What I remember most about last year’s Get Engaged Tour is having a conversation with Eliott Peacock from Herban Feast about how, oddly enough, proficiency and casual ease with social media can make a person feel more social and easygoing in the real world, too. It’s this thing about being more and more comfortable saying what you need to say, taking the floor so to speak, and yeah, promoting what it is you’re bringing to the table but moreover just sort of doing what you came here to do. On, like, a metaphysical/digital and real world level.

It was a conversation about confidence and comfort, really, and what was cool was that after I left the Fairmont Olympic that afternoon and headed to the bus stop, I randomly started chatting with a stranger who became a friend and style-world colleague, thus proving the point that Peacock and I had made an hour or so prior. I don’t always talk to people on the bus, but then, before getting into Twitter and all that, I didn’t always talk to people in public arenas in 140-character messages, either.

This year’s Get Engaged Tour takes place at Herban Feast’s SoDo Park on Monday, November 14 and at Ray’s Boathouse on Tuesday, November 15.

In simple terms, from the organizers themselves, this social media conference for wedding professionals is about learning how to transform tools like Facebook and Twitter into business partners to "increase your online presence and build a better brand."

As with last year’s conference, I’ll be moderating discussions and helping out however I can; experts such as Lauren Grove from Every Last Detail, Charles Oster from MyWedding.com, Greg Gillard from Thin Pig Media, and Blair deLaubenfels from Junebug Weddings help a variety of wedding vendors make sense of what can often feel like new rules to an old game.

It’s not just about listening to one workshop speaker at a time, though; a cocktail and networking lunches mix up the atmosphere and give you a chance to use your digitally honed real world skills. Or real world-honed digital skills. Whatever works for you.

Space is limited for this focused and intimate event, so don’t hesitate to get involved, whether Tweeting and Facebooking are verbs that annoy, scare, thrill, or motivate you. Readers of this blog and friends of Seattle Met (we’re all friends, right?) can enter the discount code "SeattleMet" when registering to save $75 off the registration fee.

See you there.