Wedding Blog

Our most memorable vacation was a spring break roadtrip down Baja California. We were kicking around ideas about what to do on grad student budgets and then decided to drive his truck to Mexico. To the astonishment of all who know me and my fondness for the finer things in life, I happily slept in the back of the truck and wore wrinkled, sandy clothes for a week. Baja is so unspoiled and untouristy - just vast untouched beaches and fish tacos and a million stars at night. We had done no research, so everything was fresh to explore - we discovered a deserted island and went skinny-dipping and I discovered that really, the only thing I needed to be happy was him.

Puerto Rico. El Conquistador. The private beach, the rain forest, old san juan….just amazing.

My hunny took me to Disney World for a week it was so memberable because not only was it our first vacation but i was able to meet is twin brother and his nephew who mean the world to mean now just like my hunny!

my favorite trip was when we visited my fi’s hometown. He showed me his elementary, jr. high, and high schools and took me to his favorite restaurants growing up. I got to meet his hometown friends and we hung out.

belize was super fun!

he is even thoughtful when taking trips on his own. when he visited europe without me, he brought a portfolio to draw all the sculptures, buildings, and pretty sights that i was missing.

My favorite vacation with my sweetie was to the New York. It was our first “big” vacation with each other which is why it was so memorable. This was back in undergrad…I think I barely turned 21. I was going to go to SUNY for grad school which is why we were there (I was interviewing). We had so much fun shopping, checking out the sights, eating frozen hot chocolate together….it was amazing just being with each other….I couldn’t imagine being away from him for 4 years. After that trip, I decided to go to school in so Cal.

The first long distance trip we took was to Michigan to see my family for Christmas. We made a little detour the day before to Bronner’s. It’s a store in Michigan that is 2-3 football fields of Christmas gloriousness! Christmas is my fiance’s favorite time of the year and my family had gone to this place almost every year since i can remember and i wanted to take him there. Bronner’s is in Frankenmuth, a little Bavarian town that goes all out for Christmas, with lights everywhere and ice sculptures. His jaw was on the floor the entire day and he was giggling like a child at absolutely everything. It was so cute when he’d say things like. “Honey, look at this!” and I’d get to laugh at him and remind him that I’d been there before. I was so excited to share a part of my childhood with him since we’ve visited his hometown many times and that was the first time he’d ever been in Michigan, let alone to my hometown.

My favorite vacation was last January when we went to Florida for the wedding of my now-husband’s best friend. We spent so much time apart while we were down there because he was a groomsmen and had to do the guy stuff for a few days. When we finally had a spare moment alone, we went to the beach, where we went for a long walk and he proposed to me as the sun was setting!! It was perfect.

My favorite vacation with my husband was our honeymoon, just 3 weeks ago. In the 8+ years we’ve been together we’ve never been on vacation just the two of us. We’ve taken small trips with family or friends, usually to visit other family or friends, but this was the first time that it was all about us. We went to New Mexico and spent 2 nights in a treehouse cabin relaxing, and then 4 nights in Santa Fe eating fabulous food, visiting museums, and taking wonderful hikes. Having been together for a long time already, our honeymoon being our first vacation together made it really special to me.

It would be easy enough to say that my favorite vacation with my fiancÆ’© was our trip to the Bahamas, where we got engaged. But the truth is my favorite vacation was our road trip to Vermont.

The summer of our junior year in college, I was going through a difficult time and we knew we to take some kind of a break. So one Friday we drove from Washington, D.C. to a gorgeous bed and breakfast in Stowe, Vermont. We spent the weekend exploring the woods, canoeing on the local lake, eating Ben and Jerry’s from the factory down the street, and sitting on the back porch watching the stars come out. It was just what a vacation could be - a chance to relax, escape a little bit, and reconnect with each other. It also helped us establish in our relationship that no matter what we’re going through, we can lean on each other to remind ourselves what’s important.

Now whenever we’re stressed about work or having a bad day, we talk about the pine trees and the lake and the moose crossing signs from our trip and the day gets a little bit brighter.

(It also doesn’t hurt that Ben and Jerry’s happens to be a bad day cure-all.)

My finance and I went to Napa and Sonoma in August and had the best time….great wine, great food all day, the beautiful scenery….there wasn’t anything else we could ask for.

our best vacation was a one day trip to the beach. he works five-six days a week and i’m at school four hours away from him usually so we work for our time together. this past summer we went to the beach for just one day but it was perfect. we stuffed our faces with beach food and lounged around in the sun. i did accidentally spit some water in his face after a wave took me out…i don’t think i’ll ever live that down!