Imagine meeting someone in person after 6 years of chatting on-line. Wouldn’t that be intimidating? Without a doubt the most stressful part of on-line dating is meeting someone for the first time. What if they look drastically different from their picture? How will you not show your disappointment? What do you say if they ask you do they look like their picture – which they do. It’s all so scary and so exciting at the same time.
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Do you have first meeting stories to share? Email me – judith (at) reelinvitations.com.
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It’s so inspiring to me the many ways to meet someone. In the “old days” when I was dating, the choices were very limited. Parties, bars, friends, bookstores maybe… work – sometimes. But for someone like me who didn’t put out that “come hither” vibe it was difficult. You’d think it would be easy in New York to meet someone special, but it’s not or wasn’t for me. At some point, it must have been after a very dry period, I got the chops to sign up for an online service. It opened up a whole world to me. I couldn’t believe how many people were doing the same thing! I know there’s lots of pros and cons and not everyone has good luck. I did. I’ve been with my boyfriend for 7 1/2 years.
Amber and Mark are another example of never knowing who you might meet out there.
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Apparently True Love has been discovered - hmmm. Why is it so amazing to scientist that couples could feel true love after 20 years?
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Hi. Sorry I was MIA – love to tell you why but it’s top secret. Well not really. I actually had to lay myself off. Ok – I’ll stop. Here is the conclusion of Freddie’s proposal.
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I love when boys are romantic! : )
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Cake toppers for the vampire in all of us.
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Happy Halloween!
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When we last saw Tang and Freddie – Tang was going back to Thailand for a bit.
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The other day I had this flash of a memory of my parents coming home from a wedding with a little white box that I was so excited to get. Not for the contents though, because it was a dense, dark and fruit filled cake that smelled of rum. I was excited for the fact that I was going to put it under my pillow and dream of my future husband. At age 10 that was a very exciting prospect. In that little box was the Groom’s cake.
It seems the story behind the groom’s cake is sketchy. Here’s what I found about it’s origin and evolution.
1. During the Roman Empire the wedding cake was a loaf of barley bread which the groom would break over the brides head. Nice. Guests would scramble for the crumbs since they were apparently good luck. Smart idea to get your guest to help with clean up after a party.
2. The other explanation was that crumbs of the cake would be passed through a wedding ring whose owner was happily married. Not sure how they could be certain on that but anyway. Then the unmarried women would sleep with these crumbs under their pillow – to dream about their future husbands. I have to say that I have on occasion slept with crumbs under my pillow … and in the sheets and on the comforter. I sometimes like to eat in bed. But superstitions around taking of a wedding ring of soon put that to end – or maybe they were afraid of losing there ring in the pile bread crumbs. Kind of like Kerri Walsh when she lost her wedding ring in the sand at the Olympics.
3. So the bread somehow grew up one day into a cake and no longer broken into crumbs that the guests had to fight over. And apparently made it’s way to the top of the cake. It wasn’t eaten at the wedding and saved for the first anniversary. I don’t know about the refridgeration during those days but even if the cake was heavy with brandy do you think you’d want to eat that thing a year later?
Sometime in the 1970’s it evolved from the hard-as-your-head fruit cake to more tasty varieties. Groom’s cakes now represent more of the groom himself and his interests. 
What have you heard about Groom’s cake. Have you been to many weddings where there was one?
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How do you know when it really is it?
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How did you know it was it?
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