This must be a new forum... but I'll start!

We're going on a cruise Dec 6-13, 2008. On 12/9 the ship will spend the day at St. Thomas and we'll be married that morning in a simple ceremony on the beach. We'll have lots of photos taken, maybe get a bite to eat with our group, and then get back on the ship to finish the rest of our fun-filled cruise. So the cruise will serve not only as a way to get to our ceremony, but it will also be our honeymoon trip. I know my parents are going with us, and hopefully a few more friends and maybe a couple of relatives... but I don't anticipate that any more than 10 people besides us will be on the cruise itself. Our ceremony will be extremely simple: just us, our small group, the wedding planner (who will also be taking photographs), and the officiant to marry us. I don't think I'm even going to bother getting an arch or music or anything like that for the site itself. I figure we'll be on a beach in St. Thomas, there will be palm trees and beautiful sand and the ocean waves crashing behind us... that should be enough.

As of now, the plan is to have a reception in our hometown on New Year's Eve. We're still trying to figure out the details of where/how, but there it is! I'm not dead-set on too many other details, but I've had some ideas and inspirations from websites and a bridal show I went to last week. There are actually two more bridal shows coming to town in the next few months so hopefully I'll get things figured out from there if I haven't already!