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Hello, everyone! I am so excited to be here, gracing your screens and sharing with you my life as a newlywed!

To give you a little background, my husband Marshal and I met while attending the University of Connecticut. We had an English class together during our sophomore year, although we didn’t actually meet at that point. We spent the entire semester stealing glances at each other like a couple of awkward pre-teens, while I secretly referred to him as “Blonde Boy.”

After the class ended, I was a little disappointed that Blonde Boy and I didn’t have the opportunity, or the courage, to meet. I had nearly forgotten all about him, until two years later in the fall of our senior year when my friends and I ran into him at a bar on campus. I know what you’re thinking: “A bar? How… romantic.” It wasn’t exactly the kind of place a girl dreams of meeting her soul mate, but it happened. We stole a few more glimpses of one another before he finally worked up the nerve to talk to me.

We dated for nearly six years, moving from Connecticut to Chicago, and then finally migrating South to Charlotte so I could continue school and he could start a new position in his career. We started our lives together knowing we were ready to take on anything that came our way. In October of 2008, Marshal proposed to me at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., and we were married at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in May of 2009. We are very “new” newlyweds, having only been married for less than two months at this point, but we are so excited for what the future holds.

Every Wednesday, I will share with you the rants and the raves, the confessions and the embarrassments, the laughs and loves, and the ins and outs of what makes us newlyweds. I hope you can relate. I hope you can connect. And I hope you can laugh along with me while I share some of the most ridiculous moments of married life. Stay tuned and help us sift our way through discovering what life is like as a married couple. And if you’re anything like me, you’ll know that facing these experiences with a little sarcasm and a sense of humor is the only way to go – when you’re entering into wedded bliss…

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