FROM A BLANK PAGE TO an UNEXPECTED CAREER

I've been writing stories for as long as I can remember. When I was six, I scribbled poems on napkins, inside books, and occasionally on the walls (sorry, Mom).

In 2011, I started a blog called The Things I Learned From, where I shared stories about awkward experiences, unexpected adventures, and the things life was teaching me.

I didn't have an audience or a plan. I just wanted to write.

After years of pitching publications, collecting rejection emails, and refusing to give up, I published my first book, All My Friends Are Engaged, in 2013.

I was officially an author. And I had absolutely no idea what was coming next.

In 2014, after being a bridesmaid for one too many friends, I posted a Craigslist ad offering to be a bridesmaid for complete strangers.

I figured a handful of people might respond. Instead, the ad went viral, my inbox exploded, and suddenly I was running a business I had invented almost by accident.

I called it Bridesmaid for Hire.

Soon, I was traveling across the country, helping brides navigate wedding-day emergencies, family drama, friendship problems, and all the things nobody warns you about before saying "I do."

Then, in 2016, I got laid off from my full-time job and decided to turn my unexpected side hustle into my full-time career.

Sometimes the strangest ideas change your life.
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Then I Became a Professional Bridesmaid.

In 2017, Simon & Schuster published my second book, Always a Bridesmaid (For Hire), a memoir about the wild, emotional, and occasionally unbelievable things I experienced as a professional bridesmaid.

That same year, my now-husband Adam and I sold most of our belongings, ditched our lease, and started living in a different city every month. For two years, we turned ordinary life into one big adventure.

I also launched You're Not Getting Any Younger podcast, started speaking on stages, and kept finding new ways to turn my experiences into stories.

Then, in 2019, after spending years helping strangers get married, I decided to let over 100,000 strangers vote on decisions for my own wedding. Sounds crazy, but it was oddly...calming?

i wrote a second book & packed my bags.

After years of writing about dating, weddings, and marriage, life handed me a brand-new adventure.

In 2023, I became a mom to my daughter, Gemma. Suddenly, I was navigating sleepless nights, tiny socks, and an entirely new collection of things nobody had warned me about.

Along the way, I kept writing and launched Odd Jobs & Scared to Be a Mom, two niche newsletters that helped people sort out parts of their own adventures.

In 2024, I published my third nonfiction book, Finally the Bride, sharing my journey through dating disasters, heartbreak, and what happened when a professional bridesmaid finally became a bride herself.

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Plot Twist: I Became a Mommy.