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Here Is Some Advice from a Married Woman

Hello Ladies! Wow I can't believe I have already been married for a month! Well, I get my photos this weekend and will be putting all my do's and don'ts down for you, but I thought I would start by giving you some tips about the honeymoon. Just a couple of things that we encountered that I thought I might let you know about that might help you...

1.) ALWAYS carry extra clothing, your underwater camera, whatever is super important to you in your carry on. We arrived Monday morning and didn't get our luggage until Friday. We still had an AMAZING trip, but obviously some of this stuff would have helped. :)

2.) If going out of the country look up the exchange rate for the currency as well as what your credit cards exchange rate is. Tahiti had Franks, which our credit card had as 83 to the dollar, but it ranged any where from 70-90 to the dollar on the island. Good to know in advance.

3.) If going somewhere tropical I totally recommend investing in a real underwater camera. Brandon got me one for Christmas and we had it for shark/ray feeding, snorkeling, swimming, EVERYTHING. All this stuff is surprisingly romantic and the camera makes it that much better!

4.) If you are looking for somewhere to go Tahiti is AMAZING! The bungalows were so cool it was so intimate and romantic. The whole trip was wonderful...I would highly recommend it!

5.) Book your activities AFTER you get there. I suggest this for MANY reasons. One being if you don't get your luggage right away you can put some of your stuff further away. We were able to schedule ray/shark feeding towards the end of the week, so our luggage made it just in time with our camera. Also, on our shuttle there if we booked our activities through them they cut the price in half...had we already booked we would have paid more. We didn't miss out on anything and we saved a lot of money.

6.) If you like scarpbooking: We had two parts of our ceremony that I wanted photos to emphasis...part one the rings, so we had a blast taking our rings off and putting them every where...your photographers do it why don't you? Then I can surround that part of our ceremony with those pics. Next we did a heart ceremony...so we had a blast taking pics of scenery through our heart shaped hands to surround that pic. Great traditions to start in our new married life.

Well, that is my advice for the honeymoon. We had a couple hiccups, but it was so amazing and beautiful none of the hiccups mattered. It was perfect! I will have more advice to come shortly :)

Thank you for this list!

This advice came JUST in time!! 3 days till my wedding (WHAT?!) and honeymoon advice is so relevant, since we are going to the Whitsunday Islands, out in the Great Barrier Reef. :) I'm going to get that Underwater Camera!!

The idea of taking photos of your rings everywhere is GREAT and the heart shaped hands. All ready for your wedding ceremony scrapbook... how thinking ahead is that?!

And that pic of you hugging your luggage is epic! So sorry you didn't get it for so long! :-O

Thanks sweety

Awesome advice. Sounds like you had an amazing time. That bungalow looks perfect!! I love the idea of taking pictures of your rings everywhere. So sweet. And perfect pic of you guys with your luggage. Thank you!

Also, what is a heart ceremony?

Great advice. We live in FL and our honeymoon is in Hawaii - a loooong distance away. I agree about the underwater camera too. We take a lot and I mean a lot of cruises and it always comes in handy when we're snorkeling or swimming with the rays.

I recommend the Olympus underwater camera. It runs about $350 but it's sooooo worth it!

U know what I've always wanted to know...who takes pics of a couple during their honeymoon? I cld take pics of Boo-skey and he cld take pics of me. But we're of course honeymooning alone so who takes the pics of us together? Right???

The heart ceremony is a kind of like a unity ceremony that our officiant wrote up for us. We made a heart symbol for our hands to remind ourselves of the beauty it holds whenever we are feeling sad, etc, etc...then he asked us if we were ready to let our hearts go and join hands in marriage...we let our heart symbol drop then held hands...I will post more later.

We got a ton of pics together just be setting our timer on our camera it worked REALLY well! I recommend doing that :)

this is great advice.. I'm going to pack as much as I can into my carry on!! Which underwater camera do you have? and why did it not arrive until FRIDAY? that worries me a little, we are only going to the Caribbean, so the travel isn't that long, hopefully we won't have this issue. Also.. do you know how big the carry on can be?

Thanks for the advice! I will definitely be packing some of my clothes in my carry on. Looks like you guys had a great honeymoon. Can't wait to see your pics and how all of your ideas turned out.

This is a great list! Your photos are amazing and it looks like you both had a super romantic, fun time :)

We bought a fujifilm xp camera. I included a pic of a shark we took with it. Really awesome and a great buy. I have bought one of the disposable ones before and they really aren't great.

As for our luggage...we our flight from Reno to LA was delayed one and half hours then sat on the run way for another 15 minutes then by the time we got to LA they were so behind they said it would be another hour before our luggage was even unloaded. You have to check in for international flights an hour before or you can't get on the flight, so they told us get on the flight it is easier to get your luggage on one then you on one and that they would have it to us by the next morning at the latest. So, we left our luggage and got on our flight. Well, airlines lie. However, it really wasn't that bad...we got all the stuff we had to buy comped and got our flights for free, so in the end it really wasn't that bad :)

The carry on size depends on your airline...look up their regs on their website and most of them will have bins you can test out, but it is usually the size of a small rolly suit case or medium to large duffle bag.

The ceremony sounds wonderful. I would love to hear more about it. :)

thanks for the advice girl! So helpful!

Hey Shayla pretty!!! OMG that's definitely paradise on earth!!! those are wonderful pictures, you could be photographer as well those lightenings look like a natgeo picture. I can't believe you had to wait that long for your luggage but just like you said who needs it when the love of your life is there with you. You both look fantastic and thank you for the tips, I really want one of those cameras. Awesome honeymoon you guys deserve it you are beautiful couple!!!