Planning your Honeymoon: Tips

Feb 10
2012

 Planning your Honeymoon: Tips

 

Plan Your Budget: Does your bank account allow for a week at the Sheraton or Motel 6?   Take the time to calculate how much you can spend beforehand. Maybe you might be surprised to receive Wedding gift money to help out.

2. Discuss your idea of the perfect vacation.  Do you both enjoy the outdoors? Do you want to relax in the sun or spend time on the slopes? Are you interested in exploring a exotic destination? Make a list of the things that mean the most to you, and compare notes. Marriage is going to call for lots of compromise, and this is the place to start.

3. Pick your destination. If you’re on a budget, keep in mind that many places adjust their rates seasonally. For instance, it’s cheaper to visit Hawaii in the off season and ski resorts that offer a lot of activities (but no snow) in summer will also be less expensive.

4. Use a travel agent. It doesn’t cost any more, and he or she can make all the arrangements without you having to worry about them. Plus, if something goes wrong, you’ll have someone you know to call.

5. If you’re going abroad, leave plenty of time to make sure your passport is current and you have any visas required. If inoculations are required, get them well before the wedding. To avoid confusion, women are advised to make reservations under their maiden name and wait until returning to legally change a name following marriage.

6. When you make reservations, let them know you’re honeymooning:  People will want to please you (in the hope that you’ll return). You may get upgraded to a better room at no charge, receive a welcome bottle of champagne or wine.

7. Take more money than you think you’ll need: (To make things uncomplicated, you may want to pre-pay for everything, or select a resort that offers an “all-inclusive” rate, which usually covers food, lodging, activities, drinks, transfers, tips, and more.)

8.  Put the privacy sign out: This is especially important if you have a destination wedding, where the guests tend to hang around. A honeymoon is for the two of you, period. No kids, no pets, no cell phones.

9. Schedule time to do nothing at all: While it’s great to know you have plenty of options in terms of things to see and do, this is, after all, a honeymoon.

10. Be considerate of your spouse’s wishes: Compromise on  things to do and you’ll both be happy.

11. Document your Trip: Consider putting money aside to hire a professional photographer to follow you around a few days. This way you can relax and enjoy each other but, will have your photo memories forever.

 

 

Ask Her to Marry You, Ideas that are creative

Dec 05
2011
  • Create your own crossword puzzle and be prepared to help her work it out over breakfast.
  • Spell your proposal out in glow-in-the-dark star stickers on your ceiling. Get into bed, turn the lights off, and wait for the inevitable gasp.
  • Spell out your proposal with refrigerator magnets.
  • Scratch your proposal into the frost on her car’s windshield.
  • If your girlfriend is a teacher, sneak into her classroom before school starts and write your proposal on the blackboard. Stay hiding in the coat closet or right outside the room for the moment she arrives.
  • Get a ring size chart and ask your girlfriend to look up her size. When she accuses you of ruining the surprise that you’re shopping for a ring, say, “Okay, try this one instead,” and show her that you’ve already shopped for a ring.
  • During your annual Halloween prep, challenge her to a pumpkin-carving contest and carve the words “Marry Me” in your pumpkin.
  • Write “Will You Marry Me?” on the underside of a kite and take flight one warm, breezy afternoon.
  • Play Hangman and have the phrase be “Marry Me.”
 Remember these ideas can also include a professional Photographer to capture it all on film

Marriage Proposal Ideas

Oct 23
2011

Marriage Proposal Ideas

 

It’s time for a marriage proposal to that special someone. There are many ways to propose that he or she will remember for a lifetime and doing so without having to spend too much money. Surveys have shown that many people were a little disappointed in how their partner proposed to them. This is a life changing experience and something that you and your partner will want to remember and share with your kids and your grandkids some day.

 

Therefore do your research for proposal ideas and you’re sure to come up with an idea that suits you both. After all, you should know your partner better than anyone else, but if you become unsure, ask her close friends and family for some advice. You only get one shot at this so make sure you do it right and be sure you have some ideas to get your own creative juices flowing. Here are some romantic proposal ideas that will hopefully inspire you to create your own perfect romantic proposal.

 

1). Take your special someone to the place where you had your first date and re-create it exactly how it happened on that day. Have the same dinner and do the same things you did together that night. At the end take your partner to a special place, such as a park with some sparkling lights and flowers all around, and ask your partner if they remember this place on our first date. They should say no, and then you proceed to say “you may not remember it now, but you will remember it from this moment to the rest of our lives together” and then get down on one knee and propose.

 

2). If your partner happens to be an avid newspaper reader you could put a picture of them in the paper with a sweet little story on how you two  met, or the reasons why you love them. Then put in big print “will you marry me?” While they’re reading this, get down on one knee and have the ring box waiting for them to see when they look up from reading the paper.

