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The amazing thing about all the planning, scrimping, worrying, arguing, imbibing and saving for a wedding is when you actually pull it off. The successful arrival of all your guests to your island paradise, the sigh of relief knowing that both sets of parents get along so well that you can stick them at the corner of the wedding table and not have to check up on them too often. These are just some of the things that make you breathe a sigh of relief, look your Prewife in the eye knowing all is well with her too, and then go hit the beach.

Of course, even the best wedding is not all smiles and sunshine… From our own personal experience – we learned to be very flexible. We saw our guest list drop from 50 to 15 people. It worked out well, since in the end it was actually quite an intimate affair (and what I wanted all along). We went from having a full band and a buffet style beach dinner, to a DJ and buffet dinner, to an iPod hooked up to speakers at a restaurant, to what was playing at the Restaurant. This was fine as well as the restaurant was excellent. As usual props go out to the Prewife – always cool under pressure, and nary a hissy-fit in sight. Gents, make sure your Prewife has nerves of steel and the flexibility to match. Getting married at an island destination is not for the faint of heart.

The one thing we did not scrimp on was the photographer. If there is one thing we can say is most important, it is the photog. Now this doesn’t mean you have to blow all your money on the most expensive one. But make sure to get the best one you can afford. Take your time on this. If the wedding is local, look at their pics and talk with the photographer and find out how they interact with you. If they have references, by all means use them. If the wedding is a destination, then as soon as you decide where to have it, find out who is going to shoot it. Check out their website, email them, etc. Destination weddings tend to be in beautiful places that sometimes have limited resources – such as a photographer’s availability. So get the best one you can quickly, before they are snatched up by another wedding party. Do not rely on friends or relatives for anything more then “fun photos” or you will be very disappointed.

If you happen to be going to Turks and Caicos, where we had our wedding, the photographer we used was Ileana, from Tropical Imaging. I cannot say enough good things about her. Professional, relaxed, engaging, on the ball, excellent photographer, the list goes on, you get the idea. Tropical Imaging’s setup for picking out pictures you want to keep is straight forward and is as easy as opening up your laptop, logging on to their site and selecting the images you want.

So, this week and next, we here at Prewife will focus on some great locations for destination weddings.

In the wild, wonderful, crazy, expensive, nutty, world that is your engagement, nothing else is quite befuddling and expensive as “Save the Date Cards”. You see, you poor sap gentle reader, save the date cards are Pre-invitation wedding cards to notify your loved ones of the joyous days approach…without actually explaining very much except the fact that the wedding is indeed Read the rest of this entry »

No shit, really? I thought to myself as I read an article from the Motley Fool about the word “Wedding”. The article is titled “Cutting Wedding costs in half“, so of course I was going to read it. So should you. In fact I should start a section on how to save some greenbacks on weddings….

Weddings are like owning a boat (stay with me on this one, there is a payoff, I promise). As anyone who owns a boat will tell you, everything in a boating goods store is marked up about 25% to 50% over a normal hardware store. But just about everything you can get in a boating store, you can get at a Home Depot. Just head for the stainless steel aisle for most of your needs.

Same with weddings. Anything with the word wedding attached to it and BOOM, Read the rest of this entry »

Now here is a Blog post I can get behind. In fact it is downright salubrious! Imagine asking what the Groom wants for the wedding cake?! Whaaaaa?! You mean I could get a cake in the shape of Iron Man? or Catherine Bell XBox Chocolate triple-tiered with white icing and Lace? Sweeet.

I think we all know that the wedding is all about the Bride, as it should be. Let’s face it, men plan for a wedding pretty much five days before it happens. Women folk, on the other hand, have been in some form of planning mode for this day for their entire lives. Yup, pretty much from the first time they saw Snow White. Me, I thought it was pretty suspect that Snow was living with seven Mini-Mes, and still needed a Sugar Daddy, but hey what do I know, I thought Read the rest of this entry »

The Weekend. Time to relax, hang out with friends and…what’s that Hun? Time to go where? The Paper Store? You mean, like, Staples or Office Depot? Cool, I need a new holster for my staple gun! Ummm, I don’t know if they carry Ecru (honestly, Ecru? Isn’t that what I ate in France last year)? I am more of a Golden Rod man myself.

If the above conversation hasn’t happened yet, it will. Give it some time. However, in an effort to make these times a but more convenient I have some information Read the rest of this entry »