I can't believe this day is here! I have been dreaming about being a Weddingbee blogger for many years, ever since I first met my fiance and figured out that he was the one. Weddingbee is a place that I have always come to for inspiration and advice on everything from etiquette to recipes to sharing my excitement, and the excitement of other new brides, over our engagements and other milestones. It's a great community to be part of, and now I get to be a blogger in it! Call me Miss Blue Moon- nice to meet you!
My fiance and I from our engagement shoot // Photo by Aimee Aver
I am engaged to Mr. Blue Moon, a truly extraordinary man that I feel so lucky to be marrying this coming July. We met in high school, where we were both super-nerds, after he joined the debate team that I was captaining at the time. We were friends for the longest, but somewhere between the late nights researching, travelling too much on charter buses, and kicking rival-debater butt all over the state of Tennessee, where we're from, we started to fall for each other. Our first date was to O'Charley's, where we split an appetizer plate because we were broke teenagers. I was seventeen and Mr. Blue Moon was just shy of his sixteenth birthday at the time. The rest was history!
Us at Don's senior prom // Personal Photo
Since I am a year older than the fiance, I graduated first and decided to attend Mercer University, a growing school in Georgia and six hours away from my hometown. While couples all around us in similar positions were breaking up, Mr. Blue Moon and I stubbornly held on, and when he graduated the following year, he chose another university in Georgia about an hour and a half north of me.
So that's right! We have essentially been long-distance for five of our nearly six years together, though we were able to spend every weekend together after Mr. Blue Moon moved to Georgia. Some of our friends don't understand how we have held it together so long, but what we tell people is that distance means so little when someone means so much!
In college, we pursued some different activities, but we both continued to debate. I was representing my university's team on a scholarship, and Mr. Blue Moon started a team at his university. This meant that we were frequently competing AGAINST each other. In one notorious debate round, we competed against each other for the state title. On Valentine's Day (I won).
Folks, if your relationship can survive that, it can survive anything! :)
My career goal throughout college was to be a teacher, something Mr. Blue Moon has always supported me in. When I told him just months prior to my graduation last May that I wanted to join Teach For America, an organization that places teachers in low-income and high-priority communities throughout the United States, he didn't bat an eyelash. I'm telling you, he's a keeper. Ultimately, I was accepted into the program and got placed in rural Mississippi. Now, I'm a middle school teacher here and Mr. Blue Moon and I are super-long-distance again.
Mr. Blue Moon basks in my glory at my graduation ;) // Personal Photo
He's still here, every weekend, helping me plan our wedding, fixing things around the house, creating amazing vegetarian dishes for me to sample (we've both been vegetarians since 2013), and generally keeping me sane during this first year of teaching. He's seriously the GREATEST.
With our two cats, Juno and Jensen, during our first Christmas in Mississippi. // Personal Photo
The two of us are planning an amazing wedding this July for our closest family and dearest friends. After the wedding (and his graduation in May!) Mr. Blue Moon is joining me here in Mississippi, where he hopes to pursue graduate school studies in public health somewhere nearby. The long distance can be rough, but together, we're an unstoppable team and I can't wait excited to say "I Do" this summer! I am also SO excited that you're following our wedding journey. I hope to share lots of my ideas as a young bride on a budget, and get tons of ideas from all you lovely people!
Are you and your significant other in a long-distance relationship? What do you do to make each other feel appreciated and supported from a distance?
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