Travel - Vacation Wedding
This has been a long time coming. It's Vacation Time!! What made it even more exciting was that it was my first cruise and international wedding. As the wedding was taking place in our first port in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Before that, We spent the day in New Orleans, LA to explore Bourbon Street. I have to say it was quite fun. Definitely making it a return spot. The atmosphere is one that I enjoyed. During that week was Pride Week so it was a lot of people of all types. We didn't let it ruin our time there not one bit. At the same I tried gator for the first time it was so good. I managed to bring back a few masks from on of the shops along Bourbon Street.
The following day it was time set sail on our cruise. Everyone was extremely excited we were close to the ports to taking an Uber or Lyft wasn't costly at all. Settling on the boat wasn't an issue at all, the only problem was receiving our bags til about 730p. First time being on a cruise ship, it was only right that I explore it up and down, and that is exactly what I did over the course of the trip.
I'm not going to bore with the full details of the whole trip. So, let's get to the main reason for the trip.
Wednesday, We dock into Montego Bay and the ladies were first to get off and head to resort to prepare. One hour later the all the guys and guest left the ship. We arrived to the resort after a 15 minute drive. Just like every wedding I've ever done, it never starts on time. As there were a few things that Groom needed to correct before the ceremony began. As the Groom was taking care of that I was with the Bride in her room as she was still getting prepared bit she was already dressed with a few things missing.
The ceremony commenced and everything was beautiful. Both Bride and Groom wrote their own vows as their own declaration of love to each other. Everything was set up on a pier with canopies to block the sun. Few problems, a party boat near by and the airport as well. Now it's reception time. The Maid of Honor and Best Man gave get speeches for the couple. It wasn't until the Bride gave her thank you speech that things took an emotional turn, as the bride mention she was honoring her mother-in-law's Pandora Bracelet who had passed earlier this year. There wasn't almost a dry eye in the room.
As everything began to wind down, it was time to head back to the ship. After the cruise photographer Made finished with them I was able to do a few shots for myself. In my opinion these were better than what the cruise could have produced.
Again I didn't want to bore so I skipped a lot of days and detail of the trip to primarily focus on the wedding day in general.
Chris & Shannon First day as husband and wife in Grand Cayman Islands
For all wedding pics click here.