Love
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Say Yes to the Wedding Date
It has been officially 6 months since I got engaged, so much has happened but yet so little wedding planning. When I first got engaged I was not prepared for the magnitude that is getting married and planning a wedding with my best friend. Six months later and I still feel like a meme of Phoebe, from Friends, in the wedding dress shop running around trying to figure out what to do. Last week Friday marked the most critical part of the planning wedding process: we chose our wedding venue and wedding date. Before selecting the venue we were asked a very tough question by a wedding coordinator, “what is…
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Dating in a Social Media World
Today, we live in the age of social media. It is the first place we turn to learn most major news and community announcements. I have learned more about the political climate from Instagram than CNN and I have received more life updates from Facebook than from phone calls with friends. When I first started dating my fiancé, we had to have the “social media” conversation. We had to determine if we wanted to follow each other, tag each other, or make it Facebook “official.” This conversation took me back to the days of hoping to land in someone’s MySpace Top 8. I know I am not the only person…
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Love at First Swipe
What can I say? It was love at first swipe…. To the right, that is. It may sound cliché but it’s so true when they say: the right person will come along when you least expect it. In my case, that person came along while I was fully embracing being single and enjoying the energy that summer brings to the city. I will say that the universe could have waited until the Fall started. I ended up missing out on the beach that entire summer but it was worth it. I met my now fiancé on a popular “dating” app that you might have heard of: Tinder. I know you…
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You’re Engaged, Now What?
Holy cow, I can’t believe I’m engaged! That has been my thought pattern for the last couple of months. I feel like I’m finally adulting! It’s that kind of feeling that you have when you file your taxes for the first time. I admittedly shed a tear the first time I filed my taxes, mostly because I realized how little I was getting back. Just a few years ago, I was the self-proclaimed queen of single. I was always the first one to send messages using single girl memes. I loved dancing the night away in a packed club. And I most definitely earned my fair share of terrible dating stories. Now…