Dating Tips from Looking For Love Online [Guest Post]

While I'm honeymooning in Europe, a few wonderful bloggers will be taking over my blog! I am so excited to be sharing these ladies with you! I've got a real treat for you today! I was able to score a guest post from Looking for Love Online - an anonymous blog about dating!

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I'm so excited to be doing my very first guest post :) 

My blog is about my online dating "adventures" and stories about some of the weirdos I've met.
I'm single, 23 years old, and I'm not skinny.

Where all my single ladies at? 

Let's talk about dating:
If you've ever been on a date you've experienced a little bit of hesitation, nervous behaviors, and possibly cold feet.

What if this guy doesn't look like his pictures?

What if he is quiet during the meal?

What if he doesn't like me?

What if he creeps me out?

What if he's a mass murderer?

We've ALL experienced those first date flutters, but sometimes the dates turn out better than planned.

Dating should be a fun experience as well as a learning experience. Don't ever bail on a date because you feel like it'll be a waste of time. Here are some positive things that come from a date with someone you know you won't be spending the rest of your life with:

1. Networking skills: This is a great opportunity for you to learn how to create conversations with people you might feel uncomfortable around. You may find yourself in your future career having to converse with men and women that you don't necessarily like.
2. Etiquette: Going out on a date hopefully typically includes a nice sit down meal. Now, I was raised in the south, so I was taught manners. Sometimes our table manners aren't the best, so practice makes perfect!
3. New Discoveries: When the topic of the first physical meeting arises, suggest a place you've never been before. You could also suggest something you've wanted to cross off your bucket list that's within reason, of course.
4. Be Yourself: Most of the time, us ladies are constantly trying to set the bar higher and higher. Take these first dates to practice showing these guys who you really are without the bigger horse. Again, practice makes perfect.
5. Show off new outfits: Uhm, hello! What girl doesn't want to do this?! You just bought a new dress on sale and got the shoes on sale, too?! Now you have a perfectly good reason to show them off: Go on a date!

So, there ya have it. Dating doesn't always have to be so negative! If you get rejected just:

Nah.. just kidding, don't do that, but I love this quote! It always makes me feel better about my single-ness.

"I'm single because I was born that way." - Mae West

Thank you so much for taking over my blog as I'm gallivanting [and hopefully not freezing] in Europe!

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Wedding Wednesday: A Flashback

Good morning!!

I am super excited to do a Wedding Wednesday post because it's been almost two weeks since my last one!! WHAT! I'm also writing a guest post over on Army Ever After tomorrow that is wedding related, and another one yesterday on DIY Bride that is wedding related...so we're getting a little wedding crazy!

Which makes me happy. First of all, our Save the Dates were all received and I met with my maid of honor to map out all of the rest of the important dates. Next I'm working on the wedsite and some small stuff, like going to see the venue with Liz on the 17th!

Today I wanted to give you guys a little flashback..into the very fist time Iman and I did anything romantic...I made the first move.

Feb 3, 2007

I'm not big on dancing and in high school I rarely went to any school dances. Actually, I went to Homecoming my freshman year and Winter Formal my senior year. That's it, no prom for me!

I knew I wanted to go to one dance my senior year and when they announced the theme for Winter Formal, my best friend and I melted. We HAD to  go. The problem [or maybe it was a good thing] with Winter Formal is that it is Sadie Hawkins at our high school! Hello, nerves!

I didn't like anyone, really. Well, that's a lie. I liked Iman. I always liked Iman. He was in the middle of one of his mixed signal times. As in his Myspace said he had a girlfriend and some crazy chick was all over it, but he was taking me to the movies and holding my hand...But I digress.

I was determined to ask him, hopeful that something would come out of it. Since I never knew when I was going to see the kid though I sent him some vague text message, or maybe the text message made sense and he was just being a butthead in reply. [Side note, I don't think I was allowed to text...but I did anyway].

My dress is from Aardvark's on Melrose. My mom bought it in the 80s, it's from the 50s!!

I think I asked him all cutesy. He replied with "Miss Smith, are you asking me to Winter Formal?" Duh.

So then I had to find THE dress. I don't think I had ever been as excited about something like this. I'm a tom boy. I let everyone else do most of the planning. Soon it was the day...February 3, 2007. Iman, of course, tried to play it like he had no idea what was going on that day when I called him.

"Are you almost here?"
"Almost where?"
"My house, for Winter Formal?"
"AH! I thought it was next week!"

Little shit was outside my house the whole time!!

My best friends!! [note my worried face because I couldn't find Iman...]

 So we took pictures, which I remember was awkward because we weren't a couple but we always acted like a couple and all of these parents kept asking us how long we'd been dating.

Just look at that smile! Who wouldn't love it?

Then we went to dinner and that was fun...

He hates this picture because he was being weird...

Then it was time to dance! Which I did a lot of, on account that Iman LOVES to dance. I couldn't help it, he was so cute. He'd be all modern dancing one second and swishing my skirt the next.

He ws so sweet too, my vintage 1950s dress broke in the middle of the dance and he pulled a safety pin out of his pocket and fixed it...

After the dance :)

Then after the dance, as I was saying goodbye to him at his car...I remember I was sitting in his trunk talking to him. Everyone else had already gone inside. I wanted him to kiss me SO bad.

As I began to fall into the trunk [Literally saying the words "I'm fall-"] he kissed me.

Fireworks. There were fireworks. 

I didn't know what else to do so I finished my sentence. Then that amazing man kissed me one more time, got in his car and left me there to gush to my friends....




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All of the Parts

are falling into place and it reminds me of two falls ago when I was working hard to finish college. I made my "fall" album called "falling together" and I had no idea what I meant by that except to love fall...

and then Iman came right back into my life :)

First Date finally

On the 30th is our 2 year anniversary of our first official date. [All of the hangouts and Winter Formal just can't count]



I was actually planning on writing a post about the times when things fall together and the times when things are falling apart, but instead this is what we got.

I'll write that post next week :)

Oh, don't forget to check out the Blogger's Think Pink and join us on Monday for our 5 Little Grins link up!!

#BackthatAzzUp with our very first "song" back in high school. #fbf duh

Happy Friday!




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