00:00Dating as a dating coach is so awkward.
00:07I met my husband on Twitter.
00:09He was a dating expert too.
00:11His company is called The Professional Wingman,
00:13and he goes out with people and helps them develop their social skills.
00:18I help people online navigate online dating sites and apps,
00:22and I felt like I need to know this guy.
00:25I direct messaged him and asked him to grab a cocktail.
00:29We started by talking about our businesses,
00:31but we ended by talking about everything else in life,
00:35and I started liking him a lot.
00:38Thomas proposed on Christmas Eve, which is my favorite day,
00:43and neither of us remember any of what he said,
00:46but I do remember saying yes.
00:49Thomas and I were engaged for a few months.
00:51It was really blissful.
00:52Then Thomas starts to act a little funny.
00:56He started to question everything,
00:59and he told me he wasn't sure he was getting ready to get married.
01:03That was so hard for me because I was, like, knee-deep in starting to plan.
01:09I was thinking we'd get married, and then we'd have one year.
01:13You know, there was, like, this trajectory happening.
01:16Feeling iffy, and our relationship lasted for almost a year.
01:20So I decided to just stop talking about the wedding,
01:23stop talking about the future.
01:25Like, we're just gonna be us and live in the moment.
01:27I really think that that's what pulled us out,
01:30is focusing on the present and who we are,
01:33because it's something we lost touch of.
01:36Things just started getting better and better.
01:39On New Year's, we were headed out the door to go to a party,
01:41and he said, I think we should set the date.
01:47Me and Thomas' relationship started on Twitter,
01:50and our love story really has always been about the words,
01:53even in 140 characters.
01:55So we had a whole Twitter-themed wedding.
01:59We got married under all these Twitter birds.
02:02All of the table numbers were hashtags that meant something to us,
02:05like hashtag Skype date or hashtag tweet hearts.
02:08Everyone's place card, we made it look like a little Twitter bio.
02:12But the most important thing was that everyone continued
02:16to help us write our love story.
02:18So we had everyone live tweet during the wedding,
02:21and iPads, when everyone sat down to dinner,
02:25turned into a live feed of the tweets.
02:28And our hashtag was happilyeveredwards,
02:31so it still lives on.
