Her husband’s childhood was drastically different than Jonna’s. David grew up in the Amish community.
When the couple tied the knot, the groomsmen all wore bowties. Jonna shares on her blog “When I picked out ties for the guys to wear, my husband carefully notified me from a distance, ‘They can only wear bow-ties.’ I stared. He said slowly ‘Amish people cannot wear ties.’I exploded.”
Jonna grew up in a small town in Indiana. She describes herself as “a small town Indiana girl with a big mouth." She spent most of her free time hanging around the town. “Telling bad jokes and creating awkward situations” is how she sums up the way in which she spent her time.
Her childhood turned out to be the perfect foundation for her future self which would be producing videos and blog content laden with sarcasm and humor.
Many people better know Jonna by her social media name "The Blunt Blonde." In her "about me" on Twitter, she introduces herself quite starkly when she says "People think I’m always joking but I’m not. I’m genuinely an unpleasant person and hate everyone equally.” On her blog site she shares "If you haven’t caught on, I am fluent in English and Sarcasm.
I’m a woman of many trades, what can I say? I’m currently a stay-at-home slave. My boss is almost three feet tall, messier than shit and really piles the work on my non-existent desk. So I’m pretty confident that I will not have any hair left by the time I reach my 30’s…" Her blog posts follow suit with the same self-deprecating humor.
David's Amish community, a hardline Swiss-German religious sect, favors plain living and rejects modern technology.
While the couple grew up starkly different, they make it work. Jonna shares "Sure, we have different backgrounds but they say opposites attract and in our case, this couldn’t be truer. He’s calm, I’m a psycho. He knows how to drive a buggy, they let me drive a pony cart once and I almost crashed into a tree. He asks me how to get on Google, I get on the internet and run my mouth every day. I love my in-laws, I love my husband and dammit I may not be Amish but I’ve had it in me."
His wife shared on her blog that David has become “well adjusted to his new ‘English’ lifestyle.” Despite the strides he made to adopting a new kind of lifestyle, Jonna was entertained enough by the Amish quirks that David has been unable to rid himself of and used this as inspiration to write a blog post about these habits. She titled the blog “You can take a Man out of the Amish but…”
She shares that before meeting David, she didn't know much about the Amish: "All I really knew about them was that they made doughnuts that would slap your taste buds with a happiness you’ve never experienced before."