Shortly after arriving in Atlanta, Georgia for our layover we called the parents to check-in and let them know we were safe on the ground at least for awhile. That’s when my mother-in-law broke the news. Her morning Facebook browsing uncovered that our aunt, uncle and co. would be leaving on the same cruise with us the next day!
I was originally seriously pissed, and here’s why: the family joining us on the honeymoon hadn’t bothered to RSVP in anything close to an official manner and didn’t show up at our wedding… but they were going on our honeymoon!
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We enjoyed a wonderful honeymoon cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas.
Although we were one of nearly 100 couples celebrating their honeymoon on board, the staff and other cruisers made our honeymoon special!
Here are a few photo highlights (no worries, it’s PG!)
(All photos contained in this post are from our personal files)
A beautiful hotel room with a beautiful view the night before.
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After countless days of trying to figure out a great package for our honeymoon and contacting travel agents…I finally booked our honeymoon.
We have decided to go on a 7 day cruise to the Caribbeans on the newest and BIGGEST ship in the world called Allure of the Seas (Royal Caribbean). My aunt told me that this was the most fun cruise she’s ever been on. She told me it has the best entertainment and activities. Even if you have to be stuck on the ship for all 7 days, there’s so much stuff to do that you won’t be bored! Lol…so guess what I’m excited for the most? Well, other then spending time with my future hubby. I’m stoked about going on the giant water slide that starts from half of the ship to the front!! =) I’ll probably be the only adult in line amongst a whole bunch of kids anxiously trying to go on the slide. And if those kids try to butt in front of me, they won’t hear the end of it! JK of course.
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We booked our July 2011 honeymoon in August 2010. Choosing our honeymoon destination was quite the long, elaborated story for two people who want to travel the world (practically). So I’m going to do this in segments. Today: how we chose!
Mr. Magnolia and I decided to prioritize the honeymoon, allocating quite a large budget to it. It will be the first time we take a proper trip together – if we exclude road trips, of course. We decided to give ourselves two and a half weeks for our honeymoon.
So we started thinking about where to go. With our budget and time frame, we could go to Europe.
Oh, Paris, how we long to visit thee.
I went to Europe in August 2009. I knew that Euro trips are a lot of sight-seeing, walking around, and as gorgeous as they are, they are also exhausting.
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Lilac Dude and I just had our honeymoon upgraded!
 Photo from Royal Caribbean International, royalcaribbean.com I was excited for our honeymoon before, I think I’ve even more excited now,
We will be sailing on Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas in the Western Caribbean!
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I wrote a post telling you how to “DIY” your passports. Well, now I have mine!
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Lilac Dude and I decided that we should invest in passports to make travel easier. Since we are leaving the country in October we decided to apply this summer and not rush anything. While we were discussing applying for passports we found out that prices were going to go up by $35 on Tuesday. We managed to make it to the Clerk of Courts on Monday and spent 10 minutes in the office applying and now… we wait.
 Photo from Travel.state.gov I would have been writing this post sooner had I known sooner about the price hikes in advance. Regardless, some of you out there may still need passports so I’d like to help you get started on that and spend as little time and money on the process as possible.
The one and only piece of advice I can give anyone applying for a passport: BE PREPARED
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With just over a month to go, I finally booked our honeymoon! Long ago, we talked about what we wanted to do and settled on enjoying some outdoor activities, pampering, and great food in Mendocino, California.
We even set up a honeymoon registry chock full of all the things we wanted to do after some preliminary research, such as a sea kayaking tour, side-by-side couple’s massage, and hike in Van Damm State Park followed by a picnic lunch. However, it was not until this week that I finally made reservations.
After much research on the internet, at sites like Mendocino.com, Mendocino-honeymoon.com, CaliforniaTravelDream.com and TripAdvisor.com, we will be staying at the Little River Inn just 2 miles outside of Mendocino proper, in a room with a peaceful ocean view and lots of privacy.
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We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!! And we’re married!!!!! …Which makes me Periwinkle BLOSSOM now… yikes! I feel I must apologize to the garden for my long absence. I hope you can all forgive me though, because I have LOTS of details and wedding tips to share! 
In all seriousness, I do apologize for being MIA. Our wedding simply flew by and what was in fact a loooooooooooooooong honeymoon (see exhibit A below) felt like it zipped right past us! We were married on May 23 in Wading River, Long Island. After bidding our awesome family and friends adieu following a fun-filled weekend, we set off for our honeymoon. We spent 24 glorious days in Hawaii, and missed out on all the rain NY had to offer while we were gone. Unfortunately (and inexplecibly) so did the plants we left out on our balcony….
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After our wedding reception ended, Magnolia Dude and I head over to Hotel Charleston, for a very romantic wedding night…. we were both exhausted and could not wait to start our honeymoon next day.
Our honeymoon was a present from my brother and his wife and we will forever be grateful, it was the best present we had ever received in our lives. With the help of my mom they had found a hotel on a remote private island in Cartagena, called Isla Palma.
At 11:30am we went to the port and got on a speed boat that went over 60 miles per hour for 2 hours, in the middle of the ocean, until we arrived to this very pretty island, welcomed by singing and dancing hotel crew.
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