a couple more wedding items to cross off the list!

Steve was home this weekend so I of course wanted to pack it full with activites and errands and such. I had set up a couple of appointments for Saturday afternoon to check out a couple of hotels near our reception site. I always knew I wanted the Woodcliff to be one of our options, but wasn't sure on the second one. We went and looked at the Woodcliff first, and loved it right away. The staff were wonderful, the place was amazing. It's a full service hotel, so there's a spa, golfcourse, awesome restaurant etc. They offer a shuttle service for our guests, which is pretty awesome, so no one has to worry about driving after they've been drinking. We got the contract, so all we have to do is sign it and send it back. Luckily for us, we don't have to pay anything, just sign the contract and the place is ours. We booked 10 room for Friday night, May 28 and 15 rooms for Saturday night the 29th.

We swung on over to The Brookwood Inn, which is right down the street (convenient!) and checked that out too. It was stunning inside. They are in the middle of renovating the whole place, so that's good! The guest rooms were good too, very nice. We got a chance to check out the bridal suite, it wasn't as nice as I thought...but it was still nice.

We wanted to check out the bridal suites for both, since we know at the end of the night, neither one of us would want to go back to our house. So we were hoping to book the 1200 square foot bridal suite at the Woodcliff and have our entire bridal party come back to our room so the party wouldn't just end.

here is the suite, only it's not renovated yet...it'll be gorgeous when it's done!!! Do you see the spiral staircase??? OMG! I'm so exited!

Also, we got our honeymoon costs from the travel agent over the weekend. It's a little more than we wanted to spend, so we went back and told our travel agent that we'll just stick to two islands instead of three. We originally wanted to go to Bora Bora, Moorea and Manihi. Spending about 3-4 nights on each. And we wanted to have guaranteed overwater bungalows. That was about $3,000 MORE than our allocated budget, so we went back and decided that we would be just as happy spending 5 nights in Moorea and 4 nights in Bora Bora. That was just about in our price range....only it doesn't include food or any excursions. I guess the food there is incredibly expensive ($50ea for breakfast, $75ea for lunch, $150ea for dinner!) YIKES! We're hoping to find some options that include ONE meal. We'll see where that shakes out.

This is the overwater bungalow at the resort we're staying at, the Intercontinental Thalasso

Another view of the bedroom. The bed faces out into the ocean!

The bathroom

The private deck off our room