Change of Plans.

Since Steve and I got engaged in May, we’ve spent a lot of time researching venues, invitations, florists, make-up artists, and favors. We had already ordered my wedding dress and the bridesmaid dress and have also put a down payment for the invitations and all we had to do was book our venue.

Then, we changed our minds.

We are now going to have a destination wedding instead. Crazy, right?

So that means that all that time we spent on looking and visiting venues was ultimately for nothing. The color scheme I’ve decided on and based the color of our bridesmaid’s dress on is also pointless. I could have easily gotten away with a blue or green color scheme but the venue we had originally wouldn’t have worked with it.

Thankfully, we haven’t printed the invitations yet so we can still change or design and wording and thankfully we haven’t booked anything else yet. I can still pull off the color scheme and we can still use the bridesmaid’s dress we ordered.

We are now looking at all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and Dominican Republic as our wedding venue. After spending the past few weeks looking at Trip Advisor and different travel agencies, we’ve narrowed it down to the top three resorts we like. Our first choice is in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic while our second and third choices are located in the Riviera Maya, Mexico. Now we just have to find the best rate we can get and work with the resort’s wedding coordinator to reserve the date.

There are so many details to still work on like the date of departure, the group rates, how to lock down prices for our guests coming from the states, and what information to include in the invitations and so on.

We know that not a lot of people will be able to make it because it costs a lot and that’s understandable. It’s just that we prefer to be married this way and have a blast with our guests, whoever can make it. We had a lot of reservations about having the wedding here in Canada but now that we’ve decided to go for a destination wedding, it just feels right.