on honeymoon

h2b and i were talking about this yesterday........ i know, i know, it's too early to talk about honeymoons but h2b and i are both traveholics and this is our "non-negotiable"......

i'm lucky h2b owns a house and doesn't need to worry about mortgages anymore..... so we didn't have to  choose between splurging (just a bit) for the wedding and  downpayment for a house..... we, however, had to make sure we don't go overboard with the wedding expenses, specially since we're planning two weddings, so we could afford h2b's dream honeymoon destination.....

yep! you heard (err, read?) it right...... honeymoon would be my h2b's choice......  my dream honeymoon is in santorini, his is in some beautiful exotic island (clue: one of their islands has a "somewhat"  similar name as one of the beaches we have in the philippines), i have to keep the name for now so i won't jinx it, lol...... at first i wasn't too thrilled about his honeymoon proposal...... i mean, i'm from a tropical country and we have tons of amazing beaches, so i'm kinda biased about other beaches, but after seeing photos of the place and those glass floors where you can see the blue waters and swimming fishes while sitting in your living room and the breakfast being delivered by someone paddling on a boat, i have to admit that place is awesome!

anyway, like i said honeymoon is our non-negotiable and we're sadden by stories of couples who, because they splurged too much on their wedding, cannot afford to go on a honeymoon anymore or had to postpone it for later...... that's like ordering banana split but asking not to include the ice cream until after a few days...... alright, alright, bad analogy but i'm sure you get my point...... but hey! we're not judging..... to each his own, right? different couples have different priorities..... and we don't swim on money either and we also do prioritize stuff......

honestly, we're starting to get horrified about how the cost of the wedding in the philippines is starting to balloon specially when we started adding in the airfare for some of my h2b's relatives/friends  that we want to be at the wedding.....  not to mention we also need to allot money for the civil wedding too (but we try to make the US wedding as simple and intimate as possible)........ we just try to console ourselves by thinking that we have more than a year to save........ oh, did i mention we're almost done paying the deposits for our dream team? this month is the last payment for our **customized worry-free package...the other half won't be due 'til 3 months before the wedding.....  so for the remaining months of this year we will be pooling our
money for the US wedding.....


**customized = venue, caterer,basic sounds/lights, flowers, string quartet, cocktail bar...we asked them to take off the: photographer, video, OTD because we want to get our own team for that, not theirs...

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