Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Whether you're single, in a relationship, or happily wed, I hope everyone can find SOMETHING worth celebrating today! I've been seeing a lot of my favorite bloggers participate in the "
What's Your Love Story" linkup that's been going around, and I decided that Valentine's Day would be the perfect day to finally share my own!
1. How long have you and your significant other been together?
Just over a year...pretty much 1 year and 1 month!
2. How did you meet? {What's your "love" story?}
At the beginning of my freshman year of college, my roommate at the time, Rachel, was dating a guy named Ty who went to school at Clemson. During the last weekend of August, she invited me to go with her to visit Ty in Clemson, and to attend his fraternity's Rush Blowout party that weekend. Well, Derek was Ty's roommate at the time, and we ended up talking all night at the party and having a fun time together that weekend. However, as cute as I thought he was and as much as we hit it off, I never really thought we'd end up dating! I wasn't even sure if I'd ever see him again. However, I ended up giving him my number and we began texting pretty much nonstop, and two weekends later when Ty was planning to come visit Rachel, I somehow stepped out of my usually shy self and asked him to come along for the trip. He did, and we began visiting each other every two weeks from that point on--eventually even without Rachel or Ty. We started officially dating almost 5 months later.
We're not married or engaged--but yes, I can definitely see myself with Derek for many years down the road! He's actually already started
(strongly) hinting that he'd like to get engaged by the end of this year!
4. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding? If not, where would you like to get married? And will it be big or small?
I think I would definitely like to get married outside! Maybe somewhere near the water (not necessarily right on the beach), or at a pretty old plantation or garden....basically anywhere warm, cheerful, Southern, and colorful! And I would think our wedding would probably be small-to-medium sized.
5. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share!
Hmm...not really! I'll call him "baby" a lot, and every once in a while he'll call me a cute, random name like "lovely" or something, but there's nothing he calls me regularly. Although recently he has taken to calling me "K-Woww" for some reason, but I'm not sure that counts....
6. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.
1. He's goofy. We're both goofy together. We never seem to get bored around each other because when we're together, we're always doing silly things to make each other laugh. We always joke that we had to supress our "weird" before we met each other because we never felt comfortable enough with anyone else to let it out.
2. I can honestly say that he would do
anything for me. Not just the little things, like always letting me pick where to eat dinner or agreeing to watch wedding shows and HGTV with me when I want (both of which he does), but I mean the bigger things. At the beginning of this semester, he drove 2 hours to come see me at 11pm on a Tuesday night because I was lonely and anxious about starting at a new school, and even when he's busy or with his friends, if I call him and really need me, he'll always put aside what he's doing and be there for me. Nothing feels better than that.
3. He's one of the most honest and genuine people I know. Whenever he's talking to me, it's so easy to look in his eyes and see that what he's saying is true. I'm not usually a super trusting person, so it's so comforting to know that I've found someone who I know I can believe in.
7. Tell us how he proposed? Or your ideal proposal?
My ideal proposal would be anything that is intimate, thoughtful, and genuine. I would prefer something where we're the only two around. I don't want anything that puts me too much in the spotlight in front of others...I just want it to be a special moment that the two of us share.
8. Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and rose petals?
Flowers and teddy bear, for sure!
9. Are you a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax on the couch?
So hard to choose! For the most part I like snuggling on the couch, but dinner on the beach for special occassions!
10. Tell us one thing you'd like to do with your significant one day. If you could do anything? Go anywhere?
Travel! I'd love to go anywhere with him--the shared experience is all I really want!
11. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day.
Haha--nothing really! We won't be together at all today because of the long distance...I think this weekend I might convince him to go out to dinner and see The Vow though ;)
12. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's Day?
Nope!
13. Give us one piece of advice for keeping a relationship strong and full of love.
Be honest, be forgiving, and always look for the good. I guess that's not technically "one" piece of advice, but I really think those are the essentials!
14. Show us a picture of what love means to you.
