Being the Bridesmaid,

     My bestest most fabulous "Fig" or fake Big from my sorority got married in August. I was fortunate to be asked to be apart of her wedding! I couldn't have been more happy to be apart of  such a memorable occasion. Boy let me tell ya, it wasn't half of what I expected being my first out of the family wedding, but not in a bad way.

      She has been my right hand woman, my best friend, my confidant, the person I could tell pretty much anything for. Bekka was like my person at school that always got me, knew how to make me laugh, calm me down, and tell me when I was being stupid. I miss her to pieces not being here at school but I know she has helped make me the mature person I am today at school, and maybe helped me love animals a little more.. not a big fan they freak me out.

      Like Bekka always does surprise me she asked me to be a bridesmaid, but not in the good old Pintrest kinda way... but the Snapchat kinda way. I also missed it the first time I had to replay it, then I cried, then I called her! Couldn't have been happier and more surprised.

      A few months later me, the bridesmaids, friends, and sorority sisters took on Philly for her Bachelorette party. Needless to say, we had a wild, memorable, and interesting time taking on the city of brotherly love. 
       The wedding came quicker than ever. Bekka made the most beautiful bride, and Nick was a handsome groom. They make the most perfect couple I have ever seen and I truly admire their love. They make me aspire to find a love like theirs. It doesn't come around often, but they make me hope to find it. Being at the wedding Bekka, Kerri, other sisters and I were all able to reunite and come together to help celebrate the very happy wedding. I wouldn't trade this experience for the world. 






       Bekka, thank you for stepping in and being such a great Fig/ Big to me. If it wasn't for you I would be so lost in many things especially Biology. You are one of the sweetest, kindest, most perfect people I have ever met. I know you and Nick are going to be so happy. I really can't wait til I see you next. I wish you lived closer but know I am never too far, thank God for cell phones. I love you to the moon and back! LITP <3

I Do's

Well I’m the old lady of the group, and it’s that time in my life now where everyone is getting married, and those sisters of mine who have already gotten married are having babies. Even though I have a piece of paper that had cost me $60,000 dollars of debt, have a great job and career, and am pretty much in all aspects a functioning adult... I am nowhere near ready to take the plunge and marry someone.

So now, I get to just attend these glorious events. Well, it’s finally came the time where someone of my inner circle has “put a ring on it.” Lucky me was picked to be maid of honor.  I have been very fortunate that this sister is not the complete bridezilla type, but I think that is a whole other topic… But as her big day approaches I need to get in gear and start writing my maid of honor speech.

A speech… shouldn’t be too hard, right? She is one my best friends. I am a journalist…  I write for a living… I’ve given tons of speeches. I mean I’m on the news every day. Well, I am thinking it’s not going to be so easy.

This is the biggest day of her life. It has to be perfect. I want to be funny because let’be real, those are the speeches people like to hear, but I don’t want to tell any stories that no one else gets or will actually laugh at. I something think I am funny and really aren’t (…also another story). We are best friends, sorority brought us together… well she didn’t have the same fondness and passion for sorority as I did.

So… there is a lot of pressure there. I think if I stick to the basics, talk about love and their relationship, I will be fine.

I think to myself though. Man this is a lot of pressure. It’s her big day. She is the first one of us to get married. I don’t want to be the one disappointing thing for her.

But it looks like I am just going to have to suck it up and make it the best I can. I just wish I had a few practice runs before someone so special to me decides to spend their life with another person.