Rinsefirst

So I’m posting the first wave of photos regarding our honeymoon and wedding. Below are all the photos that I am aware of that exist of us from Disney. IE: all the photos we took with our iphone, camera, or had taken by Disney Photographers. Wedding Photos Coming soon…

I apologize for the quality of this post. I’m writing it on my iPhone.

Amber and I have been on our honeymoon for close to a week now. So far, it has been a blast.

Ok Monday, we hit the magic kingdom. Amber wasn’t in the best of moods, but by the end of the day Disney had worked it’s magic and convinced her she was having a good time.

Tuesday, we hit typhoon lagoon. All we really did was the lazy river. The funny part was that the moment we put our stuff in the locker, it started raining. We also hit downtown Disney a little, as well as orlando’s prime outlets and some big indoor mall. Amber will be coming home with a whole new wardobe from the Gap and Puma.

Wednesday, was Epcot. We got there a little late, but it worked for us. Someone leaving the park had a dream pass with 3 uses left on it. Combined with regular fast passed, we were able to do almost everything in the park.

We ate at the coral reef restuarant which is one of the many spots they filmed boy meets world. It was pretty cool and we have lots of pictures to share because Ashley sent amber her camera via mail (we had left it at home).

Amber loved illuminations, epcots fireworks show. It was pretty good.

We then caught the monorail to magic kingdom and hit 5 more rides. All of which amber loved. It’s amazing how easy it is to get ok rides when everyone is watching fireworks.

Thursday we took our first trip to universal studios. Amber and I had a good time but there is something about Disney that universal just hasn’t captured. We dined at the hard rock cafe where Amber picked up a pinned and a glass.

From there we went to blue man group. That was awesome. We had some of the best seats in the house. They put us right in the action. It was great. So far the biggest highlight for me.

Friday, we hit animal kingdom. Amber loved this place and probably wore out her digital camera. Amber didn’t want to hit the roller coaster here but we did almost everything else. Afterwards, we went and picked up our tickets for la numba as well as took a 30minute walk around Disney quest. We then stopped by another outlet mall where we again hit the gap and puma.

And so now, it’s Saturday. It was looking to be a sunny day when I started writing this, but now it’s raining. Amber is still sleeping. It’s been a great week. More most likely when I get home.

Right now I am laying in bed with my iPhone.

The rehersal dinner went really well. Lots of good food. I was hoping we would get to take some home, but alas green mill didn’t allow it, which as stupid. We paid for it.

My computers are now at the townhouse. From here on out, that’s what we will call home. After all, home is where the computer is. Right?

My laptop is with me. Thanks to my great timing, it seems my hard drive had decided to quit. Perhaps I really won’t bring a laptop on the honeymoon.

Well, I best get some sleep. Goodnight bachelor blog,

There are 10 days until the wedding. 10 days until I’m Mr. Justin Gehring. 10 days until I move out most likely for good. 10 days until I become responsible for not one, but two lives.

So on a deep level here (as deep as I get that is), what does this all really mean?

I have no clue.

Despite all my logic, all my planning, all my knowledge, all my experiences, all my observations. I have to admit, I’m scared shitless when it comes to the possibility of outcomes that could happen as a result of this one event. But that’s just it….

I’m doing this because despite all the possibilities, one thing holds true. That I want her to be a part of all of them. I want her to be there when JR makes it’s first million. I want her to be there when my first child is born. I want her to be the one that pushes me to be better. I want her to be the one that actually gets past my logic sometimes. I want her to figure out what’s bothering me. And most importantly, I want her happiness to come before mine (as much as is possible with me).

So why am I writing this? Is it to calm myself down? Is it be a sappy romantic?

Nope.

It’s non of these.

I’m writing this because sometime in the future, I will be fighting with Amber. I will be more frustrated than I ever have before. I may even ask myself, “why in the world did I marry this girl.” And when that happens, I tend to look to my past… And just maybe, I will look back to the posts surrounding my wedding day, and maybe that will be enough to remind me that it’s not the fight that’s happening that matters. All that matters is that she’s the one you want to fight with (so go make up already, your probably wrong anyway!)

I believe Amber and I have figured out the location of our honeymoon…

It’s sounding like it’s going to be my preferred destination for any spare time: Disney World.

To be quite honest, I’m strangely excited to get back there, and we discovered a few things in the beginning stages of going there that would get us access to things that even I (a person who considers himself a Disney World Veteran, I’ve been there like 10 times in my life, I know a good number of it’s secrets), know how difficult they can be to get… For example, the package includes access to one of the boats that are on the Epcot lake during illuminations… (Translated, we’ll have the best seats in the entire park for one of the best fireworks shows in the world).

In any case, you can read more about it over at Our Vows. Amber has written a post about the first part, and I will be undoubtedly revealing more stuff there as we actually finalize some of the decisions (hotels, packages, travel plans, cost, etc.)

People of Rinsefirst… It is time for you to solve my marriage problems (haha)… Ok, so really no, I just want you to be a lobby group for me for the moment…

Over at this amazing wedding website called http://www.ourvows.net/. There is a blog post written about invitations. It is presented that are are at least 2 different ways we could go about inviting people…

Now honestly, I don’t ever remember suggesting that we send out a CD/DVD, but if I did, then I must have had a dang cool idea in my head… But some ideas for what I think would be brilliant:

• Using a computer to mail all the invites without us ever touching them (would save lots of time, and thereby money)
• Sending a cd/dvd of info about the wedding… How to RSVP, etc. (all of it would be on the label as well)
• Sending them via UPS so that we could track our invites nationwide, and then find out who was invited first.
• Singing Telegram - Oh can you imagine… To costly though…

So the only rule I have is that whatever we put together must cost less than $2.50 per invite. That gives me some playing room right :-).

So go over there.. Now! and leave a comment!