My Brother-in-law Dirk, is getting married this August.
Being an only-child sort of fellow, the only family weddings that I’ve really ever gone to our my own. (Well, my sis-in-law’s and my ma and step-dads too, I suppose.)
Dirk’s fiancee Jenni has been doing a lot of planning and blogging about their wedding, which has presented us with a lot of wedding conversations. It’s all good, and it sound like they’re doing lots of things right – and they should have a pretty awesome, successful event.
Me, for one, tend to get such things wrong. I was recently reminded of this fact.
Case in point: Our Honeymoon.
Dawna and I got married almost 12 years ago, and back in the day… I was pretty poor. Dawna was the big money-maker, being a second year art teacher. I was a lowly production artist for a cheap screenprint shop. I wasn’t making much over $9 per hour.
The Honeymoon was something that I was supposed to plan.
I didn’t really know anything about travel/honeymoons/women, and was pretty sure that we had about a $500 budget for such things.
I booked us for a trip to Port Angeles Washington, for November in a cheap motel. (With a kitchenette and a shower, but no bathtub.) We drove, though I can’t remember anything of the trip.
I brought a crock pot.
I don’t know if it was my mom who suggested the idea or not, but we evidently needed to save enough money on the trip that we brought (and prepared) powered soup mixes on our most romantic of holidays.
Lucky for me, Dawna remembers this as well, though I don’t. However, it sounds like something that I’d do.
So, tip #1:
Get a nice hotel with a bath.
#2:
Be willing/able to spend some money on your trip.
#3:
Don’t bring a crock pot or powered soup mix.
I’m certain that Dawna would agree.
- Daniel
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Today’s strip is actually really sweet.
–Honeymoon + poor is pretty rough. My sister and brother-in-law didn’t even get to go out of town, they stayed at a motel down the road from where we were living at the time. Super romantic
If I ever get married, I hope I have enough resources to create a really wonderful Honeymoon. It should be something that can be remembered forever. The fact that you can’t remember much about your trip is kinda sad
You keep your life pretty hectic but you guys should totally try to find time for a second honeymoon, even if it is just a weekend retreat.
But…
But crock pots are made of awesome and win.
That said, I wouldn’t want to eat nothing but powdered soup.