tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90118385680369838282024-08-29T11:40:40.784-05:00Since there's no college courses on "The Art of Wedding Planning" join a 20-something bride on her journey from "to-do" to "I Do"Sam aka "The Fishie Bride"http://www.blogger.com/profile/16254835374324307428noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9011838568036983828.post-81940292358711934922011-04-23T23:58:00.000-05:002011-04-23T23:58:33.116-05:00

Things have been very busy around the fishbowl now that we're down to only 118 days until THE day! Individual posts are forthcoming but I've been working on invitations, bouquets, centerpieces, and a lot of littler projects behind the scenes. For now, I leave you with these photos

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Mostly because I've been pulling it out for the last umpteen days trying to figure out how to finish our invitations!  And what you ask is the frustrating part of this whole process? The WORDING! Gone are the days of just simply filling in the blanks on an invitation... Oh how simple it would be to just fill in the blanks and send them off into the universe. But, unfortunately that's just

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Remember my brilliant idea of having desserts instead of cake?   And my worries about the amount of time involved, the money involved, the traditions involved, and oh yeah the part about if the reception site will let us? Thankfully, I have a fabulous friend who went to culinary school and offered to make our desserts for us-that took care of the time and money involved. Fishboy and I

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Fishboy has had very few requests in the process of planning the wedding. And since it's not just "my" day but "our" day, he's gotten every one of his requests filled. For example, he had a very specific idea on what he wanted for a tux. While it isn't what I had in mind, and not what I would have picked it made him happy and that's what matters. The way I figure it, I got to pick out what I'm

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Fishboy! Turn Around and Step Away From THE COMPUTER! This is not for you eyes! K, thanks love you!  Is he gone? Ok, good! Remember back 6 months ago when I told you all about the "perfect" dress that I'd found while I was shopping by myself? Or if you need a  refresher click on over and read all about it.        I plopped my money down for the dress and

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I'm a small town girl, born and raised. Fishboy on the other hand lived in the suburbs of the big city of Chippewa Falls his whole life. Neither one of us is big city kind of people so when our photographer Tricia suggested we have our engagement pictures taken in downtown Eau Claire, we were understandably skeptical. But, we were pleasantly surprised by the results! Who knew that we had some

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I realize I've been a little quiet around here lately. I promise it's not because I have nothing to talk about! It's been a crafting marathon around here in the last couple weeks and I promise you that full disclosure is forthcoming! Just hang in there!

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Editor's Note: Fishboy was getting jealous that he hadn't had a chance to tell the story of how we met so I decided to give him the chance to tell his side, even though we all know the REAL story can be found here The very first time we met, my father and I were dropping of a ladder at the neighbor’s house. And a friend of mine introduced us. The funny part of this is Fishie remembers my

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I admit it; I drove almost 2 hours to buy...wait for it...PAPER!   Saturday morning, Fishboy was kind enough to indulge my desire for pretty paper. He woke up at the crack of dawn (otherwise known as 8:30am) and drove over 100 miles to Anchor Paper in Plymouth Minnesota (btw Minnesota/Wisconsin brides if you want pretty paper I highly recommend driving out Anchor Paper) first we

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I have a confession to make...I don't like cake. There, I said it. I do not like cake, in fact I'm not a huge sweets fine at all. Fishboy on the other hand has a pretty decent sized sweet tooth. In comes the new trend hitting weddings, dessert bars! I love me some cheescake, brownies are yummy, rice krispy bars don't stand a chance around me, and if you add scotcheroos

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Alright so when we last left off Fishboy, and I along with his parents for one session had traipsed around the Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls area looking for the "perfect" venue for our kick ass reception. What we found was bad 1980's flowers on the wall, crowded basement banquets, and deer asses on the walls. Need some visual reminders?  Make note of the flowers hanging from the

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Every responsible person knows that STDs require follow-up care-you can't let them just fester and not take care of them right? Well, my follow-up care is trying to get over the fact that no one has taken the time to acknowledge them. This makes for a very sad Fishie...  I sent my cute little cards out into the world and granted I didn't expect flourishes of phone calls, texts, emails, or

