I’ve been trying to convince My Darling to get a tattoo on our ring fingers. Apparently it hurts like crazy so we’ve been too chicken.
But I have been doing my research and I love these designs.
Which is your favourite?
And that’s the believable part. But through every season’s twists and turns, just when we find ourselves scratching our heads at Sookie’s loyalty and attraction to Bill, he’ll find a way to redeem himself, at least temporarily. We can’t pretend to know where their story is headed, but this supernatural super couple (played by real-life married couple Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin) will be fun to watch along the way.
But I think Sookie and Bill’s tv love story highlights opposites attract and you can’t help who you fall in love with!
And I found this fantastic blog: 6 Things You Learn from Watching True Blood
1. Nobody is normal.
Sookie is half human, half fairy. Bill is a vampire. Crystal is a were-panther. Sam is a shifter. The point is, each of them felt like a freak, until they started meeting more of their kind or of other types of supernatural creatures. Everybody has something that makes them unique and that they worry others will scrutinize.
2. Telling the truth hurts a lot less than comforting someone with a lie.
Learn from Bill’s blunder, which lost him Sookie. He lost her because he couldn’t be honest with her. Sookie wasn’t mad that the reason he originally sought her out was because Sophie-Ann the vampire queen of Louisiana told him to. She was mad because in all their time together, he never told her the truth about how they met. (Okay how they met was also problematic, but she was more upset about the lie.) So, next time you think about lying, even as an omission, think of how Bill lost Sookie.
3. You can’t change who you are, so you might as well embrace it.
Sookie spent a lot of her life wishing that she could change who she was. Sure, she’s a half human, half fairy who can read minds, and on the scale of normal, she’s not even on it. She thrives on danger, and by the time season four rolls around, she just decides to go with it and no longer allows it to throw her off or take her by surprise.
4. Don’t go it alone when you have friends that care about you.
If I’ve learned anything from watching four seasons of “True Blood” (and several seasons of “Supernatural” and other shows about supernatural beings), it’s that bad things happen when you isolate yourself. The season four example of this is when Eric goes to confront the witch on his own and loses his memory. Moral of the story: If you have people who want to go through this crazy life by your side, you should let them.
5. Everyone is special.
This one kind of goes along with the “Nobody is normal” lesson, but it gets its own bullet point based on Episode six when Jason has a conversation with Jessica. He says that he wishes he was special like Sookie. Jessica looks at him and says, “Now look at you. How can you not think that you’re special?” The truth of the matter is everyone has someone that makes them special, but sometimes, you struggle to see it yourself.
6. When in doubt, the vampires can help deal with the other supernatural creatures and keep your life interesting.
Let’s face it, Bill and Eric fix all of Sookie’s problems, unless her problems are of the vampire type. When they end up creating the problems, Sookie has a run for her money. Good or bad, she never has a dull moment.
Awesome!
Until modern times, brides did carry garlic and dill. The practice probably originated from the time of the plague, when people clutched the herbs over their noses and mouths in a desperate effort to survive.
Survivors of great tragedy can affix tremendous protective powers to anything that has provided comfort, and the herbs made it into the ceremony marking renewal.
Thankfully, over time, brides added better-smelling and prettier looking flora to the arrangement, and a whole dictionary of meaning arose to define each type of blossom.
Choosing your guest list has to be one of the most difficult tasks a Bride and Groom will have to do.
theoverwhelmedbride.com makes it super easy with this helpful flowchart!
From my own experience, I wish I had this on hand!
Back to daytime TV – don’t you love Ellen? She was funny in her 80s sitcom but this talkshow is much more entertaining. While I was watching it the other week I thought I’d look up Ellen’s wedding, which was a few years ago now.
This little recap she does is very funny. Such a shame Portia looks soooo skinny in such a glamorous dress.
But going back to Ellen’s summary, I think its a good reminder to keep a sense of humour – your wedding day is massive and even though it’s the happiest day of your life it can be a little overwhelming – so keep smiling while you make those happy memories.
OMG and we thought the crazy Ozzie politician was super self-indulgent! Check this report from the Herald:
The bride wore white, while everyone else wore expressions of stunned disbelief on the day Said took Khadijah to be his lawfully wedded wife.
With their jaw-droppingly lavish Moscow ceremony, featuring performances by Sting, Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias – if you could see them over the 12ft-high wedding cake and the ocean of flowers – Russia’s absurdly opulent oligarchs have staged what has been hailed as the world’s first $1 billion wedding ($NZD1.4 billion).
And this weekend’s ceremony was only act one. Oil oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev, the groom’s billionaire father, is throwing another lavish party for the couple at London’s Dorchester hotel, at which it is rumoured they will be serenaded by Elton John and Beyonce.
Industry experts questioned the billion-dollar figure yesterday, but admit the Russians are pushing wedding budgets to eye-watering heights.
While I was off work today I was watching daytime tv and there was a home makeover show about decorating a baby room – in fact twin babies – and the mum was ex Silver Fern netballer.
Apparently her pregnancy was whirlwind just like her wedding – and her romance.
And her fairytale romance all started in a bar on Ponsomby Road!!! So there is hope for the single girl after all!!!
But that’s not all, there were a few coincidences leading up to it!
If you’re thinking of an Easter wedding check out this inspiration – such pretty pastels and I just love the yellow and bright pink combo!!!
When I married my cute couple on the weekend, when Chanel, our Bride held her hand out for the ring exchange I was really taken with her cool nail art.
Chanel got her cool nails done by Art of Nails in Albany. Not only did they do a creative job, they treated her and her bridal party like princesses – closing the shop exclusively for them and plying them with bubbly. What better way to celebrate your pre-wedding pamper session making for a really special girls day out!
I finally got around to reading one of the Dalai Lama’s books and just reading it gave me a sense of calmness. (I know that sounds dumb but it’s true!)
In comparison most of us can only hope to reach a minuscule state of serenity and level of happiness – but the point is to keep trying!
The book is based on interviews with His Holiness and goes like this:
Journalist: Let’s not talk about difficult things like nirvana or enlightenment. But what do you want to achieve?
The Dalai Lama: To be happy. My practise helps me lead a useful life. If I can give some short moment of happiness to others, then I feel that my life has achieved some purpose. This gives me deep mental satisfaction – this feeling always comes if you serve others. So, when I help others, I feel happy. For me, the most important thing is human compassion, a sense of caring for one another.
Then it dawned on me – this is why I became a Marriage Celebrant!! So I feel helpful to others (and hopefully add a little value for them during a major life event) and has the added bonus that it makes me happy! And it’s alot of fun, as you can see from this photo (taken after I performed my official duties, of course!)
What could be a more incredibly rewarding ‘job’ than this?!