Today was a pretty busy day for Nick and I. We both work full time throughout the week so we’ve been having to do the majority of our planning on Saturdays – not an easy task!
This morning we met with Lisa at Valente travel to book our honeymoon accommodations. As I previously mentioned, my Uncle Pan and Aunt Julie graciously gave us their timeshare in Kauai to use for a week. After discussing options, Nick and I decided to stay for an extra week in Hawaii and visit a couple more cities.
Lisa was great – she found us decently priced flights and we booked the entire honeymoon. Nick will put the $500 deposit down on Monday. As it stands we will be flying out of the Detroit the day after our wedding, arriving in Kauai and staying for 7 days. We’re then booked to fly to Maui where we’ll spend 4 nights at the Lahaina Resort. After that we’ll be flying off to Oahu and staying at the Ohana Beachcomber for the last 3 nights. We’ve got our rental car all set for Kauai and Maui. The total package came out to approximately $3300 – almost $2000 less than we had budgeted out. Super excited!
After that we met up with Pastor Dan for a little meet and greet. Overall he was pretty friendly and committed to doing our wedding on July 3rd. He will be meeting with us again at the end of May/early June to go over specifics about the ceremony and such.
We then head over the States to pick up our flower girl dresses at David’s Bridal, did some shopping and head back. It was a pretty exhausting day, but I’m happy with everything we accomplished.
This week I will be meeting with Pena at La Zingara to confirm our menu choices, maybe make a few changes, check out their sound system and hopefully have enough information to get our menus set to print.
We are definitely on our way!
well i guess that your wedding plans are in full swing! i’m sooo excited for you and can’t wait to see pictures of your big day!!
lol after two kids..we’re still dragging our feet over here on setting a date. wait heck i’m still waiting for proper proposal. not a “hey you wanna marry me, well let’s go get married at city hall now.” *le sigh
i can’t wait to see the dress. i found my dream dress over a year ago but can never imagine shelling out $2000 for a dress that i’ll wear for one day. Plus we’d probably be paying for the wedding ourselves so that would never make the dress budget. which reminds me that i’ve been meaning to revisit this whole planning a wedding thing, but maybe put it off for another year after we find out what nando’s doing as far as his future job path goes.