Aruba

Wedding planning is coming together at a nice clip. So far we have the church & reception hall booked, Liz has ordered her dress (though I don’t have any idea what she picked), and… our honeymoon has been booked. Liz’s uncle & aunt, Larry & Marilyn, called a couple of weeks ago and left a message for Liz saying to call them back. When she did, they said that they’d like for their wedding gift to us to be a week in Aruba, if we wanted it. She was like, um, YEAH!

Larry & Marilyn have a time share condo in Aruba, and have used it for family vacations for a number of years. It’s apparently quite the swanky pad, a number of family members have visited in years past and have commented on how nice it is. This year, rather than take a vacation themselves, they’ve given it to us as our wedding gift. We hadn’t yet decided where to go for our honeymoon. We had discussed a number of places, but none of the places on our list were as exotic or fancy as Aruba! We’re both floored, their generosity is humbling.

We’re both so excited to be coming together. Partially because we’ve been in love for a long time, and have wanted for this time to arrive, and partially because now the rest of the world is catching up with what the two of us have known for a long time, that we’re together. The word ‘girlfriend’ has been an inadequate descriptor for our relationship for a while. Its pretty fun for our friends and family to be celebrating our coming together with us.