 

3). Set up a romantic dinner at home with candlelight and music, such as your favorite song together or maybe hire a quartet to serenade him or her. Then prepare your partner’s favorite food or you could hire a private chef to cook it for you. Of course you could always order out take home as well. Either way it’s the thought that counts. Then after dinner you could give her a cake that’s made to look like a ring box, but don’t put the ring in the food because it can dull it and you’ll have to get it cleaned right away. While they are admiring the cake, slip the real ring on to the table.

4). A fun way to propose is to send your partner out on a scavenger hunt. Give them a list of the things to find. The list should have some kind of meaning to it. For example, have them find a menu from the first place you ate at together. Have them find the special things that have meaning in your relationship and with each item on the list that they find leave a note with a reason why you love them along with a rose. At the end they will have collected eleven roses. The final search will lead them to meeting you somewhere special, where you will be waiting with the twelfth rose, along with the ring.

 

5). Set up a beautiful picnic at the beach with their favorite foods. Write her a sweet poem or maybe a song. It doesn’t matter if you have a great voice or not, it’s the meaning that counts. However, if you’re a little embarrassed you could ask someone to do it for you. Then write in the sand will you marry me or you could also use a bunch of sea shells to spell it out. Hire a professional photographer to capture your both from a distance and then surprise him or her with the photos and or a slide show.

 

6). Have your partner ask for a day off from work, but secretly talk to their boss and try to get them a week off instead. If granted, take them on a romantic vacation. Have her friends or family members pack her a bag so that you can pick it up and off you go to the airport or drive to your destination right

 

Nicole Sanchez- Maui Wedding Photographer

Marriage Proposal Ideas

Sep 28
2011

Marriage Proposal Ideas 

 

A marriage proposal to the man or woman of your dreams can be one of the most amazing moments of both of your lives. So make it a marriage proposal that they never see coming. Sure you could go the more traditional route and have the usual romantic dinner along with music playing. Then after dessert you profess your undying love to them and get down on one knee. However they will be expecting that.

Where’s the fun in that.

 

Find proposal ideas that will shock them with something that they would never expect. You know your future spouse better than anyone, so take in your partner’s personality into consideration before proposing. However, if your partner is the outgoing adventurous type, use these six marriage ideas or just take away some inspiration to create a unique proposal for your partner.

 

1. You could hire a professional photographer and have them take some pictures of you two at special locations that you and your partner have enjoyed together over the years. Go through your relationship from the beginning to the present day and have the photographer combine pre-shot photos that you already have, along with the new shots, and have the photographer design a collage of your relationship.

 

A professional photographer has the ability to add to the collage items of special meaning in your relationship such as inside joke, a song or a certain saying. You can go small or go large and put the collage on a billboard or the advertising spot at a bus spot. Take your partner to the location and reveal it to them along with a beautiful card that has a picture of you on one knee. Then get down on that knee, while they are looking at the picture, as they stop and look at you, you propose. You could also have the photographer there to capture this moment in pictures.

 

2. One way to really wow your partner would be to rent a helicopter, or a small plane, and tell them you are going on a short trip and that it’s a surprise. Then have your friends and family get together and put votive candles in white paper lunch bags, light them and have them spell out “will you marry me?’ The plane ride needs to be at night so that you will be able to see the proposal from the sky.

 

3. A special way to propose to your partner would be to take them to a movie theater that is filled with all of yours, along with your partner’s, friends and family. Make sure it’s dark inside so that they can’t see or recognize their friends. Have a special spot picked out in advance. Instead of the real movie, show a movie that you made for them. Start with pictures of each other’s childhood. Then go to pictures of your relationship from the beginning until present, then add in big letters on the movie screen “will you marry me?” Make sure the movie that you are playing includes music that has meaning in your relationship. Then present him or her with a dozen red roses that were already under your seat and propose.

 

4. If you and your partner are very adventurous, you could arrange to propose while sky diving. However you may want to give her the ring after you landed safely on the ground. In addition, I would recommend that your proposal not be on your first sky diving experience, because after all, your partner may be nervous or afraid for it to be fun.

 

5. Prepare a nice picnic for the two of you and go to the beach. In the mean time, have someone save you the perfect spot with a nice fluffy blanket waiting there for you. You can also arrange to have someone play music there such as a guitar or another instrument.

 

6. Another outside the box idea would be to get a flash mob together and have them dance to some of your favorite songs or act out scenes from your relationship. You can then join them while they are dancing and then all together shout out, “will you marry me?” You could also have the mob point to the sky where a banner is flown overhead that says “will you marry me?” Then get down on one knee and have the flash mob give your partner a single red rose or whatever flower is their favorite.

 

In any event, think of something fun and unique. A little thought and effort can go a long way in someone’s heart.