rose city bride

When planning our wedding I was adamant that we would have the couple of days after the wedding and before returning home as a mini-honeymoon alone and booked a place several miles from where everyone else was staying for our wedding night and the last few nights. At the last minute I switched the reservation to a place closer so that I at least had the option of popping in if we decided to. Sure enough the day after our wedding I woke up thinking about who was leaving that day and who was doing what and wanting to say goodbye and check in on my mom, etc. We ended up spending the last days of our trip mostly hanging with everyone else and had very little time alone but I am happy for how it worked out. The destination wedding was so intense in that I felt so close to everyone who was there afterwards and just felt weird "abandoning" them. However, I am happy that we at least stayed somewhere else so at the end of the night we had our own pool and area to go to and since it was a small inn we had a ton of privacy!

When my husband and I were shopping for his wedding ring there was two he couldn't decide between so he let me make the final choice. Since I knew he also really liked the other one I secretly bought it for him and gave it to him on our wedding day. That way he has choices and can change his wedding ring sometimes. He loved it! Plus I got the second one engraved with a different message than the first so it had a special message in it. Even with both rings his total ring cost was only a fraction of mine!