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Great update, Melissa! Very cool that you could both see the humor in the flipping of your boat! I'm just so glad your photographer helped you with recovering your photos.
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Great finish Melissa! Sorry about the camera and the sailing incident, but sounds like a great time overall! Thanks for taking us along for the ride!
Aw, thanks for coming!
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First, I really wish we all did live closer...wouldnt that be great?? so i guess a visit in there somewhere will have to do instead right??*L*
Second, I CANNOT believe that this has been nearly a year in the running! I have really enjoyed all of this and gotten many ideas I am so glad that you shared this with us and I have loved all the planning and pictures.
The fourth day was probably a memory you will NEVER forget I would've been laughing so hard too! Such a funny story! I think your photographer rocks because it wouldve been just terrible to have lost all those gorgeous pictures!
I am so glad your honeymoon was all you wished for..i dont think it couldve been better and I really would have cried...i cry when i leave disney*L*
Its funny to say this but i'm going to miss hearing what's going on with you guys! You will have to start the PTR way super early or text me every now and then
Thanks for sharing and its been such fun to read along! Cant wait to hear the wrap up but its almost bittersweet!
Thanks girl! Wouldnt it be great is we were all closer to eachother (or closer to Disney so we could rendevous)!
And yes, our photog was wonderful! I know you and I feel the same way about pictures so it meant a whole lot! After I read threw your TR and Dawns after you guys get back I am going to want to start one right away! lol! I have beeen thinking about ordering Celebrations magizine again but not sure yet.
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I'm so sorry to hear about the boat flipping and losing the phone and camera. But, I'm glad you were able to laugh about it. I LOVE the oar and frames hanging from it. That is just too cool. GREAT TR!!!
We really did have a great time start to finish! my heart aches when I think about the Caribbean-- oh how I miss it!
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What a great finish. Sorry to hear about the incident out on the water, but what a magical time you guys had.
Thanks! It really was magical!
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What a fun time with the sailboat... even with the loss of the camera, I'm glad you were able to see some humor in it! I think that would be a blast!
Yep, the first post to this thread was the day we came off the ship 11 months ago! I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. I should be sending you a PM sometime right about now(as, I remember, you requested) to tell you I would be starting our PTR for the new cruise, but, of course, that is not going to be, We will be doing something next year, though, and , in the meantime, I will have to live a few dreams through the experiences of my friends here at PP. Soo, I'm sad this is coming to an end.
But,.. I am sooo happy that your special day and the honeymoon were so perfect! I know you and Rob (and Liam, of course) will continue to have a wonderful life, and that will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Now, I can't wait for your wrap-up!
What a year, huh? Its so funny how time flies sometimes but then others it feels like things are taking forever!
Oh and thanks for the shoutout to Liam boy!
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Such a wonderful end to your honeymoon (even with the boat flip!! Gotta have some funny stories to tell, right?). Thank you for taking us along.
Thanks! It really was fun (and funny)!
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So sorry about the camera but glad that the wedding photographer was able to save your files. You and Rob are great and making what could have been a negative situation a great memory, love hearing you describe the sailing experience and laughing your way through the whole thing.
Your last day seemed magical but so did the whole trip...thinking back to the day you announced that Rob had popped the big question I cannot believe how fast time flew and that you are already planning your wrap up. I am so glad that you decided to share all this with us as it was beautiful and wonderful to see how everything came together to turn out wonderfully.
It is a bummer to lose the camera because it rocked my socks. I can't believe that I am already wrapping up my wedding report! So sad.
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Love this..... how perfect
What a wonderful wrap up. Thanks for taking us along on your wonderful year! So glad that you were able to recover your photos and that the sailing incident made you both laugh. Good luck with you busy semester and being a newlywed. Many many blessings to you both!
Aw, thanks! I bought that frame and had it up for weeks before our wedding empty. lol! Thanks for the luck!
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So glad you had fun with the little mini sailing disaster. At least you could really look back and laugh being as you got your pictures back. But, take it from experience, even if you know you are right (with the sail) they have to learn by themselves sometimes. Men... I absolutely LOVE the picture frame in your bathroom. I want to do a beach theme in our new bathroom too. We spend a week in Ocean City NJ every year and I love that kind of decor.
Sorry it is over. I have really enjoyed tagging along for the whole ride. Looking forward to your last ramblings.
And...yes...we've got to get Crissy to come up and visit some time.
OMG you have to do the bathroom beach theme! It makes me happy everyday! lol! We have pictures and shells and I found some great stuff at JoAnns... a little decorative bouy and a little seagul perched on a post, and a whitewashed sign that says "Sail Away". Great stuff! And the oar frame was from Bed, Bath and Beyond and was only $12!! Anyways, thanks for listening to tall the rambles along the way. Im so sad this is over!
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What a great last day! The sailing sounds like a lot of fun (minus flipping over and almost losing all of your pictures!). Looking forward to your final wrap-up.
Coming right up! Thanks!
