....

I know its funny we have baby names already but my family are greek immigrants and its traditional to name our children after our parents .... but my sister just had a baby and called her Mariah (shes my little angel ) and her first little girls middle name is Calista Maria soo Im kinda let off the hook besides Ive always loved my grandmothers name and since I was a little girl I wanted to name my kid after my grandmother .. her name was Anastasia but I prefer Natasha.... And Shay always wanted to name his after his father and mother and had wanted Ronny Christine ... When he told me I said what about Ronan, his fathers name is Ronald and I really dont like that name but Ronan is lovely and Ive always loved Kristian ... but the main thing is theyre healthy a name is just a word we learn to respond to ...

[AnnexoxShay 1]

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Thats the happy dance!!! I just got a call from Matt!! We got Approved!!! Thank the good L-rd!! Baruch HaShem!!!

Well like most, they didn't ask him for ANYTHING! LOL ... he took a huge thick folder of evidence and nothing was asked for... the officer that interviewed him ask him when he was planning to get married he said may 31 (which is officially our wedding date!! woohoo!!).. and then towards the end ask him if he was going to marry me... my poor babe is half deaf and didn't understand the question instead he said no! LOL!! he said the officer gave him a puzzled look and when he finally repeated the question he was oh YES YES YES!!! haha found that too funny!

Anyways I am so relief and just bursting with JOY!!

Thanks to all for all the help!!

Wooohoooo.... Im soooo happy for you!!!! Congratulations to you both .... How did Matt go? was he nervous? I found the staff really friendly and so I was pretty calm ... Did Matt feel the same?

Hey there friend!

He was a bit nervous! but then calm right down! Everyone was really friendly Matt mentioned that the officer that interviewed him was the same that interviewed him and denied his B1/B2 visa.. he was a bit nervous about that but mention he was super friendly and everything went great! Absolutely no hassles!! I am so excited!! I'll get to see him iin 26 days!! and we marry may 31!!!!

Hey Darlin'

Im so very happy for you both Im glad it all went well, the same guy prob interviewed us both and he was really nice, actually all the people I came in contact with were except the security guys... swear if they smiled their whole face would have cracked!! ... the great thing is our times are soo close to each other which is way awesome we'll more then likely be doing our AOS at the same time and Cham to .... so we can bounce of each other ...

Actually Kai's interview is in like 5days ... Unfortunately Ill be off the net by then but Im going to go to the internet cafe up the road every couple days to read my mail et so hopefully Ill find out how it all went ...

[deedertot 0]

Thanks ya'll for sharing your experiences with setting your wedding dates. It really helps. Our families want us to get married in Hawaii because of being halfway between us. We'd love to be able to do that, but we're told we will have to book things (location, minister, photographer) further in advance because of all the people that go there to get married. We're only going to have our immediate families there though. After reading your experiences, I definitely think I will wait atleast till we get our NOA2. Oh, and I started our timeline (thanks AnnexoxShay)...I didn't know how helpful that could be in estimating how long it will take. I'm still learning! but it helps reading everyone's posts and hearing from your experiences. Thanks!

[kaffy 2]

We did the half-way-in between Hawaii thing also. If you decide to get married on Kauai I am happy to offer suggestions