Over the summer, junior English major, Skyler Dell married senior Strategic and Security Studies major, Micah Dell.
Skyler says the two were childhood friends, but reconnected at the University of North Georgia in 2023, in the Chow Dining Hall.
After dating for a little over a year, they got engaged and were married a few months later in June. “It just made the most sense for us for where we were,” she says.
Dell’s husband, Micah, is a member of the UNG Corps of Cadets, and is planning to commission into the military later this year. Skyler says that being married makes the most sense for their future, “We were already going to do this, so we might as well do it now.”
Despite being a newly married couple, the lives that they live do not stray far from what they had before married life. “It really doesn’t change anything, I still go hang out with my friends, and he still hangs out with his.”
Both Dell and her husband are members of Greek life organizations on campus, and they are able to maintain the relationships they’ve built there before being married. “There’s other parts about both of us than just being married, and we still really hold onto who we are as individuals.”
For other college students who may be on the same path as Dell and her husband, she says, “Make sure that you and whoever you’re marrying are on the same page, and figure out if this is something you both want.”
She says there are a lot of financial and legal responsibilities you have to assume, and it is an extremely important conversation to have before considering the next steps.
“You have to understand that you can’t just bail on this person if things really aren’t going well.” She also says, “You have to be really sure that you want to do it, and to not feel bad if maybe it’s not what works out.”
Dell says, “Everything happens for a reason, and if it isn’t where it’s supposed to go, don’t force it. Do not just marry someone because you want to be married.”
Dell and her husband have been questioned by family and friends as to why they decided to take this big life step so soon, but she squashes the skeptics by saying, “I just think that everyone is on their own path of doing things, and what works for someone and what timing works for one person, might not work for you.”
