Danielle in Baton Rouge

 Alejandro and I got married on December 30th, 2020. It was a really good day! It's been almost a week now, so I figured I'd share some wedding planning / wedding day reflections while they are still very fresh in my mind! REFLECTING ON PROPOSALS First, leading up to the wedding, I was asked frequently how Alejandro proposed. Proposals have become a really big part of wedding culture over the years, and some couples have really big and fun stories connected to the proposal. These are usually shared widely on social media.  Alejandro and I have a really sweet love story that started sometime around the end of 2018 when we first met and is still unfolding. We have some favorite moments for sure, but we didn't do a traditional proposal. Instead, we had lots of conversations leading up to a two-part decision: 1) we wanted to get married! and 2) we didn't want to wait a long time to get married. Once we made the decision, we started planning things as an engaged couple (date