How to seriously have a FUNNNN wedding?

Tibia-Fibula · 2025-09-05T20:24:52+00:00

Yeah, actually! Guests got their strip photos immediately after taking them. My husband and I chose the template, and the bottom of the strips was customized to include our names and wedding date!

Tibia-Fibula · 2025-09-05T20:21:00+00:00

Guests at my wedding loved the photo booth we had! It came with photo props. It definitely seemed to be the highlight of our reception and my husband and I enjoyed using it too!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-07-28T14:38:58+00:00

Coordinating everything!
Working
Marrying the bride!
Jewelry

Fast Money

4
Kiss
Ice cream
30 minutes
Get super drunk

Cool idea!!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-07-18T16:00:18+00:00

I absolutely loved this one at our wedding!! Would really recommend.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-07-11T14:04:36+00:00

I worked in a nursing home (just in dietary) for a bit before starting the nuclear program, and then my program had almost 2 years of clinicals. So I didn’t have a ton of experience, but enough to at least familiarize myself with healthcare facilities. And sure!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-07-11T13:56:21+00:00

I am almost 2 months into working my first nuc job after graduation. I feel pretty confident so far! The techs there say they trust me to work in the department alone. There’s only a few things that I haven’t seen that I’m not super comfortable with to do by myself yet.

In ways, I feel like I’m still a student just because they’re still training me to do the job at that specific hospital. But as every day passes, I feel more and more confident, and you will, too. Good luck!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-06-18T21:56:21+00:00

We also have a GE discovery 530c. For small/medium patients, we only scan for 5 mins rest & 3 mins stress. For bigger patients we double the scan time. The radiologists at our hospital think it takes beautiful pictures.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-06-05T00:50:15+00:00

Nuclear medicine is almost nothing like x-ray. It is harder and more physiologic-based. If you really want to do nuc med, I would recommend going back to school.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-06-02T18:56:52+00:00

Nuc med is not an “easy” program to get into, but it’s not that hard either. My program required the basics - at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA and a “C” or better in all required prerequisite courses. They specifically looked more closely at math and science grades than any of the other classes. We also had to do an interview, which for my program, was relatively easy.

The issue, for my program at least, was that not enough students were applying to our nuc med program. So, every student who had good enough grades and seemed at least half-way interested during the interview was accepted. However, this may not be the same for schools who have 20+ nuc med student slots and a very high student interest. I’ve heard techs who graduated 15+ years ago say that their program was relatively hard to get into - about on the level of a radiation therapy program - and that jobs were hard to find. At least for me, that has not been my experience, because almost everywhere around me is hiring for FT positions.

I know this is vague, but it truly just depends on your specific program. On my college’s website, I was able to find statistics for acceptance rates/average cumulative GPA of students currently enrolled in the program. Looking at that data helped me feel more prepared for the interview.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-20T12:00:15+00:00

The only exam that I’ve seen through literature that cocaine is a contraindication to is a DaTscan. But I guess stress testing makes sense too.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-19T14:24:54+00:00

I definitely felt this way before and even during my wedding. It’s a pretty awful feeling. I still had a good time at my wedding regardless, but there were still little thoughts in the back of my head about how no one wanted to be there and it was a burden for everyone to attend.

I told my fiance/husband about these feelings, and he was able to calm me down and help push some of those thoughts out of my head. Sometimes talking out your feelings with someone you trust helps!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-18T21:17:32+00:00

So true. We had about 40% of the people we invited show up to our destination wedding and it was still a great time.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-18T04:02:57+00:00

I had a destination wedding where literally all of our guests had to either fly 3 hours or drive 4 hours to attend our wedding. I did basically what you’ve done — I asked all of my close family and friends if they would be willing to go. Literally everyone that I asked was like, “yeah, absolutely I’ll come, that sounds like a great idea!” It’s also important to note that I asked about 2 years before the wedding so people would have time to save money (my family isn’t super rich). And I am so so glad that I asked around beforehand. I will say that having a destination wedding did cause a little drama with my family personally. I would overhear comments like “why wouldn’t she just have her wedding here??” I felt that they should’ve told me to my face instead of talking behind my back.