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Great wrap up Melissa! Loved all your photos! I feel you on wanting the professional ones - it took my a year and a half I think to get mine, maybe more like 2 years - idk - I do know that Ihad a baby before i got my wedding album. Anyway!!
The honeymoon looked like a great time and love the flipping story - glad the 2 of you could laugh about it.
Good Luck with school and your next adventures as a married couple!!!
I would have flipped if I had to wait that long for our professional pics! Lucky for us our photog rushed ours becuase he went on vacation not long after our return from our honeymoon so he wanted us to get them after we got back but before he did! lol! Thanks for reading along! more to come!
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Looks like a wonderful honeymoon! I'd love to do an all inclusive or cruise some time. Maybe for my 20th Anniv.!
It was wonderful! You should do something like that for your anni-- you and your hubby will love love love it!
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Great update, Melissa! Very cool that you could both see the humor in the flipping of your boat! I'm just so glad your photographer helped you with recovering your photos.
No more worrying if I will fit into not just that dress but THE dress!
No more planning our honeymoon and looking forward to passport stamps.
It came.
It went.
And I guess there isn't much more to say.
Oh yeah, except I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will be celebrating our first anniversary in style-- Polynesian baby!
Yay! lol! Seriously though, Im having some serious post-wedding back-to-the-real-world blues. The lovey dovey high has been replaced with mundane tasks like taking night classes, grading papers, washing dishes, and making dinner (which I still haven't started yet tonight). The planner is getting dusty on the shelf and we have got our proofs, our prints, our albums, and looked at them all so many times I should be so "over" it by now.
Some passing wisdom for the day for the rest of the brides to be out there...
1. Its okay to make other people happy with your choices but remember the day is YOU and YOUR HUBBY'S and you should come first.
2. Treat people with respect at all times.
3. If you think you might regret not doing something then do it!
4. Enjoy every moment of the day- it flies by way too quickly!
5. Don't get stressed. It will be okay, it always is!
6. Your wedding should start and end with love.
7. Believe in fairytales, dreams come true, and happily ever afters--- THEY ARE REAL!
I hope you've enjoyed this fun little trip as much as me. Well, maybe not as much as me, I was the bride afterall... but I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless. It was the most magical and special day of my life and I am thrilled to have people interested in sharing it with me. Plus, it kept me out of going into Disney withdrawl. lol. jk.
In any case, I have a busy month ahead but knowing me the summer's PTR will end up debuting around Christmas! lol!
xoxox TTFN!!!
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Love the wrap up!! What sweet and insightful advice from such a newleywed The happily ever after doesn't end...and I am still not "over" it. Enjoy every minute as a "Mrs." and I'll be looking for that PTR.
Great closing thoughts, Melissa!!! So happy that you are celebrating your 1st anniversary Disney-Style!!! That's awesome Thanks for taking us along on your Magical Ride.
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What a nice way to end this Report Melissa! I'm so looking forward to hearing about your plans to stay at the Polynesian next! That was how my DH and I spent our one year wedding anniversary back in 1982 when it was just the Contemporary and the Polynesian. It is a memory that I will always cherish.
Well, I finally had time to catch up!!!! Everything looked like so much fun and went so perfectly (except for the capsizing disaster LOL). I am in love with you two - you are sooooo cute and obviously made for each other. I can't wait til your Poly PTR debuts. I know it will be full of my favorite things; countdown calendar, new Old Navy outfits, and vacation box just to name a few. Don't keep us waiting too long. LOL. Also, I am also on board for Crissy to move up here somewhere. If that's not in the cards then a visit needs to be arranged. And Soon!!
I am so glad you shared all this with us. It was helpful for me in case my time ever rolls around and it will
I loved just reading about what the bride has to do and what one goes through. I've never been in the middle of all of it and it was really cool seeing it through your eyes I loved all the pictures...like you said they are the most precious because the moment ends all too quickly.
I am sad to see this end only because I'm used to hearing about every detail of your life I enjoy it because you and your hubby are all so very sweet and magical in your own way.
I am soooooooooooooo looking forward to your PTR! I am like amanda...i cant wait to hear about the purchases and planning and the vacay box and the countdown
Thanks again for sharing with us! You better text or email me so I dont go through withdrawals *LOL*
Melissa i just got caught up on everything. It was very nice love the pics. It was great following along with your dream come true. Glad it was the time of your life.
Great ending to a perfect story. Love all your advice - it is definitely sound and will be what keeps you and Rob happy though so many years. I am so happy to know one of your PTR's will be starting soon...there is no fun like going through your planning with you and what a great way to celebrate the 1st anniversary.
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I would've been laughing so hard too! Such a funny story! 
I think your photographer rocks because it wouldve been just terrible to have lost all those gorgeous pictures! 
That is just too cool. GREAT TR!!!
So sad. 
I absolutely LOVE the picture frame in your bathroom. I want to do a beach theme in our new bathroom too. We spend a week in Ocean City NJ every year and I love that kind of decor. 
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