Planning galore

While I don't want to divulge too many of our wedding ideas and plans, I will say that I am very excited about the color scheme we have chosen.

There are no pinks, reds, or purples involved, and the colors we chose are very earthy. Since most of you know me pretty well, you won't be surprised to learn there is blue involved.

I'm not really girly so pinks are out, plus Josh is colorblind and most pink colors look like a pea soup green to him (ew).

Our wedding photographers are SO nice. They are the same photographers that took photos for Vanessa & Vin's wedding. They thanked us for choosing them to share in our special day and today we received these:



I've decided to at least let everyone know more about our venue, as it is SO beautiful and we are so excited about it. I have found some photos that show how we would like it to look, so we'll post those next.

Josh is pretty set on the idea of Hawaii for our honeymoon, while I'm still considering St. Lucia, Costa Rica, and Belize as well. Once we settle on a place, we'll have to do more research into resorts and things to do. We already came up with a "savings plan" of our own, so come June 2010 we will be all set to celebrate our new marriage on some tropical island! :)

the fun trip

A few honeymoon ideas we've thrown around...

- Ireland

- Alaskan cruise
- Mediterranean Cruise
- Hawaiian/Tahitian Cruise

- Hawaii (at least Maui and Kauai, maybe the big island if we have time)
- Costa Rica
- Puerto Rico
- St. Lucia (most likely an all-inclusive)
- Jamaica (same as above)
- New Zealand (probably won't have enough time off for this)
- South Africa (beach for a few days, safari for a few days)


We're skipping Mexico and some other Caribbean islands because we've been there before, so they'll be options for later.

Josh jokingly suggested renting an RV and driving around the US to all of the National Parks, mostly in the Northwest. I, personally, think we should save this for another time. Driving ourselves seems stressful and that is not my idea of fun for a honeymoon. :)

Ireland


Alaska


Hawaii (Kauai specifically)


St. Lucia


Costa Rica


South Africa


Still need help and suggestions! And to save money, or we won't be going anywhere at all!

Just kidding, just kidding.

In the previous post I wrote that we wanted honeymoon suggestions but that we weren't thinking about doing the island thing. We still would like suggestions, but we talked it over and are thinking we *should* maybe do somewhere tropical that has guaranteed good weather for our honeymoon.

Alaska won't be horribly cold in June, but might not be as pleasant for us as, say, St. Lucia or Hawaii. Ireland won't be cold, either, but it rains quite a bit there. Josh thinks we should wait until our one year anniversary for Ireland or Alaska, and go somewhere warm where we're sure the elements won't be a factor in how much fun we have.

So, there are no limits to suggestions now!!

In other news, we're both very happy we've decided upon an outdoor wedding versus the hotel ballroom wedding we had thought we were going to do when we first got engaged. Outdoor, garden wedding seems a bit more "us".

The rose arbor at our venue


The house on our wedding venue's property

Mark your calendars...

We have officially set a wedding date! We will be getting married on Saturday May 29, 2010 in Alexandria Virginia.

It's official now because we have a wedding venue (which is to be announced at a later date 'cause we want to keep things a surprise).

We've also booked our wedding photographers, which is exciting because they are *so* good. They actually photographed Vanessa and Vinny's wedding and their prints came out amazing.

Josh is looking into honeymoons and his parents are researching places for a rehearsal dinner. His mom, April, helped us by scouting out venues in person after we had found them online. It's so nice to still have someone in northern Virginia to help us out!

We haven't booked any other vendors yet, but are throwing around the idea of having a wedding planner in order to relieve me of lots of planning while I'm in school full-time.

Any honeymoon suggestions are welcome! We are probably not going to go the island route, mostly because Josh can't swim so that takes away quite a few activities, especially since we'll want to be together at all times. :)