Sarah and Matthew

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Blog: Oh yeah!

Yesterday was our big day, and we're so happy that so many of our friends and family made it to celebrate the occasion with us. Thanks to all of you! We are so pleased with how everything worked out, including the weather, the food, the music, and we hope that everyone had a wonderful time. If you didn't get a program and would like one, let us know. We're all out of the truffles though! Tomorrow we're hopping on a plane to Thailand, and we're getting packed and ready now. The car will pick us up at 9:00 am and we will be gone until Saturday, October 10th. Thank you again to everyone for the thoughtful compliments and the generous gifts. We'll get to work on writing our thank you notes and adding pictures to the website as soon as we get back. For now, we're planning to relax and enjoy the tropics.

Blog: Amari Vogue, oh yeah...

We booked our main honeymoon hotel today. We will be staying at the Amari Vogue Resort located in Krabi, Thailand. This particular place was chosen after much digging through Tripadvisor.com and looking at many, many other places. It actually took quite a while for Matt and I to pick a place because we had so many desires that we wanted fulfilled for our honeymoon. The word picky may not even be strong enough to describe our criteria. The resort is listed #1 by Tripadvisor and had lots of glowing reviews. It was a little more expensive than we hoped, but will totally be worth it. I'm sure that you will agree with me after seeing these mind-boggling pictures. I really can't wait!

Blog: Oh WOW!

Okay, so I am updating with some more honeymoon features. Planning the honeymoon has pretty much been my favorite part so far. Just this morning I a hotel that looks absolutely perfect. It's the The Tubkaak Krabi Boutique Resort in the Krabi part of Thailand. We are looking around Krabi in particular because that is where those big rocks jut out of the water and really the main reason why we are going to Thailand instead of Fiji or the Maldives. Look at the swank pictures below. The cheapest room is very reasonable and still seems to have everything we want. I'm really excited about the possibility of staying here!

Blog: Thailand?

Maybe instead of El Nido in the Phillipines we'll go to Phuket (ha ha!) in Thailand. There's a lot of great looking inexpensive resorts and getting there isn't quite as complicated as Palawan. Here are some pictures. What do you think?

Blog: Honeymoon Planning

Thankfully Matt checked up on our idea to go to El Nido in the Philippines because it seems that some of the hotels that we may have considered have already sold out for the time frame that we would be going. After looking at the pictures below perhaps you can understand why. El Nido is absolutely gorgeous and very reasonable for cost. How we first ran across El Nido was doing a search for cheaper tropical vacations. Neither Matt nor I were keen on going to Hawaii or one of the more common honeymoon destinations - especially since we have already cruised all over the Caribbean. We wanted somewhere new and somewhat exotic, not too expensive, and that had nice beaches, waterfalls, cliffs to climb, reefs to snorkel. El Nido is the place as far as we can tell. And, thankfully, we will just be flying over the parts of the Philippines that are currently having upheaval.