About the Bride ~ Katherine Fernie
Quick Facts:
- I was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, originally as Katherine Huck.
- Birthday: February 11, 1972; Sign: Aquarius (very)
- I have been a vegetarian since I was 14.
- I have an almost frighteningly strong fondness for Rold Gold pretzels.
- I prefer Pepsi to Coke. Both my mom and Dan are horrified by this.
- I was a "drama geek" in high school. Theater was my first declared major in college.
- I like boats and most other things related to the water.
- I love the rain, and I really, really love snow.
- I really, really, really love animals. I also think most spiders are kind of cute.
- I have lived in Arizona, Florida, Virginia (D.C. suburbs), Georgia, and Ohio, and soon, Massachusetts.
- I was first married at the age of 19, and was married for 15 years.
- At 23 I had my first and only child, Dominic, who is now a teenager.
- I had already picked the name "Dominic" for my son when I was 11 years old.
- My favorite place is my family's summer cottage in New Hampshire on Silver Lake.
- I started the first online bubble wrap popping website, back in 1996.
- I want a pony.
A little more about me:
I have been an artist since early childhood, but it was only once I was into my thirties that I realized that making art was really what I wanted to do with my life. I work primarily in oil paints, but I also enjoy photography and sculpture and hope to find ways to combine all of these elements into future works. I have a separate website for my artwork. I also have a website called Virtual Bubble Wrap that is fairly internationally famous, which I started in 1996 as a part of my homepage but eventually grew into its own site. In what little spare time I manage to find, I enjoy reading, dancing, having friends over to hang out (and play Rock Band on the X-Box), and have been juggling as a hobby for over 20 years. I love to snow ski when I get the chance, and waterski/kneeboard when I'm at the lake.
I will graduate from Cleveland State University with my BA in Studio Art on May 16, 2009, after attending a total of 6 colleges in 3 states over a span of 19 years. (For the last 3 years I have been a full-time student, primarily at Kennesaw State and Cleveland State Universities.)
When I met Dan at the juggling festival in 2004, I knew right away that he was something special. The first night we met, we stayed up talking until probably 4am and I think I may have started falling in love with him that very night. We share so many interests--we both juggle, as an obvious starter. We also both love to dance, travel, read, bike-ride, eat Mexican food...
Most of the first half of our relationship was long-distance. At first I lived in Northern Virginia (near DC) and he lived in Atlanta. Then I moved to Atlanta, but about 6 months after I moved there, Dan came to Cleveland to go to the podiatry school. It was another 2 years before I was able to move up here, so it was back to long distance. Lots of phone calls... lots of travel back and forth. When I was finally able to move to Cleveland it was like a dream come true. My time here with him increasingly confirmed for me that this was the man I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.
For Dominic it has also been a good thing, since after his dad and I separated, I was raising him as a single mother with no male role model in the house. Additionally, I was raised by two single women without any male role model in the house. Dan, being raised in a home with two parents and two brothers, knew a lot more about boys than I did! He has been a great influence on Dominic and has provided a lot of good advice and perspective on a boy's development (we have had so many conversations where I have been at my wit's end over something that Dominic did, vented to Dan about it, and had Dan say "so? He's a boy. That's normal." And then I say "...oh.") So Dominic comes out ahead now: already having a great dad (who I am still very close friends with), now he will also have a great step-dad.
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