Timeline: 11 weeks til Aruba!
Its now 11 weeks until we leave for Aruba!
- Accomplished this week: Planned the Welcome Party! Whew! That was a lot less painful than I thought it would be. Looks like the hotel’s wedding planner and La Vista Restaurant manager coming through for us. We’ve also been proofing wedding invitations and collecting guest addresses. I received my Drugstore.com order (Free Shipping on orders of $25.00 or more!
). Took my mom and sister were taken to the post office to apply for their passports (hmmm… suddenly not sure I know where MY passport is). And I got in 4 workouts (though played too much over the weekend so I’m probably breaking even on the workout front).
- Goals for this coming week: Find my passport! Schedule hair and makeup at the Marriott’s Mandara Spa. Need to find a strapless suimsuit - of course fall stuff is out now so that’s proving to be difficult, but I don’t want to end up with funny tan lines days before the wedding. Get the invitations in the mail! Update the wedding website - open up RSVP and work on adding photos and bios of confirmed guests.
- Goals for the next couple of weeks: Need to find an outfit for the Welcome Party – want to find a pretty Indian Lehenga. Need to find my fiance a shirt for the wedding (he wants a simply Tommy Bahama but I want to find something more ethnic). Get bridal undergarments. Choose a “First Dance” song. (I can’t even tell you how many hours I’ve already spent on iTunes
) Find out what I can about reception entertainment (in particular, the DJ).
- Goal: have 6 weeks to lost 5-6 pounds (next dress fitting: September 23rd)
And get this – my fiance tells me we might be going to NYC and Vienna for a week at the end of September! Could be an opportunity I can’t pass up, but that means I need to get even more organized now…

Our Aruba Wedding is written by brides that are planning or have had their wedding in Aruba!