I GOT MARRIED AND I'M MOVING!!! In so many ways I am uber traditional and reserved but when it came to making my relationship official with my now husband we did everything in a non-traditional manner. Even when we got engaged in 2010 it was completely non-traditional. We talked about getting engaged/married since the day we started dating officially in November 2009. So him asking me in an official manner was completely unnecessary in both of our eyes. We basically decided together in the summer of 2010 that we wanted to be engaged and went together to go ring shopping and purchased my ring. SN: I really really really enjoy ring shopping, I can't imagine having it any other way!!!!
To add to our non-traditional way of getting engaged I also knew I did not want a wedding. I am super shy, and contrary to what it may seem, I hate being the center of attention. When everyone is staring at me or when ever I have the attention of an entire room it makes me super anxious, nervous, and very uncomfortable. I have legit anxiety issues, but I will leave it at that. The thought of having that feeling for an entire day always terrified me (ok not always but at least for the past 6 years). Not to mention I am not a party person so spending a ton of money for a party/wedding would have been a huge waste of money. Of course I could have had a wedding just to make my family happy, but I know they ideally wouldn't want me to have a wedding if that is not what I wanted. So our plan was to get married Summer of 2011....but that surely did not work out. I needed to focus on graduating from Grad School and he needed to focus on his career in the Navy, so we took a break. Thank God for that break we accomplished so much seperately during that time. Our goals in life required us to be long distance, him in Florida, and me in Maryland. That caused so much stress on our relationship but some how we made it through the storm not only alive but also together.
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In 2012 I finally I graduated and Will found himself in a stable place in his career. Being together became a lot easier, and making it forever no longer seemed like a distant dream. Getting married was something we talked about and talked about and talked about, since we knew we did not want a wedding it was honestly just a matter of setting a date to do it, and finding a time that we would be in the same state. It was something we talked about so much that I think when I would tell people we wanted to get married it went unnoticed because we had been talking about it for 3 years lol. So we decided to finally set a date and we did not bother telling anyone. We wanted it to be a surprise since we had been talking about it for so long, I do not think anyone expected we would actually do it. At least not right now. Plus the date I felt wasn't set in stone because hey anything could go wrong, and I did not want it to be just more "talk". We decided we would turn our Valentine's vacay together into our wedding!!!! So we got married February 19, 2013. Even with it just being us, we were incredibly anxious during our ceremony. As soon as it was done we immediately thought together thank God we didn't have a traditional wedding. Although our hearts were racing, it felt right, it felt perfect, it felt so personal, and so US. It fit our personalities so perfectly. Despite the fact that I share so much on social media, I am an extremely private person, I am a loner, and I prefer to do things on my own in a private manner. Once again I couldn't have it any other way.
May 10, 2013 we got approved for our very first home. Ok so this year has been so amazing already, it gets even more amazing everyday. My husband is in the military in Florida so that is where we will call home. I will be moving to Florida May 31, 2013 to be with my husband. Excited, elated, anxious, and soooo very ready doesn't even begin to describe how I feel right now. Well as you can see so much has been happening, so keeping up with Youtube has been hard but I am surely trying.
This is just a heads up, once I get moved in June 1, I may not be able to post videos for a good month. My #1 priority will be to get our home together and what not. :)
