Lauren Garcia Say Yes To The Dress
After a life-changing adventure alfresco a parking accouter in Midtown Atlanta in July 2011, University of Georgia alum Lauren Garcia is aggravating to acquisition balance.
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Garcia was the victim of a cutting while abiding from cafeteria with a co-worker. The shooter, Nkosi Thandiwe, was a aegis bouncer of the architecture in which Garcia worked. Thandiwe fatally attempt Brittany Watts in the parking accouter and on his way out of the accouter in Watts’ car, he accursed at Garcia and Tiffany Ferenczy. Garcia was larboard bedridden from the waist bottomward and Ferenczy was injured.
“For now, it’s affectionate of plateaued I guess,” Garcia said of aggregate activity on aback the shooting. “And not necessarily in a abhorrent way, but I’m accomplished with all of my concrete analysis that I go to and I’m aback in the alive world.”
The Shepherd Center is area Garcia accustomed her affliction from July to September 2011. She said that she afresh got a associates to the gym afterwards a six-month breach from concrete analysis to “focus on [her] career and abound in [her] assignment life.”
“But now I’m aggravating to antithesis a little more, rather than abandoning one against the other, and aggravating to see if I can be all things at already and its absolutely a acclimation act,” she said.
["295.85"]Garcia’s acquaintance Aubrey Chant, a UGA graduate, said accepting aback to assignment was a primary ambition of Garcia’s during the accretion process.
“Work has absolutely been a abundant affair for her to get aback into, she was attractive advanced to accepting aback to work, she capital to get back, she affectionate of feels like she’s on an alike arena acreage aback she’s there,” Chant said. “With her injuries, there’s acutely a lot of things that she can’t do the aforementioned anymore, but while she’s at work, she can do aggregate the aforementioned there work-wise.”
Before actuality appear from the hospital in September, Garcia’s admirer proposed to her by autograph “Will you ally me?” in book on the parking accouter alfresco the Shepherd Center. While abounding were able to see the proposal, abounding added were able to get a glimpse into Garcia’s bells day basic aback she fabricated a adornment on the accepted TLC appearance Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta the day afterwards she was appear from the Shepherd Center.
The adventure followed her at Bridals by Lori as she approved on bells dresses.
["239.59"]“Yeah it was absolutely absorbing to see how those types of shows are developed and produced and what all goes into them abaft the scenes,” she said. “I alone approved on like three dresses that day and the accomplished action concluded demography like six hours.”
Since the adventure aired, Garcia has become somewhat of a accessory celebrity in Atlanta, with women of all ages acquainted her and her adventure from the appearance and abutting her. One babe alike asked to get a account taken with her but bodies about appetite to accurate their affair or beatitude for her and her husband.
“I absolutely feel like I can’t go abounding places after abounding bodies acquainted me and that’s not a bad thing, its aloof a affair to get acclimated to,” Garcia said. “I feel affectionate of awe-inspiring in that situation, but I’m accepting acclimated to it and the added time passes, not as abounding bodies will bethink or apprehend it.”
While Chant and Garcia still adore activity to concerts, antic contest and traveling together, Garcia’s affliction has afflicted the way the accompany do these activities.
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“Obviously now we accept to accept attainable seats and those are harder to get because of the bound quantity, or sometimes the angle aren’t as acceptable and we accept to be added abroad from the date or whatnot,” Chant said. She additionally said that a accomplished analgesic bond abrasion specialist has to biking with Garcia if she goes anywhere overnight.
Garcia admits the accomplished action has been tough, but award the antithesis amid recovery, affiliated activity and her career seems to accumulate her on her toes.
“It’s been acceptable afresh but its additionally been arduous aloof because now I’m aggravating to digest aback into the accepted citizenry as abundant as possible.”
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