Anniversary Trip: Part II

Blogger confession-- I just realized about 5 minutes ago that I never did a post about our honeymoon. It's a shame because the resort was amazing and we had the time of our lives.

As I type this, we're packing up and getting ready for yet another trip. This time it's for both of us, and to celebrate (belated) our one year anniversary. In the spirit of our anniversary vacation, let's take a look at some honeymoon pictures. 

We're hoping to visit Excellence again next year for a week-long vacation, but this time it wasn't in the cards. So we're taking a quick flight down to Florida for three days of romantic beach side R&R. Did you recreate your honeymoon for your anniversary?

The Final Countdown

We're at the two week mark and things are surprisingly calm over here at casa SE! I'm settling into the new job, and the training hours have been super conducive to running wedding errands in the afternoon. Our programs were just printed yesterday, and have been mailed to FMIL in Atlanta for assembly.

Mr. SE and I had a fun little adventure yesterday during our lunch break- we got our marriage license! The processes was simple as ever and we were in and out within a matter of minutes. The ladies working at the Davidson County Clerk were super sweet and were sweet enough to take multiple pictures of us. We walked out of there super happy, and it made for a great start to the weekend!{proof that someone needs to keep doing their arm workouts}

Oh and this morning we realized that not only are we getting married in 14 days, but we're going to Mexico in 16! Woot!

Houston: We Have A Honeymoon Part II

Thanks to all the sweet readers that guessed about our honeymoon location! Only two of you guessed correctly- Mrs. Bear and Katie. We are going to Mexico!!!! After tons of research over the past 8 months of our engagement, we decided Mexico would be a great place for us to spend our first trip as husband and wife. Fun fact- Mr. SE is nearly fluent in Spanish!

The specific area we're going to is called Playa Mujeres, and it's nestled between Cancun and Playa del Carmen. We've heard lots of rave reviews for this area of Mexico, and we're looking forward to doing lots of fun things while there. The best part? Most of them are included! There's 8 restaurants and 11 bars. Our resort is an all-inclusive, and even includes a Greg Norman golf course. Clearly I will be at the spa while Mr. SE hits the greens. 6 nights of adults only bliss. We decided it was worth booking at the Excellence Club level. This means we'll have fresh fruit daily, an upgraded room service menu, and (most importantly) our room is ocean front. And when I say ocean front, I mean your bed is set facing directly out at the ocean.

My sweet fiance has never left the country, other than Thunder Bay Canada to play baseball, so I wanted this to be a great experience for him. We figure if you're going to go all the way there, why face the pool?

So now I present- Excellence Playa Mujeres. Here's more pictures of our resort. Weddingbee reader? This resort might look familiar to you. Mrs. Penguin traveled here for her honeymoon in 2008!

Houston, We Have A Honeymoon!

Actually, we're connecting through Atlanta- but Houston was another option. Mr. SE and I finally decided on a honeymoon. It was somewhat difficult, because we will be traveling during hurricane season. Our criteria was under $3,000, tropical, and easy flight times.

Here's what our friends at The Knot had to say about good honeymoon locations in August: Bermuda, Brazil, Britain, Central & South Africa, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Ireland, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Seychelles, Thailand, USA (Alaska & Northeast). Are you seeing a trend? Very. far. away.

So we decided to chance it, if rains the whole week, at least we'll have a nice room to stay in! Some places we checked out were St. Lucia, Bahamas, Mexico, Jamaica, and St. John. After researching some locations, I realized that it was important to me that we stayed at an all inclusive. Why? After a year of making decisions for our wedding and our new home, I don't want to make a single decision on our honeymoon. I want to relax in the sun with my new husband and not worry about where we're going to eat, budgeting money, etc.

Where did we choose? I'll save that for tomorrow. Feel free to leave a guess below. Until then- here's some of the resorts that struck our fancy (but we didn't book) during the research process...

{the new secrets wild orchid in jamaica}
{couples swept away in Jamaica}


Both are fantastic, and I've heard great reviews from people who have vacationed there. We ultimately found a fantastic deal at a 5 star resort, though, and weren't able to pass it up. Leave your guesses below! Who knows- if you guess correctly you might win a prize. Also- where did you go on your honeymoon? Did the time of year play a part in the location you chose?


**No voting if you are a real-life friend and already know the answer** That's called cheating.