i want to get chocolate wasted!

FIRST OF ALL...congratulations to one of my main bitches, Lorraine and her new fiance Mike on their engagement! THey are getting married about a month and a half before us and i couldnt be happier. Lorraine is awesome, one of my co-bridesmaids, and Mike is totally a rad dude.We get to do squealy girly wedding things!!!

I was thinking, about my own wedding, that i should try top be awesome and save money at the same time, because being awesome and saving money are 2 of my favorite things.And a way to incorporate centerpieces and favors, seem like a fun way to do that, be awesome and save money.

So how does everyone feel if i get crazy-awesome Halloween candy bowls,like this one, or this one, or that one.....hahaha!!! Wait, whatttttttttt? anyway.... I wanted a candy bar anyway which is kind of unnecessary. I was wracking my braaaaaaaain trying to still do it, stay awesome,and maybe thrown in some halloween...

anyway what I'm getting at is, if i get a bunch of pillowcases (inspired by trick or treating), and personalize them (D+L, the date and some other sentiment on it, dye them, blah) people can take the candy from the bowl, and BAM! centerpiece favors. I'm also going to have different candies at different tables, and i'm hoping this will encourage people to mingle and (fingers crossed) say TRICK OR TREAT!!! when they go to the tables.

...don't worry, I'm probably going to throw in fanncy shotglasses, or souvenir CDs or something.Let's not forget, it will be all aspects of fun...and i like to dance around while I'm doing shots and chasing them with milky ways.

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whatcha think?

There will Be Doves and flowers ALL OVER THIS BITCH!

Ok. So i like to troll around awesome blogs, and read awesome books and google awesome things when it come to this wedding. (for example, my own personal mecca, offbeat bride. look into it.) And i also liek to think, that Dave and I are a little more entertaining and unique than your average couple getting married. I mean, on a day that started out with me having a revenge margarita and buying mouthwash on the way to the Family Values tour, it ended with us buying metal rings at a 2 for $25 jewelry booth and Dave in no other words telling me we were getting married.

We are badass, dammit! And i think we are better and more creative than freaking doves, and eternity symbols that are actually hearts, or precious moments figurines... thats just not us. So i have been wracking my brain trying to come up with creative, cheap (and not chintzy) things that scream "DAVE AND LINDA! LOVE! AWESOMENESS! MARRIAGE! FAMILY! BABIES! HOOORAYYYY!!!!".

Which brings me to where I am at right now. Right now, I am googling pictures o vintage wrestling posters. You know, the one advertising the matches when the local shows were the big thing....with the pictures, the wrestler names and nicknames and exciting words and fun yayness. So I was showing Dave the pictures and he was like,"cool." "whatever." ...I will give him points for tearing himself away from his droid for 5 seconds, so that means he cared enough to do that. which was cool.

I asked him what he might want his wrestler nickname to be, because that is also cool, along the lines of "classy" freddie blassie, "the mach man" randy savage, "big sexy" kevin nash...and he seems to be the most uninterested person ever. man seriously?

i threatened precious moments and doves, and he said the words "fuck no." so, i'm counting that as input and thats the end of that.


I'm doing it myself and making up our own nicknames.

any ideas? MILF for me, and DIRTY for dave, are out.

Welcome toooo....WEDDDIINNGGGMANIAAAA!!!

SO, I had an epiphany while cutting lemons at work.

I knew that I wanted to have certain elements of the wedding plucked from different things that Dave and I enjoy. One of those things, for example, is I think having a "signature cocktail" would be a fun idea, considering he both bartend, and met in the bar he works in. Another, is the punk rock buttons idea, because we are both very into music, and we got engaged at a concert.

Another fun thing we have in common, is we both thoroughly enjoy professional wrestling. I enjoy it so much, that i used to be an indy worker (re: a wrestling personality on the independant/local scene. yeah, i know). So i thought it would be fun to incorporate wrestling in some way. One way i hav always thought would be fun would be to announce the wedding party as a wrestling card. I think this would be awesome. The epiphany that I had, while cuting lemons, was that our programs look like wrestling programs, the save the dates look like posters that you'd see in store windows, and we could make t-shirts for the family that have a weddingmania logo!

i fucking rule, and i think this is the cheesiest thing evarrrrrrrrr and you are jealous.

ps- dave is a lot less fun than i thought

getting your spousetobe to think of stuff...aka lame trickery

Today's phrase of the day is "lame trickery". Lame trickery is what you use to convince your otherwise nonhelp-y nondetail-y fiance to get the fire under his ass lit.

All you have to do is make a bunch of really lame suggestions, sprinkle in the ones you think are actually decent, and BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM you have made a joint decision.

Sneaky? Yes. Underhanded? Maybe. Lame? Obviously....does it get the job done? Absolutely.

Dave and I have been engaged since August 2007, and we are getting hitched on October 14, 2011...so that in numbers means a longass time. And in the timeline where longass is the end point, right now is on the closer than the further away side. So it's time to start making decisions as to what shit's gonna look like. What kinda crap we need to spend our monies on.

So...1" punk rock buttons are in, kazoos and waterguns as favors are out (LAME, but I'll take it.!)

so i'm watching dancing with the stars...

and i cant find a dress i like, like...anywhere. Hopefully, alfred angelo is secretly still manufacturing the dress that i fell in love with that is no longer on their site. And in watching espn erin whats her name dance, is it wrong that i just want to say "screw ittttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!"...and get a dress entirely made of fringe?

The Countdown Is On!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the world of all that is Dave and Linda getting married!!!If you want, you can follow all of the planning, saving, mishaps,meltdowns....and whatahaveyous....I'll have pictures, bios, and what my favorite wedding website refers to as "wedding porn" like gorgeous shoes, gorgeous flowers, hotel updates, and whatever my lil bridezilla heart desires...but at least it relieves the rest of the facebook and myspace world of my wedding blahhhhhh.


Thanks for coming along for the ride!