Thank you Everyone!
Posted on September 17, 2007
One and a half years of planning, four months of frenzy, a one day celebration and 2 weeks of relaxation… We did it!
Life as a married couple has been good to us so far. We’d just like to say a final thanks to everyone who made our wedding the most beautiful and blissful day a couple could wish for. Not to mention all the fun we had! We couldn’t ask for a better start to a long happy life together.
Special thanks go out to:
The Parents, without your love and support we wouldn’t have been able to do it at all
The Bridal Party Consisting of:
- Lisa Jordan - Maid of Honor
- Anthony Ventura - Best Man
- Lisa Day
- Miriam Cortez
- Tess Hey
- Jennifer Lehr
- Brian Wilson
- Charles Rich
- Michael Heath
- George Heath Jr
Claire Masten for her touching reading from 1st Corinthians
Elizabeth Fino-Radin from The Starry Strings Quartet for the beautiful violin
Annette Dragon for all the beautiful photography
Whirlin’ Disc DJ for getting everyone on the dance floor
Mike from The Burgundy Basin for making sure everything went smoothly
Phaedra Andalora from Liberty Travel for putting together our Honeymoon
Live each day as if its the first day of your honeymoon
Posted on August 9, 2007
And now we present to you the slide shows from our honeymoon broken down by island. Maui was super long so it was split into two parts.
Oahu
The Big Island
Maui
Photo Album Progress
Posted on August 3, 2007
With all the options out there it’s hard to determine what to do with your photos. Typically Rachel and I have created your standard photo albums where we print 4×6’s buy a book to put them in, organize and done. We wanted to do something a little different with our honeymoon photos and after looking at a few things available (scrap booking, scrap blogging, photo books, etc) we decided on a photobook.
The first few weeks after we got back we spent going over our (4,000+) photos with the hopes of creating a Best Of Album. This worked to eliminate a large majority of our pictures but after attempting to work with the best of album to create our photobook we realized even more needed to be eliminated and did so.
After trying several different photo book sites (snapfish, winkflash, shutterfly and a few others) we settled upon Picaboo. While it seems relatively new and unproven it had a client side application which you could download (rare in this day in age) and work with locally before uploading your finished book to purchase. There were many more layouts available than other sites had and the backgrounds are limitless since you can use your own photos (also something lacking in the other sites we looked at). Another unique feature is the ability to share your album online for free.
So without further delay we give you:
Please keep in mind that it’s intended to be a table top book NOT a web-album. With that in mind, if you see an odd picture and wonder why its in there chances are there’s a story or something we wanted to be able to share and you should ask us what’s up.
You Can’t be Late Until You Show Up
Posted on June 27, 2007
Sadly, we’re home. What do we miss most? The view. I couldn’t help but notice on my drive in yesterday how there’s absolutely nothing to look at. In Hawaii, there’s always scenery to look at, even when you’re driving through the endless sugarcane fields you can watch them harvest it.
Speaking of sugarcane we learned that they burn it first before they harvest it. Weird Huh?
Well, we’ll be creating a ‘best of’ Photo Album and when we do we’ll post it here so stay tuned. We haven’t done much since getting home, still trying to recover the 6 hours we lost. We got home and the Dining room is mostly done though, all that is left is painting, the flooring and a counter top. Its looking great.
And its back to the grind :(.
Big Beach
Posted on June 23, 2007
Our last full day in Hawaii, how sad. We spent it in true Hawaiian fashion by just relaxing and ‘taking it easy mon’. We hit up
Whaler’s Village and popped in and out of a few shops before lunch. Then we were off to Makena and Oneloa Beach.
Because its over 100′ wide and over 3,000′ long, the natives call it ‘Big Beach’ not to be confused with ‘Little Beach’ next door where the nudists hang. Big Beach is probably our favorite beach thus far. Its golden sand, perfect crescent shape and sparse population all make it a perfect spot. We swam in the clear waters, tried to catch a few waves and played in the sand.
As the evening passed we picked up and moved south along the beach to get a good view of the sunset. We can safely say that tonights sunset was the most beautiful we’ve seen since arriving in Hawaii. This is saying alot as our previous posts have mentioned the other sunsets we’ve had the privilege of seeing. What a great way to say goodnight and goodbye to Hawaii.
With Aloha,
Randy and Rachel