Bloggers Do It Better.



This weekend was one for the books.

Aside from putting up our Christmas tree and putting up all the lights outside of our house, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a blogger meet up here in Columbus on Saturday night. The invites were sent out about a month ago, and before I knew it it was here! Holly and I decided to have it at an Irish restaurant/pub in the Polaris area.

I started following Holly's blog, Running in Stilettos, about 6 months ago and knew we would become good friends. When we became friends on Facebook, we noticed we had many of the same mutual friends and I started to wonder if I had ever run into her or met her before! We had tried meeting up this past Fall during some Ohio State gamedays, but we just kept missing eachother, so I was so excited to finally meet her this past weekend.

{Holly and myself}

I decided to dress up a bit and get in the holiday spirit

and wear a lace dress from H&M.

Here's my O.O.T.N:

{Dress and Shoes: H&M, Belt, Necklace, and Tights: F21}

The blogger meet up started at 6pm and I met Holly at the restaurant at 5:30. Since we were expecting around 20 girls to show up, Holly had name tags that she brought and I made holiday gift bags with assorted candies in them for each of the girls.

I kid you not when I say, our waiter was pretty much SHOCKED when he actually met us. You see, Holly informed him when we made the reservations that we were "a group of bloggers". 

Bloggers...what's a blogger?

Have they ever met eachother before?

Hmmm...this might be odd.

....he probably asked himself once or twicc ten times.

The conversation later on in the evening went like this:

Waiter: Not gonna lie, when I heard you guys were bloggers I pictured you all to be nerdy... like gamers, or something. But you all are extremely attractive!

Us: Laughter.

pure laughter.

I can't tell you how much fun it was to meet so many bloggers who live so close to me! Everyone was so sweet and willing to get to know one another. We spent the evening sippin' back some cocktails {remind me never again go from drinking wine, to Blue Moon, to vodka/soda's} Talk about indecisive. I had so much fun hearing how the other girls started their blogs and we shared many laughs over what we first imagined when we started blogging.

The 1st table

The 2nd table

Before everyone left, we talked about planning another meet up in the near future.

It was too much fun not to!

Oooh and we got one more pic...

After the meet up, Holly, Alicia, and some of the girls who are also my IRL friends {Jessie and Ashley} decided to go out downtown to meet my other friends and Billy. They got to meet my other friends and husband and I was LOVING every minute of it! We all had soo much fun together!!

{my IRL friends Ashley and Jessie}

{Husband and his best friend Rudy}

Cheers to old & new friends!

{the girls with my guy friend Jim}

For all the Columbus girls--

I had a blast getting to know each of you

and thank you for coming! Hope to see you all soon ;)

Have you ever gone to a blogger meet up party?

If you know some other bloggers in your area, I highly suggest setting something up so you can meet eachother! It's wonderful to put a "blog name" with a face :)

This was my 2nd time meeting up with bloggers..

the 1st time was with my bestie Jess who came from KY to see me!

....if you missed it, you can read that here.