Weddingbee Blog

Let me formally and properly introduce you to “me” and “he”, better known now and soon to be forevermore as “us”.

Me

I am a Vietnamese American psychology graduate student born and raised in Sunny San Diego, California. I went to UCLA for my bachelor’s in Psychology with a minor in Women’s Studies and currently live in Chicago pursuing my doctorate in Community Psychology. (Enough of my academic resume yet?)

The academic stuff is important to me because I feel that it provides a backdrop for everything else is that “me” and sets up what has become “us”. But on to the more personal stuff. When I’m not doing the school thing, I’m attempting to keep myself busy with artsy fartsy stuff like sewing, knitting, crocheting, and other things crafty. I take pictures of nearly everything just because I think it’s fun. And I pride myself on being able to craft useless items into pretty useful items.

He

Mr. Hot Wings is a psychology nerd too, born and raised in Illinois. He claims Lithuanian heritage, but he’s actually mostly German and a tad Irish, too.

He went to the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne for his bachelors in psychology, got a master’s in Denver, and is now in Chicago working on his doctorate in Psychology. See the pattern? Can you just imagine what debates in our household sound like? Basically, we over-analyze everything! It’s how we do. It’s why we’re great psychologists and researchers. Later, I’ll tell you about how we created our own couple’s counseling sessions.

He’s obsessed with bright orange because of his time at the University of Illinois, yet somehow I dropped the color from our wedding theme (more to come on that later). He loves his college sports and spends a lot of his time drinking and critiquing beers. In essence, he’s a beer snob! Did I mention he’s a twin? Because he is.

Us

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We met at grad school in Chicago. He actually got a hold of my planner one day and scheduled himself in for Friday night dinner. So technically, he ordered me out more than he asked me out. He proceeded to later ask me to “teach” him to eat sushi. I couldn’t imagine that in 2005 this guy had not had sushi before. So I took this pitiful man under my “hot wings”, picked the restaurant, ordered the food, and get this… I even paid!

Today, the story goes a little more like this. He asked me to teach him about sushi and proceeded to show me how much of a feminist HE was by letting me lead and pay. You like that? Remember the Women’s Study Minor? Yeah, he did too. And this is the type of awesome stuff that makes up our relationship! I LOVE this part of our “How I Met Your Mother” story.

Do you have any “nontraditional” stories that really define your relationship?