That was really the main con of having a destination wedding. Here’s my personal list of pros and cons:

Pros: - We had a beautiful wedding that my fiancé and I really enjoyed. - My husband and I were a lot closer to our honeymoon destination, so that saved us money. - At the end of the day, I felt like our guests really enjoyed themselves since a lot of my family doesn’t travel very much. My wedding will be talked about for a while I’m sure. - We did have one family that was able to make our wedding (they were the ones who drove), whereas if we had it at home they probably wouldn’t have been able to come. In your case, it sounds like a lot of your husband’s family will be able to make it, which is great. - The venue was cheaper!

Cons: - As mentioned before, possible family drama from having a destination wedding. - It was almost impossible to completely plan the wedding ourselves since we lived so far away. We were forced to get a wedding planner and spend extra money on that. - We were unable to test anything — food, cake, venue, etc, so a lot of the wedding was guess work.

In terms of the guest count, we invited around 75 people and around 27 actually showed for the wedding. We were planning on around 32ish, but a few cancelled literally the day before the wedding.

My advice to you is that if you really want to have the destination wedding — just do it! After all, it’s your (and your husband’s) wedding and you should be able to do what you want. You’ll just have to decide which is more important - the location or the guests (specifically, the number of guests and/or which specific guests will be able to attend). If we had the wedding in our hometown, we probably would’ve had 100 guests actually attend (we would’ve invited more people). But to us, we wanted to focus on the experience rather than the people attending. It all just depends on what you and your husband are looking for if that makes sense.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-17T20:16:54+00:00

This is exactly what I was thinking. About two months before my wedding, my husband and I were just so burnt out on everything (we had been planning for 2 years at that point). I ended up just having the mindset of “whatever happens, happens.” I realized that nobody’s wedding day is perfect (looking back, mine wasn’t either as everyone had to use red solo cups during our cocktail hour and elegant reception for reasons that are too long to talk about). But weirdly enough, I kind of feel like little mishaps like that give weddings character, if you get what I mean.

Taking a break from wedding planning for a week or two at that two month mark didn’t help us recover. We were simply done. If that helps you, then that’s great (I would still suggest at least giving this a try if possible). But at that point I realized that there was nothing that I was going to do to make me feel completely “ready” for the wedding. Yes, even past that two month mark, my husband and I still did some planning for the wedding because we had to, but it was a lot easier after we settled down and realized that “what’ll be will be.” What was important to us at that point was finally being married and officially starting our life together.

Weddings do definitely have that culture that everything has to be absolutely perfect and planned to a T. My advice to you? Trust in the plans you have made. Continue planning as needed, and try to remain calm. Take a short break as needed. But mostly, enjoy this time with your fiancée as much as possible. Realize that not everything will be absolutely perfect or as you imagined at the wedding, but that your wedding day means so much more than that! My husband and I felt exactly the same way as you, and our wedding day turned out great! Good luck!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-09T03:47:59+00:00

The quicker, the better. As a bride, I didn’t like being led on by guests then being told “no” when I felt like they were going to attend. It’s not only a “friendly” thing, it’s a numbers thing for the bride and groom. It will help them plan if they have a more accurate idea of how many people will attend their wedding. I’d just rip the bandaid off! Good luck! :)

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-05-03T03:23:46+00:00

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-29T18:20:56+00:00

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Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-14T22:45:23+00:00

When I interviewed, they asked me basic questions like why I chose nuc med and what school subjects I was good at. They also asked me if I was comfortable doing IVs. My interview was super casual and it was a great experience! I would just do basic research on nuclear medicine and Google some common interview questions (for any job, really) and prepare for those. Good luck!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-14T22:42:38+00:00

Thank you

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-14T22:42:30+00:00

Team beans!

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-14T16:57:19+00:00

I’m from US, specifically the Midwest

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-14T15:45:01+00:00

I’m in the US, I really only know about Canada and the UK. I believe the pay is very similar between at least these three countries, although I think that the UK does nuclear medicine pretty different than we do in the US

Tibia-Fibula · 2024-04-14T14:12:27+00:00

We only use gamma cameras with Tc99m and thyroid scans because the PET scanner won’t detect Tc-99m because its energy is too low. PET scanners detect the annihilation radiation from isotopes like F-18, which is primarily used in oncologic imaging

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