This Fishie's Been Tweeted

Since I was bored this morning I decided to google my wonderful blog and see what, if anything came up, and wouldn't ya know it-I've been tweeted!

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Apparently Emily Bouchard read my blog and thought my post on "Marriage Advice" warranted being tweeted! I think this makes it official that my blog is worth reading and not just to me.

My Wedding Planning Promises

I, the Fishie Bride, hereby make this list of promises to my friends, family, bridal party, vendors and general public. And, in front of all these people who read this blog do solemnly swear to the following...

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Matt Stary must be a bad photographer cause his pictures leave me speechless! FI Fishie and I met Matt at the Beginnings Bridal Fair in Eau Claire and the man blew.me.away. Since photography is one of the main things we agreed was important-right up there with food and music. Trying to find a good photographer was high on our to-dos-I knew what I wanted in terms of photography and FI Fishie just took a Supreme Court Justice Stewart approach ("I know it when I see it") when it came to what he liked (In case you're wondering, yes I just made an obscenity/pornography reference in my photog post-that's just who I am).

Bridal Fairs 101...take 3!

This is my last post on my adventures at Bridal Fairs, I promise! This past Sunday FI Fishie and I treked out into the cold and snow into the middle of nowhere to battle HUGE crowds in a SMALL space. It reminded me of the dinosaur in Meet The Robinsons; "I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through"

New Weddingbee Icons...Sea Creatures

Ok seriously? I love love love weddingbee I literally spend hours and hours a day on the site reading the blogs and logging onto the discussion boards. But, now I'm a little disappointed since my wedding is 18 months away and they chose to bring out the sea creature icons for their "bee" bloggers now? Ahh...oh well, maybe by the time I'm eligible to apply to be a "bee" (not until next year, it has to be only 8 months until the wedding for you to be a "bee") they'll come out with a lovely fishie icon just for me. Until then, I'll just sit and stare at the lovely-ness that is the newest generation of bees.

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Questioning Our Date Choice

The first thing people ask when they find out we're getting married? "Oh, when's the date?" I swear, sometimes I debate just having it tattooed on my forehead or something:'I'm getting married 8.20.11...now stop asking!' but that's only when I'm tired and irritated. After that, then the inevitable question "Oh, aren't you a little young? Are you waiting until you finish school?" I've never truly understood why people feel the need to ask those questions but for whatever reason they do, and I feel the need to explain our reasons for setting the date that we did.

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Marriage Advice

As some of you know, I work in healthcare as a Certified Nursing Assistant (aka: Professional Butt Wiper). The best part of my job? The AMAZING residents who have a tendancy to give some of the best advice, I was working the other day and being that it was the day after valentine's day my resident felt the need to give me a little bit of wisdom that I thought I'd share with you...

"After (dear husband) died, and I had to look around that house at all the stuff, all the trinkets and gifts that I'd gotten through the years. I realized that none of it mattered because he was gone, and that was the hardest part for me...living without him" ~Resident M~

I don't know about you, but FI Fishie and I fight sometimes and there are times when he annoys the crap out of me but if I ever lost him I don't know what I do. I told him that I plan to die first because without him, I'd die on the inside anyway. We may not have had the typical love story but, it works for us. Valentine's day may be over but I want to encourage everyone to tell the person you love how much you care about them...you never know what day will be your last.

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Bridal Fairs 101...take 2!

Alright, so I wrote about my experience at the Beginnings Bridal Fair here, and since then I have been to two more bridal fairs. First was the Wedding Showcase up north in Siren, WI. Then just yesterday, we treked out into the snow for the Sweethearts Bridal Fair here in Menomonie. After 3 bridal fairs, I think I'm starting to become kind of an expert on these shindigs. And yet, I'm slated to go to just one more next week...poor FI Fishie thank goodness he likes going for the free cake!



So, without further ado I present Bridal Fairs 101...take 2.

MS Research

This post is totally and completely un-related to wedding planning but I had to post it. Podunk Studioz, a video game design company, is collecting donations for MS Research. They'll be broadcasting live feed of them playing retro mario games for the next 72 hrs and collecting donations to benefit MS Research. Visit their website at http://www.podunkstudioz.com/ this is near and dear to my heart since if you'll recall MS is the terrible disease that took my mother's life 4 years ago. Any donations are appreciated thank you!

Wedding Dress Tips from a Master

Gandma Fishie has been a seamstress for what seems like a million years in reality it's probably been at least 50+ years. This woman has seen wedding dress trends come and go;

The Good,

The Bad,

and the Ugly!