When Hubs and I made our wedding plans, we decided that a destination wedding with just the two of us would be the best bet. We both love traveling and seeing new places and frankly, spending all kinds of money on some massive fancy wedding would just make the both of us very nauseous. As selfish as some may think it is, we wanted our wedding to be about US... saying our vows to one another and promising to spend the rest of our lives together... not spending a whole bunch of money so our family and friends could get wasted. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for romantic weddings and the party that follows and this was a decision that took both of us quite a while to make. But when we finally did, we were very happy with our plan.
So, we started looking at destination weddings and like all really good plans, we had to make some tweaks. While doing our research, we found out just how difficult it would be to get married in another country. There's a whole lot of paperwork and legwork and blah, blah, blah... Just the thought of all that stress of making sure all i's were dotted and t's crossed made my head hurt.
We did, however, find a Symbolic Ceremony offered at the Secrets Resort in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic that sounded wonderful. So, we made a quick decision to do our legal ceremony in the States with a with a bit of family and friends who could show up at the last minute and then (not so patiently) wait for two months for our wedding/ honeymoon in the Dominican.
I could go on for days and days about just how fantastic this trip was but since I don't have that kind of time (and I'm sure you would get pretty annoyed reading) I'll give my top favorite moments of our little trip.
* Seeing my husband in his casual beach attire, smiling and waiting for me as I walked to Caribbean tunes, across a beautiful white sandy beach, dressed in white, both of us happy and barefoot. Then saying both the classic wedding vows and our own personal vows that we wrote for each other. This will be a moment that I will cherish and hold in my heart forever. It was so beautiful and I felt so lucky to be in love with this amazing man.
* No honeymoon is complete without tons of champagne and rose petals. The staff at our resort went above and beyond to make our experience special and they did not fail at all. We were greeted with a glass of champagne upon our arrival, had a "Just Married" banner posted on our door the night of our wedding, and had rose petals placed on our bed almost every night. Every thing that a girl could want!
* Hubs and I met plenty of couples who were Honeymooning, getting married, and liked having fun. The experiences with these people included (but were not limited to) playing flip-cup (basically a college drinking game) on rafts put together in the pool, doing the limbo on the beach, and going out after our wedding and jumping in the club's rooftop pool- wedding attire and all.
Needless to say, we had a fabulous time and have some beautiful pictures that I will post when I am home and finally on a real computer.
Our trip may be over but our Honeymoon has just begun. The future may be unknown but I am excited about the many adventures ahead for my groom and I!
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