Wedding Blog

Hi everyone!

I am so excited to be joining the hive. I’ve been engaged since March 2007 so I’ve been an avid Weddingbee reader for a long time now and I’m truly honored. When I got my email I literally started shrieking and dancing in my chair at work. (I’m working at a hospital right now so I don’t think it was much appreciated.) I’m also happy to be the first cocktail in the hive. I come on the rocks with salt and always promise a good time.

So let me tell you a little bit about how Mr. Margarita and I started. We met freshman year of college at Boston University. Being the nerds that we are, we were both living on pre-med floors in the dorms. My roommate and I were trying desperately to make friends so we ventured to the floor above ours. We walked into the common room and there he was in his pj’s (full on matching striped button up shirt and pants) drinking water straight from a Brita. The details are a little fuzzy since it was eight years ago, but I remember thinking he was strange but hilarious.

My roommate and I quickly became friends with Mr. Margarita and his two roommates and I started falling hard. Being the 18 year old boy that he was, it took him two months to finally ask me out. Actually, technically he didn’t ask me out, he told our friends he liked me and it eventually got back to me. Then one night when a group of us went to see a movie, he arranged to sit next to me and held my hand. We stayed up all night after the movie talking and eventually at about 4am I got tired of waiting for him to make a move and kissed him. I guess I am an aggressive little margarita. From there on out we spent a ridiculous amount of time together and actually we didn’t even have our first date until a few weeks later. (Our first date will have significance in our proposal story though).

Things aren’t a fairy tale from there. When you start dating at 18, you can have a pretty bumpy relationship. We broke up for about two years after our freshman year but remained in the sticky friends-but-really-more-than-friends situation. This was a rough period for the two of us that was dubbed “the black period” by our friends. We both did a lot of growing up in that time though and I’m glad we went through it because it has made us a stronger couple today. We eventually got back together and stayed together through the rest of college, Mr. Margarita’s medical school education, my graduate school (public health) education, and my crazy traveling consultant lifestyle.

Me and Mr. Margarita back in college At our engagement party last year

That brings us to today and planning for our California wedding. I grew up in California while Mr. Margarita grew up in Canada near Niagara Falls. I’m Sri Lankan and Buddhist and he is Indian and Hindu. Needless to say there has been a lot to consider as we plan our wedding. So raise your glasses and cheers to sharing many more wedding planning filled posts with all of you!