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 Remember when I told you here that Groomswoman Mulan made for a verry interesting dress shopping experience? Well, since Groomswoman Jasmine was home from college this past week I gathered the 3 bridal party princesses that I could and we made a trip out to the Bridal Shoppe in Eau Claire where I bought my dress. Shannon, the same woman who's helped me pick out my dress, the tuxes, and even

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Blogger Note: I meant to write this post back when I mailed out our STDs but my bridal ADD kicked in and I got distracted. Oh, United States Postal Service, you have become the bane of my existence. Why must you keep increasing rates and coming out with butt ugly stamps for me to put on my pretty Save The Date cards? Why must you have completely unreasonable office hours and no available parking

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Fishboy and I have been blessed to have been surrounded by some wonderful women in our lives who've been there for us through thick and thin and whom we cannot imagine getting married with out them standing up there with us. And since every little girl dreams of being a princess on their wedding day, and to protect their fragile anonymity, I've decided to give our ladies the names of some of the

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Or what the E! network calls "Bridalplasty"... This is a show designed around this insane idea that you must be "perfect" on your wedding day. Including and up to breast implants, tummy tucks, nose jobs, and any other plastic surgery you can think of.  Now, I'm not a super model by any stretch of the imagination but this has gone a little TOO far. Every woman deserves to be beautiful on

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    Ahhh...the Holidays. A time for; family, friends, peace on earth, happiness, and playing tug of war over where to spend the holidays. This year in the Fishie household has been a particularly brutal battle.     This will be FI Fishie and I's 3rd Christmas together, the last 2 have been spent with his family. This year, we decided that it was only fair to spend it

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I just had a brief moment of clarity and realized that I forgot to share with you guys the vision for this wedding.   Going clockwise from the top left; our bridal party men's tuxes, an idea of the boutineres that I want for them, inspiration for asile decorations for the church (christmas lights wrapped in tulle), our current color scheme, my bouquet's inspiration, and an idea of what I

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Remember back when I told you about our "theme" for this wedding? It boiled down to the fact that we have no theme just a mish mash of colors...these colors to be exact;  Neon Purple, Hot Fusha Pink, Glodenrod Yellow, Lime Green, and Electric Blue.   Well, we've decided to change it up a little bit...   The biggest change is the removal of the yellow color and changing the

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To your fridge that is.  I've completed my second attempt at wedding related DIY projects and I have to say they turned out fabulously! Not to toot my own horn but BEEP-BA-BEEP-BA-BEEP! They were fantastically easy in addition to being fantastically inexpensive. Aren't they adorable? We couldn't decide on just one picture for our cards so we decided to have three different

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Now that I've got one project under my belt I'm ready to begin tackling the million other ones I have left. First up...our Save The Date magnets. We're going to keep this project super simple, have the picture printed at Wal-Mart's photo center run them through the Xyron machine to get the front side laminated and the back side gets the magnet. Easy peezy lemon squeezy. Take a look at what I've

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 Remember when I showed off all the cool toys in my toybox? Well a few weeks ago I finally got a chance to play with them! I whipped out my little Cricut and created some "Will You Be My Bridesmaid?" cards. I wanted to wait until all of my bridesmaids had received their cards and given me their answer before I showed the project off.  It's a pretty easy DIY project, mostly because I

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When you read that I like to imagine you're using the creepy voice from Poltergeist  But this isn't about ghosts coming out of the TV, this is all about the wonderfully fabulous gift I got in the mail not too long ago. It arrived in a plain envelope just like any other piece of mail except for one teeny little detail...it was from Brianna over at Simply You! Photography you remember her,

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Since I have an injured back today I didn't go to work which left me free to check out Simply You! Photography's Facebook page and want to jump up and down (which obviously I can't do with an injured back) and scream that Brianna posted our preview shots from our engagement session with her last week! First off, I wanted to introduce you to the one of the nicest, funniest, most awesomest (that's

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This past Saturday FI Fishie and I were able to channel our inner supermodelquins... (admit it-you watch those Old Navy commercials and wish you could be one too, no judgment here)  We strutted our stuff, smiled, and acted like the super models we were destined to be. All in the name of crossing our engagement pictures off the "to-do" list and putting it squarely on the "mission

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