Thursday 20 September 2012

20 days!!

Aaaggghhhh!!!!!

Starting to get just a teensy bit stressed now, making sure we have everything, everything is booked and planned, everything on track etc

The new camera I bought recently is faulty so I've had to get a new one and return the other one for a refund, waiting for the camera to arrive still so as of now I have no main camera!

Added another $100 to my new fairfx card so our total now stands at $3800!!  Woop!!

 

I've added on a videographer as well for the wedding so we don't have to worry about balancing a camera on a tripod in the sand and leave it filming!  So we have just over $1000 to pay for the wedding, and $93 for the wedding licence then that's done, then £200 left to pay for the dogs home boarding! 

So that will leave us with $2700 spending money, although I'm hoping to reach the $4000 mark before we go!! :D

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Lil update...

It's getting very close now, 22 days to go!!!

We've pretty much got everything sorted now!

Music is now sorted for the wedding and we've added an aisle and palm trees for the altar :D

Got directions,  hope, to everywhere we need, although we will have the ipad and laptop and a sat nav once we've got it from Walmart so we should be fine.

I've memorised the route from Sanford airport to Walmart for the sat nav and some food for the villa,  although I'm nervous about driving there for the first time so I hope I'll remember!

All outfits finished, I think we have everything we need although I do have that 'we've forgotten something really important' feeling!

Our total spends hasn't gone up that much recently as we've had to dip into it for other expenses but today I topped it back up to where it was the last time I posted and I've also just topped up the new fairfx card with $100 so our total spends now is $3700!!!




 

 Out if that we still have to pay for the rest of the wedding, which is around $700 (or $1000 if we decide to add a videographer!), and $93 for the wedding licence bringing the total to a minimum of $2600, possibly $2900, which is still a good amount :D

We have a couple of 'free' days, meaning already paid for, Discovery Cove is paid for with unlimited food and drink all day and Cinderella's Royal Table is already paid for.

Our wedding planner is ringing shortly for a phone rehearsal since we obviously can't do it in person.  We've already discussed the colour of the flowers, position of the aisle/palm trees, music player, photographer etc and it's going to be a purple and white theme.  We're all in white, purple flower basket and ring pillow, purple flowers for me and I think either purple flowers or complimenting colours for the aisle.

Then we have the sand ceremony which should be really nice, and the sea shell wishes too. The boys outfits are in the suitcase already, they'll just need ironing.  Alyssa's dress is hanging up and mine is in it's wedding dress bag hanging up, we'll put those in at the last minute and hope they unwrinkle themselves once we're there, we have 12 days once we arrive until the wedding so they should do :D

Very excited now!!  The kids folders are getting there, the DVD needs re-burning as it skips so we'll have to get a blank DVD to do again!

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Fairfx have come through!

Those of you who read my blog from our last trip in 2009 will know I had a major issue with the travel currency card company Fairfx!

A lot of money went missing from my card and they confirmed it was fraudulent, although it has taken them 3 years to refund me!

They've finally come through, refunded all monies taken back to me and a little extra for the wait, AND they've given us a wedding gift of $100 on a fairfx card as a further apology :D

So adding that $100 to our total we now have $3600 spending money!!

That SHOULD be plenty BUT, we still have half of the wedding to pay for, half of the cost of homing Cassie for 2 weeks, not to mention all the meals, necessary sat nav when we get there and normal holiday stuff so a good few hundred £ will be gone from that total in the first day!

We have 36 days to go, just over 5 weeks!  I'm waiting for my wedding dress bag so I can hang up my dress ASAP and hope it smooths itself out by the time we go as obviously I can't iron it!

More underwater cameras have arrived as I've misplaced my digital underwater one so wanted some just in case I can't find it, everyone's wedding shoes are here apart from Cameron's, they should be here any day, the tripod for the video camera is here, crocs ordered and I've ordered a veil too...no idea if I'll actually wear it or not, I don't know what my hair will be like, but it's there if I want it :D

Not much left to do now!  :D