The Looooooooove Boat.....

There's really only one thing that Rob and I perpetually disagree on - vacation. He's a beach bum, and I'm a tour goer. He wants all-inclusive vacations, and I want to rough it and see the sights (ok, maybe not ROUGH it, but at least experience the culture lol).

This has obviously caused a huge thorn in my side when it comes to planning our honeymoon. We were posed the question "Europe or Aruba". And we were completly indecisive in the matter! I know Rob wants a nice relaxing honeymoon, I do too! But I also know that with a house and kids in our future, I want to have a honeymoon that will be a once in a lifetime event.

If you've read my previous honeymoon blogs, you'll see that we were completely torn! There was the land tour that did Italy, France and England - which would have been spectacular! And there's the Cayo Ensenachos, a 5+ star Cuban resort that would have pampered us beyond our wildest dreams!

What is a couple to do?

Well, no sooner than I was about to give up, and agree to Puerta Backyarda for our honeymoon, was I presented with the option of a cruise. And not just any cruise, but a cruise that leaves the monday after our wedding - thus having our flight from Toronto to Rome leave the Sunday evening after the wedding! A real honeymoon, we'll be real newlyweds! This cruise was literally made for us.... It has beautiful port cities, as

So without further adieu..... our honeymoon:

It looks like it does a lot of Italy, which it does... but there's also Barcelona, Cannes and Dubrovnik. Our schedule of events is like this:

1. Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy
2. Naples, Italy
3. Fun Day At Sea (which basically means by the pool, for some R&R)
4. Dubrovnik, Croatia
5. Venice, Italy (overnight)
6. Venice, Italy
7. Fun Day At Sea
8. Messina (Sicily), Italy
9. Fun Day At Sea
10. Barcelona, Spain
11. Cannes, France
12. Livorno, Italy
13. Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

I know that some of the places sound a little different, but they're all really close to places you'd recognize... Like we can go and see Monaco (for the racing fans), and there's Pisa and Florence in Italy....

Lots of wonderful stuff!

SO EXCITED, so it's booked... our flight leaves July 20, 2008 for an overnight to Rome.

So amazing!

2 weddings and a photoshoot...

So we've got a busy couple of weeks coming up!

This weekend, we're going to a wedding for Mike, Rob's bosses son. It should be fun, I hear there's going to be about 400 people!! Wowza! But the food will be great, and it will be nice to see all the guys Rob works with again, they're all such sweethearts!

Next weekend, my girlfriend Maria is getting married! I'm so excited for this one, I've seen her plan this baby for quite some time now - and plus, she's going to look absolutly gorgeous in her gown! It's an Eve of Milady gown, the one in the magazines that everyone loves, and no one can afford! LOL

Then on Tuesday the 28th, Rob and I are going for our engagement pictures. The venue and everything are a surprise until I post up some pictures, but you won't be disappointed!

When did I become so indecisive?

In the beginning, I had no problem to committing to something I wasn't 100% commited to. Take for example, the wedding bells I bought. They were these little silver bells with ribbon on them that people could ring when they wanted Rob and I to kiss. I bought them without a second thought. I then realized that I didn't want them, and thank God I found a taker, otherwise I would have been out $100 on something I didn't want! LOL

Then take my centerpieces, I found them, I ordered a sample, I loved it, I ordered them all. There was no thinking involved, no "will this go with my theme?" oh no, I just bought them. Thankfully, they helped me develop my theme, and I'm more in love with them now than when I bought them!

But why, all of a sudden, am I completely incapable of making a decision on my own!? I can't decide if the table overlays are the right shade, or the right length... maybe the material is wrong... no, the material is ok.. it's DEFINITLY the length... maybe it's the colour... ugh!

And the flowers, I love that bouquet, but I want more green, no thats too much... add the roses, nope, not the roses.. lillies? No, thats not it either!

Seriously, I need to know why planning a wedding would send a usually sane person into an absolutly insane spiral of indecision and madness!?

Why can't I pick something and stick by it? I know I should trust my judgement, but why can't I?

Where did the time go?

Wow, I just saw the ticker at the bottom of this page... 11 months, 2 weeks and 2 days until the wedding.
Yikes!

Some good news, Rob finally asked Jake to be his best man! I guess men just aren't like women in the fact that, I personally couldn't wait that long! There are so many things to do, so many things to plan.... I need my girls with me through all of this!

And the first bit of wedding blues that I've had that has been completely independant of my own family's issues: I was talking to Anna (FMIL) about table overlays the other day when FFIL came in and told me to stop talking about weddings. He just got over one and doesn't want to get started on another any time soon.....

Ok, well I have a problem with this.......... this is my only wedding. I want to be excited! I want to talk about it, I want to listen to other people talk about it! I want my future in-laws to be just as excited about their SONS wedding, as they were about their daughters!

I don't think I'm being unreasonable... am I?

Oh well, it doesn't matter too much, what matters is that I'm enjoying my wedding....
And the Save the Date cards are in the mail.... so check often to see it!