Wedding: July 2006 Archives

I just wanted to write an entry to thank my family in France for the AMAZING video that they put together for our wedding. For those of you who don't know by now, I have a huge family in France (and Holland, too) -- and because of the distance and timing, only a few cousins could make it to the wedding in Mexico. Since my grandmother, Mannick, my mom's 8 brothers and sisters, their spouses, and kids couldn't make it... they decided to put together a video montage of messages from each of the families to send us their best wishes. Martine and her family were in charge of the production work and Folkert and Penelope did a great job with editing and music and everything.

I was going to write a nice heartfelt entry thanking everyone for traveling overseas to come be with us on our special day -- but Scott beat me to it! I have a good excuse though: I've been working on photos of the week in Mexico (as well as from our honeymoon in Belize). The professional photographer's photos are in the mail so we won't have those until next week. The ones we do have will be posted soon for all to see. In the meantime, a few of our friends and family have sent us links to online photos albums, we thought we might share them with you all here:

Sally's Album
Sandy's Album
Molly's Album
Val's Album
Megan and Michael's Album

By the way, we're wondering, for those of you who did take photos... could you do us a huge favor and send us a CD of all your pictures. The online albums are great for viewing but we would love to have the hi-res versions. Email us if you need our mailing address. Thanks in advance!!

Our initial briefing from Captain John of the Belize Aggressor III brought me down, you could say. Three big storms were to roll through, degrading the diving and probably preventing our trip to the Blue Hole. We'd heard of bad weather in Mexico when we first arrived there, but another week of beating the weather geniuses seemed too much to ask. However, after a single day of overcast skies and rain, we enjoyed sun, clear diving conditions, and even made our scheduled trip to the depths of the Blue Hole.

Our wedding week on Isla Mujeres was so fantastic! We started the week with almost twenty people arriving Sunday. Every following day was like Christmas, having our great friends and family trickling in. It was so special to have all our guests take a vacation with us. We had planned so many excursions, but once we got to the beach at Na Balam, we couldn't seem to pry ourselves out of the water! Soon we'd settled into a nice routine of rolling out to bed, heading to the beach, making our way to the Loncheria for lunch, having a siesta, and heading back to the beach for the afternoon before all meeting up in the evening for dinner.